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And there is nothing right or wrong about feeling that way! ❤

Lots of stories bro! ❤

Haha yeah and in that sense you can't even listen to so-called buddha teachings/recommendations. Enlightenment is just not a something that a someone can give or not give you. It's a loss..... it's absolutely not a gaining of anything!! Q) So what's lost? A) The sense of self that is convinced enlightenment is something that is attained for itself. It's the clear revelation that this self simply never happened....it just seemed to. ❤

Agreed Yeah apparently Common Sense isn't that common.? I'm just saying people shouldn't bite the hand that feeds them because they can't tell whether it's feeding them turkey dogs or ribeye steak. ❤

Short sweet & to the point responses have both possibilities of being understood or misunderstood. Example: One person might read that "death is imaginary" and go out and live life care free like there's no tomorrow doing something different every day....having an amazing life. Another might jump from a tall building to see if it's true. The fact is if it's truly recognized that the sense of self is an illusion and nothing matters and death is imaginary..... there would be no one left that needs a point proven to them. It would be THIS! ❤

If you can't stand the heat get out the kitchen. If you live in a glass house don't throw stones ❤

@RMQualtrough You don't need any pointers because there isn't anything missing. Everything is already complete! The point is, there isn't one! The truth is, there isn't one! The needy individual that constantly feels lacking is an illusion of self. You can't go wrong because there is no right & you can't go right because there is no wrong. Right & wrong are conditioned concepts within the dream story of being an individual. Freedom is the clear recognition that this needy self construct called "ME" is completely unreal. ❤

It's both simultaneously ❤

Desires can seem to arise, there just not arising for a someone! The desirer isn't really there! That recognition can kind of take the wind out of the sail for certain desires. ❤

Yup, and there's no one that knows that......it's an illusion of self! ? Death is already the case because no one was actually really alive. & something that isn't real, cannot die. It could be said that when the body dies, the illusion of self dies with it but again it wasn't real from the start...... which is already the case. What a trip right? ? ❤

It's unconditional love and it's unwaverable! Love for all of existence exactly as it appears regardless of circumstance. ❤

Long drawn out replies also have much more potential to be misunderstood. I respect honesty even if I don't agree with the answers,replies or tone. Short, straight forward and to the point!? ❤

Gotcha, IME samadhi wasn't about detachment/denial or having no beliefs. Rather it was a clear recognition that there simply never was a real "me" doing anything to begin with. There definitely seemed to be, but it was just an illusion of self identity or maya. Its freedom for nobody! What a let down right! ❤

There isn't a real someone to be fully present or somewhere else.....it's nonduality already! ❤

Nothing & Everything simultaneously No explanation or description is it & simultaneously it also includes every explanation or description. ❤

@amanen Maybe try writing down a list of all the attributes that seem to describe this sense of identity. Look at it closely and see if these attributes equal a real you. Notice how some attributes seem inherited from your parents and others from friends or society. Notice how certain life experiences have played a role in this sense of self identity. Also notice that if that body was born and raised in let's say South Korea, that character or sense of identity would seem totally different. Different religion, beliefs, concepts, ideas.....different conditioning all together. Take a close look! ❤

Samadhi/Enlightenment/Liberation is the realization that this personalized experience of a separate self and others is completely unreal. There just never was a real separate you or them. No real individual = No real separation = Non-duality And THIS can be clearly recognized at anytime but seems very rare! ❤

It just doesn't matter because there's no end result that really needs to be attained. Get the girl or don't.... that's what's happening; become financially free or not.... that's what's happening; reach high status or not..... that's what's happening. Wants and desires can arrise....and that's what's happening. The sense of self or ego becomes intertwined with these desires and feels inflated or deflated, more or less. The freedom is in recognizing that which feels it can become more or less is an illusion of self. ❤

Awakening can vary from a completely terrifying and shocking/life shattering experience to a completely ordinary and simple realization. & It usually has something to do with how strong the attachment is to being this important separate individual. It's seems it can be realized at any age though, but also does seem more common with meditation & inquiry Here it was 35 - 37 yrs old. ❤

It's just not a something that a someone can achieve. It's the revelation that this conditioned ME character attempting to gain enlightenment status, isn't really there in the body. It's a recognition as opposed to an experience. & Yep, it's kind of a show stopper! ? ❤

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Yeah bro, there is only what seems to be happening....what more is needed? Do you need more than what seems to be happening? The FREEDOM is in recognizing that whatever seems to be happening, IS the FREEDOM which is longed for. Anything else is just wishful thinking. And of course there's nothing right or wrong with hope or wishful thinking.....it's just that it's an endless endeavor for the needy sense of self/ego which isn't real. An illusion never finds satisfaction! ❤

It's more than just a belief though....it's an actual experience stemming from a physical/mental misunderstanding or assumption. Jim Newman describes it as a psychosomatic misunderstanding. ❤

It could be called a little glimpse of Samadhi. A stilling of the whirlwind of mind.(very common after a lot of meditation) It can reveal how submerged/identified "everyone" can become with habitual thinking. ❤

Yeah, & It's not somewhere else....it's hidden in plain sight by already being itself. It's just always overlooked because it's already the case.(like someone looking for their glasses when there already on their forehead) EVERYTHING is already TRUTH or ABSOLUTE or THIS. And within THIS EVERYTHING APPEARANCE, there also seems to be things that are untrue or relative or false. But are these things actually false?, or is it just the thought/belief about the thing which makes it seem untrue or relative? These misunderstandings have the ability to create an entire experience often referred to as the Dream Story or The Matrix. See, it's not that the experience isn't real per se, ....it's that the experience occurred due to a misunderstanding.... a psychosomatic misunderstanding. And so in that sense, the best way to refer to the entire ridiculous situation is that it's true & simultaneously untrue OR It's real & simultaneously unreal. ❤