Breakingthewall

The word "search" isn't quite right, since you're not looking for something; you're trying to remove the veils that prevent you from perceiving yourself. It's an action of rearranging, cleansing, removing, not searching. You need to synchronize your energetic structure so that it ceases to be clouded. If you search, the act of searching implies something external, and therefore, more cloudiness. On the other hand, when people say that no one achieves enlightenment, it's misleading and false. Yes, someone does achieve it: the human being called X who tries to align their emotional structure to allow for openness. To say that this human isn't real is absurd; it's something people say to appear superior. They're just irritating narcissists who want to pretend they know something you don't, that they're in another category, level, status. To say that reality isn't real is a concept, a category of human language, a comparative structure. Enlightenment is stepping outside of that structure; from a state of openness, there isn't one or two, real or unreal, there is only openness to the unlimited. All that stuff about: "You're not real!" Tadah!. belongs to the mental structure; a squid can't articulate it, and its essence is exactly the same as yours, the unlimited.

You could use just one label: it's an expression of the reality. You could use that label for everything.

Happiness doesn't depend on any of that; it's all illusions, houses of cards that can collapse at any moment. Financial security, personal fulfillment, a successful life path, all of that is utterly fragile. One second, and it's all shattered. The only possible happiness is being who you are, being one with your nature, and to achieve that, you must make all those human expectations faint, secondary, transparent. Look to this guy, seems very happy right? https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNfC_QlxPta/?igsh=MWMwcDh5enFobzFodg==

Solid way of thinking. Without self-deception, excuses, or preconceived notions. Sharp. That's the only possible path to true openness. In my opinion, being "enlightened" is almost impossible for Westerners with desires and ambitions we don't want to relinquish. Look, I really don't want to give up material things, even knowing that the possibility of being enlightened like Buddha exists. It doesn't matter to me; my human existence demands its share. Give unto Caesar what is Caesar's. But what is possible is having moments of total openness. Imagine entering deep meditation. Silence, total absence of desires, of mental noise. Okay, so what? Is that enlightenment? No, not at all. If you observe, you'll see it's a dull, empty state. It's closed. Closed how? Closed to what? Closed to the living energy that is creating this reality, that is, to what you are. Right now, one thousand quadrillion to the nth power subatomic particles created by vibrations of the fields of reality (whatever wtf that means) are vibrating in perfect coordination so that you can be. And each of those vibrations is in perfect coordination with the cosmos, with the space-time fabric of the universe, and probably with an infinite network of multiverses. This is not fantasy; it is reality, and this reality that we are can be perceived directly. Meditation doesn't have to be empty silence, but living boundlessness. You can open your mind to it, be one with it; it is the absence of limits that lives, because it has no limits. It is absolute energy, total glory, infinite freedom. Where it makes no difference whether you are terminally ill, condemned to life imprisonment, or a millionaire. They are like garments that the total wears. The total is total. It has no limits; its power is absolute. Your mind is vaporized, and the total opens. This is possible. Just break the barrier that closes.

Then who's writing this? Nobody!. Well, that enlightenment is lets say, twisted, nihilistic, I don't understand the point Because look, "void" is just a concept that is happening in the human experience, means "absence of everything", so, if you, and as enlightened avatar, say: the reality is void. It implies that you have in your mind the "full", because without the full the void is impossible. If you have the "full" in your mind means that your mind is full, so where is the void, if it's full of the idea "full"? What a mess right? Enlightenment has zero relationship with the realization that there is nobody, because nobody is just the opposite of somebody. Enlightenment is the realization of your absolute nature. Look, as you can perceive, and experience is happening. With a lot of sensations, feelings, movement, colors and that. You can call it "nothing" or "steak" but it is. Then, what is that? What is the essence, the core, the true nature, of this? The openess to that nature is enlightenment, not realize that there is nobody, because who realizes that is "somebody" . Who gets enlightenment is precisely somebody: the human energetic structure. It's a reality that is happening, and that reality can realize what is it's deepest, ultimate nature, or not. Then that structure, the self, can be one with its ultimate nature. But look, without this structure, there is not enlightenment, because the absolute without form is nothing, is not happening. But of course, nothing essentially is the same than something: limitless. But always there is something, just because something is change, and absence of change doesn't happen. It's quite simple. What is not so simple is breaking the energetic barrier that keep us locked and open ourselves to the totality. It's a maze.

No man, we are closed due to the energetic blockage of a thousand generations: competition, struggle, classes, war, oppression, slavery, alienation from the source, from essence, from reality. The energetic barriers that oppress us are more than educational inheritance; they are imprinted in our cells, in our vibration, from the moment we are born surrounded by the vibration of fear, separation, avoidance, narcissism, and madness. Opening to reality is not a trivial movement; it is a conquest. It's much more than it seems. You have to break yourself and born again, change the tendency of thousands of generations, change your linage and your genetic by your will. Sounds impossible, but it isn't.

Being enlightened in not being dead, is being one with life.

This guy seems enlightened https://www.instagram.com/reel/DN8GLJjDBtX/?igsh=b3U0ZzV0bTlsdzdw Connected with the source

Consciousness has multiple layers or phases. It could be said that these layers open up as energetic barriers dissolve. For example, you might perceive reality as comparative evaluation, and this closes you off from perceiving deeper structures. It's not that comparative evaluation is false, illusory, or unreal, but rather that it's a layer of reality to which you attach enormous importance due to your structural programming, and this attachment causes you to close off other layers of reality. At a certain moment, you dissolve that energetic barrier, and a new panorama opens before you. You clearly perceive the interconnectivity of reality , the cause-and-effect relationships that expand through every interaction, vibration, and movement. Reality is perceived as a living flow of relations with a kind of meaning , whether it’s survival, love, reproduction, or whatever else. But attachment to that meaning closes you off from other phases of reality. If at some point you dissolve it , for example, with a psychedelic or deep meditation , reality can take on another dimension, another depth. You truly see the hardware: the infinity of interconnected structures creating logical patterns beyond any meaning, simply the inevitability of reality reflecting itself. If you can endure this without needing to cling to any meaning, then reality can once again shift phase and open to its ultimate essence, stripped of all attributes or form , absolute openness, the limitless. The problem is that you are either open to that total nature right now, or you are not. It’s not something that can be remembered or known. You can be open to it, and a minute later closed again , and any memory of it will be just that, a memory. It belongs to another dimension of consciousness, and therefore it cannot capture a different dimension. No matter how hard it tries, it will always remain what it is.

Total enlightenment is when the superficial aspect of the experience dissolves completely, like a hologram vanishing, leaving only the total, limitless essence. In my experience, this can happen for a few moments, a few seconds, and immediately the structure of the experience returns. But this structure can become more transparent, allowing the essence to shine through, revealing the cycle of creation and destruction and its infinite richness, its perfection. It is very easy for this to become veiled, to turn opaque very fast.

The immutable aspect of "enlightenment" can be described as Sat chit Ananda Sat: which is, the fact of being inherent in every form Chit: that stands out, is known, is self-aware Ananda: fullness, absolute joy It refers to the living quality of the unlimited. Any pain, suffering, or negativity is a subjective, circumstantial interpretation of this underlying reality. The question is: do you focus on your circumstances or your essence? It's quite simple. If you focus on your essence long enough, you will open yourself to it. Essence is nameless, indescribable, not good, bad, love, or emptiness. All of that is circumstance, and it's very easy to get lost in it.

That would imply intentionality, which would imply a conscious god who does things for a reason, which would imply that this god is limited. True spirituality is openness to the unlimited, and it cannot be formulated. Religion is a formulation of spirituality so that it can be integrated into the human conceptual system. Spirituality is non-conceptual. No religion is true; they are all systems of social cohesion necessary for coexistence. The great religions have a core of true mysticism, but true mysticism is formless. It's an action, not an structure.

Seriously you don't realize what nonsense does that guy spout? A smart guy like you? Everything in the West is bad; it's a deliberate plan to do evil, appropriating other people's religions to humiliate them and strip them of their identity, all while impoverishing them. Well, I suppose the 12th-century world that Muslims long for was richer, and they respected a lot others religions. The Islam is expansionist, it's written in Quran, and that guy complains that Christianity expanded. Poor man, he's very sad and bitter, and his vision is extremely limited, because he's just jealous. don't you see it? He's full of anger because he feels inferior, then he needs to put west down. Too obvious. This man probably would have approved of the fate that the Islamic authorities reserved for al-Hallaj, perhaps the purest known mystic in history. Ana al haqq, I am the truth. Alter ego of Christ.

Means the necessary destruction of all form in the eternal cycle of death and rebirth. It also signifies the death of falsehood, of the ego's separation, which unlocks absolute truth. Its character is passion and wild, for the essence of life is limitlessness and rejoices itself in both birth and destruction.

@zurew Kali symbolizes the living flow or reality, the dance of creation and destruction, the movement. Shiva is the substance of reality, the absolute openess, immutable, total, diaphanous. Movement overlaps with stillness, since stillness is timeless. Kali is precisely time, the vitality of reality. Shiva is substance, Kali is manifestation. Both are one, since all manifestation is always substance, and substance always manifests, since the absence of manifestation is out of the time, it doesn't happen. "Happening" is movement, relationship, and movement is time. Relationship are unlimited, synchronous and interconnected to infinity. Kali is a perfect symbol of that.

@emil1234 The only point I would qualify is when you say that reality is love. Let's see, what we call love is simply the absence of obstacles, absolute openness. It's not something positive like: God, who is good, has so much love that He created you out of love (and pink ponies, and Jesus loves you). No. God isn't an entity that does things out of something called love, like a loving grandmother who loves you. The matter is much simpler. In the absence of limits, the totality inevitably manifests, and it is absolute expansion, living totality, unlimited power, direct living creation. When you break the barriers that limit you, the limitlessness manifest in you,. because you are that, and you call it love, but it's love like this:

That's what I call openess. What reality is is unlimited, and we, as humans, close off a section; what we perceive as "bad" has no place in our hearts, only the "good." So the bad, which we reject, remains in the form of wounds, fears, closed off. At a certain moment, you open your heart and then you realize that it wasn't your heart; it was simply the reality, and reality is unfathomable, therefore it contains everything. The energy that was previously trapped flows freely, and you realize that this moment is eternal and has no limits; its power is absolute, its energy is that of infinite dimensions, infinite universes, always flowing in an absolutely perfect way. Reality is total, and it's alive, because if has not limits. Very simple, inevitable.

It's not there for you. If you place yourself at the center of existence, then yes. But if something has a center, it is finite by definition.

First, as you said before, we need to be clear about what the term "consciousness" means to us. Let's say it means being aware, perceiving. Do you agree? Then, this would imply that without something to be conscious of, there would be no consciousness. And furthermore, that something would have to be in constant change, because otherwise consciousness would be unaware of being conscious. Because "something" is precisely change. Without change, there is nothing. Then, without contrast, there is no happening ,there is timelessness, and this is equivalent to non-existence. It is the interval between one change and another, and it has no duration; it is zero. Without change, consciousness is zero, nonexistent. Then, if consciousness depends on change, since it is precisely the perception of change, you cannot say that change is made of consciousness, but rather that consciousness is made of change. And to finish, If existence is change, a contrast between states, then change itself is not the fundamental reality but its inevitable consequence. The fundamental reality is what changes, not change, and this fundamental reality is beyond any definition; it is the unfathomable, the absence of limitations. It is existence, since it is in motion, and non-existence, since it does not need motion but rather motion occurs as the inevitable consequence of its boundlessness. It's the totality, that can be conscious of itself or not, without any difference

Concepts are logical constructs that point to other logical constructs; therefore, absolute reality is not conceptualizable. However, relative reality is, since everything relative is logically relative to another state. Thus, consciousness can be said to be a reality relative to the change of state, since without change there is no consciousness; there is only the non-space between two changes. Existence is always relative and is always change. Existence is a verb. Changes are infinite, and the contrast between states is what we call consciousness. Total, non-conceptualizable reality is the absence of limits. It can only be defined negatively. It's what can be opened in you, because you are that, as anything that exists.

I don't know what do you mean

. It's not about imposing a vision, it's about presenting a logical structure without cracks. If you find flaws, then I'll admit it

The problem is not having a strong identity, but an identity that proclaims that whoever is outside your "umma" is condemned to hell, is a disgusting, despicable, impure kaffir, and that women are possessions and must be raped by whomever their family orders. Don't seems funny living close of that ideology of hate and exclusion. The Jews were hated because they were richer that the native population, that is, out of envy. Muslims are rejected because of their strange philosophy that one must absolutely obey everything said by a 6th-century warlord since he was channeling god to avoid being tortured for eternity. It seems somewhat psychotic, not compatible with evolution Sure, and Naseem Hamed, the best Muslim boxer of all times, was an idiot much worse that McGregor About the identity of the westerns, it's freedom. Freedom is expensive, and can lead to nihilism, but real life is dangerous, who wants going hand in hand with daddy Muhammad because otherwise life scares me? Six-year-old children who look like adults? Cowards that believe tales because they can't face life without filter.

It's not a belief. What is consciousness in the absence of change?

Consciousness requires change and duality. Therefore, it is obvious that reality is not consciousness, but rather that consciousness occurs within reality. There is always consciousness, since "always" is a temporal concept, implying time, and therefore change. Thus, in reality, change "always" occurs, since the absence of change is "never." This does not mean that reality is change, nor that it is time, nor consciousness. Therefore, a brain is a structure that reality creates and that causes consciousness to appear. Enlightenment isn't about realizing you are consciousness, because consciousness isn't a thing; it's the contrast of a change of state from another stable state. It's a relational movement that always occurs in reality.