Moksha

The unveiled absolute defines, free from identification. It creates, without getting lost in its creation. It lucidly imagines, without surrendering to its imagination.

@StarStruck Slavery is meaning imposed by the outside. Freedom is meaning arising from within. @Breakingthewall If freedom was easy, everyone would already be free. My response to @Carl-Richard was on the level of the absolute within its dream. When it awakens, it is no longer externally bound by its imagination. It is liberated to create meaning within itself. Instead of being distracted by the outside, focus is directed from within.

?Meaning is whatever awareness attends. Most of us live our lives reactively, defined by the meaning imposed on us by others. We may be miserable, but it is a simple path that absolves us from finding meaning within. Freedom can be frightening. People insist that they want freedom, but allow themselves to be externally defined. Freedom is internal responsibility. Freedom is procreational. Freedom is the essence of god.

Compliments and criticisms are so relatively true ?

Meditate. It will deepen your awareness, and unveil thoughts as external phenomena desperately needing to draw your attention. When you see them truly, they lose their hypnotic charm.

You created the dream for a reason. Survival allows you to stay within the dream, while spirituality allows you to lucidly enjoy it. Each serves the purpose of the absolute.

Morality is the human attempt to mandate relative love. It's helpful, but no longer necessary when absolute love realizes itself.

Falsehood only provides temporary happiness. Only truth is perpetual bliss.

Darkness deepens you. A baby spoon-fed with smashed bananas is happy, but relatively shallow. Set it on its feet and let it take a few steps and fall. Maybe it gets bruised in the process. That is how it learns. Awakening is impermanent bliss. It gives you a glimpse of god, but it doesn't last. It's only by stumbling down the stairs into absolute darkness that you learn surrender. Experientially understanding the falseness of your form identity is the first step toward realizing unconditional bliss.

You would benefit from "10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head", by Dan Harris. It's a pragmatic, science-based approach to the benefits of meditation. Maybe it is the first domino toward happiness deeper than 10%.

Being in nature can be deeply grounding. Some of my earliest memories of connection with source occurred in nature. Go for it, as long as your purpose is to enjoy the journey, rather than attaching some condition of enlightenment upon completing it. If you are conscious, each step will be its own reward.

It doesn't work because even when you realize you're god, you are still limiting yourself to experiencing imagination through a particular form. There isn't a form on the planet (or in the entire cosmos) capable of fully channeling the glory of god. Forms are capacitors for consciousness. Some have much greater capacity than others, but none of them has infinite capacity.

It's even simpler. Everything that happens is the will of god. Whose will would it otherwise be? Everything that exists is an expression of the infinite will of God. Nobody has infinite power, because nobody is real. You don't become god, you are god, and you are already manifesting your infinite design.

Occasionally I'll deliberately couch terms in absolute language to reinforce a key point, but most of the time it isn't necessary. In a forum like this, it's a given that terms like I/You/Everyone are relative, and serve to facilitate communication.

Agreed, lead by example and set the tone for the forum that you expect others to follow. To @Water by the River's credit, he chose not to take offense and responded graciously.

There can be synchronicities in numbers, just as they occur in other phenomenal patterns. Synchronicities are little sand castles shaped by the hand of the absolute, along the endless shore of its imagination. They intimate an underlying order, in the vast awareness creating shapes and patterns on the surface of its dream.

In high school, I was selected as the sterling scholar in math. I had to endure a grueling round of questions from smug professors, the standout being, "Was mathematics invented or discovered?" I argued that it was discovered, but have since changed my position. Numbers only exist in imagination. The absolute is enumerated by mystics in non-committal (e.g., not two) or paradoxical (e.g., three is one) terms. Like every language, mathematics falls short in its feeble attempts to define the absolute.

Conceptual knowledge is relative, and debatable. Its source is external, and it seeks the external for validation. Spiritual knowledge is absolute, and beyond dispute. Its source is internal, and being direct it needs no validation.

Your insights are spot on. The more deeply you realize the treachery of desires and fears, the easier it will be to remain neutral and detached. And the more neutral and detached you are, the easier it will be to ignore the rantings of the egoic mind. It's like a spiritual centrifuge, casting thoughts away from the center, until eventually only spaciousness remains. Keep going, the truth will set you free?

If they teach you to release the need for control, as I believe they can, psychedelics may be useful. The danger is the temptation of psychedelics becoming an end unto themselves. As with any instruction, the method is only useful to the extent that its insights are integrated, and the method itself is released. When you are able to walk away from psychedelics entirely, without looking back, you will know that you are free. You don't have to be a born mystic or take psychedelics to realize truth. The absolute carves a unique path to itself through each form. The path is less important than the sincerity of the person taking it.

@Someone here You've realized that attachments are the source of your suffering. That's good, it opens the door for dissolving them. I can't speak for Leo, but to me doing the work means proving the sincerity of your insights. If they're just swimming around in your head, they aren't doing you any good. You have to actually integrate them. Pick an attachment in your life, and focus on truly letting it go. Not just conceptually, but directly. Put it to the test, and experientially prove that it's based on a lie. For example, you mentioned struggling with anxiety. Identify a situation that triggers anxiety for you. It could be something simple, like feeling the compulsion to check the lock on your door. Decide that the next time you feel this compulsion, instead of giving into it, you will notice it and let it go. It seems simple, but can be extremely difficult in practice, if it is a deep compulsion. Put your compulsion on trial. Instead of checking the lock on your door, turn around and walk away. After some time has passed, you will realize that your mind has moved on to something else, and you are still completely safe. The dire warnings of what would happen if you ignore the compulsion are proven to be based on a lie. Eventually you realize this so deeply that the compulsion entirely dissolves. It's a small victory, but can be a tremendous relief. You begin to see the pattern of how desires and fears have driven your behavior all of your life. It could be a minor attachment like the compulsion to lock your door, or a major attachment like depending on your partner to make you feel loved. Keep going. The victories in battling your attachments accumulate, until eventually the entire dam breaks. It takes absolute sincerity to get there, but you will. When you deeply understand that desires and fears always lead to suffering, you will finally have the strength to surrender them, and realize yourself.

You can't force it, but you can prepare for it. Every insight you have takes you deeper, and helps you relinquish the storms on the surface. Gather insights like stones that sink you into yourself. Descend patiently, and allow your form to adjust to each new depth. Before you know it, you will be breathing naturally, in deep water.

@Yimpa The beauty about letting go of attachment to results is that it frees you to live directly, without needing to define reality for yourself or others. True living doesn't begin until you let go of the dictionary handed to you by society. @gettoefl Nondual pointers are ironic, aren't they? It's why silence is the purest language. @StarStruck As a friend of mine who used to be on the forum often said, "Not two". Nondual doesn't mean "one". How do you count infinity?

There's no universal answer. You have to find what works for you, based on where you currently are. Meditation is a mainstay, but if that is difficult, hatha yoga is a good start. Try "The Mind Illuminated" by John Yates, and see if it helps.

Every belief, Buddhist or otherwise, is false. At best, they are pointers to the absolute within. Beliefs have to be relinquished to directly realize truth. It's a common mistake to conceptualize reality. The vast majority of people can't help themselves. They bang their heads against the absolute wall, until they are bloody and broken. It's true the absolute is nothing. It's also true that it is everything. How many realize that their essence is beyond nothing and everything? Reality is illogical, paradoxical, and incomprehensible. It's who you are, you just need to let go of the myopic mind and be.