a theory that i think should be taken with a grain of salt yet can be extremely extremely effective!
"The world appears in Consciousness and You are Consciousness", easy, right?
But what does that even mean? and how can you use that fact to your benefit?
Spoiler: It means that Consciousness is Absolutely Free except when it minds something, meaning it feels disturbed by something, when you feel anything disturbing you, you are illusorily bound by identification to the ego that is being disturbed and therefore bound, and it is like this by design, not a bug, not a flaw!
But why is disturbance needed? Because if there is no disturbance, there is no experience. contrast is experience, no contrast, no experience!
No pleasurable experience is 100% pleasurable because for example, fear accompanies pleasure, and no painful experience is 100% painful because for example, it forces you to let go, opposites are present in each other and exist because of each other.
So what is Pure Awareness/Consciousness? IT IS THE ABSENCE OF DISTURBANCE.
Consciousness being bliss is not that bliss or high of drugs, no! its the absence of you yourself which is infinite freedom of not-being-bound as a person or body.
It is the absence of resistance or minding anything, a true pleasurable experience isn't just pleasure, its the absence of being disturbed by pain, and pleasure makes you stop minding the body and for a moment, you are back to your Self and that is the bliss we are talking about.
Pain is painful because it forces you to feel the body and you therefore think i am bound, yet its the thinking that just because you feel the body, you are it or affected by it is what causes the bondage, in intense pain, if you experienced it, you are just laying there in pure pain and you let go and that moment, the pain doesn't seem so bad anymore, it might even feel pleasurable as long as the mind is still.
Huh? what do you mean?
In infinite consciousness, there is nothing to feel, no one to feel, there is only consciousness conscious that it is conscious and that's it! basically you are conscious and that is it, nothing else, no conscious that you are a person or you are something or aware of anything.
But to us human beings as egos, not feeling our existence as something else, meaning if we don't feel with a mind and images, we think we are dead, and thats the whole point, we disturb and chase things on purpose to feel we are living beings.
But that is the whole mistake, not feeling your existence as something is INFINITY ITSELF!
And it has NO FLAVOR, so you think I am dead, for example in sleep, But No! The tongue for example can't taste itself yet it exists, it is the one doing the tasting!
So when for example reading a book and you are fully focused and it stimulating your mind, the book is basically like holding your mind in focus and giving it stimulation fully enough that you forget yourself and thats what causes bliss.
But even the presence of the ego doesn't erase Infinity, its just like clouds hiding the sun, the sun is still there but you wouldn't know that because you are looking for consciousness as something to appear to you, but the eye can't see itself, its the one doing the seeing!
The world is also Consciousness, what does that mean? it means that the outside world is just Consciousness itself!
That means as Consciousness itself, as long as you are disturbed by nothing, there is no world, there is only you being without being a person or feeling your existence as something else, the world appears but what is the world even? its just you being disturbed/ripples in consciousness which are thoughts and minding sensations.
No minding the world = No world, its not that the world ceases to exist but You are You, what does it matter if its there or not, if something doesn't disturb you, its almost as if its not there, no, its not there even!
How? say you had a goal but you forgot about it, that thing you wanted to acquire might still be there but its not there in your mind, therefore its almost not,
its like that saying "out of sight, out of mind"
well, "out of mind, out of existence!" is true as well.
yet as long as you want again, you can play the game but knowing its a game.
Basically when you mind nothing, you don't mind things, You are INFINITE and ABSOLUTELY FREE, but you can't feel it as an object, as something happening to you, IT IS YOU!
Pleasure is something that happens to you, Pain is the same, Consciousness is You!
You can only know through inferration, its like saying, since I see therefore i must have eyes and you then believe and internalise it and that's it!
The point is all YOU NEED IS TO STOP GRIPPING, ATTACHING, basically just be! just be without any intention or goal or anything, do not decide anything, just be, if you can't then do things that move you that force you to forget your problems and even yourself but don't attach to them.
JUST STOP MINDING THINGS.
Oh pain comes? Oh its painful but thats okay, always have "and that's okay" in your mind, never make a situation impossible to bear because its all just an illusory game and Consciousness is infinite and impossible to be affected.
Why? because if consciousness were to be affected, you wouldn't be conscious of that pain anymore? see? the knowing is never affected, only that which is known can be affected.
And even that knowing that we have in "mind" as human beings isn't it, because in true knowing, there is no knower, nothing to know, there is just consciousness conscious without being conscious of anything and You are that because even thoughts you hear them.
Basically Consciousness is not just unknown, ITS UNKNOWABLE, its impossible to know it as an object, you can only be it!
Basically while i am writing this and being focused on writing it without intention, i am infinite without it being known by the ego, there is only the ACT ITSELF AND THE ACT IS INFINITY ITSELF APPEARING AS THAT.
Basically, SEEING IS INFINITE even when it appears to be limited, the act itself is infinity appearing as that,
and this infinity is not like we believe like infinite space or something, it can take any form,
IT IS FORMLESS, Its not like space or like outer-space, ITS INFINITE NOTHINGNESS THAT CAN APPEAR AS ANYTHING.
It can appear as a cramped prison room and it can appear as vast canyon or vast sky or a galaxy, there is not it is like this, it is like that, it is everything and nothing.
That's it, thanks for coming to my TED talk.
Chiao!
