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@Emptystickfigure it seems that there is karma to me, but limited only to perception. As in, I have witnessed everything I’ve done, and I am making choices and distinction in the illusion based on my understanding of everything I’ve previously done & experienced. So it doesn’t seem that the karma “happens” to me, but rather is a way to describe the limits of my own perception being able to be traced back to my own actions.

@Glassgow22 awwwww! I get to be the first comment on your first post! Adorable! I’ve been meditating for around 22 years or so. My current experience is similar to what you describe - nothingness in terms of mental activity. Years ago, on an ordinary day, five minutes into my typical 30 mins med, I was consumed into everything. I suddenly was everything. I cried for many days. Some time later, on a trip, it was realized, and integrated over a long period. Not sure if that’s a ‘dmt’ like experience, as I haven’t had dmt yet. More recently, I’ve been using meditation with writing - in and out. It’s become a consistent process / resource. I also am able to get to the void in a few minutes, where as it used to take 30, then for a while it took 16 minutes or so. Congrats on the life change. That’s a beautiful thing. ❤️ And welcome to the rabbit hole!

@sleeperstakes so much suffering derives from the belief we are something other than the magnificent truth of what we really are. You’ll be able to ‘see through’ everything others can’t. You would live life without fear or doubt or monkey mind. It truly is dying and yet still living the rest of your life. IMO, it feels like waking up everyday and winning the lottery of love. Something I think is worth pointing out, that rarely gets mentioned and would be hard to believe...our default / or baseline does change drastically.

That is IT. Like, how is it possible I am “alive” and seeing all this...?! How is this even possible!?

@Shakazulu try writing down how you want the song to feel to the listener, and what your message is. Then meditate, when a lyric comes, write it down, go back to meditate, repeat.

@kieranperez you were unaware. You’re aware now. Meditate every morning. Again in the afternoon. It is true - if you want to change the world, change yourself. The meditation slows thinking down. Your new awareness of this will integrate. Let the past go. It’s gone. Be patient and focus on getting yourself back to feeling good. Might need more sleep, might need to break a habit, it’s hard to say. You might just need to let go and have fun. Might need to text some people “sorry bout that”. ?

@beastmode what you are is experiencing all of them right now.

@Joseph Maynor (That was a joke) ❤️

@iTommy actual reality is the dreamer of this illusion. It is infinite in the sense, it is outside of our ways of thinking and measuring, as we do in the illusion, the strange loop. Ime, it is indeed, very, very, strange. ?

@Joseph Maynor maybe in your next life?

@Steph1988 I was not disciplined in my practices until more recent years. Now, it seems to me, if someone wants to make faster progress, meditate twice a day, etc. I was in & out of the now in small increment, and through the practices I increased the ‘now’ occurrences and consistency - and depth.

@egoless stop smoking. Start eating healthy. Get in the circadian rhythm- go to sleep earlier, get up early. Literally do some walking, until you can do some running. Take the power back. You absolutely can do this. It, like everything, starts with a decision, and proceeds in the belief. Make the decision and burn the boats.

Disclaimer: I’m making this up as I go, and I don’t know what happens next.

@Steph1988 everything you want, anything you want to do, all that you want to be...you want because you think you’ll feel better than you do right now. The punchline is, it’ll always still be right now. The more you get what you want, the more you feel better. The more you feel better, the more you return to wanting. The practices break this cycle. They surrender this want. Then you’re free. Then you’re happy - though you’ll still want, there is nothing to seek.

@Ryan_047 who decides these things?

@Joseph Maynor Therefore duality is not part of non-duality — they sit at cross-purposes actually. What do you mean.....”They”? ?? ❤️? ?? ?⛈ ?? ??

Why the dreaming.....best question....follow the white rabbit...that why it is the pure nondual, the ‘knowing’.?❤️ All the ideas, all the words, all the knowledge, and all the psychedelics in the world will not reveal this - without the proper foundation.

@Shiva DITTO...It’s Martin though, so everything’s cool.

@snowleopard I think I understand what you’re saying, maybe not. nonduality is perception without paradox. Often, ime, the big picture duality is the last paradox before nonduality. Not as a rule or anything. Just seems that way. As in, without something to do, there could be no doer - and without a doer, there could be nothing to do (duality). Without the duality, it is seen that there is no actual doer, and there is actually nothing to do. Yet, here we are, in a loop of creator and creating, as the One.

@egoless solid plan components❣️ Visualization is a part of loa, imo, but loa is sooo much bigger. It’s like the path to enlightenment though, no one needs to walk it, in actuality there is no path, but only a fool doesn’t walk it. The perspective expands, the same world is experienced - and everything changes in experience, though nothing changes at the same time. I’m getting jelly now. You have so much fun & love ahead of you. ??❤️

@egoless if we’re loosely defining enlightenment as permanent nonduality - experiencing life, without a central ‘you’ - body / brain identity, only the practices will do, short of a one in a million Tolle happening. (IMO) The practices free us of “me me me” perspective. Loa takes you from there and can reveal you are, indeed, the One. It also helps with the next question that arises....if I’m the one, what about all these other ‘people’? ?❤️

@egoless nice! I digested all the loa I could find many years ago, until it was a default understanding. What surfaced as the best, IMO, is Napoleon Hills ‘How to Think & Grow Rich’, and (YouTube) Abraham Hicks. A lot of Ester’s material comes from Napoleon, or maybe a lot of Napoleon comes from Abraham. Hard to say. ? https://www.amazon.com/Think-Grow-Rich-Napoleon-Hill/dp/B0082PRTIQ/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_img_2/130-6155358-5922667?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=12ZATM539S42F72W0X8R

@Alien Dan’s got it, imo. The pain “makes me a believer”. Pain is the most convincing facet of the illusion. Careful not to identify with the body or the ego, and the experience of pain changes. When you see more of the illusion for what it is, you become more of what you really are. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IhP3J0j9JmY

Loa seems to enter our perceptions as a gimmic, then a confidence booster, then a visionary tool addressing reality (illusion). What makes it so tricky, imo, is that we stumble upon it in little videos, etc - it would be more appropriate for it to be a series of courses. It takes years, and a lot of life experience and exposure to grasp.

@AdamDiC meditation & contemplation, healthy eating, and exercise are the foundation - the ticket just to get in. Take you’re time. If you keep the practices going, you’ll start seeing more and more in your normal day to day life. Careful not to identify (as little as possible) with your body & brain. That is not what you are. Thought patterns holding body & brain behind “me” and “I”, cause suffering. Nothing is actually happening ‘to you’ as in, the body & brain. That is not you. Nothing could ever happen to what you really are. You can’t be tarnished, discouraged, or lacking in anything. Everything is happening perfectly as it should be. Look for that perspective. Also - a meditation teacher is a great thing to have, and you’ve got Leo here, of course - miraculously always accessible. Make sure you have at least a few more (online / YouTube / etc) so you’re developing your own frame of reference. Helps with sorting out what benefits you, what works for you, etc.