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@Shin Doubt keeps it fresh. Forever blooming/awakening. The dream consciousness itself is dreaming. If it wasn't for doubt the world would cease to exist. Do you really want total enlightenment?

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@Shin You mention dreaming. Just wanted to say thanks for posting Leo's "Life is a Dream" video yesterday. I forgot how good that one is. Just got done watching it again.

@Shin What it is, is that it's so obvious it's completely overlooked. Leo says "Nothing is hidden". That's once it's revealed. But before that it's well hidden in plain sight. It's like a little game we play on ourselves. Sort of like Finding Waldo. We search relentlessly for Waldo and can't find him anywhere. Than the realization comes that everything is Waldo. There has never been anything but Waldo.

@MM1988 If what you can't attract has all of your attention you may be missing what you are attracting.

@Shin No need to. It's already here for the taking.

@MM1988 Totally understood. Wasn't interested in the romantic aspect of it. The law of attraction is exactly that. You attract what you put an intention on. In a way, they come to you.

@MM1988 If you don't mind me asking what happened at the time of rejection.

@LiakosN Someday the mind will awaken from the dream of self it created just as it awakens from a dream in sleep.

@LiakosN Do dreams?

@LiakosN Mind is illusion-Maya. What is beyond mind is what is ultimately aware of all that happens within mind. Nothing wrong with mind as a tool to navigate within the illusion of space/time reality. But it's not real. The proof is it's beginning and ending just like a dream. If the mind knew what it doesn't want to know it would instantly annihilate. So it stays firmly couched in it's foundation of physical reality and holds tight to it.

@Hamilcar Beat you to it. I call it "Potty Samadhi" All joking aside maybe it's not enlightenment but a glimpse of no-self for sure. In my case there is a mirror over a sink opposite the toilet instead of a door. Makes for a good place to do some mirror gazing/self inquiry. For instance I'll ask "who is this seeing his reflection in the mirror?" Have you every tried mirror gazing? (toilet optional) It's powerful stuff.

@kieranperez This may be of help.

Yes. Crystalline- perfect clarity beyond all "states" of awareness. The absolute.

@Nondescript This is where Christianity and nonduality meet. "This is not a shared space. For it to be shared there would have to be two. Here there is not even one"

@Torkys "When you meditate it opens you up to demonic influances that cause you to feel rage". . Contemplate that statement. What does it really say?

@Genghis Khan And all the partitions came crumbling down. Happy for ya!

"May the Holy Spirit move you"

In Hinduisim it's known as Potti Samadhi

@okulele This could also be a factor. Highway hypnosis, also known as white line fever, first described in a 1921 article that mentioned the phenomenon of "road hypnotism": driving in a trance-like state while gazing at a fixed point.

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at will change

@Leo Gura Lol

@Ingit

@Outer How'd you know I was thinking about the parabrahaman even though I didn't mention it?

@OuterThis is one of the subjects where if you ask 50 ppl you'll get 50 different views. We could throw the word "conscious" or consciousness into the mix too just to make it really complicated. Perception vs awareness vs consciousness. I'll read the link you posted.