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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2018 7:06:29 GMT -7
Will have to rewatch Baraka, too. Been even longer since I've watched that one. Thing that stayed with me most from that movie is the footage of that ceremony of that amazon tribe. They're so in tune with energy and nature. Fascinating... Have watched most of that this morning...lovely. The scenes with the tribes def my favorite....You know they are all sharing what is True to them. Those tribes jumping/singing in unison...they are sharing something real. Makes you wonder about that scripture that says...."Where 2 or more are gathered together in my name...so there I will be" or some such thing....I don't think any of His words were meant only for 'Christians' (there weren't even any), but He was speaking about Spirit...and whatever Truth a group or anyone finds within It...there It is. Love things that are made like this movie that show the sheer incredibility of Be-ing...of people, animals, the Earth itself...Mannny people need to wake-up to it. That monkey at the beginning...love it....If only humans could get 'there' together. We have a shared/consensus reality and a common consciousness...you'd think it wouldn't be so hard. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2018 7:10:47 GMT -7
That Meca timelapse footage is trippy AF. Want to touuuuuch...whatever that cube thing is. Have heard it was a piece of meteorite... <shrug> They's walkin' around a space rock, yoooo |
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Post by senatooorofspace on Feb 25, 2018 7:17:52 GMT -7
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2018 9:56:15 GMT -7
^ Oh definitely sena-terr....You can touch me....anywhere. Run your hands down my back and pull me onto your....well...the Meditation and Related thread wouldn't be the proper place to catalogue the various things you could do to me and I to you...I'll have to save that for a PM sometime when you're....'up' to it....  |
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Post by senatooorofspace on Feb 25, 2018 10:58:17 GMT -7
Was just think'n maybe that's the music they's listening to while they dance around they's space rock.
TOUCH!!!
Maybe that's where Bootsy lives...
TOUCH!!!
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Post by lordkundalini on Feb 26, 2018 7:23:32 GMT -7
been a while since i watched Baraka or Samsara or Koyaanisqatsi. think ill have to this weekend.
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Post by lerntorageguy on Mar 1, 2018 15:08:49 GMT -7
www.dhamma.org/en-US/index free 10 day retreats been thinking about signing up. Most spots in the east coast booked for 6 months or more. Noble silence and no music, writing or reading for that long would be rough but seems like it may be worth it to jump start your practice.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2018 13:55:51 GMT -7
I've been reading something lately that is good and I will post a little of it everyday....It is by Adyashanti..a guy that had a spontaneous awakening and then finally it 'stuck' for him one day. I like the way he explains all these concepts we are used to hearing with kind of an extra layer of understanding. It is a transcription of a video that is no longer available...so you might see that referred to here.
Questioner:
What can I do to help myself to awaken from the egoistic state of consciousness to the awakened state of consciousness, (which is) the consciousness of awakened spirit?
Adya:
The first application is very simple but it’s actually very profound and important to get a feel of, and most importantly, to apply.
The first one is to be still.
What does it mean to be still? This simple spiritual teaching — be still — has been around for a very long time, and people have understood this teaching in different ways. But in terms of the way I teach, I have a very specific way of describing what be still really means.
What be still really means is to allow everything to be as it is. That’s what the application of being still means.
Usually when people try to be still, say you try to meditate, and you’re trying to become still, you’re trying to still your mind, you’re trying to find a place of stillness, peace or serenity. And people generally do that through some sort of discipline, some form of inner control. I called it manipulation which is a strong word, but I called it manipulation because that’s really what it is.
The true stillness, the authentic stillness, is not something that is contrived. It’s not something that is found and maintained by any form of control or manipulation. True stillness is your natural state.
True stillness isn’t something that needs to be created by you. True stillness is more of something you notice that there is a pre-existing stillness.
In other words, it’s still already. Your true nature is already perfectly still, perfectly at ease.
You may not be aware of it. When our minds are caught within themselves, when we identify with being an ego, then we think stillness is something that have to be attain, that stillness is something I have to make happen.
But as I said in the first video about the basic principles of the teaching is that you and I, we are not egos.
Ego is just something that’s created in the mind, it’s a pattern of thinking.
When we begin to open to the possibility of seeing that we are not the ego, that the ego or the mind is something that happens within you, then it becomes space. The ego is basically repetitive patterns of thinking.
In that sense, it’s noise, it’s just internal mental noise.
But this noise arises within stillness. Stillness is the quality of your essential nature. Your essential nature is spirit. Spirit is ineffable. Spirit is something without form, shape or color, but nonetheless exists and exists in a vibrant and very alive way. So your true nature is actually spirit. My true nature is spirit, everybody’s true nature is essentially spirit. And spirit is already still.
One of the qualities of spirit is allowing everything to be as it is. That’s what conscious spirit is doing, or should I say that’s one of the things it’s doing. But that’s not really much of a doing at all.
To allow everything to be as it is doesn’t require you to do anything. What it does require is that you stop doing. Let go of the incessant and compulsive need to do, do, do. Because all of the doing is nothing more than a way of not allowing everything to be as it is.
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Post by senatooorofspace on Apr 12, 2018 13:59:26 GMT -7
A friend gave me one of his books called 'Falling Into Grace'.
Fucking wook will go ter like two weekend festivals back to back, then immediately hop over to San Fransisco and do a five day silent retreat with him.
Ahhhh, the autonomy of being a successful cannabis cultivator.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2018 15:41:50 GMT -7
Indeed^
This fundamental teaching about allowing everything to be as it is is extraordinarily important. For a lot of people, it is quite challenging to really allow everything to be as it is because the ego is afraid of this.
The ego thinks that if it allows everything to be as it is, either something terrible is going to happen or nothing is going to happen at all.
But neither of these things ends up actually being the truth. When you allow everything to be, something extraordinary begins to occur.
So as you’re listening to me, watching me right now, if in the active listening and watching me, if you were to allow everything to be. In other words, don’t analyze it. Don’t put what I’m saying into your conditioned mind, compare with other things you’ve heard or read. Just allow it to be heard.
Later, if you want, you can accept it or reject it on your own terms. Even if we are here together, is it possible for you to allow this moment to completely be as it is. And what happens when you allow everything to be as it is?
To allow things to be as they are is not something you try to do. To try to allow everything to be is counterproductive. You can’t actually accomplish this by trying, it’s more of a state of relaxing. Let it be, let it go.
To allow everything to be as it is is also one part of the teaching that I find most people misunderstand the most.
A lot of people become afraid of allowing everything to be because they equate it with some sort of inactivity, some way in which one would become disengaged from life, from existence, from what’s happening, some way in which people are afraid that if they allow everything to be then they won’t be able to respond to life in a wise and appropriate way. But this is to misunderstand the teaching.
To allow everything to be as it is is not a goal. It is not an end. It’s a foundation. It’s the foundation from which true and wise action takes place.
A way of responding to the moment or to life or to the most common daily situations you find yourself in can actually arise from this foundation of allowing everything to be.
Because it’s not going to tell you really are allowing everything to be, you’re actually out of the egoistic state of consciousness.
As long as you’re struggling with what is, with this moment, with what’s arising in this moment, as long as you’re in a battle with what is, then you can never go beyond your conditioned way of seeing and perceiving things. You can never go beyond the egoistic state of consciousness.
Think about allowing everything to be as it is as more of a foundation from which insight can happen, and true and wise activity can spring from. A true and wise response to life that comes from spirit rather than from ego.
Allowing everything to be as it is is also a definition of meditation, of the meditation that I teach. It’s not only about meditation. You can allow anything to be as it is and if you do that, you’ll find that there is new, creative and wise ways to respond to events in life that you may not have imagined before.
But in terms of meditation, again many people, their notion of meditation is really some form of control, some form of manipulation.
But we really don’t get to the natural state, which is what spiritual enlightenment is, discovering the natural state. We don’t get to the natural state by controlling ourselves. We don’t get to the natural state by unnatural means, by means of inner manipulations and control.
We get to the natural state by allowing everything to naturally be, right here and right now.
It has nothing to do with time, there’s nothing to attain, there’s nothing to perfect.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2018 12:14:19 GMT -7
There’s just the question, and this is how I want you to think about, this first basic application of the teaching. It’s more of a question: What happens when you allow everything to be as it is?
If you were to meditate, if you were to sit very still, quietly, and you were to ask yourself, “What happens in this moment when I allow everything to be as it is?”. What occurs? What change in your inner experience happens? How does your view start to change?
And not only what happens when you allow everything to be as it is, but also an inquiry of, “Am I allowing everything to be as it is?”
Because often, there can be a state of stillness but if you ask the question, “Am I actually allowing everything to be as it is?”, (a) sort of a deeper layer of relaxation happens. You become conscious of more subtle ways in which you’re holding on and grasping or trying to control.
Look at this part of the teaching as a question more than an end that you’re trying to attain.
Don’t try to attain allowing everything to be as it is.
This would be a misunderstanding of the teaching. Take it as a point of inquiry, of exploration. Again, “What happens when I allow everything to be as it is?”
This literally becomes a form of meditation. Allowing everything to be as it is is the deepest form of meditation there is, where the ego has completely let go into things as they are, into this moment as it is.
Allowing you to be as you are. Whether you mind is busy or quiet, whether you feel good or bad, whether you’re anxious or at peace. Is it possible to allow this moment to be exactly as it is, and what happens, what begins to occur when you do.
To reiterate something I said at the beginning, you’ll find that by allowing everything to be as it is there’s a natural state of stillness. This goes back to the teaching on being still.
Allowing everything to be as it is is a way of being still.
It is a way of noticing and recognizing stillness to be the very ground of your being. Stillness is an essential aspect of who and what you are. It’s not a state that you attain. It’s literally an aspect of who and what you are. So this is the first real application of the teaching.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2018 17:53:25 GMT -7
The second application is inquiry.
Inquiry is a bit more active and dynamic than the first which is be still and allowing everything to be as it is. The first application of the teaching is just an invitation to open, relax and to let go.
This second application, inquiry, requires you to be a bit more dynamic, a bit more involved you might say.
Inquiry ties in to that love of truth, that desire for reality. Inquiry is more of the dynamic aspect of the teaching.
Ultimately, the deepest inquiry that we really can ask is, “Who or what am I?”.
Until we realize that, until we awaken from the dream of ego, then this is the most important question for us to really look at, “Who or what am I?”
It’s not so important who or what do I want, what do I hope to achieve or what I’m hoping to get, or “Can I find God?”. All these questions are not as important as “Who or what am I?” because it’s “you”, it’s the “I” that’s seeking everything you’ve ever been seeking.
If you don’t really know the truth of your own being, how can you know anything else has validity. If you don’t know who or what it is that’s living your life right here right now. If you don’t really know what it is that’s listening to my words and viewing this image, then you’ve missed out on the most important gift of your whole life, of your whole existence.
This inquiry into who or what am I is an essential part of this teaching. Like any part of this teaching, the application, how you apply this question, is essential because it can be applied in such a way that it’s just something your mind does.
In other words, if it’s something you think about — “Yeah, who am I? What am I?” and you think about it and analyze it and compare what you’ve heard, read or what you’re thinking — this is to misapply the teaching.
It just leads to more thinking. It just leads to be lost in one’s mind.
But real inquiry is meant to help take you out of the mind, out of the creations, the dream state that the mind lives in. The question of who or what am I is a means to awaken from the dream state of egoistic identification.
So how does one ask this question? It’s actually something very simple but requires a real steadiness, a real precise understanding of how to apply this teaching.
“What am I?” This is the question. When you ask the question, “What am I?”, you’re really looking back into yourself.
What is this thing called “I” or “me”? For most people, the first thing they noticed is they have lots of thoughts about themselves. Lots of memories, identities, good or bad self-images. Whether you’re man or woman or child or an adult or you have a certain age or what you want or don’t want, how you look at the mirror etc. All these things are contained in your mind.
But if you look deeply, right now as we’re here together, if you really look deeply, you’ll see that everything you’ve ever imagined about yourself to be is just that, it’s imagination.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2018 13:35:36 GMT -7
So if you have been reading this....stay with it...he gets more specific and it get more interesting in the real-est sense of the word...
It’s something that’s floating and being created in your mind. That imagination, that mind, is something that occurs within awareness, within consciousness. If the mind and the images you’ve about yourself is something that occurs within you and to you, that means it can’t be you because you are something one step closer as it were than the mind.
As we say, “my mind”, “I’m thinking”, “that thought occurred to me”, so the “thinking” and the “me”, “mind” and “I”, are two very different things.
This inquiry is actually meant to break this trance state between consciousness and the mind. It is meant to get your identity out of the mind.
When you apply this question, “What am I really?”, and by seeing you know that you’re something more fundamental, more closer than the mind.
What’s left if you don’t go to your mind to tell you who you are?
Some people would say, well I feel this way, I had this feeling in my heart, I feel this way and such and such emotion.
But feeling, emotion and sensation is something that arises within consciousness. It’s noticed by consciousness. So even though there may be a feeling or sensation or emotion, these don’t define who and what you are either.
They just tell you what’s happening within your most intimate environment. They don’t tell you who or what it is happening to.
So the question continues to go to a deeper level.
“What is this?”
“What is this ‘I’ that thought is occurring to, that feeling is happening to?”
“(What is this ‘I’) that (is having this) perception?”
“What is this ‘I’ that’s hearing these words right now?”
“What is the ‘I’ that hears sounds?”
Who are “you” without referring to a thought or a feeling to tell you who or what you are?
If you really do this in a quiet way, in a meditative way, the question (will) refer you back to direct experience rather than to useless thinking. Then this question has great power.
But remember, this is the most important point. The question is meant to refer you back to a depth of experience. Not meant to refer you back into thinking what you think about the question.
This is a very important part of the teaching to remember. It’s a very important part of the application of this question so that it takes you deeper into the experience of what you are and out of the mind.
When you begin to realize that you are not the thoughts that go around in your head. You are not the thoughts you have about yourself. They are just conditions that you’ve learned. You’re not the feelings you have, the emotions you have, the sensations you have. All of these are occurring within the spaciousness of what you are. What are you then?
At that point, if you follow it, if you look into this investigation, in a very sincere and meditative way, you come to a stillness. A silence.
Because there isn’t a verbal answer to this question. Any verbal answer that you come up with is the wrong answer.
The answer is something that can only happen in the dimension of consciousness. Because when you really look, you begin to realize that if you’re not your thoughts about yourself and you’re not what you feel, you begin to realize you are the consciousness in which all those are occurring. And that’s something that’s extraordinarily powerful.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2018 16:07:32 GMT -7
That consciousness of course is just a word too.
If you were to get stuck with the word consciousness then you would miss the whole point of this teaching. I can guarantee you that the direct knowing and the direct experience of what you are is far beyond the word of consciousness.
But I have to use some words so I use this word consciousness and I use the word spirit. Both of these are words that are used because what you and I are is not a thing. You can’t reach out and grasp it, you can’t measure it, you can’t smell it, you can’t touch it. It’s ineffable, and yet it’s present. You can’t deny consciousness. It’s present and functioning at this moment.
Because even if you were to deny that it is present, your denial will be a proof that it’s true. It’ll be a proof that you’ve heard my question. And that can only happen in consciousness and to consciousness.
So this question, inquiry, is meant to take you beyond the mind, not into the mind. Very important. Who or what are you?
You can recognize that and realize that right now because it’s only in the now that this can be recognized.
It doesn’t require years of practice. It doesn’t matter if you’re brand new to spirituality or if you’ve been involved in spirituality for years and years or even decades.
The availability of you awakening to your true nature, as conscious spirit, is always available now. In this moment, in any moment, but always and only in the now. It’s not the result of long years of practice. It’s the result of taking a good look, right here and right now.
This inquiry can be taken in different ways.
Another way that I suggest people to use this inquiry is just a question “Is it really true?”
Because your mind will come up with all sorts of things, egoistic consciousness is always imagining and thinking things and acting upon ideas and beliefs and opinions that aren’t really true.
After all, a belief is just that, it’s a belief. It’s not a truth. It’s just a belief. And an opinion is just that, it’s an opinion. Your mind has an opinion, but it’s not really true. It’s just an opinion. It’s just a thought your mind has. A belief is just a thought your mind has. It’s not really true. It’s just a thought. And when we believe the thoughts in our head, when we think they have ultimate true value, then we are in a state of delusion.
Because the thoughts in our head may have some practical usefulness in life but they don’t tell us what’s ultimately real and what’s ultimately true. Imagine this, nothing that you imagine, none of your beliefs or opinions are ultimately real or true.
That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have a belief, or you shouldn’t have an opinion, your mind will have them. But to see that they are not really true can be a very liberating.
The mind tends to want to grab onto thoughts and say, I must have thoughts, I must have beliefs, I must have opinions to be true.
Why? Because egoistic state of consciousness lives in this world of beliefs, ideas and opinions. Ideas, beliefs, and opinions are the people in the world of egoistic consciousness. It’s literally where you derive your world view from.
In other words, ideas, beliefs and opinions about yourself or others or the world are literally the stuff, the substance of the dream state, of the egoistic state of consciousness. They cause you to be disconnected from the truth of your being, and the truth of every other being, for that matter, and the truth of existence itself.
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2018 14:13:15 GMT -7
Inquiry can also be used at any moment.
“Is this really true?”
“Is this belief I have really true?”
“Do I really know that it’s true, or is it a thought?”
“Is it something I’ve assumed?”
“Is it just a belief?”
And what if you saw through it? What if you saw through that thought and then didn’t grab another one.
Is it possible to see through a thought, to see through a belief, to see through a judgement or complaint without grabbing onto a new one? I would suggest you to do so.
It’s vitally important for yourself and for all beings for the alleviation from suffering and conflict, and to the discovery of a new and very profound state of love, compassion and gratitude. There is a lot of compassion and gratitude and there is a wisdom that far surpasses anything thought can come up with. And inquiry is the tool to access it. But again it has to be applied in a very precise and simple way.
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2018 6:54:19 GMT -7
Was thinking of these things and doing some in-between sleep kind of thinking last night.... 'God' ...The All...Source...whatever you think of It as...is simply Consciousness...conscious be-ing. It lives through us and we are along for the ride...but you can sense this only when the little self (ego) drops away...when you step back and see the See-er...that is Self.
There is no good or bad for It...because it simply experiences. This has been what I experience in more open moments, but I have to bring myself back to it. The knowing of it's always there...Presence, I guess you'd call it, but not the experience of it. It takes getting quiet.
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Post by senatooorofspace on May 15, 2018 13:06:56 GMT -7
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Post by bear on May 15, 2018 15:07:08 GMT -7
Oh man come on so much get some and other Zac-isms
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Post by senatooorofspace on Jun 20, 2018 19:28:57 GMT -7
Been getting back into using my neurophone.
When I got it back in 2015 I was super hyped on it and I used it a lot, but I didn’t know that using it while my brow was sweaty was not a good idea.
I ended up messing up the transducers and it started shocking me.
So I guess that was why I lost interest even tho I did eventually get some replacements.
I’ve been pairing that with my favorite guided meditation from Linda Dillion.
My higher chakra system has been really opening up.
Been trying my best to prioritize doing that every day.
Takes about an hour, and I tap into that wellspring of new energy that is available, but it also contrasts the older energy that I house, and the older energy of the collective.
Going out in public gets tough because this ups my sensitivity to what is floating around out there.
A new realization I’ve had recently is that the collective stew has a overall thought frequency that is low in the spectrum of what is potential.
Our darker parts of ourselves are up at the surface and lots of people project this stuff through negative thought patterns.
I find that this collective frequency is objective in its frequency but when I slip into mirroring a similar resonance of thought, I make it subjective...if that makes sense.
So I am feeling called to practice greater displine and a greater focus on what I am thing about.
The meditations have been helpful to highlight that.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2018 5:55:03 GMT -7
I assume a neurophone is some kind of entrainment device...
You should look into shielding, as far as sensitivity in public. It can be very annoying...being bombarded...and it does make a difference. Luckily, I don't have to mess with that when I go to work...Energy there is super positive and makes me feel like butter....sometimes very floaty, even.
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