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More on Light vs Darkness: Luke and the father (Vader) are One

@Water by the River The God/Goddess/Spirit references remind me of this video

Here is a soft example of light vs darkness, but there are far more serious examples out there. The cop was not full on darkness, but if his ego was bigger and there were no cameras, you know how things can turn. The black man is a righteous man, a truthful man. Sometimes those in position of power can abuse it, just like a wasp against a bee.

While that is true, the game doesn't end there, it begins. There is still the fight or dance between the light and the darkness. How can we use the knowing of Noself to be lightbringers into the world full of darkness? Bees vs Wasps. Bees are hardworking and Good. Wasps are cheaters, strong, overpowering. They steal and plunder, kill the bees and take their hard earned fruits by force. Yes both are within Consciousness, but one of the species is destructive and aggressive, while the other is honorable and hardworking. I know many instances in my life when I've unconsciously fed Evil. As a child I used to catch lightbugs and feed them to spiders. I just enjoyed it. We need to use Source to convert darkness into light. Black holes into quasars. Negative to positive. I think this is where Jesus Christ comes in the equation

@Water by the River strong pointers brother, props

@Ahbapx Try this meditation, be as you are, perhaps sit and close your eyes for less distractions. Ofcourse this can be done while eyes open and even moving about, you will just have more objects of experience to be with. Whatever thoughts feelings sensations arise, let them be there but be more interested in what knows those. Once you get an answer as to what knows all those, keep being interested in what knows that answer, dont take the answer as the Truth. The truth is constant. if you had to paint the knower of your experience, the literal knower, not the known, would you even need to strike a single brush stroke? The sky is already there, even when there are clouds, but we must not focus on the clouds as the truth, because clouds are temporary. Sky is the eternal Truth. This is another analogy. To begin understanding emptiness/nothingness/consciousness, try thinking in your mind about the smallest object, a point. What is a point? It has 0 dimensions, it actually is not an object, we think of it as an object, but if you really had to represent a real point in reality, you don't have to add ink at all. The point is nothingness, you let go of the tiny image of a point, and what remains? Only the entire page! The page didn't have to be drawn! Now that you know the point covers the entire page, anything you draw on the page is smaller than a point! Paradoxical, the smallest thing suddenly is the largest thing.

My friend you are theorising. You say some good things about the no effort recognition and then your mind swoops in! You dont get how close and how far you are at the same time. Its like talking to someone who gets it and doesnt get it at the same time! You equate consciousness to self. But it is the NoSelf. The Higher self. The Isness that is Universal, not just for your mind. Its the same for the ants, the same for the bees, the same for the crows, the same for the trees. Perhaps its a mystery how consciousness arises, because it doesn't arise. Perhaps it is always there, like the canvas of a grand painting. Some say Truth is way too simple, it gets overlooked and handwaved as not important. Slow down! The effortless knowing bit, start to get interested in what that is, experientially. Some say, Marinate in the Truth.

Lets take the duality Subject -> object. Subject is the one that knows, object is the one that is known. Being conscious of consciousness itself is the pinacle of enlightenment. You are being conscious that you are conscious of mind, you are still looking at an object, even if it is subtle. How does the subject become aware of itself? How does the subject see itself as an object? The analogy of the eye is good way to point to this. The moment consciousness looks for itself and turns around, it still is the observer and not the observed, its still on the other side of what is observed. To be aware of awareness or conscious of consciousness is like knowing being itself, without an object being beinged. I dont know how to explain it better. Its like being aware of emptiness. No Mind can grasp that. Your problem is you Think, you cant think about consciousness. Consciousness is that which knows the thinking. Whether you think X Or Y, the same consciousness knows it. Whatever the object of knowing, the subject remains the same. You can say "I have consciousness" or you can say "I am consciousness", both of these thoughts arise in what? Consciousness. Deep sleep is the experience of no mind and no world, there that non experience arises in what? Consciousness. Ofcourse its an experience of nothing, and the subject itself remains, but the subject itself cannot see itself. Thats why you think you stop being conscious during deep sleep, but in fact you are just conscious of nothing during that time. Not even your mind and self, just pure consciousness, source.

Conscious steps, thats so important. We dont realise we run on autopilot and do repetetive activities... walk the same roads, do th same things over and over. Creatures of habit

Listen to this song while changing the context to what the title suggests. Then think about Jesus and His sacrifice. God proved that he loves humans. Glory be to God. Lets not betray His trust in us, and try to be our best selves. Collectively we can achieve enlightenment and be the worthy Humans God wants us to be. The change starts with you and me. Don't let it be empty words and promises. Follow through as God's child. The stronger your desire to sin, the bigger the achievement. It's easy to be a saint if you have no sinful selfish desires. You are free to choose your path and you can turn around at THIS moment, or at least stop for a second and ask yourself, are you going on autopilot, or are you awake. Let's make God proud.

This is the ego games we play, there is always going to be someone bigger if you're trying to be big. Its never enough. How about wanting the opposite, fighting for the opposite, to be as small as possible.. not many are on that queue,everyone is pushing for egoic pleasures, the spiritual line is quite empty. Notice how in some Asian culture, people bow to each other, every one of them acknowledges the other as superior to them.

They are definitely more magical than hands, its all my hands think about 👐

But it makes no sense to me, if your hands were perfectly normal then.. how did you know ur dreaming xD. The idea is that if your hand turns to elephant trunk or anything else crazy you know its dream instantly as its your own hand and you know it well. Usually we dont spot crazy things as crazy in a dream because our logical part of mind is sleeping, but when its your own hand, it works.

Did you flip them back to front? Would be surprised. My hands appeared to have fins at best and turned into elephant trunk another time. Its the best way to find out you're dreaming (lucid dreaming) interesting you were lucid without checking your hands, this only happened to me when I was younger, natural lucid dreams. In this thread I talk about these thinfs

First off hands are a fibonacci ratio masterpiece. Therr is fibonacci all over our bodies. If you measure different proportions on your hand you will get the golden ratio. They are so complex that if you look at your hand during a dream back to front, it wont be able to get generated properly and will turn into something else

Thats a common misconception. In deep sleep there is no mind. Consciousness does not cease. People here keep equating consciousness to Mind. You have to be open to the possibility that you don't understand what consciousness is. Mind wants to know everything. The eye cannot see itself. Consciousness sees Mind Body and Soul, but it cant turn around and see itself. Only objects can be perceived, consciousness cannot be perceived. Don't think you know what consciousness is! Ever heeard that enlightenment is not an experience? Thats definitely not what the mind wants to hear. We want trumpets

I know, I said this to Razard also. When we talk about paradoxical subject with words, we are bound to contradict ourselves. Youve probably heard spiritual teachings that contradict themselves. This is not a conversation for minds, you agree that male and female are different? You want to be both? Separation and diversity is natural part for Life. All united under consciousness. Duality is the creation of nonduality, opposition, play of form. The creation is not the creator. If there is no creation, there is no creator. If the creation is the creator, then was anything really created?

Just to understand my point, I equated mind to male and heart/being to female, because mind is duality and the other is nonduality, the exact polar opposites. Mind Is Duality, you can't have nonduality in the Mind. Mind is a tool designed to divide. It is useful to divide, I am not saying to scrap the mind, im saying its not the Absolute.

Perhaps you think I am trying to argue for arguments sake, im not. The male female duality/polarity is very interesting to observe. The two couldn't be more different. In my personal opinion mind is not consciousness. Being is consciousness, if you don't like the word Heart. You know all that, everyone here knows that. The mind's last attempts at taking back the reigns! Why do you think You are immune to zen devilry? I certainly am not immune, I am only trying to be as honest as possible. What do we say about the state of No Mind. Consciousness ceases to be? If Consciousness IS whether mind or no mind, then it is not Mind, even if Mind can say they are the same. The Canvas IS. Mind is at best like a white or transparent ink on the canvas trying to pretend its the canvas. Mind is not eternal, and we should be happy for this. Ps: listen to the John Lennon video, it's amazing.

Mind trying to take advantage of the innocence of the Heart by being sneaky, what's new! Male principle trying to overpower the female principle, nothing new.

Mind thinks, Heart knows Mind judges, Heart forgives Mind is relative, Heart is absolute.

Ha! Wouldn't that be the ego's dream.

Mind is not consciousness Heart is consciousness

You can lift up a rock and split a stick in two. I don't see reality as a dream, I don't like the analogy. Mind trying to enforce its ideas on boundless consciousness. In a dream i can lift up a car, I have been even spiderman in a dream. In this reality I am a human, I am not designed to lift up cars, but I can do other things.