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You should focus on the owner of the thought!! In other words, the 'I' thought. Arranging thought in the matter of order the "i" thought is the all-important thought. Seek its source, and all other thought will vanish. When you sit to do self-inquiry, ask what is the "I" thought? As taught by Ramana Maharshi, if one focus on the "i" thought, it will eventually disappear and the true Self will remain.

@Ibn Sina you can sum up all of your identification with thoughts, senses, body, with the "I" thoughts. The best method of self inquiry I tried is Ramana Maharchi: you basically try to find the "I" thought. You find its source. You keep on and on till it vanishes, and the Self perveils.

who asked this question?

I have a strong desire to disappear By disappearing, I mean to go and live somewhere else, in a different country, with different people. Start all over again.

@Taylor04 There is actually a post on this in Leo's blog. He mentioned that he was wrong in many of his old videos. This video, for example, and many other ones related to success. and many other ones. But I think if you go telling people that you are nothing, give up your ego, there is nothing to be achieved...., they will likely kill you

Do not keep expanding anything. Seek to find the "I" thought. This is the most direct way. If the "I" thought is not found, the ego will vanish, and the Self will prevail.

If it is a real ego death. Then, i am happy for you man I recommend you to read the book Be-as-You-Are-The-Teachings-of-Sri-Ramana-Maharshi. It will clear a lot of things for you. I have read only the chapter of self-inquiry yesterday. Then, I sit down to contemplate. i was able to reach a profound emptiness in just 1 hour.

The forty rules of love by Elif shafak is the best novel I have ever read in my entire life. It is the story of Rumi with his own master, Shams of Tabriz.

@AnnaLeigh If you truly dropped your prior beliefs. If you no longer desire to be around people. If you no longer get calls from your friends. If you cry when you meditate. If you can't find yourself anymore

Hi! It comes and goes!! Asking the right question?... "What do I do to stay in the awakened state? the right question is what makes more sense is to ask how you unenlightened yourself what is still held on to? what is still confusing? what can situations in life get you to believe things that aren't true and cause you to go into contradictions, suffering, and separation? what is it specifically that has the power to entice consciousness back?"- The End Of Your World by adyashanti I realized recently that enlightenment ain't no joke. You have to be very strict with yourself. Ego is what I believe I am right now. When I sit to self-inquire, I reach my natural self, but it wears off as soon as I open my eyes. Why? because I unenlighten myself. "You harm yourself as dust thrown against the wind comes back at the thrower"- The Buddha Here is what the ego create: Fear an anxiety; It is all related to my ego. I no longer have the same anxiety I used to have in the part, but there is still fear running in my system. Anger, bitterness, violence, intolerance. Feeling that life is unfair Guilt criticism and blame Emotional pain shyness and insecurity boredom and loneliness stress addiction!! sexual misconduct lying dishonesty manipulative behavior relationship problems Working in the wrong job inability to love others Not being able to be a benevolent force in the world Dogma and ideology obsessive thinking Dying a sorry death Here is what I should do: Stop watching the news, or at least if I want, I should do it consciously Not getting distracted by youtube videos Being mindful of the way my ego judges others, act in a superiority complex way, my fear.

Step 2 Who thinks? who speaks? What is my ego? where is it located? Who touches? who hears? who tastes?...

@Highest What am I? "I" is seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting, a voice inside of "I" and thoughts. Step 1 Seeing: What do you see? why do you interpret what you see? Do you naturally see things? Do you see things exactly as they? Hearing: what do you hear? why do you interpret what you hear? Do you hear with meanings? why so?... Touching:......... Hearing:..... Tasting:....

2018/05/19 I am reading the book not knowing by Peter Ralston Natural Contemplation Any valid inquiry begins with not knowing, or else it merely serves to confirm what is already known. Making a shift from knowing to not-knowing opens up a space for new understanding to arise. Clearly, this shift is necessary for creativity, but many people don’t realize that it is also the basis for contemplation. 2:8 Contemplation as a meditative discipline is looking into some matter for oneself with the intent to discover what’s true about it. To some degree, we all contemplate throughout our lives, but serious contemplation requires great discipline, great curiosity, or great stubbornness. As a child, I possessed two of those three qualities in abundance. I would frequently set my attention on some puzzling matter and wonder about it steadfastly until something more was revealed. Around the age of six, for example, I became fascinated with the idea of time and began to investigate it. 2:9 Like most children, I lived in a pretty simple and yet continually emerging world so it wasn’t unusual for me to start wondering how it could be that “now” changed, and became “later,” but was still always now. I had to check this out. I sat on the edge of my bed and imagined a future of standing up, knowing that once I stood, the experience would be as real as sitting. Then I would stand, and find myself in the world that I had only imagined. Although I knew I was only imagining the future, the future kept coming to pass.

I waited for her to come, but she didn't. The seer and the seen are one. If I vanish my ego, all that is left is pure seeing. It's so amazing and so insane, I no longer want to do anything. The hearer and the heard are one. As I meditate on my hearing, I no longer interpret sounds negatively or even positively. Sound is just sound; beautiful as it is. There is no need to add anything. God...what a beautiful word... Thinking... There is no thinking. There is just a stream of thoughts, which keeps occurring. I am awakened on the level of almost all senses, but there is only one problem which is thinking. I need to work very hard on this one.

2018/05/18 The Growth Of Boundary .......We called it the primary boundary: that split between the seer and the seen, the knower and the known, the subject and the object. And once this primary boundary occurs, a chain of inevitable consequences follows. A host of other boundaries ensue, each being built upon its predecessor; the various levels of the spectrum exfoliate; the world as we collectively know it leaps into existence; and we become lost, amazed and enchanted, distracted and complexed, loving and loathing our universe of opposites.... Allah....Allah...Allah.... Allah....Allah...Allah... Oh our Lord! َAll favor is from Allah... Your presence has led me astray And I have fallen in you, O Allah Your qualities have emerged From you, and inside of you, Oh Allah! To whom, on earth, should I tell my secret To whom, on earth, should I show you From whom, on earth, should I hide you I have entered in the meanings I entered to see you I was told who am I? I am none, but you I have come to the ordinary seeking you, Oh Allah! I, again, have found none, but you... Allah....Allah...Allah... Allah...Allah...Allah Oh our Lord! َAll favor is from Allah... You have appeared as a whole From whom should I hide you. Allah...Allah... Allah Allah...Allah..Allah You are the all-apparent You are The all-interior

2018/05/17 Reading The countdown of my reading is 35700 Writing....

@Star Net Fast with the intention of becoming Allah, one day

The Zealot .............And these Sufis, they are such a bad influence. How dare they call themselves Muslims when they say things no Muslim should even think of? It boils my blood to hear them utter the name of the Prophet, peace be upon him, to promote their silly views. They claim that following a war campaign, the Prophet Muhammad had announced that his people were henceforth abandoning the small jihad for the greater jihad—the struggle against one’s own ego. Sufis argue that ever since then the ego is the only adversary a Muslim should be warring against. ......

2018/05/16 Reading: The countdown of my writing is 36200 page. Writing: The countdown of my writing is 1813

Baybars the Warrior ................................ The other day I heard a story that Shams of Tabriz told a group of people in the bazaar. He said that Ali, the Prophet’s successor and companion, was fighting with an infidel on a battlefield. Ali was about to thrust his sword into the other man’s heart when all of a sudden the infidel raised his head and spit at him. Ali immediately dropped his sword, took a deep breath, and walked away. The infidel was stunned. He ran after Ali and asked him why he was letting him go. “Because I’m very angry at you,” said Ali. “Then why don’t you kill me?” the infidel asked. “I don’t understand.” Ali explained, “When you spit in my face, I got very angry. My ego was provoked, yearning for revenge. If I kill you now, I’ll be following my ego. And that would be a huge mistake."................................

Shams Of Tabriz Befuddled believer! If every Ramadan one fasts in the name of God and every Eid one sacrifices a sheep or a goat as an atonement for his sins, if all his life one strives to make the pilgrimage to Mecca and five times a day kneels on a prayer rug but at the same time has no room for love in his heart, what is the use of all this trouble? Faith is only a word if there is no love at its center, so flaccid and lifeless, vague and hollow—not anything you could truly feel. Do they think God resides in Mecca or Medina? Or in some local mosque somewhere? How can they imagine that God could be confined to limited space when He openly says, Neither My heaven nor My earth embraces Me, but the heart of My believing servant does embrace Me. Pity the fool who thinks the boundaries of his mortal mind are the boundaries of God the Almighty. Pity the ignorant who assume they can negotiate and settle debts with God. Do such people think God is a grocer who attempts to weigh our virtues and our wrongdoings on two separate scales? Is He a clerk meticulously writing down our sins in His accounting book so as to make us pay Him back someday? Is this their notion of Oneness? Neither a grocer nor a clerk, my God is a magnificent God. A living God! Why would I want a dead God? Alive He is. His name is al-Hayy—the Ever-Living. Why would I wallow in endless fears and anxieties, always restricted by prohibitions and limitations? Infinitely compassionate He is. The name is al-Wadud. All-Praiseworthy He is. I praise Him with all my words and deeds, as naturally and effortlessly as I breathe. The name is al-Hamid. How can I ever spread gossip and slander if I know deep down in my heart that God hears and sees it all? His name is al-Başir. Beautiful beyond all dreams and hopes. Al-Jamal, al-Kayyum, al-Rahman, al-Rahim. Through famine and flood, dry and athirst, I will sing and dance for Him till my knees buckle, my body collapses, and my heart stops pounding. I will smash my ego to smithereens, until I am no more than a particle of nothingness, the wayfarer of pure emptiness, the dust of the dust in His great architecture. Gratefully, joyously, and relentlessly, I commend His splendor and generosity. I thank Him for all the things He has both given and denied me, for only He knows what is best for me. Recalling another rule on my list, I felt a fresh wave of happiness and hope. The human being has a unique place among God’s creation. “I breathed into him of My Spirit,” God says. Each and every one of us without exception is designed to be God’s delegate on earth. Ask yourself, just how often do you behave like a delegate, if you ever do so? Remember, it falls upon each of us to discover the divine spirit inside and live by it. Instead of losing themselves in the Love of God and waging a war against their ego, religious zealots fight other people, generating wave after wave of fear. Looking at the whole universe with fear-tinted eyes, it is no wonder that they see a plethora of things to be afraid of. Wherever there is an earthquake, drought, or any other calamity, they take it as a sign of Divine Wrath—as if God does not openly say, My compassion outweighs My wrath. Always resentful of somebody for this or that, they seem to expect God the Almighty to step in on their behalf and take their pitiful revenges. Their life is a state of uninterrupted bitterness and hostility, a discontentment so vast it follows them wherever they go, like a black cloud, darkening both their past and their future There is such a thing in faith as not being able to see the forest for the trees. The totality of religion is far greater and deeper than the sum of its component parts. Individual rules need to be read in the light of the whole. And the whole is concealed in the essence. Instead of searching for the essence of the Qur’an and embracing it as a whole, however, the bigots single out a specific verse or two, giving priority to the divine commands that they deem to be in tune with their fearful minds. They keep reminding everyone that on the Day of Judgment all human beings will be forced to walk the Bridge of Sirat, thinner than a hair, sharper than a razor. Unable to cross the bridge, the sinful will tumble into the pits of hell underneath, where they will suffer forever. Those who have led a virtuous life will make it to the other end of the bridge, where they will be rewarded with exotic fruits, sweet waters, and virgins. This, in a nutshell, is their notion of afterlife. So great is their obsession with horrors and rewards, flames and fruits, angels and demons, that in their itch to reach a future that will justify who they are today they forget about God! Don’t they know one of the forty rules? Hell is in the here and now. So is heaven. Quit worrying about hell or dreaming about heaven, as they are both presents inside this very moment. Every time we fall in love, we ascend to heaven. Every time we hate, envy, or fight someone, we tumble straight into the fires of hell. This is what Rule Number Twenty-five is about. Is there a worse hell than the torment a man suffers when he knows deep down in his conscience that he has done something wrong, awfully wrong? Ask that man. He will tell you what hell is. Is there a better paradise than the bliss that descends upon a man at those rare moments in life when the bolts of the universe fly open and he feels in possession of all the secrets of eternity and fully united with God? Ask that man. He will tell you what heaven is. Why worry so much about the aftermath, an imaginary future, when this very moment is the only time we can truly and fully experience both the presence and the absence of God in our lives? Motivated by neither the fear of punishment in hell nor the desire to be rewarded in heaven, Sufis love God simply because they love Him, pure and easy, untainted and non-negotiable. Love is the reason. Love is the goal. And when you love God so much, when you love each and every one of His creations because of Him and thanks to Him, extraneous categories melt into thin air. From that point on, there can be no “I” anymore. All you amount to is a zero so big it covers your whole being. The other day Rumi and I were contemplating these issues when all of a sudden he closed his eyes and uttered the following lines: “Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, Sufi or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not of the East, nor of the West.… My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless.” Rumi thinks he can never be a poet. But there is a poet in him. And a fabulous one! Now that poet is being revealed. Yes, Rumi is right. He is neither of the East nor of the West. He belongs in the Kingdom of Love. He belongs to the Beloved.

2018/05/15 I am reading a story called: the forty rules of Love; it is WOW!!!....Full of wisdom Reading: I have read more than 100 pages. Cool ; ) Writing: the countdown of my writing: 1817

@Pernani Thank you, mate

Shams Of tabriz said... Nobody argues that Baghdad is abeautiful city *, but there isno beauty on the face of the earth, which lasts forever, because cities are built on a spiritual pillars, like high mirrors. it reflects the hearts of its dwellers. If the dwellers hearts becomes dark and lost its beauty, so will the cities. This happens to many cities. This happens all the time.

@moon777light Thanks