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I would even draw a distinction between knowledge, which is the accumulated understanding of information, compared to knowing, which I would call the intimate direct experience. Realization awakens 'knowing' and simultaneously doesn't need knowledge.

You seem to miss the point of that saying and why I was using it, @thesmileyone. The original post was asserting that relatively routine behavior somehow is an indication of whether someone experiences liberation and that saying asserts it has no real value in showing it. I just updated it....

Before enlightenment chop cyberwood and carry digiwater after enlightenment chop cyberwood and carry digiwater.

That is quite close @mandyjw, except that the type of suffering that we are free from in liberation is self suffering. We experience pain with the body and a lingering pain in the body is what is called suffering but the type of suffering that happens within consciousness is the self suffering that can happen even when the body is free from pain. The awareness of emotional pain, reputational pain of the ego, past pain, potential pain in the future and mortality are what can cause self suffering in us. So yes, you accurately assess that freedom from suffering is a present moment experience but that freedom is experienced in self conscious though we may experience pain in the body, even lingering pain. In liberation we can experience all kinds of pain and emotion without it ever causing self suffering.

I prefer not to get too complicated in conceptualizing that deeply but it can simply be understood as the screen being equated with the ego. The contents of consciousness get displayed on the screen for awareness, the observer, to view. So the screen is really a dynamic entity in itself that the contents get projected on and attempts to interact with the observer to convince it to 'believe' the story arranged on the screen, the ego.

From your question it's apparent that you do not have money and you don't have liberation. By liberation I am talking about the freedom from and cessation of self suffering. This is different than 'happiness' because happy is just an emotional state that is transitory like sadness, anger, fearful and all the rest, they are all something we experience in passing. Liberation is something that either we have or don't have even as emotions, thoughts or physical conditions will pass through our experience of them. I know this about you because if you had either money or liberation you wouldn't be asking the question. I have experienced having a lack of money in self suffering and in liberation, I also have experienced having money while self suffering and with liberation. I can tell you from experience that any happiness I had while still self suffering was empty of any real fulfillment because I still was self suffering. In liberation any of the passing emotions, thoughts and conditions I had didn't change the self of fulfillment in me, there is always a sense of peace. So I hope you can understand the distinction between just being 'happy' and being liberated from self suffering. Maybe you will see the value in finding that freedom from self suffering regardless of whether you have any of those comforts in life, as someone else put it, or you don't. When we are self suffering it doesn't matter whether we have those comforts or not, we still suffer. When we have liberation it doesn't matter if we have the comforts or not, we are free from self suffering.

Form, formless.... and.... formish....... ....or just transcend the duality instead of creating another separation.

Fear is a natural emotional response and I would suggest to initially affirm to yourself that you aren't afraid of fear and being afraid. When the mind/body is experiencing some form of fear look at it through the mind's eye of your awareness to create some distinction between that fear being felt and your awareness of that fear which you aren't afraid of that fear. Even if you don't know why you are feeling that fear, where it came from, or aren't going to 'face it', examine it or anything some may suggest to try to deal with it just by us not being afraid of the fear will mitigate it's overall effect in us. By not actively 'agreeing with' or 'endorsing' or 'believing' that fear in our intention we are not empowering it reflexively. Then from that place in our awareness with our intention we can deal with the thing that is being feared without being gripped by the fear. Over time the mind will become conditioned to not immediately and reflexively believing the 'fear' and ultimately the mind's conditioning will express less subconscious fear of that thing or situation that we will feel or experience. Doing this unbelief tactic initially in coordination with any of those other possible methods or techniques to address it can have much more lasting effect in managing any fear we feel.

I sometimes fall asleep into the dream of illusion just post here.

Who is bumping? Or... why is who bumping this? Exactly......

@Aakash Then there is 'nothing' to talk about....

Is it illusory bliss and amazement of nothingness?

You all have quite the imagination to talk a whole lot about nothing.....

Transcend the notion of 'absolute infinity' because it's just another mystical sounding concept that spiritualists use to create an identity of having something deep and esoteric they know. The ultimate ramification is it's a distraction from awareness of being present in the moment by getting someone caught up in mental masturbation.

Just be at peace....you can add socks to that peace but if you have no socks then you are still being at peace....with cold feet.

Just be at peace... no need to overthink it.

Awareness of being presence.

Well, we don't really control thoughts or even try, they are spontaneously generated by the brain in the mind. In the moment as the mind creates the judgment calls in the various ways it does we can just cease to endorse them. We aren't empowering that belief system of judgment so creating a presence of nonjudgment in the here and now. Abide in that and eventually the mind only reflects the belief paradigm of nonjudgment so joins in harmony with our awareness of being nonjudgment presence in the here and now. So we aren't controlling thoughts, it's just creating the state of being in the present moment and eventually the mind comes into agreement with presence.

Yes, it continues to empower the good and evil paradigm which will find it's way into every way view things internally and externally.

There is no conflict between spirituality and life purpose so there is no need for a solution to it. If there is any perceived 'conflict' it is from the perception and that perceived conflict can be resolved but spirituality and life purpose not just coexist, they are complementary.

Do it by removing all reference to the dualism of good and evil from the mindset. With the casual terminology one uses refrain from saying something is 'good' or 'bad' even in respect to personally as 'for me'. Remove it from the mindset as completely as one can and eventually the judging nature will fade away from one's perspective when viewing everything including others.

Yes and holding limiting beliefs such as something 'must' or it can 'only' happen under specific circumstances or only in certain ways inhibits our ability to let the infinite potential blossom and manifest as it will in and through us

Let us be one.

Upon reading your post something along these lines is what I was going to say. Too often we try to label and understand with concepts to satisfy the egos desire for identity. Just celebrating what is as it is with appreciation for being present in that moment is a fulfillment that transcends all limiting beliefs. Allowing oneself to be open to the infinite possibility will always invite ourselves to be a conduit for healing in any way that it happens