I saw a lot of "what I'm being aware of is not here yet" " I keep seeing my old .... but I know the thing I'm aware is the only truth "
It seems like you guys just changed the word "manifesting" and "imagining" to "being aware" of without actually understanding what it means.
If you are aware of something you won't say or you don't have it yet lr that you are aware of it but still stuggles etc , aware of it means knowing / experiencing it now , it's not a method . You are aware of reading those words, you are aware of waiting for what you want, you are aware of everything you experience right know ! It's not a method to manifest and get it later!!
As I said in my first post here, when I say observe wanting it then observe having it , it's really observe it unfolding now the same way you observe yourself wanting tea and then making tea . It's not "be aware of (wanting) it only , and keep doing that until you see it" , no ! You exeprience it now. Stop identifying with the body as if it has a factual appearence that you need to change. It's not there already. If you want something, experience it , stop thinking you have to wait or , that it is a desire. The moment you "imagine" it, it's already an experience as real as the words you're reading now (meaning it's not), stop labelling it as false and imaginative (in the way that it's imaginative compared to reality , but yes it is as imaginary as the world you think it's real, and vice versa) . Both are illusions
As someone new to non-dualism can you please explain for me the difference between it and law of assumption because am really confused
Sorry for my english am not good at it
And thank you❤️
Your English was just fine :)
Law of Assumption:
You are God, taking on the form of a human, you create your own reality. There are an infinite amount of realities you can experience meaning anything is possible. Others don't have "free will" in your reality, meaning you can select a different version of a person to experience whenever you want (example: your SP going from ghosting you to wanting to be in a relationship). To manifest, you must fulfill yourself in imagination (4D) because imagination is the only reality. By fulfilling yourself in imagination, you "feel it real" (knowing the desire to be yours) even if 3D shows otherwise. The 3D (physical) reality is only a mirror to the 4D and is not based on truth. Focus on having your desire in imagination ONLY, you can do this through affirming, scripting, visualizing, void state etc
Non Dualism:
You are God, awareness, consciousness, ONLY. You are not your human body, mind or identity (ego). Consciousness is the only reality. Nothing outside of consciousness is real. When you "manifest or reality shift," you are simply bringing experiences into consciousness. When you "shift" to Hogwarts, you are just bringing Hogwarts into consciousness. There is no seperation between 4D and 3D, both are the same, both are imaginary. Seeing a dog in imagination is the same as seeing a dog in the "physical." The second you experience something in imagination, it exists. As consciousness, there is nothing and no one seperate from you, all people, objects, worlds, universes are all forms of consciousness. You are the trees, the ocean, your parents, you are everything. Because you, consciousness, are everything, that means you never lack anything. The ego gives the illusion of separation and lacking things, but it's not based in truth. You are always whole and complete. Doing manifestation methods is unecessary unless you're doing it for fun. The goal is to stop identifying with ego and realize your true Self. Once you do that, you'll never desire again.
I like the Sims analogy so I will use it for the sake of this post.
In the Sims, you create characters, you create their homes, you basically create their entire world from scratch! You decide the character's gender, what they wear, their personalities, what career they will have, you decide everything!
While this world that you created is YOURS, your true self is the creator. In the game, you may have designed a character to represent "you" but you understand that the character is not actually YOU! You control the character and make decisions for it, but you are the life and awareness behind the character, not the character itself!
The same thing applies to this dream-illusion world/universe you are currently experiencing. You created the game, but you are beyond the game. The body is a character you are currently experiencing, but now you understand that it's only a character and not you! The body is as customizable, rearrangeable as it is in the Sims game. The world, the universe, being your creation, a part of you, is just as changeable, malleable and customizable as the Sims game!
This is all one big game, all under your control, and it's meant to be FUN!
I've noticed an increase in "how do I stop thinking of ND/AV as method" asks so allow me to address this as well.
This question often stems from:
Trying to get something- we've already established that there's nothing to get. Awareness is everything and all experiences are the same. There's no "me" here to get something.
Trying to accomplish something- Yes, at the beginning of my seeming "ND journey" I would preach about dropping ego, becoming void of thoughts, and "becoming" realized. However as I grew, I realized that there's no *grand experience* to wait for that indicates I'm "fully realized." You have never stopped being awareness, THAT, or " ". There's nothing you have to do to become this. You already are. There's nothing to achieve. (I may need to delete some of my posts from the master list ngl)
"I still get thoughts about waiting for the ""physical"" to conform"
Ignore them and stop identifying with them. That's all.
“There’s nothing to achieve, there’s nothing to do”
Please don’t misinterpret this as staring at a wall, some of you guys think you must sit still like a rock in silence then get frustrated.
Who thinks they must do or achieve something? 🤔 There is nothing to achieve or do because there is no one actually there to do so!
Just notice that which always IS, regardless of whether you are staring at a wall or playing games or sitting by the beach. None of it matters because nothing is ever actually happening.
What always IS? (regardless of what is seemingly happening, through dream sleep waking etc)
Who is aware of being aware?
^ just some pointers
It’s truly not a method at all, these posts are just pointing to “ “ , just notice / see where they are pointing.
Also this stuff has been repeated a million times in many posts and asks. I promise that anything you want to ask these bloggers is something you can answer yourself. YOU are all that there is, there are no others (and spoiler: there is actually no one to ask and nothing to answer, just what always is 👁️)
I would like to add, some of you are worried about what thoughts/feelings are appearing when you are "aware of what you want", these don't matter either.
This indicates that you're worried about "doing it right", aren't you the ultimate authority? There's no right or wrong. Whatever you are aware of, is. Anxiety can't ruin it, guilt can't ruin it, thoughts about "your old life" can't ruin it.
All thoughts and feelings are completely meaningless, and have nothing to do with you whatsoever.
You're giving your power away to meaningless sensations and entertaining the idea of failure when there's no such thing. How can failure exist for the ultimate authority?
Something I noticed occurs naturally to me during the day, is thinking about something sad/embarrassing from my past and then going "I'm so glad I'm not the type to do that anymore", same goes with seeing people struggle with things, "I'm so glad I'm not the type to worry over that now". And tonight, while in the shower, it came to me that this could be a really great explanation for how to live in the end. Basically, all those thoughts are thoughts I don't will to happen, you know those thoughts that appear like they think themselves. I subconsciously dismiss being anything like that past version of me, and I'm happy in the knowledge that I moved past it - all of it happening automatically.
So if you have thoughts like "I need to say my affirmations", "I need to check my state", you're not living in the end but still desiring. When you're able to look at the thing you desire as being something that was once a dream, but now only a memory - you've entered the state of the wish fulfilled.
When desire turns into identity, you know you've succeeded in fulfilling yourself. So start telling yourself you're not the type to!, and only go forward in the knowledge you've changed.
Neville talks about this in his lecture, Believe It In:
If I now say: “I remember when I lectured at the Woman’s Club in Los Angeles” I am implying I am no longer there, and am where I want to be. Remembering when you were poor, I have taken you out of poverty and placed you in comfort. I remember when you were sick, by taking you out of sickness and placing you in the state of health. I remember when you were unknown, implies you are now known.
My notes: This is basically a TLDR version of my first 4dbarbie remix post How to realise Self. My original intention for that post was actually to make something like this, a really straightforward (and short lol) practical guide on how to let go of the ego in order to realize Self that I could refer to and apply on a day to day basis. It ended up being a long essay (it was over 3000 words aha) as I decided to go through all her posts and answered asks and found a lot of important information to include so it sort of became more of an educational post (which I'm glad to have made and it helped me understand everything better too!). So anyway, here it is. Pretty much all of the below information was taken from my How to realise Self post (besides the suggested exercises section at the bottom) - I just extracted the more practical guidance outside the explanations to make it. As always, my personal notes and highlights are in purple text.
Just let go of the ego, that’s how simple it is. All you need to fix is your wrong identification. There isn't anyone who couldn’t materialize anything right now if he or she would just let go of identifying as the limited body. 1
Stop thinking you are Vanessa, the thoughts of needing this or that drop away. To change, you need to give up this conviction of being this person. You need to disbelieve. 2 A lot of beliefs are subconscious. "I am a body", "I am Vanessa", "There is a world" are all subconscious, automatic beliefs. Upon investigation you can get rid of any belief (by making them conscious and then dropping them). 14 How do you drop a belief? (see part 1 and part 2)
All you need to do is detach from this form during the day, let life happen as it happens while reminding yourself it's a dream, a dream that doesn't have to be yours. 3
What I recommend you to do is bring your self into focus, become aware of your own existence. See how you function, watch the motives and the results of your actions. Study the prison you have built around yourself because of credulity. By knowing what you are not, you come to know your self. The way back to your self is through refusal and rejection. 4
Leave your mind alone, that is all. Don't go along with it. 5 Thoughts will keep on coming for a while, just now you know they have nothing to do with you. Get into a habit of watching, letting them be but not identifying with them. If you can observe them, it means you are not them. 6
Step away and look (observe). The physical events will go on happening, but by themselves they have no importance. It is your mind alone that matters. When you identify yourself with them, you are their slave, you think you have to act on them. When you stand apart, you are their master 7
Just stop taking the thoughts you don't like for truth or reality. There is no convincing involved, it is all letting go. 8 Doesn't matter what the thought is, leave it alone, ignore it BUT not by force of will, just indifference 9
Start letting go bit by bit, just to see what happens. You won't start "acting crazy" just because you become uninterested in thoughts, I promise 10
You don't need to convince yourself they're unreal, just dismiss them (your thoughts) as not yours. They will disappear more and more through your newfound indifference, then their physical counterparts will, too. Detachment is by doubt and indifference. First you start doubting "the facts", then you become indifferent to the facts, lastly there are no facts anymore and you can establish your own. 9
Your next step will be realizing there is nothing to learn in a dream. You'll find yourself having less and less thoughts, then none at all. Then, only if you want, you will be able to reinstall the mind, now of your choice, and change the dream. 3
All you need is to get rid of the tendency to define your self. All definitions apply to your body only and to its expressions. Once this obsession with the body goes, you will revert to your natural state, spontaneously and effortlessly. 4
Be patient with yourself because you don't lose any time, just get to that place I'm telling you about and then you can just go back in time if you so wish. All worry is pointless! And there is nothing to fear, things just happen, do not claim them as yours for a while. Unclutter your mind, it becomes your servant after you've freed it enough. 11
Reminder: This body and this world are not forced onto you, they exist through your identification with them. Not yours, remember? Repeat. Not yours. You won't lose your mind, you'll only lose your misery. After you've detached, you'll easily shift to as many realities as you want - don't put any on a pedestal of desire, they are equal. See this world and the body as not real first. What is true is only what I AM is identified with, right now this body which is not in that TV show (referring to anon's desire). Correct this first by letting go of thinking it's you. 12
Suggested exercises (not required if you don't want to do it!)
1. Sitting in silence & just being with no thoughts - The whole point of sitting in silence is to realize what you are, pure beingness. Awareness only becomes consciousness when it has an object. The object changes all the time. In consciousness there is movement; awareness by itself is motionless and timeless, here and now. 4
2. Start doubting you'll wake up as Vanessa tomorrow - Not to get it, but consider it actually… What if… I wake up tomorrow and I realize an entire life has been just a dream?! Equal to the one I dreamt last night?! What if you wake up and realize it all was a nightmare that you THOUGHT went on for years and it's just been a few hours... even get scared and terrified about that thought. Better than getting scared about non-reality.
WHAT IN THE WORLD?! That never was... but I felt it so real, I swear I was her?! Yet here you are, awake, and the dream never was.
Do it like that. Doubt that it's anything but a dream as much as possible. 13
Hi! Ik this will sound weird and ridiculous even after you creating so many posts about things but still I as "Ego" or you can say "Vennessa" is wondering if everything this is real! I always knew about Non- dualism because it's connected to my religion but this all sometimes feels fake , is this all real right?? I feel same about shifting and some out of body things, i always manifest things faster but I do not longer want to do this all , sometimes it makes me obsessed with all methods and things, I have started to observe my thoughts and living in this moment, i was doing all that from long time , it's nice , But as soon this "I'm not this body!" That sounds so much weird to me, and believe me I feel happy with thought of being free, just being everything and no-thing together, But this stupid "Vennessa" that feels like if i won't do anything for her, who's with her? If i am not her then would she would do everything what she needs to do? I worry about all this stupid things because if i have to be stuck with this body and it's not possible then no one but "I" will get all the blame, as someone comes from "LOA 2" community this blame games never stop and I can't even do anything about it without feeling guilty , that "I" couldn't do it or yk...
So in short I'm asking if it's real? Do i have to worry about everything "Vennessa" does and doesn't because in the end "I" am being her, and this body doesn't seem to be disappear or "I" seem to shift it's pov towards just "Being"
Thank you for all blogs because of them atleast I get somewhat idea of what i am supposed to be doing/Being , also you can Yell at me lol 😭 i haven't gotten tough answers lately! Sorry this all is so dumb , i didn't wanted to be sound like ranting random things but this all was in my brain for so long, so i thought maybe you know something already and you had this question from someone already!?
!?! But thank you and lot's of love for everything you do! Sorry again and again for this random questions, and thank you thank you very much for all your blogs, I will slowly learn what I'm doing wrong,or thinking wrong, and you are helping very much! Thank you!
Listen. This is not something for you to believe in. Do you exist? Do you need to believe in your own existence to exist?
What is secondary is existing as something. For that, then, you need belief for it to be real. Of course Vanessa is real to you now, you take her for the truth.
The worries about what will happen to Vanessa... do you worry the same about what will happen with a character from a dream? You just move on with your life after you wake up... If she's not beneficial, why care? It's the attachment, that's all. That's what needs to be let go of. Nothing can happen that you do not want to happen. These fears are so irrational. For something to happen that you don't want to happen you have to give authority to something other than you, for example - the world. If you believe the world is solid and apart from you, then you'll always have to do methods and work at changining it. You will always fear it, and forever try to control it.
I don't want you to feel guilty? I said the opposite, there's nothing to feel guilty about. Worries, fears - are all justified when you are an ego. If Vanessa is a victim of something then I can't tell her that she's not - and this is what I find cruel about loa. The scolding about the 'victim mindset', that mindset might as well be justified, Vanessa could have went through the worst things and her world might really be shit. Changing Vanessa's thinking in a world that is really F'd up is no easy task, it's very hard to recondition your brain as it is, but doing so in the worst enviroment? Ten times harder. I know there were people who succeeded, but not all egos are the same. And to add to an already terrible life the guilt tripping about not doing more or blaming her for being unable to change the thinking is just crude to me. They don't understand what they're working with. That's what they've succeeded with so that's what they're pushing, but it is hard.
It's hard to be an ego, let go of thinking you're Vanessa if you want to hurt less. The attachement is strong, but not impossible to overcome when you're full of love for yourself.
I've said it before, you don't have to convince Vanessa that she's unreal. Just stop taking the thoughts you don't like for truth or reality. There is no convincing involved, it is all letting go... you're holding so tightly onto your ideas now, that's why you can't see their falsity.
this will seem completely ridiculous, i love this man but am very angry at things he’s done (nothing too serious dw) but i still very much want him back. i keep thinking of screaming at him and hurting his feelings and i really don’t want that, i just want him back and to be happy with him. how can i get rid of the anger? how can i get past that and be able to get into the state of having him?
I hope you haven't screamed yet?
It is this clash between desire and fear that causes anger, you want something, at the same time you're afraid of not having it/losing it.
If you are angry or in pain, separate yourself from anger and pain and
watch them. Step away and look. The physical events will go on happening, but by themselves they have no importance. It is your mind alone that matters. When you identify yourself with them, you are their slave, you think you have to act on them. When you stand apart, you are their master.
All is yours - you can't lose him. The way he is or acts is dependent on you.
I found your account just this morning and you already gave me hope again! I honestly don't even know what happened, i was in something like a slump when it comes to "manifestation". The people that i used to get my information from don't resonate with me anymore and it made me feel so stressed and lost. And then i found you!!! I already had some small realizations (thanks to you!!), but i need a little guidance, please? So, i think that i should focus on realizing what i actually am, instead of staying in this cycle of trying to get something. From your posts i learned that i should sit in silence, but i don't really get how this is going to do something? I just have to sit in silence? Like meditating, no?
Have a nice day!!!
Hi, i love you.
It sounds like you're already heading headlong the right way, don't call them small, the simpler it seems the righter it is. After all, your Self is in action right now, you just have to look at it.
The whole point of sitting in silence is to realize what you are, pure beingness. Awareness only becomes consciousness when it has an object. The object changes all the time. In consciousness there is movement; awareness by itself is motionless and timeless, here and now.
What I recommend to do is bring your self into focus, become aware of your own existence. See how you function, watch the motives and the results of your actions. Study the prison you have built around yourself because of credulity. By knowing what you are not, you come to know your self. The way back to your self is through refusal and rejection. One thing is certain: the real is not imaginary, it is not a product of the mind. Once you are convinced that you cannot say truthfully about your self anything except ‘I am’, and that nothing that can be pointed at, can be your self, the need for the ‘I am’ is over — you are no longer intent on verbalising what you are. All you need is to get rid of the tendency to define your self. All definitions apply to your body only and to its expressions. Once this obsession with the body goes, you will revert to your natural state, spontaneously and effortlessly.
When you know yourself as the ocean of being, the source of all existence, your search has ceased.
I couldn't be who I wanted to be with the concept of non dualism, so I was going to switch back to law of assumption (even though the results would be the same) because I only looked into this concept because I was hopping on every method, trends and new views on life to change who I want to be.
But now I realise that knowing who I am is better than being who I want to be. I feel as if getting what this body wants would only bring this body temporary happiness and then go back to desiring and denying what I see with my eyes to pretend to be who I want to be (essentially, law of assumption). But knowing my true self, I would no longer desire, fear or be jealous and sad. I would only feel love and peace. I would be content knowing the truth about my self.
I'm really glad you decided to make this blog. I love everything you write. I have send an ask previously saying I understood non duality, but back then I was still speaking from the ego, who was desperate and losing fate in everything. I could read, but I didn't fully understood what was being said and missed the main thing people were teaching. Even now, I'm sure there's still things I need to learn, but I no longer feel stress and anxious. I feel more calm. I don't know where that puts me in the feeling scale, but I'm sure wherever I am at that I am heading in the right direction anyway. Thank you :)
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I'm sure there are plenty of people who did the same, went back to loa because they couldn't understand. And there will be more who will try nondualism to get something, fail because they don't understand how to do it through this concept (taking it for a method), call it bluff & re-try manifesting stuff. They will arrive at the same conclusions as you once more, restart.
Then they get the gist of it, and they feel peaceful, but still unfulfilled because now nondualism = peace of mind/acceptance of circumstances, but no success in change. The success in change isn't there because they again forget who they are and try to do through the character, try to use the limited mind, something that just isn't.
Peace alone is not the goal, although very sweet after a liftetime of doing and trying - there is power, love and freedom.
Your next step will be realizing there is nothing to learn in a dream. You'll find yourself having less and less thoughts, then none at all. Then, only if you want, you will be able to reinstall the mind, now of your choice, and change the dream. I noticed people who don't come from manifestation remain here, with the peace, that's nice and all, but why not use the power also? Though very loving and self-aware people indeed, least likely to hurt others :)
Even the process is very beautiful... but the very best is when your Self becomes the permanent background instead of Vanessa. Now you always return to Vanessa, later you'll forget to consider her ♡
Dream not of a character who wants and desires, there is nothing to long for — only things to be.
i think i understand what non-dualism is, 4 the most part. the only thing i don’t get is the part abt “the outer world isn’t real, so there’s nothing 2 change” (the part that u mentioned in the last ask). i know that the outer world isn’t real, but if there’s nothing 2 change, then what’s the point of all this? i’m just very confused bc i’ve seen multiple bloggers say “there is nothing 2 change” when i thought the whole goal was 2 change our “physical world” (again, i’m aware that it’s not real)
i’m just not getting my desires and i think the fact that i don’t understand this might be the reason why.
Those two things need not contradict themselves.
Of course, the goal is to live the way you please. The goal is no limitations (which also means you can control everything in the physical). However, how are you going to change the world if you can't see the world is in you, if the world is out there, what can you do about it? Say affirmations and hope for the best? The world being in you means it doesn't exist apart from you, the goal is to become aware of what you are already doing. Of who you already are, which is not the body-mind.
Take time to contemplate who you are, until you come to know yourself as the source of all that is. Take care of the power that projects the world and your problems will come to an end.
Disclaimer: This remix/mashup post was compiled by me, a student of 4dbarbie as a way to make sense of everything and to understand how to apply the knowledge practically. I went through all her posts and answered asks to make this which is made up of various parts of 25 49 (omg lol there was a lot of good stuff) different posts and answered asks. It is not an original post by 4dbarbie herself but all words are directly from her various posts and answered asks (except for my clarification notes which are in purple text in brackets & the last section after the last divider where I make some closing comments). My personal highlights are in purple text also. Hopefully the way I've organised the information in this post makes sense and helps some Vanessas out there. ♡
Fair warning as this is a pretty long post essay (!) so maybe grab a cup of tea or something :) If you are really new to all this then take some time to really process it, there is no rush. May we all realize our Self ♡
There would be no steps necessary, no process to undertake if you would just establish yourself in the I AM alone. You are so lost in your play you forget reality. 1 If you are "I AM", it means you are not the person experiencing the world/thoughts/circumstances, you never were. 2
The external world, you control it (because it is you!, in you), you make it, fully, even when you tell yourself you don't. 3 To know yourself as the source of all that is, you have to first remove the veil of what's stopping you from seeing it in the first place. To know your real being, you have to first abandon what you thought yourself to be. 4 There is no external life, there is no need to use any methods to recondition or train your mind. It is much faster, much easier and you are hundreds times happier just letting go of the mind. 5 The process is one of letting go more and more until you find yourself having nothing, being nothing. The thing about nothing though is that it's the only thing that can take the shape of everything. 6
A jeweler who wants to refashion an ornament, first melts it down to shapeless gold. Similarly, one must return to one's original state before a new name and form can emerge. The only way to renewal lies through destruction. You must melt down the old jewellery into formless gold before you can mold a new one. What refuses to die cannot be reborn. - I Am That, Nisargadatta Maharaj 7
Stop thinking you are Vanessa, the thoughts of needing this or that drop away. By thinking you are it, you create a character who desires and then identify yourself with it. You can only have when you let go of thinking that you don't. To change, you need to give up this conviction of being this person. You need to disbelieve. 9
Most of you can't change because you are so desperate TO change... but there is nothing to want to change. Things just are. Don't work with changing self, just realize who self actually is. 10
You have it, all is well. Just stop believing the illusions born out of thinking you're a person. 11
Unless they understand who they really are, that Vanessa is a habit and nothing more - that nothing has existence outside of awareness, including her, that awareness assigns reality and is the only reality - they're always going to struggle to control something and get frustrated they don't see what they think they're aware of. What you're aware of is what you're being. You can't be aware of being something new while also being Vanessa. 12
Knowing is being. If you really knew, the thing you knew would be materialized. You know you are Vanessa so you're being Vanessa. Would you want Vanessa if you were her? No. You are her so you don't desire her. And you won't be able to be Vanessa 2.0 if you don't shed this Vanessa first. That is, let go of thinking the thoughts are yours. 8
Your memories of the life Vanessa lived are now and not in a past. You are imagining her past being now. Her past exists now because you are aware of it now. If you were Lara you would be aware of a different past, still now. Basically there was no yesterday and you are imagining "a past having been" today. 13
Anon: "Do I have to endure the world while I know my self as awareness and disbelieve that I am Vanessa???"
Ada: THE POINT OF KNOWING YOURSELF AS AWARENESS IS TO DO WHATEVER THE HELL YOU WANT AT ALL TIMES, FOREVER. It's complete, incomparable freedom and power. It's the only real love. 14
You are either your Self with nothing attached to it or you're an ego. Disbelieve you were ever her. See what happens. 41
A lot of beliefs are subconscious. "I am a body", "I am Vanessa", "There is a world" are all subconscious, automatic beliefs. Upon investigation you can get rid of any belief (by making them conscious and then dropping them). 15
How do you drop a belief? (see part 1 and part 2)
HOW TO STOP?
The body and the mind are only symptoms of ignorance, of misapprehension. Behave as if you were pure awareness, bodiless and mindless, spaceless and timeless, beyond 'where' and 'when' and 'how'. Dwell on it, think of it, learn to accept its reality. Don't oppose it and deny it all the time. Keep an open mind at least. Make your mind and body express the real which is ALL and beyond all. By doing you succeed. - I Am That, Nisargadatta Maharaj
You need not take time to meditate or put time aside to contemplate and "apply". All you need to do is detach from this form during the day, let life happen as it happens while reminding yourself it's a dream, a dream that doesn't have to be yours. 16 It is your own desire to hold on to it that creates the problem. Let go. Stop imagining that the dream is yours. As long as you give reality to dreams, you are their slave; see all as a dream and stay out of it. 17
You imagine that there is an external world in which the you that you're identified with lives, but all of that is in your mind. Stop imagining it's true and it dissolves, which can only mean it never was. Which can only mean you assigned reality to it by thinking you're it 18
I've said it before, you don't have to convince Vanessa that she's unreal. Just stop taking the thoughts you don't like for truth or reality. There is no convincing involved, it is all letting go... you're holding so tightly onto your ideas now, that's why you can't see their falsity. 19 You don't have to convince anyone of anything. What I teach here is to leave your mind alone, that is all. Don't go along with it. 2 Thoughts will keep on coming for a while, just now you know they have nothing to do with you. Get into a habit of watching, letting them be but not identifying with them. If you can observe them, it means you are not them. 32 Doesn't matter what the thought is, leave it alone, ignore it BUT not by force of will, just indifference. We've established you aren't the ego, alright? Thoughts, right now, are from the ego. 20
Thoughts of the past life come, remember they no longer have anything to do with you. Literal full delusion (I only call it that because after being identified with a person for so long, it's mind-blowing to grasp you are not that). Thoughts are not yours, complete indifference - no need to fight them. Where they come from, none of your business. Only know they are not yours. YOU not being in your desired reality is a thought, got it? This body and this world are not forced onto you, they exist through your identification with them. Not yours, remember? Repeat. Not yours. You won't lose your mind, you'll only lose your misery. After you've detached, you'll easily shift to as many realities as you want - don't put any on a pedestal of desire, they are equal. See this world and the body as not real first. What is true is only what I AM is identified with, right now this body which is not in that TV show (referring to anon's desire). Correct this first by letting go of thinking it's you. 21
You don't need to convince yourself they're unreal, just dismiss them as not yours. They will disappear more and more through your newfound indifference, then their physical counterparts will, too. Detachment is by doubt and indifference. First you start doubting "the facts", then you become indifferent to the facts, lastly there are no facts anymore and you can establish your own. 20
Start letting go bit by bit, just to see what happens, you won't start "acting crazy" just because you become uninterested in thoughts, i promise 🤞 22
What I recommend you to do is bring your self into focus, become aware of your own existence. See how you function, watch the motives and the results of your actions. Study the prison you have built around yourself because of credulity. By knowing what you are not, you come to know your self. The way back to your self is through refusal and rejection. 23
Here's a scale of emotions you go through, from bottom to top: apathy, grief, fear, hostility, anger, indifference, acceptance, freedom finally - and then unlimited, independent joy. You can review this to see where you are on the journey and what should come next. You can't skip them, all of them have to happen for you to have the all. 14
Do not try to understand any more, just be. And let other things be as they are. Even if you're not happy about what you see, there is no way around it besides accepting it. As long as you fight it and try so hard & incessantly to change it, you're only giving it further reality. 14
If you are angry or in pain, separate yourself from anger and pain and watch them. Step away and look. The physical events will go on happening, but by themselves they have no importance. It is your mind alone that matters. When you identify yourself with them, you are their slave, you think you have to act on them. When you stand apart, you are their master. 24
One thing is certain: the real is not imaginary, it is not a product of the mind. 23
You are beyond the mind. Mind and body become your servants once you discover your Self. The present moment is all that is, so yes - become aware of having never been the ego, of your ego being just one of your creations. Ego is the concept of individuality, of separation from the “I", and the All. Therefore ego is a false assumption. We are really the Supreme Reality, we are not separate from It. To "fix" the separation, reject what you are not. Only look at who you are, over and over and over until it becomes the permanent identification and replaces the ego. 25
Once you are convinced that you cannot say truthfully about your self anything except ‘I am’, and that nothing that can be pointed at, can be your self, the need for the ‘I am’ is over — you are no longer intent on verbalising what you are. All you need is to get rid of the tendency to define your self. All definitions apply to your body only and to its expressions. Once this obsession with the body goes, you will revert to your natural state, spontaneously and effortlessly. 23
Drop the false ideas first and watch. After what keeps you stuck goes, you can do whatever you want. You can think the ugliest thoughts and nothing will happen if you know yourself as who you are. It's your identification with the thought that causes the thought to be true. 26
The guilt is because you think you're running out of time and you need to change "your" life now. Be patient with yourself because you don't lose any time, just get to that place I'm telling you about and then you can just go back in time if you so wish. All worry is pointless! And there is nothing to fear, things just happen, do not claim them as yours for a while. Unclutter your mind, it becomes your servant after you've freed it enough. 27
She (Vanessa) will vanish yes, you ask how because you still think waking is more real than a dream. Do your dreams not vanish? Do you wonder how they vanish? They just stop existing all of a sudden when you go into another dream (waking). What if you've lived all your life as Ada and woke up one morning and were suddenly Vanessa with no memory of Ada, would you know anybody vanished? Nope. All you know is who you are right now (because present is all that is), which is Vanessa. 28 Leave poor Vanessa alone, with both her desires and fears, disbelieve you are her until reality becomes self-obvious.
By being your Self you gain the freedom of existing as anything, anytime. You don't lose Vanessa's pretty body if you don't want to stop imagining yourself as being Vanessa with her pretty body. 29
Nothing is lost, awareness just shifts. You can always go back. We're just removing the obstacles that stop you from having this freedom of choice (your identification with this person). You can completely wipe out Vanessa's existence as well. Later if you change your mind, you can make it so that she actually existed again. You are no form, you are formless, the form only is when you imagine there is a form, be your favorite form and dream beautiful dreams :) 30
There is no difference between sleeping and waking, awareness is the background of both. You just think the waking state more real because you've dreamt it over and over and reinforced your belief. They're equally imaginary. Become aware of this and life will forever be a breeze. 31
All depends on you. It is by your consent that the world exists. Withdraw your belief in its reality and it will dissolve like a dream. Cease from looking for happiness and reality in a dream and you will wake up. - I Am That, Nisargadatta Maharaj 17
Your next step will be realizing there is nothing to learn in a dream. You'll find yourself having less and less thoughts, then none at all. Then, only if you want, you will be able to reinstall the mind, now of your choice, and change the dream. 16
Past doesn't come up anymore, memories don't come up anymore after you've ignored (thoughts) & detached yourself enough. They just don't. You can think freely now about being something different. If you can't, don't get mad, don't blame, only know that the one that's doubting isn't you, so the doubts are totally fine to be. They'll be for a while and then they dissolve too, because by ignoring, not getting involved - you forget. And by forgetting not only do you free up so much mental space, but possibilities of what can be, become unnumbered. 36
Anon: Is it okay to feel completely indifferent after learning about this stuff? Like, not feeling as worried about what is playing in front of me since I know its not me
Ada: That's the goal. Then become indifferent to the thoughts you get as well. Those aren't yours either. You'll become aware they've dissolved & you can reconstruct the mind however you want because you have no attachment to past beliefs anymore. 33
Even the process is very beautiful... but the very best is when your Self becomes the permanent background instead of Vanessa. Now you always return to Vanessa, later you'll forget to consider her ♡ Dream not of a character who wants and desires, there is nothing to long for — only things to be. 16
To not depend on anything but everything to depend on you is a top state you can grasp with no method. 5 The experience is of being empty, uncluttered by memories and expectations; it is like the happiness of open spaces, of being young, of having all the time and energy for doing things, for discovery, for adventure. A sense of 'there is nothing wrong with me. I have nothing to worry about'. But not one you condition yourself into like you conditioned yourself into a body, it is one that naturally and effortlessly dawns on you by itself when you reject all else, because it is your natural state. 34 Real freedom and real love only emerge when you're not identified with a transient ego. 35
All you are doing is becoming lucid. Becoming able to control the dream. You won't be able to, unless you step out of it. That is, stop thinking this story you tell yourself is true. When Vanessa is no longer all you are, you'll be able to 'change reality' the way you change the film in a video projector. You'll be able to have as much fun in the play as you want to, change it when you no longer want this one specifically. The emotions of the character are fun and welcomed, because they no longer imprison you, there's the background of love to it all - that once you gain, it can't be lost, it's ever present. 36
What you are identified with materializes. If you are not, it disappears. 37
Just let go of the ego, that’s how simple it is. All you need to fix is your wrong identification. There isn't anyone who couldn’t materialize anything right now if he or she would just let go of identifying as the limited body. 38
Only by letting go of all do you gain everything. But once it's done, it's done irreversibly. Fear is no more, control is fully yours. You are free, completely. And with the bliss of freedom no human pleasure compares. You become full love, full power. The absolute and only power. Sooner or later, you will arrive at the same conclusion. You can't stop being what you are, all else can stop existing, but you can't. The only thing you have a choice in is delaying seeing it by thinking you are this or that. Only see it (I Am), then you can imagine whatever you want and it will be. 39
If you project the world, it is within your power to change it. But you must stop identifying yourself with it first. Go beyond, then you have all the power to destroy and recreate. All everybody wants is to be free, but to do that you must know two things: what you are to be free from and what keeps you bound. 2
Your own self is your ultimate teacher, the outer teacher is merely a milestone. It is only your inner teacher that will walk with you to the goal, because he is the goal. - Nisargadatta Maharaj 40
Got more questions? Recommended reading:
Ada's recommended guides on realizing Self: 1, 2, 3
My recommended posts from Ada*: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
All references from the remix post
Books: I Am That by Nisargadatta Maharaj** and Keys to The Ultimate Freedom by Lester Levenson
*in addition to the sources linked in the post
**a lot of her posts incorporate quotes and excerpts from this book, moreso than Lester Levenson's Keys to The Ultimate Freedom and she also shared a lot of excerpts from the book
What does this look like when applied?
Experience is the best teacher and learning from other's experiences and how they applied this knowledge can be really valuable and insightful. I don't define success based on materialising things necessarily although that is one result of realizing Self.
From 4dbarbie students: see the tag
Other: 1, 2
Okay, what to do after reading all this?
Apply apply apply. Don't wait, nothing will happen by waiting. There is only now. Inquire who is causing trouble and to whom. You can't think yourself into realization. 'You' are beyond the mind. You are the creator of the mind. It must be experienced.
Hiii Ive done the I Am affirmations and these are my results! I saw someone post on Reddit how they’d seen an amazing shift using I AM and other affirmations that I wanted to try as well. I was not only affirming through the day but sleeping on the feeling/knowing at night as well. I Also meditated but I really enjoy it so that was easy!
During the 4th day I could feel the shift, I became so indifferent to the 3D, you know when someone is like really calm that it’s scary? That’s how I felt. Like nothing phased me. I constantly would here and see people say that we’re God and that we create our realities blah blah, but that day it really clicked. Nothing is in my way, I can have everything I want.
I was at work this day and usually I hate being there but today I knew it was different. I got yelled at by a customer for a return and I was like whatever. During the end of the transaction I firmly stated “I AM” and the lady apologized for her behavior saying “I didn’t know what got into me” like right after I had affirmed. We only get 10 minute breaks but I was gone for damn near 30. I affirmed my managers wouldn’t say anything because “I AM” and when I came out the only thing they asked was “how my break was”. I also got my food and drink for free at the cafe downstairs just cause the barista felt like it.
My manifestations are instant there really isn’t a time lag. But that depends on me really, some things I’d prefer if I woke up and they were there rather then appearing in front of me, and other things I’ve revised instantly. I feel like I’m in the constant void? If I close my eyes and affirm for like less then a minute everything is still and I can’t hear anything around me. Like I’m really just consciousness with no physical body. It’s been like 2 months since then and I’m living my best life.
What I’ve manifested:
-clear skin
-desired Face and body
-Money+ a job in fashion that I really like
-money for my siblings and parents
-both my older sister having their college degrees as well as my degree(I dropped out of college like freshman year)
-revised that my parents were never smokers and are in perfect health
-my eyesight; used to be negative -6.5 but I don’t need to wear contacts anymore
-dental health, got rid of my cavities cause I hate the dentist
-moved to NYC/ got my desired apartment
-payed off all debts/ having no debts at all
-little everyday things like free food, drinks, parking, free flowers, literally super cute everyday things
-A new passport because I lost my old one
-shifting; I’d been trying to shift for damn near 2 years but I’ve finally been able to go to many of my DRs
-being able to manipulate time(slowing it down, speeding it up)
-dream wardrobe
there’s probably more but I can’t think of anything else. Just know that there isn’t anything I’m lacking or want rn, I have everything I can think of 😭.
omg this is absolutely amazing i love it!! especially knowing that everytime we are saying I am we are declaring we are god it's literally such powerful statement in just 2 words i absolutely love this success story and i hope it motivates y'all just as much as it did me 🥰
Quick question - in the view of non-duality, would affirming yourself to be "I am pure consciousness" or "I am void" be the same as affirming "I am" or would that be attaching a condition to the "I am" and stray from the purpose?
I don't know about 'non duality', but in the view of my own experience and experiments, it proved pretty useless. Not only that but forcing what I took to be myself imagine what being void was was so taxing, and damaging to my sleep and nights (and overall experience of daily life because it was all i would try to achieve). I wasted so many months of my life on it not having any idea what I was actually looking for.
It's still trying from ego so instead of dissolving it, you are seeking for something to happen (like have the mind engulfed by darkness) and although it happened around 3 times to me, nothing happened as a result of it. (became aware in darkness twice, white bright light once)
If you aren't able to convince your ego something like waking up in a completely different place can and will happen as a result of this darkness, nothing will. Like everything made up, it works if what you take to be you (Vanessa) believes it works.
I don't recommend imagining to be anything, not even emptiness, but instead just disbelieve in the things you see or take yourself to be.
You are fighting shadows. You are wasting your time.
You are nothing, have nothing, can do nothing. Yet all comes out of you — the source is you; the root, the origin is you.
Everything you see and experience is only a mental condition, a dream-like state, easy to dispel by questioning its reality. It's you imagining it as real and fighting it with all your might that keeps it alive.
Both sleep and waking are imagined. In the waking state the world emerges because you are conscious of there being one. We are only dreaming. We dream that we are awake, we dream that we are asleep. Treat everything as such and be liberated. As long as you give reality to dreams, you are their slave. By imagining that you are born as so-and-so, you become a slave to the so-and-so. In this dream you imagine yourself to be a process, to have past and future, to have history. In fact, we have no history, we are not a process, we do not develop, nor decay; see all as a dream and stay out of it.
While it lasts, the dream has temporary being. It is your own desire to hold on to it that creates the problem. Let go. Stop imagining that the dream is yours.
"When you see your dream as dream, you wake up. But in your dream itself I am not interested. Enough for me to know that you must wake up. You need not bring your dream to a definite conclusion, or make it noble, or happy, or beautiful; all you need is to realise that you are dreaming. Stop imagining, stop believing. See the contradictions, the incongruities, the falsehood and the sorrow of the human state, the need to go beyond. Within the immensity of space floats a tiny atom of consciousness and in it the entire universe is contained." - Nisargadatta Maharaj
All depends on you. It is by your consent that the world exists. Withdraw your belief in its reality and it will dissolve like a dream.
As you cannot separate the dream from yourself, so you cannot have an outer world independent of yourself. You are independent, not the world. Don’t be afraid of a world you yourself have created. Cease from looking for happiness and reality in a dream and you will wake up.
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