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@ZenDog Meditation can become like the polishing of a mirror. Dust constantly collects. The true nature is to throw away the mirror (mind). Than there is no place for dust to collect.

Sweet!

Now this is "FUCKING WITH YOUR EGO" as Leo says!

@Lorcan Whatever gets you to the deepest stillness.

I always meditate with prayer beads hanging over my hands that are in the Om position on my lap. All my meditations are now instilled into the beads. One glance at them and I'm in that place of silence.

@ZenDog You could wear a bracelet of beads. Like mala beads, I think they are called. Worn on the left wrist. Just a suggestion.

@growthaboveall My interpretation of mindfulness is exactly as it is. Be mindful. That is what an individual person experiences and interprets through mind. Awareness and consciousness have about the same meaning but are separate from the individual's mind as in mindful. Awareness happens of itself. Being mindful of that difference between mind and awareness is a beautiful thing. Good question!

@Arik Just came back from sitting in the woods for about an hour. Just silent observing. The word "trees" lost all association. Trees basically became expressions of energy emanating from the Earth. Than a bird started a very high pitch song. It sounded a lot like Morris code. Not sure what kind of bird that was? But the high pitch sound was right in my ears. Than from hearing the bird song in my ears, it went to experiencing the sound in my head. The sound was no longer in my ears or outside. Than Everything was happening on a screen in the back of my head.

@Arik Here is something I did a couple of weeks ago (talking about cooking). I had to peal about 8 pounds of potatoes. A boring task that I wasn't looking forward to doing. After I pealed the first 2 potatoes, I thought this would be a great time to incorporate a meditative state. The next thing I knew, I went from "I am pealing these potatoes" to "potatoes are being pealed". I became a silent observer witnessing the pealing of potatoes. Very cool!

Finding a "void" in meditation is a nice experience too! Complete emptiness. A totally silent mind. Meditation in nature is very cool! I have woods behind my house and I'll sometimes go out there and meditate. After meditation with eyes open, I just sit with a still mind and awareness becomes the surroundings. When you totally let go and allow that to just happen, It's like your perception shifts. It's hard to explain. You have to experience it first hand. The best way to explain it is that it feels like the universe is seeing through your eyes. Conscionsceness and the field of view become one thing happening. Try doing that with no sense of self, just be pure awareness.

@werlight Yea, seeing your ego self within existence from another perspective for the 1st time is quite a different view. Wow! Blasted a gaping hole in that ego. After the first experience I thought " Oh shit, I'm back". I need to get integrated with new view point. Still, something remains of me. What is that? Ego, sense of individualism, self expression, divine self? I'm not sure what's left. I guess that's why it's called a path.

@werlight There is such a place where all questions cease to exist. Questions only ever arise from sense of doubt and separation anyway. When there is total surrender and acceptance, all that is left is love and compassion. Who needs anything more than that?

What if physics is correct and there are 11 dimensions and this "existance" is the 3rd-dimention plus time(4th-d). The sum total of all dimensions is projecting itself onto this 3rd-D "canvas" and experiencing itself through awareness and through a variety of different organisms that can only be sustained physically within the 3rd-D+time. The human species being just one of many in this vast universe. When physics gets down to the smallest parts that make up the material world, what they find is tiny curled up dimensions called Calabi- Yau manifolds. They are vibrating and have an awareness to them making for a unified wave field. That becomes the basic canvas to this existence. Also It was just proven that gravity waves do exist. Existence is expanding and contracting. Think about what that really means. The physical distance between you and me gets closer and farther all the time. It also warps time so it slows it down and speeds it up. So nothing within existence is stable. Everything whitin existance is a wave motion. All the dimensions exist within the 0th dimension. 0th being a non-space. The alpha -omega (nothingness). I realize that is a lot of science and rational thinking. But I wonder if awareness is simply the sum total of all dimensions projecting and experiencing itself onto the 3rd-D, just as a movie is projected onto a screen. To me that answers a lot of questions about "what am I" and "where am I" from a scientific point of view. Maybe there is nothing " spiritual " about any of this what so ever.

Did you hear the Akashic records are coming out on cd?...

That's funny ! ILMAO

@bernieboy20 Either your awakened, or you continue to live in the matrix of the mind. Your choice. Awakening is not something you do for others. Although they will most likely benefit in some way from your awakening. "If" you awaken, ask yourself again, "What exactly is a Weirdo?" You may find that the definition has changed drastically for you!

My dog lives totally in the moment. We went out for a run in the woods this morning. She sniffed out every nook and cranny and did her dog thing. Now she's laying in the sun at the back door, smelling a ham cooking! Everything is exactly as it should be in her experience.

@NoOne This moment is all that exists. Make the most of it.

@Eye I just listened to that. Nothing new there. This 3rd dimensional existence IS putty in our hands. We can shape this world in any direction we want. The 4th-d (duration) affords us that freedom of movement into any branching timeline we choose. Every second holds possibility for change to occur. Every second we move into a new space. What we choose to do with that "new" space is totally up to us. What happens is that most people don't understand that. They "expect" that tomorrow should be no different than yesterday. And that is exactly what happens. No surprise there!

That would be the worst! I heard Donald Trump does a comb-over on his pubic hair too! lol No, I had no pain at all. Luckily for me the nerve was not exposed or I would have been screaming! It was just funny the way it happened.

@dominic1 This is the kind of question that if you ask 100 ppl, you'll probably get 100 different answers. No two will be exactly alike because it is all illusion of mind and the way mind will interpret that experience will be different for each. That being said, the first time I let go of my ego self and had an awakening "experience" it was quite dramatic. Conscionsceness was no longer localized at my body location. It was filling the room and became externalized. That was VERY different to experience for the first time. There was a distinct and sudden "shift" in consciousness. Just as if you changed the channel on a radio and tuned to another station than the one you normally listen to in daily life. For me it was like discovering there was more than just one station to tune to. It was like tuning to a "universal" frequency of pure consciousness. I became just a very silent observer in the background to what was happening. I flowed into the consciousness that was outside of my body location and was suddenly floating in an ocean of pure silent bliss and stillness. My interpretation of that was that I entered another dimension, it was so distinct from my usual awareness. Again that's just the best way I can describe it using words and mind. I refer to all this using the word "I" just for the sake of conversation. I'm not "enlightened" but I do understand that all this is "Maya" that is happening within my mind. My interpretation of nothingness is there is no experience of that. No "heavenly" feelings. You don't exist when nothingness happens so it can't be described at all. It is a total blank space within awareness. It's a total non-experience. Not even a silent observer is present experiencing a state of bliss so there is no memory of that at all..... So I guess to sum it all up, we all have "awakening experiences" until we get to the point where the "I" vanishes and than there is not even an experience to be had of any kind because there is no experiencer remaining. That's my illusion!

Yea, I got something for you. True story too. Just yesterday I went to the dentist. I had a filling fall out in a front tooth and I was having it refilled. The doctor was going to numb the area and I said "no I'll be fine, no need to numb it" he said "are you sure?"- " yea, no problem". He starts drilling and grinding and I thought to myself, this would be a great time to meditate. He stops grinding after about 5 min. and says to me "Are you O.K?" I said to him' "Yea, I'm in Nirvana here". Well him and the dental tec start laughing their ass off. I don't get what's so funny?

Do you ever give yourself permission to "let it all go"? Even if it's just for 5 min. a day. Totally letting go of everything. Even the idea of who you are. I'm not saying ignore it or hide from it. I'm saying transcend it. Move beyond all that "stuff". What you are is none of that. When you realize that, that is the awakening, the braking down of the illusion we cast over ourselves. The false association that we are our thoughts and experiences only serves to make us feel small, separate and fearful. It leaves no space for love to be present. Practice "Throwing Away" .

@cle103 You may find that it all happens when you let it all go! I know that sounds very simple. But it is. It is effortless! That's what's different about it and eludes so many people who " try" to meditate. Me too at one time. Big mistake on my part. You'll get the hang of it. Today for me was an especially deep meditation. Very nice! But now needs to be thrown away. That's just how it is.

@cle103 I just meditated for 30 min. and can tell you what works for me personally. I closed my eyes and just observed my breath. Slowly, In-out, in-out, in-out. and eventually I disappeared. I'm guessing about after 7-10 min. after I started? I don't know where I went. I was not expecting any results at all. None what so ever!! I think that is the key. Now as I'm typing this, I am surrounded by an atmosphere of complete silence and stillness. It's so thick I can almost feel it as I sit here. My thinking /talking has left the room and only consciousness remains. It's almost a strain to type this at this moment because it's coming out of complete stillness and my thinking mind is kind of shut down right now. It's like a dead calm ocean. Not a ripple! Be non-existent when meditating. Be empty space.