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Sounds entirely logical. And you can keep breaking through and breaking through and breaking through to higher and higher and higher and higher orders of infinity. It could be called 'Applied Cantorism'. Cantor would have approved - if only they could have sneaked 5MEO into the sanatorium.

Your post contained six paragraphs. The first letter of each paragraph (not including the last) spells out 'CSIPA'. If you rearrange these letters it spells 'ASPIC', which is a savoury jelly made with meat stock.

@Vladimir Did you keep your beard trimmed to the same length, or had it become unkempt and feral?

You are enjoying approaching awakening like a science. Nothing wrong or right with it. It's probably very fun. Seek and ye shall find. Atoms, protons, neutrons, electrons, quarks, pentaquarks... infinity has no end, naturally.

Existence... nice! No. No no no. NO!

Most people seem to use the word "experience" to refer to an experience of something. This is a subtle duality. There is actually no experience of anything. There are only things appearing directly. The thing that seems to be looking is not looking. What seems to be awareness is just an appearance. It's all appearance. All the way down, up, sideways, on every axis.

@r0ckyreed Who? Me? I have no attachments. But I like it. The monks seem happy too.

Experience does not exist. Therefore, non-experience is all there is.

Experience is simply a misapprehension of appearance. No observer is required, nor has there ever been one.

Reincarnation is in your direct experience. It is the belief in the reality and ownership of a self / selves.

There are yogic practices that can help with that.

Yes, Kriya is boring, but is quite nice for breathing. DMT is fun. Buddhism is my favourite though.

A vampire is bitten and he sees the world in a totally different way. But it doesn't happen overnight. The person he once was must slowly die away, piece by piece, cell by cell - until finally all that is left is a husk, and then dust, and then nothing at all.

@Jowblob Forms / bodies are just the notes of an eternal symphony. Noone is stuck here on Earth.

Except Humphrey Davy, a British scientist, who experimented on himself and his friends with laughing gas at a medical laboratory he founded in Bristol, UK, circa 1800. "I am sure the air in heaven must be this wonder-working gas of delight!" wrote the poet Robert Southey after being introduced to nitrous oxide by Davy. As the laboratory descended into a den of iniquity attracting poets, playwrights, actors, scientists and philosophers of the day, Davy noted that none of these intrepid psychedelic explorers seemed to be getting hurt when they inevitably fell over while inebriated. Davy had a brainwave. Perhaps Nitrous Oxide could be used with advantage during surgical operations? Within a few years, it had become the first widespread anaesthetic, forever changing the face of medicine.

I like popcorn just as much as I like Buddhism, although buttering either seems like a bad idea.

Buddhism is fine. I like it.

Watch the thoughts. Realise they are not yours and never were. Realise that “you” were only ever an idea. Job done.

No. Words - even those comprising apparent questions - are only the punctuation of infinity. It could be said that all words, all questions, are absolute truth.

That’s all this is. It could be said that there is only magic. Everything that seems to be real is also completely impossible.

Exactly this. And the self either partially or completely surrenders to it. Yes! Although strictly speaking it is already happening. The 'me' just veils it. The source is the source. It always was and it had been forgotten. The extent to which any 'I' is there at all - even the recontextualised big 'I' - is a clue that there is a still greater surrender.

Fair enough. Maybe!

The words 'self', or 'I', or "you' are almost invariably used in the dualistic subject / object sense. I see no reason to use it when speaking of infinity unless you are subtly or tacitly referring to subject / object, or to experiencing, or to ownership, or to the sense that you exist. Using 'I' is an exaltation, an elevation of a ghost to the throne. The 'I' deserves no such thing - it isn't there.

They are not experiences. They are appearance. "Experience" is what the self / Self likes to think is happening, because it gives it a purpose, a function, an existence. It is the seeking, hoping, grasping energy whether it is self or Self. Experience is always separate and dualistic. Experience is the low resolution, desaturated version of infinity.

The idea that forms are consciousness, and that the substrate is infinite mind - tends to be understood before no self is eventually realised. These ideas are not being ignored or passed by. They have often been awoken to, abided in, examined from every angle, sometimes for years - and ultimately discarded. Recognition of the appearance / God / infinity is not an attachment to forms. It is the radical recontextualisation of experience and awareness as being without an owner - precisely because any "owner" is simply another loosely constructed, cobbled-together fragmentary form. Not actually there at all. Pure impermanence. No self is complete, irrevocable ego death. A rebirth (of noone) into infinity. Ego death can be frightening, so this can sometimes motivate a self to recontextualise as Self. It would rather keep playing this game for a few more lifetimes yet - especially when the only other option is being wiped out completely. But that which thinks itself to be aware has always just been infinity. It is singular. It is perfection. It was never aware, and it is not a self or a Self. This cannot be understood.