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  1. @Salaam Where does the rock and sand end and I begin? I used to know the answer to that. what has happened ? i am like an idiot i am so empty.
  2. @Lorenzo Engel As Leo calls it," our sandbox to play in".
  4. @Natasha You may have seen this already. I watched some of it. What is said @12:00- 25:00 creates a real nice spaciousness.
  5. @Lorenzo Engel Found this and thought it was interesting to listen to. It's not woo-woo stuff, just a little different view maybe.
  6. @Lorenzo Engel Almost 35 years ago I had an awakening experience. It was for me anyway. A realization to something that I had never considered possible before. Something that would have seemed absurd until that experience happened. It was the realization that what I had always thought to be a separate "me" within this world was an illusion and everything in the universe was really one thing happening. There was no internet to get information from at that time. I was wondering what that was that I was experiencing. I knew it felt true compared to what I previously thought of as a self. So I searched around local book stores and found something called "enlightenment" or "cosmic consciousness". There's a phrase they don't use much any more. After 35 years what I have personally experienced has been pretty much more of the same to varying degrees of no-self and connectedness to everything. I practiced meditation and I use to be waiting for the "big" life altering experience to happen. I thought that first awakening was just the beginning to much bigger things. And it is, but on more of a subtle level so far. For the most part I now see that the initial awakening was pretty much the major part of the awakening. Sure it is still a continuous unfolding process, it's a life long journey. But it's still more of the same original awakening being built upon. I'm not saying that's enlightenment and I could be missing something huge all this time. And I know I still have a long way to go. But I am no longer expecting another "big" enlightenment experience to happen that takes it to the next level suddenly. It seems to me now that what it's all about is simply resting as awareness. So that's my personal journey. So far........ ** I know some people say they have experience extraordinary things happening like meeting multi-dimensional beings, astral travel and such. I'm not saying it can't happen, but personally I have no experience of anything like that. Are there other realms of existence? Could we be multi-dimensional beings or something more than what we normally perceive ourselves to be? I guess it all depends on who you ask. It's a mystery I personally don't have the answers to. If something extraordinary does happen that suddenly changes everything, I'll let you know. Till than, I rest as awareness the best I can.
  7. Non-duality for daily life.
  8. @abrakamowse Said the tao to the monk.....
  9. @abrakamowse Yes, there is a place where all questions become totally redundant. Any question asked is like painting a red rose red.
  10. @abrakamowse That's good stuff- quantum entanglement! I know it's all happing only within the realm of the manifest. But still it's really cool to play with the possibility on some level. Think about every thought and action you make is known throughout all existence.
  11. @abrakamowse Like the double slit experiment, a wave becomes a particle only when it's being observed. So what is it really? Does anything really exist? haha
  12. @abrakamowse Yea, your right. I will add that once I did vanish completely. Total non-existence of everything. Not even a silent witness remained. It's really hard to say what that was.
  13. @Salaam Staying within the manifest realm of different dimensionality's, do you think there is one unified field that connects everything like the Higgs Boson?
  14. @vizual I was thinking along the same lines after leaving that reply. I do sometimes perceive everything as one field of something. That perception happens especially when the surrounding field of view turns flat or 2 dimensional. That's probably just the mind though.
  15. @Natasha Yea, I see what your saying. Something that transcends the known manifest realm and is prior to it.
  16. Isn't it the very nature of the dualistic mind that creates what is referred to as existence? A bird, a tree, a sunset ect. Just asking because I'm not really sure. If existence was truly seen in a non-dualistic way, what would it look like? Would everything be seen as one field of light energy or vibrations something we can't comprehend?
  17. @abrakamowse In what little experience I have, there seems to be always something that remains. Like a silent witness or something. Even when the no-self is being experienced, what knows that? I question this every time it happens. It feels like there shouldn't be anything there, but yet there is.
  18. @Greer Hi Greer Have you ever considered a "float tank" experience?
  19. @abrakamowse Today I tried a practice of moving between "knowing" (reading the forum), to not knowing by closing the laptop and sitting in empty stillness- than back again. That head got cut off and put back on many times. What a great contrast between the two. Quite an awakening. When there is what's known, there are two. When there is no known, there is not even one.
  20. Love is the sweet nectar of existence....
  21. What is the sound of two hands clapping...
  22. Sweet! Total liberation from the illusion of a self that suffered from anxiety. One illusion was creating another illusion. Your probably looking at it now and laughing your ass off.
  23. Here's a good one. Explore being dead and there is no longer anyone to remember the loved ones.
  24. @Toby Wow thanks for finding that. I looked again this morning and missed it. Sometimes we have experiences and we find ourselves asking "WTF was that?" - "dipping below the bhavanga-sota" O.K.!
  25. Could existence be a vibrational field becoming form through consciousness?