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Awareness is aware of that thought. Rather than ‘answer it’, notice it is not a legitimate question. You’ve never experienced being two, always one. Why would you believe there is a you and also the awareness you’re thinking about? Let the thought go. When self inquiring, let every thought go. Feel. Expect an answer in feeling. Have conviction in the expectation. It is your right to know who you really are. The logic behind letting every thought go, is in part, to break the habit of reactionary & self referential thinking, of expecting answers in thinking...and just feeling. The mind will only continue deceiving you, doing things like changing the word awareness to focus.

@innerchild Sounds like you’re ’bringing it up’ with practices, but not letting it ‘out’. Time to start getting your time’s worth out of them imo. Notice thinking of past or future, and bring attention back to what you’re seeing & hearing, and the feeling of your breath, and all areas of the body which are touching a chair, the floor, etc. Use the practices you mentioned for the body to release, and the focus, energy & sensual levels will increase even more. Your psychic practices will be kicked up a notch. Emotional intelligence is also an inevitable outcome. It is love, goodness, & understanding which is waiting to flush. Don’t minimize, release. Let go. Life’s not fair and people suck sometimes. Doesn’t mean you owe anybody anything though. Doesn’t mean you can’t see the distinction between who we really are, and behaviors & actions. Let it out and let it go. Our only option in all matters is just getting back up and going forward. That’s the whole schtick really. To speed up the process, express yourself. A journal, song writing, poetry, simply writing on a pad of paper about how you feel right now, or talking to someone about it. Almost any expressing about how you feel about it will benefit you greatly. All of this is helpful and ‘works’ imo, for anyone desiring to self discover & move forward with the life they want to live. Truly, a single thought about what you do want can be the most powerful event of your life, and yet can seem so, ordinary, going unnoticed even.

@Vipassana Awesome! You’re right on about the twenty years. How did you acquire that depth of appreciation and recognition of this, seeing as you haven’t had twenty years to meditate yet? Did you grow up with meditation ‘around’? Any of Leo’s video’s in particular that struck that chord perhaps? A book or two? Certain videos or teachers? Thanks! It’s really rare and made me curious.

@Moment This reads to me as “progress” indeed, purification. Many struggle with something you did not, which imo is key. You didn’t involve someone else, you didn’t ‘go into thought stories’ about it. You finished your meditation, and went for a run. A different way to frame this up - the body is infinite intelligence, but the mind thinks it’s running the show and most often get’s in the way, with thinking, which slows the body of it’s cleaning out. I would take this as nothing short of a tremendously good sign. The universe is made of healing, and knows just what to do.

“Awesome”.

@nexusoflife Yes! ? Welcome home “man”.

It’s because you can’t conceptualized enlightenment by projecting it onto anyone else. In assessing the monk, you veil yourself more.

You could start with your belief that the thoughts are yours.

Tried that one, but felt like I was rating the exercise.

The experience is created by resisting feeling, believing the thoughts, and labeling feeling (“fear”). The mind arises of ‘deep sleep’, and thus could not ‘enter’ deep sleep, same for the universe. The experience is created by resisting feeling, believing the thought of a ‘you’ which ‘comes back to physical reality’. You are that which veils itself (void) becoming physical reality. It might be helpful to remember that you have never actually seen your face, and to put a couple mirrors in front of each other instead. You don’t ’go there’ & ‘come back’. Imagine clay which becomes an experience, and then believes the experience could be lost. Very impressive clay. Well done. The mind may be trying to reconcile the ‘twoness’ of the situation with a pinch of ‘real’ or ‘hallucination’ rumination. Thought can not grasp it’s root, anymore than a drop atop the fountain could ‘sprinkle it’s way’ into understanding the water in the hose. A drop can only know the pipeline, within itself, but the pipeline is flowing with not knowing. You’re likely much more of a creator than you’re noticing. Close the ‘gap’, the ‘void’, with love, in all directions.

@EntheogenTruthSeeker Inspect everything you’d take psychedelics for. Nothing you can think can be of your identity, as you’re aware of the thought. Everything that follows “I have” or “I am” can be inspected, understood, and let go of.

“Physical reality” is you.

@Moment Meditation at it’s most basic level is focusing on breathing in the stomach & relaxing the body, thus indirectly detaching attention from thoughts. Thought ceases in activity, simply from not receiving attention. The body is infinite intelligence, but the thinking dualistic mind believes it’s running the show. This is brought to an end in meditation, in ‘returning to’, or realization of, who you really are. When the body relaxes deeply, it releases contractions; tension from emotions created in misunderstanding via one’s forgetting who one is and “making sense” of self & reality in an apparent physical universe & separate body. These ‘held’ tensions are the root cause of overthinking. The mind keeps churning in an attempt to resolve with thinking, what is only resolved in feeling. When the body (infinite intelligence / nothing to know) begins releasing the suppressed falsities (all knowledge & specifically the idea of “me”), the mind creates narratives of the experience to perpetuate “it’s control”. In perpetuating the misunderstandings, rather than relaxing & releasing the suppressed emotions by maintaining focus on stomach breathing, the mind (thinking) weaves & latches onto varies models of duality to control the narrative. (Kundalini, demons, assertion, death, nervous disorders, past “bad” trips, fear, anxiety & past stories, depression & future stories, projections, deflections, “identity”, “loss”, “sacrifice”, etc) But meditation is focusing on breathing from the stomach & relaxing the body, and thus indirectly detaching from thoughts. To believe any narrative which arises in meditation, is to sustain and perpetuate the “idea of you”, so as not to ‘directly experience’, you. So if you don’t want to awaken, but enjoy the fundamental benefits of meditation, just meditate for twenty minutes a day. Ideally in the morning. If you do want to awaken, realize you got caught up in a thought story, and meditation was focusing on breathing from the stomach, and thus indirectly letting thinking go. The truth is the mind is making it all up, and the “fear” is the mind’s label to justify denying the truth “of itself”, the profound love that is, that you actually are. Write about how you feel and why, in a journal, to understand yourself & develop emotional intelligence. Write what you want in this experience of life on your dreamboard, and allow the surfacing of desire & authenticity to help you realize & release resistance thoughts. Live the life you actually want to live, the way you actually want to live it.

I’ve ya bud! ♥️

@Meta-Man You have outdone yourself on that one sir. “You can kill it indeed, but ain’t nobody shakin your hand for it.” ???

@zeroISinfinity ?

@zeroISinfinity It’s this.

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@zeroISinfinity Sure but we’re talking, or so it would seem. ?

There are as many ‘layers’ as it takes to realize there are no layers. Nonduality is apparent surfaces, of no depth. All that could be said to truly be boundless, is this love within us all.

This guy. This freakin guy. Whenever I wake up and think I got it all figured out, I go to his profile and read a comment, and realize I was indeed stuck in a perspective. The background, experiences, the wisdom, the understanding, the free-hearted-ness - the love this guy brings...psh, sick. Seriously. Fuggetabouttit. You are dearly appreciated sir. I am often mesmerized and mystified by such a wonderful loving intelligence. So tried & true. The world could use many more of such serotonin loves. We’re quite fortunate to have the one amongst us here. ??

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@actualizing25 Why are you starting your spiritual journey? And what makes those activities you mentioned “low consciousness”? What, specifically, are you expecting to come from your practices? Why do you want to take psychedelics? Also, have you found a way to focus on what you don’t want, without bringing more of it into your reality?

Spirituality, as in self realization, is about realizing the actual truth of yourself, the actuality of being. This involves every aspect of your life, your endeavors, and your relationships, and yet is transcendent of “all of it”. In the same manor un-inspected feelings of frustration, tension, anger, etc is suppression, avoidance of honesty & truth, “staying asleep”... expressing yourself & your desires and dream for this life bring you to the place of inspection of what has thus far gone un-inspected. This results in letting go, transcendence, and understanding. In might be helpful to note the distinction between ‘things’ attachment...and thought attachment. Perception is perception, self. By adding arising thoughts, labels (self), we veil the recognition of self in all things, with the belief there are individual, separate, “things”. Thriving & living life in the realization of the joy and love that is, is impossible. Which is precisely why it is so worthwhile, and why only you could do it.