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23-09-2015, 05:29 AM
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I am Nothingness
I often heard the term "nothingness" from different philosophers and spiritual teachers, primarily Alan Watts... but I never really experienced what it felt like to be nothingness itself. Yesterday night as I was laying down meditating, I entered a vast realm of pure being. Nothingness. You could say it's a state of "no mind."
I have practiced and practiced meditation in my daily routines. Basically, knowing consciously not to identify with the mind.
The state of nothingness is the most spiritual state there could be in my opinion. How much deeper could you go then being clean and at peace with yourself? We truly are connected with everything. And if I am nothingness, so is everything else. Everything you see or hear or touch, ultimately has the same meaning. It just is. Nothing is trying to deliver a message for you to hear. You are the message.
Once you have broken through the constraints of identifying with the mind, you are free. You are the non-dual self.
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23-09-2015, 05:46 AM
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Master
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VERY NICE... 
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23-09-2015, 09:08 AM
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Master
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Originally Posted by Timeless
I often heard the term "nothingness" from different philosophers and spiritual teachers, primarily Alan Watts... but I never really experienced what it felt like to be nothingness itself. Yesterday night as I was laying down meditating, I entered a vast realm of pure being. Nothingness. You could say it's a state of "no mind."
I have practiced and practiced meditation in my daily routines. Basically, knowing consciously not to identify with the mind.
The state of nothingness is the most spiritual state there could be in my opinion. How much deeper could you go then being clean and at peace with yourself? We truly are connected with everything. And if I am nothingness, so is everything else. Everything you see or hear or touch, ultimately has the same meaning. It just is. Nothing is trying to deliver a message for you to hear. You are the message.
Once you have broken through the constraints of identifying with the mind, you are free. You are the non-dual self.
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If this forum had a like button I would hit it for this post.. 
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“God’s one and only voice are Silence.” ~ Herman Melville
Man has learned how to challenge both Nature and art to become the incitements to vice! His very cups he has delighted to engrave with libidinous subjects, and he takes pleasure in drinking from vessels of obscene form! Pliny the Elder
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23-09-2015, 09:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Timeless
I often heard the term "nothingness" from different philosophers and spiritual teachers, primarily Alan Watts... but I never really experienced what it felt like to be nothingness itself. Yesterday night as I was laying down meditating, I entered a vast realm of pure being. Nothingness. You could say it's a state of "no mind."
I have practiced and practiced meditation in my daily routines. Basically, knowing consciously not to identify with the mind.
The state of nothingness is the most spiritual state there could be in my opinion. How much deeper could you go then being clean and at peace with yourself? We truly are connected with everything. And if I am nothingness, so is everything else. Everything you see or hear or touch, ultimately has the same meaning. It just is. Nothing is trying to deliver a message for you to hear. You are the message.
Once you have broken through the constraints of identifying with the mind, you are free. You are the non-dual self.
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Prepare yourself for the coming astral journey of death by daily riding in the balloon of God-perception.
Through delusion you are perceiving yourself as a bundle of flesh and bones, which at best is a nest of troubles.
Meditate unceasingly, that you may quickly behold yourself as the Infinite Essence, free from every form of misery. ~Paramahansa's Guru's Guru.
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23-09-2015, 11:41 PM
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Master
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I'm often skeptical of those who say such things like "I am nothingness." Even to say that is to still believe you are something. I don't see much of a difference between those who say they are God or those who say they are nothing.
Layers upon layers upon layers......upon more layers.
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24-09-2015, 01:22 AM
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Originally Posted by ocean breeze
I'm often skeptical of those who say such things like "I am nothingness."
Even to say that is to still believe you are something.
I don't see much of a difference between those who say they are God or those who say they are nothing.
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Words are hard to describe it once you experienced 'it' for
even a few seconds.
It could make you catatonic for a couple days or depressed or in awe and weeping
or jumping around like a drunk madman.
It's not a cakewalk sometimes afterwards....and then again, it can
make life sooo much easier...because you've seen the thing in the apple seed that makes it a tree.
Does any of this make sense to some people, no.
Others it makes so much sense. 
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Prepare yourself for the coming astral journey of death by daily riding in the balloon of God-perception.
Through delusion you are perceiving yourself as a bundle of flesh and bones, which at best is a nest of troubles.
Meditate unceasingly, that you may quickly behold yourself as the Infinite Essence, free from every form of misery. ~Paramahansa's Guru's Guru.
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24-09-2015, 02:37 AM
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Experiencer
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Originally Posted by ocean breeze
I'm often skeptical of those who say such things like "I am nothingness." Even to say that is to still believe you are something. I don't see much of a difference between those who say they are God or those who say they are nothing.
Layers upon layers upon layers......upon more layers.
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The title of this thread is even to me a huge logical error, still I understand what OP is stating. Do you ever listen to music? If you listen for logical errors in the lyrics I can promise your mind will metaphorically explode.
There's a massive difference between stating "I am God" and saying "I am nothingness". Claiming to be God is claiming to be everything which is the opposite of nothing. Claiming to be nothingness is to not claim anything, thus no expectation, no pressure and no stress. Nothingness is freedom as you're not tied up in anything.
There are no layers, they're illusions. Illusions upon illusions upon illusions, lies upon lies upon lies. You don't add layers, you remove the ones that have been added. You don't build a wall to reach freedom, you tear it down because the wall that keeps dangers out keeps you imprisoned. To reach truth you don't add more layers/illusions/lies, you take them away to uncover the truth hidden beneath. To take a clear picture you don't add a filter to your camera lens, you take it away.
Nothingness is taking everything away until you're left with the raw experience as is right here and now, nothing more can be taken away.
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24-09-2015, 02:37 AM
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Master
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Words are hard to describe it once you experienced 'it' for
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I've had a few experiences in life that i couldn't put into words. I also know how easy it is for the ego to cling to certain experiences and make them much bigger than what they really are. |
24-09-2015, 02:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Miss Hepburn
Words are hard to describe it once you experienced 'it' for
even a few seconds.
It could make you catatonic for a couple days or depressed or in awe and weeping
or jumping around like a drunk madman.
It's not a cakewalk sometimes afterwards....and then again, it can
make life sooo much easier...because you've seen the thing in the apple seed that makes it a tree.
Does any of this make sense to some people, no.
Others it makes so much sense. |
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24-09-2015, 02:43 AM
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Master
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Australia
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Originally Posted by ocean breeze
I'm often skeptical of those who say such things like "I am nothingness." Even to say that is to still believe you are something. I don't see much of a difference between those who say they are God or those who say they are nothing.
Layers upon layers upon layers......upon more layers.
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Probably make more sense to say 'I am formless'
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