AlwaysBeNice

Degrees of awareness about it sounds misleading I think as it's not about becoming aware, even though it appears like that, it's stranger than it sounds even right, but it's about destroying the falsehood we project over it. I also feel like saying 'your will' creates the universe is misleading, if you have an existentially alive electric grid that just exists.. no one made it, yet apparent minds can appear in it.

Can you really say you created the universe, or did it just appear, without effort or will? If it just appears, i.e. like a dream just appears, and everything in the dreams are connected.. How can you say you have your own free will?

Well, you're either caught by delusion or you're not.

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The whole universe conspired with you to have it be that, that "you made" "that" decision, and no one is responsible, everything appeared without reason, (this is your experience, when you wake up (in the morning, in a dream, now), it appeared without your decision.

It's in some way the only true 'teaching': -this is it, there is only what is appearing -it is nothing/an appearance/infinite [you are not the appearance] All else is kind of bullshit. But I think self-enquiry and doing nothing meditation are amazing tools, that should be recommended to a seeker. - I think Jim's great, I was at the Amsterdam meeting, good time. Also quite different than watching videos, from the videos I got a more authoritative 'cold' impression, but in person it was more casual, cozy, nice. Also such a non-duality meeting is a nice way to interact with people, you know, whom are in the same boat, not much seriousness, so you can joke around easily.

Maybe you can enjoy this dutch gem, I've heard often that English speakers can sort of understand a bit of it and the lyrics are simple

In the moments you feel really alive, which may be a moment of adrenaline, fear, is that not happiness as well? That is also a moment with less or sort of no ego I think.

What is even is a belief?

What the hell would you want to do with beliefs?

Pretty rocks but all 'getting energy' is based on bullshit ultimately, who wants what energy for what? There only is energy/vibration. Doesn't have much to with self-realization or meditation. But you can play with ever you want and it can have effects

I don't think David Spero really talks about stages, I've heard him say that 'seeing through movie' is realization and the end of self-realization, though one's body may become more saturated in that realization so to speak, something like that.

Yeah, I've heard the idea of 'I am here [ in the body ], then there's space, and then there are other objects', is the description of the deepest layer of the ego/separation, that can fall away, but that has nothing to do with being in or out of the sense of the feeling the body or not afaik.

The brain is a vibrational field, 'inside' a vibrational field, not a separate thing, an illusion thus.

Frank's still making that lit shit

Something can be separate = absolute falsehood

Fascinating guy. Some elaboration for those who might get a grim: 'suffering can't end' vibe from it, it doesn't deny suffering ending in realization, just that relative pains can still arise, but: 'It doesn't even matter what goes on in your waking state mind, you could be the most miserable person on the planet, it doesn't even matter, truly', also the videos 'Moksha', 'Samsara', 'dissolving the world' elaborate on it.

No, it's completely off, there's nothing to work through, thinking you need to work through something; of something you have; that exists in time, is the illusion.

I think that's quite common when you begin. It started out as a chore and becomes natural later for me, but I can't say that that is really true, it doesn't ever need to be a chore, I would say, certainly if you just feel tired or sick of the world, turn inward, do nothing, sitting or lying down. But maybe it's a good idea to forget all ideas of doing any meditation and 'focus' on self-enquiry, which is also not really a doing, but just a willingness and open-mindedness to acknowledge you don't know what you are, -and that unknowing may bring about a silence and relaxation, and see that you can dissolve in that.

You cannot get away from meditation. And, 'you need to work through billions of years of stuff' is just a story, not real.

Every moment is birth/death, and thus illusion, an appearance. So 1. this isn't really real, and you are already beyond. So, appearances can appear, who knows what happens in 1 second, you don't, so death is also a mystery. But this has already appeared, and dreams can appear, who says that can't happen again, we live in the infinite, which can't be born or die.

Due to the lack of order in the Ramana books, I made this by the way http://theessenceoframana.weebly.com

It just appears, any idea of 'I made it' or 'I am responsible', is utterly delusional.

Well you get a free dmt/5-meo-dmt opportunity every night you know