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Ignorance is in the mind, enlightenment is also in the mind. The Self was, is, and will forever be free.

wrt Dharma, folks might find this of interest - https://www.medhajournal.com/the-reason-for-being-svadharma/

Tat Tvam Asi is You are That (not I am)

What is zuowang to you all? If we sit still and let the mind fall back into the heart center, "forgetting" happens automatically. What technique/method is required? The way I trigger it is to latch on to the feeling that arises as an answer to the question "who am I?" - the feeling draws the mind back to the heart (like a stream that collapses back to its source).

Just sit, and forget PS. Don't forget to forget once you remember to sit

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Hello Tommy, Welcome to TDB. Please take a moment to review our rules -

Maybe you should be asking, "How do we let all those things that distract us - mental noise, go?" We cling to those things - thoughts/emotions/feelings because they give us a counterpoint to us. By simply staying as that one who knows the noisy aspect of the mind, the focused aspect of the mind, the still aspect of the mind, and not chasing after these aspects - it will develop a deep relaxation. That relaxation (release).

This is a better source of information - https://www.nio.res.in/galleries/show/dwarka

I have one rule of thumb to evaluate good or bad. Anything that takes us away from our True Nature is bad. Anything that leads us back to our True Nature is good. All the "good" and "bad" qualities we see are in context to ourselves.

Start frowning. The Frown will neutralize the grin.

Everyone is already enlightened, only not realized it yet.

The juan is mysterious that way

I have a friend whose name is Juan. We often say we are all Juan with Juan

There is an interesting phenomenon where people react in an immature manner to someone who they disagree with. I was reading a post on FB of a relatively famous IMA/Neigong teacher who said he regularly gets death threats toward himself and his family simply because he teaches something that his detractors don't agree with. Mostly, the culprits are martial artists (or that's the sense i got from the post). I wonder if this is a case of arrested development of the intellect/psyche of these so-called martial artists (many are probably middle-aged or older)? Maybe they have unresolved trauma from their formative years that has prevented them from developing wisdom and kindness towards others. I can understand not agreeing with someone, but to threaten them with death and violence because of said disagreement is juvenile (if not criminal).

No idea

Exactly, there is only One

What can be more "independent" super duper than that which is only One in all of us?

There was an interesting development in the past two days with an old friend (also a former TDB - which I guess is a misnomer because "once a Dao bum, always a dao bum") wrote to me about his realization and the falling away of the sense of self which he described as "a dissolving into everything, which can be interpreted as losing oneself). I asked him, "Are YOU disappearing or is the personality who answers to the name 'Former TDB' disappearing?" Because the original YOU has never not been there (or is always present, ever-shining). Only that it was clouded by the layers of personality that identify as this and that. Once there is a sufficient stillness developed, that One becomes apparent for what it has always/already been - Existence, Consciousness, Joy/Bliss (Sat, Chit, Ananda). I shared with him this snippet from James Swartz --

I was reeling from the untimely death of my father some 30 years ago (he was 54 when he passed), and I started to meditate to make sense, or maybe just to cope with the feeling of despondency that set in. Perhaps the first sign of there being a “witness” happened as his corpse lay in the living room of our house, as is the Hindu custom, with hundreds of friends coming to pay their last respects. As I was bawling my eyes out, something separated from this bawling, pitiful situation and observed the room, the entire scenario. Almost like I had a drone footage of the entire room from a high ceiling as the situation was unfolding. anyway, fast forward a couple of years, and I was “trying to meditate”. Until one day, as I lay down on the living room couch, i found myself floating in total darkness - a void if there can be one. At a distance I saw a blue luminescence. As soon as I saw it, I seemed to float into that space. There I saw a bluish white egg, crackling with energy. As I watched, it spun slowly, and within it I saw Lord Krishna, and then it spun again, and I saw the Buddha, it picked up speed, and soon the Krishna and Buddha merged into one and faster still until there was only the egg. And then, a silent explosion (I guess that is what a supernova event must be like). And I saw galaxies and stars flying by me.

It’s like being the sweetness vs tasting the sweetness.

Chit is who we really are — Consciousness, Being. All the sheaths are just appearances that rise and fall in chit.