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  1. @ShaharA I'm so sorry to hear about your accident. I hope you heal quickly. Only the body experiences pain, but what you are is not the body. You are the awareness that witnesses the coming and going of all pain and suffering. Put it in it's proper perspective. Remind yourself that this to shall all pass with time. Yes, detach from the pain that the body is temporally experiencing. Use this as a chance to explore what you truly are. Get well soon!
  2. @TRUTH_SEEKER I like the name. There is no frustration because there are no problems. Only solutions to achieving your expectations....maybe change that up, expectation means hope. Intention is a better word. Use one pointedness of mind toward an intention that you set. Move slowly without forcing anything, but steady in direction always. Use the flow of time as a river that gets you to your destination.
  3. The illusory safeguards of the false ego/self were no longer to be found? The old must fall away before anyone can move into higher levels of awareness. It's an awakening out from the dream that is you and realizing the true self. This is the true self. When you feel it, there is no denying it.
  4. One thought and it's gone. Yes this happens by chance and you stumbled on it as I did... You said Whoopee! and it all went away-Right?. I know.. Don't try to repeat it or it won't happen again. Let it go. It will come back at the right time. Just like a rainbow.
  5. @How to be wise Enlightenment is being empty of content. If I was enlightened, that would be content.
  6. @Grue How's it going Grue? It sounds to me as if you were temporally separated from your usual talking mind (ego self) and were able to take an outside look at where you stand. Anytime you quiet your thoughts you will see from a slightly different perspective. That could be considered a higher self awareness. Have you tried meditation too? If not, give it a try for a week or two and see what happens.
  7. @Matthew Lamot Yea, sometimes you can feel that a thought is rising to the surface even before it comes into full awareness. Did you ever sit there with a totally still mind and open the forum? Wow! what a contrast. It's like looking at the sun.
  8. @Matthew Lamot Emptiness, spaciousness. Freedom from the known. No structures to maintain. No concepts to uphold. All that remains is what is. * I've noticed through practicing meditation that one of the constant hallmarks of deeper levels of awareness is the absence of all knowing. "Silence is the language of god. All else is a poor translation" - Rumi
  9. I got something better than meditation while playing soccer. Experience no self whilst playing soccer. Like Neo in The Matrix. When he sees through the matrix and makes the bullets slow down. Experience the soccer field the same as Neo would have. Removed from it. There is only the ball and the awareness of it. Complete detachment. Slow everything down. Try it sometime. See what happens.
  10. @How to be wise Nothing wrong with that. No rush to be anywhere...... where else could you be?.
  11. @How to be wise Neti-Neti is a good one too. Did you experience it directly? It can really open up the space that is what you are beyond all the silly ego stuff. Don't spend your life fighting it. See it for what is. The gross level of awareness. The surface of what is really there.
  12. @Matthew Lamot Shit, I just realized, the above was supposed to be sent to @How to be wise , not you. I clicked on the wrong member. Sorry, my bad! I really enjoyed our conversation though. Yea, the absolute- the non-experience!
  13. It sounds like you and I have experienced the same. And yes, the absolute as you call it. To become non-existent. No souvenirs within experience to bring back from that one, as you know. Not a shred. For me it happens after the first stage is reached-(nothingness), than the absolute non-existence happens when I allow what little is there to dissolve completely into that nothingness. I did read that article in it's entirety. I thought it was a great.
  14. No, that's not it. I don't get into teachings much anymore. "I know nothing" is a better practice for me theses days. For better or worse that's just the way I see the path that's best for me at this point. Don't get me wrong, I did at one time. Not so much anymore. I let it go of all "knowing" for the most part in my own practice these days. I did go over it though. I will read it in it's entirety.
  15. When there is no self, there is no experience to be had of any kind, mystical or otherwise. No ego exists. No educational knowledge exists. No time exists. No space exists. No you exists. There is only pure awareness or pure being. It is what we are behind the mask of the ego self identification with all it's knowledge and experiences. It lies beyond all that folly.
  16. @Matthew Lamot Have you ever considered just having an awakening expectance for starts? Ego-death as it is sometimes called. That can be done at any time providing your willing to let go of self. A full surrender takes only a moment. Listen to Leo's video Creating the experience of no-self and have the actual experience of what he is saying. According to Leary, Metzer & Alpert (1964), ego death, or ego loss as they call it, is part of the (symbolic) experience of death in which the old ego must die before one can be spiritually reborn.[13] Ego loss is ... complete transcendence − beyond words, beyond space−time, beyond self. There are no visions, no sense of self, no thoughts. There are only pure awareness and ecstatic freedom from all game (and biological) involvements.
  17. @bazera A man can read the dictionary and reach the highest state of awareness. Don't confuse the vehicle with the destination.
  18. @Neo Memories and thoughts only have power if you give it to them. Face them down by applying that knowledge. Yea, that video breaks it all down nicely. It opens up a space if you truly surrender to it. I always say that if is starts to feel like your stepping outside of your comfort zone, that's the door, don't back away but dare to enter through total surrender. That is the key. I know, that's a tall order! It's not always pleasant to get to because the mind will always try to keep you to itself any way it can through memories, thoughts, fears, ect. The fight /struggle as you call it is a part of the territory. Everyone is different, of course., but when you can overcome them, you will have proven to yourself that mind is only mind and something much greater will present itself to you that is totally amazing. It's hard to put in words what that is and must be experienced directly. When the time comes and you do a total surrender of self and fear, you will totally understand the true power lies there. Something amazing happens that is beyond all words.
  19. @How to be wise From what you describe here, you relate to yourself strictly from the perspective that you belong to time. Time owns you, so to speak. That is an illusory trap or imprisonment that the "self" imposes to keep you from experiencing true liberation. Enlightenment happens after the limitations of space/time have been transcended. It's one of the hallmarks of enlightenment. Time and space are something that happens within what is timeless and space less. Enlightenment is a 180 deg. shift in consciousness from the place you experience yourself now.
  20. @saiko Unfortunately, that app. is still under development haha....... All joking aside, you know, that's not a bad idea. Almost like an I.Q. test, only used to gauge how awake someone is (or not). Where's Leo? That's his next big video! The S.I. Test......
  21. I heard there is an app. now for the exact date, time and location that enlightenment will happen. Just plug in your age, sex, country of origin, and degree of self illusion and the app. does the rest for you.
  22. "For a little while the infinite self dreamed itself to be the finite self" Mooji How powerful is that?