SOUL

AI? Hm SOUL is an IA..........Infinite Awareness......that is all.... no story.

These aren't mutually exclusive, we can contemplate and be present simultaneously, in fact, it's ideal.

So much fragment movement up in here.....

Ask who is reporting? Hehe

If you notice presence dissipating or wandering take many 'clarity' breaks to bring awareness back to the moment. It can be as simple as a meditative centering breath for less than a minute every so often. I know it's a challenge to not just to pay attention to what we are doing but to be aware of us paying attention to what we are doing but if you actively do it initially eventually it will happen passively and it will become a natural state of mind.

Hm

There is no right and wrong or true and false in nondual perception, our awareness in nondual observation transcends all these conceptualizations you've imagined and 'enlightenment' will cease to be something sought. Yea, sure, stories are fun, they can be beautiful and inspiring but the ego lives in the story, it feeds on the story, it needs the story and it thinks it's own story is 'right' and 'truth'.

When you typed that out and hit submit reply, you answered your own question. Do you really need me to explain it?

Being present and presence could be used interchangeably I guess, it's not the words that matter, they are only used to communicate and the words themselves have no true value beyond how they are used which is an especially individualized thing. Yes, being present isn't a philosophy, it's our direct experience and as it has been pointed out we can't ever be out of the moment. Although, awareness of the present moment instead of distracted by the past or future is the genuine message of the phrase. I don't know what others say about it but I suspect there are similar themes shared by them.

Mm hm....

Did you watch the video you posted? He explains it quite clearly there and you don't need to ask others what he means by it. Of course there are plenty of people that would disagree with his assertions or if they do accept his words as he speaks them they will still be critical of others if they would try to express the same thing here. The reason is the dogmatic attachment to their own concepts is strong and a differing perspective threatens the basis of their identity even if they deny that's the nature of their way. There are many paths to the top of the mountain, some easy, some hard, some short, some long but they all have the same view at the top. Find your path and enjoy the trip.

Luckily there is no overdosing on bliss...

Just keep on mental masturbating over words, thinking your own are the right ones and judging the words of others is feeding your own ego believing your own ideas about what's true and false. See it yet? lol

I get that there are many feeding their self loops perpetuating their guru concepts. lol

Hmmmmmm......

As your guru suggests, to the conditioned eye it does.

Yes, which is why I say once we recognize we have been sucked up into it, to then be passive observation again... or you could continue your own entrapment, project that onto others and tell others it doesn't work just like you are doing here.

Why are you projecting? So you trapped yourself by dis-identification? Then stop doing that and don't project it onto others.

Once you recognize you finally got sucked up by it, just be that passive observation again. Or not, you could just let the sucking to continue.

See, that's where you distort what I said through your own conditioning. I simply suggest to observe it. It's a passive state of observation, a stillness in being present in awareness without acting or reacting to what may move in us. "Dis-identifying" suggests a rejection which is a reaction to it, by saying dis-identify it implies and endorses an initial identification with, that's why it didn't work for you. It isn't what I suggest, you did something as action in dis-identifying but what I suggest isn't an action, it isn't really a choosing either, it's simply observing from pure awareness. You did something other than what I speak of, your own words have proven that. What you did sure is a normal pattern for the mind and the reason why it didn't work for you. You weren't in passive observation of it, you were actively trying to sever identification by dis-identifying and you revealed the source of your own failing by this. Do you have the same misunderstanding of these as well?

@Ingit I understand, we all have things pop up in our mind from our subconscious, face them or don't face them it doesn't really matter which but sure they feel hella real and hurt. That's your state of being right now and it's rough, I get it but it doesn't have to always be that way. The ego self will have seemingly endless energy in keeping us in that distressed state suffering but don't give it the attachment, like don't agree this is 'me' and 'mine'. Just observe without identifying and keep doing it. Sure, we have to do stuff in life to keep living but on the inside, stay observer mode. It may take days or months or years, I don't know, everyone is different it took me years but eventually the ego self will quiet up, lose it's energy and intensity then fade away like smoke. Some might be able to shut ego self down instantaneously but that wasn't my experience, it echoed for some time. Being at peace or joy, fulfilled, happiness, bliss, glee lol whatever you call it will happen if you allow it. It took me awhile but now it be present. Or don't, go ahead, feed the ego self and suffer forever. I can't be it for you, you got to be it for it to be.

Ok....explain to me how suggesting to 'observe without identifying with them' got translated into 'not look and ignore them' in your mind. I'm curious.

View it simply. Whether we are in meditation or going about our way in life the thoughts and feelings, urges and impulses will rise in us. Observe them without reflexively endorsing them by identifying with them and they will grow less influential in us. Stay in this observer without endorsing 'awareness' state for as continuously as you can, it will be easier to maintain in time. Eventually the self becomes a 'quieter' presence allowing for transcending it and being at peace. No complicated ideologies required.

@DrewNows I do understand it, it's just another true-false duality ideology that ascribes positive and negative to the "fragmentation/movement". Yep, self feeding loops slapping some new words on thousands of years of spiritual mystics building models in the mind and this is just another one that is to be torn down in liberation but can the conditioned eye recognize it? Presence of being is the awareness that transcends. Holistic is whole, not just as the unity of all as one but one expressed infinitely as all.

Build fancy scaffolding just so it can be torn down....lol...