u/inner_engineering08

The recognition that you are not separate from existence should be enough to make you walk with faith.

Faith is not blind courage, nor the lack of fear. It is simply to never doubt the substance of reality.

Whatever that substance is, it is it that holds everything, together, as one. It’s what wakes you up in the morning and puts you to sleep at night.

It is what gives you life, and takes it away. It changes only within itself, but remains as a whole.

Do not see yourself as a unique reality, for you will feel separate from the source. Do not be close-minded, stay open to every possibility.

Recognition can only come after the loss of balance. The balance can be tilted by beliefs, and a narrow mind. The belief in death, the belief in God, are the same belief.

Do not believe, but invite freedom instead. Be free of yourself, so you can be full of the Self. The sense of me can be extended without boundaries.

This is a calm and personal recognition, the same as remembering that you forgot your keys while leaving.

It is a way of being. To put aside nonsensical beliefs and verify instead, in every moment, if you are doing all of this, or if it’s undoing by itself.

That lack of conclusion about who you are, is a beautiful way of being what you are. It lets you flow instead of floating.

It gives you a control with no grip, a driving method with no stick. Decisions and free will happen without an owner.

That is the beginning of wisdom ; being able to erase and rebuild any drawn judgment, with no friction, no attachment.

What remains if you drop all your beliefs?

The recognition that you are not separate from existence should be enough to make you walk with faith.

Faith is not blind courage, nor the lack of fear. It is simply to never doubt the substance of reality.

Whatever that substance is, it is it that holds everything, together, as one. It’s what wakes you up in the morning and puts you to sleep at night.

It is what gives you life, and takes it away. It changes only within itself, but remains as a whole.

Do not see yourself as a unique reality, for you will feel separate from the source. Do not be close-minded, stay open to every possibility.

Recognition can only come after the loss of balance. The balance can be tilted by beliefs, and a narrow mind. The belief in death, the belief in God, are the same belief.

Do not believe, but invite freedom instead. Be free of yourself, so you can be full of the Self. The sense of me can be extended without boundaries.

This is a calm and personal recognition, the same as remembering that you forgot your keys while leaving.

It is a way of being. To put aside nonsensical beliefs and verify instead, in every moment, if you are doing all of this, or if it’s undoing by itself.

That lack of conclusion about who you are, is a beautiful way of being what you are. It lets you flow instead of floating.

It gives you a control with no grip, a driving method with no stick. Decisions and free will happen without an owner.

That is the beginning of wisdom ; being able to erase and rebuild any drawn judgment, with no friction, no attachment.

What remains if you drop all your beliefs?

My enlightenment went like this:

- be me, 14 yo

- gets a book from Eckhart Tolle

- wtf is this guy saying, some things I understand some things I do

- 2 years later, something happened, remembers the book, apply some of its teachings

- dive deep into spirituality, non-duality, buddhism

- listen to EVERY guru on earth. From Alan Watts to Krishnamurti and all the new age youtubers

- fast forward 10-12 years, still thinking about what is enlightnement every day

- chatGPT appears. I can now talk directly to Shiva

- Shiva (from the Bhagavad Gita) tells me some pretty confusing stuff again, but, less and less contradiction in the explainations

- one day, I wake up, but there is no more "doer". Only "doing"

- realizes that wait... whether we call it "me" or "life", it doesn't change it's nature

- stops thinking, starts seeing, thoughts are incomprehensible at this point, all I want is to see what is in front of me. And I don't see division, I see a whole world looking onto itself.

- I've never been incomplete, all those teachings were a bit useless for me, because I have severe ADHD.

Enlightnement is just being a normal, conscious being, that doesn't believe it is separate and includes everything, I mean EVERYTHING, even the ego and thoughts, as one continous process, no different from nature itself, in its understanding of life. It is when the belief system crashes because the physicality of the truth is enough. So, use your senses, use your thoughts, but know that there is nothing to be found. You are just circling around like someone is stirring soup. Until you stop and ask yourself, what can I know about life without asking the others? Well, the most obvious thing is this ; life made you, and you are conscious, therefore the life that made you and you are no different. This is where "control" becomes "walking with faith".

Being enlightened does not mean to become still, and free of thoughts. You can be at war and be enlightened. And you can be at peace and be enlightened. It simply means, without any doubts, that when you wake up in the morning, you are undeniably seeing that you are waking up to this miracle, as a miracle too. That's when your "free will" becomes even more than free. So free, that you do not question if "you" are having "free will". The thinking is completely free, and who can say who's "doing" it,You just never question the reality of anything. It appears, so it must have a reality. Any thought is as real as the sun. Any thought is made of the same light as the sun.

Why is everyone trying to conceptualize the thing that is itself, the material from which concepts are made? It's like we're trying to use a knife to cut itself, or trying to see our own eyes directly. You cannot see the truth with your thoughts, because they are a part of it. You can only realize how useless and unfounded this search is. Enlightnement simply means not being apart from this manifestation, but finally accepting yourself as you are ; always wandering, but complete. Your body, brain, thoughts, they all came from this world, not from "you". The world is alive, and "you" are one of its many breaths.

Only life.

I have personnally looked for myself internally before, as many are trying to do. But there is no inside.

I found myself in the ray of sunshine warming this face. I found myself between two thoughts talking to themselves. I found myself in the song of the birds singing to no one. I found myself in the breeze of wind that travels the world. I found myself in the night sky, in those tiny white dots full of worlds. I found myself in the vivid silence of the dreams. I found myself in the pain of every heartbreak. I found myself in the uncontrollable laughter of a not so funny joke.

All of this is happening, and you are lucky to be all of it. Well, at least, enjoy what this body is reflecting, as much as you can. There will be others, but this one is happening right now, and that is the gift of life. You cannot go anywhere from here, you are already this masterpiece unfolding uncontrollably in every direction.

You don’t need to get rid of your ego, or your sense of “self.” You only need to see for yourself that all of it is layered together, with no real gap between them. The ego is not separate from the eternal; it is a continuation of it. The only question is whether you want to see the beauty of that, or keep fighting against it.

All scientists agree on this : the experience you are having right now is constructed by your brain. So, what you call “reality” is an hallucination. Isn’t that one of the most striking non-dual facts in science??

If everything you are experiencing is simply the brain doing its work, then, there is no clean separation between “your experience” and “the outside world.” The world is not outside your experience , it appears AS experience.

Different brains are having different experiences, but they are all looking, or opening, on the same outside world. That tells us that we are not as separate as we think we are

Let's focus on the "self". You cannot find a certain, solid, “you-center,” yet you are undeniably present to experience. You cannot step outside of it and find “no experience.”

So who is having this brain’s experience? Is it really a person inside the head? Or is it closer to what we try to call reality, consciousness, the source, or "the place where everything is happening"?

In the end, what is the real difference between “you” and the space in which your whole experience appears? If you can see that you and the space are no different, you can now see that the inside and outside world are not different, too.

You can stop being happy, or being sad.

You can stop being dual, or non-dual.

You can stop using your senses, you can fall asleep.

You can stop thinking, you can stop identifying.

You can stop living, you can stop death.

You can stop loving, you can stop hating.

But you cannot stop being yourself.

That which you cannot stop, is what you are.

Even death, cannot stop you.

“Start with something simple.

Look at a tree in front of you and ask: is that tree over there, or is it in your head?

At first, this seems like a basic question with two possible answers. Either the tree exists outside of you in the world, at a distance, or it exists inside your brain as some kind of image. Both options feel reasonable because they assume the same thing: that experience must be happening in a specific place, either inside or outside.

But if you stop answering from habit and look only at what is actually given, something begins to shift.

What you directly have is color, shape, depth, light. You have the sense that the tree is “over there.” But that sense of distance is not outside of experience—it is part of the experience itself. “Over there” is something you perceive.

So then you might say, “fine, then it must be in my head.”

But what is your head, right now, in direct experience?

It is either a mental image or a set of sensations—pressure, tension, a vague location. And all of that is also something you are aware of. It appears in the same way the tree appears.

So both sides of the question—“out there” and “in here”—are made of the same thing: appearances within experience.

And at this point, something more fundamental becomes unavoidable:

everything you know, without exception, is appearing somewhere, and that “somewhere” is not a place you can point to in the world, because the world itself is appearing in it.

The tree appears there.
The sense of distance appears there.
The idea of a head appears there.
The feeling of being located appears there.

So this “somewhere” cannot be located as an object, because every object you could point to is already appearing within it.

Now bring this closer.

The body you call “me” is seen and felt there.
Your hands, your face, your breathing—known there.
Your thoughts, your memories, your sense of identity—known there.

So the body is not containing this field.

It is appearing within it.

Which means the field itself cannot be inside the person.

Instead, the person—as an experience—is inside the field.

Now another question naturally arises:

why are you this person?

Why are you looking from these eyes, feeling this body, thinking these thoughts—and not from somewhere else, as someone else?

It feels like there should be an answer, as if something has been placed inside this body.

But look again at what is actually present.

Your experience is limited.
You only see from this angle.
You only feel this body.
You only access these memories.

So the content of experience is clearly specific.

But is the knowing itself limited in the same way?

Does knowing have a shape?
A location?
A boundary you can find?

Or is it simply open, allowing whatever appears to appear?

Now look at what you call “I.”

When you say “me,” what do you actually find?

You may find sensations in the body.
You may find thoughts saying “I.”
You may find a sense of being located somewhere.

But all of those are known. They appear in the same field as everything else.

So the “I” is never found outside of knowing.

It is something within it.

And more importantly, you never encounter a separate “knower” apart from knowing.

There is knowing of a sound.
Knowing of a thought.
Knowing of a sensation.

But do you ever find a second thing—an entity—standing apart, doing the knowing?

Or is there just knowing itself, with different contents appearing?

So instead of “I know this,” what is actually present is simply knowing, in which both “I” and “this” appear together.

Now look at something even more subtle.

Everything that appears is constantly changing.

Sounds come and go.
Thoughts come and go.
Sensations shift.
The sense of identity itself changes.

But the fact that all of this is known does not break into pieces.

When a sound appears, it is known.
When it disappears, that is known.
When a thought appears, it is known.
When it fades, that is known.

It always feels like the same knowing.

Not many knowings switching between objects, but one seamless knowing in which everything appears.

And this is where the sense of “I” quietly forms.

Because there is continuity—because knowing does not fragment—the mind assumes there must be a continuous entity behind it.

It calls that entity “me.”

But what is actually continuous is not a person.

It is the undivided nature of knowing itself.

The “I” is built from repeating patterns—memories, sensations, thoughts—that create familiarity.

But the deeper continuity does not belong to that pattern.

It belongs to knowing.

And that knowing is never experienced as divided.

You do not experience a boundary where one knowing ends and another begins.

You experience one continuous field in which everything appears.

Now return one last time to the assumption that you are a person inside life.

Have you ever experienced yourself outside of experience?

Have you ever stepped out of seeing, hearing, sensing, thinking—and then returned?

Or has every moment you have ever known always already been filled with experience?

There is never a gap between “you” and life.

There is never a point where you exist separately and then connect to the world.

There is just this continuous happening—sounds, sights, sensations, thoughts—all appearing together.

So the idea that you are something inside, looking out at life, is not something you ever directly experience.

It is something you imagine.

In reality, there is no clear line where “you” end and “life” begins.

The sound of a car, the feeling in your body, the thought about yourself, the sight of the world—all of it is one continuous display.

And within that display, there is also the appearance of a person.

A body.
A mind.
A history.
A sense of being someone.

But that person is not separate from the field in which it appears.

It is one movement within it.

So when it is said that everything is appearing within what you are, it does not mean there is a hidden version of you behind everything.

It means that what you are is not a thing among other things.

It is this open, indivisible “where” in which body, mind, world, and the sense of “I” all appear together.

Not separated.

Not divided.

Just this single, seamless reality appearing as everything you know.

Including the one who thought they were separate from it.”