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https://sites.google.com/site/psychospiritualtools/Home/meditation-practices/self-inquiry Self Inquiry This is a meditation technique to get enlightened, i.e. "self realization." By realizing who you are, the bonds of suffering are broken. Besides this goal, self-inquiry delivers many of the same benefits as other meditation techniques, such as relaxation, enhanced experience of life, greater openness to change, greater creativity, a sense of joy and fulfillment, and so forth. Focus your attention on the feeling of being "me," to the exclusion of all other thoughts. 1. Sit in any comfortable meditation posture. 2. Allow your mind and body to settle. 3. Now, let go of any thinking whatsoever. 4. Place your attention on the inner feeling of being "me." 5. If a thought does arise (and it is probable that thoughts will arise on their own), ask yourself to whom this thought is occurring. This returns your attention to the feeling of being "me." Continue this for as long as you like. This technique can also be done when going about any other activity. CAUTIONS: Many people misunderstand the self-inquiry technique to mean that the person should sit and ask themselves the question, "Who am I?" over and over. This is an incorrect understanding of the technique. The questions "Who am I" or "To whom is this thought occurring?" are only used when a thought arises, in order to direct attention back to the feeling of being "me." At other times the mind is held in silence. This practice of Self-attention or awareness of the ‘I’-thought is a gentle technique, which bypasses the usual repressive methods of controlling the mind. It is not an exercise in concentration, nor does it aim at suppressing thoughts; it merely invokes awareness of the source from which the mind springs. The method and goal of self-enquiry is to abide in the source of the mind and to be aware of what one really is by withdrawing attention and interest from what one is not. In the early stages effort in the form of transferring attention from the thoughts to the thinker is essential, but once awareness of the ‘I’-feeling has been firmly established, further effort is counter-productive. From then on it is more a process of being than doing, of effortless being rather than an effort to be.

@Nathan There’s no coincidences imo, just experiences slightly outside ones scope of perceived relativity. It seems to be happening in a donut shape, perpetually changing and hidden by having no end points, rolling back into itself, though in appearance vs actual changes and within that pure magic.

@Mikael89 What did you do?

@Jamesc lol

@Jamesc nice

Yes. Omg yes. There is the peak happiness of a human, and then there is nothing. Happy is human - maya. Enormous difference, if I’m understanding your inquiry. But yeah, I’m with @ajasatya , drop the kill the ego thing. The peace people seek is what they already are, and it’s not what you think it is. The “ego” is what’s been added to it, unknowingly, and entirely through thinking & beliefs, assumptions & misconceptions. Look for dualities that you hold like these people & these people, good & bad, alive & dead, I like hamburgers & I don’t like hot dogs - pick them apart - they are preferences that are identified with, but that is a description, not an identity. What a mindfuck though. You unravel what you completely think “BestSelf” is. You can’t be a thought, if you’re what is aware of the thought. So whatever you think you are, you’re not that. You don’t even know if other people are real or not. Good. Luck. “Love & Light”

@lostmedstudent There’s some easy on the brain videos on YouTube if you search double slit, quantum erasure, quantum entanglement, superposition, Schodinger’s cat. If you’re new to qm’s, I’d watch the double slit many times, even if you feel you understand it already. Have fun man. Welcome to the forum!

@InfinitePotential @Faceless I hear ya. It’s any interesting topic. I don’t see why there couldn’t be reincarnation - again - in the duality (maya). There are stranger things.

@Faceless Can you explain your point a little more?

Reincarnation is true in duality; there are not two beings, only one, so no reincarnation of beings is taking place....and.....every being is actually the same being, so you could refer to past “lives” of the one being, and there could be ‘carry over’ in “lives”. In nonduality, there’s just you and nothing to resolve. Psychologically, when you’re aware of someone’s resistence from a painful experience, and you’re aware they’re not aware of the connection, reference to past lives can be one hell of a tool which circumvents the denial. Like, Jane has esteem issues, body image issues and confidence issues....”Jane, I see in a past life you witnessed many abuses to woman in World War Two when you were a first medical responder at outposts. You saw some really hurtful things and those memories may have carried over into this life subconsciously.” Jane may have such denial of being hurt in her past, such repression, that she is congnitively honestly unaware of the influence on her present emotions. Jane might feel relief that there is an explanation for the way she presently feels (albeit shady use of metaphysical perspective) and Jane might begin to be free enough o work through it. Not my favorite approach, but if it help, it helps.

5 g’s shroom tea.

@ZZZZ If all illusion were instantly stripped away and you were the present Truth...upon recreating the universe and being what Is, your brain would literally rewire it’s self to accommodate the perspective, it would have to. “Your” consciousness would permanently be off the charts. What I believe is happening with you is like that, just not all at once.

Some would say a life unactualized is a life unlived, and the ego world is an excuse for perpetuation of conditioning; that it’s a projection (a very convincing one). Some people would even say that anxiety is an exception, a temporary grosse addition to the eternal peace, a belief in a past & future which aren’t present. But we can look around us right now, and know that, is all there is. It make sense that China exists while you’re standing in Australia, but the Truth doesn’t make sense, the “brain” does. People say a lot of weird shit though.

@B_Naz Yeah. Same thing. The truth is, there’s nothing to be anxious about.

@ZZZZ This is increased awareness / raised consciousness. Your mind / thinking will catch up soon and you’ll be just as social as you were, with a much broader and deeper view of what’s transpiring. Integration / expansion. ?

Meditate for truth, and truth will set you free, beyond selfish, selfless.

@moon777light thanks

That moment, once awareness is on all the instrumental components of the body, producing beautiful resonance....we realize it’s the nothing, the nothing within the air being moved which I am. Every song. Every note. ??? And it’s all nothing, and we disappear.

Take yourself to the next level. When someone asks you why are you damn happy all the time, how did you make. Such a life for yourself....mention the forum.

You are infinite, the discrepancy is maya.

@Quanty Can you recommend some specifically...brand, strength, what you’d recommend ‘dosage’ wise daily? THANKS!❤️

@Karin12414 Hells. Yes. ❤️ Done with all that.

@Mikael89 Thinking about it, like great outcomes..or doing something you want to start doing. Or, sounds silly, but if there’s something you want to quit doing, spend 10 minutes doing nothing but being mindful that you’re not doing the thing you want to quit, for ten minutes.

@Mikael89 You did the hardest part, the change. Tomorrow, spend 10 minutes on it.

@Quanty damn!