Breakingthewall

No, look: "The person merges into the witness, the witness into awareness, awareness into pure being, yet identity is not lost, only its limitations are lost. It is transfigured and becomes the real Self, the sadguru, the eternal friend and guide Nisgardatta

You are implying that god is an entity with a will that does things for a reason. That would be limited. It's antrophormize the reality. If god is unlimited it wouldn't have intention, or if you prefer it would have all the intentions, that's the same than no particular intention. If anything arises it's just because it's possible, god or the absolute being is absolute potential, not a person who does anything and then forget it.

Humans systems are a manifestation of life. They might be a little cruel, but have you seen those wasps that lay eggs inside live cockroaches, and then the larvae devour them from the inside? And then people say that capitalism is bad.

@Mellowmarsh that's a mess unnecessary to explain something extremely simple: Reality is. Being happens in multiple forms but all of them are. Forms change, being is absolute. Forms are limited, being is unlimited. The fact of being is inevitable due the limitlessness. And that's it. No mystery, 0=1-1 . The end. What's more complex is understanding the human dynamics.

It's much simpler. The absolute is the unlimited being. Unlimited implies being, being implies everything. When you are open to it it's absolutely obvious. If all the barriers of your mind fall away, what remains is the absolute being. The fact that the absolute being is known within you is because you are a knowing structure, that is, consciousness. But consciousness is a specific structure that occurs, not the absolute itself. Consciousness is the absolute in the form of knowing that is. The absolute happens without intention, a creator isn't needed, it's just inevitable. For consciousness to exist, there must be a record of change and subject-object duality. That is, a self-preserving organism that exchanges information with the outside world. There's no need to invent another magical reality; this one is already magical enough . Opening yourself completely to the absolute isn't so difficult; the problem is that all spirituality is formulated in a confusing way. The absolute is you, not another. You are the absolute manifested in a form , it's just under surface. If you open yourself to your true nature there are no doubt, but this doesn't implies permanence, the form will disappear, what is will always being.

No problem, just admit that you are wrong and I'm right, then everything would be ok 😘

What means that ?

The absolute is not nothing, it's the absolute

Consciousness arises as a disturbance in the Absolute, and in consciousness the world arises. When you realize that you are not the person, but the pure observer, you take a step back. But the observer remains in consciousness. You must go even further, to the Absolute, where there is no consciousness of 'I am,' where you are the Pure Being prior to all being or non-being. The Absolute is your true state, unchanging and imperishable, unaware that it is. — Nisargadatta Maharaj, "I Am That"

When the mind is absolutely empty only one fact remains: unlimited being. That doesn't mean "consciousness", because "consciousness" is still an structure that implies the fact of being aware, then a duality. Even they will say that this is non duality. In absolute absence of barriers the unlimited being manifest. For example nisgardatta explains it quite good, Ramana not so good. Then, after that absolute and obvious openess, you can deduct using the logical mind and the observation how the reality is structured. If you live in the 4 century, maybe you could arrive to the conclusion that everything is consciousness and you are dreaming, but nowadays we know about physics and we can do better deductions. But enlightenment is always the same: unlimited being

Then shut up and empty your mind of ideas until no structure remains. Then what is absolutely obvious will manifest

Oh, what a solid argument! I am a blasphemer? I'm sorry, I won't participate in religious argument, believe what makes you feel safe, forget what I said. Anyway, saying that as you can't go out of your experience only your experience exist is also a logical deduction. Only that little, let's say.....well, I don't know the exact word. Imagine one.

Agree that consciousness is necessary condition for anything to be known. Well, not exactly, I would say that consciousness is the fact of "knowing", are synonyms. But then you do a jump: as what I am is consciousness, this fact of knowing that I am, means that I can never get out of this "experience", so the reality is this experience . This is not a logical implication. It's like saying, as I can't fly, fly doesn't exist. Well, maybe it doesn't exist for you, but the possibility exist, same than a reality unknown

Id say that the answer is extremely obvious and can be understood by the conceptual mind. Reality, as physics explains, is the unfolding of coherent relationships. This occurs because there is nothing to restrict it; therefore, a universe, which is essentially a coherent mathematical equation, unfolds. In that universe, what is possible happens, simply because it is possible, for no other reason. Within the realm of possibility, the emergence of a sufficiently complex process to create a model of the interaction between interior and exterior occurs. This model is a process in itself within the process that the organism is. This is consciousness; it's quite simple, isn't it? Why seek metaphysical explanations? Reality is already metaphysical.

Don't you find it simpler and more obvious to see that consciousness is the fact of being aware of reality, that is, reality being aware of itself, instead of the idea that reality is consciousness? Why would reality be consciousness? By the way, Nisgardatta didn't say that reality is consciousness.

I never said I'm god, I say that what you can know is that you are. Not that you are something, just you are. This is not a logical deduction or an identification, its the very fact of being now. But then you could do an easy deduction that is: I am, reality is, so I'm not different of reality, both are the fact of being, that is always the same. Not "all" the reality, but a manifestation of the reality, that essentially is the reality, and any other manifestation. Ralston says that you can't know nothing, but that's false, you can know everything: you are. That is everything. You don't need to know all the manifestations of being, they are manifestations of being, that's enough. Of course now you will say that this is an illusion and I believe I'm god, without having understood what im saying. Agree, that's what happens, but not because those ideas are false but because the mind gets conditioned by barriers that encloses it, like the need of being accepted. You can't say that the need of being accepted is an illusion, it's an emotion that's happening. Maybe for you being a homeless who nobody talks is the same than be loved by your girlfriend and having a family, but for many people it's different, then they fear don't being accepted and then they construct a character full of lies to being accepted because they never received unconditional love but conditional love. That's not an illusion, it's a fact. You can face that's character and become integral, but that doesn't implies that the fear of being rejected that is the basis of the ego was an illusion. Fear is fear, is something that happens.

There is an identity and sense of self uncoded in the brain by genetics created by evolution. If you feel happy calling it illusion, good for you. But "Ilusion" is an idea that the self made.

Sounds very real. For me was the same, I was living in a state of anxiety and mental oppression that would destroy me. Like it was a war in my mind without a second of peace

Yes but enlightenment imo means being open to what never dies, to the unlimited being, and being one with it. You describe the effect, but the point is being open to the cause. I'm not saying that you aren't, just explaining my point

Many have that goal in mind, millions, but they don't get it, they stay in a state of emptiness , pure consciousness as they call it. but they never open the source of life, the absolute being, their living nature.

Why do you call light of awareness? Maybe it would be awareness of the light . How do you see it?

Yes, he was Smart and ambitious, and he never lied to himself, he was in mission of conquest. That's the only way (as I see it) to arrive to the openess to what is

Sometimes meditating, In a matter of seconds, the mind is completely emptied of content; reality is what is. There isn't even a subject consciously perceiving; there is only what lives. Subject and object are one. The entire structure dissolves into boundless life, and that is perfect. Structure isn't needed; it is fullness. This doesn't mean that structure doesn't unfold like a living mosaic, and that I don't desire expansion, life, openness, simply for the sake of being. After that openess, in the structure, its essence shines through, its flavor, what it is. It is precisely me. Not solipsism, others are too. The pin is not knowing anything, is being open to it.

What about Buddha? He did a very hard path full of fight and frustration for many years with a concrete goal

But self inquiry is mental, conceptual. How could you open yourself to what is beyond the conceptual mind using the conceptual mind?