Enlightenment in two steps

[Breakingthewall]

The first step is to empty the mind completely until reaching a point where only the fact of being remains. You are reality becoming aware that it is. Like a mirror reflecting another mirror.

At that moment, you are not a person looking at reality; you are the property of reality of looking at itself, of becoming conscious of itself.
Any other “I am,” stripped of everything else, is this same “I am.” There is no other. It is the same in different coordinates. You are not someone or something; you are a property of reality.

Once reality can easily settle through you in the fact of “I am" absolutely empty of anything else, then reality can open itself to the fact of becoming conscious of “what I am.” This is not an understanding but an opening of the “heart,” because the heart , what reality truly is , reveals itself.

The absolute power of reality reveals itself as a total explosion of freedom, an inexhaustible creative flow erupting like a never-ending supernova. The word glory, etc, could be used but it sounds subjective valoration. Lets say unlimited vitality that emerges from the unlimited, absolute potential manifesting itself without limit. It's perceived as something much better than any possible good thing that the mind could imagine before. Another valoration, I know, but it's the case. It's perceived as the "absolute better". 

Through the human interface, the self-perception of reality can briefly open completely to its own nature.
This is not a mental image, not something imagined, but something that can melt the mind itself. Achieving even a moment of openness to the total  alive is not merely a vision, but a flame that produces a structural transformation within you.

Obviously, you are not going to walk down the street in an unlimited state in which reality explodes continuously, but you begin to perceive the vitality of reality within experience itself. The filter that attenuates experience begins to fall away, and everything is perceived as the living flow of what reality is. 

The “I am” is seen as an intrinsic property, not as the essence. The essence is living limitlessness in its inexhaustible expansion. That's why the idea "reality is consciousness" is wrong. It's a barrier, behind the barrier of the void of the I am is where the real thing is waiting to be discovered.

[gettoefl]

Agreed. Just invented a word - emptify as your step one. Remove the imputed meanings from all I see. Step two I call healing. Means restores the nothing to what it is - everything. 

Good work.

[Ziran]

17 hours ago, Breakingthewall said:

The absolute power of reality reveals itself as a total explosion of freedom

..., a total explosion of freedom AND restraint.  The power is simultaneously extroverted AND introverted, exploding AND contracting.  The contractions are shaping the myriad of manifestations.  Arguably, the contractions are far more powerful than the expansion, because the singular nearly infinite expression of power is subservient to the many.

[Ziran]

49 minutes ago, gettoefl said:

emptify

Awe

[gettoefl]

Yes when understanding ends, God begins. Look at a tree in such a way.

[Breakingthewall]

1 hour ago, Ziran said:

total explosion of freedom AND restraint.  The power is simultaneously extroverted AND introverted, exploding AND contracting

 

 the point of those words was describing how it feels a total opening to the source not a description of what reality is. I told that was subjective. Anyway contraction is also reality happening, same than destruction. Are potential developing, an equation taking place because it's possible 

The source is unlimited potential ,period . It's absolute power, and it permeates everything. The point is not knowing it, it's being open to it. The difference is total.

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[Breakingthewall]

3 hours ago, gettoefl said:

Agreed. Just invented a word - emptify as your step one. Remove the imputed meanings from all I see. Step two I call healing. Means restores the nothing to what it is - everything. 

Good work.

The step one is not just removing meaning, is being absolutely empty of yourself, of anything except the fact of perceiving yourself. It's impossible removing it because it's the fact of existing as a conscious being. It's not the idea, but the fact. 

Step two is opening and this is the difficult one. The first one is easy, the second not so. It's something that can happen, needs that your inner disposition is giving yourself to the reality, open your heart to what is. It's not like you think: I give myself etc, it's that your real inner disposition is that. No greed, openness, surrender. If the openess happen, it's not something that you realize, it's not in the mind, it's all your being that opens to it's unlimited nature. 

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[gettoefl]

2 hours ago, Breakingthewall said:

The step one is not just removing meaning, is being absolutely empty of yourself, of anything except the fact of perceiving yourself. It's impossible removing it because it's the fact of existing as a conscious being. It's not the idea, but the fact. 

Step two is opening and this is the difficult one. The first one is easy, the second not so. It's something that can happen, needs that your inner disposition is giving yourself to the reality, open your heart to what is. It's not like you think: I give myself etc, it's that your real inner disposition is that. No greed, openness, surrender. If the openess happen, it's not something that you realize, it's not in the mind, it's all your being that opens to it's unlimited nature. 

Very helpful, friend. In ACIM, they say step 2 is not something I do but I put the conditions in place and the absolute takes the final step. To my understanding, it is me being restored to what I am. And like you say it is outside the mind's jurisdiction. 

[Breakingthewall]

@gettoefl this quote of nisgardatta is perfect. 

When the 'I Am' dissolves into the Absolute, all traces of individuality disappear, but what remains is not the emptiness of a corpse. It is the original source of all life, a state of pure dynamism and unlimited potentiality that needs no witnesses to exist. In that state, you are not conscious of being alive; you are Life itself flowing, a fullness so massive that the birth and death of entire universes are merely tiny bubbles rising to the surface of your own being.

 

 

This one of Hawkins is also good.

The presence of Reality is not felt as a continuous electric shock, but as a background of intrinsic vitality. The physical world is perceived as a hyperrealistic high-definition film, where every object shines with the energy of its own being. The observer has become transparent; there is no longer anyone there 'watching,' only the unfolding of existence.

 

I paste my text in Gemini and asked for similitude in spiritual literature. Those for me are what enlightenment means. Enlightenment is not more than that, but that's everything. No god, angels or mystery, just what reality is, inevitable. the power of the unlimited happening, the unlimited life. Not a Buddhist peace but a expansion of freedom, creativity, power. And its clear that it's what reality is, and you are that in the form of a human that can be conscious of what he is. But over all what you are is that unlimited life that emerges without end and the human is just a transparent structure that is happening now, a possibility taking place 

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