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What highest truth have you realized while meditating?
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I personally don't agree with that. I've found it's more helpful to tell people what to look for.
Here're some pointers.
There's no self controlling body.
There's no self controlling thoughts.
All is mind.
There's no mind separate from experience.
There is no you or no-thing other than experience.
Look for those. Don't think. Stop all thought. Just watch.
Spiny
That tells me I have a long long way to go!
That is the start of wisdom.
There is no higher or lower truth. Truth is truth.
There are all sorts of degrees of illusion, though.
Non duality isn't about becoming non dual. It's the realisation that there never was duality.
Also, the comment about realised people not posting doesn't really make sense does it. Do you think that buddha, bodhidharma, dogen, whoever wouldn't have used the internet if they had access?
We aren't saying people don't exist, or your actions don't make a difference. Of couse you are sitting, reading this, and what you do makes a difference. It's the nature of this "you" that we're talking about. Thinking nothing is real is missing the mark widely. That causes a lot of confusion to arise, but it really can't be helped.
By No-self we mean there is no eternal, abiding, unchanging self, that's all. But when you look in a mirror, that is what you imagine your self to be.
It's easy enough to see if you just look without conceptualization. Is there a you experiencing, separate from experience, or is there just experience?
"there's a giant self-less energy sphere that is soothing; which is acccessible on some forms of samadhi"
until there is nothing to erase?
It's a sound. It's so beautiful. It serves like the breath to keep you engaged but the sound turns to celestial music the deeper you listen. You also get visuals... beautiful geometric mandalas and vistas of paradise. But they are based on the emptiness of the whole experience.
I think Sant Mat (another eastern religion) is heavily influenced by the Sound. They call it the Holy Shabd. It takes awhile to really get to hear it. It took me like 6 months to fine tune my inner psychic ears... but it's absolutely breath taking. Like ambrosia that soothes the soul. Google "Audible Life Stream" for more info.
not everything can be reduced to the measurable.
the power of the spirit to transform the measurable is usually underestimated.
there is no limit if you move higher in spirituality.
even if someone hears something wise, it may not be completely understood at once.
the spiritual link between two humans is potentially much stronger than usually thought.
rebirth applies in a different way to boddhisattvas.
there are reflections of other planes of existance in this one.
the power of meditation is usually underestimated.
to change reality it takes many lives of wise and ethical actions, which implies a lot of wisdom, compassion and patience.
through meditation it is possible to see the veil of delusion (maya) usually considered reality.
nirvana in many ways, is a prerequisite of even greater spiritual heights.
some meditators can harmonize their own internal energies, and those of others, even to the point of healing.
it is easy to hurt someone with insatiable thirst (trishna) of pleasure and pain, but it is wiser and more ethical to counter this trishna with compassion (karuna).
knowing past lives implies that someone has an experience measured in centuries, millenia or even eons.
it is healthy to forget some memories of past lives, but conserving the understading born from them.
So, without taking a drink or sip, we don't know how sweet, and when you think about it, we don't even know what sweet is until someone tells us and then we connect it to experience.
You can understand sweetness means there is some form of sugar in whatever it is you are tasting and it is being sensed by the olfactory system and all the biological parts. But you don't really KNOW sweet until you taste it
Get what I'm saying? We could tell you about all these realizations and you can agree, but you aren't realizing. This is why dialogue about spiritual attainments is typically frowned upon. You have 100 different ideas about a concept and you haven't even realized it yet.
The only thing we can do is get back to the cushion, realize, and put it into practice.
understanding non dually without words and concept.
a drop of water falls on the stone.
Believe it or not, I started atmokinesis after this.
Spiny
if there is no mindfulness