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  1. @Naviy Before I started meditation, "the screen" was always full of content, overlaid with thoughts and perceptions. Now through meditation the screen is experienced as blank, it's pure state. What a stark difference. In daily life there needs to be some amount of content (mind) on that screen to interact with others and be productive. In meditation the screen becomes blank again of all content. I see the mind as a tool now. When the work is done, I put the tools down and the screen becomes empty again.
  2. @Khin Thanks. That's my little monkey mind with a thought banana.
  3. @Arik I was thinking about all this last night. It seems to me that mind is always going to be there. It's the operating system for reality. The monkey mind can be bought under control. But mind and a sense of self will always exist to some extent. When I meditate, at first I'm in mind, than I get up and leave the mind behind (so to speak). I move into another room. Mind is always there, but it's sitting in a different room than where pure presence is sitting. I'm not sure if that's a great practice, but for now that's what I do. I get up and leave minds company. I'm sure there is a slow integration happening where that silent witness becomes even more prevalent even when I'm with mind. If, just "if" we are supposed to have minds, could there not be a perfect balance of mind and pure awareness working together in harmony? Think of all the good things that mind has to offer. It adds "life" to the raw experience in so many special ways.
  4. @Arik I think what you may be referring to, I call "The silent witness"?
  5. "You can feel it when you ask "Who am I?" and just be there for a moment." I just followed that. It's kind of a silent "hang time", suspended just before the mind gets a chance to jump back in. Is it like that?
  6. @trayford32 Sure, go with what flows. Do you have a choice? haha The lucid dream happened almost on it's own. I had to use the bathroom in the early morning. I got back into bed and I stayed aware that I was falling back into sleep. But I followed it and started to create images and colors at will. It than became free flowing and happening of it's own and I just observed. I guess I opened a gate in my mind. It was wild! Than I fell into deep sleep and that was that. But it was great while it lasted. I can still see it, sort of. What a canvas! Too bad I can't share it!
  7. @trayford32 It was all just artwork hanging on the walls of my mind (the canvas) . I guess it was flowing out of the sub-conscious?. But I thinking afterward, I wish I were an artist. Do you think lucid dreams could give some artistic inspiration?
  8. The odd shapes I was seeing in the lucid dream seemed as if they had a purpose to them. Something that was beyond comprehension.
  9. Just to mention this for all it's worth, I was lucid dreaming the other morning. I was aware of what was happening and conscious that I was in a semi dream state. I started to create images that looked not to different that your art piece. All those colors and some that I'm not sure if they exist. It that's possible? The colors were about the same but the shapes were different. More rounded and globular but it was as if I was floating through your artwork.
  10. @trayford32 I was having the same discussion with someone close that is an artist just this week. She said she has tried to communicate that through some pieces she has done. Yea, Dali was quite the character for sure. It was said that "He would enter an altered state of consciousness by the obsessive contemplation of an object until it lost all association".
  11. @Rodrigo Thanks for the great idea for my profile picture! Love it!
  12. @trayford32 Excellent work! Salvador Dali's works also convey the breaking down of the ego self and conceptualizing mind . That is the way I interpret them. "Soft construction with boiled beans" is a good example.
  13. @Isle of View @Rodrigo What should I do? What would be your minds suggestion to stop my mind that thinks it's a monkey mind?
  14. "I know it's part of the journey, but is there anyway to stop feeling it's ankward ?" Find what flows with your nature.
  15. @Arik Observing monkey mind creates a nice contrast.
  16. @step1 When the willingness and total surrender was there to let go of everything I associated as being "Me", it happened instantly. All that matters is the willingness to let it all go. How long did I meditate? A couple of years. But it wasn't until I let totally go of "me" that something suddenly happen. That's totally up to the individual and the thickness of their ego crust that needs to be cracked and the all important surrender of the self. That is the only thing that stops anyone from experiencing no-self at this very moment. Have you experienced that? Pure being? I never knew that was there before!
  17. @Galyna I think the same thoughts and doubts of what's it all about? Thank you for reminding me that only this moment ever exists It is so very unique in it's own special way. That in itself is infinite.
  18. @Vlad Ropotica It will happen when your not looking for it. It's always there!
  19. I know what your saying. And it's right there hiding behind your thinking mind. Allow a shift in consciousness to happen on it's own. Don't try at all. That's the letting go! Dissolve. There is no you!
  20. @Vlad Ropotica The amazing thing that happens when you let go of self is that you become pure being. It feels like there is a buzzing of energy and a lightness to me now.
  21. Let go of it! Only you can do this. I'm doing it now just thinking about it. If feels freaky but really nice at the same time. Once you experience no-self the first time, it's easy to get back to when you want to. The first time is the hardest because we resist letting go like that. You'll know it when it happens.
  22. @Vlad Ropotica You built an illusory ego self identity since you were a child. A personal identity of "me". Now you need to break that down. Throw it out!
  23. When I said to experience yourself as if you didn't exist, that means EVERYTHING! Like a child. No self, just pure awareness. I told you it was going to get scary.
  24. @Vlad Ropotica Everything is exactly as it should be in this moment of now. Become that.
  25. Yes- "i said that because when you are a child your mind is not identified with many things,and life is not ''good or bad'',just it is" Beautifully said!