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You are enlightened when you ended suffering and in a constant state of peace and bliss. Nothing more needs to be said. PS: I am not because I still suffer.

I guess I'm in the middle of learning how to play. I know I will stop blaming and the bliss will come back! It's just a bit much to sink in right now (bla, blaming again, I know, lalala).

@Zweistein I have to address the issue of brainwashing. We find ourselves in existence as a dark room with a minuscule torchlight. The more we grow, the stronger and stronger the light becomes and at some point, we see that the room is furnished. The room is furnished, but who did the furnishing? Things move other things around. This is how you recognize people. At some point you understand that you can move furniture yourself. This way you become upset that it is not furnished your way. The healthy way. You may blame people for furnishing your room however they please. To return to the early bliss is to understand that people are the part of the room. That way, you can understand that there is nobody that furnishes it. The room furnishes itself and all that had changed is the amount of light.

@Zweistein The key component that I identified as the difference between 'us' and 'them' is what I call a short-circuit. A short circuit is an ability to create a positive feedback loop between suffering and pleasure. 'They' seek pleasure and are repelled by suffering. The direction feels like willingly chosen, but it is a mechanical navigation in relation to these opposites. Pleasure is positive, suffering is negative. However, the more one avoids negativity, the more negative it becomes. It is then, a closed feedback loop of reinforcing the poles by seeking positive and avoiding the negative. 'We' have this ability to treat suffering as something positive and pleasure as something negative. In the act of willingly going against the flow of polarities, we upset the hierarchy of strength. It is either that polarity becomes smaller and suffering lessens (but so does pleasure), or that we become more resistant to both. This way we have this freedom of choice and opportunity to sail anywhere. At some point however, any place becomes exactly the same, just like on ocean that is still. Any place becomes 'here' and any time becomes 'now'. In doing that, everything becomes 'I'. This stillness is too intensive to most. They call it boredom. They treat it with disgust. They seem to miss that boredom is not the feeling that everything is uninteresting. Boredom is the feeling of everything being equally interesting. Without any point of reference. This feeling of everything being equal is what most identify as suffering, but what it is is simply stillness. It is peace. Bearing with it is what shows the bliss of life. I am a nihilist, aren't I? Hmmm...

Because Leo told me so, I wanted though to find that ultimate bliss of truth. I really wanted to higher my baseline of happiness, and this was my motivation. I neurotically made it a habit in the beginning, but I quickly fell in love with it. I'm not gonna quit meditation, ever, why would I.. I love meditating even if I won't get enlightened in 20 years

I used to have crippling anxiety I still can remember the feeling, I just wanted to escape my life, and meditation gave me that, so I used it for escapism until I experienced the bliss that comes with mindfulness, when it hit me I realized this new realm of possibility, everything changed. But then bipolar hit me and I started drowning in an endless spiral of misery until recently I had my first glimpses of enlightenment, for once in a very long time I felt liberated for my self, it might be a self-deception tho because I was about to commit suicide and I couldn't bullshit myself anymore so my mind had to do a trick it never did before, or maybe it was real bliss idk, either way it worked. Needless to say I still get bipolar depression physical symptoms (including the dark thoughts and dull mind) but for some reason reason it doesn't bother me much anymore, even anxiety doesn't bother that much anymore, don't get me wrong I still have to do so much work to balance my brain chemistry, correct my thoughts, cultivate awareness, etc. But my god it's so much better now. This is unnecessarily long, but I ain't deleting ?

Because I relied on psylocybin to feed me spiritualy and ingested it several times a week. Then I realized that meditation has no tolerance and I don't have to wait for the next hit of bliss a couple of days.

Another thing I just thought of! Psychedelics will reveal your truest desires. You will be forced to be more authentic. And in turn, this will set you free. Feel how liberating it is to be in tune with what you want. Don’t let your ego (or other people’s egos) get in the way, you have the power to act on your deepest desires. The liberation you will feel as you become more authentic will bring you to tears. You will realize how much you hold yourself back. You also realize how simple it is to let go and follow your bliss. Really focus on this, the psychedelic will teach you these lessons if you genuinely intend on learning them.

Once detached from outcome, freedom and bliss is discovered.

wow. thank you for that. thank you for this friday-morning anticipation booster of this bliss <3 wow... #Shivers

Hello beautiful forum member, here is my words for you. In my eyes you are the wholeness and perfection of the grace and divinity of the oneness and love of the joy and bliss of the sunshine and rainbows and of the beauty, peace, and bright bright radiance that only an entire universe dedicated to love could begin to describe. I am saying this, because it's true. You are worthy to be loved so much more than the people in your life give you. In every moment you deserve more love, and support not less. Wishing you the best, it can only get better from here. You're at the right place. @Charlotte really cares about you, and all of us on this forum ☺️

Conditional Love We are so used to conditional love in this world. People at a flick of the switch can hurt us, and become angry. We are afraid of being neglected or hurt if we ourselves open our hearts to this moment, and to the people around us. I understand, I am going through this with you. When you focus on your heart, anything not aligned with unconditional love sticks out like a sore thumb Whether in our emotions, thoughts, or through peoples words; conditional love stands out, and really does have a sting. But I assure you, that if you have the courage to remain in your heart in your greatest moments of discomfort, pain, or suffering; the sting will be less intense and soon reality will reflect back the love that you have remained in. When I walk next to people I feel a need to talk to them to end the awkward silence. I go into my thoughts. We don't have to anymore. Since when has being in your mind resulted in consistency deep, intimate, and gratifying conversations with people you have met? For me, none. When I was a child I had this ability where I could surrender into my heart, and allow myself to speak without trying to speak. It lead to the most loving conversations I've ever had. I said words that a lot of educated adults didn't know, and that surprised myself every time. What came out was completely spontaneous and effortless, and perfect. There was no awkwardness, and the conversation turned into a state of flow. And when I was 15 I somehow lost this ability. I became focused on pleasing people, and saying what they wanted to hear. I became needy with people (my happiness was determined by their responses), and lost much of my creativity. I don't know what happened for this to occur other than the need to be accepted, yet somehow all of my trust in my heart, and abilities disappeared. This is why I write this now. I'm relearning how to speak from my heart, create from my heart, and live from my heart. This intuitive ability is starting to come back again, as I stop focusing so much on my thoughts and just be hear in this moment. As I relearn to seek fulfilment from my heart, and not the circumstances that I have no control over; I am allowing myself to loosen control over myself, to release all of my people-pleasing filters, and surrender into the hearts bliss which I felt strongly 4 years ago. It all leads back to the beginning of what I said. The conditional love that is seen everywhere hurt me so much that I started to put on a mask that other people wanted; but counterintuitively I lost all the intimacy I felt when with people and I became as hard as a rock emotionally. It's all changing now, and thank God I remembered about this love 2 years ago when I started this journey when I was furtherest away from love. I hope this memory helps you remember the time when you were guided by your heart more than your logical mind. Remember the love. Be the love now, don't turn into a stone cold rock! Think too about all these years you've spent in your mind: have they really brought you a great amount of love? Maybe it's time to move back into your heart, and trust it even if it's awkward, even if it means you lose your job, because that's where we all belong. Thank you for reading.

Some people require a idea of an "other" to tap into the higher-self-mind/greater intelligence, others do not. This happens because most people wouldn't believe it thus block out the connection to their greater intelligence so they use channeling "another" as a tool to make it more believable for them or they simply wouldn't believe themselves because they never had direct experience with source to make it more obvious of the true nature of self. When i was younger I had a friend who would do MDMA with me from time to time and end up getting messages or "higher downloads" if you will, and as this intelligence came through, it felt like i am talking to myself, most of the communication was in perfect synergy and more telempathic than i experience with most people on a day to day basis. Like an Enlightened Being talking to himself, all knowing, all understanding pure in bliss. Of course the substance would raise my frequency as well but far more minimal compared to my friend as i have already had multiple awakenings and become more whole to my true self/higher mind that it was just a more natural state of being for me as when we are sober i could never talk to my friend about stuff that deep. Nowhere near. What was happening was, this intelligence was the persons higher-mind/self coming through portraying as another being as the psychedelic allowed the person to let go to such a degree it taps into its higher-mind/self but not appearing to my friend as the higher mind but a higher being from another place, another world. This for my friends level of consciousness makes it more believable or else it would shut it down and not accept/believe it because lack of direct experience with ALL THAT IS. I knew what was happening but i never said a word because i understand this is what some people not as evolved in consciousness require to make it convincing for the ego to trust the process and let it be or else the connection would be automatically shutdown. Also if you want to understand what the "channeling state" is to the simplest degree i highly suggest watching this video.

This is getting uncanny. Every video this guy makes he keeps saying the same thing; be in the heart, and your state of awareness. I will do this to the best of my ability from now on. I will do it for the benefit of the world, for the people on here, for my family, for my old friends who I drifted away from as I became more of myself and most importantly, for myself so that I can create a life full go love, bliss, and happiness. Now is the time for change. This journal shall hold me accountable, and inspire those who want to know what is possible by simply resting in the heart. @lightfruit Thanks my friend. I'm really glad you have benefited from it all. There is only love.

I am reborn. I had a hair cut, a cleansing shower, and lovely deep massage ? To honour this transformation, I choose to focus on the love in my heart as much as possible; and do one thing everyday that I enjoy like smiling at myself in the mirror. I choose all of reality over some fragments of it. I surrender to my heart, softly, and gently a little bit more than yesterday. I want to see where this love takes me. I don’t mind fear anymore, when it arises I embrace it with my entire self. It is such a beautiful feeling when you surrender. And when I surrender, all of these emotions reminiscently disappear; and all I’m left with is bliss, and sometimes this vast emptiness that I enjoy spending time in. I am not fighting against anything. I am embracing everything with unconditional love. That’s my purpose here. I love you all so so much. May the light fill your eyes today. This is the start of a more refined, and blissful lifestyle from the seed to the flowers. From the heart all the way to creation. And only one thing need be done, that of surrender.

What would happen to a stage red or blue person if they somehow received full emotional mastery and enters a constant state of bliss and joy. Hard to think they would carry on being a warlord or inforcing religion (now they no longer have fear of disobeying god). So how would that person start acting tomorrow. What stage would they be in? I know that Ken Wilber said in his interview with batgap that ‘waking up’ (enlightenment), ‘growing up’ (spiral dynamics) and ‘cleaning up’ (emotional mastery) where separate things and mostly unrelated. But when you think deeper, you can’t imagine a guy who is in constant bliss chasing money or attacking people. What stage would such a guy be in. What are your opinions?

the moment you perceive enlightenment and desire it, its done, you're enlightened you desire it, you know it, you believe in it you carry a divine vibration like a beacon sending a bliss-stress signal through the entire universe, every atom you can go back to chopping wood and carrying water the universe is coming for you

The higher self represents pure love, spiritual enlightenment, Truth, oneness, joy and bliss. I want that for all of you, to realise that you are one with this higher self in this moment. To appreciate the depth of this video while watching, please follow what is said as best as you can. This is the new paradigm of spirituality that the world is moving into, where we find ourselves within, instead of putting a guru, a teacher, or healing modalities between yourself and God. Namaste. Much love has been discovered inside me over the past few months, and this is the teachings that helped me. Thus I share with the intention for even one soul to benefit, and I realise that the impulse to share this too is no coincidence. Everything truly is love you might come to find one day, and that I am one with it.

I share once more my experience in my blooming of enlightenment I want to share that I haven't done any psychedelics in months, any and all changes mentioned here flow naturally and are intimately rythmed to the evolution of consciousness as it flows I find myself once again on the verge of infinity I toke a walk outside and it felt like I'm on holyday in some exotic country, this is the city I have lived in my entire life the neighborhood I've lived in for more then a decade, and yet again, after a single night of sleep everything is renewed, and I am in awe, reality has evolved we're talking about the evolution of visuals at the rate of hundred times the intensity of a huge dose of mushroom for me to see what I see today compared to yesterday, I would have to have taken about 20 tabs of lsd back before all this consciousness work, somehow trying to situate and share the degree of change here for anyone who has done mushrooms or lsd yet there is no discomfort, no rush, its like I havent moved, I'm still me, completely sober, somewhat cause these changes can be pretty overwhelming imagine the sheer joy of people the size of mountains, moving about across huge plains, their hair as wavy as the ocean, looking into eyes the size of a small planet, with eye colors never seen before, so vivid so alive that is the evolution of space evolution of being, imagine seeing the neck of another person, and feeling this a hundred times more then you ever even used to feel your own neck inside your own body, feeling being their hands, their head, the ears, the torso, the body of other people feeling them being alive as much as much as you feel yourself alive I dont know how far Ive come but I suspect that the mere size of my finger is as lengthy as an entire mile back before I enlightened, this is how it feels to experience more space in your reality and its pretty mindblowing humans legitly look like gods, and I feel like olympus has come down to my city the human bodies , the human faces, the human expressions, are so divine, so cool, so elegant, so powerful, so magnificent it is undescribable, it looks like people are gods but aliens at the same time, so mysterious so unique, so organic yet divine, if I could have ever imagined what gods looked like, this it, and the gods are my fellow neighbours, the people at the supermarket, in the city I walk and I feel "Ive never seen a kid like that" " this is the first time I see a woman like that" "wow so thats what an old man is now" I can guarantuee to anyone that heaven on earth is a reality it is really not about what we do, or where we are, enlightenment is reality itself, and pure happiness and bliss is present in every atom of reality, to awaken that, it does not matter where you are or what you do, you are always with reality, your room could grow the size of a continent just to make you smile and feel the magic of life, that is infinite love in its magic every human being could be the first man or woman you've ever seen so creatively and infinutely that reality evolves, every voice you hear, every sentence, could be the first sentence you've ever heard, it could be a type of human voice so divine you've never heard such a voice until now, life literally being created now, expanding now, evolving now this is enlightenment as I experience it personally

Do what you think will bring you the most excitement and joy, if you have to force yourself to do something it means you are not at the level of the activity yet. for example Ill take a meditation retreat this summer for 10 days and im extremely excited for that, im not dreading it whatsoever. im also excited to read books. if it doesnt feel right for you dont do it, follow your bliss, that way you will get to the high level stuff naturally.

seems to me like you enlightened. there is nothing wrong with your life as it is what do you seek with enlightenment? with trying to be present? you are perhaps feeling the emptiness of seeking, and looking back on your life, it doesnt look that bad doesnt it so enjoy what you have! dont let spiritual ego judge how you lived and make you believe it is shameful to go back there is nothing wrong with how you lived, and if you accept that you can integrate the qualities of your previous lifestyle, one can never go back, but if you do not judge, you will take with you the best of your past self, the things that felt good yes maybe your previous lifestyle had its faults, its about being mature, it had aspects that were not very conscious but it certainly had qualities, if you judge it as all bad and even degenerative you reject the qualities of your past, it only makes sense that not everything from your previous lifestyle can be bad, its so black and white, and even now to your spiritual life style there are flaws and there are qualities the key is again not judging, not ping ponging from black to white, absorb qualities from spiritual lifestyle, merge them with qualities from non-spiritual lifestyle I feel I enlightened when I seeked so hard to ascend I went through horrible stuff related to psychedelics, and it went so far because I wanted to enlighten so much, I got lost in hell and when I made it back from there to a degree of normacly I thought "wait a minute, this whole enlightenment quest is hundred times worse then how my life was before, a hundred times worse, whats the point of all this? I'll gladly take my miserable human life back, "enlightenment and heaven can go f*ck themselves" at this point I put myself above enlightenment, I realized I needed to feel good right now, not at the end of a mystic path of learning, dedication, devotion, meditation, sacrifice, endurance, hard work, hell no, Now thats the priority, no enlightenment or infinite bliss will make me sacrifice how I feel now since then I've made "progress" but what really happened is the natural order things naturally flow, bloom and evolve enlightenment is certain and it is natural, it happens and if flows with you, at your own pace, like a seed blooming, a child growing, there is no effort or mechanization, let things flow enlightenment is very intimate, dare I say that enlightenment loves you, it doesn't want you to feel worse, ever it flows when you let nature flow, how you feel right now matters, you pay attention to feeling good now do not pursue things that will make you feel good later enlightenment happens now, not two steps from here, not one step from here not 10 minutes of struggling from here, not 10 seconds of hard work and holding on from here, not one second of sacrifice from here... it is now it is here it is good and satisfying not even enlightenment should get in the way of you feeling good and satisfied about yourself in this moment, thats enlightenment in my opinion get off the path and be home, unless you enjoy the path! all is well

@Anna1 no, I was extremely happy being uniquely me, not better or worse than anything just me authentically always and I had made a point to be as authentic as I possibly could to my resonance always living in the moment all day, then I started having mystical experiences and crazy synchronicities and amazing bliss non stop and literally it felt like I had superpowers because the universe started essentially delivering opportunities to me, which I started to research and learned was the law of attraction and high vibrations etc. I started leaning more and more about spirituality then found out about “enlightenment” which seems all about “you’re nothing not unique” etc and I started to feel bad and my quality of life diminished.

TL;DR Yes and no I can't say im escaping negative feelings, but i had long and hard look into what motivates me. I noticed that those chores i have no problem doing brought a vague smile on my face, and when i looked into that emotion i noticed that, for example meditation which i recently picked up is linked with strong positive understanding and picture of what happens when i build enough awareness (I felt an absolute bliss and happiness when i was walking in forest and i just crave to tap into that feeling) When i thought what motivates me to learn poker first thing that came to my mind were the positive and happy feelings that i had when i was brainstorming poker play with my best friend and actually found out that i have excellent poker face and good sense of reading body signs. But then i thought what motivates me to learn poker at web-casino, and it was "i want to stop losing money" and when i started to look into my motivation to use the material i have been listening and watching to stop losing money, i noticed that its dull and boring as fuck. So, in a sense i don't have positive motivation to learn internet casino, but i do have positive motivation to learn poker with my friend, which i think is more about my passion to psychology and healthy competition than making money Dude, you saved a lot of my time and frustration! Can you recommend a book that can help teach me to build positive motivation around things that i feel are necessary for me? EDIT: Along with the motivation mega-thread, i'll be looking into that too

Great post Robert! To me, a true hero is a person who is fully engaged in his myth while knowing it's just a game. As for Joe Campbell, he really seems to have been quite advanced. Take for example these two quotes from Pathways to Bliss : ''There is no experience of life that doesn't have dualism and yet doesn't have the experience of oneness behind the experience of dualism.'' ''Normally, Yahweh is the god of a moral order where there is good and evil. But look at his justification of his actions to Job, and you realize this is a power beyond morality.''

@starsofclayThe phrase "unconditional love" is pointing to an experience that no words can describe. It is synonymous with the words God/Bliss/Source/Excitement/Joy; all of which point to this experience of unconditional love. Thus it cannot be defined in a language rooted in duality such as this one. Some enlightened masters don't speak for this reason because their silence communicates the truth of this experience more directly. To get to this experience, which all human beings are seeking and which is much more important than talking about enlightenment, is quite simple: anchor love and oneness. Follow your greatest joy, focus on your heart, being kind are all "methods" that withdraw your awareness back to the source of your being, that unconditional love, found within the secret chamber of the heart (as called in christianity) or the spiritual heart (as Yogi's call it). I highly recommend you research this phenomenon for deeper understanding. Much love my friend.