Guru Fat Bastard

Wisdom would say, If this is all a delusion,then make it a loving,joyful delusion?

This, is the quintessence of what it means to "simply be" or "rest in being". It is also the core essence of the instruction to "Allow everything to be as it is".

Wokeness,is always woke. ?

But,but,there's no body home and no one to hold it.

Is that true?

However,there is the creative intelligence (i.e, Consciousness),from which all knowledge and understanding is made possible. The same creative intelligence from which the experiential insight/understanding that "there is no body home", was made known.

Take from the Hindu concept of "Lila", that creation (all creation) is a divine play of the Supreme. "The world is a mere spontaneous creation of Brahman. It is a Lila, or playful sport, of Brahman. It is created out of Bliss, by Bliss and for Bliss. Lila indicates a spontaneous sportive,playful activity of Brahman, which is distinguished from a self-conscious volitional effort. The concept of Lila signifies freedom of creation, distinguished from creating from necessity. A playful, aimless display which precipitates pain ,as well as joy, but in its bliss transcends them both.

Also too,if the two words are inquired into as to the essence of their meaning it would be: Being Aware= Am Aware. So Being Aware means 'I' ( the empty,eternal,silent,reality) AM Aware. This is primordial,Self-known,Self-inherent knowledge. "You"(the unborn,eternal,silent,reality) don't have to be told you are aware. Non identified Self knows it exists, and is aware , that it exists (i.e, it is Self knowing). So, Being Aware of Being Aware= "I" (Self /God/Reality) AM Aware that I AM Aware. So,your true nature/essence is always Being (ie., always Existing), and is always Aware. Another way Spira put it is to ask "Am I Aware". The question,and the ridiculously obvious answer, leads directly to Being Aware of Being Aware.

Here are some additional ways if anyone is interested. Not to detract from what @Beginner Mind posted here , which is excellent,but for additional exploration if desired. This is not to cause any confusion with too many "ways", but to find one that best resonates and feels effortless or nearly effortless and stick with that one. If it feels effortful, burdensome or stressful,then it's not the one you want. THE AWARENESS WATCHING AWARENESS METHOD PRACTICE INSTRUCTIONS by Michael Langford: 74. Description A: Shut your eyes. Notice your awareness. Observe your awareness. Turn your attention away from the world, body and thought and towards awareness watching awareness. Every time you notice you are thinking, turn your attention away from thought and back towards awareness watching awareness. Watch your awareness, not your thoughts. 75. Description B: Look out at the room and notice your awareness looking out through your eyes. Now shut your eyes and notice that same awareness is still there that a moment ago was looking outward at the room. Observe that awareness. If you notice thoughts, ignore the thoughts and turn your attention away from the thoughts and towards awareness observing awareness. 76. Description C: Shut your eyes. Notice that you are conscious. Watch that consciousness. Every time you notice a thought, turn your attention away from the thought and continue watching your consciousness. Do not watch your thoughts. Watch your consciousness. Consciousness watching consciousness. Consciousness conscious of consciousness. 77. Description D: Shut your eyes. Turn your attention away from thought and watch the watcher. 78. Description E: Shut your eyes. Notice your awareness. Be aware of your awareness. If you notice you are thinking, turn your attention away from thought and towards awareness of awareness. 79. Description F: Shut your eyes. Just remain in awareness aware of itself. If there are thoughts, turn your attention away from thoughts and back to awareness aware of itself. 43 80. Description G: Shut your eyes. You observe your awareness. Whenever there are thoughts, turn your observation away from the thoughts and continue to observe your awareness. 81. Description H: Shut your eyes. Turn your attention towards awareness and concentrate on awareness. Concentrate in a relaxed manner without effort. Every time thoughts are noticed, turn your attention away from the thoughts and back towards concentrating on awareness. 82. Description I: Shut your eyes. Be aware of being aware. Now remain in that awareness of awareness. If there are thoughts, turn your attention away from the thoughts and continue being aware of being aware. 83. Description J: Shut your eyes. Notice you are aware. Look at that awareness. Remain in awareness looking at awareness. If thoughts arise, look away from the thoughts and continue looking at awareness. Remain in that awareness looking at awareness. 84. Description K: Shut your eyes. Your present awareness watching your present awareness, while ignoring all else. 85. Description L: Look at the room. Notice your attention looking through your eyes. Shut your eyes and turn your attention around to look at itself. Attention attending to attention. Remain with that. Don’t move from that. Don’t attend to anything else. Don’t attend to thought. Attend only to attention. 86. Description M: Look at the room. Notice your awareness looking through your eyes. Now shut your eyes. Notice that same awareness that was looking through your eyes a moment ago. Now turn that awareness around degrees away from the world, the body and thought and towards itself, towards awareness watching awareness. 87. Description N: Look at the room, or if you are outdoors look at the sky. Your awareness is the seer. Shut your eyes. See the seer. Turn your attention away from thought and towards the seer. 88. Description O: Shut your eyes. Turn your attention away from the known and know the knower. 89. Description P: Shut your eyes. Awareness aware only of awareness. Remain there. Dwell there. Be there. Live there. 90. Description Q: Shut your eyes. One awareness observing one awareness. Not two, one observing the other. Only one. Observe your awareness. If you notice thinking, do not attempt to complete the thought. Drop the thought, let go of the thought as though you had no interest in the thought. Continue observing your awareness. 91. Description R: Shut your eyes. Observe your awareness. Relax into your awareness. Remain there in awareness aware only of your awareness. 92. Description S: Shut your eyes. Turn your awareness away from what your awareness is aware of and towards awareness aware only of itself. 93. Description T: Shut your eyes. Directly experience awareness by observing and relaxing into awareness. Rest in your awareness of awareness. Rest in awareness aware only of itself. Remain in awareness. Do not remain in thought. 44 94. Description U: There are the things you are aware of. There is the awareness that is aware of the things. Instead of observing the things, observe the awareness. Shut your eyes. There are thoughts and feelings. There is the awareness that is aware of thoughts and feelings. Instead of observing thoughts and feelings, observe the awareness. 95. Description V: Shut your eyes. Do not observe thought. Observe awareness. Awareness observing awareness is empty. There is no thing to observe there. Don’t complicate it by thinking there is more to it. Awareness is subtle. In awareness observing awareness there is only awareness. It is simple. Remain in awareness observing itself. 96. Description W: Shut your eyes. Focus on the awareness that thoughts are arising in. Do not focus on the thoughts. Thoughts come and thoughts go. The awareness that thoughts are arising in does not come and go. Be aware of the awareness that does not come and go. When there are thoughts, watch the awareness, not the thoughts. When there are no thoughts, watch the awareness. Thoughts or no thoughts, continue to observe the awareness, not the thoughts. Continue to relax in and be aware of your awareness. Remain there. Be there. Live there. 97. Description X: Shut your eyes. If you see darkness, turn your attention away from the darkness and towards awareness of awareness. If you see light, turn your attention away from the light and towards awareness aware only of awareness. If you notice your breathing, turn your attention away from the breathing and towards awareness aware only of awareness. Whatever you become aware of, turn your attention away from it and towards awareness of awareness. 98. Description Y: Shut your eyes. Awareness not aware of thoughts. Awareness not aware of emotions. Awareness not aware of anything except awareness. Awareness aware of nothing except awareness. The background of awareness aware only of the background of awareness. Awareness aware only of awareness. Awareness only. Awareness alone. 99. Description Z: Shut your eyes. Let go of the idea that you own awareness. Let go of the idea that you control awareness. Let the infinite awareness be what it is without your trying to control it. Relax and observe the awareness. Let go of everything and observe the awareness. Relax completely and observe the awareness. With as little effort as possible and with a gentle, kind, easy, relaxed, loving approach; observe the awareness

Is 'me", thoughts, the body, the room, hearing, seeing,sensing, and the perceiving of all of this, all appearing, in one, non localized Presence having no form, space,or boundary? Any boundary is always assumed,and not the empty (yet full), boundless PresenceRealityBeingness < all one.

If "I" is reality,can reality ever be apart from itself? Whatever can experience itself as a self, and, can also experience the absence of a self (i.e., no self), then both experiences of self and no self appear in what can neither be called a self or no self (i.e., this or that).

Here are some additional ways, if interested, for further exploration. I didn't want it to detract from @Beginner Mind 's excellent post,so it was added to the HCR forum.

Unlike psych's which are pretty much instantaneous, persistent abidance over time is what yields lasting results. Also understand that unless sufficient time has been given to a meditative practice that stabilizes attention, formless abidance will be difficult. The mind or attention is so used to contacting/attaching to form(thoughts,objects,perceptions,sensations etc.,) that without some previous practice that stabilizes attention,the abidance will be difficult.Maybe only a few seconds at first. But with persistence, the duration increases until one day,it's done. Attention will no longer go out to meet or attach to form. Peace, bliss, love, happiness etc,emerge as abidance stabilizes. The advice is to inquire,then just sit and be. There's nothing else to do. Just be. That's it.

So that would mean that,what "I" is, is not a thought but that which is aware of the thought. Once the question is asked by mind it's done. Any answer would be just another thought from the same mind that asked the question. "I" is formless,still,silent,empty awareness. "I" believes/thinks it is the mind,but the question reveals that,that is false by the gap of silence and disappearance of the mind created "character" or "I-thought", after the question is asked. I- Consciousness/Awareness, is no-thing (i.e.,not a thing,thought,sound or perceivable object). Mind only knows objects (thoughts,images feelings,sensations,perceptions). Mind is thought. If there is no thought,there is no mind. If there is no mind,and no thought,there is no time and space. When there is no mind,there is no self,or false "I" or "person", which are objects, (i.e.,thought,name and form) in the mind. What "I" or You is , is not a personal or constructed mental self, but that which is aware of the constructed "I-person" or "self" . And "That" which is aware, has no name,shape,form,identity yet is the ground reality from which all that is or can be perceived,and perception itself, arises. "Self abidance" if you've heard the term is to rest/abide in That. The always here and now unborn ground of Being,Aware Consciousness Presence.

Instead of detachment,see it as non attachment. Ego is a story,a construct of ideas believed to be true,existing or real,but in reality has no existence. When this is seen/perceived,attachment and/or belief in the story (aka., illusion), no longer draws you in.

Truth being universally one and free from belonging to any one sect, doctrine or ideology,it is my humble opinion that if Christians wanted to really understand their chosen religion and it's teachings, they should avail themselves to teachings such as this, as well as other christian mystic writings.Among nearly all the other religions it is because of a lack of understanding that Christianity and it's followers get such a bad rap. I guess it can be said that it is because of this same lack of understanding,that a man who came along and finally started talking some sense got nailed to a cross for it. Moses would likely have been given the same treatment if he hadn't kept his own realization under wraps. Anyway, enjoy.

Good stuff @Preetom . The Vigyan Bhairav or 112 ways of Shiva has similar techniques to this, among many others. Well,112 . Most of the meditative technique's used throughout the ages,if not all, can be found in this ancient scripture. From Kriya to Vipassana to self inquiry,to mantra etc., Here's something similar. #79: The mind cam be used as an instrument - just don't identify with it. If you can be aware of the reality here and now, you will remain always transcendental to the mind. Just lie down. First conceive of yourself as dead; the body is just like a corpse. Lie down, and then bring your attention to the toes. With closed eyes move inwards. Bring your attention to the toes and feel that the fire is rising from there upwards, everything is being burned. As the fire rises, your body is disappearing. Start from the toes and move upwards. Just go on seeing that the body has become ashes and only the witness, You, remain.

Well the implication is that if seeing,hearing,tasting,smelling,sensing etc., appear and are known,then,just as the object seen,heard,tasted etc., is not "you",then also the sense perceptions(made of mind) are not "you", What's going on, is that to realize truth, whatever is or can be experienced comes and go's. And whatever comes and go's (i.e., is impermanent) is not the reality. You're reducing the dream reality to more and more subtle levels until that which cannot be reduced and is the ground /source of existence is realized. This technique is somewhat based on Shankara's drg drsya viveka.

One reason is objects of experience have no intrinsic or independent existence . Without seeing,the image/object seen, doesn't exist. Seeing is the reality,not the seen. Without hearing,there is no "heard" or sound. Without sensing,there is no sensation. Going further back, it is realized that seeing is not the reality,there's only the awareness/knowing of seeing. So seeing is not independent of the awareness or knowing of it. Awareness/knowing is the reality,not seeing or the object seen. Same with hearing, sensing,smelling etc., So you can see that objects,body,world,mind (all that is experienced or "phenomena") .,have no reality/existence independent of consciousness/knowing/awareness.

Lol. Remember Scientology? Xenu the galactic overlord.Thetans.Mass alien genocide 75 million years ago etc. An ex member stated Scientologists believe that if they can recall and “handle” things that happened to them eons ago( in a galaxy far, far away,), it will solve whatever problems they have going on in their current lives.“At the end of a session you feel invincible,” Lugli says. “You’ve been having planets built and destroyed. After that, you come out into this normal world and you feel like the most powerful person around because you’ve been traveling through space and time.” why-do-scientologists-accept-the-xenu-story/

This was also Nisargadatta's instruction. To hold attention on the felt sense of "Aware Presence","I Am",or "Being". Another way to word it is just "simply being with being". This is also what Lahiri Mahasaya referred to as the Pravastha state,or "state after Kriya". The tranquil state. If I were to suggest any practice it would be this one. Good post.

Nah,that's something that would take a considerable amount of time and instruction to learn,develop and perfect. And 2, to quote something he says every now and then to drive home the importance of responsible action, "I would not make such blunders", lol.

It's good. The vid. on the Dhyanalinga,he goes into the how, and why of the staggering detail, intricacy,and precision that when into the making of it,and the temple that houses it. It really is an architectural marvel.

One is inherent in the other and are not separate. In the full or complete acceptance of "what is", in the always 'here/now' moment,there's simultaneously the full or complete surrender, to "what is", in this always here/now moment. Letting go,acceptance.surrender etc, are all synonymous. In the complete letting go,acceptance or surrender to whatever is, in that moment,there is also the "dropping back", and/or, "return" to the essential nature of our Being that is peace,love,joy. Also known as "bliss".