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This. @Max_V It doesn't matter how much or little content you have, there are no requirements to adhere to. You are creating the hoop to jump through then judging yourself for not jumping through it. Don't let others convince you one condition is any 'better' or more 'right' or 'true' than another. To cease self suffering just sever attachment to any condition or circumstance, be at peace with simply being present no matter the amount of content that happens to be passing before your eyes or through your mind at any given moment and your liberation from self suffering will be abiding.

I appreciate the kind words, @Aakash , and I'm glad you found value in it but it seems I turned up the volume on experience too high for this thread because I got warned....welp. My apologies to the thread starter for hijacking the thread on enlightenment with my own experience of it, I didn't mean to interrupt.

For my own experience liberation isn't about consciousnesses or awareness, any clarity or expansion of those are an expression, a byproduct of liberation. What is my experience of liberation is the freedom from self suffering so this is the source of well being. Since my well being is ever present through just being present if my body is hungry I feed it, or not because I have no attachment to the feeling of hunger or satiation as the source of well being. I experience them and the body has many urges and impulses but my well being isn't dependent on them. So you may ask why do I do anything then? With well being, the joy and peace, that which is called bliss is ever present so if I do or don't do it still is. This way everything I do or not do is an expression of that well being and through this only what resonates with that well being will be what I do....or not do. Of course, sometimes the world requires me to act in ways that may not resonate with well being. If my well being was dependent on my actions then that bliss would be transitory and not really bliss at all. This is an indication of genuine liberation because if we experience it through all manner of circumstances, it's genuine. Regardless of what's 'real' or an 'illusion', which is just another mistaken perception of dualism, what is just is what is. If you're hungry then eat...or not, sometimes fasting is more satisfying than stuffing the belly. Genuine liberation isn't contingent on circumstances aligning in one way or another, it transcends circumstance.

That's simple, it isn't a dualistic world, dualism is a mistaken perception of the world within the cognition of the mind.

Now is the only way liberation can be and I have been it for decades now.

It's encouraging that there are those who are awakened enough so are aware of the absolute nonsense of it. Liberation from self suffering is a simple expression of being present, all this chatter serves as more of a distraction from it than a guide to it.

Well, attention isn't really an equivalent of awareness since we can have much attention on a specific something while simultaneously being unaware of the broader perspective. The physical limitations you are talking about effect attention, focus, alertness and things like that but we can do or take things that will improve them without actually expanding awareness. These 'degrees' of awareness aren't defined levels or anything like that, all you are doing is stratifying it yourself, it doesn't have any inherent degrees, levels or any separations. Even unawareness isn't a separate thing from awareness, its merely the absence of awareness and doesn't exist as a thing on its own.

Well, insight is that illuminating effect in the experience of consciousness Belief is the trust one exercises in the experience of consciousness.

That word enlightenment has so much baggage with it but l have found in my own experience that they can awaken us in an instant compared to many years of 'practice'. Although without a deep realization of those lessons the awakening can be fleeting and hollow so can become an obstacle as the ego may fixate on that past experience instead of on the present potential. Attaching to the past experience even if it was of an awakening nature can still cause self suffering so hinder liberation.

Well, I understand that he has gradually migrated from personal development to consciousness work and he continued with his instructional behavior into an area of experience that is a challenge to communicate in. I don't wish to criticize him for it because there is value in the encouragement that his work has. Although if he is trying to tell others what is "the truth" and suggest that what isn't in line with that is "false" then he might be a hindrance to some who have a differing experience and aren't awakened enough to recognize it's being an obstacle to liberation for them.

Words are useful for encouragement and leading someone to self examine but trying to describe the indescribable and explain the inexplicable often serves as a distraction. Each of our experiences on this path and in our work is so unique to us that trying to tell someone else what is or isn't really is an exercise in ego.

Consciousness may not have states, degrees or levels but what gives the perspective of them is unawareness. As an example the ego sees separation through identifying because it is unaware of being one. So when someone would say they are raising consciousness it is through becoming aware by transcending unawareness. When we refer to attention, focus, understanding, wisdom and such things these are expressions of consciousness.

I'm always amazed at how much people talk about something that can't be communicated.

To genuinely realize being one then create any discord is this...

If you keep talking this way with others it exposes your own limiting beliefs.

@Joseph Maynor Pellucid.

If I existed I would be offended but since I don't.........hah

Watch the mind and see how it will frame nearly everything in a dualism such as truth/false, right/wrong and good/bad. It's a subconscious behavior of the mind and it will influence us if we are unaware of this happening.

Your words explicitly said it so no assumption was needed. I'll reiterate, the truth/false dualism is deeply ingrained in the mind so few are aware of it's influence. I didn't say, suggest, imply or otherwise anything about the truth or falseness of anything in the video. Just that I can understand why so many are lost and self suffering because of teaching dualism.... mostly from people purporting that they are teaching 'non-duality', ironically.

Ok, well, if you consider it 'pushing' by me simply replying to your queries then so be it.

Sure, you read my words as implying something in the video is 'false'..... ...from my original comment.

You are asking about what is false in the video because you are still viewing through the truth/false duality. Transcend that dualism, view it with the unity of what is and that question is answered.

Well, the truth/false dichotomy is a dualism that creates a perspective that separates 'what is' into two parts, true and false. There is just what is, there isn't an opposite to what is because what isn't..... isn't anything, it does not exist. There only is what is, there is no opposite, it isn't. So 'false' is still what is. The self is what is, ego is what is, the physical manifest is what is. It's all what is because what isn't... is not. Once one is awakened to this transcendent yet simple perspective of being it's so obvious it can't be unseen and the veil of duality in the mind is seen for what it is. The self suffering can come when someone has a perspective in this truth/false dualism because it may cause conflict of being with what is yet they believe it isn't. Transcending the truth/false dualism of separation that causes self suffering is liberation, it's the absolute unity of being.

I can understand why so many are lost and still self suffering when this type of dualism teaching is so prevalent and dominates the discourse. The truth/false dichotomy is so ingrained in the mind that few recognize it's influence on them and how it is the source of the self suffering.