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The experiencer: Awareness, no form, nothing. The experienced: What I am aware of in the present moment, currently including but not limited to being a body-mind living in a world of form, my present moment everything. The experiencer is real, but nothing - Yin The experienced is a dream, but everything - Yang The experiencer and the experienced are one - Yin Yang

Before going to sleep? Do you mean while going to sleep? Well, it usually starts with a visualisation (anything) and I hold continuous awareness on the empty seer, which is me. When time I did this few days ago I experienced flashes of light and later in sleep paralysis I experienced the weirdest freakiest super real thing of my sheets moving as if they are alive

I like self enquiry while going to sleep. What better time to see who you are than when you are free to completely let go of all your tensions etc. I find the previous posts quite helpful, I'll also incorporate some of those things before a formal sitting.

I find myself hugging trees and placing my hand on them, feeling their immense being. Also my hands feel so tiny compared to their magnitude. Teach me stillness trees, love you

I want to give 10 reputations...

I recently feel tingling around that area. I've done quite a bit if third eye meditation that Prab posted above. But had recently stopped it due to fear of hell.

May I suggest that you are always aware effortlessly. You are just not aware that you are aware usually. As Leo mentioned, as you go deeper in self-enquiry you will find that awareness is actually no thing or nothing. Now isn't that fucking interesting????? That, which knows everything in your experience, you, is nothing... Now that's trully worth investigating further.. What could be more interesting?? Something that at the same time is and is nothing. Like wtf, this is sooooooooo interesting and what's best about it, its always there for you to contemplate, because it is you.

I saw this one couple days ago. It's new http://www.collective-evolution.com/2017/07/29/stunningly-complex-new-crop-circle-appears-in-cley-hill-warminster-july-18-2017/

Do you think crop circles are trying to communicate something?

I love my mudras, I had bought a nice set of mudra cards and been doing them for like two months now. I'm going to check out and learn some more from the link you posted, thanks!

I teared up a little today when watching the first episode of a kid's show called "Dogstar". "After thousands of years of wars, pollution, undrinkable water and silly cartoon shows, humans are forced to leave Earth and move everything and everyone to a new planet: New Earth. But not everything goes to plan when the Dogstar, a giant space ark containing all of the world's dogs, becomes lost in space. On New Earth, the evil Bob Santino makes his fortune selling canine replacement units, Robogs, and plots to ensure the Dogstar is never found. But the Clark kids desperately miss their real dog, Hobart, and begin a quest through space to find the Dogstar - with Bob in hot pursuit."

Hi Waterfall. You seem far too deep in spirituality for depression to have a soil to grow in. Don't worry. Watch it play its course, in the meantime go deeper into who you are. There's infinite depth to nothingness. It is everything. You are everything.

"The great science of living happy is to live only in the present." -Pythagoras

My translation of some profound Giordano Bruno quotes I just found in a Bulgarian book of wisdom quotes (If you have the originals, please share): "If the world has an end and beyond it there is nothing, then I ask: Where is the world? Where is that which encompasses? What shall you accept beyond the world? If you say: There's nothing there - then heaven and earth are located in nothing, therefore they are not located anywhere." "Everything is in everything" "The world is a greatness, which has everywhere it's center and circumference."

As I was going to sleep yesterday an was "resting as awareness" I saw two short glimpses of intense light, as if I hit a spot where a light bulb switched on for a moment?! After this I was dreaming something... Or was I? I became more and more aware that I am half asleep in bed and while still with closed eyes I felt everything was moving, as if it was alive. My sheets were moving and also it felt like I was trying to get outside of my body. It felt too weird and scary so I opened my eyes and everything returned to normal. I swear this all felt super paranormal and real. Oh boy! Anyone had similar experiences? Ps: Also now out of nowhere these lyrics are stuck in my head: "I keep going to the river to pray, cause I need something that can wash all the pain..." without listening to it recently. Last night I did fall in a spontaneous prayer in front of one Jesus statuette at home asking to know who I am and to be forgiven... Wow.. This trip to Bulgaria is getting interesting from day 1.

The peaceful warrior is one of the first books about spirituality that I have read, it was awesome.

Awareness means to know, but not only to know /something/. It means to know the presence (existence) /of something/. I have not made the clear connection between the two until today after contemplating my experience and re-watching a ton of Rupert Spira videos. Inspiration for the following hit me in the shower - then it must be good! When we say, "I am aware of something" we are actually saying "I know the presence of something in my present field of perception" In the following: { } indicates subject (perceiver); [ ] indicates object (perceived); <=> means equivalent {I} am aware of [a tree] <=> {I} know the presence of [a tree] {I} am aware of [thoughts] <=> {I} know the presence of [thoughts] {I} am aware of [sensations] <=> {I} know the presence of [sensations] etc.. And now the good part, which is important to be practiced through various self enquiry methods: {I} am aware <=> {I} know a presence (when not moving out toward an object) {I} am aware of awareness <=> {I} know the presence of a knowing presence (no object) {I} am awareness <=> {I} am a {knowing presence} (no object) If you prove that you are a knowing presence within your self enquiry, you have proven that you are awareness. Now be who you are. Do you know experientially the presence of a knowing presence in your experience right now? Yes, I'm talking to you, Atman!

@The White Belt SE London

I'll be there in my essence

Well it's not the same problem here, but I think it might be helpful @cetus56

Furthermore, solving this same question through different techniques and getting the same answer checks and verifies the absolute truth-ness of the answer. It's not like it is relative that 5+5 = 10. It is 10 for everyone, even if they believe otherwise. What all non-duality practises and devotional practises are pointing to is the same placeless place. The true solution of our being. Nobody else has to verify the answer for me to know it is right exactly in the same way I didn't need someone to verify to me that the answer to this simple mathematical equation is -13 : I am able to use different true/correct methods to check the answer again and again just to be absolutely sure I did not make a mistake. If the answer fails in any of the checks, it's not true. If it is consistent, it's true until proven otherwise. Innocent until proven guilty

"Oh! Ok, I was asleep that whole time. Ok, now I understand, I was asleep. Thank you for waking me up." - mystery quote (anyone knows where it's from?). The silliest thing keeps repeatedly showing in my awareness again and again when I drift into unconscious thought. My ego has been hurt. What a miracle. My ego was trying to play dead. Thank God for events, people and situations that test the validity of that trickster Ego. Oh boy, am I glad for learning self enquiry. Whenever something bad happens to this body+mind now, I am able to clearly see this idea I have, the ME entity that is getting the "SHORTEST STICK AGAIN!!! >.< " and etcetera... The ME that is "NEVER LUCKY" (roflmao), the ME that "WILL SHOW THEM ONE DAY" and most notably, the ME that "KNOWS/WILL KNOW THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH" or whatever. I can see that it's a battle going on in the mind. The battle is between mirage and real. Which will be victorious? Which one am I? Could I be both? All I know is nothing the mind can tell me or show me can be IT. I Love You, Thank You.

What social media and mathematics have showed me again and again... The popular answer is not always (in the case of facebook change "not always" to "almost never") the right one. You have to do the calculation for yourself and not rely on the masses. Have to make sure to learn the foundations on how to get to the truth, however, from a trusted source - in the specified case that would be to learn BODMAS rule or simply do it the long way (3 - 3 -3 -3 -3 -3 -3 + 2). We learn various techniques from the teachers, but then we have to do the calculation and we have to be certain that we have nailed the foundations down to know we are getting the truth. All this translates to spirituality. I love Maths, it is the true science.

I find your inability to drop your cats disturbing..