VeganAwake

The negative aspect of pulling out or living off the dividends is that you lose out on the compounding interest. Rental properties are great for passive income because you can have someone paying you rent while the value of your properties go up about 3 to 5% each year. If you worked for 5 or 10 years and you already had a place to live, you could easily save up enough money to buy a couple rental properties with cash. Then you could probably just work a less demanding job for money to live off of.

Well it's unknowable in the sense that anything said about what reality is and or how it seems to behave is just a mere concept that can never actually be verified. Who would verify it and what would that even mean? Reality or consciousness as you call it, is just exactly what seems to be happening. There isn't a deep truth embedded within it or hidden somewhere. It's THIS exactly as it seems to appear. So simple and already the case that it seems complex and hidden. ❤

Nailed it ?

Then that's what's being experienced there, its whole, complete and perfect! ❤

It's only recognized when the you gets out of the way.... it's already not there which is why it's referred to as an illusion of self. Hasn't it always felt like it's right under your nose? It's so already the case that it seems to be hidden! ❤

Your welcome! And yeah the big surprise or cosmic joke is that there already isn't a you to become enlightened or not. ❤

Reality is everything you just described. It simply can't be missed. I think the so-called problem is that you are convinced it's somewhere else and will have to feel different than what is currently being experienced. When it's recognized there's nowhere to get to and no one in which could get there, it feels like a huge weight off the shoulders. ❤

No problem ? Awakening isn't about acquiring enough so-called spiritual knowledge that one becomes all-knowing, cleared up and enlightened or what not. It's the recognition that the very individual attempting to acquire knowledge to achieve enlightenment is completely illusory. "Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing through the facade of pretence. It's the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true". "Do not think that enlightenment is going to make you special, it’s not. If you feel special in any way, then enlightenment has not occurred. I meet a lot of people who think they are enlightened and awake simply because they have had a very moving spiritual experience. They wear their enlightenment on their sleeve like a badge of honor. They sit among friends and talk about how awake they are while sipping coffee at a cafe. The funny thing about enlightenment is that when it is authentic, there is no one to claim it. Enlightenment is very ordinary; it is nothing special. Rather than making you more special, it is going to make you less special. It plants you right in the center of a wonderful humility and innocence. Everyone else may or may not call you enlightened, but when you are enlightened the whole notion of enlightenment and someone who is enlightened is a big joke. I use the word enlightenment all the time; not to point you toward it but to point you beyond it. Do not get stuck in enlightenment". - Adyashanti ❤

Nobody wakes up and that's the thing that's impossible for the ME to grasp.... it simply can't fathom its own unreality. It's the Revelation that the very individual attempting to wake up or realize it's God or whatever, was never real in the first place. It's never what the individual expects it to be...BTW And it's not just some concept about what no separation would seem like and trying to "live from that state of mind" It's clearly seeing that there just never was a separate individual in the body in the first place. And when it's clearly recognized the energy used to uphold this unreal self construct begins to dissipate or collapse. This can happen rather quickly in some cases or seem to slowly unfold. ❤

Its completely unknowable but nothing wrong with trying. ?

Exactly, its very needy and has to constantly perpetuate its reality by seeking something it feels is missing. And if it hears not seeking is the answer it will try to become the non-seeker lol....it's hopeless because it subtly turns the non- seeking into a form of seeking(trying to get what it thinks it needs). Sometimes this sense of self is recognized to be unreal and can loosen up and start unraveling sort of speak. But it doesn't really die or evaporate because it's already not real. ? ?

Notice the benefits of having so-called meta knowledge is imaginary. There is no real difference between the so-called open minded meta knowledge-seeker and the so-called closed minded bible thumper. It's unknowable and timeless.... But not because someone knows it. Because the individual that seems to be moving through time acquiring so-called knowledge and or finding the so-called correct spiritual belief system is recognized to be completely unreal. In other words there's no getting closer or further away from truth because there isn't one. This is recognized by no one when "I" goes bye-bye. It's actually very rare and already the case. ❤

Sounds like it's time for your own place.

Everything is mysterious bro! Literally mind blowing ?

Nothing is separate because the individual sense of self within the body isn't a real entity. It claims to be the body and thinker of thoughts but it's not actually there. No real individual = No real separation ❤

The concept of nothing IS nothing appearing as something.

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Who is asking? Who believes they can be led to all truths & realizations? Who believes your never done?

No prob. Yes his communications are not as popular because it denies the seekers existence and illuminates the futility of trying to find something particular(Enlightenment) within everything. It leaves the seeker empty-handed & without a leg to stand on sort of speak. ❤

"Already Being What is sought remains hidden from the seeker by already being everything. It is so obvious and simple that the grasping of it obscures it. Never found, never knowable, being is the consummate absence that is beyond measure. Looking for being is believing it is lost. Has anything been lost, or is it simply that the looking keeps it away? Does the beloved always dance constantly just beyond our serious focus? By seeking the myth it dreams it can attain, the seeker effectively avoids that which it most fears … its absence. Liberation is like a fuse that suddenly blows, and all the little lights go out and there is only light. This is not a message about you or me or anyone getting anything. This is about the realisation that there’s nothing to get … that what has been sought has never been lost" - Tony Parsons

He's referring to the END of the endless needs and requirements the individual believes it needs to obtain or realize before Freedom or Liberation can be.