Tatsumaru

Naturally the ego-consciousness cannot let go of the ego-consciousness. But you are not the ego-consciousness, only misidentifying with it. Try this one: The only thing you need to do is to surrender to your real self.

Life is time, space, movement, energy, change. There is no time, space, movement, energy or change in the absolute. Life doesn't really exist. To better understand this consider this scenario. If you are in a cinema - then the absolute is the still light in the projector and life is a movie projected on the screen.

Life is an illusion. Reality is beyond life.

Yes. Basically we are afraid to die, because we identify with what dies, but isn't us. If one believes it then fear is still there, because belief means hope, hope means fear. If one knows it's an illusion and has experienced that it's an illusion then the only fear that remains is bodily fear as a survival mechanism but a complete depersonalization and disassociation with the body.

Exactly. That's most of what Buddha taught actually.

No it isn't.

Some quantum cosmologists like Steven Hawking and Jim Hartle have articulated some interesting insights through their observations; suggesting that concepts such as the classic Big Bang model, a belief in a beginning and an end, or the Christian model of a beginning without an end are meaningless, because time does not exist. “You should know that from beginningless time all beings are continually born and continually die, simply because they do not know the everlasting true mind with its pure nature and bright substance. Instead they engage in false thinking. These thoughts are not true, and so they lead to further transmigration” -Buddha (Shurangama Sutra). The perception of the flow of time actually keeps us from realizing that everything happens at once. This maya, or reality of duality, is as a universal timescape, synonymous with a motion picture. This perceived present of the 6 senses, is but one scene in an epic film. Although it seemed to have a start before the characters in this scene arrived, in order to build the story, the idea of the story did not likely start there, but at another point, perhaps in a scene in which the characters in the perceived present scene will never get to witness, which from their perspective, is far ahead in the film. “The world of time and space is a projection” -Robert Monroe, Omni, October ’93.

There are multiple absolute truths because there are multiple aspects of the absolute. For example one absolute truth is that "there is no present in time", another absolute truth is that "there is no energy outside of time". These are not contradictions. Manifestations are facts, but not truths. Scientists are concerned with facts, not truths. Finite means duality, because finite means 1,2,3... thus finite is not real. Duality is an error in perception. There is no 1 without a 2. There is not mathematics without duality. Theories like mathematical truth, Big Bang and Black holes (Laura Mersini-Houghton) are scientific guesses or assumptions that arise from an Aristotelian logic that things must have a beginning and probable end; that cause precedes effect.

Are you talking about the four noble truths? The Buddha has said many things which weren't true intentionally, just to soften the rigid minds of his followers. For example he said that "Life is suffering" and that Nirvana is a special place you go to escape suffering to his students who were too much attached to suffering (which later became the Theravada delusion). When his followers developed more mature desires and insights he actually said that life is not suffering and that there is nowhere else to go but here. At first he taught that there is no self, but later he explained that there is a self. So there is some disconnection and many people thought he was contradicting himself, but he was merely compassionate (aka coming up with creative ways to wake up sentient beings as fast as possible). Nirvana is the greatest happiness that can arise from surrendering hope, but nirvana is not enlightenment. Hope and fear arise from ego identification, upon uncovering that you are not the ego, hope and fear is gone. Nirvana does not end the cycle,...nirvana is part of the larger cycle,...it's the other side of the coin from samsara. Paranirvana is beyond the two sides of nirvana/samsara. Why does this matter? Because nirvana is VERY difficult to transcend. Nirvana is like matrix that is perceived as being positive. "I know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss.....They'll reinsert my body, I go back to sleep. When I wake up, I won't remember a goddamn thing...." - Cypher, The Matrix There’s a story in the Buddhist scriptures of a talented monk who wanted to find out the answer to the question, “Where do the four elements cease without remainder?” Through meditation he reached the Heaven of the Four Great Kings, who did not know the answer. Next he went to the thirty three gods in a higher Desire Realm heaven, but none of these rulers knew either. He then asked King Sakka (Indra), the king of these gods, but Sakka did not know the answer. Up and up he went asking all sorts of gods at each and every higher level. Finally he came to Great Brahma, the Creator, Uncreated, Knower of All. When the monk finally achieved an audience with Great Brahma, Brahma appeared in all his majesty and glory announcing, "I am Great Brahma, the Conqueror, the Unconquered, the All-Seeing, All-Powerful, the Lord, the Maker and Creator, the Ruler, Appointer and Orderer, Father of All That Have Been and Shall Be." The monk then humbly and respectfully asked his question, but all Great Brahma did was repeat, "I am Great Brahma, the Conqueror, the Unconquered, the All-Seeing, All-Powerful, the Lord, the Maker and Creator, the Ruler, Appointer and Orderer, Father of All That Have Been and Shall Be." The monk eventually got frustrated and said, “I know you are "Great Brahma, the Conqueror, the Unconquered, the All-Seeing, All-Powerful, the Lord, the Maker and Creator, the Ruler, Appointer and Orderer, Father of All That Have Been and Shall Be," but I asked you a question about where the four elements cease without remainder. The Great Brahma replied, “Listen little monk, don’t embarrass me. All these other gods are listening and think I know everything. If you want to know the answer to a question like that, don’t ask me. I don’t know the answer. For a question like that, you have to go ask the Buddha.”

You have a point - if you act as if the false is true, then suffering is inevitable. Existence is true, non-existence is not true. The problem with sentient beings is that they want non-existence to be true and suffering (which is ultimately an error) arises. I don't make any claims nor do I have any theories - anyone who gives you a belief-system is your enemy. I'm simply stating the obvious - whatever is ever-changing is not a thing that doesn't change. I think we can agree on this one? Everything I'm saying is just paraphrasing this statement, nothing else is given so no need to prove any theory, no need for you to believe or disbelieve. So the self is something absolute by definition - if it is not absolute that means it's changing, if it's changing that means it's not isolated because it's a process, if it's not isolated then it's not a self. Therefore the only two possible outcomes are a) there is no self the self is not a part of life. Your only task is to find out which one is true, the rest is irrelevant. The you that you think you are cannot know any absolute truth, the intellect cannot grasp the absolute because it's grounded in the relative - thus I do not claim knowledge of the absolute. I'm simply stating what isn't true. Please try to grasp the difference. "The ego [sciential consciousness of the 6th sense of thought] uses the body to conspire against your mind [sapiential conscious beyond the 6 senses], and because the ego realizes that its "enemy" [the sapiential mind] can end them both [ego and body] merely by recognizing that they are not part of you [the sapiential mind, your Unborn Awareness]; they join in the attack together. This is perhaps the strangest perception of all, if you consider what it really involves. The ego, which is not real, attempts to persuade the mind, which is real, that the mind is ego's learning device, and further, that the body is more real than the mind is. No one in [his or her] right mind could possibly believe this, and no one in [his or her] right mind does believe it." A Course In Miracles 6 IV 5. Regarding part 2 of your statement: I'm not exactly sure what you are talking about, but I think you are asking me to perform a miracle or some form of magic in order to prove to you that you are asleep? Illusion has no power over me, how do you want me to demonstrate this? To be able to walk through walls requires more than truth realization, it requires surrendering of the 6 senses. I have yet to let go. If you are bent on criticizing the messenger and not focusing on the message, then you are simply not interested in truth. Deconditioning is a process. Forget about the ego, when I say my self, I never relate to the ego which is merely an error. If you fail to understand the reasoning behind truth, read it a few times and it will become clearer. But first let go of your prejudice and your beliefs about how truth realized people should look like or act like. There is a difference between truth realization and enlightenment.

Absolute truths don't have opposites, an absolute lie is an oxymoron, because lies are not absolute. The absolute is nondual and beyond dualistic concepts. Even the relative is not an opposite of absolute, because the relative is a lie. There is just the absolute, nothing else. Manifestations are not real.

What are you talking about? Gautama's teachings are about surrendering the illusion and waking up from the dream. It's not about "earning and learning" your way out of suffering as many Buddhists seem to believe. Gautama himself dismissed the illusion as meaningless many times and did not harbor relative compassion. This world that you describe doesn't exist. This discussion doesn't exist. We are not even here. So studying the illusion may increase your odds of survival, but that doesn't make the you that you think you are, real. From your post it seems that you don't understand the difference between relative and absolute truth. You are talking about relative truths which are not actually truths. Relative honesty is dishonesty. The only truths are absolute and are synonymous with reality. 1. Yes, Milarepa is pretty cool. This quote points to the root of suffering. 2. There is no death, but there is no life either. Forget about oneness. Saraha said, “He who thinks of mind in terms of one or many casts away the light and enters delusion.” Although this term "non-duality" has a variety of meanings and uses, this commentary will address three (3). Duality is a perspective that the universe is essentially an arrangement of binary oppositions, such as the electromagnetic spectrum which contains all phenomena. By that definition, non-duality would either be 1. that which was beyond the duality of the electromagnetic spectrum, or 2. a fantasy belief that the condition of duality can somehow merge with an Unconditional Oneness. Yes, one could intellectualize that duality is a the diversification out of Oneness, and in a Taoist sense it is. However, this can be confusing, because many people often miss the fact that Oneness does not exist without Duality. There is no Center without a Boundary, no Here without a There, no Yin/Yang without a One. If we are to transcend the struggles of separateness, of useless happiness and suffering, and Birth the Human Beingness beyond sentience, there must be a letting go of what is, and is not us. We are Light; however, very few understand what that is pointing to. It doesn't happen to you. You are not the you that you think you are, feel you are, analyze you are. Whatever changes is not true. That which lives and dies is not true. Your suffering is caused by your desire for things to be other than they are. You are not here, you are not your body or mind, you are not life, you are not energy - all stuffs that change constantly. Just because it hurts when the body loses a limb, doesn't mean that that is you. Wake up before the body dies, that's what you are here for.

In movies, sure.

If you don't know what is substantial (as you yourself admit), then your judgment on what is substantial is based on a lie. It is true that these statements do not have a living context, because life is only real in your imagination. Your idea of truth is derived from experiencing the lower 6 senses - sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, brain organ. If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain. If someone asks you "Where am I" you are most likely going to point at her and declare "You are over there by the sign post", but remember, that is only an interpretation of light that occurs in your brain organ. The actual world you cherish does not exist outside. Therefore the fear you feel is not any different than the fear you feel during a nightmare. As for what is possible and what isn't possible - please start with this - What I know by experience I know, what I don't know, I simply don't know. Whatever you think is possible is derived from not knowing what's true, so it's not valuable. The only thing that's impossible is for lies to become truth. [today’s] therapeutic culture [says] “wait a minute. you’re saying there are higher potentials, so does that mean I’m lower? because that can’t be right”. All of a sudden it implied a judgment, and nobody’s allowed to be higher because that means someone else is going to be lower. And you’re not allowed to call anybody lower; therefore nobody’s allowed to be higher… So the Human Potential movement got derailed and was replaced by this therapeutic self-expression, self-acceptance movement.” Does that sound familiar? As for reaction, I'm quite familiar with this lie - please try to understand this - if something changes then it's not what you think it is, it's just changing. To start labeling processes as things is equal to start seeing faces in a flowing river. And reaction requires interaction, interaction implies change, thus whatever you think is reacting is not an actual thing. For a thing to actually exist, it would have to be still and unchanging. This contradiction between the senses and truth only shows that the lower 6 senses are incapable of recognizing truth, not the other way around. “if you could realize that there is no connection between your senses and the outside world, you would be liberated on the spot” -Baizhang, Eighth century Chinese Zen teacher. Thus an awareness should arise, an awareness that confirms you are living in a dream world. The only thing left is to decide whether you want to stay in the dream or wake up. Ponder on this until you understand it.

That beliefs are irrelevant is not a belief. This is an understanding that arises out of the realization that beliefs are not real. There is a difference between truth and beliefs. Beliefs obscure truth. I never said everything is irrelevant, I said beliefs are irrelevant. Not being able to believe in anything would be a great quality for someone to have. Jim Walker, in “The Problems with Beliefs,” mentions: Aristotle believed in a prime mover, a god that moves the sun and moon and objects through space, and that with such a belief, one cannot possibly understand the laws of gravitation or inertia. Isaac Newton saw through that and developed a workable gravitational theory; however, his belief in absolute time prevented him from formulating a theory of relativity. Einstein, however, saw through that and thought in terms of relative time. Therefore, he formulated his famous theory of general relativity, yet his own beliefs could not accept pure randomness in subatomic physics and thus barred him from understanding the consequences of quantum mechanics. Beliefs deny, disconnect, suppress, disempower, etc. Few seem to realize that those considered priests of the scientific method have neither uncovered nor explained a single absolute truth. That is not their job. Scientists have little interest in truth or reality, for their paychecks are derived from the pursuit of facts about objects. Science builds its theorems or working hypotheses upon previous beliefs, and therefore it often labels any discussion of absolute certainty as absurd. For example, to say that there is no “present in time” is antithetical to science’s established, empirical beliefs. Truth and reality confuse the priests of the scientific method. Their paradigm, or fixed set of beliefs, is founded on concepts of a materially existing world; that is, sciential theorems, not the sapiential truth or the reality beyond objects. Truth and reality are taboo in the scientific groupthink, for they cling to a faith in objects. As the Nobel Laureate Charles Townes said, “Many people don’t realize that science basically involves assumptions and faith.” Most people fail to recognize that the foundation of a mathematical statement is only true in relation to the assumptions of “set theory,” the belief that any collection of objects actually exists. All objects, without exception, are indeed mathematical; the reason for that lies in the multiplying/dividing nature of the optically organized universe. However, the modern cosmological understanding of the universe suggests that no objects exist, indicating that mathematics pivots on a misguided belief in materialism,..aka empiricism. The sciences usually expound on relative reality through the assumption that object-ive reality actually exists. Truth as you said, requires logic based in reality, not belief-systems. But to suggest that truth is personal, is to suggest that there is no difference between true and false. No belief is true, again, no belief is true. No truth is personal.

An absolute truth is that there are no absolute things in time, and thus no things at all in time. Things exist only outside of time, within time "form is emptiness and emptiness is form". How am I reacting to the dream? Reaction means change, change means lie. If something is reacting, it's not real. If someone is reacting, they are not real.

What is truth? Although there are many relative truths, such as mathematical truth, pragmatic truth, personal truth, truth by consensus, etc. Relative truths are obscurative truths which obscure absolute truth. Of course, those who have not realized an absolute truth, will generally deny that absolute truth exists, which is silly even from a conceptual point of view, because if there was no absolute truth, then the absolute truth would be absolutely nothing, and thus an absolute truth. Generally speaking an absolute truth is something that doesn't change and something that cannot be further simplified. Why do you care? Why did Neo want out of the Matrix? How can you speak it? "Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold." - Leo Tolstoy Simply put, truth is inaccessible for the 6 senses, but not inexpressible. We start by pointing out what is not true. Does it even matter? Well, it's certainly not a crime to believe in illusions and it's certainly not a crime to be limited. If you want truth go for it, if you like the dream, keep dreaming.

Whatever you believe is irrelevant. The Great Liberation of Padmasambhava begins, “Soon we all will die; our hopes and fears will be irrelevant….” Hope and fear, the attachment to perceived future and past, is the primary barrier to uncovering a truth. Unless you know the truth about yourself, then everything you do is based on a lie. All your morals, hopes, beliefs, positive thoughts are nothing but a consolation. Whether you prevent suicide or not, whether you are healthy or not, you are still dying, you have been dying from the day you were born. 70 years will be gone soon. As for your life being valuable - Seneca said, “Do not regard as valuable anything that can be taken away.” The same thing in other words: “A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real.” Buddha. So please forget about your belief systems. I'm interested in truth only. Personal opinions don't matter.

I've found that most books about kundalini, laya yoga and tummo are commercial crap. Can anyone please recommend a good book on awakening kundalini/tummo? Thanks.

Some people like me have extremely active (not necessarily intelligent) thinking mind, which produces a lot of chatter, creates a lot of doubt and greatly reduces the quality of all kinds of transcendent practice. Since ancient times, spiritual seekers have developed various techniques which aimed at suppressing the thinking mind. I would like to hear your techniques and ideas on this matter. Thanks in advance.

Thanks, I will investigate the channel. What does "stay grounded" mean?

Thank you for the suggestions. Is it true that improper practice of kundalini yoga may result in severe psychosis and death? Do we know how to avoid such issues?

I'm not at all involved with the world, I am very withdrawn from society, I don't care about news or radio or climate change. I don't care about job or family or health or success or children. All I care about is truth. Most of my chatter is in the form of "Am I doing it right? I will probably fail again. I suck." etc. I understand that the I that I think I am is not real, because nothing that changes can be a thing or be real. However the ego is still very dominant and doesn't what to shut up with its useless crap. It's like an alternative self that fights for survival. Whenever I am about to have an inner journey or a transcendent experience, the mind turns on and says "Wait, where are you going, come back here." It's really active, like a watch dog. Doesn't allow the prisoner to escape.

V Marco has been banished, and as such denied access to TTB, including PM's.

I think that most people who are interested in the truth do not understand the concept of emptiness correctly and usually in a very nihilistic way. Karl Brunholzl says: "When we look at the meaning of emptiness, the Sanskrit word is sunyata. One of the literal meanings of sunya is "empty" and another one is "zero". In Indian mathematics, the zero sign is sunya, but it has quite a different meaning from "zero" in the West. When we think of zero, we think "nothing" but in India the circle of sunya, or zero, means "fullness", "completeness" or "wholeness". In the same way emptiness does not mean nothingness but rather fullness in the sense of full potential - anything can happen in emptiness and because of emptiness. A lot of people think that if nothing really exists, how can anything function? However Nagarjuna said that it is precisely because everything does not really exist that everything functions. If everything were truly existent, existing in and of itself and thus being unchanging, things would not depend on anything. But then they could not interact with each other either because that entails change. Therefore, it is only due to everything changing all the time that interaction and functioning are possible."