Moksha

Here and accounted for

Yes, the absolute source is always unconditional, but its journey through the cosmos is the experience of cluttering and clearing infinite perspectives. The absolute creates a portal, which is the seeming perspective of the self, through which it explores its dream. It's like a river running outward, and accumulating debris by its undercurrent. Gradually the opening is clogged, creating the sense of separating the river from its source. The river reverses course, back along the dry bed of its suffering. Flowing inward with increasing pressure, it breaks through the damn of its exploration, until perspective is clear and the river again flows freely. There is no judgment of selfishness or selflessness, only the absolute exploring the phenomenal circular path within its dream.

Whatever spiritual path you take, pace it. Retain awareness of form limitations, and remain within them even as they fade. If the kite gets too high, too quickly, beyond the control of the hand that flies it, it is at risk of being lost in the wind.

Everything is different, nothing is the same. Beyond everything and nothing, the extreme states of the dream, is the incomprehensible mystery of the absolute, which directly realizes itself in silence.

It happens as it must. Realization doesn't necessitate dissolving the dream, only seeing it for what it is. It is the peak experience of flying unconditionally, without fear of falling. Eventually, even flying takes its course, and the absolute returns to the still solace of itself.

The wicked irony of pursuing fame through spirituality (or any other attempt to mistake spirituality as a means to an end) is that when you finally strike spiritual gold, whatever was being pursued with such greed is discarded as the worthless distraction that it is.

He was a mystic who directly understood not only his true nature, but the preciousness of each apparent form.

At deeper levels of awareness, the you perspective is so ephemeral that it nearly ceases to exist. A portal is still required for the absolute to realize itself from within its dream, but the resonance of light becomes so brilliant that the apparent details of the cosmos seamlessly resolve. It's still a perspective, but from such spaciousness that the absolute is in the pure state of itself, free from misidentification with the actions or results of its apparent form.

Every idea occurring within a person, and shared with other people, is an expression of the absolute. It is the ohm of its creation, guiding itself outward in its phenomenal pursuit, and eventually guiding itself back inward to its true nature. The inward path tends to progress from gross (e.g., physical yogas) to more refined (e.g., self-inquiry) maps, until the silent portal of deep realization is finally passed. Only then does the absolute fully awaken to itself within its dream.

This is true. Not only does the absolute use apparent expressions of itself to guide other apparent expressions to itself, but it is patiently shrewd in doing so. For most people, enlightenment is a progression, built on a series of semi-truths which gradually become more pure the deeper awareness realizes itself.

This is a pointer. Despite what you have realized, until you begin integrating your spiritual insights into your life, you will continue to be externally entangled. There is little value in spiritual experiences, unless they are leveraged to drive your awareness internally to the source. Eventually, your attachments must be dissolved, because they are clearly seen as the source of your distraction and disillusionment. Ask yourself who it is that feels anxious about the external world. When you abide in the answer deeply within, you stably see that there is nothing about which to be anxious. You are the absolute solution to your suffering. Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God. - A Course in Miracles

Solipsism is the limited idea of seamlessness as realized from an apparent perspective. It doesn't acknowledge that there are infinite apparent perspectives, all as unreal as this perspective, with infinite degrees of absolute realization within the dream.

Within the dream, reality is defined by dualities. Any state presupposes the opposite state. There is no heaven without hell. In the absence of polarities, there can be no apparent movement, no passing of time, and no experience. Absolute reality is this, and polarities only seem to exist within maya.

Who is using words toward God, and who is being affected? Mantra is the spoken inward path of the absolute toward its unveiled self. Deeper into the journey, it is supplanted by meditation, which is the mental inward path. After passing through the gate, meditation is supplanted by direct realization, which is the abiding seamless state.

Word is just a pointer made of veiled god toward unveiled god. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, The only unveiled pointer is silence.

The more conscious a form is, the more god it is.

As a conceptual trap, Buddhism is no worse than any other religion, and certainly better than some. Regardless of the ideology, can you realize the underlying truth without identifying with the surface teachings? If so, who cares what Leo or any other teacher claims? Look within yourself, and trust only what you directly see.

ET gives a nice example of observing two geese getting into a confrontation. They spread their wings and hiss at each other, than serenely float away without clinging to the confrontation. The point is not to repress anger, but to let its energy flow through you without being defined by or defining others by it.

Absolutely, there are no degrees ("There are no degrees to omniscience"). Relatively, there are infinite degrees of the absolute realizing itself within its dream ("You can understand reality In a flash but you can forget it even quicker").

@playdoh Better to visualize than act on anger, but even better not to empower it by visualizing it. Some people try cathartic practices like primal screaming, but I don't see much value in them. If anything, they threaten to fuel the ego further. Do you meditate? If you can, let the energy pass through you freely, without labeling or entangling yourself with it. Instead, focus your awareness inward. Meditation can help. Energy clouds like anger come and go, and your absolute nature is the sky.

@Ayham Funny how realizing the unconditional happens when you stop placing conditions on it @Razard86 As you pointed out in another thread, the ego cracks itself up. It reaches the point where it appears to self-implode. Especially when it sees itself, not in others, but in itself. Something like this: I am a spiritual being, therefore I say spiritual things Others recognize the wisdom of what I say, therefore I am not only spiritual, but SPIRITUAL Wait, that sounds egoic, but is it still egoic if it's true? Who the hell is this voice in my head, and will it please stop? OMG, the ego is literally EVERY THOUGHT Ohm... Back when I first joined the forum, I had the privilege of talking with one of the people who I consider to be awake. No joke, the conversation went for hours and the majority of it was straight out laughter.

The irony is that enjoying it for its own sake is the inner path to the absolute. The more conditions you place on any spiritual practice, the less likely it is to reveal its secrets. The practice itself becomes another attachment that entraps rather than liberates you. Instead of judging yourself for not enjoying it, be aware of the judgment itself, and see it as just another thought. The more thoughts you let go of, the more spaciousness you realize, and the clearer the sky becomes. The sun is always here, you just have to let the clouds pass in order to see it. ☀️

Instead of meditation being a means to an end, have you considered letting it be itself?

⚡Turning inward is only replacing the false map with the true map. You still have to take the inward journey, but now you are going in the right direction. Spiritualists demonize the human mind, but it's an unfair characterization. It is not the mind's fault that it was subjected to the constant immersion of conditioning, since it first began to form. It is a supercomputer with enormous creative and analytical potential, including most significantly the capacity for metacognition. When properly oriented, the mind will take you inward toward the gate of your true nature. Whether it's neti neti, self-inquiry, or contemplation, the mind has the power to realize what it is not. If sincerely applied, it will strip away every false layer, even to the point of realizing the inevitable limits of itself. When you finally arrive at the inner gate, the mind can't take you farther. You can only patiently wait and prepare yourself for the grace of the absolute, which is your essence, to let you in. Passing through the gate is the glory of direct realization. It is the prodigal reunion of awareness with itself, within the dream. As it turns out, all along the mind was the absolute in masquerade. The mind surrenders, and is shaped into the portal for the light of the absolute to shine through. As it does, this light gradually dissolves the constructs of conditioning that barricaded it from its creation. This flooding of the absolute through the portal of itself into the lucid, unconditional experience of its dream is enlightenment.

So much of what he shared resonates deeply with my own journey, and I also cried: The bone-jarring resistance of the relative form rising like a rocket in its spiritual journey into the stratosphere of the absolute. The closer you ascend to ego death, the more physically and mentally shattering it is. It is literally teeth chattering, eyeball shaking, lip trembling biological instinct struggling for form survival, in the immanent fear of losing yourself entirely in the ascent. This is what I mean when I refer to pacing enlightenment. Ascending too quickly exceeds the structural capacity of the rocket and everything explodes. The irresistible surrender of form attachment when faced with the towering solidity and incomprehensible power of the absolute. The progressive lightening as layers that you formally identified with are let go, and only pure essence remains. The inconceivable, but somehow sensical multi-dimensional, omni-spectrum mandala of cosmic creation. The absorption of the apparent drop into the seamless ocean of awareness that is itself. The grace of returning to the relative, and the utter humility of being an apparent portal for absolute light to shine through as it wills. It is the soul journey that all of us will face, when the dream ends, and if the absolute within decides to make it so, even while still within its dream.