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(05-30-2021, 07:03 PM)Graemett Wrote:(05-30-2021, 04:55 PM)Ming the Merciful Wrote: I like the concept of your reply, (but). if you can tell me how an individual would be capable of reaching "Self-Realization", (without encompassing the "Self"), then we have a problem. Our only acknowledgement of our existence is through the "Self", (our embodiment). In recent weeks, I have come to the conclusion that the "Self-Realized" has to go beyond Religion and even Spirituality to comprehend the Supreme, (and the Universal Consciousness). Once we begin to accept the "Natural Order of Everything", (AS IT IS), that is touching on something much deeper than mere intellectual comprehension, because it taking IT to the next level of Realization. In Zen, we were taught that to comprehend Zen, you must also destroy Zen. To comprehend Spirituality, you must also destroy Spirituality because it is only a tool, and not the end result. I consider the "Law of One" as a "Guide" and not the end result, (or an end unto itself). Absolute Consciousness is beyond any form of comprehension, even on an Intellectual or Intuitive level. Ever since I joined the "Law of One" I have been preaching that we need to comprehend on an Intuitive level and I am now discovering even that is not enough. There is a point, (somewhere), beyond both Intellectualism and Intuitive Understanding. When we find that, I can see something so profound and elusive, almost like a "Third State" of Consciousness. When we find that, perhaps that is the elusive "Enlightenment"?
I am also investigating "Non-Duality" which is leading in the same direction. Everything is, "AS IT IS".
How do you describe the indescribable? Can fire burn itself, or can a knife cut itself?
Frank Yang said it best:
P.S. The Law of One is just another lens to view Infinity.
Thank you for introducing me to the video. Absolutely amazing. He said, what I could not say, (or I could not express in words what I wanted to say). An "Enlightening" experience. Without sounding egotistical, (which I am not), I sense something in the air, and I can almost taste it. The snake tasting the air with its tongue, (a poor metaphor). Can fire burn itself, and can a knife cut itself? Self-Realization is something profound and deep, although do we create an illusion to protect our Ego, because as I said earlier. In Zen, even Zen must be destroyed. In Self-Realization, even the Self must be destroyed. The act of merging with Everything, and the loss of concepts. The Conceptual and Illusionary world of existence become the background of something beyond concepts. I am the Universe, and I reside with the Godhead.