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@John Iverson what happened did you have your first enlightenment? if so well done. I would suggest you keep going, there is much further to go.. dont over think it, the more you think about it, the further you distance yourself from the truth that is ever present. the mind has a tendency to over think it, create it into a memory and from there you try to attempt to get back to that experience. Dont try to own anything or hold onto it as treasure because you will lose it. the truth is always now. So stay in the now. Empty your mind. good luck.

I would like to share something that you can expect when your enlightenment is deepening. The ego, is actually trapped energy, there is a heavyness to it, a weight. I would call it self survival. Its a trapped tension. I had no idea it was there, intill it started happening. So keep that in mind. And I have had some very interesting things pop up recently. One that I have been going through is what I would call "energy release" In order for this to happen you have to die, there's no two ways about it, your ego is going to vanish, and will be replaced by eternity. Literally! FWI this is beyond all words, the only way you can truely know this is to take the leap. If you can surrender, and you do this through love. You sacrifice your comfortable sense of self and world for love, you surrender because you love God like Jesus did, or Buddha and many others. Your body has become a empty vessel for the holyspirit, this holy spirit, will come with its wisdom, insight, and love. The more you love this spirit, the more it will love you. Because its the same love. Anyway, after a while, a few days of infinity, some energy started to release out of the top of my arm, it was like a tiny pinprick that started releasing what felt like air, it felt great. So after a while of these releases, I noticed it was moving up into my head, and eventually the energy started releasing from the eyes. This is were there has been such a acceptance of this whole thing that it had completely permeated the body. With what I can only describe as the holy spirit, or infinite nothing. If you can let it happen, without getting sucked back into self survival, you will have much more control over the mind, and can choose whether to think or not. Literally! If you don't want to think then fine, it will be replaced by silents. Don't fear the "void" you can make it the womb of devine love, if you choose it to be so. Just to warn you it wasn't all sunshine & roses at times, self survival is a very strong force and may manifest a devil before you! And try and give you a real hard time. Because it thrives on fear, lives on it, and will try and pull you back with it. Beyond self survival its fearless, selfless & love. A Enlightened Master is one who is on the path of devoted surrender, the surrender comes because of love. Moral of the story, let infinity take over your eyes...

When I refer to the word "Self" I am talking about, the me, the ego, the whole sense of self that one experiences. You could do a video covering what the self is all about, how we live from the context of self survival. How self creates perception, by relating everything it perceives back to itself. You could go into the whole world of social survival and all of the subtleties That go on there. Any organism has only its perception to allow it to survive, to find food, to avoid danger, to know when to piss and whether its pissing ect. humans have several sophisticated forms of perception, on top of which we have some even more sophisticated means of interpretation. we know what something is, and we know what to do with it. this knowing however is not what we think it is. ~ Peter Ralston ~ The book of not knowing 15:7 If one is to truely transform, one must deeply investigate this area of oneself. As far as I am aware this isn't something you have covered yet. There's so many angles of Self, and so much to become conscious of. This will help others not only understand there own experience more, but will also help push closer to enlightenment. As I am sure you know peter Ralston goes into such things in a lot of depth in his books, so you could take some important points from there ect. It would be cool to here your input on this subject also.

Enlightenment has occurred, without a shadow of a doubt. It is unmistakable. I have been going deeper & deeper for months. I am at the point where Infinity is getting very intense to deal with. Its happening right now and its not gona stop. There are waves of fear that keep coming, and I know that I am creating this, so do you have any words of advice please. I know I need to keep going forward, how can I make the love come & the fear go. I am having trouble sleeping at night time aswell because its very intense trying to go to sleep while the vibration of being is intense and I hear the humming of empty space in my ears. I know that this is a blessing and I have worked relentlessly for this, the seamless self image has almost stopped completely and I think that this is a permanent enlightenment this time. How can it not be! It is me. But its very intense. Is there a way I can bring forth the bliss & love more quickly?

@Leo Gura Ok I will.

@Leo Gura Thankyou

Hey guys I would like to give to all that are interested. I can share my audible book/talks with you. I have a few so I will put a list below and each of you who private message me I will send you 1 that you pick. If you don't have audible you can always sign up to it. You get a free 30 day trial and can keep all the books. Its because I love you guys and would like to help you on your journey to Self Actualization. So pick what one you would like and send me your email address and I will send you the book of your choice. ~The end of your world by~ adyashanti The secret of secrets by osho True meditation by adyashanti The goose is out, zen in action by osho Dhammappa The way of Buddha by osho The science of enlightenment by shinzen young Just so by Alan watts Your it by Alan watts Still the mind by Alan watts Guided meditations, evoking the divine ground of being by adyashanti Reflections on self by krishnamurti The power of now Eckhart tolle A new earth by Eckhart tolle Meditations by Marcus Aurelius Take you pick and.let me know. We are one.

@Toby That is very kind

@Toby its let's you share them, I sent one to a fellow user yesterday.

@Garuda Only osho knows that for sure. But I will go out on a limb and suggest he was fully enlightened.

Hello to all, I hope you are all well? My names Callum I have a free gift for someone! If anyone has audible? And is A serious seeker of truth & all the unspeakable joys it brings. I am giving away a free Audiobook to someone who is really genuine & fully committed to enlightenment and all that it brings. The times of confusion, the times of fear, the times of illusion. And of course love, and the nectar of immortality. This is a beautiful talk By osho. A enlightened master. This is your chance! I only want someone who is prepared to be enlightened fully and surrender yourself for God right there and then. If you feel that you are not serious, be kind and allow someone else to really get something from it. So the first genuine seeker, who has audible, message me on here. And I will send you my free gift by email. The Way of the Buddha, talk by osho. My gift to one of you.

@Dodoster @Dodoster @Dodoster this may clear up some confusion as to why I said it like that. This is from the book genuis of being ( peter Ralston) outside the distinction of being an internal self object the reason it seems like you're a body is that you are a body but existing as a body or the by-product of a body doesn't provide a consciousness of your true Nature. the central mistake made about the idea of not being a body is that you then tend to experience yourself as a one inside or Elsewhere and then this becomes the non material object that implies you're something other than a body. here is where the belief arises that the self is a little man within or so or an entity or some other form of being a self object. this is not what I'm asserting when I suggest you're not any of it as far as your experience goes the only thing that you are is a body without it you don't show up or exist. if you entertain a fantasy that you're something else in another form perhaps immaterial, then you're just designating that as your body, because it is inconceivable to you that your true Nature is not an object or substance of any kind, you invent a distinction of an immaterial self object one that's not your body maybe you see yourself as "pure awareness" or the witness or some other notion of a real or source self, it may seem like this is a advance but you would actually be closer to the truth if you were to say I am nothing but a body. Your identification with objects may be necessary in living life, but this insistence you exist in some form, no matter however ethereal it maybe is an obstacle to becoming conscious of your true Nature. even those who've Directly experienced their true Nature most often don't get this point because the mind will insist on formulating something to be known and this will inevitably become something, even though it is the "nothing thing" getting beyond this takes a much deeper enlightenment about the real nature of reality and existence. I know this may not help much without the experience but it warns you of a mistake that pretty much everyone makes so as you pump out enlightenments like pez, be mindful of this inevitable trap. ~ peter Ralston. This is why I tryed to stress this point home.

@Dodoster I understand your point, and yes you are right, you are not what you take yourself to be "person" And when the body dies you will continue, because you are not anything that you can be aware of. this is true as well. But your still the body as well, this is why you have the experience of being a body. Because although you are not an experience fundamentally, the fabric of reality is not separate from you. Thus one experiences having a body. Its like when you go into space you have to put on a space suit, and when you come into this world you get a phenomenal body, to interact with a phenomenol world. Its a paradox that will only make sense through direct consciousness. There's a difference between "BEING" A body and being identified with the body

I still don't have any takers for this free audio book, so if anyone's interested private message me your email address and I will send it through to you

@Brivido You are the body, but the true nature of the body is consciousness, the true nature of consciousness is no-thing-ness. So the true nature of you is fundamentally nothingness. The nature of nothingness is infinite. So we could say right now you are in a dream. Its up to you to wake up. ~ rise & shine~ After a deep enough enlightenment it will make sense & you won't be identified with your body anymore.

The human self is consciousness. Consciousness is in the absolute. The absolute is. Now this may seem confusing, but I would like you to consider that there is no difference between the 3. These are only distinctions that I have made. But really the self, consciousness, and the absolute are not separate. There is no separation at all. But all experience is composed of distinctions, which gives the experience of separate "things" distinct from one another. This way there is a diverse world, of relativity. The play of opposites. Good~bad, big~small, light~ dark, love~ hate, pain~ pleasure. Just imagine that before there was anything there was nothing. No- thing- ness. No quality, no sound, no sight ect. Just timeless nothing. Now imagine that you are currently inside this timeless nothing. And everything you perceive around you is floating in this. Right now. The 5 apertures (Doorways) into this realm we can call objective experience, composed of sight, sound, touch, smell, and audio phenomena. Obviously. And also we have the "mind" which is immaterial words & images (concepts) All of experience is objective, meaning it can be grasped is some way, held onto, or known in someway or other. So the one that experiences, is the subject. The subject is the timeless nothing. It can't be objectively grasped or held because its not a object or "thing" this is one of the biggest obstacles to understand because the mind will try desperately To grasp it, and it can't. it just can't. There is no grabbing onto it, there's nothing to grab. You can only be it. You already are in fact. but the whole thing of enlightenment is to consciously be it. Become a empty vessel, and it will be obvious. You can't lose it, it is you. Consciousness is infinite But the absolute is the infinitude of infinity. The deeper you go, the wider it gets. Don't be afraid, fear comes from personhood, but infinity is not afraid, because its nothing. Its invincible. This may be one of the reasons that there is inherent peace in your true nature. Because it is literally Immortal, indestructible. And once the ego fully melts away there won't be anyone to be afraid. So think about that.

@electroBeam its a audio book

@WaterfallMachine @WaterfallMachine I will give you some free books... 1-I-Am-That-Nisargadatta-Maharaj- AlanWatts-The Way of Zen.pdf Resumo.pdf

@MochaSlap Its actually very simple, your perception, beliefs, all of the conceptual activities that occur in what we call the mind, not only influence your perception of reality but also create it! What most humans don't see is that we are mechanical creatures that run on the principle of survival, and this influences how we experience and perceive. Because we only perceive "from" what runs us rather than what runs us, this creates a breading ground for illusion. Consciousness work is about getting deep into what is actually true. A central part/aspect of this work is what can be called enlightenment, where one discoveres the true nature of being. The true nature of you and everything else. From this it has the effect of openess & not knowing providing the possibility of a investigation into anything from what is emotion, existence, other, self, ect through what can be called "direct consciousness" which is a real possibility that most of humanity are not aware of. That's the gist of this work.

@Memeito that sounds like it would be interesting to experience.

I won't go into too much detail. But if you guys are looking to really take your meditation to the next level, doing it while blindfolded is a good idea. I recommend you try it at least once. I just tryed it for the first time. I got the idea from looking at a dark room retreat. And thought why not see what its like to sit with pitch blackness. So I got a black top I have, tied it round my head completely covering the eyes. Pitch black! Worked pretty well. From this it was much easier to isolate the sense of self that is experienced in the mind. And see like aha! That's what the self is taken to be! There's the distinction of self. All thought. And I watch it. Let it do what ever it wants knowing that's not what I am. It comes & goes and when the images/voice/feelings that create the sense of self are not, I still Am. They need me to exist but I don't need them to exist because I Am regardless. This is the type of way to see it. You will also notice the "Self" then perceives the body sensations and claims ownership of them. That's my feet, that's my shoulders ect. But that's all illusory as well, so look past that and just "be" the body instead of the self perceiving the body then claiming ownership. After a while you will start to feel a sense of openness & expansion and go from there really. Have a enlightenment experience, its really not hard, you already are what you seek so.... Chop chop, I double dare ya!

@Dodoster Oh you live in London do ya? I m pretty close to you I live in east Sussex area. Its funny that weed makes you do that, its funny how it effects so many people differently. It differently has helped.raise my consciousness, have insights, and help still the mind permanently. Some people have the total opposite effect.

@Dodoster Thats true everything is magical when you are a kid! You can get back too that with non duality.

@Loreena I like your picture its chuckle worthy

@Dodoster I have never thought of that!! (Stretching)Thankyou!! Thats a great idea! I will try that later before meditation.