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I am That
By: abrakamowse Date: March 24, 2016, 10:16 am
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Hello Jed and everyone on the forum,
Jed, don't you want to do a comic about your experiences?
hehehe...
I am an illustrator and comic artist, in fact I am more a
graphic designer trying to move to making comics and
illustrations.
And I was all my life disappointed because I didn't follow my
dreams, I thought that it was going to be difficult to live
doing my illustrations so I took the "safer" way that it was
becoming a graphic designer.
Is not that I don't like graphic design, It's my passion too but
making comics, illustrations, etc is really a dream for me. I am
working on that, and I read one of your books, in fact I am
actually reading it
and I really like the honesty you have on what you think about
life and what you say to others about your experiences.
I really liked a lot when you said that everyone is your master
or teacher, that you learn from everyone. That's is great. I
think so too.
And about my spiritual life, it was a bit convoluted. I always
was curious about Zen, and Buddhist meditation, Yoga, etc. I
read a lot of books as a teen.
I was having a small graphic design studio in my native country,
that is Uruguay. But things were not working well, there was a
big recession so I took a chance and
I moved to New Jersey and I am working in New York. I came with
my wife and now we have a 9 year old daughter.
So, I was very disappointed about my country because I always
thought that people there think like an small village, they
don't think big. But, in fact now I realize that it was me that
wasn't thinking big.
And I was here thinking only about working, and I was in my
delusional thinking about getting a high paying job, etc etc...
hehehehe.... and things didn't go the way I expected, it was not
bad, but not as good as I expected.
And I got very depressed and I ended in the hospital in a
psychotic episode. The stress at work, everything took me to
that point, I like a lot the teaching of Jesus, so I went to a
Church and I fried my brain hehehe...
At that point I did a full circle and I came back to the
Buddhist teachings, I am meditating again and I feel much
better. And really I learned two things that I needed to learn
when I was at the Christian Church,
even when the cost was to go to a psychiatric hospital.
One, is that we have not free will. I didn't understand that
part from the Bible, but now I think everything makes more
sense. And it is not only from the Bible, I have investigated
what science says about it and I found
that there were some scientific experiments that could arrive to
the conclusion that there's not free will.
The second one was to make me so humble about the power of God,
Nature, Universe, etc... whatever people want to call him. That
this disposition opened my mind to a epiphany.
I was going to work on the subway and suddenly, I began to feel
like filled with love. I loved everyone in the train, I can't
explain with words what I feel.
The only thing I can say is that I thought "Oh, that's the way
that God want us to love". It was something so deep and pure
that I never experienced in my life.
Then I got off the train and I took another one, I take three
trains to go to work hehehe... and when I was in the other train
I begin to see like lights coming out from everybody.
It was like lights but the were like connecting dots between
everyone, like if everyone where connected and I felt that
everything I did was affecting everyone because we were all one.
I didn't think that at that moment, but now I understand that
was what happened.
Then I saw my hand, and everything looked more real. My hand and
arm had like these lights, like if my blood were done of light
running through my arm, it was pretty crazy.
The thing I remember thinking was "that's what Jesus said that
we will have rivers of living water running through us". Because
that's how it looked like. Like if there was water, and
that water was so clear that it shined through my skin. And I
also remember thinking "this is real life, I was dead and now I
am alive". Everything looked to me more real than real life.
I saw the horizon, I was getting off the train and it was on a
platform on a 2nd or 3rd floor. That's were I got off to go to
work. I could see the buildings, everything from a high place.
And I looked everything and it seemed like the earth was
breathing, like if it was a living thing. I saw the sky and
there was like a swirl in the clouds. And I felt like that was
God, or the Universe, or the Absolute, or the laws of nature,
whatever people like to "label" him.
And I really felt overwhelmed, like if I was going to fall over
my knees and say, Ok... I give up. You win. Hehehehe... it was
pretty crazy but beautiful.
And I had some more experiences after that, one more I remember
it was that when I wake up I didn't have identity. I didn't know
who I was for a moment, before waking up. But I will tell about
that in a future post.
Thanks again for opening this forum!
Daniel
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Re: Hello, new to the forum
By: Jed McKenna Date: March 24, 2016, 11:11 am
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Dear Daniel;
Welcome to the forum, now for the bitch slap. Please cut your
blah blah down to 200 words or less. It's in your interest and
mine. Keep in mind that you are not that important and what you
have to say is only of interest to yourself.
Having said that, if you have a specific question, I may be able
to assist or point.
Love ya, Jed.
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Re: Hello, new to the forum
By: abrakamowse Date: March 24, 2016, 11:20 am
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No problem Jed, I got it.
I know I am not important, is that I just tried to make it short
but I didn't know how to do it. Believe that I made it short, I
had more stuff but I am not going to fill the forum with that,
promised.
I got your message, thanks. I know sometimes I go around the
bushes.
My question will be if that kind of experiences are expected
when someone is looking for enlightenment or if it was something
that wasn't real, only something made by my mind.
I am a bit confused about what's the next step, I was thinking
in going to a buddhist center in New York to make meditation
with someone who had the experience before.
I apologize for the long post!
Daniel
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Re: Hello, new to the forum
By: Jed McKenna Date: March 24, 2016, 11:21 pm
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Hi Daniel:
Please express the experience you are talking about as concisely
as possible. I didn't read you first post as I am simple too
busy and assert come controls in the interest of assisting as
many students as possible.
Thanks in advance.
Love ya, Jed.
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Re: Hello, new to the forum
By: abrakamowse Date: March 24, 2016, 11:35 pm
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Thanks Jed again, this was my experience.
I was going to work, I was on a subway. And suddenly I was
filled with love. I know it sounds corny but that was what
happened. I loved everyone on the train, it was weird.
I remember me thinking "wow, that's the way God want us to love"
because it was like an spontaneous love, like without reason
just love.
Then I get off that train and I take another one, the love
feeling was vanishing slowly. But when I was on the other train,
I was almost arriving to my station and I saw my hands an my arm
and I felt like more alive. I remember that I thought "I was
dead, and now I am alive". It was like a reality more real than
what I am perceiving now, it was everything like sharper, I
don't know how to define it. I got off the train, and the
platform of the station was like high, like a second or third
floor. And I saw the city from the top, but I perceived like
everything was breathing and everything was alive, and in the
sky the clouds were like swirling in a powerful way. It gave me
the sensation that it was God, but that was what I thought. The
thing is that everything was alive.
Thanks Jed for reading and responding to my questions!
Much appreciated!
Daniel
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Re: Hello, new to the forum
By: Jed McKenna Date: March 24, 2016, 11:59 pm
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Thanks Daniel:
Your experience was just that, and experience. It's pretty
difficult to grasp, but actual T/R is not an experience. It my
be better described as a beingness, but that not it because no
words actually describe it.
Nothing wrong with having that experience, other than the trap
of trying to repeat it. Some folks spend the rest of their live
trying to repeat it. Don't get caught in that. To any experience
that arises (ANY!) just be grateful, say thank you, and the then
''next''.
I trust that helps a little.
Love ya, Jed.
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Re: Hello, new to the forum
By: abrakamowse Date: March 25, 2016, 12:09 am
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Thank you very much Jed, you were really helpful.
I'm trying to focus on enlightenment and I am really thankful
for the experience.
Thanks for your time!
Daniel
P.S.: I am really thinking into doing a comic about
enlightenment, do you mind to read something if I send you an
script? It's Ok if you don't have time or you can't do it. But I
just had to give it a try hehehe.... Thanks again!!!
#Post#: 19244--------------------------------------------------
Re: Hello, new to the forum
By: Jed McKenna Date: March 25, 2016, 2:05 am
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It never hurts to ask, but the reality is I am very busy with
the forum and the Nav Series. No can do for you.
Love ya, Jed
#Post#: 19259--------------------------------------------------
Re: Hello, new to the forum
By: abrakamowse Date: March 25, 2016, 10:12 am
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It's Ok, I understand. Thanks anyway.
When I have it done I'll send you a copy.
:)
Thanks again!
Daniel
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Re: Hello, new to the forum
By: Jed McKenna Date: March 25, 2016, 8:01 pm
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Best wishes to you...
Love ya, Jed.
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