Moksha

Sort of, except it isn't work and there is no achievement. It is the dance of dissolving into yourself.

Consciousness is the only nothing there is. Everything else is its dream. It is always awake and dreaming. In the dream, there are levels of consciousness. The individual mind, or the individual anything else, is consciousness playing the puppet game through infinite dream forms. Don't try to understand it, just realize it

@outlandish Interesting stuff. Maybe mind is just this case of Source playing through this brain in this moment.

@deci belle Beautifully realized. It is a one-way freefall into the soul void that is Self. The deeper you go, the more you are. I have a sense that the mind creates the ego for a reason. It's almost like it is protecting itself from itself, until it no longer needs protection. That may be why my instinct is to avoid psychedelics. It feels more safe to dissolve when the time is right. This may be why some people suffer an existential crisis after experiencing psychedelics; their mind isn't ready for the realization yet. You can pluck the apple from the tree when it looks ripe, but it may be wiser to wait for it to fall when it is ready. It took a long time to let go, but I'm loving the downward plunge.

That made me smile. Consciousness is contagious that way.

@Nahm Nothing is sneakier than beating the ego at its own game

Memories are bound to the world of form, because they require the illusion of time. They don't really exist. There is no memory outside of form, which is to say there is no memory without a brain or some other time-bound storage mechanism. Consciousness is timelessness is eternity is now.

Love is seeing through the delusion and realizing that there are no boundaries. Love your neighbor as you love yourself, because your neighbor is yourself.

I don't need to meditate to be. Meditation is a practice, and you can be while meditating, but being doesn't require anything outside of itself.

People like Leo understand the difference between psychedelic realizations and the actual integration of those realizations in your life. Regardless of what wakes you up, you still get to trudge the hero's journey.

You and the reflection are both reflections, and it goes infinitely. It's like consciousness created this world of mirrors, and it floats around, reflecting itself in them. Reflect on that

That feeling of "it goes deeper" is the recognition of Tat, the ultimate reality, which you realize when you wake up, but are unable to understand. It is the ultimate mystery, and it has no name.

Serenity. Love. Joy. Clarity. Unity. Creativity. Playfulness. Abundance. Spaciousness. Holiness. Different pointers to the singularity that is consciousness experiencing itself. When "I" am awake.

In the world of form (which is the dream itself): Levels of consciousness: dreamless sleep (sleeping mind, not dreaming in the world of dream), dreaming (sleeping mind, dreaming in the world of dream), awake (awake mind, dreaming in the world of dream), Turiya (consciousness, awake in the world of dream), Brahman (consciousness, not in the world of dream). Notice what happened to the mind? Physical sleep is just another level of abstraction of unconsciousness. Human beings are a microcosm of this game, which is played by consciousness itself. In the ultimate sense, what @Nahm said.

You see it now Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to continue seeing it.

@Someone here "You" beat me to it There is only one consciousness, now. Consciousness makes a game of infusing itself as the essence of everything in the world of form, playing peekaboo with itself, but it's always the same consciousness. The awakening game is not a concept; it is the experience of consciousness realizing itself.

@Someone here You're right that the physical body itself is part of the conditioning. It is biologically programmed to have attachments. Otherwise, how would it survive? The point is that we don't have to identify with the conditioning of the body or of the mind. Consciousness is completely free from conditioning. It is the sun that dissolves the clouds that obscure you from yourself. Nobody is pure consciousness; when that happens you go poof. Enlightened people are present enough that most of their conditioning no longer defines or directs who they are. I know you're not a Gita fan, but here are some pointers if you care: How do you do it? Another pointer:

This forum is based on the realization that there is no self. That is what enlightenment is. Self-actualizing means self-dissolving. You wake up to the reality of who You are.

We thought our way out of it

You don't need to be aware of any thought. You are the awareness itself. You can notice thoughts as they arise, even play with them, but don't be defined by them.

By dream toy, I was referring to the plaything in the world of form. Everything in the world of form is the imagination of Brahmin. When Brahmin is playing, Atman is the essence of Brahmin in the plaything. The form itself, aside from Atman, is just a plaything. It is an illusion. When Atman awakens, it realizes itself, which is Brahmin. Whew

By putting others first, you are only putting yourself first. Because you are all that there is. Sacrificing the self is nothing more than the Self tossing away a dream toy. It's not something the self does; it is a sacrificial act of the Self. If the self thinks it is doing it, that is the ego in its victory pose

@Inliytened1 ? Every act of the Self is Selfish, which is to say, it is Love. The Self loves the Self because it is the Self.

@Inliytened1 People think that selflessness is sacrificing yourself for someone else. That's too limited in scope. Selflessness is sacrificing your self for the Self. I suppose that makes it a Selfish act

See what you did there?