Moksha

You are no more real than I am, nor is your experience any more real than mine. The secret to dissolving the illusion of separation is directly realizing the absolute, which is within and beyond every form.

How can there be a perspective when there is no space, no matter, and no time to imply localization? Unconditional infinity is beyond perspective.

If every being is not actually separate, but is the same absolute substance, how can one "being" be selfish toward another "being"? There is only being. Selfishness is the appearance of one being placing its needs over another. It is only an appearance because separation is only an appearance.

Better to see thoughts before they turn into words, and better yet before they become deeds. First verse of the Dhammapada: All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts; it is made of our thoughts. That said, there is no value in judging yourself as a "bad person". Judgment is always egoic, and only leads to deeper blindness. Instead, let the energy of the thought flow through you without resistance, and without clinging to it. It is only energy, and like everything else in the cosmos it begins and ends unless you trap it.

Welcome to the forum! My recommendation is to engage here for awhile, and see where it leads. There is remarkable diversity in this community, and you will undoubtedly find people who can relate to your journey. It's not uncommon when someone has an awakening experience to feel the desire to save the world. As you've found, this is rather unrealistic Awakening only happens when the absolute is ready to awaken within its form. No amount of teaching will make any difference until the person is ready to hear. The most powerful tool for helping others is learning to deepen the awareness within yourself. You can do this without saying a word, and the light of the absolute will take care of the teaching.

Again definitions, but for me ego is the masked god. When the mask is removed, ego no longer exists. It never did exist in truth, but the appearance of it did. By selfishness, people usually mean placing the interests of one's apparent form over the interests of another's apparent form. By this definition, when awakening reveals the seamlessness of all things, selfishness becomes impossible.

Choose your definition. If God is Self, how can it be anything other than Selfish? If God is Seamless, how can it be anything other than Love?

Solipsism is perspectively selfish, like a random mirror seeing its reflection in a multitude of other mirrors, without realizing that it is also a mirror. On survival within relative reality, it is the nature of the cosmos to consume itself in order to create itself. The elements in our bodies are sacrificial offerings from stars formed billions of years ago, and will likely constitute countless forms in the future. Matter, energy, and time are just building blocks for the absolute within its dream. Morality is a pragmatic set of rules promoting order within the cosmos, but absolutely there is no morality. There is only god.

The ego is only the absolute in masquerade. Awakening is as simple as removing the mask. Why is it so hard to do this? Awareness amplifies whatever it attends. There is a direct correlation between the focus of awareness and the attachment of the mask. Outwardly directed, in pursuing desires and fleeing fears, awareness tightens attachment. Inwardly directed, in the surrender of false fulfillment, awareness loosens the strings of the mask, until it finally falls away. The direction of awareness is determined by the clarity of seeing. When the absolute realizes the falseness of the mask, and the relentless suffocation caused by external identification, it turns its attention inward. Within the dream, this is the journey of enlightenment. It is the unmasking of the absolute, and the direct realization of its glory.

His respect for sincerity, regardless of realization, is the reason this forum is as diverse and deepening as it is.

@Breakingthewall All good, the silver lining of surviving decades of self-recrimination is that I don't get easily offended by others. Just a flesh wound To clarify what I said earlier, I wasn't implying that I understand the absolute beyond existence/non-existence either. Nobody does. It is a paradoxical, impenetrable mystery, and is only directly realized, entirely free from concepts.

@Yimpa Very cool ⚡

I haven't seen any evidence of psychedelics healing brain damage, but there is a substantial and growing body of research that psychedelics, when properly integrated, can help heal a variety of mental illnesses, including OCD, depression, anxiety, and PTSD. Not surprising, when you understand that the root of many mental illnesses is thought-entrapment. Awareness surrounds itself in a fortress of false thoughts, meant to keep it safe, but which entombs it. Psychedelics and other spiritual practices create enough chinks for the light of the absolute to shine through, gradually dissolving the walls until only the barest outline of a shadow remains.

As I said once to Leo, I'm under no delusion that I am superior or inferior to you, or anyone else. We are all tiny waves that crest and fall in the blink of god's eye. Meanwhile the ocean, which is our absolute nature, remains depthless and still.

@Breakingthewall I feel it's not helpful for us to discuss ideas. It's good that the absolute within realizes the value of liquidating the mind, to make space for its light. Continue that.

@Breakingthewall Relative means the appearance of existence, not the unveiled absolute, which is beyond existence and non-existence. I realize this makes no sense to you, and that's ok. The absolute within you has its own path to carve, as it has carved its path within me. Look forward to reunion when the clouds have cleared and the sun is in full glory. ☀️

Yes, I know from many conversations that you believe what you currently perceive is the only reality. I was hoping that your perspective may have broadened based on recent comments you've made The cosmos and your perception of it are not real. They are phenomenally convincing, but are bound by dualities within the dream. They are the cloak that the absolute wears in order to experience its imagination. Beyond what you are currently experiencing, as the absolute masquerading within a form, is the unbridled absolute. When it directly realizes itself, you understand with perfect clarity. Beyond the conceptual mind, the absolute is changeless, it is timeless, and it is seamless. I tried to share my direct realization of this earlier, but it is only words until the portal perpetually opens within you. It may begin as the tiniest peephole to the absolute, but it is stable beyond anything your mind or the cosmos can throw at it. It dispels every apparent boundary, with only the slightest attachment necessary to continue within the dream. There is enough direct light coming through it to dissolve every misidentification in your mind. But first, it has to open, and remain open. When it does, you will understand what I mean.

Every experience in the cosmos is god veiled, in less or greater glory. It is god's essence, but it is inevitably and graciously indirect. God, or the absolute, in its infinite glory is changeless, timeless, and boundaryless, beyond its cosmos. Existence is only a dark mirror in which god reflects on the experience of itself.

Lucifer means "Son of the Morning". The story of his fall is the story of us all. Eventually even the most demonic of us still gets to dissolve back into the absolute that is its essence.

Exactly! The more direct the absolute is, the more the dream dissolves. The entire cosmos is only its imagination. The absolute is the essence of the cosmos, but it has to veil itself from itself in order to experience its creation. There are infinite levels of the absolute realizing itself within its dream. As it surrenders the attachment of its awareness to the cosmos, and turns awareness inward, it deepens into its infinite nature. Mystics see this. The absolute cannot be entirely realized within its dream. Its light is so intense that it dissolves every apparent boundary. The cosmos cannot contain its glory. Many spiritual traditions prescribe wearing a veil when appearing before God, or that God must veil itself before revealing its glory. The meaning behind these practices and writings is deeper than many realize. For example, Exodus 33: Then Moses said, “Now show me your glory.” And the Lord said, “I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim my name, the Lord, in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for no one may see me and live.” Then the Lord said, “There is a place near me where you may stand on a rock. When my glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft in the rock and cover you with my hand until I have passed by. Then I will remove my hand and you will see my back; but my face must not be seen.”

So even when you are directly experiencing your infinite nature as the absolute, your body is absolutely real, as is your ability to feel pain? Or does it just appear to be real?

There's nothing evil about money, only the love of it.

God appearing as other than God is a transient reflection, like gazing at yourself in a rippling lake. God itself is always absolute.

If this is true, why would hitting your thumb with a hammer have any effect when you are directly experiencing reality? If your body is still there, does this imply anything about your direct experience?

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