Blissout

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  1. 19 minutes ago, Theplay said:

    @vibv I remember how much the existence can hurt. 

    And I don't think its perfect when people behead babies.

    Its a shrug of responsibility for another.

    As people doing consciousness work we must also develop compassion towards the suffering.

    Perfect and imperfect are concepts of the mind. Reality is neither. 

    @Max1993 Agree. I had enough of his teachings though. I didn't seek to be happy but to be free.

    Freedom fills way better than happiness. Its chill. Quite. Expansive. And real.

     

    What did you do for the end of suffering to occur?


  2. 8 minutes ago, SoonHei said:

    @dimitri hmmm

    Dog chasing its own tail ?

     

    Also, the seeking/quote used here refers to the spiritual seeking... Not really about helping...

     

    But yes. The seeking is what results when there's ignorance present. 

    The seeker/you ARE the resistance... Not the one resisting.

     

    I like this one aswell, the fish in the water the fish in the water can never find the water if it's looking for it.

    if the fish is searching for water... It means there's ignorance for the fish about what water is... As it is never not in the water. The search/seeking implies ignorance. The seeking ends once it is realized what is being looked for was always here/now...

     

    Indeed. 100%!

    And what is this "you"? It is the seeker.

    You = seeker. You is the fish looking for water.  

    And when would a seeker be present? When there's a search.

    Doesn't mean to just drop the search... That would be quitting. Search truly ends with the realization that nothing was ever lost = finding/discovering what's being searched for. (Yourself) 

    Eyes don't suddenly find themselves. They realize they are themselves

    The problem then is how to bring the realization about


  3. 24 minutes ago, VeganAwake said:
     
     
     
     
    23 minutes ago, VeganAwake said:

    Recognize the sense of "ME" residing in the body is an illusion. Turn within and try to find where your located in the body itself. 

    Who are you, where are you, what makes up the ME. 

    Just check it out..

    There is just spacious awareness when attempting to look. of course I cant something called a ME


  4. 1 minute ago, FoxFoxFox said:

    Not entirely. The words certainly did trigger the actual awakening, but the process has been the accumulation of several lifetime's worth of practice, meditation, sin and penance.

    I understand when they say it all happens within me... but I guess it's an intelectual understanding, while in your case even though you had an intelectual understanding of it before, you now also have a direct experience of it


  5. Is it correct to say that the bottom line is, is that a practice isn't what made the final shift, but a set of words that triggered you?

     

    ". The realization came in a flash when I fully realized what exactly is meant by "it all happens within you"

    HOW did you try to understand that it all happens within you?

    Can I do the same?


  6. 34 minutes ago, FoxFoxFox said:

    I don't have any special plans involving enlightenment. I'll share and help people seekers as they come, but don't plan on becoming a professional guru or anything.

    This was one of many aides and practices I used. It worked very well for me. I don't ascribe my success to any one practice though, rather I believe it was my intense desire (to the point of morbid fascination) for liberation that was the cause.

    The "I am" sense is your sense of being alive and existing. It's completely obvious. You don't need any special mediation to feel it. Rather you must stop confusing it with the somatic sensations coming from your body. The practice I described above helps with that.

    Hmm, so the sense of being alive and the one you described above as imagining peace around you expanding from your skins are a bit different from each other? because the IAM (sense of being alive) is what nisargadatta did


  7. "Imagine that all around your body is an invisible field of peace and bliss. Try and surrender to that by giving in. Imagine you are expanding out of your skin to merge with that field. The obstacle will be the thoughts in your head trying to bring you back in your body. Whenever that happens, just kill the thought from the get go (clear your head) and resume. The intensity of your desire will determine your chance of success."

     

     

     

    Is this the practice you did until enlightment happened?

     

    Is this the same as feeling the sense IAM?


  8. 7 minutes ago, eputkonen said:

    Extend it slightly...

    Who is thinking?

    -   I am.

    What is the source of this "I"?

     

    Who is focusing?

     - I am.

    What is the source of this "I"?

     

    Go to the source...and abide at the source.

    Ramana Maharshi said one of the main purposes of self enquiry is to quiet the mind...so if you found you are thinking a lot and have to re-focus often...then you were simply by-passing thought and refocusing on feeling...but that may not have been self inquiry.  Self inquiry is not simply repeately asking 'who am I" or 'who is thinking'.  Self inquiry is to go to the source of these thoughts.

    Is the source, the feeling of being, the feeling of IAM?


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    and only refer to your direct experience. Who is doing _______? Did I decide to do that, or did it just happen? 

    Do you do this LIVE? like when the movements are actually happening? for example, I am aware of my walking and then I ask/see for myself if I am doing the walking or the walking is just happening?

    Or, do I actually use a past memory where a situation has happened and to recall if I actually initiated the action or it just happened?