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  1. Posted

    20 hours ago, DizIzMikey said:

    YET EVERYTHING AROUND ME IS NOTHING.. NOTHING EXISTS FOR ME......

    @DizIzMikey Everything around you is existence happening. Existence is bathed in nothingness. Look deeply into the meaning of "nothing".  Do you find something special there?   It's void of objects. Imagine, it has knowlage of everything -without containing a single thing. How sweet is that? Sounds like Heaven and it's all happening as we speak. 

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    @DizIzMikey I was just reading you views on nothing really exists.  Here is something I would like to share on that point.  Yesterday was an interesting afternoon. For about four hours I was experiencing existence from the opposite view than what is normally perceived and it changed the whole game. At this moment I am sitting in front of a computer occupying this space. I am experiencing myself within this space. If I move outside, I would be occupying that space. Follow me so far? But yesterday it was quite different, I was not occupying any space for a couple hours. Instead, all that existed was the space. I went out into the woods to sit for a while to give that space a chance to really pop open and reveal itself. It was not "me" sitting in the woods, there was only the woods. Awareness and existence became one field with no separation.  When I looked deeply into the existence of the surrounding woods something amazing happened, existence was looking back at me. And it was smiling. Almost as if it where saying "I see you too".   So I guess what I'm saying is that existence does exist. Very much so. In a very different way than how mind perceives it. Mind never truly occupies a space. But this space is what we are. This "space" or existence is connected to everything. It is a unified field of awareness. It contains everything, including what is happening beyond what the mind is directly experiencing at any given moment. Trust in knowing it's always there as a silent universal presence.

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    @Locomike The fears arising could be the ego's way of defending itself so it is not seen for what it really is as an illusion. The ego self doesn't like to let go of it's reign. It wants to hold on and stay in control at all times by any means possible. Go through those fears and doubts and out the other side. This is where the real work starts and often takes us out of our "comfort zone". But doing that over and over in itself will tare the ego to shreds.            The colors and images you understand. Treat them the same as thoughts. Let them pass.           I sometimes jump with sudden loud sounds during meditation.  That may be due to the fact that when meditating we "let our guard down" and become wide open and hyper sensitive.   As far as these experiences "not being what you were looking for", what is, is what is.  This work is not easy if mind is allowed to stay in charge of what is happening. Especially at first because it opens up a completely different view of what is true. There will be pains along the way for Mr. mind. That is the progress happening. Everything that arises within mind is an illusion created by mind. With practice, when a fear or doubt arises that causes distress, you will see that as a great opportunity to transcend the mind and move into a greater realm beyond what the mind is capable of. You will become freed from the fears, doubts, distractions and limitations that the mind endlessly creates.

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    @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.

  10. Posted

    2 minutes ago, Arik said:

    And I think we have an understanding. :o:P

    @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.

     

  11. Posted

    2 hours ago, Arik said:

    You are still looking at the colorful painting in the picture to find its white canvas. Its even there when the mind talks, when you are completely distracted, in fear, love, high or even dead-tired. Look for a notion that is there in all activities. What stays the same when all of your senses (including thoughts and feelings) change? What is always there and let's all these "colorful manifestations of reality" arise in every moment?

    Just compare for some time a lot of different moments and look for that. It takes some awareness to see it, but you can definitely develop that.

    @Arik I think what you may be referring to, I call "The silent witness"?

  13. Posted

    1 minute ago, trayford32 said:

    I@cetus56 I do believe it can. I hasn't for me. When I sleep I'm out. So gone sometimes I wake up and don't know where I'm at. lol for me I just paint want I feel and love. I'm not good at commercial art. I think because I've always related art to freedom. Not saying that it is. That's just that way I'm wired I guess. I have some many duties in life... art is like that last exhale you know. I think you can be or do whatever you want but whatever that is put your heart in it and protect it from the haters.

    @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!

  14. Posted

    2 minutes ago, trayford32 said:

    @cetus56 depends on your point of view of life I would guess.... do you think it would be a universal truth

    @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?

  15. Posted

    44 minutes ago, trayford32 said:

    @cetus56 losing association is a scary thing but I think its a major part of reaching enlightenment... I think the major problem being able to imagine beyond that point.... how can we make sense of anything really... nothing to compare you know

    The odd shapes I was seeing in the lucid dream seemed as if they had a purpose to them. Something that was beyond comprehension. 

  16. Posted · Edited by cetus56

      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.

  17. Posted

    13 minutes ago, trayford32 said:

    but at the end of the day its impossible for use to paint or fully communicate enlightenment... but its still interesting to try

    @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".

  18. Posted · Edited by cetus56

    1 hour ago, Rodrigo said:

    @cetus56 Suggestions are bananas. You digest them and then need more. World is full of suggestions. It was suggestions that brought you where you are now. Do you really need more suggestions? do you really need to think about them creating even more thoughts, struggling to distinguish good from bad suggestions all your life....always feeding that monkey you talk about?

    @Rodrigo Thanks for the great idea for my profile picture! Love it!

    monkey-hd-wallpapers-46.jpeg

  21. Posted

    26 minutes ago, Augustin said:

    @SkyPanther I already had a switch in my way to think. From "I choose to" to me doing stuff and understanding it was not a choice but a consequence, and my ego was trying to appropriate those stuff as if they were choices. It was hard time. During a couple of month, I felt kind of bad about it. I know it should be greatful, but life seem so vain when you realize about the "self" and "choices" being fake. I know it's part of the journey, but is there anyway to stop feeling it's ankward ?

    "I know it's part of the journey, but is there anyway to stop feeling it's ankward ?" Find what flows with your nature.

  23. Posted

    5 minutes ago, step1 said:

    Get Cetus, just out of interest, how long did out take for u to experience this the first time? Thanks :)

    @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!