Enlightenment: The Ego, what is it? How to transcend it.

[greybeard]

Heaven is within
You are already at the destination.
There is no journey as such
We are in Divine hypnosis
Enlightenment means freedom from ignorance
The ignorance being the lack of knowing our true identity..
Your last few lines are the truth-- can i suggest stick with that Rgray222
Love Chris

[Docim369]

Plain and simple. You put it so beautifuly, Chris.

[Wind]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=TZwL3VObscc

"On the path to self-realisation, what can we do to dissolve the belief in being a separate self?

What will aid us in letting go of ego and finding the way to lasting inner peace?

Rupert says we have been rehearsing this belief for decades, so it's a strong habit and it has a counterpart in our body as feelings. Our feelings and beliefs together work to substantiate this illusory separate self. That is why, although the separate self is an illusion, it is a very powerful one. That’s why we have to go back again and again and again to our true nature. And every time we do, we just weaken that belief a little bit more.

The belief and feeling of separation is a restriction on our true nature, a suppressing and conforming agent in society, standardising everybody's thoughts and feelings, which is why when you get a group of people together who are deeply interested as we all are in these matters, you get these beautiful, colourful, quirky characters."

[greybeard]

I appreciate all who post on threads I have started
Im a bit reclusive at the moment.
With Love
Chris

[Icare]

Posted by greybeard (here)
I appreciate all who post on threads I have started
Im a bit reclusive at the moment.
With Love
Chris

And we appreciate you, Chris

With love,
Icare

[gini]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=SzmGkRF2ggU

--15 min.--
If there was anyone who knew how to cultivate compassion, it was Milarepa.
Milarepa was an enlightened Tibetan spiritual master who was born in 1452.
He is considered one of the greatest Buddhist masters who ever lived. During his lifetime, Milarepa established the lineage of the Kagyu sect; however, he is very highly venerated, to this day, by all schools of Tibetan Buddhism.

Today as we go through this school of life, we shall try to understand how an enlightened person lives. In our pursuit of wonder, we shall borrow knowledge from the following traditions: Buddhism(Zen and Tibetian), Advaita Vedanta, Taoism, Confucianism and other schools of philosophy.

In the West, the intuition of emptiness (expressed in Western philosophy often as nihilism) is conceived as lack. This inherent sense of lack, according to the scholar David R. Loy, is seen as needing to be overcome or obsessively filled. This explains the West's hyper-consumerism, narcissism, and obsession with things and status.

We obsessively spend our days in the desperate attempt to fill with consumer goods the void intuited at the centre of existence.

The East (even though becoming more and more Westernised every day) has traditionally seen emptiness, not as lack, but as pure potentiality.

That is to say, emptiness is seen as pure allowing. That which allows anything at all to exist.

Emptiness is seen as the generative ground from which anything at all can arise.

[truthseekerdan]

Greetings to all, and to the creator of this great thread by the name Chris

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=hddHUVsVO-w

[greybeard]

Great to see you truthseekerdan -- you have been away a while
I dont come here that often -- the thread looks after itself thanks to Wind and other regulars.
Love Chris

[greybeard]

FULL Disclosure: Where We Really Come From! NEW Evidence From ETs, Atlantis & Pyramids Gregg Braden

I have posted this here as there is spiritual content
HOWEVER if a Mod can find a better place feel free to shift.
Its fascinating.
Chris

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=YxW0OfIa2DM

[greybeard]

This is a Must watch --its awesome -- not something I say often
So please listen to what Gregg is saying
As most of it is in duality I dont agree with all of it but while I am in duality he really makes sense.
Love Chris

[gini]

Sure not everybodies cup of tea,challenging and authentic never the less. And pretty entertaining ! =

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=apQCTgu0e6E

Do we have free will to manifest? Can we Money, healthy body, partner, or an awakening? It sure appears that we do. These videos discuss: Nonduality, Self-Inquiry, and Awakening. They also clear up misnomers about Enlightenment. These are the same topics taught by Mooji, Papaji, Ramana Maharshi, and Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj. The main focus of this channel is to surrender and realize our formless nature and thus experience more joy in our human life.

[Wind]

Monkey see, monkey do.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=2Yz9_7dd8xM

[O Donna]

Monkey mind chimes (in):

The basis for all computers/ computing and thus, by extension, PA: the monkey mind.
Monkey mind = problem-reaction-solution device.

Money mind stops:

I'll be sittin' when the evenin' comes
Watching the ships roll in
Then I watch 'em roll away again
- Otis Redding / Steve Cropper

[O Donna]

Put another way, stopping the monkey mind, as an action, IS the monkey mind.

[Wind]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=WdELSsHIRWc

"The divine name, or ‘I’ refers to the most intimate, obvious aspect of our experience.

In this guided meditation Rupert Spira takes us directly to that essential, unchanging aspect of ourselves.

Rupert says notice that whatever experience we are having, it is I who am having it. All our experience revolves around ‘I’. ‘I’ is as such the ever-present aspect in our always-changing experience and being the common factor in all experience, ‘I’ cannot be limited to or defined by any particular experience. In its purest form, ‘I’ is as such unqualified and unconditioned and having no qualities or conditions, it cannot be said to be limited.

For us to experience our Self as we essentially are we do not have to go anywhere or do anything — we simply need to sink deeply into our Self, allowing ourselves to be divested of all the temporary finite qualities that we derive from the content of experience. What remains is just the fact of being or being aware. We are essentially infinite being temporarily clothed in human experience and seeming to become a finite being, without ever, in fact, ceasing to be infinite being."

[greybeard]

I have had challenges.
I got close to a drug addict, and was trying to help her get clean for two years, I got her interested in spiritual but it was three steps forward and two back as far as the habit went.
A lovely intelligent woman with a lot of potential
Sad thing is she took an involuntary overdose and died several weeks ago.
I miss her terribly but it was probably for the best.
Chris

[Wind]

I'm sorry for your loss, Chris. Something like that can never be easy, always a tragedy. Addictions as such can be terrible in many ways...

[O Donna]

Maintaining form integrity takes its toll even amongst the strongest of us.

[Harmony]

Posted by greybeard (here)
I have had challenges.
I got close to a drug addict, and was trying to help her get clean for two years, I got her interested in spiritual but it was three steps forward and two back as far as the habit went.
A lovely intelligent woman with a lot of potential
Sad thing is she took an involuntary overdose and died several weeks ago.
I miss her terribly but it was probably for the best.
Chris

So sorry to hear of you and your friends' difficult times. May your friend be at peace now and you, Chris be well, so wonderful that she had you close through this difficult period.

[O Donna]

Every season has its change and I will see you when the sun comes out again.
- Sophie B. Hawkins

As mere words, they do nothing. However, in the sun they express along the spectrum of a greater truth.