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Who cares? It's all subjective. What's important is the experience, not how you label it.

I see it differently. The way I see it is that those who do not suffer, are happy. There is no higher state than happiness. Those that are happy have already arrived. But for how long? Enlightenment is about the transmutation of pain into Gold. No need to transform the Gold (pleasure) into Gold, it is already it. My take Given this view, it is even good to seek for the pain sometimes. To dive in with courage. To test your Enlightenment (transmutational power)

There is a rumour that any progress on the path of Enlightenment is continued into your new incarnation, if you hadn't quite 'gotten' it, but your search was honest.

Thoughts about past and future are like seeds people throw at you. If your soil is not nurturing these types of seeds, no matter how many are thrown at you, only the seeds of now will be nurtured to grow. <3 You change your soil by meditating! (As Nahm suggested)

This is one of the best parts about Enlightenment. When shit hits the fan, I am always 10 times more determined in my spiritual work than when things are going fine in my outer life. I take more risks when I am in a slump, it's like the fire that motivates you to go deeper. When things are going great I don't want to die! When things are going aweful, I am all for it! Come on Ego death LOL!

Today I stumbled upon a gem. I woke up at 5am and decided to put on some binaural beats for healing. I decided to treat my smoking addiction, so put this on: I lied on top of my sheets and on my back - I don't know if this makes a difference, but mentioning it anyway. So all of a sudden, I was experiencing being in the same bed, but fighting with the pillows, as if someone was pushing on the other side. I even fell from the bed, only to discover afterwards that it was all just in my head when I woke up. It was so realistic. After a few tussles like that I knew it is time for reality checks. Because the dream states I experienced while listening to this were some of the most realistic and interesting dreams ever. Sure as 1,2,3 the next dream, I just looked at my hand (this is the best way to know if you're dreaming!!!!) and my hands looked like they were joint with some skin between the fingers - like a fish creature - that's how I knew it's a dream. From there - LUCID DREAMING BABY. No journaling, no stress. Just some beats and looking at your hand. Please try it out and report with results. This is exciting. Next, I will do some meditation in there. I flew out of my old apartment just now (6 story high) FeelsGood @Nahm Tagging you in because I know you wanted to be lucid, maybe try this out. TLDR Let's put the steps: 1) Wake up 2 hours before you actually should wake up. 2) Put this on with headphones 3) Lay on your back 4) When you experience anything no matter how real it looks, take a second or two to look at your hand a couple times from both sides - It is 99.999% sure that if you're dreaming your hand will not look like a normal hand. 5) You are lucid 6) :))))))))))

It was a straight forward answer, how do you know I'm not going to do exactly that? I love you, but you're cheating on the present moment. Don't do it for too long for the present moment is God. I have only experiences with weed and I can say that under the influence I am still the same me. Only the content changes, it becomes a higher frequency and I simply bask in that light. My whole body energy rejoices and I have nothing but love and happiness in my entire energy field. I don't own a car. I believe cars are a polluting the clean air mother Earth ? provides through trees. That's why I spend a lot of time in the park, meditating in clean air, no matter how cold. @doronshadmi Peace and love, brother, we are both having the human experience. It's hard. It's unfair. We have to find the Truth ourselves. I hope you read the whole thing and feel and fill your heart and pour emptiness in the mind.

Yes, I'm going to light a candle and pray that you get out of the past and future and recognize the isness

I already told you I am not going to tell the parents anything. Your inability to register my answer is a point set and match proof that you are stuck in some egoic pattern and don't want to let go. You think that this question is very deep? No it's not. I will say nothing to them. This is the answer. Silence is the language of God.

Fire was a metaphor. It means that your dislike of a thing is actually not because of that thing, but because of the way you and others perceive and use that thing. The problem is not in the thing, it's in the self. Look within because you're not making yourself any favors by being stuck in thought like that. Can you stop and listen to the sensations that arise instead? You will like it I swear

It's a really small problem you are targeting. Frankly it's like looking at a pool filled with junk and pointing to one piece of trash shouting and screaming that it's polluting the pool. There are much more problems in this world that can be thought of. There is also a way to transcend them. Target the root issue. The "I" thought is the root issue. Stop wasting valuable energy for your own sake. You're not going to make a difference by bitching about psychedelics anyway!!

Psychedelics and all other mind altering substances have to be used in a safe environment. They are about spiritual growth. Fire can burn down your home, but if you use it wisely, it will light it up. It doesn't mean fire is evil, it's how you use it!

No, I'm not going to tell them anything. I don't know these people

Anything can happen at any moment - we can speculate a lot of scenarios... That's why it's important to be grounded in the changeless. It's not about having some moral high ground, it's about your own peace of mind / from mind. What is is what is. Arguing against what is is a losing battle. In order to be on the winning side you have to be radically on the side of isness. Fight it externally if you want, but don't fight it internally holding the belief "this shouldn't be the way it is", because you are going to suffer needlessly. By all means defend your position, but what's important is the space from which you're doing so. It's all subjective. Perhaps the root of the issue here is that us humans have a negative belief about death. What if death is not the worst thing that can happen to you, but the best thing? Why have you assumed the worst? Perhaps if someone kills someone else's child, it was the biggest gift that the child could have received? I'm not saying it is true, but have you ever even been open to the possibility that you don't know what death is?

Yes, he is and the justice system will also find him guilty. This is the game we are playing and the game has rules. The dream character will be responsible and pay for his actions, until the dream character is no more.

This is the character in the story, who is the actual entity Nahm that you are referring to? Hint: Nahm has never been in the past or future, Nahm does not exist as story. The story is the dream! If you kill someone in your dream tonight, when you wake up are you going to beat yourself up?

Meaning the self that experiences is also experienced? To think of it, This is the reality always. The body (the self that experiences, aka Ego) is experienced and there's no experiencer to be found of the experiencer (body-mind). Just isness. Isness always wins!

I want to give you a potent pointer I heard from one of Eckhart's transmissions. It's the question: "How do I know that I have a body?" The answer to that question is the experience of being aware of the inner body. Just go to that and when you find yourself out of touch, perhaps daydreaming, use the simple question again to get you to the simple experience. Thought will definitely retaliate. You are moving the attention away and Ego knows it's days are numbered, so be attentive - your thoughts will try to make you forget about how good this state of no thought actually is.

I'd like to add something on number 3: I like seeing the letting go process more like a recognition that I can't hold on to anything in awareness for that long, so might as well just let it pass through without resisting. So we can realize letting go naturally occurs and no effort is required, but simply the allowing. Btw noticing the inner body is one of the most profound ways to raise your vibration. Your entire body and awareness meet. You are returning to your temple and healing it from within. You are absolutely merged and you feel the spaciousness feelings from within. It's a beautiful practice. The most advanced. Like reading, the more you do it, the more quality the results. Keep going, look no further for the Holy Grail, this is the place.

If you TRULLY want a risky career, you can try Poker ? The centering in the present moment and all spiritual practices turn the already beautiful game of Poker into Gold. It's a beautiful dance. It feels like I am playing with cheat codes, when I can just recede in myself and experience bliss while I perceive others are getting bored on the table and play way more hands than they should - making mistakes. In the toughest situations self inquiry and meditation have helped me remain calm and collected no matter what - no matter if I lose big. Instead of getting angry, i go deeper within. I bet this has made a big difference in my performance. Beautiful place to do both money and spiritual practice all at once. But you need to have experience in poker to be good.

@Ascend The silent knowing of your own being is there in any and all experience. Die to that one.

Wait one moment. Enlightenment is not to be achieved, Enlightenment is the reality of the situation right now for anyone willing to notice. Now, are you not the one knowing your experience? The one knowing the one who knows, or the one who doesn't know - that one is silently and eternally there and it's everyone's reality. So right now you are enlightened. Before one second and after one second you were/are no longer enlightened. Only now, not in the story of time can enlightenment be. ?

Sound is vibration, we are vibration, we are sound. But there is also God - The space of awareness for all these different vibrations to arise and be known.

This is the root - all experiences (sights, sounds, feelings, thoughts etc) appear in the same space of knowing. Notice they do not appear in different places. It is the same dimensionless point of awareness which contains all. Btw, this was one amazing performance

Trully extreme scepticists should be extremely sceptical even of extreme sceptisism!