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Ramu, you helped me the exact moment I needed it most. My mind got so still. Like a ? baby, relaxing. I had space to actually think real good things! And then recharge again. It's like maintenance of gear. You're actually doing A LOT by sitting still in meditation alone. But no one needs to know. It's our little secret.

I can say things one on one better when nobody else is listening. Secrets are real, they aren't an illusion! Because they happen. Secrets ARE. But nobody knows about them. I'f you keep them to yourself. AND TRUTH IS, because I AM IT

In this moment I'm in heaven, I don't care about the next, because the next moment doesn't exist. There is simply continuity. There is only one actual moment and it's INFINITE SOURCE.

Well ofcourse, brother. You've helped me accelerate my spiritual practice by learning that I am not the body and the body is a projection of my imagination. But I am nowhere to be found. No one can catch me. I love you Ramu, thank you, the practice is just so direct, that its instant recognition on an experiential level. It's absolutely beautiful. It is IT.

Got an insight from the talk about shit. You can be non judgemental about actual shit, but that don't mean you're going to eat it ? So you can be non-judgmental towards other people's opinions but that dont mean you need to agree with them

@Ramu is very understanding on this, we had PMs about headlessness long ago. I got a great amount of guidance and reassurance from talking to Ramu.

My viewpoints : You don't stop being when you're doing. You are resting in being even when there is thought and action. You just don't recognise, because the being becomes more transparent to accommodate the action, to give it the attention it requires to exist. To find trust, you need to find the courage to be who you are, while the rest takes care of itself. You say come what may, but I am going to be present now and accepting of whatever comes. Trust is there with complete surrender. If you're still in the driving seat and think you control life, there can't be surrender and there can't be trust. Peace!

I love the body mind, as long as I am not it

Definitely, i got into spirituality because I wanted to escape the body. It worked (Not fat, but other problems) I didn't want to be who I am, so it was good to re-examine who I am in fact...

Spiritual maths. That's what we need when we talk truth. I like how you also outline this is a map. And as Leo say, the map is not the territory, we should all be living these equations and check their validity! <3

Yes, the only way to cheat on reality is to live in the past and the future. Because reality is exclusively now. Radically now. More now than I can ever think about.

Reality is nothing but the dream of cause and effect. As a character in the dream you can be outraged if someone calls your only reality a dream. Good thing you are not the character

I am the matrix. Why u live inside me and not paying me rent ?

Amnesia cannot happen to you, because there is nothing to remember. It's all here now. How can you forget the now? It's right here. Close. Closer than close in fact, but we're lost in a lower frequency of the Ego sometimes, a fearful entity, a non-joyful entity :). Ego is believing in past and future, because only now exists. Past and future which seem so real to you are simply your gift from your highest self. It is perfect the way it is.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA That was a projection on my part, you were the screen

If Krishna mantra don't work for you, nothing will (:

I see what you mean. I see dreams as finding out who I trully am. In a dream you are most yourself. You are so close to yourself. The way you are in a dream shows your inner true self.

Say yes to the moment and then you might even enjoy it.

4. Awareness is not an I identity. It is that in which all entities and appearant forms arise. You are not going to see it as something in awareness, because it is the space for the experiences you are referring to. Tbh your observations are completely true, there is no separate you observing experience. Here are some contemplative questions which may get you to recognise what I'm referring to when I speak of Consciousness/Awareness What allows all the stream of experiences /perceptions to be? What is underneath? What is reality based on? This is the presence that cant be seen, but is always there. If we even supposed it's not there sometimes, then there would not be experiencing and we go to the type of question : if a tree falls and nobody is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Answer is irrelevant for one.

I don't think this is the case at all unless you were being sarcastic ?? I think I am considered as one of the zen devil jokers most of the time ?

1. Who knows. Mind is the entity that is built on beliefs and thoughts and has built this I, which we refer to as Ego. For example if someone spits on you, that I, the mind, gets hurt. "Why you doing this to ME??" 2. Colour blue and colour red are in fact the same thing, they are both vibrations, interpreted by the mind differently. Also you can think about looking at light: It contains a rainbow of colours. Imagine those colours arguing with each other, saying they are separate, when in fact they are all one light. 3. Isn't that what we are all looking for. Who am I? The answer is awareness itself. Listen. There is no separate you. But there is You. 4. That's just silly. Are you not aware of your own presence?

I think sometimes we need to speak about Ego Integration and not about Enlightenment. In my view all the consciousness work is for Ego Integration, making the Ego into Truth. Everyone is already enlightened and at the same time, there is infinite amount of work to be done to align to the highest self, which we cannot not be.

Hehehehehe, even unenlightened are enlightened, Shin, you should've known!! Hehe the depths of presence are infinite, I would be a fool to drop consciousness work. Enlightenment is only the start!!

Here is an part from the latest one. But the course is mostly videos of Eckhart speaking. It's the same as looking at youtube, but I have watched almost all his vids on there. 1. Is there space? Eckhart continually reminds us of this important question. As you’re engaged in your daily activities, remember to occasionally ask yourself whether you’re “bringing space” to the situation or if the mind has absorbed your attention completely. Greater alertness is usually the first sign that you’re in touch with this portal to Presence. 2. Make time for the present moment: Eckhart suggests that you set aside a little bit of time in your day for experiencing the power of the present moment. These “naturally occurring moments of cessation of activity” can be found whenever you’re asked to wait (e.g., at the doctor’s office), at the end of your day, or any time you’re not immersed in “doing.” Explore these opportunities for deepening Presence throughout your day. 3. Listen to music or use sound to enter the Now: Certain types of music lend themselves to entering stillness. Eckhart offers guidance in listening to music and sound—and the spaces between the sounds—as a way to access Presence. Listen to this musical excerpt by Tibetan flutist Nawang Khechog from Eckhart Tolle’s Music to Quiet the Mind—or choose some of your own music for listening practice—and pay close attention to the “gaps” that can open our awareness to the formless dimension. @The Universe adding two more: 4. Breath awareness: Eckhart often describes the beautiful practice of becoming aware of your breathing. Set aside time to explore your own breath and see what unfolds for you. Throughout your day, you can also incorporate “one conscious breath”—as taught in Session One—as often as you wish. 5. Inner body awareness: The energy of the body is “not yet form as such,” teaches Eckhart, and is therefore a bridge between the physical form of the body and its formless source. As Eckhart suggests, the practice of inner body awareness is a way of exploring “the unmanifest”—and can become extremely helpful in turbulent situations.

To be sure of something is a quality of mind. The one that is sure or unsure is the mind. You're thinking like a lawyer. You are right from the point of view of a human entity. You are separating consciousness from form, yet have you any evidence, if you are going to lawyer about, of there even being such a thing as form? Isn't all you have of form just the perception of it, awareness of it? So the only thing in fact we have first hand evidence of right now is that we are aware, not claiming who we are even, we know we are aware. What we are aware of is just perception in awareness. Whether awareness can be aware of itself? Sure! If you know you are aware, that is awareness being aware of itself. Why? Because what is so subtle to be aware of awareness, other than awareness? How can something other than awareness be aware? It's ridiculous. "What I was saying is that you cannot be sure that consciousness/you won't cease to exist when the body dies" This is not important. One has to inquire into who they are actually. There's no point talking about consciousness like you understand what it is. The mind wants to understand, of course, but how do you stand under that which is formless, but always true (this is contradictory by nature, so the mind will fail every time).