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@Endangered-EGO “I” (it’s basically deep in the story) had extensive experience with kundalini. Kundalini is required for early jhana entry. I’ve been through the jhanas. Second jhana is ridiculously more intense than most kundalini experiences, yet it technically is one (basically taken to the limit). It’s associated with the A&P of Buddhism. It has absolutely no relation to the end of the path

Just made a post straight from absolute. Can’t remember what I named it. Just came out automatically.

While this is boundlessness appearing (which we could stop at if we were dead-set on staying out of stories) as infinite intelligence designing the story of everything timelessly... This is also boundlessness being infinite intelligence designing the story of everything timelessly. See how deep the utterly absolute lack of separation goes?

Well the goal of spiritual practice is the end of doubting this is perfection.

Well into the infinitely deep story that is everything, it can be Real-I-zed that you designed your self and the whole universe (which are not separate from each other) timelessly. So yeah, the designing not only didn't happen in the past, it is also not even a process. You could conceive of it as an apparent cross-section or solidification of absolute infinity. This is boundlessness appearing as infinite intelligence designing the story of everything timelessly.

It is literally just the apparent happening of energy release when competing desires stop fighting with each other and a being becomes more unified.

It is simply the energy released when competing desires stop fighting with each other and a being becomes more unified.

Uh oh... Oh well, I guess that’s generally good ?

Glad to hear it! ?

Imagine 2 people exchanging an object. One person gives a cookie (or whatever) to a second person who receives it. Imagine this happening in slow motion, in reverse, etc... Do this while imagining what both of their experiences simultaneously are at each moment. Notice how the 2 appearances "fit together?" Unify them. Notice how "each" is already a manifestation of completeness, and not separate. They are, in a sense, merely different perspectives of everything. There is only one appearance, but capacity for an infinitude of stories.

Optimal is at least 100g a day of protein from animal sources, which have all essential amino acids. 120 would be better; less than 80 is not good — unless you really don’t care about health. There is certainly no need to supplement but whey protein can help you meet the quota. As far as aminos being in an optimal balance, glycine can help with this — it’s in gelatin, collagen, and collagenous meats, and it can be eaten plain as it’s basically a calorie free sweetener. Some protein sources are a bit unbalanced in their AA profile. Even though animal protein is less likely to be imbalanced than plant, they still can be. Particularly whey protein (high cysteine) and pork (high methionine).

^^ ? But seriously, it sounds more likely that this is depersonalization — there’s still someone there who is aware that the separate “I” or experiencer has no substance and everything seems centerless. With enlightenment there’s no experience of the I having no substance — the experiencer just isn’t there. Perhaps contemplation would be of use? I don’t know. I never really had terrifying depersonalization in a problematic sense, I just viewed it as a side effect of spiritual practice so I pretty much ignored it, as crazy as that sounds.

The journey is already done, so nothing can be done, not to mention there’s no one to do it, and there’s no free will and choice. There are no limits, and all there is is uncaused love. Unknowable yet infinitely free. There is no free will, because all there is is free will. This is infinity. There is just everything. Destiny and free will may seem rather beside the point when it’s recognized there’s nothing even happening in the first place. Infinity might appear as the carving out, with free will, of a destiny chosen by higher self imagining what would happen if it imagined itself to be finite — with infinite power anything it imagines is so — it’s this appearing as that story (though the particular aspects just described have no need to be obvious).

To focus on emptiness always, focus on emptiness never.

Appearance. Absolute. Not consciousness as-known. Consciousness as in nondual awareness; singular appearance. Absolute existence or absolute truth.

Close. Appearance is just appearance. However, appearance is everything. There's nothing else. So no reality.

The appearance of substance or any thing is an appearance. The perceived reality of substance or any thing is also an appearance. The actual reality or substance of a thing is unknowable, because there is no reality separate from what appears. The real is precisely what is unreal, in than sense.

The appearance of me, or the appearance of anything at all, this, is inseparable from absolute truth. It is self evident -- BECAUSE it simply IS appearing/seeming. No one knows if it is, or what it is... and yet... it IS appearing, thus absolute truth. Even if someone thought they did know what/if/how this is, that would also just be the absolute truth appearing as that. But the reality of me, or the reality of anything at all, has no substance of any kind -- it's not something that IS. Nothing IS, beyond what appears. And there's no separation between what appears, even including the appearance of individuals.

It's precisely not for someone. The "someone" in question IS it. There is no someone separate from everything. Everything is it.

It's not? It is if it's associated with the collapse of the present/absent duality.

However, the word truth here refers to the supposed actual/real nature of the story: Your word truth here refers to the real/actual circumstance that the story (or infinite imagination) refers to. But the thing is, there is no real circumstance, so nothing is referred to by "truth" -- the appearance of the universe/story is simply what it is... absolute truth. The reality of the universe/story is the dream. Can't be known, because knowing is it too. It intuitively regards itself as absolute (which is why it's sometimes called an intuitive recognition by no one) -- so yes in a way you could actually say there is a faith or trust, but it's not the kind of faith that could be paired with doubt... and it's not a belief. i.e. no belief + no denial.

Truth doesn't make sense. Sense is merely an appearance of Truth. It has no value in relation to Truth, which is already everything. He did give you a pointer: "Truth is Self evident." All there is, is all there is. The story of existence is an appearance of Truth, but there is nothing IN Truth, namely a real story that actually took place in a real past.

Yep. The liberation event that apparently happens is simply the melting together of the distinction between presence and absence. They remain as they always were, just what apparently happens; everything.

Yeah we say the same essentially, at least in some sense. What you call imagination I was calling story. Everything is imagination; everything is story.

He does not mean what you consider to be thought. For him, thought = duality or separation or inherent existence, which is indeed completely illusory.