Originally Posted by Panthau
Thats exactly what i felt a few weeks ago! Like everything that is me is right now right here and it was like when i would move, things around me move but im still in the same place...hard to describe hehe
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It will always be hard to describe, because the experience is beyond mind.
That feeling, that you experienced, is allready part of enlightenment.
With you, it went away, probably because you were either focused on the wrong part of the experience, or because you allowed your mind to take over again.
I had the same thing when I wrote the post
A brief moment...
. I was so taken by the experience and the feelings, that I forgot to keep the focus on who was having the experience.
Now, mind was constantly trying to categorise and store what I was experiencing, it was trying to write the story of enlightenment so to speak.
And as it was trying to describe it all, the focus came back to mind and I stepped out of the Now. As soon as that happened, I felt I had lost my connection to that wonderfull place I had been in.
I immediately felt homesick, I wanted to return to it, and that was impossible. I tried to return to the mental image I had made of what I thought enlightenment was.
I was so taken over by mind ( it can be vicious ) that it tried to move me around the fact that I had found the Now by a rather simple exercise.
As soon as I was trying to return to the memory, mind was enjoying every minute of it. I was focusing all my attention on it's memories, it's thoughts, it's ideas, however silly they may be.
Even now, after having experienced another realisation, after which by standards of Advaita Vedanta I am considered enlightened, I am taken over by mind every now and then. Life can be quite challenging, and when you start believing the stories that mind makes up about life again, you stop noticing that Now is the life that is real.
But, life is meditation, and everything that we have been taught by Michael about meditation can be used in daily life as well:
- As soon as you notice that you have been involved in a daydream, gently bring back your attention to the Now. Sounds the same as what Michael sais about going back to the mantra eh ? How to do this ? Quite easy, feel your body. Hear and feel yourself breathing, feel your arms and legs, feel how life itself seems to be buzzing inside your limbs. You feel this Now, constantly. You can't feel it yesterday, or tomorrow, or 5 minutes from now even. You can only feel it Now.
- Thoughts and images, everything you see, hear and feel are essentially just objects. They come up, they pass. They are form, and are there for you to play with while the world of form asks for it. But in the end, the only thing that is constant, always ever present, is You, the subjective core of your Self
Realise that you can't make a subject out of an object. Thoughts are objects too, they appear in your mind, and you observe them. You are not part of the thoughts, you are the observer of them.
Allow them to pass like clouds.
- Surrender to the Now.
Whatever comes up, whatever problem might occur, realise that it can
never hurt your true Being. Being itself is God, and God is in everybody. If you are going to try the "Who am I" meditation, you will notice that the I or Being is without shape, without texture, without beginning or end. It is both eternal and everywhere. Does Being end where another person begins ?
No ! It can't !
That means that the other person is part of that same Being. Being is everywhere. So you might as well call Being God.
So, all that is happening in the world, is essentially just God playing with Itself. Or playing with Its Self you could say.
Everything that is happening, is happening as a celebration of creation within the world of form. A testemony to the greatness of God's creative power.
All we see and touch and think of as solid is essentially just atoms, a collection of electrically charged particles around a core of other electrically charged particles. Think of the enormous amount of energy it took to make even one atom. Now look around you. The keys you are tapping on your keyboard house enough energy to destroy a country. Yet we are here, playing with atoms, reorganising them, changing the chemical structure of oil and wood and stone without even one atom failing. No wonder the Law of Attraction works for us. Everything happens within our own Being !
Now look back at your life. Whatever happened to you, didn't happen
to You.
Sure, your form was there when it happened. Your eternal Self, essentially God, was not just there at that moment, it was everywhere. Just as it is right Now.
Accept the Now, embrace it, realise that you are just playing with Form. When that realisation comes, when you see that you are not just part of your bodily form but part of God, the "bigger picture", everything changes.
When you step back and watch your thoughts, reactions to life, movements within life from Being itself, completely in the Now, you realise that your thoughts have not really attributed to your life.
Thoughts are like pilot fish. They are attached to you like pilot fish are attached to a shark. They are constantly chattering "go left here, go right there, see, I told you right was the best way to go".
But in the end, they are only reacting to the direction the Self is going, unaware of the chattering of the mind.
Life, that enormous power that we seem to think we have control over, goes it's way, no matter what we think of it.
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. John Lennon"
Does that mean that everything is pre-destined ? I don't think so. Everything is happening Now, and we are reacting Now. How oftan have you thought to yourself "Now why the heck did I go and do a thing like that".
Simple.
Recent research has shown that the part of the brain that regulates movement comes into action about half a second
BEFORE you think about it, or rather, before the left hemisphere responsible for thought was activated.
So, if you think: "I am picking up that glass of water" and your arm starts moving, that means that your brain knew you were going to do that half a second before you thought about it.
Science is now puzzled beyond reason as to who came first, chicken or egg.
Where did the order to the arm come from to pick up that glass, when you hadn't thought about it yet ?
For me the conclusion is simple:
The order came from Being, the Self. Thought is but a Pilot fish, saying "ok arm, move left, move right, see, I told you that we are going the right way".
It's claiming copyright over an action it had absolutely nothing to do with.
Thought is a re-sponse to actions done intuitively, or by Self if you will.
You make the movement happen, not your thought.
It's mindfull chatter instead of mindless chatter. One way or the other, it is both just a lot of bull.
You won't stop moving or doing the right thing when you stop thinking, crazy as this may sound to you. How many times has it happened to you that you were driving your car, and ended up at the destination only to wake up from a daydream, realising that your drove there on autopilot ? You have passed several traffic lights, and a dangerous crossroad, without even thinking about it, yet you didn't ignore a red light, or the other cars around you.
Thought
is able to interfere tho.
When in doubt, you're in thought, you might say
Try doing something simple like the dishes or sweeping the sidewalk without thought first. Try to "step back", and watch your body move, feel your breathing, the sensation of the broom or the dishwater or whatever simple task you are doing at that moment. Try to observe your movement, think of yourself as a reporter, observing the event of doing the dishes, or sweeping the sidewalk.
Try it and be amazed !
Perhaps look at it more simply as the fact that the body will die when it is ready to; when it has reached a point where it can serve us no longer, rather than the True Self being ready.
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