Princess Arabia

If there's a problem, it's because there's a 'me' attached to the situation. No 'me', no problem, just what's occurring.

You started a journal, but it didn't last. I guess you feel the need to start a thread about every thought. Journals are great for expressions but I guess not for the one that needs to be seen or heard for saying nothing.

We're constantly chasing happiness and avoiding suffering. Neither lasts. When suffering ends, it ends. Phew! That's it. When happiness ends, it's not "phew, that's it", it's where did you go. Come back. I need to feel you. I need you in my life, boo boo. Sob, sob. Where did you go. I need to find you again and the search begins. We find it, and boo hoo again we mourn it's passing, and the cycle begins. We got a taste of it. Suffering, on the other hand, never gets chased, mourned and saught after like a long lost love, it just comes and goes. Happiness is what's making us suffer. The lack of it. We're not avoiding mental pain, we're chasing happiness. What will make me suffer never enters our mind. What will make me happy constantly does. It's like an addiction. We feed off of the chase. Wanting more and more. Suffering isn't chased, desired or wanted because it doesn't feel good. It's not a goal we strive for. How can it be the enemy. If a man is gay and is constantly hurt by men, women wouldn't be the enemy just as men aren't the enemy in this way for straight men and vice versa. What you're seeking is the enemy if the lack of it causes us pain. The lack of suffering brings us joy, so how is that the enemy. The lack of happiness is what's causing the suffering and what brings us the most pain. So, therefore happiness is the real culprit, whether you realize it or not.

Yes. It's a felt sense. There's also a felt sense that it's not. It comes and goes. It's hard to explain. What is quite obvious, though, is that there's no one here nor there. We can't be individuals sharing the same senses and it be real. I'm reading your writings and you reading my writings. Can't be. Two separate individuals can't be sensing the same things. Plus by the time you've read this it'll be time passing and time is an illusion so the reader and writer have to be illusory.

No it won't. The same way a live tree won't respond back hi. A live person isn't responding either. It's the Absolute responding to itself. No one responds to anyone. Not even here. Responding is happening all on it's own and without a responder.

Yes. Experience is an illusion. Requires an experiencer. Experiencer isn't actually there.

I said earlier I was just like everyone else. I'm not claiming anything.

Nothing is real.

This is not a direct knowing. I don't know this. Nobody knows this. It's sensed.

First, there's no such thing as enlightenment because there's no one to become enlightened. All this enlightenment talk is the Absolute talking. "Enlightenmenting". Nothing actually drops, just revealed it never happened. There's no non-dual nature of anything to shine through anything. All is already Absolute, whole and complete. Even the notion that there's a self to drop and that "all shines through it" is Absolute whole and complete. There's nothing that isn't. Can't be where there's no separation. There's nothing to get right and nothing to get wrong. That's only in the dream which isn't really happening anyway. This is total freedom already appearing as.......

Body doesn't born and dies. Body appears to an observer and a dead body also appears to an observer. No observer, it's just what is appearing. Observer abstracts and seems to see a body that's born and a body that dies. That's the illusion. There's just a body that appears and doesn't. A dead body was never alive. It's the Absolute appearing as a dead body timelessly.

Yes, I do sense a sense of self. I'm just like everybody else. Nobody is any different. We project enlightenment and noself unto others. It's not conceptual either. It's quite obvious there's no one in the driver's seat. I do sense that I'm located behind the eyes, but that's also obvious it's just a sense just as I can smell an orange. The smell of an orange isn't conceptual. Same here, the sense of no doer isn't conceptual. It's just not arising over there, but there's no actual over there either.

You're assuming there's a "you" here using anything. Assuming I have a 'field of view'. That all arises with the sense of illusory self. There are no real dimensions.

Yes, and that's the 'tragedy' of this sense of self that's not actually happening already. It's energy chasing it's own tail. It's still 'all there is' doing that, appearing as someone seeking enlightenment, so it doesn't really matter. It's all empty appearances. It's already total and complete.

There is ONLY the Absolute.

I'm already not in the body. There's no outside of me. There's no separation. All you're talking about is from the illusory perspective of a felt person inside a body. Not already happening. There's no merging into anything. All illusory stuff. Not really happening and cannot happen because there's no such thing as space or time.

Cannot transcend what's not actually happening. Transcend suggests a doer and a subject that transcends. One never actually put a self there so one cannot get rid of a self. Can the sense of smell or taste be transcended by someone. No,. It falls away on it's own to reveal there was no one smelling or tasting anything to begin with but no one knew that.

I'm nowhere only seem to be. I sense a self here, but it's illusory. "You already are" suggests boundary, time and space, a position and a center; there's none.

I keep crying realizing there's no one in these bodies. It's like a realization that hits for real. A kind of knowing. It's become quite obvious even though not obvious at all. This forum doesn't help either. In real life it's harder to not be fooled, but the forum makes it obvious. It's not like I can say, I won't talk since there's no one in these bodies, there's no one here either.

The love you speak about here cannot be realized because it's everything. Unconditional love cannot be known.

@SugarcoatIf I asked 100 different people who seek enlightenment what is it, I'd get 100 different answers or close to it. People seek enlightenment and can't give a precise answer, when asked, what it is. Then the one's that say loss of self is even more ridiculous because who would know they're enlightened if there's no self left.

When you seek a lost pocketbook or a lost knife in the kitchen, do you assume what you're looking for. No. You know exactly what you seek. Why assume it here.

@SugarcoatGot you there. You got silent. What is enlightenment.

What is enlightenment?

One of my favs. I have plenty.