If a dream can feel as real as "reality", then neither can be considered more real than the other. This points to the direct experience of actuality as a unified whole. The sense of 'realness' is identical in both, because they are, in essence, the same.
To all #moonmothers in #miami. I would love to create a circle of us to send healing energy to the world through our full moon blessing meditation. This will take place October 14th at 7pm. And I will do one for the public at 8pm. Contact me for more info! Below is message from Miranda Gray! In response to the current distressing situations in many countries in the world, I would like to offer: AN INTERNATIONAL MOON MOTHER DAY OF WORLD HEALING SATURDAY 14TH OCTOBER 2017 I ask all 4,350 Moon Mothers around the world to sit at any time during the day, either on your own or in groups, and take part in the Moon Mother ‘Full Moon Meditation’ to bring healing to all the women of the world. We usually offer this beautiful world healing meditation on the Full Moons between the Worldwide Womb Blessings but with so many women going through challenging situations globally we need to bring as many Moon Mothers together to offer more help. The meditation information is in the current Moon Mother Level 1 manual as well as in the MOON MOTHER LOGIN AREA. If you are not sure where to find it ask on the Moon Mother Facebook groups, or ask your Co-ordination Team or Representative. I will be taking part in the meditation at 21.00 (UK time) but you can do it at any time that suits you and for as long as you like. IF YOU ARE NOT A MOON MOTHER and wish to join us in sending love, you can take part by doing the SHARING MEDITATION from the WORLDWIDE WOMB BLESSING DOCUMENTS. To receive these documents simply register for the October Worldwide Womb Blessing and you will be given a link to the document download webpage. When we help the women of the world we help everyone because women are a powerful force in the world as mothers, grandmothers, sisters, daughters, nieces, aunts, friends, wives, teachers, world leaders …. Together our love is strong. Love and hugs Miranda xxx Mother whose Light is growing in the world, bless us so we may bless others. #worldhealing #wombblessing #wombblessingmiami #energyhealing #love #wombhealing #wombhealingmiami #goddess #divinefeminine #sacredfeminine #moonmothermiami #miami #miamilife #femaleawakening #goddessawakening #miamievents #om
This blog used to be a journal in the process of self realization of it's creator but has yet turned out to be a collection of sources and information guiding you too on your way back to your true Being. It all started with the question: “Who are you really?” and the realization that reality is not what it seems. I'm at a point now where I do not follow any teachings or concepts anymore nor did I consent in strictly deviding law of assumption from non dualism in the past. Nowadays, I see myself as an advocate for Self-realization. That being said, I really want to distance myself from any "new age manifestation/law of assumption" (do this to get xyz) teachings practised on youtube or tiktok.
I did create my own content in the past but stopped because there is nothing new to say and my understanding has deepened. Posts and annotations written by me are easily recognisable by my typical colour code, which is obviously displayed here. I only answer questions for understanding or clarification, guidelines here.
HOW TO START
Advaita Vendata (Non Dualism): an Introduction
Core of non dual understanding
The misconception of something "not working" is because you think there is "an ego" here to obtain something.. there isn't. The ego doesn't
"There's a general misconception that in order to experience "something else" you have to "use" an "ego" to "imagine". As "THAT" you 'unders
Hi Ko! I've been reading your posts and I really like the examples and analogies you make! I have a question about the tea analogy.
I under
Why do we experience things through senses?
Is it because we are aware of that?
we don't experience anything through our senses, you just
Try it. 👀
Because you cannot separate what "you" are experiencing from "Awareness", it HAS to be "Awareness" ITself that is experiencing
imaging = observing = being aware of = experiencing
"No difference between being aware of desiring it, imaginining it, having it: all illus
If everything is consciousness, I am everything and everything is me?
I still feel like "me", I don't feel like god of my reality
How to become aware(ness)
How to control the thoughts
How to be free from emotions and thoughts
Stop concerning yourself with the wants and needs of Ego
How to loose attachment to Ego
What you really are
How to be Consciousness/ Awareness
In the end, the only question remaining should be who you are without all the labels attached to "I am". You will come to discover you do not want freedom from this shape alone, but from all shapes. Be aware of your past being over. "External world shows otherwise? Just be like "for how long do you think it can keep this up when you have nothing to do with it?" @Ada
MY CONTENT/ EPIPHANIES
You can experience pain in your life but you don’t have to ‘suffer’ the pain.” - Anon I mus
#masterpost, #goddessawakening
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ADDITIONAL MATERIAL
... what to find on my blog through the tags
Advise/FAQs: Koda, Nova, iam-you, Cassie, Bry, Jag, Vesora, Lain, more
What is Ego?
How it feels to be Self / Awareness
All on Self Realization and Detachment
All on LOA trough a non dualistic view
Books
If you still want to focus on "getting your desires" after been through all the info, search Neville Goddard (all his books and lectures). If you have a hard time understanding Neville, I advise some people who break down his teachings in a short and modern way of speaking: Edward Art (Reddit(Series), Audio), embodythestate, niclasupgradetolife, Josiah Brandt on YouTube
Real talk everyone! When I first read the sentence "be aware of the absence of X", I actually thought I (person) had to do something to "do" this. Like reminding myself that circumstance X is gone.
It dawned on me later on that when you get it (realize who you are), you are automatically aware of the absence of circumstances (good / bad; objects, things) because they never had permanance in the first place.
Object permanence/ outlasting circumstances are a fucking lie (illusion), they are a thought you believe in.
I know it has been said a million times already but it is the truth, y'all. Nothing is permanent except you. You are already free (aware of the absence of X), you just don't look at the truth. You rather believe in a "story" someone told you about what reality is like.
Quotes from blog post and answers from other bloggers regarding certain topics based in the teachings of law of consciousness and non duality. This is a summary of everything I think is incredibly useful and has been for me in understanding and applying this lifestyle. Long post ahead.
Basics & Teaching
"I contain all, nothing contains me." - Nisargadatta Maharaj
This subject cannot be learned intellectually, it cannot be learned through the mind [ego] because it's perceived just behind the mind. We can use the mind to gradually undo the limitations enough so that we can get behind the mind by getting it quieter. @4dbarbie-backup
What you can point out as 'this' or 'that' cannot be yourself. Surely, you can not be 'something' else. You are nothing perceivable, or imaginable. Yet, without you there can be neither perception nor imagination. Identity or Ego is merely a pattern of events in time and space, which are also just concepts belonging to the world of ego.@4dbarbie-backup YOU are life. you are life itself. you are all. you are how this all works. "me? this body? this mind?" not the body, mind, ego or thoughts. not even the feeling, beliefs & emotions. i'm talking about Self. Infinity. God. I AM. the awareness. the one that observes all. the life force is you. you animate all of what you see. @lains-reality
Realize you are never not IT. We are actually fully realized all the time. We are fully realized Beings saying that we are not. @4dbarbie-backup There is no becoming "aware". You can't become something you already are! You keep forgetting you are not the body-mind (ego). The body-mind lacks things, the body-mind takes it's surroundings to be real. The body-mind has a very limited viewpoint, it knows what it knows, it only sees what it sees. @iamthat-iam The [body-]mind cannot intimidate the Pure Self, it can only intimidate the idea you have of who you are, your self image. what the mistake is, is that we are taking the idea of who we are as the fact of who we are.@lains-reality
Everything you see and experience is only a mental condition, a dream-like state, easy to dispel by questioning its reality. Both sleep and waking are imagined.@4dbarbie-backup Dreams are just "materializations" of whatever our consciousness is aware of while the body rests. You can touch it, you can interact with it, your senses become active when you're dreaming at times. there's even a phenomenon where people actually thought their dreams were memories or something they legitimately experienced.@piercedblunt "But I am not conscious of myself when sleeping?!" You are aware of something though, being unconscious, which manifests instantly, you are sleeping. Being unconscious is an experience, and you're doing the same thing in the waking state.@4dbarbie-backup
Let's now take a look at this so-called physical world. The apparent solid outer world is just an illusory world. We created it mentally, which is also backed up by human science. But, and that's the catch, it is not external and so the only way to control the outside world is to step out of the world. The ego IS IN the world, and not you. Both the ego and the world are IN YOU.@4dbarbie-backup
When 'you' desire something, you [Consciousness] already have it. How do you already have it? Your true self is everything, it can't desire anything if it's already being anything. Everything that your ego desires already exists within consciousness. Remember that whenever your ego tries to bring up a desire. @iamthat-iam After all, when 'you' desired in your mind, wasn't there a moment where you had it? Where you imagined what it'd be like to have it, what it'd look like or how it'd make you feel? @cheryawa It is not instantly visible to you because you identify with the body and not your pure being. No matter how much you use your mind/imagination, you are who you are regardless of the imagines playing in the head. I could think of a panda a million times, imagine what it's like being a panda a thousand more, that doesn't make me into a panda when I still know myself to be a person.@4dbarbie-backup
Here's a scale of emotions you'll go through in your journey, from bottom to top: apathy, grief, fear, hostility, anger, indifference, acceptance, freedom finally - and then unlimited, independent joy. @4dbarbie-backup It’s not an euphoric feeling either but a real feeling of knowing and with that - indifference and power. It is very calm and serene, as if nothing can disturb you. @adadisciple
I've been looking at the things I want as existing for me to experience them. When I have a desire, I experience it as something that already belongs to me because everything is coming from (within) me. @4dbarbie-backup
NON-DUALISM
"It is the Self that believes there is a person and is conscious of being IT." - Ada B.
Let's break the word down first. “Non” of course means “no” or “not.” And “dual” means “two.” So, non-dual means not two. It says there is only one. This is referring to you, awareness [or consciousness], that there is only you, [...] the only thing that exists. You are the true reality. The only purpose for awareness is to observe, to oversee, to be. Nothing more, nothing less. For example, awareness is human, it can take on a human form, but human is not awareness or defines awareness as a whole. A human is simply a temporary form, but awareness is always free to be aware of any other form @itzalizeyyy
Whatever you imagine is the same as seeing it in the physical world, because both are still being an observed experience by the awareness, and therefore both are the same, as one (imagination). @itzalizeyyy
Helpful metaphors: When you watch a movie, you know it is a movie bc you are outside of it. you are observing it. now what about the characters in the movie? they dont know its a movie bc they are not outside of it. they think they are just regular ppl and they dont see the truth, their true selfs: which is just characters in a movie. @msperfect777 The ego is like your character in the game (of life), it's already a "manifestation" so it can't manifest (just like a book can't write itself or another book). You are aware of a character you go through life with. @consciousnessbaddie
Ego Death is then the disappearance of the egoistic sense of Self. You feel that your are no longer that.You don't disappear; you don't lose anything. There's no reason to fear losing your body, or losing anything. Yet, most of us are fearful that we're going to lose our body and be nothing. That's a serious error. You could be a hundred bodies! When the idea 'I am this body' dies, the witness does not. Death is merely the idea 'I have lost my body'. What you think yourself to be before death continues to be after death. Your sense of Self survives. @4dbarbie-backup
In Non Dualism, the goal is to stop identifying with ego and realize who you are.You see there's no seperation between you and anything so that means everything you once "desired" is already who you are. You never feel the sense of desire again because of this. Any "physical materialization" that happens after will not seem like such a big deal, since it was already who they were to begin with. @iamthat-iam
"I am that, I have always been that. All is well. There are no mistakes. I am in my right place." All you have to do is realize/ know your are not the mind (= identitiy, character, ego). Robert Adams
Self-Inquiry
" To know the source as source and appearance as appearance, and oneself as the source only is self-realization " - Ada B.
The mind is doing a good job actually, because it bites you and kicks you and teases you, because if it doesnt do that, then you'll want to make this limited feel your home.@lains-reality
Every thought is a thing of limitation. Therefore when we quiet the mind, we still these limiting thoughts and this infinite Being that we are becomes self obvious to us. We have convinced ourselves over the millenniums that we are these limited bodies, and we think it takes time to let go of these concepts of limitation. But time is a thing of the ego, it's a thought. @4dbarbie-backup
Learn the art of being aware of you (awareness). [...] You must not become what you already are, as the detached witness of every thought or sensation that comes and goes. [...] The practice of self-inquiry is returning to the fact of who and what you are. @anon-i-mus
It's a kind of surrendering but to me, truthfully and honestly, it felt more like a giving up. Even if it makes you miserable, accept the person you're identified with until you no more fear it or care if you stay the same. @4dbarbie-backup
-> Questions to ask yourself
Detachment
"Transcend your desires and your fears and you will have everything." - Ada B.
As Buddha taught, the root of suffering is attachment. It is not having the emotions and thoughts [...] but resisting or supressing them, and resisting the transitory nature of life and all things. Emotions and thoughts pass. No big deal. It is holding on to them when they are just coming up to leave or pass through that causes suffering. @lains-reality You need not stop thinking. Just cease being interested. It is disinterestedness that liberates. If you say, “There's no problem,” they won't vanish because you're saying, “There's no problem.” You're mentally holding onto the problem and therefore sustaining it. Erase the problem from your mind means to know (be aware) that everything is perfect and then the problem is necessarily non-existent. Basically, let go of it, because the problem is just an illusion. @4dbarbie-backup
You then ask how to stop being "Vanessa" ? - the reason you can't stop is because it's ALL YOU THINK YOU ARE. For example: You're driving a car. "I AM" is the car. You know how to drive it because you're already driving it by being Vanessa. Vanessa is something you add to the "I AM" and not you. You can't stop being Vanessa while being Vanessa! I think that's what everyone keeps asking: Vanessa wants to be Lara, not awareness [first]. @4dbarbie-backup
To talk of re-uniting the person with the self is also not right, because there is no person, only a mental picture given a false reality by conviction. Nothing was divided and there is nothing to unite. You are That. @4dbarbie-backup Nothing can remove your being. Nothing has ever stained your being.@lains-reality You think you have to do this and that because you think you're it, and you should act from it. That is not the case. There's nothing to do except disbelieve. But disbelieving and denial are not the same thing. Denial is when you deny reality to something you're already giving reality to. @4dbarbie-backup
Detachment is not lonely. It's freedom and it's real love. Needing is selfish, it's self-centered. The self has no preference and it's because of that that it can be everything. @4dbarbie-backup
Some of you are on this path for a while but to some extent still are identified with ego and that's OK. Don't get caught up in "your" expectations of what self-realization is supposed to be like. The expectations are making you turn this into a task, when it is supposed to be effortless. Yes, we have talked about feeling peaceful once you've realized yourself, but you're going to need to drop the expectations. It's okay if ego isn't completely grasping it, ego isn't real and it isn't who you are. @iamthat-iam
Fear is an invitation to remember who you truly are. Acknowledging fear doesn't make you any less worthy of or further away from what you truly desire. Similarly, acknowledging your shadows does not dim the Light that you are. The shadows you battle against are simply the seeming absence of you. Becoming entangled in the world of shadows is simply the forgetting of your Self; and Light casts shadows that come and go only to remember itself. The truth is that Light knows no opposition or enemy. Shadows have no separate existence from Light. Your fears are made of you. @lains-reality
The more I detached from ego, the freer I was to imagine what ego wanted without interference from conflicting thoughts/thoughts that "oppose" the desire. @iamthat-iam In fact, abandon all imaginings and know yourself as you are. Self-knowledge is detachment. All craving is due to a sense of insufficiency. @4dbarbie
To anyone who also wonders "how am I still picking this ego?": how many times have you thought about tomorrow? next week? future plans? there's your answer. and the worries about "life" come from them too. "if I don't prepare for/worry about this event that'll happen, I'll have to deal with the consequences of this action" you're telling yourself you will keep waking up as this exact same ego over and over. @glitterdoll888
If you come straight from Law of Assumption or Law of Attraction please keep on reading this last section!
“The simplest answer is usually the right one!.” - Occam’s razor
I think, that what we call 'manifestation' is life itself. i do not mean life in the way that you live A life, like its happening outside of you. i mean it as: it is natural & normal to manifest, its existance itself. it is not something you have, it just is. 'manifestation' is just life itself. it's how all works & is.@lains-reality
The similarity between ND and LOA is in the fact that What you’re aware of, is. LOA’s inner self is still ego. To talk about fulfilling self means fulfilling ego. There is nothing to fulfill if you are the Self and the only one that needs to be fulfilled is an ego, you’re still catering to an ego. @adadisciple
Please, please, understand that you don't have to DO anything! You are always awareness,you will never lack anything. Please stop worrying about the "physical" world and stop trying to materialize things within it! Non Dualism isn't a "new manifestation method" to "get what you want," you are realizing you never lacked anything this whole time. @iamthat-iam
The way the sun rises up in the morning, in the same way Vanessa happens to awareness. It is natural. Do you try to make it happen? It comes by itself (because you choose it as you).@adadisciple For example "I am a body" is a thought that runs automatically ("subconscious), because we do not look at it/know it, we have just accepted we are bodies and that's why we "see" a body. @4dbarbie-backup
You just need to allow something else to happen, not try to make it so!! You cannot help being what you are: Vanessa is the absolute to you now. But if she can be TO YOU, if she happens TO YOU, who is YOU? Your Vanessa "I" runs on autopilot, she is a symbol. She has no free will. To the Self, she is only an idea. She has been conditioned and programmed to think the way she does, it’s the only way she knows how to function. And that’s fine, let her be. Just don’t pick her as you.If she were a random stranger on the street, you would have no concern about her life. If you were Lara now, where would Vanessa be in your thoughts? That is the behavior you should strive for in your thinking, dispassion, disinterest, detachment. Let the thought of being her go. Just let them BE. The way you let Vanessa be. And you let Vanessa be by thinking that’s all you are, that’s what is true. @adadisciple
If you want a "method", then the very best method of all methods is to quiet the mind to see the Being that you are. Pose the question: “Who am I?” and if other thoughts come in, ask, “To whom are these thoughts?” The answer is “To me.” “Well, who am I?” and you're back on the track, seeking to see your Self. @4dbarbie-backup I sit in the feeling while focusing on something else in the present moment, and it usually goes away. @iamthat-iam
Non Dualism does not believe in “affirming” or “persisting” because if awareness is already everything, then it does not need to affirm or persist for its desire if it already has [or IS] its own desire. @itzalizeyyy Like repetition, it keeps you in lack. Do you need to remind yourself that you are a man or a woman? That experience, that form, is already being observed, is already being aware of. You know 'your' gender. @4dbarbie-backup
The truth is, there was no "3D" or "4D" in the first place. there is no imagination VS reality. nothing is real, it has always been illusion VS illusion. If anytime you get thoughts like "why is it not here" "why don't i see it" "why hasn't it manifested yet" you are immediately identifying with your human self. [...] Relying on the human senses will always be our downfall. @iamthat-iam
If you don't have the discipline to at least cut off all this excess of knowledge of information, you'll only be making it tougher on yourself. After you do that, stick to it until you're ready to let go and rely on yourself. Until you start behaving like the teacher and one is needed no more. You create the teacher because you think someone is more knowledgeable than you. That's fine for now, but trust the teacher, listen and apply.@4dbarbie-backup
I have Psychiatrist & doctors appointments, work, still need to eat, want to commit suicide? Psychiatrist appointment. What is that for? To correct your thinking, isn't that right? Reconditioning, changing, or even eliminating patterns of the mind. Now, I'm not telling you to stop going/stop working and or eating. That would be irresponsible of me. Leave your mind alone, that is all. @4dbarbie-backup
DO NOT ACTIVELY INTERFERE in ego's life or try to stop living that life while still being very attached to it, i.e. still identifying with that ego. Let the person continue to live it's life and fulfill it's obligations like studying, but maintain the knowing that it's not who you are. @iamthat-iam
But what about random things that I wasn't even aware of before they came? It's very simple, really. You are aware of being Vanessa and with Vanessa come specific beliefs. Characters have their own beliefs like certain weather can give you a cold, certain environments have insects etc. Thoughts dominate you only because you are interested in them. By resisting evil, you merely strengthen it. If you are "I AM", it means you are not the person experiencing the 3D world/thoughts/circumstances, you never were. The problem is excessive interest, leading to self-identification. Whatever you are engrossed in you take to be real. @4dbarbie-backup
Ever since I read that quote from Ada in which she said that you are trying to let Vanessa see diamonds when it's rocks and her sight is not the fault, I couldn't shake the importance of that truth.
Do you realise that the character, Vanessa, has no free will? She is bound to her conditioning and beliefs. All happens because it happens, she can't control it.
Now, one can argue that she can indeed choose, for example what she eats in the morning, but these little decisions mean nothing - if the ingredients weren't in the fridge, she wouldn't have had the choice either.
She exists because YOU wanted to experience yourself, everything. This is her lifetime in which it happens. She is not the creator of this, she is a creation.
Why try to convince her of experiencing what is not there for her because she is limited that way, i.e. is bound to her circumstances, which are real to her and unchangeable because she IS JUST A TOOL for YOU to experience her experience, her life, as a possibility of infinite possibilities you can define your Self as.
What I'm trying to get across is that before you start to be aware of the life she wants to have and dwell in that, get rid of identification altogether. What you are doing right now is a uneccessary detour, basically trying to convince HER that this is her life now, which is isn't, it belongs to another character of You because Vanessa is fixed as is. Vanessa is a unique form of you, with all her experiences combined.
Once a mold has been cast, it can no longer be changed unless it is melted down, i.e. returned to its original form and then reshaped. However, this is a completely new form. Same basic substance but not the same form from the beginning. The only thing the two share is the source.
You literally have everything already because YOU ARE the source of both of them and her desires and needs will not matter to you anymore! She is not you, nor was she ever. You adore her, you love her but YOU ARE NOT HER.
experience/experiencing = observing
ego = a human character in a physical (limited) world
body-mind = brain
The Mind = Consciousness/ Awareness
You are (already) Consciousness / Awareness observing being a human being - a character, which we now call 'Ally' - in a physical (limited) world.
Nothings that happens seemingly 'outside' of Ally could ever tarnish Consciousness, harm it or be greater than it because it is all unreal as in not independent of it's source: Consciousness. An illusion really, created by the Mind as formed consciousness (labels, things) for it to experience itself in a limited way. It is a game. A cruel one if you don't know the rules. The real you is playing "Ally" in a game she refers to as 'her life'. Or you defined as yours if you have not woken up already.
Consciousness is not a part of the brain nor seperate from the outside world. See, everything Ally's eyes see and all that is happening in her body's mind is actually all inside the Mind. You just didn't know how vast the Mind actually is.
In the end you don't have to do anything, all you (as Consciousness) can naturally do is being conscious of formed Consciousness, which you are in every moment already.
So don't make detaching from the ego a work. You are acting as/identifying as Ally trying to get rid of herself. There is nothing real to detach from! You never were Ally to begin with, you just misidentified as her (were conscious of being the human being "Ally"). You cannot go down on the limited level, identify with one of those characters and expect to change Ally's POV.
Her Point-of-View: she is a real human being, independent from things and is living in a real world. She will always be limited (conditioned) that way as she is just a form of consciousness made to be that way, a concept through which Consciousness can express itself. Like water: it can be labeled as wave, lake, ocean, river etc. but it will always be just water, expressing in different forms.
Now, the only thing you can 'do' is be conscious of being pure Consciousness or Awareness and that will right all the wrongs and show you what's real and what has been an illusion all along.
"You can experience pain in your life but you don’t have to ‘suffer’ the pain.” - Anon I mus
Do you guys even realise how insane you sound sending in asks saying "I can't experience through the illusionary senses", "I still see the old illusion"
Honey, there is a reason why we call it an illusion: it is just not real, in a way that it is not what it seems.