nac Posted November 7, 2009 Subjective or objective, "true" self or fake, the phenomena arising before us are results of cause and effect. Rather than pointing to a default "ultimate source", it's best to look for the true source of each. Just my personal opinion. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
funkytortoise Posted November 7, 2009 (edited) tao doesn't identify. it just is. it doesn't focus on form, but forms come out of it automatically. i hope we all lose ego at some point so humanity can come together and end this nonsense. what i'm saying is, we are limiting ourselves by staying selfish. "i" think to move from the idea of "facts" (tangible matter and everyday reality) to the idea of "possibilities" (awareness) definitely has something to do with enlightenment. Edited November 7, 2009 by funkytortoise Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Blissmusic Posted December 8, 2009 "Even behind your thoughts, emotions, and physical experience, there is still a sense of separation. And this sense of separation hurts, not in a physical sense but energetically. It is uncomfortable. But this sense of separation is not a thing, it is an action. It is something you are doing. You are avoiding this moment. You are constantly avoiding being present in this moment. The irony is, the moment you fully allow yourself to rest in the moment, the discomfort goes and there is an explosion of energy. You find that this infinite power that you have been seeking for so long has been right here the whole time. But at the same time, the moment you allow yourself to be fully here, the ego vanishes. You still exist, but not as an ego. And so through all of your transformation, you free yourself from emotions, you free yourself from the mind, and then you reach this core experience of avoidance, and you want to run the other direction. For some reason, it is too much to surrender. By instinct, the ego wants to survive. You do not want to give up control. So you seek more problems, more solutions, more teachings and knowledge. Anything but surrendering to this intensity of this moment. Just by being aware of this constant urge to avoid this moment, half the battle is won. Because once you see that you are doing it, you can stop doing it. And the ultimate experience is unconditional peace. It is what you have been looking for the whole time. Blessings, Kip" Kip Mazuy is the Creator of Bliss Music- Meditation CDs with a Unique Sound Technology Proven To Awaken You into Deep States of Meditation & Bliss For Free Samples Visit The Kundalini Shaktipat CD Website For More Free Teachings on Meditation & Awareness Visit the How to Become Awakened Website Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marblehead Posted December 8, 2009 Hi Kip, Thanks for sharing that. Many concepts in that short piece of work! Peace & Love! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
z00se Posted December 10, 2009 Yeah thats great. Precisely. When you find an easy answer let me know Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
z00se Posted December 10, 2009 You cannot realize the Self through the senses. You cannot taste it, see it, hear it, smell it and you cannot touch it. You have your eyes open. You see and then label what you see. 'This is my body.' 'This is my computer.' 'I am using my hands to type on the computer.' But close your eyes and be still. From this point of stillness tell me about your hands. If you can't see them, then where and what are they? You can say that you feel them resting on your mouse or keyboard. But what is that feeling? What is the sensation that you are calling your hands? Forget the defining that they are your hands and actually experience what is here beyond the words. With your eyes closed forget the defining of your body and experience what you refer to as your body. Not a part of it but the whole thing. There is the sensation that you are here, but instead of defining it as a body, as a name, simply feel it. Feel the sensation of what is here. Feeling without touching. Feeling without using words. Here you experience something that you cannot define, you cannot accurately describe. Because what is here does not have boundaries, cannot be described by the senses. But there is an experience of existing. There is the awareness of existing. Here, existing and awareness are one and the same. This is not something that you can learn or understand. You have to close your eyes, let go of thinking and experience it. You will see it is not a state that comes and goes. It is what is always here whether you give it attention or not. Blessings, Kip" Recommended: Want to Feel Blissful? For More Free Teachings on Meditation & Awareness Visit the How to Become Awakened Website I think your senses can describe it but words can't. A picture may be 1000 words, but an experience is undescribeable. I believe senses aren't to be put aside, they're to be embraced to the most possible. This is the perfect balance point. Living inside your mind is going too far. Thats not living, thats only being. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
宁 Posted December 10, 2009 i would say that the above is a good description of the basic practice... not something final, just the begining... you start there. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Blissmusic Posted December 22, 2009 "I have nothing against self improvement. But meditation is not about self improvement. Self improvement means there is something here that needs to be changed. Something about yourself that is wrong but can be fixed. And if you work hard enough if you try hard enough, one day that wrong part of you will be gone. And then you will be happy. But with meditation, with awareness, you accept yourself as you are immediately. You accept everything as it is in this moment. Because if you do this, you see you did not make yourself to be how you are. You simply are. That you are scared of spiders or you are forgetful, or that you feel insecure around others is not your choice. You did not choose to be these things in this moment. They are simply here, existing on their own, a part of your experience that you are aware of. And because you are aware of it, because you accept it fully, it is perfect. It is divine. You can spend your whole life telling me how you improved. How you used to give someone the finger when they cut you off on the highway and now you only think about giving them the finger. As though a day will come when someone cuts you off and you will have no interest in giving them the finger and only then you will be worthy enough to experience divinity. But you see, the moment you want to give them the finger and you are aware of this experience, then that experience is divinity. I am not advising you to give people the finger. I am advising you to be aware of how you are in this moment without trying to change it. You need not act it out. Just inwardly experience what is there. It is the path of surrender. You are surrendering to what is. And through surrender, there is awareness and through awareness there is unconditional peace. Not in the sense of saying "I am perfectly fine that guy cut me off on the highway." But by being aware you feel angry about it, accepting that there is anger there, and experiencing the sensation that you call anger. If you do this you will come to the experience that everything is just energy. Energy moving through energy. This is bliss. This is freedom. This is divinity. Blessings, Kip" Kip Mazuy is the Creator of Bliss Music- Meditation CDs with a Unique Sound Technology Proven To Awaken You into Deep States of Meditation & Bliss For Free Samples Visit The Kundalini Shaktipat CD Website For More Free Teachings on Meditation & Awareness Visit the How to Become Awakened Website Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
glooper23 Posted December 25, 2009 I like this. One question: you say that it is good to allow myself to experience the anger I felt with the driver. How do I go from experiencing the anger to learning to give a more cordial response than the finger? Where does the motivation to improve myself come from if how I am right now is divine? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jaclynrose Posted December 26, 2009 i completely understand what you are saying but personally i cannot feel that same connection with a computer or a man-made object. When I go outside and close my eyes and embrace a tree, as silly as it may sound the connection feels so much greater and intense I would recommend hugging a at least one tree a day haha Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Blissmusic Posted January 19, 2010 "Close your eyes and notice your experience of what is here beyond thought. You are not to define it, describe it or use thoughts at all. Simply feel what is here. Experience the sensation of what is here. The sensation of existing in this moment. Don't think about it, just try it. Close your eyes and do this now. If you did this very simple exercise, then you just experienced yourself beyond the mind and body. You experienced yourself as energy, conscious energy, the pure state of peace and freedom completely transcendent of who you think you are. And if you experienced this, then you no longer can play the victim. You can no longer pretend that you are this person, stuck in situations that cause you suffering. You can no longer pretend you are a prisoner of a mind and body. Because you just proved that you can exist completely free from the mind and all of it's sufferings. You can and do exist in a state of formless conscious peace. Whether you choose to live in the mind is a different story. That is a choice you can make, and if you are conscious you made that choice, then that is also blissful. But to keep pretending that you are a victim of suffering is pointless. You can be free of it in any moment. It is your choice. Blessings, Kip" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Raz Posted January 22, 2010 (edited) You are not to define it, describe it or use thoughts at all. I agree... no definition can set you free... When all is left undefined, without exeption, we can still find our self habitualy defining things at some uncounsious level. This is a prosess of letting go of our defining habit, or atatchment habit. including the definition of mind... or the defintion of thoughts... Entering, that no relation ever had a begining... There is still a story that makes me function in day to day life... But the story is not a source of definition or truth. More a source of amusment and practical.. Leting go of all knowlage I hold dear... Enter the mystery of here... No explenation will ever sufice, in this state of wonderus atention... Simply enjoying the deepening without a floor... learning to simply be, ever more... Edited January 22, 2010 by Raz Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Raz Posted January 22, 2010 This is bliss. This is freedom. This is divinity. This world is natural, ordinery... the source is Extrodineraly ordinery Super natural more natural then natural Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Blissmusic Posted February 3, 2010 "No matter which spiritual techniques you practice, it all really comes down to attention. Whether you are watching your breath or repeating the name of a Guru or God, or are asking "who am I" or witnessing or surrendering, they all require your complete attention. And it is through the practice of attention that you grow in awareness. Understanding intellectually only gets you on to the path. Through practice you experience what the words point to. And through experience, that which you are seeking becomes your reality. But if you buy into the idea that you do not need to practice, then the mind remains in power. You remain a slave to all of the thoughts and emotions. You remain at the mercy of chasing one desire after another, one worry after another until so much time has passed that you wonder where your life went. Attention at first does require discipline. But the moment you give your complete attention to what is happening here, rather then allowing the thinking to control you, there is extraordinary peace. And you will fall in love with the peace, you will fall in love with the practice. In the same way when you fall in love with someone you want to spend all of your time with them, when you fall in love with attention you will want to immerse yourself in attention. You will cherish it more than anything. And because of that love for attention you become attention itself. Fall in love with bliss and you become bliss. You don't leave it in the corner of a room, you give it your complete focus. Blessings, Kip" Kip Mazuy is the Creator of Bliss Music- Meditation CDs with a Unique Sound Technology Proven To Awaken You into Deep States of Meditation & Bliss For Free Samples Visit The Kundalini Shaktipat CDWebsite For More Free Teachings on Meditation & Awareness Visit the How to Become AwakenedWebsite Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Blissmusic Posted February 9, 2010 "The delight in eating chocolate is when you are so totally immersed in the taste of the chocolate that there is only that taste. The delight in playing tennis is when you are so immersed in the action of playing tennis there is only the action of playing tennis. This is meditation. Meditation is when you are so totally immersed in this moment that there is only this moment. There is no you meditating. There is only meditation. As long as you are trying to get something out of it, or figure it out or do it right, you will miss it. You have to lose yourself in it. It does not matter what technique you use. When you practice with such totality that only the practice remains, then that is bliss. When you lose yourself in this moment you are free. Blessings, Kip" Kip Mazuy is the Creator of Bliss Music- Meditation CDs with a Unique Sound Technology Proven To Awaken You into Deep States of Meditation & Bliss For Free Samples Visit The Kundalini Shaktipat CDWebsite For More Free Teachings on Meditation & Awareness Visit the How to Become Awakened Website Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marblehead Posted February 10, 2010 I like that! Thanks for sharing. Peace & Love! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Blissmusic Posted March 10, 2010 "Make no mistake about it. Everything affects you. From the music you listen to, to the person sitting next to you, the words you read, the food you eat, the sounds you hear. Everything is affecting your experience. So you listen to music of some famous musician who eventually committed suicide and suddenly you feel depressed and you don't know why. At one level of consciousness you become aware of the energetic of everything around you and begin to choose an environment that supports peace, bliss and love. At another level of consciousness you welcome everything. You allow everything to move through you, because there are no longer boundaries between you and everything else. It is all one. You experience everything as the same energy, the same consciousness and the very nature of that energy is ecstasy. That's the state where you are just as happy to live your life next to an overflowing trash can as you would be by a beautiful ocean. You experience the ecstasy of garbage. You don't just accept the garbage, you are madly in love with garbage. You experience garbage as bliss. No fooling! But that is a very high state and most who experience it have to come down from it and eventually you move away from the garbage. Maybe you do maybe you don't. Who knows. All possibilities are delightful. Blessings, Kip" For More Free Teachings on Meditation & Awareness Visit the How to Become Awakened Website Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Blissmusic Posted April 1, 2010 "The very essence of thought is no-thought. The very essence of mind is no-mind. If you try and get rid of thought, then you make thoughts stronger. If you identify with thought, then you make thoughts stronger . So the way to samadhi is through thought itself. By allowing a thought to be completely as it is and being fully aware of it you come to the essence of thought. You experience the very nature of thought which is silence itself. If you separate the two. If you make thought something separate from silence, then you will end up in a never ending struggle to get one over the other. But if you fully allow a thought to be as it is, then you reach the essence. You realize the formless in form. Samadhi is not actually the absence of thought. It is transcendent of both thought and the absence of thought. It is a state of silence that has no opposite. It is unconditional bliss. Blessings, Kip" For More Free Teachings on Meditation & Awareness Visit the Questions on Spiritual Enlightenment Website Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
passenger1980 Posted April 1, 2010 That's awesome, thanks! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cloudhand Posted April 4, 2010 (edited) very cool tx Edited April 4, 2010 by Cloudhand Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Z3N Posted April 13, 2010 The difference is like trying to sit in the middle of a highway as opposed to the chair on the side of the highway allowing you to just sit and watch the traffic go by. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Blissmusic Posted April 23, 2010 "It is often said that if you are present then you are blissful. But that is not the full truth. If you are present yes, most likely at first there will be bliss, there will be peace. But if you remain present, if you remain surrendered to this moment and aware, then awareness expands, the Shakti expands. It starts to push out everything that is incongruent with bliss. It widens your energy channels so that even more energy can move through. And the experience cannot really be called bliss. It is excruciating. Not in a sense of pain but intensity. The ego wants it to stop because it is pushing your awareness beyond the boundaries of ego, beyond what is comfortable. And so the conflict between the ego and the shakti creates intensity. Like trying to stick your head out of the window of a jet going the speed of sound. Many people learn that if they surrender a little, then they get blissful and then they can contract back into ego. A little expansion a little contraction. Nothing wrong with this. But the longer you can remain in the expansion, the more expansion increases. And this expansion burns away the separateness. Burns away that which separates you from unconditional peace and bliss. The action of identification, the core stress of 'me' and 'mine' that separates you from life gets burned away in this shakti until you realize that this fiery consciousness is what you are. And that is freedom. I say this because many people reach a certain intensity of awareness and then back off. Because they heard a teacher say that if they are present they will be blissful. And so they were present but instead of bliss there was this intensity so they think something must be wrong. But there is nothing wrong. That is the process. What is happening here and now is exactly as it is supposed to be. Being present does not guarantee a certain experience. But it is the doorway to unconditional peace and bliss. And you feel that opening immediately. Blessings, Kip" For More Free Teachings on Meditation & Awareness Visit the Questions on Spiritual EnlightenmentWebsite Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Blissmusic Posted May 6, 2010 (edited) "Try this meditation technique: Keep your attention fixed on that which precedes thinking. Normally, your attention is lost in thinking and ignoring what is here behind the thinking. So try the opposite. Ignore the thinking and keep your attention fixed on that which is behind thought. If you give this technique your complete focus, you can very quickly enter into a whole new level of awareness. Blessings, Kip" Kip Mazuy is the Creator of Bliss Music- Meditation CDs with a Unique Sound Technology Proven To Awaken You into Deep States of Meditation & Bliss For Free Samples Visit The Enlightened Spirituality CDWebsite For More Free Teachings on Meditation & Awareness Visit the How to Become Awakened Website Edited May 6, 2010 by Blissmusic Share this post Link to post Share on other sites