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  1. " This" (life) is only the tip of the iceberg. The only place where meaning exists. Under "This" it's - Let it Fly without any meaning what-so-ever. What comes to the surface each can deal with it in their own way by giving it meaning, ect.
  2. Or it could be #10 of the Ox herding pictures. Returning to the marketplace.
  3. It's all beautiful in the absence of the beholder.
  4. Q: What does one enlightened master say to the other? A: Nice weather.
  5. A wise old sage once said: Why wait till death is upon you to realize what you truly are?
  6. Keep it simple. Drop the word "wants" to make it "God creates itself to Love itself in any way possible". That's the message. Everything is born from love.
  7. I can't explain it other than to say there is an intelligence behind everything. Everything is that intelligence.
  8. Conceptual knowledge is NOTHING compared to Direct experience. But you need conceptual knowledge first as a pointer to get to direct experience. For instance, looking at MapQuest. You can know the route well from what's shown on the screen. But to actually travel the road is a totally different experience.
  9. I can't even fully explain what happened except to say I was literally sucked out of my body. I felt it coming on and it spooked me. Like my awareness was expanding outside of my usual body location. So, I backed off because I felt like I was leaving my body. Then I said to myself "something is presenting itself here. Trust it and go with it". And I did. Then I wasn't in my body anymore. What did I experience? Consciousness/awareness became focused like a laser and was full of infinite potential and infinite intelligence. I can't even say how long it lasted. Whether it was minuets or seconds. But it was infinite. Time didn't exist. I didn't exist. But yet I was somehow along for the ride. After that experience I was totally blown away. I was like "holy $hit I never realized that was possible". My everyday experience paled in comparison to that that level of awareness. I felt like I had one foot in each world. I also experienced a bit of dark night of the soul, as it's called. I was doing daily meditation for about a year twice a day. I had smoked a little pot right before. And I was watching that video probably for the 10th time trying to have a direct experience of no-self. And boy did I. Actual surrender of the identification to the ego played the huge part. That's what bought on the experience in the first place.