Salvijus

A small taste of when a north pole flips over. That will be fun.

Yoo, that was sick.

If awareness is only the appearance, then what is observing that appearance?

There are other ways to look funny while also being charming. This one is the opposite of charming. I say no. 👎

Jealousy is a belief that there's something that you're missing while sitting on the throne of God. Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose. Anxiety is like revving the gas pedal while the gear is still in neutral. Playing a victim is an effort to manipulate the outcome while giving away your true power. Insecurity is the fear of being nothing. Judgement is an attempt to kill what you believe has no right to exist. Fear is a ghost. You reach towards it and it dissappears. Holding a grudge is like carrying a rotten fish as a badge of justice. Boredom is the ultimate smugness.

What about awareness?

Idk, I personally still believe in those states. Even the state where all seeking ends I imagine to be pretty dope, magical and intense. Not just small relaxation that you get from something like a massage, haha.

That's where the notion that "nondual realization makes no changes to your behavior" crumbles imo. I imagine there's a huge difference between how an ignorant and illumined mind behaves, how fear versus love behaves. How clinging versus trust and faith behaves etc. And not all nondual teachers acknowledge that as far as I know. Many of them think there is no change at all. That never made sense to me tbh.

This is where I have beef with some of the nonduality teachers(except gangaji and J. krishnamurti.) My logic tells me that we behave as we perceive ourselves. If we perceive ourselves in lack and seperation(unawareness, ignorance), we will generate seeking energy to fill that sense of lack. If we percieve ourselves as not lacking anything at all(truth, enlightenment, realization), our behavior will be no longer about self grasping but just an extension of joy that radiates through you. And that's a big shift in behavior and state of mind imo.

Maybe this. ²The ego always seeks to divide and separate. ³The Holy Spirit always seeks to unify and heal. (https://acim.org/acim/en/s/110#5:2-3 | T-7.IV.5:2-3)

What do you think causes this seeking energy to come up?

If seeking continues, doesn't that mean that the realization of the futility of seeking hasn't sinked in yet? The realization that seeking is futile would result in the end of seeking would make sense imo.

It sounds like if the doing were to stop, you'd be in a state of perfect presence and there would be no ego left, just a nondual experience of everything.

I follow what you're saying, yea, that was a good analogy.

I see, words can be confusing when different people use them in different ways. But I think i follow what you're saying. I'm gonna go to sleep 😴. 🙏 Sudiev.

It seems to me that you're saying: this nondual recognition will happen when the seeker is seen as an illusion. But don't you need awareness to have that insight? It seems like awareness is responsible for this revalation to happen in the end. My common logic says: no matter how deep the insight/revalation/recognition is, it has to be the awareness that makes that insight. How else could it be.

It seems to me, in order to have the insight that the I AM is an illusion, there needs to be a deeper awareness that makes that recognition. But it's still awareness. It's still the I AM. I wonder if that makes sense.

That's a really interesting quote. Yea I've missed that one. I don't know what to make of it atm. Let me ask a question tho, if you don't mind. If you became aware that I Am is an illusion, isn't that just deeper awareness? Aren't you still the one who is concious and having this insight?

Oh I see your logic now. I guess the common advaita counter argument would be "but who watches conciousness appearing and disappearing? Does that one appear and disappear?" Basically implying that there should be some primordial space that holds everything, even conciousness. Mmmm... I don't know what to make of it.

Mm... That's a strange one. Haven't you heard teachers say that the I am is a formless and infinite and that it's our true nature? It seems like becoming formless and infinite is the whole point of nonduality. Maybe you're exposed to different material idk. I've always heard I AM being described as enlightenment basicly.

I mean but it works, abiding in the I AM conciousness is what eventually brakes the egoic patterns of judgement and gets replaced with the I AM pattern. The I AM is a non judgemental energy and that energy needs to be embodied into every cell in the body until there is no egoic pattern left. It's not the person that is undoing the judgments. It's the I AM presence that is undoing the person.

Someone who would be capable of unconditional love for everyone is probably super rare. But it's definitely possible to undo judgement through prayer and forgiveness or meditation. Whenever we notice a judgment arise we can enter communion with the holy spirit and allow it to correct our perception. I experience that daily. Many people do. Each time our judgments get corrected it bridges the gap from seperation closer to nonduality. But it's still a long walk. Feels like an endless walk maybe, who knows. There's people pleasing that serves God. And there's people pleasing that serves the ego. The second one is obviously not cool but it's not easy to tell the difference I guess. This is where asking the question "what do I truly want" becomes important and listening to the answer that gently reveals inside your heart. Then the true heart's impulse (or the holy spirit) fills the mind with the most appropriate action to take at the given situation. This topic has so many nuances I feel.

If you have bias towards one race more than another, I think that falls under the catagory of racism. But then you have to admit that the whole world without exception is racists lol. Racism is just a dumb topic tbh.

Interesting thing is that if you were to accept her, you'd get closer to nonduality than ever before. That's the beauty of acim methadology. In fact, no amount of practice, meditation or nondual phylosophy will ever get someone to oneness unless they remove the walls of judgement that create the perception of seperation. How simple yet how much resistance at the same time.

What do you hope to achieve through that experience? Nondual experiences won't replace the need for the daily, balanced, concious, wise lifestyle, if your goal is to have a gracefilled, smooth, enjoyable life. Really those experiences are of no consequence whatsoever. "Total bs" is what I like to call them.