Liberation

The Three Stages of Liberation

By meestereric / April 20, 2023 /

Freedom manifests itself as a seeming human being along these lines:   1. Being open to being open to listening or seeing Reality-Truth. A teacher experience (could be any form – human, mountain…) in life happens. 2. Contemplating it, deepening it 3. Living it out.    Of course, it was always there, just hidden. Consciousness…

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All Else is Bandaids

By Eric Platt / March 24, 2023 /

The Truth, or Reality, or Awareness, whatever concepts you want to use, is intangible-and also the totality of tangibility-thus not abstract or intellectual; it is an experience, and felt as Joy. The totality of the invisible is concrete, as concrete as what is looking out your eyes, which is the seeing itself which cannot be…

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On Beyond Depression

By meestereric / November 16, 2020 /

I was diagnosed with “clinical depression” 30 years ago or so, and told I’d be on Prozac (a popular SSRI antidepressant at the time) for the rest of my life, akin to how a diabetic needs to take insulin. Over the years I learned how what the doctors said was a lie, and the society…

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Who Awakens? Further Notes on Liberation

By meestereric / August 25, 2020 /

Who becomes liberated, if there is no personal self, no separate entities anywhere in existence? This is greatly puzzling. I wrote previously about Enlightenment,  (and here) observing that there was no such thing per se. Regardless of what was said before (I haven’t reviewed the article for a while) the simple fact is, people do…

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Eckhart Tolle and Attention to Thoughts

By meestereric / February 18, 2016 /

I heard Eckhart Tolle talking about feelings as indicators of the quality of thinking and it’s origins (from the video “Your Ego Loves Unhappiness”): The feeling will often tell you what kind of thought it is, whether it’s true or not. And then you can recognize certain thoughts as not productive and as thoughts you…

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