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Certainly. Higher jhanas can blow out psychedelics. However if one can enter jhanas, their psychedelic experiences will likely be more intense than the jhanas. That was my experience when seeking.

Seems to be the character displaying the sense of loss and gratitude that comes with apparent liberation. I have no doubt that character is liberated -- in the story of course; in the end this stuff is impossible to talk about in a solid sense since there is nothing actually happening in time anyway, and in the end there is no one to be liberated (which itself is apparent liberation). Remember though, the liberated one (free from all delusion) is never the one speaking to another. And there is no such thing as other anyway, already. I find it interesting that people seem to find her inauthentic. I see the exact opposite.

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Look for the I (your self) who is aware of whatever appears. Hold it. If you catch it, who caught it? find the I who is aware with such intensity that the I cannot connect with objects. Revealing effortlessness and spaciousness. You fall out of that state. Go back. Inquire into who it is that goes in and out of it.

If you like her you'd perhaps like Lomakayu -- Medicine of One. I did especially love listening to Samaneri Jayasara's readings of Meister Eckhart.

Turn the other cheek or give em one right back. Doesn't matter. This itself is not a judgement, but if you judge someone else you're actually judging yourself in a sense (more like literally, but also in a sense).

What I am is never exactly revealed. Or, one could say, it's revealed that I am undefinable infinity. Or rather all existential questions are revealed to rest upon false assumptions -- namely: that there is a reality in which contingent things really happen. It is well within the capacity of boundless infinity to appear as a reality and a complete universe, without that universe actually even needing to exist.

There can simply be the obviousness that there's no one who has ever done a single thing ever nor will there be nor could there be.

Yep. That's "being stuck."

It's a gateless gate. A pathless path. An endless end. A beginning-less beginning. That there is no reality, no finitude, and no separation in the first place? I'd certainly say that's both a tragic and hilarious cosmic joke!

@softlyblossoming You know that you are, and it needs no evidence. How do you know that? Seek for it. Hold it. You can't grasp it because it's not an object. Hunting for it involves retracting attention from experience itself. If you think you've got it, what knows you got it? Look for that. Continuously and literally eventually at all times, which is impossible but that is actually how the practice culminates -- it's recognized that you were trying to do what was already the case. It doesn't make sense, but to make it simple just continually hunt for your self. I know I am. How? Who knows that they are. When this is done continuously a spaciousness is revealed and it can be a bit strange almost as if there's no longer someone looking out at a world.

Surrender is being blown about like a feather, without action or inaction, but it isn't something new. It is a technique in which one relaxes all voluntary effort (action and inaction) -- i.e. if effort is already happening, then (counterintuitively) non-surrender would be voluntarily relaxing that effort. But the "practice" of surrender is not actually a technique, nor is it even a practice -- it's a pointer... This is because you are already 100% surrendered, so to speak. There is no one separate from the infinite who could be un-surrendered, that is.

It's in the story, but you could say one would have to cease being aware of objects (or the not-self), which would automatically bring about focus on the underlying constantly changing stillness which is infinite, everywhere, and nowhere, forever. There would no longer be the sense of other-ness.

All is one. When one is enlightened, all are enlightened. Paradoxical? Not so, since... Infinity holds infinite infinities.

There are no centers. The infinite is all there is and it's unknowable. And not understandable. It actually doesn't make sense.

Yeah. Same happened here.

Other-ness vanishes. As does solidity. And sense.

Yes. No. No. I don't know.

Enlightenment is simply the truth. There is no I to it. It is not want-able. How could one want what is already the case?

It is only a duality if you assume two separate people. People don't exist. All is God. I am you -- there is no I or you to it, even. To be God is to know nothing of God.

Definitely. Some thoughts on this stuff: Enlightenment has nothing to do with expansion of consciousness, which can be done via psychedelics, meditation, and spiritual practice. So this comment is very much not dealing with things on that level -- and "that level" is where all the fun stuff is, so this comment has no purpose. On "that level," a powerful technique I can offer is to ignore current life circumstances and remain in your chosen reality until it appears... Anyway, enough of that... There is no here, so there is no there. There's no one here nor over there, there's just this non-contextual appearance fluctuating in and as pure emptiness / "nondual consciousness." There's just this singular appearance, and even this is not, yet also is not separate from the is-ness that is all there is. All there is is all there is. *** Ever looked at a still pond with trees around and clouds in the sky? In the reflection, the trees and clouds (and birds, etc) look like they're far apart from each other (in 3D), but of course it's an illusion because it's all just the still surface of the water of the pond. So to with consciousness. But extrapolate that to all dimensions, not just that "flatness." And also extrapolate that to time as well. There is literally no separation of any kind at all, whatsoever. No character is any better or worse (or even "further along") than any apparent other character. All are equally perfect expressions of wholeness. *** Truth / Nothing / Unconditional Love / Infinitude with/as its infinite power is longing for its own absence, i.e. it's longing for something. In this imaginary something, this Nothing seems to appear as a someone who longs for its absence, which is this already. The infinite is timeless. It can't be any other way, because where Nothing is... you seem to be, and it's unimaginable that you are Nothing, so a witness or person is extrapolated to be where that Nothing obviously is, and that alone is the root of what we call ignorance. What is longed for will never come, because it is already. If you (not necessarily you, just generally speaking for onlookers) cannot see this, it's because you don't know what you means. How to find what you means? It is you who must find out. One who thinks they have attained personal gain from enlightenment is neither enlightened nor a seeker -- they are locked in impenetrable illusion. The Self alone is real -- there are no others. That's the whole "teaching." There is just what seems to play out -- i.e. nobody ever does anything, as there isn't anyone separate from The Infinite to do so. It seems the three ways this process can unfold (in the story) are: (all are attempts to get closer to what already is, so... even though they "work," they do not make any sense) (and they aren't even actually practices despite how they may appear, they're actually pointers) 1. Surrender Surrender to the higher/highest power all personal desire and will. Relax all voluntary action and inaction to nil. Very simple. Surrender to God all the world's problems, including your own. It must be attempted at all times. It's impossible to do at all times, but the culmination of the practice is when it happens all the time automatically without any burden of effort. (a) A preliminary practice for surrender (or any of the three) is something called Karma Yoga. If one successfully keeps the mighty infinite intelligence of God fully in mind, they will not care about anything including even the results of their own actions... Attempt to do just that. God in its ineffable infinitude knows best, and there is only the infinite, so if you identify as a finite being, you can be certain that this particular "you" is not actually doing anything of its own will. Karma becomes unselfish and the real process (one of the three) can then begin. Sri Krishna's instructions for Karma Yoga, from the Bhagavad Gita: 1) Do your duty, but do not concern yourself with the results. 2) The fruits of your actions are not for your enjoyment. 3) Even while working, give up the pride of doership. 4) Do not be attached to inaction. 2. Self inquiry Find the source of your self; where the I comes from. Who am I? The Self is pure nondual awareness. There is no way nor need to cultivate or attain it. All you have to do is give up being aware of other things... that is, of the not-self -- any objects or thoughts one is aware of. Turn away from all objects separate from you (experienced by you). Whatever you know as an object, including even the witness, is not you -- you are aware of all of it, and none of it (i.e. none of whatever you appear to be conscious of) is you. Use everything (all objects) as merely a reminder to you that you are aware of it, and hunt for that one who is aware, until the spaciousness is revealed, and when you fall out of it, do it again, and attempt this at all times. It is crucial that it is done at all times, as crazy as that sounds (though it will make sense in the end just how much it doesn't make sense). It's impossible to do at all times, but the culmination of the practice is when it happens all the time automatically without any burden of effort. Realization is not something new -- I am that I am; the only truth is that there is truth. You're looking for how you know that you are, to the exclusion of all else -- that is the Self. 3. Spiritual Autolysis (Jed McKenna's technique) Preferably in writing, exclaim what you know for sure, and then find out how it's actually untrue. Until nothing is left. At the end it can get quite painful when all that's left is stuff like "I am a good person." But in the end, even though all is lost, nothing was lost.

Btw, if one has been seeking enlightenment for more than 3 years and they think that's the path they've been on for those 3+ years, then they are mistaken. Once the process of awakening/unknowing begins, it ain't taking more than 2 years. Why? Because one will be shocked at their naivety 3 days ago on a constant basis -- it's that swift. It's a dehypnotization. It's highly likely going to be under 2 years, and probably more like 18 months, perhaps even 6 months. And when it ends, which it doesn't (it's quite paradoxical), none of your existential questions will be answered -- rather, the framework in which existential questions could make any sense will simply be no longer... All the questions were built upon false assumptions to begin with. And enlightenment doesn't make sense -- can't stress that enough -- thus revealing perfect sense. The great surprise is that there was only ever liberation, already -- immensely unexpected. The primary illusion hiding enlightenment, one could say, is the illusion of value and stakes. When there's no one left, even hardship is bliss, but for no one -- which is already the case.