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

[DeDukshyn]

Posted by truthseekerdan (here)

As I was enjoying my experience, a sudden thought about the Sun came into my awareness. ...

Exactly as it was for me ... I was listening to this; it was the references to the sun in this song that acted as a trigger ... I was listening to this while in a slightly meditative state. In fact It was exactly 4:27 in this song ... "... to Feel the Sun, strong against your face."

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=yGp5SoSDxwE

[truthseekerdan]

Posted by DeDukshyn (here)

Posted by truthseekerdan (here)

As I was enjoying my experience, a sudden thought about the Sun came into my awareness. ...

Exactly as it was for me ... I was listening to this; it was the references to the sun in this song that acted as a trigger ... I was listening to this while in a slightly meditative state. In fact It was exactly 4:27 in this song ... "... to Feel the Sun, strong against your face."

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=yGp5SoSDxwE

Nice song (downloaded)!

More great info about The Sun - according to The Law of One Books/Material:

http://www.lawofone.info/results.php?q=sun

[betoobig]

WWWWWOOOOOUuuuuuuuUUU!!!!!!
DeDukshyn and Truthseekerdan....
If i had to wait for this stories i would, worth , extremly worthfully.
So much thanks for shareing. I am going to read it again . I could feel the energy as i reed, kundalini going wild.... I even felt my pineal gland poping.
Wou!! Ufff.
Wonderfull, beutifull....
Much love

[Clear Light]

Ah, lol, I hope this image doesn't offend anyone, I think you can all guess that it's meant as a humorous jest along the lines of the "spirit" of this thread ...

[greybeard]

Posted by Clear Blue Skies (here)
Ah, lol, I hope this image doesn't offend anyone, I think you can all guess that it's meant as a humorous jest along the lines of the "spirit" of this thread ...

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I tried the number, no response--sigh.
Guess my beard is too short.
Smiling.
I love the humour on this thread.
Chris

[Clear Light]

Posted by greybeard (here)

Posted by Clear Blue Skies (here)
Ah, lol, I hope this image doesn't offend anyone, I think you can all guess that it's meant as a humorous jest along the lines of the "spirit" of this thread ...

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I tried the number, no response--sigh.
Guess my beard is too short.
Smiling.
I love the humour on this thread.
Chris

Heh ! I got through first time but there was no-one there



[The best image I could find of relative vs absolute]

[Guish]

A Zen master visiting New York City goes up to a hot dog vendor and says, "Make me one with everything."
The hot dog vendor fixes a hot dog and hands it to the Zen master, who pays with a $20 bill.
The vendor puts the bill in the cash box and closes it. "Excuse me, but where’s my change?" asks the Zen master.
The vendor responds, "Change must come from within."

[Guish]

Q: What happens when a Buddhist becomes totally absorbed with the computer he is working with?
A: He enters Nerdvana.

[RunningDeer]

- The Buddha said nothing, and everyone laughed.

- A buddhist walks into Subway and says "Make me one with everything”.

- Why couldn’t the buddhist vacuum in corners?
Because he had no attachments

- Someone sent the Buddha a gift box tied with a ribbon.
Buddha opened it to find it empty.
"Aha!", he said, "Just what I wanted. Nothing!"

- One zen student said, “My teacher is the best. He can go days without eating.”
The second said, “My teacher has so much self-control, he can go days without sleep.”
The third said, “My teacher is so wise that he eats when he’s hungry and sleeps when he’s tired.”

- So a monk walks up to a hot dog vendor in NYC city and asks, "can you make me one with everything?"

- Knock Knock!
Whose there?
…

- Q: What happens when a Buddhist becomes totally absorbed with the computer he is working with?
A: He enters Nerdvana.

- "Why couldn't Waldo have become a Buddhist and found himself?”

- How many zen monks doe sit take to change a lightbulb?
Three
One to change it, one to not change it, and one to neither change it nor not change it.

random pic


Arj Barker Sickest Buddhist
warning: strong language

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=h5XnFAcjAJY

[Wind]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=xlIrI80og8c

[ZooLife]

I see all of you have finally made it off your rocker.

I know, because I have been waiting for you here.

[ZooLife]

[Guish]

Posted by ZooLife (here)

Amazing Zoey!

[betoobig]

A very drunk man is kicking a nun's butt while screaming:
DEFENSE YOURSELF...BATMAN

[Guish]

You are the flower
Your surroundings can be muddy but you are still the flower
Thoughts as waves will move you but you are still the flower
The water will get dirty like the thoughts and conflicting feelings
But you are still the flower
Know that I will always love you.

[Meggings]

Greybeard, I just read material you posted on the previous page, discussing Russell Williams. These words are as close as anything to what I experienced in the years I "lived in the light".

I'd once described it to a son that I had lived in "no thought", and he lashed out in anger at me saying I was abdicating my responsibility. (!!!) That confused me, but later I understood it was his angry ego lashing out.

When I catch the time, I want to listen to the hour talk you gave a link to. Russell speaks of the peace that passeth all understanding, and that is what I lived in. I described it in later years that I just sat and beamed. Thankfully my partner cared for me, without anger or irritation, and spirit arranged for me to be untouched by the world, having "lost everything", during that time.

He hasn't had any unwanted thoughts since he was 29 years old. 'The only way to attain experience is to come to complete emptiness; that is to come to the end of the thought mind.
But you will find that the emptiness was never empty because it is a potential for all that may come to be. We enter into an area of extremely fine aspects of consciousness that dissolves into itself and loses duality.
And then there is only 'that.' Everything leads back to this emptiness.
No form of understanding can connect you to this. It has to be seen within itself.
The peace that passes all understanding that is emptiness.
It is completely fulfilling in itself.
You can just BE instead of think.

Now that I've written this post, it seems silly to me, for I am not adding to anyone's understanding by doing so. But for the one slight sliver that what one ordinary person has done is there for all to do.

Words are tiresome often, which is why I turn to artwork instead of reading. Here is this afternoon's beginning at a new piece. I think spirit moves through me and in creating the little things I make, I again approach "no thought".

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[greybeard]

There is an energy behind your words Meggings which adds to this "understanding"at non verbal level.
Much love
Chris

[Clear Light]

Oh, IMHO conceptual thinking is all well and good, but thinking (per se) cannot "get" you to the non-conceptual, to a view of / as "emptiness" ... as it is simply like further spinning of the wheels of conceptual mind ! Who (or what) is this sense of 'I' anyhow ?

[Meggings]

Posted by greybeard (here)

Posted by greybeard (here)
Non Duality - Awakenings (loaded 16 January 2016)
Russel Williams - 'Looking Through The Horse's Eyes' - Interview by Iain McNay.
....
f consciousness that dissolves into itself and loses duality.
And then there is only 'that.' Everything leads back to this emptiness. No form of understanding can connect you to this. It has to be seen within itself.
The peace that passes all understanding that is emptiness.
It is completely fulfilling in itself.
You can just BE instead of think.

http://conscious.tv/nonduality.html?...=4700956433001

I have listened all the way through and if time is limited I would start at the 30 minute mark. Russel is 95 and still going strong, with humour.

A very clear pointing towards enlightenment---a spontaneous awakening.

...well worth listening to.
With love
Chris

Chris, I listened to this conversation this afternoon and was enthralled.
This is the closest to my experience I have encountered in anyone, and it warms my heart to "feel" him.

As you, I became rapt around the 30-minute mark. Around 40 minutes he says people can do similar to what he's done by...and he gives us his view on it.

Helpful to me was how he said all the anger and emotions were in the body still, and even though the experience of death from electrocution had wiped it all out temporarily, that it came back. That part for me was the hardest of all, and I guilted myself for the emotional upheavals that returned to me after living in a "high state" for so long. I had thought I was faulty.

Thank you for this. I love this soul. He speaks a truth on my behalf when he says "I'm looking at you through feeling and not by seeing." It is good for me to see those words, for that is what I do. And the person can be on the other side of the world and I am feeling them.

Again I thank you for this talk, Chris. It is excellent to me.

[greybeard]

Thanks Meggins for your valued sharing.

I would suggest to anyone who has not listened to the video linked above to do so, particularly if you have a love of animals or doubts about Oneness/non-duality. An excellent talk and evidence that enlightenment can spontaneously happen.

Much love
Chris