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@SoonHei You can come up with some good questions. Once you awaken you see the truth has always been there. Know this with total conviction: The absolute is all there is. You were asking about contemplating too. Here is something juicy to contemplate. I'm having somewhat of an enlightenment experiance now from contemplating it so just wanted to share so here it comes. None of this is real. I know, a real mind fuck it is. Enlightenment is in plain view but it's hidden the last place the ego dares to look because it will realize that it is unreal. Even the knowing that it is unreal, is unreal. I'm so deep right now I'm partially faded out of existence. This experiance of "I" is temporary. You know this. That is all the proof that is needed for it's unreality. Take a huge step- call it a leap out of this "experiance of reality" and into the absolute. That is what you are. "Don't pretend to be what you are not. Don't refuse to be what you are" -Nis Contemplate that my friend and it will answer your question. Take it in so deeply that only the absolute remains. Liberate the consciousness don't confine it in a tempomporary state of self. Right now the "experiencer" that is me looks to be as if an interference pattern happening on consciousness. Does that make any sense? The word sense makes no sense right now. haha I wanna laugh my ass off. I'm trying to hold a connection here so I'm about 50-50. This must sound like a trip report but it's only contemplation. Contemplate that quote and dissolve into it. Whoa! You'll see.

@Leo Gura I totally agree. It's a meditative silence with a focused attention on a subject. Without the "subject" it would be meditation. The subject in my example was "All is God". For clarification tho it probably would be more accurate to say meditative 'stillness' on a subject.

@SoonHei You mentioning the trip reports. Just a hunch but you may want to search "microtubules". I have a feeling these experiences may be drawing from or connecting with latent information from within the DNA/ cellular structure, ect. Again-just a hunch.

@SoonHei I've heard stories of that too. People often refer to it as "downloads". Never had a direct experiance of that. What i'm referring to is the transcendence of all phenomenal knowledge and therefore all questions cease.

@SoonHei There is a level of conscious awareness where all questions cease because the questioner ceases to exist. Only the identity of a separate self has questions.

@Shakazulu Contemplation is not a conceptual understanding but a deep inner knowing that is found in meditative silence when one focuses their attention on a subject. For instance quieting the mind and contemplating "All is God". "A Buddhist sits is silence and waits for insights to arise" Contemplation goes through stages from gross to subtle that end in pure knowing: Focus on a thought Deeper quiet reflection Intuitive wisdom that is not verbal, visual or auditory Formless knowing

Anyone here like to spends nights out under the stars? I do. I'll put a cot out and lay on that with a sleeping bag/bed roll. And I lay there silently with the infinite vastness of the universe and dissolve into it. A union of sorts. A returning of the self to the cosmos. It works as good as a psychedelic for me.

@B_Naz @pluto @electroBeam @Outer @Dodo @Soulbass @Jack River @MarkusSweden @Joseph Maynor In the late evening- early morning of Aug. 12-13 the Perseid meteor shower will be happening. This year it's predicted to be especially active so if your interested put it on your calendar. You can find the best date and time to watch at your location.

@see_on_see Now that you mention this I did too the other night. I totally forget about it til now. I remember becoming conscious that I was tripping in my sleep.

@How to be wise The 5 senses see only the paint on the canvas". It's the canvas that needs to be explored.

@Sockrattes Here's an interesting little piece from Reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/Psychonaut/comments/2wxu8r/psychosis_or_enlightenment/

@Steph30 Mantra means a pure sound. The whole existence is reverberations of energy, different levels of vibrations. As there are different types of forms, every form has a sound attached to it or, every sound has a form attached to it. When you utter a sound, a form is being created. There is a whole science of using sounds in a particular way so that it creates the right kind of form. We can create powerful forms by uttering sounds in certain arrangement. This is known as the Nada Yoga, the yoga of sound. If you have mastery over the sound you also have mastery over the form that is attached to it.

@George Fil A small Bodhi Tree would be nice. (Ficus Religiosa)

@A Seeker Yes sensations, thoughts, perceptions are all just floating there in the emptiness. Do they have a foundation other than what you assign to them?

@littleBIG Have you ever seen Hubble Extreme Deep Field? Where would your angle and location be now?

@Feel Good Consider getting more sleep and eliminating the foods that "bring you down" @isabel When you allow what other ppl say or do to affect you, you have enslaved yourself to them.

@littleBIG What if you were floating in space in the vastness of the universe? Would you have a specific location?

@John Iverson That's a good question. I'd say it's far more intelligent than knowledge. Infinitely farther. It's so intelligent it can't even be put into words or understood with the mind the way that books and such can be understood. Knowledge that can be shared is just a small fraction that only points in the direction to infinite intelligence.

@Violina If someone were to realize their true inner being beyond all identification with the mind why would that stop a person from being successful? Wouldn't you think that would make someone a better dancer since they would express their dance from an inner silence deeper than mind.

@SoonHei keep going and you'll eventually "realize" it. Keep in mind there is no definable aspect to it. That's what makes it infinite.

@Hello from Russia Let go of yourself. Now what are you?

@Hello from Russia Exactly. Just practice being present- mindful. It should be effortless. Anything other is excess.. Throw it out.

@SoonHei Same here but took more time for me. We came to the right place to "be".

@SoonHei Any experiance is always going to have some "you" factor to it. To completely transcend the self takes practice, and great mastery. That's the reason most ppl turn to other options. Just my opinion but try to stay away from smoking that convenience store "incense". You never know what's in that kind of stuff. It could be laced with embalming fluid for all you know.

@SoonHei It is good that you contemplated this. You can perhaps appreciate now just how much the ego identification colorizes reality. The ego for instance may see a cat. If the ego loves cats than it colorizes it by adding things like a cute, cuddly, fuzzy kitty. In true reality it's just an animal with fur. Even that definition is labeling it. But i think you see what i mean. The cute, fuzzy, kitty is just illusory additions that the ego imposes over it. What you may have had was a taste of experiencing reality in an egoless state. The meaningless, hopeless feeling that it left you with was again the ego's way of coming to terms with true reality face on and it didn't like it. But it all goes with the territory of awakening to true reality. Time to drop the rose colored glasses that the ego experiences the world through along with the ego. The good news here is the ego's point of view has been an illusion all along.