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Just for clarification purpose. Awakening is when the ego/mind/thoughts identification dissolve. Enlightenment is when you either see/feel everything as one infinite being (enlightenment from the heart), or when you see everything as pure smoke/illusions (enlightenment from the mind). Some people use the term "Awakening" has a way to talk about a temporary Enlightement though.

There is one simple logic that proves that. There is a realization during the path, which is that everything is one. If everything is one, that means you can't be separate from it. If you can't be separate from it, that means you're already it . Think about that ... How could you not be enlightened ? That would mean you're not part of reality. That would mean you're outside of it. You are in it, otherwise you wouldn't experience anything. There would be nothing to read this text ... So what is reading this text, REALLY ?! You know what it is, you know it because you're it, you've been it the all time. There is nothing to search, there is nothing to learn, it's all in you, you just have to know exactly what you are. IT IS NOT COMPLICATED AND IT IS NOT AN EXPERIENCE/STATE OF MIND-MEDITATION ! Just ask the god damn question "What will be my next thought" or "Am I aware" or "What am I", what is left between the first and the second stream of thoughts (excluding every other perceptions), is what you are. After some time you don't even need to question yourself anymore, you'll naturally be able to feel it as it pleases you. That's all you have to realize. After that, the only thing there is to do, is to feel this again and again. You can feel this whenever and wherever you want, which in time will be every fucking seconds. IT IS SO SIMPLE Which is why some people will seek for ages. It's so obvious and subtile that almost everyone will overlook it for the first months/years, and most of the time, decades. Ironically, there is good content to make you realize this if you still didn't quite get it: This is the book that you want to read at least once: The Power Of Now This is the guy you want to listen to at least once per week: Eckhart Tolle This is the videos you want to watch at least once a month: The Real You / Cosmic Love Letter / The Love Revolution

How to know if you're really aromantic ? I never loved anyone, not even my mom (at least I can't remember). Some kind of friendship happened, but even then, I don't know, maybe it was because of my loneliness issue. @Sevi Honestly, I don't know if I would feel bad if my dog dies.

A newbie reading this post

You are nothing. But everything arise from nothing. It cannot be understood intellectually, that's why every teacher tells you thinking must be transcended, not removed. You can't stop thinking anyway, but you can see your thoughts as an immaterial object like a song or an emotion. If you can do that, you can also sense from where the thoughts come, which is from nowhere.

It starts NOW

How did you know he was enlightened ?

At this rate everyone will be enlightened before ME ! MY ENLIGHTENMENT ! MY INCONDITIONAL LOVE !

Everything is explained right there. You don't need hours of videos and dozens of books to understand it. There is nothing to understand ...

EAT MY DUST !

Both are great, it all depends on what you want to focus on. Short meditation throughout the day helps you to refresh your mind every time you need to (Usually done just before going to work, during the lunch break, and just after work). Long meditation if you want to discipline your mind even more, it can also leads to some powerful state of no mind/self for a short period after. I would advocate to do short meditation throughout your job days, and days off long ones, simply because you don't have to focus on time when it's the week-end (I hate using a timer personally ).

http://lucidability.com/dreams-vs-reality/ Once you don't care about what you and other people think of you, it becomes obvious very quickly.

The ego is the collections of every beliefs and identifications you have about the world and yourself. The subconscious mind is the ego filtering and reacting to reality through all these beliefs and indentifications. There is no subconscious mind when you awaken, at least not if you've practised mindfulness/presence a lot, you always know why you act in a certain way, or at least you have a major lead to find out why.

That's exactly the kind of beliefs that restrain people to realize their true self.

Can you sense the "isness" of everything ? Can you be alone all by yourself without needing anything from anyone without feeling lonely ? Can you detach yourself from your thoughts/ego as you want, or do you still get drown in them most of the time ? Can you see the futility of thinking for the sake of thinking, or do you still fantasize the future and remember the past quite often ? Do you feel your body and your thoughts all the time, as extension of your being, or only once at a time ? Do you have a deep sense of peace within you/equanimity ? Did you stop judge others and yourself ? Do you see life as an another "dream" ? Are you perfectly fine doing nothing at all for hours ? Are you still emotionally triggered when people talk about rape/murder or genocide ? Are you starting to feel your "soul"'s reflection in animals/humans eyes, even nature/inanimate objects ? Are you content with what you have now, or do you think you need more to finally be happy/enlightened ? If you've genuinely answered yes to all these questions, maybe you are.

Not only that, but to not feed even more the ego and the pain body of the boss, too. That's something a lot of yolo enlightened people go wrong, it's not because in their non-dualistic point of view everything is a joke that dualistic entities does not suffer. They do, they are still trapped, and it feels REAL to them.

When you have to put some files on a usb drive which is not yours, just before your sitted meditation session And the usb drive is called TRANSCEND @Sri McDonald Trump Maharaj It was a coincidence

Of course theres is no one to talk to about this stuff, there is perhaps 1 person in 10 000 that really do it properly. Quick example, I never saw a single person walk in the forest near my city (in 2 years) except me. Hell, even when I walk in the city, I rarely see a person walking alone, and when they do, they either look at their phone, listen to some music, do some solitary sport, or smoke and seems to wait for someone. It is like no one accept to be alone, it isn't concevable, it is seen as madness. So just get that straight in your mind, because even if you meet someone like that and befriend him, guess what, you'll still have to face all these things all by yourself anyway. You're not even alone, it feels like it, but sooner or later you'll realize there is never a time where you've been alone, It's all you, I'm talking to myself here, you're talking to yourself, Leo is talking to himself in every video. Even my dog licking his balls is us, fucking dog, I want to be able to do that too

That's what I'm saying for weeks now ! STILL DON'T GET ANY LIKES !

Don't know if I'm going to meditate tonight, but this afternoon I'll do it for 4 hours in the forest, come with me guys/girls EDIT: Ok, time to shine ! I DON'T FEAR ME, COME ON !!! @Sevi Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd, get back to it. It's not like there is anything else to do after our daily routine anyways :3 @Sevi I mean there is nothing else to do after reading for quite some time, sport, some exercices (funnyness/concentration), listening to some music, and a good walk in the forest. There is nothing else to do than meditate.

"When you feel a peaceful joy That's when you are near Truth" - Rumi

IS there a meditation that can promote more the confrontation with the void/having a kundalini experience ? I want to face this again, and if there is a meditation practice that can help, it would be nice No clue if it works, let's try http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/awaken_your_kundalini_in_3_easy_steps.html