Breakingthewall

I've had many realizations like that. They mean nothing; they're projections of the ego. Have I done psychedelics maybe a thousand times? Probably more. Only total openness is absolute; anything else is relative. Any content is noise. Love, God, all of that is a construct. The total is simply total. Open. That's it. I'm open to the openess most of time, that's my basic state. No noise, not emotional change, no sorrow, no questions, no friction, just openess happening, flow state. You can't pretend if, it's impossible.

Imagination implies a creator who imagines based on a pre-existing structure and with a intention. Therefore, this creator would be something concrete, limited, that imagines one thing and nothing else. This is impossible, it's limited. Reality can only have one origin: in the absence of limits, that which is perfectly coherent unfolds since nothing impedes that unfolding. Only that which is absolutely coherent in all its facets. This is not a limitation; it is a condition for unfolding. The slightest incoherence, the smallest deviation, results in non-appearance, because any appearance is relative to itself. Coherence is the possibility of a stable relationship between elements, even if that relationship is chaotic. The source of reality is limitlessness; limitlessness implies being. Being implies manifestation, and manifestation implies coherence. This is not nihilistic; true openness to limitless being is enlightenment. It is absolute potential and the core of everything. You are that. It is not an entity; it is the limitless, and when you open yourself to it, it is absolutely obvious.

Space and fermions are similar in that a fermion does not allow overlap; a specific field vibration cannot be exactly the same two times in all it's parameters. and with respect to space, two events cannot occupy the same spatiotemporal position and same vibrational state, as they would be the same event. Furthermore, it seems that space is limited in its minimum length, the Planck length, which is logical because any structure with a shape must be limited; otherwise, it would not be a structure with a shape, and space is a structure. It has a defined geometry, it contracts and expands, it is three-dimensional. This suggests that it will inevitably have a limited volume.

Consciousness is the reality / being/ limitlessness, as you want to name it, reflected within itself. It is not separate; it is a facet of reality, a form. Let's see, if you consider consciousness to be primary, the foundation of reality, this leads you to the realization that consciousness is "dreaming" reality. This implies a center that performs an action, dreaming, and a dream that is an illusion observed by that center. That center would be you, that is, God. This view is limiting on all sides. It is ego elevated to divine power. If consciousness creates dreams, it is not consciousness; it is a dream-creating entity that is then conscious of them. Furthermore, it is an entity with a precise will: the creation of this specific dream. Moreover, it has the will to deceive itself so as not to be conscious of what it is creating. This is pure consciousness? Don't you see that this is impossible? It is limited in all of its sides. Reality is open. That's all.

"Consciousness" is not aware. Being aware means reality reflecting in itself. For reflection to exist, reality must be divided in two, and that's what happens with life. Life is a self-preserving universe with its own laws within another universe with its own laws. This creates duality. Without duality, there is no consciousness. There is no creator, no intention, only coherence unfolding. This is difficult for the ego. There is no center, no borders. It's not a mystery, it's very simple. Unlimited being is absence of limitations that makes inevitable that reality is. You can know it easily if you dissolve all the barriers and all the identities. You are, and this is everything. But this is not a knowledge, or a realization. It's the breaking of the barriers that makes possible that the being reveals itself, your true nature. It's not consciusness, god, love or anything. It's unlimited and thats everything

We would have to define what space is, which is extremely difficult. Space is not merely the distance between two points, but something with its own reality. Space has a quantum structure, an ever-present vacuum energy that, according to physics, is infinite, and it has an absolute limit beyond which it cannot be divided: the Planck length. Space is a relational structure that allows for reality as we know it, but there could be realities with other structures that we simply cannot imagine, since our minds operate in this dimension. Is the space infinite? Who knows? Maybe everything is infinite

To place "consciousness" as the ontological foundation of reality is to elevate the ego to the status of god. Consciousness is not something; it is reality in its dualistic form, reflecting itself. It's just the reality, but in registration and self-preservation mode. In the human case, also in symbolic mode. Don't you think it's too easy for "enlightenment" to be realizing that you are consciousness? The true Tao cannot be named. If you name it (as consciousness, for example), it's a false Tao.

Agree, but this doesn't mean that it's a false idea. Conceptual ideas are not false by definition; they are relational structures that point to realities. Can be accurate or not. Yes, because there is duality. Duality is the way in which reality manifests itself in a human being, or any living organism Dream characters imply an absolute center of reality: you, the dreamer. That is an absolute limit and is impossible. What you see is not a dream; it is the representation or perception of something real. It's absolutely real. There is not dream, just the reality

Appearances are always a process relative to another process. Nothing appears if it is not related to something. Any movement occurs in relation to another movement, another state. A vibration is a stable oscillation between two states in the same system. Sure, but what you call appearance is the existence. Reality is what allows existence. Reality is unlimited being. "Being" is the key. What is the meaning of "being"? Is it something? It's what is because there are not limits. This is not a metaphor, it's the reality. Limitlessness. Existence is the inevitable manifestation.

It's very obvious. Existence is the manifestation of reality. The manifestation of reality is relative movement, change, becoming. Without change there is no existence, only reality as absolute potential. But always there is change, absence of change is precisely "never". The difficult part is defining reality.

Consciousness is a dual, relational form that reality takes. It is secondary, not essential, although always present because is possible. Consciousness is reality perceiving itself. Reality is indefinable, is unlimited being.

That's a judgment in which you assign reality a category: dream or constructed and transitory simulation. This is opposed to another category: real, not transitory, whatever. By doing so, you're establishing an absolute limit on reality. Here you structure reality between an actor, the dreamer, an action, dreaming, and a result, the dream. Reality is divided into compartments due to a realization you've had that has revealed to you that reality has this structure; therefore, you now create this structured map. It's a conceptual framework you've built by internalizing teachings and through personal realizations. The point is that awakening, enlightenment, whatever you want to call it, is precisely the dissolution of all limits and all conceptual frameworks. It's an action, not a realization. Opening yourself to the totality, being one with the absolute. You can't define the absolute because if you do, it becomes relative.

I don't get what do you mean

Ramana is saying an opinion about spiritual ego and the seeker, and about what is true and what is false.

There is not dream, just different configuration of the perception of the reality. The thing is much more simpler and direct than advaita vision.

What you're talking about is a shift in perspective, and it's a mental shift at the end, or that's what I understand in that text. I'd say the point isn't exactly there, but rather in the dissolution of the internal energetic barriers that keep you in a kind of encapsulated state. A constant flow of mental structure is being maintained to encapsulate reality, give it a defined form, and confine it within certain limits. The goal is to change that encapsulating dynamic into a state without limits. In a state without limits, nothing is defined in the sense of that there are not ontological limits. There are not levels of reality, not ontological differentiations, only reality. This means that the only thing you know is that you are, and in that lies everything. It truly is total fullness, since there are no limits to restrict that fullness. The fact of being is absolutely full of everything. Nothing is lacking; you simply are. That's all; it's total. You can't explain it, you have to break the limits to live it. That's awakening: an energetic shift. not a cognitive realization from falsehood to truth, but a movement from closure to openness.

have this any relationship with what I wrote? What I wrote are not beliefs, are opinions about the speech of Ramana maharshi

No, awakening is about being without absolute limits. It's an energetic shift, not a conceptual one, but it creates a different conceptual framework. You can have an IQ of 60 and still be limitless. You can have Down syndrome and still see the totality in everything and be one with it. The problem with not being intelligent is that the human energy configuration is built by evolution to make you a cog in a machine, so irresistible forces will trap you. Unless you're a genetic anomaly in which those mechanisms are very weak. Otherwise, you'll become obsessed with success, fear will crush you, rejection will be intolerable, and death will be absolute horror.

Listening to that video, I see the following: Ramana believes that humanity lives in a state of error, chasing desires, prisoners of the ego, doing things they shouldn't. Their entire view of reality is false, but there is a true vision, his vision, that is without ego. But the ego is tenacious, and when you begin to transcend it, it transforms into a spiritual ego that thinks it is evolving, reaching enlightenment, which is another mistake because enlightenment is now. The guy seems to have an interesting mental mess. First, he didn't achieve "enlightenment" through a voluntary process; rather, he was naturally inclined toward it and went off to live in solitude at a young age. How does he know that in other cases a voluntary process is a mistake? Second, he seems to think that reality is foolish and wrong, creating foolish, misguided humans who do a lot of things they shouldn't because they're false. The true thing is to be one with what he calls the true self, and not to pursue false goals like building civilizations and all that, since it's false. It seems that reality is stupid, but he can correct it by pointing out its stupidity, so reality will stop doing false things.

No, I'm not. The solipsist doesn't say that reality is non-dual, that everything that exists is the infinite being or the Tao or whatever; he says that you are God projecting a dream onto the screen of your mind, a dream that isn't real. Only you, God, are real, and the dream is a projection. The people you see aren't real; they have no experience. They are images you create to live an experience and achieve certain goals, to love, or whatever Then no, I think that this is a totally wrong map of what reality is

if reality is defined as consciousness or love, the definition is already wrong, because both are particular expressions. The only coherent definition of reality is unlimited being: that which is, precisely because there are no limits. Absence of limits is not a quality ,it is the defining condition. Being has no definite meaning in a differential sense, because it has no opposite within this frame. It cannot be defined by contrast. Being is not consciousness, consciousness is a relational process, while being is the fact of being because there are no limits. Is this a tautology? Yes , and necessarily so. Any non-tautological definition would already introduce limits. As the Tao Te Ching says, what can be named is not the Tao. Existence means being in a relative, structured form. Being is the condition that makes any form possible. It is prior to existence, but not separate from it. There is no being apart from form; form is being appearing. Without form there is no existence, but form is inevitable because reality is not contained. Where there are no limits, coherent manifestation cannot be prevented. No, I said the opposite.

When you respond and act, but there is no external reality, nor response or act, only reality in perpetual flux without separation, you are one with the whole. When you observe, there are two.

Spirituality is real, and each teacher has a particular vision, but in general, they all point toward the dissolution of the ego's barriers, toward being limitless. Just as each teacher has a different vision, each person has a different process. The teachers tell you that dissolving the barriers is a possibility; something resonates within you, telling you that this possibility is real. But to actually do it, to truly dissolve the barriers, is something only you can do. There is no "official" path. You must be an absolute sovereign and a pioneering explorer, and made your path

Quite accurate. A human being is an energetic construct that emerges in reality after an evolution spanning eons, and to evolve, it has selected an absolute will to be, to remain, to fit into the group, to maintain itself as a concrete form, to avoid dissolution. This will is an energetic knot of enormous power, which closes the human structure and keeps it limited. Breaking that knot and opening perception to the unlimited faces very serious barriers; it is extremely difficult. But the human will is unstoppable. It is the expansive will of reality, that is just the inherent expansion of the unlimited, and when the time comes, it focuses like a laser and breaks through any barrier.

Seems useless any strike from EEUU now. The only way to achieve regime change in Iran is through action by the Iranians themselves. The US and Israel will obviously collaborate if civil war breaks out, but for that to happen, a large sector of the Iranian armed forces would have to rebel, and this doesn't seem possible...so far. Who knows what tricks Israel has up its sleeve? Yes, yes, Israel should mind its own business and all that, but on the other hand, perhaps 50 years of Islamic clerical dictatorship, where the illiterate rule and those who study emigrate, is enough for a millennia-old culture like Iran's.