The light

[Breakingthewall]

When your mind opens, it becomes the eye of reality. The self becomes the self of reality, since the self is only a structure within which observation takes place.

Reality has a self: you.

When the opening of perception is complete, what the self perceives is of total beauty. Reality lives, is life, is sacred, pure, is total. The unfiltered vision of reality overwhelms and fills the heart. It is the sacred source, the eternal Tao; it is brilliant, contains everything, is fullness. It is joy, it is the absolute glory of the totality, it is the light that blinds you. it is you.

You can never defile yourself again; you are no longer an animal seeking gratification, you are a servant seeking sacred duty. There is no reason for this except that it is what you want. 

Moments like this pass and are forgotten, but their effect endures. It doesn't mean you have to become a saint; you can be a ruthless in business, but change your vector . Change the source of your actions. Also changes the need, the lack. The impulse is to give more than take, to expand more than contract. It's subtle at first but the difference is total, it's a change of direction 

Edited yesterday at 09:01 PM by Breakingthewall

[Joseph Maynor]

What is the unfiltered vision of reality?

[Breakingthewall]

12 minutes ago, Joseph Maynor said:

What is the unfiltered vision of reality?

Just a subjetive experience of course. 

What happens when all the closures your mind and emotional system impose fall away, and perception becomes (subjectively) limitless

Then you don't just see vastness, you see essence. This is like any perception, something subjective, but the feeling of certainty, of seeing your ultimate essence, is absolute. This doesn't prove it; nothing can. But it is what it is, and it causes your psyche to volatilize, to vaporize.

It leaves your emotional system completely aligned, vibrating perfectly and powerfully, and your mind open and clean.

Not for ever of course. things aren't definitive or easy. We are human; our reality is difficult, complex, much more so than it seems.

[Breakingthewall]

35 minutes ago, Joseph Maynor said:

What is the unfiltered vision of reality?

Any mystical experience is a representation of the mind, but the mind is a representation of reality, or better, it's the reality appearing as a mind.

This doesn't mean that reality is sacred, etc., but rather that if you remove all bias, everything your emotional system seeks, desires, and fears, what remains appears as the pure and radiant origin of reality. It's absolutely clear, more real than any other perception. 

 

[Joseph Maynor]

1 minute ago, Breakingthewall said:

Any mystical experience is a representation of the mind, but the mind is a representation of reality, or better, it's the reality appearing as a mind.

But isn't this a thought or a belief? 

[Breakingthewall]

24 minutes ago, Joseph Maynor said:

But isn't this a thought or a belief? 

No, it's an experience. It's not just a subjective experience; there's a sensation of electricity flowing through your brain, and afterward, a strange feeling lingers for hours, both in your body and elsewhere. None of this is interpretive, and it's very difficult to recall even half an hour later.

I wrote it down right after it happened, and now I don't remember it exactly. What happens is that these kinds of experiences make your emotional and mental structure more plastic and open each time, which is the direction I'm aiming for. As I see it's essential due the emotional structure of humans nowadays, it's a trap of self reference that leads to very dark destiny. The only way is openess 

[Joseph Maynor]

25 minutes ago, Breakingthewall said:

No, it's an experience. It's not just a subjective experience; there's a sensation of electricity flowing through your brain, and afterward, a strange feeling lingers for hours, both in your body and elsewhere. None of this is interpretive, and it's very difficult to recall even half an hour later.

I wrote it down right after it happened, and now I don't remember it exactly. What happens is that these kinds of experiences make your emotional and mental structure more plastic and open each time, which is the direction I'm aiming for. As I see it's essential due the emotional structure of humans nowadays, it's a trap of self reference that leads to very dark destiny. The only way is openess 

Does the experience involve thought or words?

[Breakingthewall]

29 minutes ago, Joseph Maynor said:

Does the experience involve thought or words?

No, the experience is very simple and very brief. Suddenly, your entire conscious field is a brilliant white background, your emotional system is completely open. That's all, nothing more.

But the way you perceive it is as if you've seen the sacred source of reality; tears stream down your face, your hair seems stands on end, and your head feels like it's passing electricity. In that moment everything is absolutely obvious. After a while, it's impossible to remember. You can remember the idea, but not exactly the moment. 

[Hojo]

2 hours ago, Joseph Maynor said:

What is the unfiltered vision of reality?

The bottom of your visual field begins to float like a curtain and you are dissapearing or are going to fly away. Then you fly away.

It feels beautiful.

You become totally detached from reality.

Edited 23 hours ago by Hojo

[Hojo]

@Joseph Maynor Its a qualia , its like asking what is root beer without using root beer.

Only its a word no one knows.

Edited 20 hours ago by Hojo

[Mellowmarsh]

Is there a witness behind thoughts, or is “I am witnessing” just another thought passing by effortlessly?

[gettoefl]

Yes on the money, thank you.

 

 

[Breakingthewall]

11 hours ago, Mellowmarsh said:

Is there a witness behind thoughts, or is “I am witnessing” just another thought passing by effortlessly?

The way I see it is that the self is a structural reality that arises from the fact that experience is registered; that is, there is a record of change. Without this record, there would be no experience because experience is precisely perceived change.

The self can be absolutely silent, with zero self-reference, but it is implicit in experience. It is the very fact that there is experience. Thinking of the self as an idea of someone with certain characteristics, a past, etc., is a level that is quickly left behind in meditation, but in pure experience with zero structured thought content, there is a self; experience is "I am." It's not a witness, it's the very fact of the experience that has implicit the recognition of being 

Edited 5 hours ago by Breakingthewall

[Mellowmarsh]

1 hour ago, Breakingthewall said:

The way I see it is that the self is a structural reality that arises from the fact that experience is registered; that is, there is a record of change. Without this record, there would be no experience because experience is precisely perceived change.

The self can be absolutely silent, with zero self-reference, but it is implicit in experience. It is the very fact that there is experience. Thinking of the self as an idea of someone with certain characteristics, a past, etc., is a level that is quickly left behind in meditation, but in pure experience with zero structured thought content, there is a self; experience is "I am." It's not a witness, it's the very fact of the experience that has implicit the recognition of being 

So there’s just thoughts about thoughts then? And these thoughts just effortlessly appear and disappear, and there’s nothing making them happen or unhappen. 

Edited 4 hours ago by Mellowmarsh

[Breakingthewall]

28 minutes ago, Mellowmarsh said:

So there’s just thoughts about thoughts then? And these thoughts just effortlessly appear and disappear, and there’s nothing making them happen or unhappen. 

There are zero thoughts, as I said before. For me it's easy to stop the talk, I can be in silence without any interpretation walking in the street, meditating obviously. What I mean is that in absolute silence, without the slightest self reference, when only the clean experience in happening, there is I am. The experience is I am, because the experience is perception of change. And in absolute silence there is no total openess, there are many barriers. But those barriers can fall an the real nature of reality can be perceived. It's the reality perceiving it's nature. 

Those are not thoughts, are the explanation of a reality, it's like if I say: my foot hurts. Is this a thought? No, it's a communication of a reality, you don't need to think to have pain in your foot, but you can talk about it 

Btw, stop thinking it's not something that you can do at will if you didn't align yourself first, because the rumination is a signal that something needs to be aligned. Rumination is not something wrong to stop, it's a symptom, not a bad habit. Rumination is your ally, you are a human mind, rumination is the pain that tells you that something needs to be done. 

Edited 4 hours ago by Breakingthewall

[Mellowmarsh]

9 minutes ago, Breakingthewall said:

There are zero thoughts, as I said before. For me it's easy to stop the talk, I can be in silence without any interpretation walking in the street, meditating obviously. What I mean is that in absolute silence, without the slightest self reference, when only the clean experience in happening, there is I am. The experience is I am, because the experience is perception of change. And in absolute silence there is no total openess, there are many barriers. But those barriers can fall an the real nature of reality can be perceived. It's the reality perceiving it's nature. 

Those are not thoughts, are the explanation of a reality, it's like if I say: my foot hurts. Is this a thought? No, it's a communication of a reality, you don't need to think to have pain in your foot, but you can talk about it 

Well thanks for the talk about it.

But I don’t really think that’s what you are talking about, is it. It’s never about the about. I understand that. 

[Breakingthewall]

14 minutes ago, Mellowmarsh said:

Well thanks for the talk about it.

But I don’t really think that’s what you are talking about, is it. It’s never about the about. I understand that. 

The mind is the eye of the reality, is the self of the reality. The experience is the reality perceiving itself, always , even in a neurotic talk. The point is the level of that perception, it's different a silent mind, for example the mind of a cat, than a silent mind open to the ultimate nature of reality. Being open to tie ultimate nature of reality is not something that can be always, like your normal experience, it would kill you, the mind needs structure, barriers, if not it would be burn, the body would get damaged. 

Edited 3 hours ago by Breakingthewall

[Mellowmarsh]

24 minutes ago, Breakingthewall said:

Btw, stop thinking it's not something that you can do at will if you didn't align yourself first, because the rumination is a signal that something needs to be aligned. Rumination is not something wrong to stop, it's a symptom, not a bad habit. Rumination is your ally, you are a human mind, rumination is the pain that tells you that something needs to be done. 

Well don’t let the voices in your head talk you out of this chatter in your head. 

[Breakingthewall]

1 minute ago, Mellowmarsh said:

Well don’t let the voices in your head talk you out of this chatter in your head. 

I write just because I like express my reality, if you don't want to read or understand don't do, but try don't be unrespectful if you could, maybe you think I'm a liar but as I'm not it's not nice to listen, over all without any attempt to understand 

[Mellowmarsh]

4 minutes ago, Breakingthewall said:

I write just because I like express my reality, if you don't want to read or understand don't do, but try don't be unrespectful if you could, maybe you think I'm a liar but as I'm not it's not nice to listen, over all without any attempt to understand 

With all due respect, You don’t need others to understand anything, you don’t need to be understood, you’ve made it pretty obvious by now that are doing just fine understanding yourself. I respect that.