Thread: Awareness Awareness

You really know what your talking about Dannon

I've had thoughts that your truest, deepest, egoless self IS God. The part of you that exists in a pure state of awareness..no thoughts at all. When you meditate and stop your thoughts your moving closer to your true self.

I have this "mandala" thingy a friend sent to me, it's a simple picture that's created using sacred geometry, when you stare at the center point it starts rotating. They say that the more you concentrate on the center and make it move, the more your connecting with you true self..and it simulates and increases creativity.

Originally Posted by HaRd_WiReD

They say that the more you concentrate on the center and make it move, the more your connecting with you true self..and it simulates and increases creativity.

Mandalas have been used for that, and it all boils down to sacred geometry.
But even without mandalas if you concentrate on the center of anything, especially your own center you become aware with your true self. I don't say "connect" because how can you connect with what you already are?

My favorite is to concentrate on a candle flame. Right where the flame comes from the wick it is not so bright that it blinds your eyes. Concentrating thus, my whole field of vision fades out. Then an etheric green flame appears and I pull it over the candle flame with my mind. After a half hour of this, I feel as if in a lucid dream.

Originally Posted by HaRd_WiReD

You really know what your talking about Dannon

I've had thoughts that your truest, deepest, egoless self IS God. The part of you that exists in a pure state of awareness..no thoughts at all.

Call it what you will, it has been called many everything.

Hindus call it the Self
Buddhists call it the NoSelf
Jesus calls it Christ or the Kingdom of Heaven

I just believe it is the eternal infinite pool of creative consciousness that creates because that is in its nature. I don't think it intentionally creates anything on purpose like the idea of a God would. I think it is just the way nature evolves is the way consciousness evolves. I think it is the stuff dreams are made of and dreams are the stuff things are made of. In the beginning there was unborn consciousness and somehow it exploded into energy. This energy cooled down and it crystallized into particles. These particles are the building blocks of matter. Every form is eternally moment by moment being supported and created by consciousness. The ancients knew this. Modern scientists are coming around. Quantum physics now knows what the Buddha knew: that matter is influenced by perception.

So this consciousness is not lucid so it is just dreaming this whole comedy drama of the universe. It is looking for itself. It is looking for happiness. At one time consciousness thought that if it was bigger and fiercer than others and it could eat a lot, it would be happy. So it became dinosaurs. But because consciousness is evolving, it realized it wasn't happy. Animals evolve to survive. Consciousness evolves to be enlightened and happy.

It figured that love had something to do with happiness so it became birds and mammals, which are capable of a higher love than reptiles. Many birds mate for life and mammals show much more affection. Monkeys are very social animals. So consciousness evolves until it becomes lucid and aware of itself. Once consciousness realizes that this whole universe is a dream it created for its own learning and fun, then what? At first consciousness was unconscious, now it will be lucid. Then it can choose to remain in the dream and do whatever it wants, or it can start all over again.

But on a even higher level of reality, perhaps consciousness doesn't change, it never has, and never will. It is always perfect, virgin, unborn, undying, untouched, but blissfully aware.

Now, the self is part of the whole and it is the whole, like a fractal or a hologram. Your pure awareness is your individual pure awareness and it is the universal pure awareness. This is why you can access Universal knowledge through meditation and dreams. This is how telepathy and shared dreams can operate.

The Buddha called it the "NoSelf" because the Hindus have been saying that the self is God. Now Buddha didn't believe in God and he knew that the Hindus were becoming very Egotistical. Have you ever seen a Hindu Yogi? You cannot find someone more egotistical except maybe Mick Jagger. The Buddha says :"So what if you have become a God? Then you are just a big human!" You haven't dropped the ego, now it will be even more difficult to drop it."
But if you become nothing, go on peeling the layers of the onion, until you have peeled the last layer. What is left? Nothing? or the whole Universe?

By the way, I actually like to use words like existence, consciousness, lucid nature instead of the word God. I also like to say "transcend" the ego, "transcend" the mind, instead of "dropping" or "losing". You still have the mind, but it becomes your servant and you become the master instead of the other way around. You can see beyond it. It cannot influence you. We need thoughts and the mind to communicate and to figure things out, but you put it away when you don't need it.

The self and the mind are like a King who leaves the kingdom and the servants sit in the throne, they pretend to be the king. When the king comes back they go back to being servants. When the king goes crazy and forgets that he is the king and the servants start ordering him around, that is the situation we are in. That is what hell is. The servants are the mind or the thoughts. Bring the King back, let the King take his throne and let the servants obey.

Wow Dannon you always blow my mind with posts like this cause that is exactly how I figured it is.

Consciousness evolves to be enlightened and happy.

I agree 100%

Do you study Buddhism or something, your knowledge of this is amazing.

What do you think about 2012 and the Mayan calender, do you think it is our time now to start shaping our own reality and what we want to experience, you know, knowing the law of attraction and all. I'm definitely convinced that it works..but it is very difficult because you have to get in a positive state of mind, you have to focus on a positive/happy feeling for at least 16 seconds...if you've ever tried this you'd know how difficult this is a lot of people are stuck in a negative state of mind. Imagine doing this every day.

Originally Posted by HaRd_WiReD

Do you study Buddhism or something, your knowledge of this is amazing.

What do you think about 2012 and the Mayan calender, do you think it is our time now to start shaping our own reality and what we want to experience, you know, knowing the law of attraction and all. I'm definitely convinced that it works..

Yes I do study Buddhism. It is my favorite, particularly Tibetan Buddhism. I meditate and practice Tibetan Dream Yoga.

I haven't ever been one to believe in prophecies, BUT...

Looking at the world around me it seems that all the prophecies are coming true. Not just the Mayan prophecies. Nostradamus's prophecies seem to becoming true as well, although it is so hard to tell what the hell he is talking about. The Hopi prophecies seem to be coming true and also the Biblical prophecies.

There are Tibetan Buddhist Monks who have come out of their monasteries to tell people that they have seen the future in their meditations. This was back in 2005. And this is what they said:

They said that from now until 2010 things are going to go pretty much the same as it is going. Lots of wars all over and power struggles between Governments and the People. In 2010 something huge is going to happen in world politics and the whole world is going to polarize into two sides. Things will get very tense and the world will be on the brink of nuclear war. At the end of 2012 a nuclear war will start but then the aliens will intervene. They will not allow us to destroy ourselves. They will reveal themselves in such a way that none of us scared. They will reveal themselves only if they have to. As our science and technology progresses, we are destined to see them and interact with them any way. Monks also mentioned that beyond 2012 our current civilization would understand that the final frontier of science and technology is in area of spirituality and not materiality and weapons. Beyond 2012, out technologies will take a different direction.

So, Of Course I think it is time to start shaping our own reality. Any time is a good time. What are we waiting for? We don't have to believe that the transition on 2012 will be scary or painful, and then maybe it won't be. We don't have to wait till 2012. I mean, we have always been shaping our reality, so let's become lucid and do it intentionally.

but it is very difficult because you have to get in a positive state of mind, you have to focus on a positive/happy feeling for at least 16 seconds...if you've ever tried this you'd know how difficult this is a lot of people are stuck in a negative state of mind. Imagine doing this every day.

Who told you 16 seconds? If you are positive you will create a positive experience of the world, if you are negative you will create a negative experience of the world. Either way, the world mirrors back to you what you are and confirms your beliefs.

Being positive or happy isn't hard at all. Happiness is our nature, we don't have to do anything to be happy except work on what we percieve as obstacles to happiness. Happiness actually doesn't depend on outer circumstances. If you are unhappy because you don't have the new Ipod or because your girlfriend cheated on you and stole your money that is because you have made your happiness dependent on something outside of yourself.

But, you're right, it sounds simple but it takes a lot of work to realize this. I DO do this every day and for more than 16 seconds. If it is important enough for you, you can do it. I am being challenged at this right now and more so to come because my wife, whom I love very much, and I are breaking up, probably. And I will have to deal with feelings of loss, of rejection, of anger, of loneliness, and the whole time I will have to remember that I love my wife, but I don't need her to be happy. I don't need to cling and to be attached to her.

It is like the Buddha's teachings: 'Desiring pleasure and avoiding pain cause suffering'. Not that you should avoid pleasure or desire pain either. But don't hold things to you and don't push things away but to enter the flow and let things flow.

If you want anything in this world to make you happy, you will suffer. You already have all you need for happiness. If you are trying to get anything out of this world you will cause suffering.

Man, I drank some Kava and I am rambling away. Forgive me.