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Equipment necessary: You (Your aware presence) and everything that within it. Boredom is a form of pain which many humans experience on a very regular basis. Since my definition of suffering is "continuous pain", boredom sometimes even becomes a form of suffering. It is then of great importance to know how to rid ourselves of this The downfall of boredom is that "being bored" is actually a very interesting phenomenon to observe. Once you put your attention on the boredom, and view it from a higher ground, consciously , it becomes small or insignificant and sometimes even interesting. One can say the moment you became interested in / started watching the boredom, you immediately removed the boredom since you are now interested in something. (you can't be really interested in something and be bored at the same time) So now since the boredom is gone what are we really observing? Did what we tried to observe even exist to begin with? Or did it just appear and disappear in the shadows? How can I become bored again if the state itself fascinates me so much? TLDR: Boredom defeated

Im sorry but to me this is not art. Or it's as much art as this picture. I love songs that have deep meaningful texts and nice tune, not some random word salad that pretends to be art.

is that even music, my ears are bleeding

Reality is under your nose. Past lives and multiverse exist as thought forms in your mind, no matter how grand and accurate of concepts they are, they are still the matrix.

Look, as long as he was breathing, I am happy with the amount of dead he was.

That "Dead" and "beaming with life" are my own projections is your own projection This game can be played forever. You know very well what it means if someone is dead inside. They are the opposite of enlightened. Perhaps a bad word was used by the OP to describe something different. If you see Eckhart Tolle you cannot say he is dead inside. You can say his ego is transparent, you cant say he is dead inside.

definitely not about the western "enlightenment" you're talking about. Clearly western society will have you believe enlightenment means you are a robot that is dead inside and can perform tasks very well. Stage yellow? Gimme a break. When you can know a tree is a bigger sage than most humans, then call me

And what about exploring boring ol' life without drugs? It's not like it's coming from anywhere other than God, but we are addicted to more interesting stuff.

This thread makes me laugh. He was dead inside lmao... I like people who are beaming with life. People such as Eckhart Tolle and Rupert Spira. People like Leo Gura.. Don't look for people who are dead inside roflmao. He isn't a sage.

lol

Thanks, its actually good for my wrists

I said Krishna 3 times and got a huge bonus on one casino game, then it stopped working and lost all ??

Im psychic enough to know you are not psychic. There needs to be evidence and I am not seeing it. If this is some sort of therapy then ok, but I don't see much value in bullshitting. Are you awareness? Yes and there's evidence. Are you psychic? You claim but there's no evidence. I also want to know what colour t-shirt I am wearing, if you get both mine and Nahms' colour, I will reconsider.

Don't just do something, stand there!

Ah, the projections thing is so this forum. I've had a lot of conversations here with this one ??

Hey, what video is this from? Lol lol lol

lol, lets note this is from "The Good Place" for those who haven't watched

The other day as I was falling asleep, suddenly I started seeing very clearly one old guy that I used to see walking on the streets. The guy never talks and always walks about asking people for cigarette. He hugged me one time when I gave him. He looks like he has learning disability and can't talk. So I hadn't seen him in a long time, but after I had these visions of him, out of the blue, the next day as I was going home from the park, guess what! I saw him, walking around, asking people for cigarettes. He looked at me, and usually he comes to ask me, but this time he walked away. As if... He knew something? I'm spooked! But in a happy way

Today I had some funny experience again from Today. Its really windy over here in London. I went outside in the morning and saw this yellow plastic ball exactly as I went outside the shop, it went right in front of my feet as I exited the shop so I kicked it around a bit, but at one point the wind took it away... So I continued on my way, I went to have a walk in the park, came back and on my way home, through another street, I see the same ball. It was tossed by the wind here there and everywhere, and it came again to me. I had to pick it up and bring it home. I wonder what it means if anything.

yes being fearless is stupid. Having the fear and the courage to overcome it on the other hand is what makes a professional human being (overcome here doesnt mean the fear goes away, but you are OK with the fear being there and it does not affect you) Dodo birds were fearless.

@StarStruck I think everyone on this forum would agree that "being" is the truth with no opposite. However, Being while you have your nips twisted in a purple nurple and Being next to a river meditating have some difference in quality Everyone should fear torture.

**How can we describe consciousness** Perhaps a better question is: *What is consciousness* or *What am I* I see many people/thinkers/philosophers who try to describe consciousness, with means that don't stem from a direct investigation of consciousness, but from mind and what the Ego thinks consciousness is. Those are doomed to be theoretical and full of errors, since the mind is not infinite enough to grasp something that is not an object of experience. To really know the answer all you have to do is turn attention away from all objects of experience and notice the empty field of awareness / consciousness which allows all experience to be known here and now. It's rather practical and everyone can do this. Requires no beliefs, interpretations or guessing. You have a front row seat when it comes to being able to investigate consciousness, because you *are* consciousness in your deepest essence. Putting it on a paper will be harder than realizing what it is. I guess to answer the question, in written form, I would have to try my best to describe in words that in which the words themselves (and everything else which exists) appear: (attempt) Consciousness is an ever present, effortlessly self-aware field of being, with no form, no size, no qualities whatsoever - in order to allow all qualities to exist within it. Just like a screen needs to be transparent in order to allow all varieties of colors and forms to be shown within it. **It is not an object of experience, it is that which allows objects of experience to be known.** I see people trying to approach to answer the question by viewing consciousness as just another object, like Mind or Body. But if we look at our experience, consciousness is not perceived as you perceive thoughts, images, perceptions and other objects of experience. *Consciousness is not something which can be seen, smelled, touched, thought, derived etc.*, but you can verify that it is there by asking yourself the question *"Am I conscious?/Am I aware?"*, you cannot know consciousness by any kind of objective qualities, which is where the mind fails and this becomes the "hard problem of consciousness". But it isn't hard at all. It's 0 itself, but 0 and infinity are hard problems for the Mind. When in reality zero is the simplest thing. To know consciousness one has to relax their focus from objects and see what remains. If consciousness is viewed as an object, then the investigation is already poisoned and will not yield the right result.

Yes, an even funnier statement is: " Consciousness does not exist, but everything exists in it."

but the idea here is that you cant find it as you find other things, because it doesn't have objective qualities, not even subtle ones.