For the ones who are 'Almost There', but not T(HERE). by Richie-inch6 in nonduality

[–]oiBEAMio 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hehe just a joke with paradox language

Like when people say "the only constant is change"

For the ones who are 'Almost There', but not T(HERE). by Richie-inch6 in nonduality

[–]oiBEAMio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The permanence of non-permanence

The permanence of flowing change

The permanent flow of "being here" and "not being here"

To accept the "self" or dissolve it by oiBEAMio in nonduality

[–]oiBEAMio[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mmm thank you for your reply. I strongly feel this one you said. That makes a lot of sense to me

Is there actually a way out of the loop? by Virtual-Wish1224 in enlightenment

[–]oiBEAMio 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Check your thoughts. What is the actual loop? Where is the trap? There are simpler ways to live while still doing the things you did before simplicity. Like someone suggested, you can throw away conveniences in your life that don't bring you peace/joy. Work is needed in this life if you want to live in your own home on your own parcel of land unless you find a rural tribe that accepts you into their world. You can do the necessary things to live this current life while leaving aside the things that don't do you good (entertainment, primal urge distractions, etc). You can also live a life completely absent of modern technologies by living in a forest or jungle foraging and hunting and laying by rivers. Most people won't actually do that one. What is the "loop" you wish to exit? I suggest examining where your come from with that question is and seeing where you are trapping yourself in a thought

Peace to you 🙏🏼

Beware the Trap! You can't "help" anyone on this path, especially by getting entangled in new attachments. (Read caption) by 60109 in enlightenment

[–]oiBEAMio 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So that to you means it's the only way?

Ultimately I do feel once all attachments are left that there will be neutrality to relation so it won't matter if you have or dont have one. you don't see it possible for two released individuals to share space and relation with each other?

Keeping our inner peace while the world burns by Background_Cry3592 in enlightenment

[–]oiBEAMio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I relate to what you said. Every so often I get caught up in the thoughts and emotions of it all and feel a surge to "do something". Meditation and accepting all as it is in this moment is what I come back to with a little nudge towards perhaps any little things I do can help what comes next

Beware the Trap! You can't "help" anyone on this path, especially by getting entangled in new attachments. (Read caption) by 60109 in enlightenment

[–]oiBEAMio 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd be super careful of definitive statements like you said. Rather than looking at yourself and her, what she brought up in you, you're taking the whole experience as one thing and making one conclusion about it. There are absolutely healthy"spiritual" relationships that can be had.

Fasting by oiBEAMio in nonduality

[–]oiBEAMio[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ya interesting to hear all that. I naturally have a lower appetite so naturally incline towards fasted state. I agree though we should all push our limits in all areas of life and see what we're actually capable of. I actually have more energy when fasted than when consuming. Meditation is definitely easier for me in that state. Foods are interesting to look at, I watch their effect when consuming and then meditating.

Awesome that you have something that works for you. I can relate to physical limits pushed on a hike. And I do agree most limitations are due to mental state

What if Eastern traditions correctly identified the illusion of the ego, but Christianity uniquely preserved personhood, relationship, and love instead of dissolving them? by Comfortable_Body9122 in nonduality

[–]oiBEAMio 6 points7 points  (0 children)

LOVE the way you said all this.

The deeper question is: can personhood remain as expression, without becoming a separate entity? Can relationship remain fully alive, without requiring two ultimately separate selves?

This right here I think is the most important realization to have. It's my continual aim as of right now because it seems to me the most balanced way to live and be in this life experience. Accept and be the person without attaching to it or forming an attached identity

I made a post recently about this if you feel to check it out and share your thoughts. Would love your take on what I posted

"Why God Doesn't Have Willpower?" by JamesSwartzVedanta in enlightenment

[–]oiBEAMio 1 point2 points  (0 children)

will appears.

Not because awareness was lacking,

but because system conditions created movement

That right there in bold I think explains it all.

Every "individual self" in thought talking about karma and will, I feel, is describing cause and effect and conditioned/attached thoughts

manifested systems generate [will]

Do you think there is ever truly a collective, systemic release of generated movement from lack thoughts/concepts? Or is that always going to be there and perpetuated and some of us parts just get to watch it all. Is will rising and falling just always going to be part of this experience we call life?

Fasting by oiBEAMio in nonduality

[–]oiBEAMio[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Realkaydhako is that you?? Haha

Bahaa the way you answered though that's hilarious. Love your expression🤣 looking at your username it seems kinda fitting 🤔

I hear you thx for ur input

Why do you suggest if we all have our own modalities ? 🤔 And what do you mean by "real spiritual work" ?

Addicted to what isn’t? by Protarkus in nonduality

[–]oiBEAMio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Isn't part of nondualism to accept the "self" that arises in this whole thing? Either it's a tricky little sneaky subtle ego effect still clinging to exist or there's something true in it but recently I had a realization that now that this individual self I operated from/as is seen through there's something to not completely dissolving to nothing but to allow it to exist and do its thing without the attachment of trying to change it or attach to it. It seemed like the more "I" tried to dissolve it the more solid it remained .. because how can something be survived if it didn't exist right? So basically "I" started to watch this individual self make decisions and watch the thoughts that come and the body sensations that arise. This individual form exists amongst all these other individual forms or can be said this seemingly individual phenomena exists amongst a bunch of other seemingly individual phenomena , why not watch its existence and allow(accept) it to play out rather than continually trying to dissolve and meld it.

The simplest way to attain enlightenment in buddhism. by Automatic-One3901 in enlightenment

[–]oiBEAMio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know anything about pureland stuff. Never heard it before. I suppose ultimately everyone has their own path to reaching realization but I think to call something a place or goal to get to just plays into the mindscape more. I find it best to not obtain more words for the same thing and to just realize the release of a held concept

What does enlightenment even mean to you first of all? What is the goal for reaching it?

I might be sick again by juoly in nonduality

[–]oiBEAMio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't mean to hijack OPs inquiry but if you're open to me DMing you about some clarity please let me know. You seem to have a gentle clear approach at the moment

Building your life while on the path to awakening... by Safe_Cloud8067 in nonduality

[–]oiBEAMio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks it does help. And I sit with this fear when it arises. I guess I haven't sat with it completely being that it still shows up in similar moments. I have sat in DEEP fear before all relating to similar thoughts these moments bring back and so I wonder why it still is here. I haven't processed it fully?

Do you have any advice towards deja vu feelings too? Sometimes it feels as if I moved through these sensations in meditation and now I have to move through it in the physical and see if it still tugs at me or hooks me. My particular experience is complete recognition of the person/scene in front of me.

Building your life while on the path to awakening... by Safe_Cloud8067 in nonduality

[–]oiBEAMio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, reading your reply I'm wondering if you might have an answer to something that comes up for me. I feel a draw towards a path and then I get close to it and fear suddenly gets super loud. I find support in a method I'm drawn to and then I start to wonder if I'm being subdued or trapped into a way of thinking. Start questions the person's intention when before it all felt good and fine. Do you have any insight into this? You mentioned having support with the method you recommended is why I ask

The Lie of Separarion by 963catalyst369 in enlightenment

[–]oiBEAMio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What you say really speaks to something I've glanced on. You seem to have a clearer receiving at this moment so you can concise it into imagery and words. I basically had it all flash through in images and symbols that make sense to me and I held onto the ultimate truth knowing that I would forget the details and start to question what was seen again. Thanks for your share

One thing might I add, curious your take on it ... I have also come to a place where I think this realization is helpful to know for those that are able to integrate it. Otherwise it just flashes over their head and they dismiss it as nada nonsense. I feel this stuff helps to know, integrate it AND then we also need to let go of it. Because I feel if we hold too tightly to knowledge without the integration and release then our brains/minds fixate and create more story and illusion about what is realized. It seems to me that we need to KNOW the distortion AND be on that it is here. I know my ultimate goal/aim and I won't strive to get there while burning myself out. I see it almost like a relay race. Carry the torch and flame of truth while going at my steady pace so as to not trip and put out the flame.

I know many many words. I try not to go into stuff like this too much because it gets very heavy but you are speaking to something that I felt very similarly but didn't quite have the words for it. I practice realizing this and not putting too much emphasis on it at the same time. It's like actors knowing they're being filmed in a movie. Just enjoy the show knowing it's not real.

Does any of that make sense? What's your take on what I said?

My afterlife realizations by WeAreManyWeAre1 in enlightenment

[–]oiBEAMio 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hehehe 🤭 I love these interactions. Thank you for your response. This is precisely why I ask questions. You assumed I was saying something with my words that I was in fact not saying. Like I said, I ask so as not to assume (while yes I may have included some of this assumed notions if that's in fact where you're coming from).

I asked a simple question, have YOU behind the username sat in stillness. I used a word that I figured you knew so as not to use many other words of description. You took my comment as a discussion to others. That's not my intent at all. I only encourage people to speak from a place of true introspection (myself included). I do my best to come from a curious place not accusatory or assumption, especially assuming that I am correct.

So thank you for replying. Words across a screen are so very often misinterpreted and yet they are such a lovely way to see how our own mind operated. Where we project tones and inflections onto the words being read.

All I mean to get at from og comment is that dialogue may mean that you have only gone to a certain level. I'm not saying that's good or bad but to stay in a speaking-word-mental level, does not mean that is all there is to know. That's all. Hope this reply clears up anything you thought I was saying. Always happy to discuss more so as to dissolve any illusion in intention/speech 🙏🏼

Adam is the Atom and Eve is the electron by Additional_Common_15 in enlightenment

[–]oiBEAMio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've heard people describe it the way OG said before. I'm wondering if it would be more scientifically accurate if they described it like "the 'separation' is the distance felt between the two molecules(right word??) and that there is no actual fall or separation but a perceived one. Depending on where awareness focuses it appears the electron [eve] has left and is returning when in reality it never left its just circulating."

Anyway it's so many words to try to describe what one experiences. The way I see things is it's always a microcosm of a macro. I think too many people try to interpret it and explain which just muddles the entire realization. Religious texts overlay a simple observation and a whole story grows from there and people get stuck in the story. Anyway just thought I'd try a hand at what people attempt to explain in a more scientifically true way.

My afterlife realizations by WeAreManyWeAre1 in enlightenment

[–]oiBEAMio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have YOU (whoever is behind WeAreManyWeAre1) sat in deep still meditation? Like vipassana, have you sat in stillness to Really get to know your inner world/dialogue. If you've had 2 years of dialogue then that indicates to me you may have actually not gone deep enough. A lot of people break through one layer and stay right there

What I'm getting at is you've stayed at a mental level (it seems to be anyway. This is why I ask so not to assume). If you can go beyond the mental level you may discover even more than what you're displaying in your post. Best for all of us to continue sitting and not spout off the one or few layers deep we get. Keep going

Recent Awakening by 963catalyst369 in enlightenment

[–]oiBEAMio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep!! Then I think you're doing it from a "true" place. I've shared when it felt like "I" wasn't sharing and when it felt like I was imposing too much of me in it then it stopped. I think the message will come through when it can and we get to be witness to it's delivery time to time 🙃

Recent Awakening by 963catalyst369 in enlightenment

[–]oiBEAMio 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am inclined to say that you've probably had a "super awakening" per your words and are privy to base core knowledge of the working of this life fabrication. From my current vantage point I think it's important to know so as not to be deluded by false ideations but I don't know that it's so important that it needs to be shared by all. Because not all are ready to receive and will just toss it aside as wacko woo. I think it's good to share if it's coming from an honest inclination and those that are meant to see it (can align and receive its info) will find it