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The visuals are really one of the least important aspects of an awakening experience. If you want a worthwhile visual description of God, here’s a popular one. The video is far more detailed.

I think you’ll find MCTB to be really helpful.

Ayahuasca is underutilized here. I think people trying other psychedelics need to give it a shot.

There are people who can change the color of their whole visual field at will after kasina practice. It’s something I’m gonna have to try out soon https://www.mctb.org/mctb2/table-of-contents/part-iii-the-samatha-jhanas/29-kasina-practice/

I read it from the site. Daniel is a true gift to people who want practical growth.

An easier way to say it that I liked is that no one becomes enlightened. If anything becomes enlightened, it’s the impermanence itself. I’m totally willing to be shown I’m wrong with my interpretations. I actually fully welcome the possibility for higher attainments and insight. This is a case where being wrong would be a more rich experience if it were the case. Why would I run from that?

Yes, that is another belief. Theories about what consciousness does and doesn’t do outside of your experience are absolutely never investigable. All you can investigate is the bundle of sensations in the present moment as they arise and immediately pass away. That’s all you ever have to work with. Have you ever focused much on serious Buddhism? It takes skepticism in a much more beneficial direction than materialist attempts. The three characteristics listed here are the best place to start imo https://www.mctb.org/mctb2/table-of-contents/part-i-the-fundamentals/5-the-three-characteristics/

Don’t think of it in terms of a brain. That’s just lazy investigation. A brain is a belief made up of transient sensations. Everything will always be transient sensations. A materialistic paradigm is not as investigative as a sensation-only paradigm. A paradigm is never an absolute answer for everything forever, but it’s better to have a more consistent paradigm than one which takes as many guesses as materialism.

I was doing some powerful Jhana work starting from the fifth to the seventh jhanas. After going into deeper and deeper absorption into these states, I would fight my way out with vipassana and focus on the three characteristics. The vipassana gave me a way to crush the pleasantness of the temporary experience and uncover it to where all three doors could be understood simultaneously. After the last switch into nothingness/7th Jhana, this aspect became fused with 5th and 6th Jhana elements continuously present. I stopped being able to breathe. I became the room which was a finite sensation of being in an enclosed space with direct access to the boundless aspect of space in sensation. I realized that the distinctions between space and being contained in a finite experience were based on the same exact sensate illusion. I eventually found out how to breathe in this new mixed Jhana with only formless aspects of forms remaining. I had to breathe through my bones. The non space sensation within my body after full exhalation was more profound and subtle than the nothingness in 7th Jhana previously. Many other strange and unspeakable experiences such as air turning to sand occurred, but they are too many to number or categorize. Every instant has within it infinite subtlety. I feel like this is never going to end. I'm constantly fluxing between jhanas as I've acquired a sort of automatic no-mind which contemplates the three characteristics even in intense absorbed and blissful states. Now petting a dog feels like a specific Jhana. Is the special desirable aspect of petting a soft dog on its face any different from the desirable formless aspects of typical jhanic sensations? In this way, you are not just changing nothingness and space but also all other sensate dimensions which could be investigated.

The same imagination which creates me is the same that creates you. You can do your own version of any of this with the right steps taken. I do genuinely appreciate the support though ?

I’ve worked on infinite love quite a lot. At the end of the day, infinite love has no limits and therefore can’t really ever be defined imo. I’ve been focusing on dukkha particularly tonight. It’s been far more lucrative than working with bliss states/kundalini as I used to do to recognize love. When I was in some crazy LSD dose God Consciousness experience for example, I was able to be present and concentrated on what was occurring because it was desirable. Any sort of bliss works this way. I’d say infinite love is becoming insight so crystallized that the whole game of self and identity drop away such that no resistance can occur to the true nature of anything that could ever be. The bliss and obvious forms of love serve as a good ground for people to have understood before going on to the more radical and accepting forms like intentionally cultivating dukkha in awareness as an object for insight practice. Sitting with dukkha as an ever-present aspect of experience gives a strong sense of finding lost love. In the end, nothing loves life and transient selves more than suffering. If you can love that aspect of reality’s brutal nature, I’d say infinite love is easier to honestly investigate.

Read this whole page — better yet, the whole book if you want real change. https://www.mctb.org/mctb2/table-of-contents/part-iv-insight/30-the-progress-of-insight/3-the-three-characteristics/

Seeking ends when all experiences are equally spiritually effective. There are no more answers that could be found which would be anything more than a pleasant illusion. You know nothing could ever be said to be a higher level than where you already are. Full enlightenment always means a consistent, untangled, and absolute insight into no-self, suffering, and impermanence.

If we become accountability partners, you’ll be introduced to lots of madness and suffering. If you’re cool with that, let’s go.

This is the perfect opportunity to investigate the three characteristics in Buddhism. You can create the suffering sensations as a meditation object and view their impermanence, non self nature, and the dissatisfaction of experience. At least that’s what I’d do. You’ll probably notice as your insight increases your suffering will likely fade.

The process of illusion falling away has that capability. That’s all a fully enlightened person is. It’s a temporary “experience” with no ground whatsoever as they have attained untangled perception in relation to all three doors of enlightenment — no self, suffering in all experience, and impermanence. It is the fully direct unbecoming of the present moment into sensations which are pure illusion. Death, consciousness, god, love, truth, etc. all fall away and have no inherent lasting quality to them. Every God or enlightenment experience you create is just a better and more pleasing illusion. The three doors dismantle notions such as nonexistence as they show the instability of nonexistence which relies on existence as a ground. The one who comes back from nonexistence and is shown to outlast all is the process of decay and change in relation to everything. Reality is not made of nouns. Reality is made of verbs due to the nature of impermanence. Enlightenment is becoming the verb of everything arising and passing in the only access point to insight which is the present illusion “you” find yourself in.

Thanks for the reply. This would not be an issue as what you described as that trained state is the enlightenment state in part. You become nothing and everything which is capable of producing any experience. You realize that the creativity and imagination of childhood were just as insight filled and enlightened illusions as any other temporary experience. The truth and illusion in sensation is a structural, ever present thing. This is enlightenment. The craziest hell realms of suffering would be more pleasant for “me” now than being on the playground as a child being only enlightenment but having no knowledge of your own true nature as the process of all things coming into being and falling away simultaneously.

“You never began” is an illusion as well though. You did begin this instant in your memory. This is fusing no-self with God. If there’s a beginning to which things could be said to not come from, it still exists as a partial illusory paradigm to explain the inexplicable.

The universe is also into beastiality. Let’s not give congratulations too soon.

Enlightenment and truth were always present. It’s not about creating some new enlightenment. It’s about throwing away everything posing as enlightenment or not enlightenment. When you can’t distinguish between death and life or truth and illusion, you’ve seen through the whole illusion. You become something that’s only true staying power and permanence rests in its ability to be so impermanent that it can be anything. The only basis for a truth that lasts in impermanent experience is realizing the process of death and change is not a self. You’re always going to have death and change in reality, but once you transcend by dying completely, you realize that not even death and impermanence can explain what is going on as lasting impermanence as impermanence cannot exist without an illusion of something which could be permanent.

Death and constant impermanence is what remains. There is no consistent bundle of sensations you could mistake as a self. Everything just morphs as sensations always disappearing into something new. The idea that you are contained within what was born is precisely what keeps people from the no self aspect of the three doors to awakening.

I’ve found that believing one has the capability to reach any possibility is required for higher level work. There’s a reason there are so many talking about being God, everything, etc. If they don’t realize the whole lifetime of any Buddha was created and destroyed in a specific set of sensations they are investigating always after those sensations disappear, it isn’t true oneness. There can’t be the idea that there is even a being to be fully enlightened once it has occurred. Any self that is attached to the concept of enlightenment in someone’s conscious experience other than the sensations occurring and falling away right now is hopelessly distant from actual enlightenment.

I’m not making this post from anything but helpless perfect oneness coming into the simultaneity of sensations immediately arising and passing. There isn’t even a present moment to hold on to.

All experiences are still illusions in a dream world. You have to move out of the realm of experience and a permanent consciousness god imagination to rather the possibility of nonexistence, no consciousness, and the ending of everything if you want maximum results.

Three characteristics contemplation practice is what will create lasting results. Good luck. Smash some formless jhanas open.