VeganAwake

Ego, sense of self and self-image are the same thing.... identification It's the entire self construct. If someone says you are ugly it feels bad because there is identification as the body. If someone says you are stupid it feels bad because there is identification as the mind. If someone says you are beautiful it feels good because there is identification as the body. If someone says you are smart it feels good because there is identification as the mind. It's not about the identification being strong or weak.... it's recognizing it's completely unreal. ❤

There isn't a You and the Mind. This was all just the mind.... with the illusion of a Me mixed in. ❤

Yes, thoughts and feelings seem to arise. The illusory part is that they are arising for someone. This isn't about denying thoughts and feelings, it's about recognizing there is no one actually having them...no owner. ❤

Nothing is not an experience. Its the revelation that meaning, purpose and value (things mattering) are just egoic concepts created within the dream story of being a separate individual. ❤

Awakening occurs when it's clearly seen that the "ME" which thought suffering could lead to awakening isn't real. Or Awakening occurs when it's recognized the sufferer has never been. ❤

The biggest problem for the sense of 'I' is death. The stories that are created out of this fear of death are endless. These fictional tales have been being created since the mind became complex enough to become an entity unto itself. Once the 'I' showed up, the question immediately arose "where will 'I' go when this body dies. The cosmic joke is there already isn't an 'I' in which appears to be asking the question. ❤

What makes up this I character? If that body was born in Russia it would have a completely different set of beliefs and outlooks. I is a product of external cultural conditioning which includes the way your parents or guardians helped raise that body from a young age. You were told you are a separate unique individual with free will and choice yet given all the ingredients to be that individual. It can be seen clearly that this I character is just a concept. When this is seen clearly the I construct can become loose and unstable like a house of cards. This can be difficult because the I construct wants something solid to hang onto and identify as. This I construct does not like instability and it will paint a doomsday picture. Its unreality needs to simply be seen clearly. ❤

Its freedom from identification as the individual that believes it needs to find something or get somewhere. A disentangling from the socially conditioned matrix of mind known as ME.

There isn't a core Self that's the same illusion. ❤

There isn't an imaginary self(lower self) and then a real self(higher self). They are both the same illusion. ❤

He he yeah you can't get closer or further away from everything. There's nothing that needs to happen or not happen. Liberation is freedom from should and should not.

The word truth implies that there is something false. There is nothing false, only misunderstandings. The experience that you are a separate individual that can one day find something within everything called truth is a misunderstanding. There is only everything without separation. Love it or hate it.....It's the only show in town ❤

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? Like throwing out the baby with the bathwater, smashing the bathtub, burning the house down and then realizing the house was never real ?

The map the territory the apparent disagreements all the words and all the emotional experiences are all THIS. It's not somewhere else it's already THIS. ❤

? Yes, the root cause of suffering is identification as the individual desperately seeking for a better experience in the future. The individual is like a self-centered ball of judgment. When things go according to the individuals agenda they are called good. When they go against the individuals agenda they cause conflict/suffering because it's resisted. This individual is not real although it seems to be and in that sense calling it an illusion seems to fit well. Nice inquiry ❤

The seeking energy needs to be so strong that it ends with the revelation that there was nothing to find and no one in which to find it. "Do not seek illumination unless you seek it as a man whose hair is on fire seeks a pond". - Sri Ramakrishna

@nistake ? thx for the share!

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There isn't a limitless conscious Self that's a fairy tale produced by the ego which thinks it's important. There's no separation because there isn't a separate self period. Not a higher or a lower self, no self at all in any term whatsoever.

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Yeah bro, the bliss is the full acceptance of what is. It's the underlying recognition that it's all well. ❤

Be aware that Enlightenment has nothing to do with happiness. It's simply freedom from the individual that judges apparent happenings as good or bad. So it's the transcendence of happiness or sadness if you will. Freedom for No One ❤