You are God

[Max Power]

You are God.

No one else is God.

There are no other gods.

How does this help you?

Well, as an ego (insert your name/label) here it can't help you, because you are still trapped in being an ego

That's okay, because your ego has some value.........the trick lies in not identifying with your limit egoic self.

You are God.

The best way to access your god consciousness, is to observe all that is.

That means to watch without judgement.

God does not judge, god knows to watch and to observe all you create.

You are god.

Max.

Remember.............don't confuse egoic self with God..........you are both, but only one

[headshaker]

I agree entirely but this can be hard to grasp at first. Sharon Janis uses two helpful pictures: the wave and the leaf. The wave is the ocean and yet the wave is not the ocean. The leaf IS the tree but the tree is not the leaf. Both wave and leaf are intrinsically part of something much greater yet are unique smaller scale manifestations. A wave has a beginning and an end but cannot be said to truly "die" as all it ever was can still be seen in the ocean. The wave was a particular way in which the ocean manifested itself for a limited time. This may help newbies to nonduality.

[Max Power]

I agree entirely but this can be hard to grasp at first. Sharon Janis uses two helpful pictures: the wave and the leaf. The wave is the ocean and yet the wave is not the ocean. The leaf IS the tree but the tree is not the leaf. Both wave and leaf are intrinsically part of something much greater yet are unique smaller scale manifestations. A wave has a beginning and an end but cannot be said to truly "die" as all it ever was can still be seen in the ocean. The wave was a particular way in which the ocean manifested itself for a limited time. This may help newbies to nonduality.

It's a nice way to negate responsibility, but ultimately, you are not a wave or a leaf or anything created.

You are life itself.....you are god, you are the creator.

There are no other gods or any other people here and'or anywhere.

There is only one consciousness (god) and it's not shared, it's not split by 6 billion, all of that is the illusion of seperation, that you have created. The universe is not out there, because there is nothing out there there is only you, here right now.

A person does not want to be god, because no person can be god, all people are created and not creative (including your own avatar) only god is creative and creator. There is only one god, one consciousness. When other's tell you that we are all part of the one being, the one whole that is everywhere, that is a falsehood created by you to support the illusion of seperation.

In essence you are a lonely god by definition, just like in the story of the bible, where you create everything, observe, get bored and wipe it all out (eden/flood the world etc) the trick is not to welcome the idea of a consciousness that is shared and/or split into 6 billion forms and endless other forms spread throughout the universe. That ultimately just makes you more annoyed at making the illusion so stupidly extreme

So what's the point of this very ordinary and fleeting human experience?

Know thyself......that's all you are doing

Max

PS. Remember that words are merely pointers and should not be taken too instructively.

[headshaker]

I agree that I created the separation/illusion. I also agree that my purpose within this avatar is to know myself. In doing the former, is it actually the means by which I achieve the latter? If not, what was the purpose of it?

[Lee]

I agree entirely but this can be hard to grasp at first. Sharon Janis uses two helpful pictures: the wave and the leaf. The wave is the ocean and yet the wave is not the ocean. The leaf IS the tree but the tree is not the leaf. Both wave and leaf are intrinsically part of something much greater yet are unique smaller scale manifestations. A wave has a beginning and an end but cannot be said to truly "die" as all it ever was can still be seen in the ocean. The wave was a particular way in which the ocean manifested itself for a limited time. This may help newbies to nonduality.

It's a nice way to negate responsibility, but ultimately, you are not a wave or a leaf or anything created.

You are life itself.....you are god, you are the creator.

There are no other gods or any other people here and'or anywhere.

There is only one consciousness (god) and it's not shared, it's not split by 6 billion, all of that is the illusion of seperation, that you have created. The universe is not out there, because there is nothing out there there is only you, here right now.

A person does not want to be god, because no person can be god, all people are created and not creative (including your own avatar) only god is creative and creator. There is only one god, one consciousness. When other's tell you that we are all part of the one being, the one whole that is everywhere, that is a falsehood created by you to support the illusion of seperation.

In essence you are a lonely god by definition, just like in the story of the bible, where you create everything, observe, get bored and wipe it all out (eden/flood the world etc) the trick is not to welcome the idea of a consciousness that is shared and/or split into 6 billion forms and endless other forms spread throughout the universe. That ultimately just makes you more annoyed at making the illusion so stupidly extreme

So what's the point of this very ordinary and fleeting human experience?

Know thyself......that's all you are doing

Max

PS. Remember that words are merely pointers and should not be taken too instructively.

Yes. What was written was truth.

“PS. Remember that words are merely pointers and should not be taken too instructively.”

Yes. Still there is one word that is a red flag in the writing, in the truth. That word is- “you”. There is a difference between the statement “You are God” and “God is all there is.” There is no “you.”

"The universe is not out there, because there is nothing out there there is only you, here right now.”

A more accurate truth is “The universe is not out there, because there is nothing out there, there is only here right now.”

The most accurate truth is Nisargadatta’s

“The final answer is this: Nothing is. All is a momentary appearance in the field of the universal consciousness. Continuity as name and form is a mental formation only, easy to dispel."

There IS NO YOU. Even used as a pointer- it is untrue.

There is no creator or creation. Choice or no choice.

There is only the one consciousness dreaming a dream. Through the dream of humanity it wakes up from this dream- realizes who it is, Self Realization. Consciousness conscious of itself.

There is much truth in what “Max Power” says, but is he locked into that truth- to where it has become dogma? There is a surety that begs to be challenged.

Go deeper.

Here’s a mirror.

[Parthon]

Another alernative:

You are not God. You are not the universe. You are not the world. You are not humanity. You are not your life. You are not your stuff, your money or your things. You are not your body. You are not your opinion, your thoughts or your emotions. You are not what you see, hear, smell, taste or touch. You are not the beings around you. You are not essence, or life spirit. You are not a name, a person or a lable. You are not a being. You are not an entity. You are not everything. You are not anything. You are not something. You are not nothing.

So what are you?

[Max Power]

There still is a singular consciousness.

A conscious being regardless of form or formlessness, must eventually know itself. This reality could be that method of self realisation.......or not.

Even the formless, stillness that is no-thing is still some-thing and most probably the only thing

Therefore there is an 'I' at the core, even if it is just a pointer.

Max

[Lee]

A conscious being regardless of form or formlessness, must eventually know itself.

Homerun here, Max!

[Lee]

Parthon-

Yes- the questions "Who am I?" and "What am I not?" are both effective. Eastern spirituality is all about "What am I not?"

But I find that "Who am I?" is a faster route!

[Max Power]

The sticking point seems to be the word you

There is a you, but it's not the human being/avatar you that you see in the mirror.

There is only one consciousness experiencing itself and that means there is a you in that sense, but that you is a singular conscious being.

If someones says 'you are god' that is god telling god that god is god. The you is an external pointer back to self. Technically there is no you, because there are no other people and/or other conscious beings here able to point and say you are god or there you are.

It's all you

Who am I can only be answered with I am but even the question and answer have to be dropped. True self realisation would mean you know yourself as the singular conscious being that is timeless and stillness itself.

The only real way to know what you are is to know what you're not and that's why every possible thing could possibly exist (it doesn't) but it does so you can see you are none of that and therefore the stillness, space that everything exists inside of.

Of course you have no real form, so it's tricky to know something that is formless, but observing night time dreams is helpful to understand the dreamer that is consciousness itself.....that you are.

The waking world is no different, just the projection seems to be more dense.

Max