Dodo

I had a dream in which I was at the magic mushroom gathering that I will be attending this year. I was called, it was my turn. They took me to a room, gave me a portobello mushroom sandwich (xD) and told me to take my time. I smelled the mushrooms before the lady went outside the room and I told her: Wow, as if even the smell is getting me closer to who I am. I ate the sandwich and two extra mushrooms that were fallen off.

I just realized I am flying out on Sunday. Lol, I was too busy contemplating the Self I forgot. Time to pack my bags.

From youtube comment section:

@cetus56 I just watched this video with Adyashanti and this reminded me of our conversation about whether nothingness can be aware. Starting 11:11 (lol synchronicity), it's interesting to contemplate.

Adyashanti talks about nothingness and who we are.

Btw I knew that as I was writing it. It's not a problem. When I said everything, it included my post. My post was not silence. Or maybe it was ?

Whoa bro, stop with this dogma I've said this before, say it again, the only way this infinite cycle can be broken is through silence. Everything we say can be considered dogma if need be LOL

Oh, I'd so want to go to Rupert Spira event.. Omg! Please give info if you have anything particular

I will most likely be there. Thanks for showing me this. It's 1hr away from where I live.

Remembering a very particular type of dreams I used to have in the past... I was this small light, superhero. I was fighting the most evil of evils and I always won. I was too small for the villains to see me, too quick to catch me. Were those dreams...? Most likely! But maybe the do hint at something deeper that my subconscious was trying to bring forward.

@Mert I am in a similar boat. Watched this video today in the morning (it found me) This whole video is love

Well, I liked it at first, but then it hit me. If we gotta practise unconditional love, it's not the true unconditional love. The true one probably has to be uncovered or noticed (like awareness) , not practised or achieved.

I don't know either about this. But seems more plausible based on my current experience. By the way don't get me wrong, the hallucination bit is awesome. Here's my problem. If the brain is hallucinating everything and brain exist, who is hallucinating the brain in the first place? We will go back to nothingness every time no? This is the same as finding a God out there or the beginning of the universe.

Yes, if there is such a thing in the first place. Maybe it proves the use of conscious nothingness.

I somehow connect the sound of the breath to a frequency that is like the default melody of the human being. Maybe it's something I read or it's just intuitive, I don't know.

Here I am thinking we don't believe in brains here... This is truly most interesting to me. This is not the circlejerk I used to know and love. But seriously tho... Do you believe in brain? Why does this have so many reps? Isn't this video just monkey-mind in science religion cloak?

I agree. However I want to open at least the possibility of ultimate truth existing. Perhaps the ultimate trully does not exist for us as humans, but aren't we here on this forum exactly because we want to dive deeper and see who we trully are behind the human facade and see what is true from fully being who we trully are? My uneducated guess is that this would be what people call Enlightenment. For some diving deep and bashing their heads at impossible tasks can be considered fun! :-D

Dodo is extinct! The joke aside, here is an insight I got from this conversation to anyone that is interested. I think it was very constructive and the insight is pretty obvious and easy to follow. If the truth is relative, that means there are "Who's". So truth is relative only if we are talking Egos. If the true self is no self, then truth cannot possibly be relative, because there is nothing to relate to, so it becomes ultimate. But then there's no-one who can come on Actualised.org forum and write a forum post about it ? This means that no point of view (relative truth) is the ultimate truth. It also means that no "Who" knows or can know the ultimate truth, because then this truth will be relative to them. Maybe I'm talking crap? To me it sounds true, however it's only relative, so obviously not the ultimate :-D I think it can be a pointer to the ultimate tho :).

Yeah we can say both are right, we can also say both are wrong, right? That's why Dodoster thinks this is so tricky, because people like to stop at "Include everything" as a mental concept, whereas that means to be rejecting the opposite of "include everything". No-one can be all inclusive and accepting of viewpoints, but the no-one itself. Dodoster doesn't know. It just feels like a no brainer - pun intended Maybe that's why the stress is always on Practise and not theory, because theory can go on forever and nobody is ultimately wrong or right (maybe I'm wrong or right) . But @Principium Nexus strikes Dodoster as more evolved than him, so Dodoster assumes that @Principium Nexus knows this and therefore Dodoster is confused as to why he is still writing this.

Dodoster's guess is that Dodoster is probably a figment of nothingness' imagination.

Incorrect assumptions about what Dodoster is expressing with all this. It's ok. Shanmugam is taking a piece out of a whole conversation, taking it out of context. Dodoster has no time for explanations. Yes, it is a circle of hypocrisy. Dodoster is only worried that Loreena is not seeing it in herself while you she is pointing it out in others. It's ok if Loreena does see it in herself. Now she can grow. That's why Dodoster thinks silence is the only solution to the circle of hypocrisy. PS: To clarify, Loreena's posts are trashing Dodoster's perspective, because Dodoster's posts are trashing Loreena's perspectives. Loreena should read her posts as if they are directed towards herself and she will see that they are self-defeating. @Loreena

@Loreena All I want to point out is that those people you are pointing out as dogmatic operate under the same standard as you do. Every person is dogmatic. Only no-person can be free of dogma. I'm not attacking you, i don't get why you're pointing out the things you're pointing out about my statements. Every person thinks their truth is the true truth, that's why they defend what they think they know. Have you experienced that there are only relative truths or do you believe that? Your defensive energy streaming through your posts shows me that you have not.

It can be called correct and I showed you how it can also be called incorrect, because saying everything is relative is an absolute statement. This is far beside the point I was raising however. I was pointing out clear as daylight that someone who claims to not have problem with accepting other perspectives, does not accept the perspective which is trashing without error their perceived unshakable truth. In this case it's @Loreena but im sure Ive done this as well. These are just examples of why the person needs to go.

Beliefs are lies and should be removed. Ofcourse I will be sceptical of them. I'm on the search for truths, not beliefs. "I know nothing" "I know something" "I know everything" All those are beliefs if there is no I in the first place. But these statements sneakily imply that there is an I, as if it is true. So while we are thinking about what we know or not know, we rarely look at the one who is supposed to know or not know. I highly hope it's not the case here on this forum ofcourse, that's what self enquiry is for. @Principium Nexus

I was not claiming earlier in this post to be accepting of all perspectives just to prove I was lying when put to the test. Either that or you were just giving advice/wisdom which you do not follow. This incident is only one example which shows how the person is inconsistent.