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Gerard, I laughed when I read your posts… because trolls like you are so transparent… It is obvious that all your spiritual knowledge is from books, and none or very little of it is from personal experience… you know the theory but not the reality… unless your knowledge is first hand from personal experience, it is just more delusion… you don’t understand Taoism or Buddhism, you just cherry pick this and that and take it out of context, and throw around words that you don’t understand, and have never experienced… if you wish to reach final awakening, you are on the wrong path… if you wish to reach awakening, you must systematically destroy the delusion that now controls your subconscious mind, which controls your conscious mind… that is the one and only way to reach awakening… (and raising the Kundalini will not do it, I have been there and done that… I know)… because it took the destruction of my delusion to reach permanent awakening… I destroyed my delusion and reached awakening in August 2011… and it really is like awakening from a long dream that you thought was real… I now Iive permanently in bliss, it was worth all the effort it took to reach it… it is forever… You cannot imagine how much your words reveal about yourself… you are unable to focus your concentration, which is necessary for a successful spiritual practice… you have low self esteem, and don’t like yourself… you are a troll on the internet in an effort to build up your self esteem… your greatest fear is the fear of death, you don’t understand that you can’t die… you are so deluded that you don’t even realize that you are deluded… you don’t even know what delusion is… and you lie to others, and to yourself, and unless you are honest with yourself you are in deep shit… The key to restoring your self esteem is to accept yourself and love yourself (compassionate love) just the way you are… and know that you are no better or worse than anyone else… and realize that if you can’t love yourself, you can’t love others… and if you can’t love others, they can’t love you… And get rid of the big ego… it blocks your spiritual development… and makes you sound like a fool… Also get rid of your negativity, it poisons your mind… and again blocks your spiritual development… Don’t worry about me, I have reached permanent nirvana… but you should be worrying about yourself… and doing something about it… Have a nice day…! Dawg

Dmattwads, just sit as relaxed as possible, breathing as relaxed as possible, and observe (be aware of) your breath... don't try to control it, let it do whatever it wants to do... just be relaxed and at ease... if you need to block out the voice.in your mind, use the word Bud-dho...hear the sound of inhaling as "Buuuuuud", and hear the sound of exhaling as "dhoooo"... it is just something neutral to focus on, if you need it to block out the voice... be completely indifferent to everything, just observe your breath... just let go of everything... if your attention wanders, just calmly bring it back to your breath... if you can maintain this, it will still your mind and put you into samadhi... reciting a whole paragraph is not likely to still your mind... Dawg

THE “ALPHA MIND” FOUR CONCEPTS THAT WOULD MAKE PSYCHOLOGY A CREDIBLE “SCIENCE” There are four related concepts that most psychologists might find difficult to accept as being a part of psychology, but they are necessary to understand “the true scope of our existence”... and so are thus necessary to understand “the true scope of psychology”... because without these four concepts, psychology is just “wandering aimlessly lost in the wilderness… burdened down by a lot of irrelevant Freudian baggage”… searching for answers in all the wrong places… 1)... Reincarnation… it is impossible to die, even if we wanted to…when our body dies, we wake up in the spirit world with our conscious mind, and our unconscious mind which is also our spirit body… our conditioning (karma) in our unconscious mind (which is our spirit body) determines the length of time we spend in the spirit world, and where we spend it… and then it determines where, and in what situation we are reborn in the physical world, with a physical body… we also carry past life conditioning (karma) with us in our unconscious mind (spirit body) when it “reincarnates”, which is why newborn babies are so different... 2)... The spirit World… The physical universe is a reality, it exists, it just is, it is the “truth”… no nation or man “owns” the physical universe… science is just man’s feeble flawed attempt to describe the physical universe… the “physical universe” and “science” are two completely different things… In the same way, the spirit universe is a reality, it exists, it just is, it is the “truth”… no god or religion “owns” or “controls” the spirit universe… religion is just man’s feeble flawed attempt to describe the spirit universe… the “spirit universe” and “religion” are two completely different things… 3)... What part of our mind reincarnates… we have two separate minds… There is a conscious mind that can think freely and create new ideas “outside the box” of our conditioning... Then there is the unconscious mind (also called the subconscious mind), which is basically a super computer loaded with a database of conditioned behaviors, some of which we carried over from a past life, most of which we acquired as small children, below the “age of reason”... because once we reach the age of reason... our unconscious mind (subconscious mind) will only accept conditioning that agrees with the conditioning it has already accepted… so although the unconscious mind is very powerful, it has the conditioned mentality of a small deluded child (arrested development)… it is only the conscious mind that can think outside of “the box of its conditioning”, that grows up into an “adult”... The conscious mind is able to process approximately 40 bits of information per second. But the unconscious mind (subconscious mind) is able to process approximately 40,000,000 bits of information per second... (these are conservative estimates from current brain research)... The unconscious mind (subconscious mind) cannot move outside its fixed programs, it automatically reacts to situations with its previously conditioned behavior responses… and it works without the knowledge or control of the conscious mind. Studies from as far back as the seventies show that our brain begins to prepare for action just over a third of a second before we consciously decide to act... in other words, even when we “think” we are conscious, and in control of our actions, it is the conditioned responses in our unconscious mind that are actually making our decisions for us… essentially we walk through life in a hypnotic trance, because we believe that the voice we hear in our conscious mind is us “thinking” and making decisions, when in fact it is the voice of our conditioned responses… it is the voice of all the people who conditioned (controlled) us, when we were young children, telling us how to act and react… what to believe and think… what is good, and what is bad... etc... The unconscious mind is controlling us 95% of the time!...Neuroscientists have shown that the conscious mind provides 5% or less of our cognitive (conscious) activity during the day – and 5% they say is for the more aware people… The conscious mind cannot cope with the simultaneous "multiple images, feelings, and thoughts” of the unconscious mind, which is the reason why the unconscious mind is “subconscious” to the conscious mind. The conscious mind is simply not able to process and "be conscious" of the unconscious mind, because of its speed and complexity… Telepathy is the universal language of the spirit world… whatever language we speak, other spirits will hear us in their language… it is “perfect communication”... another spirit will know exactly what we mean, and we will know exactly what they mean… it is impossible to lie… The unconscious mind (the spirit that we are) is “telepathic” and can hear the thoughts of other people, and communicate with the subconscious minds of other people and spirits, without our conscious mind being aware of it… it is in this way that our awareness is connected to all other awareness in the universe, so that our awareness is part of the larger universal awareness… this is what creates what the psychologist Carl Jung called the “collective unconscious mind”, a larger human mind of which every individual is a part… The voice of our karma, is the voice of our conditioning… our karma is simply the conditioned reflex responses in our subconscious mind that we have been taught to believe is “reality”… the voice of that conditioning that is always talking to our conscious mind, is “the voice of our karma”… this is how our karma controls our life… the voice is always telling us to act in ways that lead us to produce results that “are our karma” (conditioning)”… for example, if it is our karma to be rich, the voice of our subconscious mind will lead us to riches, because that is how it is programmed… if it is our karma to be poor, the voice will lead us to poverty, again because that is how it is programmed… if it is our karma to commit suicide, the voice will convince us to kill ourselves… if it is our karma to develop a fatal disease, the conditioning will act on our subconscious mind (we are the author of our own health or disease) to produce the fatal disease… We are a spirit with a body, not a body with a spirit… our conscious mind (and personality) is just a temporary superficial interface that allows our spirit to reincarnate in a physical body, and survive in the physical world… while our unconscious mind is the eternal spirit that we are… when a person reincarnates, their past personality and past conscious mind becomes a permanent part of their unconscious mind (which goes from life to life), and a new conscious mind and personality is created… Delusion is what happens when a newborn baby is taught (conditioned) how to survive in the physical world (physical survival), and taught (conditioned) how to survive within the context of the culture that it is born into (personality, mundane social reality)… then when that baby reaches the “age of reason” it is trapped in a “box of reality”… and if that person tries to escape the delusion of that “box of reality”, they are considered “crazy”, and punished… It is the unconscious mind that attains awakening (enlightenment), not the conscious mind… the unconscious mind attains awakening, when its mundane reality (conditioned reflex behavior, karma, and delusion) that it is conditioned with, is permanently destroyed… then after its awakening, with all delusion (conditioning) gone, it becomes like a very gentle and brilliant simple minded giant with magic powers that knows absolutely everything… it is completely reliable and trustworthy, our best friend, our soul mate… with the destruction of “conditioned reality”, the voice of the unconscious mind in the conscious mind is gone… the two minds become one, giving the person a sense of “wholeness” or “completeness”, “lacking nothing”... and there is no longer any conflict, so that all turbulence in the conscious mind ceases, and it is now “empty”, and serenely peaceful… 4)… The “alpha mind”… The mind that was once called the “subconscious mind”, is now properly called the “unconscious mind”... but considering that abundant research has shown it to be the dominate mind, controlling the “conscious mind” at least 95 percent of the time… and that it is an immortal mind that survives the death of our body… and that it is our awareness (consciousness) in the spirit world… and that it is the mind that reincarnates in a new body… and that it is the mind that attains awakening (enlightenment)… calling it the “unconscious mind” is a gross misnomer… I call it the “alpha mind” because it is the “dominate mind”… and because it is us, the eternal spirit that we are... Dawg

Matthew & Juliank 0)… Don’t worry about it, it is actually a good opportunity to dismiss the voice as “childish ignorance”, every time it starts talking… don’t take it seriously… don’t respond to it, you are putting energy into it if you do… you want to take energy away from it at every opportunity… 1)... if you want to shut the voice up… so that your mind is quiet, use “Samadhi” … focus your mind on your breathing and repeat “Buddho”… 2)… don’t forget that your subconscious mind is you as a five or six year old child… hypnotized into believing what you were taught was “reality”… it wants to help you and please you… it just does not know how… so tell it how it can help you and please you… 3)… don’t ask why it thinks what it thinks, or listen to what it thinks… if anything you should cut it off, by thinking “poor deluded child, such ignorance”… you are the boss… 4)… give your subconscious mind a name, so that it knows when you are talking to it… talk to it, and tell it what you want it to do (never use negative words when you talk to it like, no, never, don’t, stop, etc… your subconscious mind does not understand negative words)… if you tell it, "I don't want"... it will hear, "I want"... only tell it what you want, not what you don’t want… 5)… only think about what you want, not what you don’t want… because what ever you think about, you attract to you… your subconscious mind hears and acts on your thoughts… so only think about how you want your subconscious mind to be… all positive, no negative… Dawg

Silent Answers, Your last line sums it up... because dictating a specific action is what reality is all about, and it controls your subconscious mind... and by extension your conscious mind... it controls you at least 95% of the time... so when you destroy "mundane reality", you take control of your actions... then you control the decision making process, and the effect it has on others... when you destroy mundane reality, you destroy the hypnotic trance (the conditioning that controls you)... you see reality for what it is, a culture based "social contract"... and for the first time you see and know the truth of your existence, and have control over it... you know you will reap the fruit of your actions, so you choose good actions instead of bad actions... It is our intention that makes an action good or bad... only intention is "good or bad" , everything else is neutral, just "IS"... there is only "cause and effect"... "intention" is "cause", karma is "effect"... the universe is totally impersonal... if you stick your hand in a fire, you get burned, does that make fire bad...? no...! you can cook your food with fire, and warm yourself when it is cold... does that make fire good...? No!... fire just is... Dawg

I have been off line since the middle of July, but I am back again... Dawg

we use the unpurified 7th chakra which is the conscious mind, to purify the 6th chakra which is the subconscious mind because the conscious mind can think outside the box of our conditioned behavior... so it is the only tool we have that can purify the 6th chakra... then when we purify the 6th chakra, our subconscious mind, it stops dumping delusion into our conscious mind... so that our conscious mind is automatically purified also... dawg

Silent Answers, I like it...but one criticism: If being in the Garden of Eden requires a state of not knowing good from evil, that is essentially the same as not knowing right from wrong. If that is the case, it would be impossible to live in such a state among society, which has its own set of rules, some of which are likely to clash with your unbiased actions...(unless your bliss is beyond prison to the point that it wouldn't bother you having to spend a lot of time there...I could even say, that I understand such a thought, but you'd miss out on a lot) I have not expressed myself very well, because you have totally missed the point… which is, “you still know what mundane reality is, but it is no longer controlling your mind”… you are no longer a puppet on a string… you realize that the only reality is that there is no reality… that what we call reality is totally man made… that “reality” is just a social agreement that allows us to co-exist with other humans… a survival mechanism for the human species of animal… and you realize that the duality of “good & bad” and “right & wrong” are arbitrary “value judgments” that are the source of delusion, which is the cause of dissatisfaction and suffering… so that you automatically walk the middle path… or as you said, “Knowing the rules and playing the game without letting either side touch you.) Knowing and flowing, never showing”… Dawg For example: I know the concept of wearing clothes doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things, besides from to keep warm, but I still wear clothes for the most part of my awake hours, even at home...because I also know that people would be worried if I started walking around naked. In every action, I still know right from wrong and that each have their time. (or is this what you mean by walking the middle path? Knowing the rules and playing the game without letting either side touch you.) Knowing and flowing, never showing. It reminds me of when sages wrote along the lines of not fooling ourselves by spending the rest of our lives doing nothing in the mountains. I think such a Garden of Eden would have been possible literally at the beginning of man, when you were unlikely to step on anyone's toes. However, humans have now evolved beyond that point, there's no going back to the garden without a huge catastrophe...not because we can't get there mentally, but because it's not practical. (This path was inevitable from the beginning, spirituality also evolves.) Instead, we have to walk the middle path, like you say...but still maintain an understanding of what we can and cant do/good and evil, so as to know how to flow along without creating any ripples.

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Stosh, Relax, the boomerang wasn't aimed at you... I saw it and it made me laugh... so I posted it... Dawg

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Stosh, Beware… be careful about what you cling to… Mundane Reality is the slippery slope down into dissatisfaction and mental suffering… Mundane Reality is the box of conditioning that you are currently trapped inside of… it is how other people and society control you… it is as if you are born and raised in a prison, so that you consider a prison to be a warm and cozy place to live… that living in a prison is normal… and that the esoteric stuff about living outside a prison is BS… That said… the esoteric stuff is BS, unless you have a high enough level of understanding so that you can understand it and “own it”… if you are serious about “spiritual development, the first thing you should do is accept yourself, just the way you are… and know that you are no better or worse than anyone else… that you are OK… and feel love for yourself, because you cannot love anyone else unless you love yourself… this will open the door to changing yourself…but know that change is not something you do, it is something you allow… the change just happens, and you allow it to happen... Metta, Dawg ***************************************************************************************************** MUNDANE REALITY Our subconscious mind is running our life! We have two separate minds that create our conscious mind’s controlling voice. There is the conscious mind that can think freely and create new ideas “outside of the box of our conditioning”. Then there is the subconscious mind, which is basically a super computer loaded with a database of programmed behaviors, that we carried with us from a past life (karma), or that we acquired before we reached the age of six or seven (when we were most gullible and impressionable) and were taught (programmed to believe) what the adults called “reality” (how to think and act)... The subconscious mind cannot move outside of its fixed programs… It automatically (reflex) reacts to situations with its previously “conditioned” behavior responses; it works without the knowledge or control of the conscious mind. We are usually not even aware that most of our actions are subconscious conditioned reflex responses. Studies from as far back as the 1970’s, show that our subconscious mind begins to prepare for action just over a third of a second before we consciously decide to act. In other words, even when we ‘think’ that we are consciously deciding to act, it is our subconscious mind that is actually making the decision for us...the subconscious mind is controlling us 95% of the time! Neuroscientists have shown that the conscious mind of a normal person provides 5% or less of their cognitive (conscious) activity during the day, and 5% they say is for the more aware people, many people operate at just 1% consciousness. It is the subconscious mind which shapes how we live our life… Note that the reason that an enlightened person is said to be “awake”, is because they are no longer in the “hypnotic trance” of conditioned behavior and sleepwalking through their life… they have awakened. Most of our decisions, actions, emotions and behavior depend on the 95% of brain activity that is usually beyond our conscious awareness, which means that at least 95% of our life is conditioned behavior that comes from our subconscious mind. Our life reflects our subconscious conditioning, because the job of the subconscious mind is to create a “reality” out of our subconscious conditioning. If our subconscious conditioning is negative (caused by negative experiences), our subconscious mind will recreate those negative experiences in our life, again and again. The voice of our thoughts, is not our voice… it is the voice of all the people who have conditioned us… our thoughts are all the “value judgments” and “control trips” that our family and our culture have programmed us with, to control our behavior… our awareness is clean and pure… the defilements in our mind are these conditioned “value judgment” and “control trip” thoughts that other people have filled our mind with. Whatever thoughts that our mind keeps returning to, are unresolved issues… If we have unresolved issues, it is usually because we have been conditioned with contradictory behavior… that is to say that we have been conditioned to do something (because it’s “good”), and also conditioned to not do the same thing (because it’s “bad”)… unresolved issues are usually a result of this situation… this situation produces conflict in our mind, so that we like to do something, but we feel guilty about it, and consider ourselves a bad person because we do it… it is a conflict of two conditioned value judgments… to resolve the issue we must make a choice of one or the other… either we don’t do “it”, or we do “it” and let go of our guilt about doing “”it” (assuming that we are not hurting anyone, including ourselves). “Guilt” is nothing but a control trip that someone has put in our mind to control us… we should not be deceived into thinking that it is a “natural response” to the “badness” of our actions. If we have negative conditioning (caused by negative experiences) in our subconscious mind, 95% of the time we will recreate those negative experiences in our life. Most of the conditioning in our subconscious mind is control trips based on negativity and fear that were put there to control and shape our behavior… we have been conditioned by our parents and other family members, school teachers, religious teachers, friends, enemies, books, newspapers, magazines, radio, television, movies, the internet, the government, etc… For example : if we are repeatedly told that we are “bad”, we are “stupid”, we are “worthless”, we are “incompetent”, we are a “failure”, or we fear what other people are thinking about us, or fear that we will not be accepted loved and respected as we are, fear that we are inferior to other people in some way, etc… these thoughts will keep popping into our mind, and this will cause us to have low self esteem, and a negative opinion of ourselves, and to believe that we are worthless. We then hate ourselves so are unable to accept and love ourselves as we are, and as a result we are unable to love others... Our subconscious mind is conditioned by a form of hypnosis that we call “education”… we are conditioned (hypnotized) when we voluntarily agree to believe what “respected authority” (parents & family, school teachers, religious teachers, government, media, friends, etc.) “suggest” to us… they suggest to us what things are good or bad, true or false… how we should behave, how we should think, what is “normal”… what is “reality”… so that the 95% of the time that we are controlled by our subconscious mind, we are in a hypnotic trance… simply reacting to stimulus with conditioned reflex behavior… our conscious mind’s “ego” thinks that it is making all of our decisions, that it is in control of our fate, but in reality it is just a puppet of the subconscious mind… We are taught to be greedy, and to want as much money as we can get… we are taught to chase pleasure and sex… we are taught to get angry when certain things happen to us… we are taught that what we believe is right… and anyone who disagrees with us is wrong… and so on. And as time passes we forget that we have learned these behaviors from other people, because they become automatic responses, so that we think that they are our natural and spontaneous reactions… and so that we become locked into a mundane hypnotic trance state that we consider to be “REALITY”… we are like “zombies”… THIS CONDITIONED MUNDANE REALITY IS THE IGNORANCE AND DELUSION THAT we must see through to liberate our mind… then it is as if we “awaken” from a long sleep, and see the true nature of our existence. But be warned that Delusion (mundane reality) has one last trick… it will try to convince you that you will “go crazy” if you let go of mundane reality… don’t believe it, you will “go sane”, and you will be free… forever and ever… Dawg

Stosh Only a person who lies, would imply or accuse someone else of lying, even in jest, because they think that everyone lies... most of the time the truth is much stranger, and a lot more weird than fiction... with your mindset, you put yourself in danger of believing the lies because they sound credible, and dismissing the truth because it sounds incredible... Your words tell a lot more about you than you realize... And don't be so uptight... it clouds your mind... Metta, Dawg

Stosh, Excuse me but your delusion (value judgments, and mundane reality) is showing... in both posts you were thinking what your motivations would have been, and projecting them onto others... you said a lot about yourself... and you exposed yourself as a liar... Metta, Dawg

3 bob, Excuse me, but your delusion (mundane reality) is showing ! Metta, Dawg

3 bob, If the old man was ready to throw his body off a cliff, so he could reincarnate, he was certainly NOT attached to it... and it wasn't his ego thinking his ego would be reincarnated... Dawg

manitou,What is a 12 stepper ? Dawg

Tibetan Ice, During the six weeks before awakening all I did was try to convince my subconscious mind that mundane reality was just childish ignorance, and that the Buddha’s middle path was reality… But it was the structured step by step process of systematically cleansing my subconscious mind of conditioned behavior (delusion) ,that I had done before that, which set me up for awakening… SAMADHI... (concentration)… I had to first learn how to sit in meditation and turn off the thoughts (voice) in my mind, so that my mind was quiet… ONE-POINTEDNESS… then I had to learn how to sit in Samadhi until I reached ONE-POINTEDNESS (total concentration) where I was suspended in time, where hours could pass and it seemed like an instant… and when I opened your eyes, my body was energized, and everything in the world looked beautiful, like a Walt Disney Movie… (oh look !… what a beautiful pile of dog shit !)…and I could sit anywhere and immediately concentrate and turn off all thoughts effortlessly… ANGER & GREED… now that my Samadhi was solid, I could start to rid my mind of Anger and Greed, and realize that they were just conditioned responses that our subconscious mind was programmed with when we were little… by people who said that, “you should get angry if blab, blab, blab”… and “you should try to get as much blab, blab, blab as you can”… (anger and greed, are not want and want… which are major “attachments” that produce most of our karma)… and you realize that if someone makes you angry, they are stealing your energy… and if someone tries to make you angry, and you don’t get angry, you have stolen their energy… EQUANIMITY… (live and let live)… nobody is right, and nobody is wrong… you are entitled to believe what you choose to believe, and everyone else is entitled to believe what they choose to believe… you never again get sucked into an argument over who is right or wrong (your beliefs are your karma, their beliefs are their karma)… you don’t want other people telling you what to believe, so don’t tell other people what to believe… BODY INVESTIGATION… Physical & Mental… body investigation is the last and most complex and difficult step in the climb to awakening, but once you complete this step you are ripe for awakening… awakening is the destruction of delusion… Body investigation is basically about accepting the reality that your body and personality, accepting that they will die, and realizing that it is no big deal… Most people think that their body and personality are them, and are so terrified of death that they don’t want to think about it… they see the death of their body and personality as themselves being obliterated, and don’t understand that both are only transient features of this reincarnation… that they are immortal spirits, who have had many temporary bodies and personalities… and that they couldn’t die even if they wanted to… so they cling in fear to their body (physical) and their personality (mental)…. And refuse to do this part of the meditation… and because they cling to their body and personality which is delusion, they cannot reach awakening… they have got to let go of everything, and everything means everything… Body Investigation is far too complex to describe in detail in a short post like this… but you can google “body investigation” at Theravada Buddhist meditation sites)… DESTROYING DELUSION… (mundane reality is delusion)… the only reality is that there is no reality… there is only cause and effect… cause is intention… effect is karma… the only way to avoid making karma and creating delusion is the Buddha’s “middle path”, where everything is neutral and without intention… where there is no good or bad, because delusion is built up from the concept of good and bad, which are value judgments… to reach awakening we must convince our subconscious mind that mundane reality is just childish ignorance, and that the Buddha’s middle path is reality… ******************************************************** In the time of the Buddha, a monk would go live and meditate in a “charnel ground” to do “body investigation” (a charnel ground was where people would dump unclaimed dead bodies to rot away, or to be eaten by vultures and jackals)… there is a story from the time of the Buddha, about an old man whose family had thrown him out because he could no longer work so was useless… he went to the Buddha’s monastery and wanted to ordain as a monk, but the young monks he approached, ridiculed him and chased him away… so he decided to jump off a cliff and kill himself, so he could go on to his next reincarnation… the Buddha picked up on the old man, and put himself in the old man’s way… when the old man came down the path towards the Buddha, the Buddha hailed him and asked him where he was going… the old man told the Buddha how his family had thrown him out, how he wanted to ordain as a monk but was rejected, and that he was going to jump off a cliff, so he could get on with his next life… the Buddha told the old man that if he wanted to ordain as a monk, to come with him, that he would arrange it… the old man (who didn’t realize that he was talking to the Buddha) was ecstatic, and asked the Buddha “do you know somebody important at the monastery who will let me ordain”…??? So the old man was ordained, and a week later he was awakened… the young monks were amazed, and asked the Buddha how he had done it so quickly… the Buddha replied, “he had already thrown away his body”… Dawg

Allinone, The moment of awakening is basically the same for everybody, but varies in the details… The moment of awakening always comes after you have exerted a lot of effort to reach it, but not when you are thinking about it or expecting it… it happens when you are temporarily mindlessly preoccupied with something else and you least expect it… also it never happens when it would put you in danger (like if you were driving a car, or engaged in some hazardous activity)… I know of one monk who was mindlessly watching a farmer plant rice when he had his moment of awakening… another monk had walked a long distance, and when he stopped to rest for a few minutes and sat down, he had his moment of awakening… another monk was mindlessly taking a piss when he had his moment of awakening… when it happened to me, it was late afternoon and I was sitting mindlessly listening to the wind rustling the leaves on the trees, and to a solitary bird that was singing its heart out, when it hit me like a ton of bricks… totally without warning… that was my moment of awakening… As soon as it hit me, I could hear loud very deep rumbling sounds like an earthquake was ripping mountains apart, and hear very high pitched zinging sounds… and see blinding flashes of light, like the flash on a camera going off in my face… (this is basically the same for most people at their moment of awakening… but after this it can vary a lot, depending on the person )… I had just spent more than six weeks in solitary meditation, trying to force my way into my subconscious mind, in an attempt to reprogram it… because of this, after the loud rumbling earthquake sounds, zinging sounds, and flashing lights were finished… I found myself inside my subconscious mind in a huge space looking at what looked like Hoover Dam (which represented my delusion) towering in front of me… then big cracks started appearing in the dam, getting bigger and spreading, and pieces of the dam were breaking off and falling away, fizzing away as they got smaller and smaller until they evaporated… then the whole dam gave away and collapsed… and the entire contents of my subconscious mind, like a giant wave swept out and over me… at this point my moment of awakening was over, and I was awakened… the “hypnotic trance of delusion” had been destroyed… Everyone thinks that they are not deluded (which is delusion), until they awaken… then they feel as if their whole life up to this point was just a long hypnotic dream, and that they have just awakened in the “real world”… everyone experiences this, which is why it is called “awakening”… After awakening, my subconscious mind had become as conscious as my conscious mind… so I then spent the next seven days inside my subconscious mind exploring it, and experiencing it, seeing what it was capable of… gaining firsthand knowledge of it… I had no sense of time passing, except that the sun kept coming up and going down, it was always “NOW”… and I was pure awareness, simply aware that I was aware… my subconscious mind was no longer deluded, so it was now completely reliable… and my conscious mind was serenely "empty” and peaceful… Dawg

Tibetan Ice, Sorry, but I was very critical of the site because I don't think it would ever lead you or anyone else to awakening... which was the only thing that I was interested in... and it seems to be geared to reaching a Brahmin realm, which is very comfortable but full of delusion, and is a dead end realm... What you call "super consciousness", I would call "knowing"... it is a function of the subconscious mind, the subconscious mind is plugged into everything via telepathy... I started experiencing it before I reached awakening... when I would try to understand something really complex, and in a flash I would understand it down to the smallest details... sometimes I would experience telepathy, and hear peoples thoughts... or know something before it happened... before I reached awakening, I was spontaneously experiencing powers of mind and body, and the monk who was my teacher warned me off of them, saying I would never reach awakening if I pursued them... that people who pursue powers have already been seduced by them... so I didn't pursue them, nor did I suppress them... and when I reached awakening I became totally indifferent to them... whatever happens, happens... Regarding communicating with dead relatives and friends... very, very few people reincarnate quickly... so that family that you have known personally are likely to still be in the spirit world... and you are still telepathically connected to them... and they can come to you in an instant... but any relative that has reincarnated, is no longer that person who was your relative, and their memory of you is buried in a past life in the subconscious mind of a stranger... Dawg

You are welcome, I don't know James, Annie, Sam, or Kelly either ! Metta, Dawg

THE SIMPLE TRUTH OF OUR EXISTENCE The story in the Bible of “Adam” and “Eve” in the “Garden of Eden” is grossly misunderstood… the Garden of Eden was not a “place”, it was an enlightened innocent “state of mind”… the Adams and Eves had no concept of “good” or “evil” (so had no attachment to “like” and “dislike”), and everything just was, simple cause and effect… they made no value judgments so had no “intentions”… but once they ate the fruit from the “tree of knowledge of good and evil ”, their state of mind became deluded and dissatisfied… the Eden in their mind was corrupted and no longer existed… they were not driven out of the Garden of Eden by some wrathful god, because the garden of Eden was not a geographical location… “original sin” was simply the knowledge of good and evil which allowed them to make “value judgments”, which created more and more delusion, making them more and more dissatisfied and unhappy… and because each generation teaches their children what is good, and what is bad, “original sin” (dissatisfaction and unhappiness) was, and is passed down from generation to generation… the “wrathful god” punishing Adam and Eve for their “original sin”, was just one more product of men and women’s delusion, which was added to the story later to explain why all the later men and women were so dissatisfied and unhappy… Delusion is duality… you can’t have “good” without “evil”… you can’t have “happy” without “sad”… you can’t have “love” without “hate”… you can’t have “like” without “dislike”… you can’t have “rich” without “poor”… you can’t have “smart” without “stupid”… you can’t have “beautiful” without “ugly”… you can’t have “fat” without “skinny”… and so on… each defines the other… When you meditate, and successfully reach awakening, you have gotten rid of “original sin” (good and evil) and all duality… you do so by walking the “middle path” between “good” and “evil”, as described by the Buddha… you realize that “good” and “evil” are just cultural value judgments that our culture has “conditioned” us with… you realize that “good and evil” are what generates our “delusion”, and that it is what generates all of our dissatisfaction and suffering… so that you realize that until you awaken that you must be totally neutral, totally indifferent, and walk right down the middle between good and evil… and have no good intentions, and no bad intentions, so that you cling to nothing, until delusion (duality of mundane reality) shatters and is destroyed… so that you no longer have delusion and make karma… so that you realize that the only “reality”, is that there is no “reality”… "reality" is a human invention... there is no "natural" reality... you realize that everything “just is”… that any “reality” is delusion… that nothing is real except “cause” and “effect”… “cause” is “intention”… “effect” is “karma”… Your attitude towards any “reality” should be like your attitude towards a screwdriver… think of your attitude towards a “screwdriver”… if you need to drive a screw, a screwdriver is a handy tool… but then you put it away and forget about it, you don’t cling to the screwdriver and carry it around with you for the rest of your life… is a screwdriver “good” or “bad”…? Neither, a screwdriver “just is”, it is neutral… what about fire, is fire good or bad ?... if you stick your hand in a fire, it will burn you… does that make fire bad ?... you can cook your food or warm yourself with fire, does that make fire good ?... no, it is just the nature of fire… fire “just is”… everything “just is”… and everything that happens to you, you have caused, by having “intention” and creating “karma”… And when you get rid of delusion (surprise, surprise) you have returned to the “Garden of Eden”… welcome home… Dawg

Tibetan Ice, Please excuse me for being bluntly honest, but there is no such thing as a “super conscious mind”… what the site is describing is just the little fleeting glimpses of awakening that meditators get as they reach higher and higher attainment… the “super conscious mind” is just a current “buzz word” implying some or all of the traits of the enlightened mind… I read the “promotion”… and 3 chapters (the “conscious mind”, the “subconscious mind”, and the “super conscious mind”… I was not impressed… in my humble opinion it is just a lot of nice sounding glib key words, and overly complex vague concepts… reasonably priced at $59.95… beware of anyone that is selling consciousness, they are just another commercial mundane business… you probably know as much or more than they do… But what really turned me off the most was that the whole thrust of the site was “merging your mind with “Shiva’s mind”, which is a dead end and would eliminate any possibility of reaching enlightenment… where would you go when you died…? Shiva is just a hillbilly god, he is NOT ENLIGHTENED, nor is he anywhere close to being enlightened… and when he dies (all the gods were born, and will die), his next reincarnation destination will be in hell… By definition, there is only the conscious mind and the subconscious mind… whatever we are aware of is our conscious mind which is our 7th chakra, whatever we are not aware of is our subconscious mind which is our 6th chakra, (which controls the 5 lower chakras, and is our third eye) … but it is not that simple, because 95 percent of the content of our conscious mind is coming from our subconscious mind… and when we die and go to the spirit world, our subconscious mind will become our conscious mind… Only the fully awakened mind could be called the “super conscious mind”, because only the fully awakened mind understands (is conscious of) the awesome simplicity of "the truth of our existence"… Dawg

Tibetan Ice, it is not that you can't access your subconscious mind... it is that you are not aware that you are accessing the subconscious mind, and think that you are accessing the conscious mind... the conscious mind does little more than allow us to navigate around the physical world without killing ourselves... the data from our senses does not go through the conscious mind, it goes directly to our subconscious mind... it is the subconscious mind that processes what we see, hear, smell, taste, and touch... and knows how to do anything that we have learned to do, and recognizes visual images, sound, smell, taste, and touch...you really become very aware of this if you go to the spirit world, because you don't even use your conscious mind there... if you try to use your conscious mind in the spirit world, it pops you right back into the physical world... unless of course you are dead... Dawg

Manitou, You said, "I've meditated for oh so many years, and I've never been able to truly experience the beings you speak of. How I would love to...." this is posted on my site called, "a path to awakening"... if you are a detective, you should have a logical conscious mind... and when I wrote this I tried to make it as logical as I could... so it might give you some insights, and help you with your meditation... I kept a journal while I was meditating, and I put this together after I reached awakening... what allowed me to make progress and finally break through, was knowing exactly what I was trying to do when I was meditating... what was I investigating and/or trying to understand... at the end I had to figure out "what is delusion" and "how to destroy it"... read this, and if you have any questions, I will try to answer them.. A PATH TO AWAKENING From the very beginning, my meditation was focused on one thing only… silencing the of my mind (delusion)… then destroying that voice completely… all of my meditation practice was insight meditation, and because I made steady progress from beginning to end, I never tried anything else… my insight meditation consisted of fixing my awareness on my nose, and passively observing my breath as it went in and out of my nose…while repeating “Buddho – Buddho – Buddho”… then when I became proficient in Samadhi (concentration), I started doing investigation of my mind… I first spent a few weeks at a Theravada Forest Monastery in the north of Thailand… I did this several times, but just when I started to get results, it would be time to leave… so I decided that the next time I would stay for as long as I got results… and I ended up staying for a full year, during which time I got rid of my anger and greed and reached equanimity… then I did solitary meditation at a house in the mountains (here in Thailand) for a year… then spent another year at the monastery primarily doing “body investigation”… then again I returned to a house in the mountains to do solitary meditation … after doing “body meditation” at the monastery I had reached a high level of attainment, but was unsure of what to do next…so I decided that I would attempt to reach awakening, or to at least scout out the territory… but I realized that I didn’t really have a clue where to start… so I decided that since the process of meditation and awakening takes place in the mind, knowledge of how the mind works would be extremely useful… so I surfed the internet looking for research and other information to update my knowledge about how the mind worked… after I digested it all, I wrote a short summary of it for my own use (conscious & subconscious mind… see below) which also includes my own observations and insights… with this information I could see how to proceed, and why… so I then wrote a step by step “road map forawakening” for myself that took me to awakening… see below)… then after my awakening, I wrote a description of what I experienced when I awakened… (awakening … see below)… later I wrote an epilogue describing how I felt 6 months after awakening… see below… Dawg .............................................................................. CONSCIOUS MIND & SUBCONSCIOUS MIND (Summary of my research and insights) The left hemisphere of your brain was generated from your father’s DNA, and contains your conscious mind, which is the male mind (Yang), and seventh chakra… the right hemisphere of your brain was generated from your mothers DNA, and contains your subconscious mind, which is the female mind (Yin), and sixth chakra (third eye)… the conscious mind is “father sky”, the subconscious mind is “mother earth”… …………………………………. THE CONSCIOUS MIND THE CONSCIOUS MIND IS A SERIAL PROCESSOR (with only one image or thought at a time, in a lineal sequence). The conscious mind can process 40 bits (nerve impulses) per second… the conscious mind understands “words” and “logic”, it is very “rational”… THE CONSCIOUS MIND IS THE MIND OF OUR PHYSICAL BODY AND ITS SENSES… “Consciousness” is usually defined as being aware of the physical senses… if a person cannot see, hear, smell, taste, or touch, they are said to be “unconscious”… NOTE... The “conscious mind” is used to survive in the physical world (world of the body’s senses)… The conscious mind is concerned with our personality and the survival of our body… when a person reincarnates, their past personality and conscious mind becomes a part of their subconscious mind, and a new conscious mind and personality is created… When a baby is born, it is taught (conditioned) how to survive in the physical world (physical survival), and how to survive within the context of the culture that it is born into (personality)… The conscious mind is just a temporary superficial interface that allows our spirit to reincarnate in a physical body, and experience the physical world… while our subconscious mind is the eternal spirit that we are, that is connected to, and is a part of the spirit universe …………………………………. THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND IS A PARALLEL PROCESSOR (with many images and thoughts arranged in many different complex patterns and structures simultaneously). The subconscious mind can process 40,000,000 bits (nerve impulses) per second, so it is 1,000,000 times more powerful, complex, bigger, or faster than the conscious mind… and can think hundreds or thousands of different thoughts simultaneously… the subconscious mind understands “visual images”, “emotions” and “feelings”; and is totally “irrational”… the subconscious mind controls our body… it keeps our heart beating, our lungs breathing, our stomach digesting our food, etc… it repairs and replaces the cells of our body… it creates our health or sickness… this is why the Buddha said that “every man is the author of his own sickness or health”… the subconscious mind is extremely powerful, but we seldom use more than a tiny fraction of its power, because we are unaware of it… If you see someone that you know; your subconscious mind “recognizes them” (visual image), and your conscious mind “remembers their name” (word)… this is how they work together… The conscious mind cannot cope with the simultaneous "multiple images and thoughts” in the subconscious mind, which is the reason why the subconscious mind is subconscious to the conscious mind. The conscious mind is simply unable to process and "be conscious" of the complexity of the "subconscious mind”… NOTE... If a “normal” mundane person were to unwittingly make their subconscious mind conscious, they would “think” (a logical lineal sequence of thoughts in their conscious mind) that they must be going “crazy”; because of the flood of conditioned multiple interacting reflex thoughts that would flood through their mind. Clinical insanity is when the subconscious mind of a mundane person becomes conscious, when he has tapped directly into his “spirit”, and neither the mundane person, nor the mundane world around him, understands what is happening… but this is also why some cultures consider “crazy people” to be “holy”, and why some “holy men” appear to be crazy… likewise a meditator who unwittingly makes his subconscious mind conscious, might “think” that meditating has made him crazy, and so be afraid to meditate any more… but if you recognize it as simply the natural state of the subconscious mind and are not afraid, it is no problem… it is fear of it that is the problem… if you ever fall into fear, simply start repeating “Buddho… Buddho… Buddho…” again and again until you feel safe… it will anchor you to something good, and protect you from fear… NOTE… When our subconscious mind becomes conscious, we have the potential to instantly and spontaneously “know” (with certainty) even the deepest and most complex universal knowledge and truths… NOTE… The subconscious mind simply collects information. It takes in every bit of input whether it is positive or negative. It does not make judgments about the information that it collects since that is the responsibility of the conscious mind. Every sight, sound, taste, smell, touch, or anything we've experienced since the day that we were born (and what is carried over from past lives...karma) is stored in our subconscious mind for future retrieval…. Our subconscious mind is similar to a six-year-old child. It is innocent, naive, and wants to help us in any way it can, but has no idea how to help us. The subconscious mind wants to do the “right thing”, but it can only respond with what it has been conditioned to believe is the right thing (“mundane reality”, usually “ignorance”), so that it does not always make the best of choices… NOTE... The subconscious mind is “telepathic” and can hear the thoughts of other people, and communicate with the subconscious minds of other people, without our conscious mind being aware of it… this is what is called “intuition”… NOTE... Psychologists or behavioral change experts speak about writing goals or affirmations. Affirmations are positive, goal-directed phrases that are worded as if we have already achieved these goals… experts suggest we review our goals or repeat affirmations just before bed or just as we wake up… The reason is at these times our brainwaves are naturally in the correct state (the alpha frequency) for communicating with our subconscious mind. In alpha, the conscious mind is in abeyance, and we can speak directly to the subconscious mind… let's say you wrote the affirmation, "I love to exercise and have a compulsion to leap out of bed and exercise for 30 minutes every morning"… If you were in the alpha state, this message would go directly into the subconscious mind, unchallenged. But if you forgot to repeat affirmations just before bedtime, and repeated them while in the beta frequency (normal awake conscious mind) instead? Do you really think you could say this phrase without, at least, rolling your eyes? And most likely, that little voice in your conscious mind would be saying, "yeah, right"… …………………………………. Our subconscious mind is running our life! We have two separate minds that create our conscious mind’s controlling voice. There is the conscious mind that can think freely and create new ideas “outside of the box of our conditioning”. Then there is the subconscious mind, which is basically a super computer loaded with a database of programmed behaviors, that we carried with us from a past life (karma), or that we acquired before we reached the age of six or seven (when we were most gullible and impressionable) and were taught (programmed to believe) what the adults called “reality” (how to think and act)... The subconscious mind cannot move outside of its fixed programs… It automatically (reflex) reacts to situations with its previously “conditioned” behavior responses; it works without the knowledge or control of the conscious mind. We are usually not even aware that most of our actions are subconscious conditioned reflex responses. Studies from as far back as the 1970’s, show that our subconscious mind begins to prepare for action just over a third of a second before we consciously decide to act. In other words, even when we ‘think’ that we are consciously deciding to act, it is our subconscious mind that is actually making the decision for us...the subconscious mind is controlling us 95% of the time! Neuroscientists have shown that the conscious mind of a normal person provides 5% or less of their cognitive (conscious) activity during the day, and 5% they say is for the more aware people, many people operate at just 1% consciousness. It is the subconscious mind which shapes how we live our life… Note that the reason that an enlightened person is said to be “awake”, is because they are no longer in the “hypnotic trance” of conditioned behavior and sleepwalking through their life… they have awakened. Most of our decisions, actions, emotions and behavior depend on the 95% of brain activity that is usually beyond our conscious awareness, which means that at least 95% of our life is conditioned behavior that comes from our subconscious mind. Our life reflects our subconscious conditioning, because the job of the subconscious mind is to create a “reality” out of our subconscious conditioning. If our subconscious conditioning is negative (caused by negative experiences), our subconscious mind will recreate those negative experiences in our life, again and again. The voice of our thoughts, is not our voice… it is the voice of all the people who have conditioned us… our thoughts are all the “value judgments” and “control trips” that our family and our culture have programmed us with, to control our behavior… our awareness is clean and pure… the defilements in our mind are these conditioned “value judgment” and “control trip” thoughts that other people have filled our mind with. Whatever thoughts that our mind keeps returning to, are unresolved issues… If we have unresolved issues, it is usually because we have been conditioned with contradictory behavior… that is to say that we have been conditioned to do something (because it’s “good”), and also conditioned to not do the same thing (because it’s “bad”)… unresolved issues are usually a result of this situation… this situation produces conflict in our mind, so that we like to do something, but we feel guilty about it, and consider ourselves a bad person because we do it… it is a conflict of two conditioned value judgments… to resolve the issue we must make a choice of one or the other… either we don’t do “it”, or we do “it” and let go of our guilt about doing “”it” (assuming that we are not hurting anyone, including ourselves). “Guilt” is nothing but a control trip that someone has put in our mind to control us… we should not be deceived into thinking that it is a “natural response” to the “badness” of our actions. If we have negative conditioning (caused by negative experiences) in our subconscious mind, 95% of the time we will recreate those negative experiences in our life. Most of the conditioning in our subconscious mind is control trips based on negativity and fear that were put there to control and shape our behavior… we have been conditioned by our parents and other family members, school teachers, religious teachers, friends, enemies, books, newspapers, magazines, radio, television, movies, the internet, the government, etc… For example : if we are repeatedly told that we are “bad”, we are “stupid”, we are “worthless”, we are “incompetent”, we are a “failure”, or we fear what other people are thinking about us, or fear that we will not be accepted loved and respected as we are, fear that we are inferior to other people in some way, etc… these thoughts will keep popping into our mind, and this will cause us to have low self esteem, and a negative opinion of ourselves, and to believe that we are worthless. We then hate ourselves so are unable to accept and love ourselves as we are, and as a result we are unable to love others... Our subconscious mind is conditioned by a form of hypnosis that we call “education”… we are conditioned (hypnotized) when we voluntarily agree to believe what “respected authority” (parents & family, school teachers, religious teachers, government, media, friends, etc.) “suggest” to us… they suggest to us what things are good or bad, true or false… how we should behave, how we should think, what is “normal”… what is “reality”… so that the 95% of the time that we are controlled by our subconscious mind, we are in a hypnotic trance… simply reacting to stimulus with conditioned reflex behavior… our conscious mind’s “ego” thinks that it is making all of our decisions, that it is in control of our fate, but in reality it is just a puppet of the subconscious mind… We are taught to be greedy, and to want as much money as we can get… we are taught to chase pleasure and sex… we are taught to get angry when certain things happen to us… we are taught that what we believe is right… and anyone who disagrees with us is wrong… and so on. And as time passes we forget that we have learned these behaviors from other people, because they become automatic responses, so that we think that they are our natural and spontaneous reactions… and so that we become locked into a mundane hypnotic trance state that we consider to be “REALITY”… we are like “zombies”… THIS CONDITIONED MUNDANE REALITY IS THE IGNORANCE AND DELUSION THAT IS CALLED “AVIJJA”… this MUNDANE REALITY is the “DELUSION” that we must see through to liberate our mind… then it is as if we “awaken” from a long sleep, and see the true nature of our existence. But be warned that Avijja (mundane reality) has one last trick… it will try to convince you that you will “go crazy” if you let go of mundane reality… don’t believe it, you will “go sane”, and you will be free… forever and ever… MY ROAD MAP FOR AWAKENING (My strategy for attaining awakening) …………………………………. MY ANALYSIS (1) ………………MEDITATION……………… Meditation… The whole object of meditation from start to finish, is gaining control of, and silencing the voice of the mind… so that we can investigate the mind and purify it… then permanently destroy the voice of the mind by destroying “Avijja”, the delusion that is the source of that voice… when we have destroyed “Avijja”, all delusion falls away and we become awakened… and we clearly see the truth of our existence… (it does not matter what method we use to purify the mind, and destroy Avijja, that is of no importance… all that is important is that the method works)… Breathing during meditation… When meditating and observing our breath, we should not control our breath with our conscious mind, but instead let our subconscious mind do our (automatic) breathing for us, then we should be aware that by observing our (automatic) breath that we are observing our subconscious mind, and get in sync with it, and then simply let go, and let it “lead the way”… this helps to set up “investigation”, or set up “communication”, and/or “interaction” with the subconscious mind… Meditation in solitude…To reach awakening, it is very helpful (maybe necessary) to have days or weeks of uninterrupted and undisturbed meditation in solitude… away from the sights, sounds, and constant interruptions of the mundane world, away from all other people… to develop and sustain the necessary intensity of “concentration” and “determination”… the sights, sounds, smells, and feel of desolate unspoiled nature is the most ideal environment for meditating in solitude… (2) ……………NECESSARY SKILLS…………… It It is necessary to have concentration… The action or power of focusing one's attention or mental effort… dealing with one particular thing above all others… It is necessary to be deft… moving or acting in a quick, smooth, and skillful way; clever, showing good sense and skill in ... It is necessary to be cool… in a composed and unconcerned manner… It is necessary to be efficient… expending the least effort for maximum result… It is necessary to have determination… unshakable “intent”… (3) ………………STRATEGY……………… TO DESTROY “AVIJJA” (delusion) WE MUST UNDERSTAND : 1)… “WHERE IT IS” 2)… “WHAT IT IS” 3)… “WHAT IS ITS WEAKNESS” 4)… “HOW IT CAN BE DESTROYED” RESULTS OF MY ANALYSIS 1)… “where it is”… the first major insight on my path to “awakening”, was when I suddenly realized that my subconscious mind was my “Citta”… and since I knew that Avijja (delusion) and the Kelisas (defilements) were in my Citta, that meant they were in my subconscious mind… 2)… “what it is”… the second major insight was that a single conditioned reflex response in our subconscious mind is a “Kelisa”… and that the self reinforcing structure of interconnected conditioned reflex responses in our subconscious mind that we call “mundane reality”, is “Avijja”… 3)… “what is its weakness”… so how do we “fight” Avijja” (DELUSION) and destroy it… we can’t punch, kick, bite, stab, or shoot Avijja, nor beat it to death with a big stick… Avijja is not physical, nor is it even “alive”… so how do we fight something that is not physical or even alive… Avijja (delusion) has no awareness of its own, it is just a system of programmed reflex reactions stored in the subconscious mind that we call “mundane reality”… when we realize this, we have understood how the magician (Avijja) does its trick, (how we are deluded) so we are no longer fooled by it… we have discovered both the strength and the weakness of Avijja… and because we now understand its trick, we have already greatly diminished its strength (its ability to control and deceive us)… 4)… “how it can be destroyed”… It is not possible to “delete” anything from the subconscious mind, it remembers and records everything permanently… But we created Avijja (“mundane reality”) in our subconscious mind by accepting and believing mundane information and ideas, that we were taught were “true” (real, reality)... We were taught how we should respond to every possible situation, what we should like and dislike, etc… so that, 95% of our cognitive thoughts and actions are really just “programmed reflex reactions” dictated by our subconscious mind… this is “Avijja”, the “mundane reality” or “delusion” that we want to destroy… But consider that if we created Avijja (“mundane reality”) in our subconscious mind by accepting and believing mundane information and ideas, that we were taught were “true” (real, reality)... it is possible to reprogram our subconscious mind with a stronger new “awakened reality” based on the “truth of our existence”, that supersedes mundane reality, replacing it as the new default reality… This I now realize, is why the monk who taught me, had me do body investigation… body investigation is just a way to reprogram the subconscious mind to see the truth of our body… the truth of our existence… So it is possible for me to use whatever knowledge and skills that I have, and my understanding of the conscious and subconscious mind to reprogram a new awakened default reality… so starting now, the “middle path” of the Buddha IS my new default reality… I will do this by using “concentration”, “deftness”, “coolness”, “efficiency”, and “determination”… by continuously reaffirming to my subconscious mind that “reality” is the “truth of the middlepath”… and by “intently” believing ( having my mind and will focused on this one specific purpose) and acting as if it already was the new default reality” (this is important), and I will even “intently” thank my subconscious mind for making it so (this is important too, remember that our subconscious mind is not only aware, but it has more awareness than our conscious mind)… and by continuously reinforcing the truth of the middle path as the existing new awakened default reality, while continuously reinforcing the idea that mundane reality was just childish ignorance… I can make the new “awakened reality” stronger and stronger, as I make the “mundane reality of delusion” weaker and weaker… then when the new “awakened reality” becomes stronger than the “childish ignorance” of mundane reality (Avijja)”, delusion will break up and be permanently destroyed… that will be the moment of “awakening”… AWAKENING (Written days after I awakened) I had been doing intense solitary meditation for many weeks trying many different strategies to get into and reprogram my subconscious mind, and/or trying to establish better communication with my subconscious mind, without any noticeable results… then one day without warning, and when I least expected it, I awakened… One minute I was listening to a bird chirping, and the wind rustling the leaves on the trees, the next minute I was inside my subconscious mind and could visually see Avijja (mundane reality) like it was a huge dam breaking up, making deep rumbling loud sounds, and also “zinging” high pitched sounds, that seemed oddly musical… It was like a musical earthquake… This was accompanied by blinding flashes of light, like flash bulbs on a camera going off in my face… And then the sea of information and thoughts (that was my subconscious mind) that had been held back by the dam (of mundane reality) swept out over me, carrying me away... I could hear the devas (heavenly beings, my spirit guides) excitedly cheering me on, laughing and clapping like fans at a football match… So I felt very reassured that I was “safe”, and that whatever was happening was a very positive development, so I had no fear… Instead of trying to get out of this sea of thoughts which was my subconscious mind (remember I had just spent weeks trying to get into my subconscious mind), I kept pushing deeper and deeper into it… I was like a scuba diver systematically descending into the depths of the ocean... I would go deeper into this sea of thoughts (exploring), and then pause for a while observing what was going on and acclimate myself to the intensity, then go deeper exploring again and pausing to observe and acclimate myself again so that my awareness always remained clear and lucid… I did this for about a day and a half, until I reached “the bottom”... I then spent more than a week, day and night, submersed in this sea of thoughts, feelings, and images exploring and observing, and all the while I was in a state of extreme bliss... I laughed a lot, not because anything was humorous (although many things were), but because a zillion volts of pure joy was shooting up my spine (kundalini ?)… Both my conscious mind and my subconscious mind were conscious to me, and I was in both the physical world and the spirit world at the same time. My third eye was wide open… My two minds (two lobes of my brain ?) talked to one another as if they were two different people, while I was both of them. At one point I could see multiple copies of myself everywhere doing different things, and each of them could see all the other copies, and I could see all the other copies they were seeing, etc… it was like being in a hall of mirrors… My subconscious mind seemed to have no limitations... It could fragment into a multitude of many minds, all thinking different things, and I could keep up with all of them… the subconscious mind “thinks” with moving images (eyeball movies) like the dreams we have when asleep, or drug hallucinations, both of which occur in the subconscious mind… and with words, feelings, and emotions… It is impossible to describe with words, the many different things that I saw and experienced… There are no words to describe it, and even if there were, no one would understand the words, unless they had personally experienced what the words described… It seemed that the whole universe was available, but most of it didn’t interest me any more… I saw the “Akashic Record” which asked me if I wanted to see anything, but things like “’past lives” seemed totally irrelevant and uninteresting, and the only thing that interested me was what my subconscious mind was doing NOW in this moment, in this life… I don’t remember sleeping, but one or both of my minds could have gone in and out of one pointedness (total concentration) without me having any awareness of time passing, without me even noticing… or I could have been “asleep” & “awake” at the same time (asleep in the physical world and awake in the spirit world, or asleep in the spirit world and awake in the physical world), a state that I have experienced many times before... My only awareness that time was passing, was that the sun kept coming up and going down, I was always in the “now” (and still am)… I fasted most of the time, not because I decided to fast, but because I never got hungry and my body didn’t seem to mind, but I drank a lot of water... The devas stayed with me the whole time, which made me feel very safe and protected… It took me two full days to come completely out of my subconscious mind, and totally back into my conscious mind again exploring and observing, pausing and acclimating as I did so… The weirdest and most unexpected part of it all, is that with the destruction of delusion, my subconscious mind which now contained my new “awakened reality”, fused with my conscious mind, and now it is a “soul mate” (??? union of yin and yang ???)…whereas before I never thought much about my subconscious mind, I now love my subconscious mind, and I can feel its love for me… in any case it is my spiritual partner and best friend, who will help me in any way that it can… at first my conscious mind felt that it was really very very very strange having this “other person” (other conscious mind) in my body with it (“what now ? who the hell is this ?”)… until it realized that it was the same subconscious mind... (“is that you Dawg ? I didn’t recognize you”)… “Dawg” is the name of my subconscious mind… my subconscious mind adopted the name “Dawg” several years ago, so that it would “know” for sure when I was talking directly to it… I can say “hey Dawg ! listen up, I want to talk to you”… and Dawg listens… Dawg dictates to me what to write, then edits it after I type it… my conscious mind is just the typist)… my new awakened subconscious mind now makes me feel “whole” and “complete”, so that I love everybody now… (even if I don’t even like them !!!)… “you must love yourself, before you can love anyone else”, comes to mind… although my communication with my subconscious mind (Dawg) is now very much improved, it can still be difficult sometimes because the subconscious mind is so unlike the conscious mind… I have to use the right key words, mental images, and keep it simple… for all of its power and complexity; my subconscious mind (Dawg) is like a small child in some ways... or like a very gentle and brilliant simple minded giant with magic powers who knows absolutely everything… and because Dawg is now enlightened, whatever Dwag tells me is totally trustworthy… the absurdity of it all, still makes me laugh with joy whenever I think about it… Every meditation method that I tried in the weeks before I awakened produced results, not only did I awaken, but I raised the Kundalini and opened my third eye, and also unified the yin and the yang… a grand slam… it was awesome… the smile on my face is still five miles wide… EPILOGUE (Written months later) I can say without any doubt that “I am awake”… because if you are awake there is absolutely no way you could not know that you are awake… even if you were dead, you would still know that you were awake… it is impossible not to “KNOW”… if you wonder “IF” you are awake, you are not awake’’… The extreme out pouring of bliss and love has subsided… I feel so different since I have awakened, but in the best possible way… and so many unnecessary things have dropped away that I feel as if my life before awakening is a “past life”… “I feel as if I have been reborn”… The change is permanent… and it seems that there is no longer any “need” to meditate, because my mind is totally empty, and because there is nothing in it to investigate or meditate about… but I can still call up a thought, observe it, and instantly gain insights, then let it go… although my mind is normally totally “empty”, I see and hear everything, it is just that my mind does not respond to anything…nothing arises in my mind unless I make an effort to cause it to arise, and it disappears as soon as I cease making the effort … I’m never bored, or aware of the time passing, it is always “now”… the normal state of my mind is for it to be filled with silence, which I now realize is “the sound of one hand clapping”… My awareness lives in the present moment, the NOW !... my personality and my body are not “me”, they are just masks that I can put on and take off (as and when necessary)… the only thing remaining that I could call “me”, is pure awareness that is simply aware of being aware… and even that is just a part of a larger universal awareness… but I have never in my life felt so totally “normal”… this is obviously the way physical human existence is supposed to be… When I was a small child I saw the world as a very “magical place” where everything that I saw or heard was “real” and “existed”… George Washington, Mickey Mouse, Dinosaurs, Spiderman, Grandpa and Grandma, Uncle Sam, Santa Claus, angels and devils, bed time stories, movies, etc, etc… were all equally real… when I learned what the adults called (mundane) “reality”, bit by bit the world lost all of its “magic”… but now that I am “awakened” I find myself once again living in a “magical” world where the “magic” is not only real, it is reality… It is the subconscious mind that experiences awakening (a new reality), not the conscious mind… upon awakening, the conscious mind becomes empty with no mundane thoughts to distract it, so it lives in the HERE & NOW (present moment), the only place in the physical world that is real is HERE… which is the world of the body’s senses (sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch)… NOTE… As a child you believed that santa claus was a reality who brought you Christmas presents… then one day you realized he was not real (you awakened) and realized that your presents were put there by your parents… so you no longer believed in the reality of santa claus … but you still remembered who he was… you can’t just delete him from your memory… the memory remains, but you no longer believe he is a realityl… in the same way you can destroy avijja (delusion) as a reality, but the memory of it remains… but when you destroy the reality of Avijja (delusion), you no longer create any new karma… but your past karma is the memory of avijja, so it remains active until you die (even if you are enlightened)… then it drops away because you go to the highest spiritual realm, and no longer reincarnate…