#selfinquiry

[awarenessisnondual]

"Don't do anything – no repetition of mantra, no repetition of the name of god just watch whatever the mind is doing. Don't disturb it, don't prevent it, don't repress it; don't do anything at all on your part. You just be a watcher, and the miracle of watching is meditation.." ~ OSHO

[sholawilde]

[cobotis]

You are the cause of whatsoever is happening to you. You are the cause, and the world is just a mirror. But it is consolatory always to find the cause somewhere else. Then you never feel guilt, you never feel self-condemned. You can always point out that here is the cause, and unless this cause changes, "How can I change?" You can escape into it; this is a trick.  So your mind always goes on projecting causes somewhere else.

~ Osho

[theweightofdivinity]

Some shadows are rehearsed, not integrated.

In any path, magic, spirit, or psychological, you only evolve as far as your ability to confront your own distortions.

[c0reofmind]

The Ego as a Side-Effect: Why We Only Think We’re Incomplete

Most Western philosophy treats "seeking" as something essential to human consciousness. Sartre, for example, said that consciousness is always "for-itself" — always projected toward something, always incomplete, always reaching.

But here's the twist: what if he wasn't describing an ontological truth at all? What if he was just capturing the psychological atmosphere of his time?

If you're born into a culture built on the separation between the sacred and the profane — where meaning is imagined as something "above," "beyond," or "after" life — then of course consciousness will feel like it's always chasing something. You're conditioned from birth to believe that what you truly are isn't here yet, that fulfillment is external, that value is elsewhere.

Under that paradigm, the human being naturally experiences itself as lacking.

And that feeling of lack becomes what we call the ego.

So the whole structure ends up like this:

You assume the sacred is outside you.

That creates the sense of being "profane," incomplete.

That incompleteness generates the constant search.

And the search gets mistaken for the nature of consciousness itself.

Sartre took this culturally-produced restlessness and treated it as a universal law.

But what if it isn't?

What if consciousness doesn't inherently chase anything? What if the "seeking" is just a side-effect of believing you're separate from what you already are?

In other words:

the ego might not be the root of human existence — it might just be the shadow cast by a belief system.

When the idea of separation dissolves, the compulsive search dissolves with it.

And what's left isn't some grand metaphysical mystery — it's simply awareness being itself, without running after a finish line that never existed.

[rucapable]

r u capable of really being there for someone else?

[gardenofnea]

Who is the one who asks these questions?

Who is the one who makes it (e.g. the trigger, the situation, the absense of a reply) mean anything?

Who is the one who takes it personally?

Who is the one who feels rejected, overlooked, ignored?

Who is the one who is annoyed?

Who is that "I"?

Can you find it - can you pinpoint it?

Is it in the body? In the thoughts? In the sensations? Is any of these things the "little me"?

Even if you hear a "yes", who is saying it?

Who is that voice?

Who is aware of all of this?

See, you cannot find this "little me". There is no separate entity.

Everything, no matter how uncomfortable, is just that - waves passing through awareness. Temporary moving images. Nothing lasts, nothing stays forever.

But what always remains. The one "thing" that is always present is the real You - God/the Divine/Awareness/Consciousness - this pure presence, infinite, invisible stillness.

Forever untouched, unshaken, unbothered, unmoved.

Label-free. No beginning. No end.

Just this.

Welcome home.

[embodiedflow]

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We saw that traditional yoga was missing something, so we created something different. Embodied Flow was actually the first school to really weave together:

Getting into your body's felt sense (that's the Somatics / Body-Mind Centering® bit)

The profound wisdom of non-dual Tantra (it's less complex than it sounds, more about seeing the sacred in everything)

The sheer freedom of just moving intuitively

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Seriously, wherever this path takes you, you'll be moving with a compass that points straight to the truest version of You.

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