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Yes....Once the illusion of the self is completely seen through there is no going back the bucket never again holds water because the bottom has fallen out without a doubt. The interesting thing about Awakening is once it occurs it's recognized the self never existed it was always an illusion or Maya..... Really its just a big glob of thoughts and feelings getting tangled up together within the human body construct and generating an illusory self out of this glob... when it's recognized it's actually laughable. Like Leo says things aren't taken personal anymore every child is your child. Everyone is you ?

Well there is no going back because the prison cell is realized to be illusory ? You could get conked on the head hard enough I suppose hehe

Haha that makes sense.. I'm glad you enjoyed it. ❤ The hamster wheel can also be described as a prison. You can decorate your prison cell but it will not assist in liberation..

Gosh I always feel like I'm talking to myself, hardly ever any responses...oh wait ?

Everything is pure, everything is perfection there is no right or wrong. Whether awakening occurs or not does not matter. Only a mind creates the need for purpose or meaning. If you can recognize that nothing matters you will be home ❤

"In today's world, the vast majority of people who are engaged in religious or spiritual practices, such as yoga, prayer, meditation, chanting, or any kind of ritual, are practising techniques which are conditioned. Which means they are just part of the ego construct. The seeking and the activity isn't the problem; thinking you have found the answer in some external form is the problem. Spirituality in its most common form is no different than pathological thinking that is going on everywhere. It is further agitation of the mind. More human doing, as opposed to human being. The ego construct wants more money, more power, more love, more of everything. Those on the so called spiritual path desires to be more spiritual, more awake, more equanimous, more peaceful, more enlightened. Whenever there is a desire to attain something, you can be sure it is the ego construct at work. Samadhi is not about attaining or adding something more to yourself. To realize Samadhi is to learn to die before you die. Life and death are like yin and yang, an inseparable continuum endlessly unfolding with no beginning and no end. When we push away death, we also push away life. When you experience the truth directly of who you are, there is no longer any fear or life or death. We are told who we are by our society and our culture, and at the same time we are slaves to the deeper unconscious biological cravings and aversions that govern our choices. The ego construct is nothing more than the impulse to repeat. It is simply the path that energy once took, and the tendency for the energy to take that path again, whether it is negative or positive for the organism". - Samadhi (Maya illusion of the self) Part 1

And paradoxically there is nothing that is not the way either. Before the way is recognized, any step is in the wrong direction. After the way is recognized there isn't a wrong direction. ❤

Lol... I like that ❤ And at the end of the play and while drinking champagne backstage, The Masks will be removed to reveal there was only one actor all along, but it sure was the best show in town..?

All I recommend is meditation and turning within and asking yourself Who am I? And where does this ME reside within the body?

The biggest confusion with ego that I see on this forum is the belief that someone is saying you need to kill the ego. No one is saying you need to kill the ego... that's not how it works at all...❤

That's what I'm telling you to do and stop all the practices talk...? the seeking perpetuates the belief you are separate and lacking something that you don't already have.❤

You are already home my friend you never left it was just Maya all along. The separation from God never occurred it was all Just an Illusion. There cannot be a path anywhere because you are already there and it's THIS and its perfect... all that's required is to recognize it ❤ See the game is Oneness doesn't recognize its Oneness and continues seeking Oneness within Oneness. Oneness actually creates the only Duality that could ever exist by seeking Oneness inside of itself. As long as Oneness keeps seeking for Oneness, it perpetuates the belief that its separate from itself. It's the running on the hamster wheel effect. It's time to get off the hamster wheel and realize you are already home.. There was never a separate you inside the body it was just oneness entangled within the human experience. There is nothing wrong with it, if you want to stay entangled that's just fine, that's just Oneness experiencing itself in the finite. It's all simply THIS...❤

There isn't anywhere it's not. It's the canvas and the artist.

It feels like some kind of unknowable Smart Energy with no limitations. Pure potential with no beginning and no end, it's what IS. Some kind of pregnant nothingness. It's an everything and a nothing. There is nothing that it's not, it's the all encompassing. It's absolute perfection. It's infinite. It's meaningless and means everything. Its THIS ❤

@LfcCharlie4 ❤ thought u would ?

@LfcCharlie4 hey shipmate haha we say that in the Navy.... I had a feeling you would really like what she has to say ❤

You said it as perfect as language can allow ❤ Thank you my friend ?

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We are in good company. ?

Sweet...perfect...? It's going to be a good evening❤

Ahh love you guys 2 ❤ Just a miller lite lol ? Haha I typed in frown and this is what came up...? haha.. I was joking with the teaming up on the vegan thing ? love you both hehe

Yes totally agree Different Strokes for different folks.. from what I've read about him he's a true master ❤ A glimpse or a mystical experience doesn't usually cut it though, the illusion(Maya) has to be completely seen through and embodied sort of speak. The ego does not give up easily... Anyone can return home it's just whether you were truly riding the ox or not. PS stop teaming up on a vegan that's weak sauce..

Right... yeah I fell asleep watching a non-duality video on YouTube and woke up to this guy... his words were so true it woke me out of a deep slumber...had to share ❤

@LfcCharlie4 Thanks for sharing that with me ❤ and I understand you using going full circle term now. ? I've read similar books, their post Enlightenment guides. In this books case the Absolute is referring to THIS. I totally agree non-duality and duality that are just words pointing... their meanings are only as good as the understanding that THIS or the Absolute is all there is. It sounds like we are actually in very similar circumstances. What I find quite interesting is just within the last month I have basically been settling back into normal life. It's been a return home as the same person and at the same time completely new. ? The only concern I would have is for people reading this book who haven't completely seen through the illusion of Maya transitioning back into duality as a way to escape the difficult work of completely seeing through the illusion and untangling from social conditioning and snapping out of The Matrix. It is similar to what I was talking about with trying to bring the ego with you through enlightenment... it simply does not work that way. The ME can never become Enlightened, because Enlightenment is seeing the ME never existed. ❤

If you believe everything is the self or one that's describing non-duality not duality. It's difficult to fully grasp Oneness or non-duality from a dual perspective. It's kind of a mind f*** because people will be describing Oneness and trying to embrace it while still believing there a separate self. You can believe you're a separate Drop in the Ocean all you want but that doesn't make it true. The separation never occurred. ❤