VeganAwake

There isn't a lower self or a higher self, they are both the same illusion of self. ❤

It only seems like it's in the opposite direction or any direction for that matter because the individual feels like something's missing and needs to be found. Nothing is missing because the individual that believes something is missing, isn't real. It's impossible to get closer or further away. It's not something that's learned or found either. It's the end of the experience that something was missing for someone. ❤

There will always seem to be a character that prefers coffee over tea, will turn its head if its name is called, and jump out of the way of a moving train.... nothing can ever touch that so-called character. Awakening is recognizing these responses within the body/mind do not equal an individual.... There is an apparent conditioned body, but there is No One inside of it. Its emptiness or energy believing it's an important separate individual. Awakening is freedom from the very individual that thinks it needs to get free. They're already isn't an individual it just seems like there is. ❤ ❤ ❤

You're burning out because so-called spirituality isn't something separate than everyday life. The map IS also the territory, there is no separation. The apparent issue is an illusory individual attempts to find a particular something within everything in a futile attempt to make everything better... but there is only everything without separation already. There's no getting outside of everything to point at it and say 'see i found everything, it's right there' and this is the path which led "ME" there. There's nothing in particular to find, everything is already whole, complete and perfect......this recognition is like Kryptonite to the "sense of self" which lives in a world of meaning, purpose and value where something always feels like it needs to be found. Nothing is missing already. That's the Cosmic Joke and Open Secret. ❤

The very one that thinks it's going to get somewhere or get something out of this practice is the illusion of self. ❤

? It can't be pinned down or hung on a nail because it's everything without separation. Unknowable freedom/dancing emptiness. ❤

Yeah thoughts can be slowed down by meditating, relaxation techniques, certain substances or whatever. But this slowdown is usually temporary and can build back up due to the fast-paced world we live in. The freedom piece is the revelation that no one is actually having these thoughts, no one owns them, they just SEEM to arise in the mind like a reaction to a reaction to a reaction. This "sense of self" builds and builds from a young age. It's completely assumed without question that we are infact these separate individuals living in a world of meaning and importance. Like a constructed web of identification stemming from the original misconception of being a separate individual.(aka dream story) Awakening is the disentangling from the socially conditioned matrix of mind known as "ME". And the really crazy part is when this so-called disentangling occurs it's simultaneously recognized that there never was anyone tangled in the first place. No one becomes untangled. No one was tangled. No one wakes up. No one becomes enlightened. Its a non happening.... meaning it's not real. ❤

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Is suffering in the mind? Is it felt in the body? Where does it go when happiness arises?

@blessedlion1993 What is suffering at its core? Break it all the way down. See if you can pinpoint it.

Yeah exactly, it's just what seems to be happening. It doesn't actually matter in the slightest, it only seems to for an apparent individual living in a world of meaning, purpose and value.

Notice everything is just happening regardless of the thoughts, stories, & concepts given to it. Who has gotta deal with it?

Yes it seems like a continuum but there isn't anyone actually there for it to continue for....it only seems so. Everything is always fresh and immediate.

@EntheogenTruthSeeker The disconnection isn't real although it feels very real. You feel separate and alone and thus the journey begins to find wholeness and completion. But the separation is an illusion. There never was a separate individual within the body. So this illusory energetic experience of separation runs the body/mind around looking for wholeness within wholeness..... like someone searching for their eye glasses when there already wearing them. An illusion of self cannot find wholeness/infinite love because IT'S the very experience of separation.(often referred to as ego) It gets in its own way sort of speak. But it can be recognized that it's completely unreal. ❤

Yes, it appears to be hidden by being everything. ?

Yep...Its hopeless because the identity seeking freedom isn't real. Its never what's expected

There only seems to be. The individual is like a reaction to a reaction to a reaction. We are told who we are by society and this so-called self identity seems to build upon itself, layer after layer like an interconnected web of ideas, beliefs, concepts, experiences starting from a young age. Awakening is seeing through this illusory identity that seems to build-up over time. There actually isn't a real built up individual there, although there certainly seems to be....its an illusion of self. ❤

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The end of something that wasn't real.

It's not about becoming, it's realizing there already wasn't anyone there. ❤

Great little collection of videos.

? Yes, the sense of self would expect there to be a grand firework show, but it can also be quite ordinary.... it's never what's expected that's for sure. Liberation isn't a particular state of mind or particular experience within everything..... it's not exclusive it's all inclusive. Simultaneously you don't become a meditating pacifist where everything just slides by without any judgment or skepticism whatsoever. If that was the case It would be very difficult to function in society, it's actually the opposite because without ME decisions can be made rather quick and easy without distraction as you mentioned. Liberation is recognizing there already isn't a YOU. That's why it's common to hear the phrase "Enlightenment is already the case". The individual isn't a real entity it just seems to be. ❤

Staying centered. Not swinging too far in any one direction. Not buying into everything and simultaneously not rejecting it either. Push Pull. Walking The Razor's Edge. The middle path. Radically open-minded and simultaneously grounded.

Freedom is completely free. It allows for Change and Unchanging. Perfect/imperfect, right/wrong, good/bad....all conditioned concepts of the mind.