Buddha, Dharma, Sangha
If you meet a Buddha give him offerings and dedicate yourself to the liberation of all suffering beings.
The mind is naturally clear and free. Attachments cloud and confine it. Attachments arise from our confusion about our real nature which is like space. Emotionally holding on to some substance causes all our problems and actually generates our physical world. Because this has been the case since time (which has no measurable beginning), love, compassion and the space-like nature of mind are an inseparable and indistinguishable unity. The activities of the Buddhas of past, present and future has no beginning or end either. The joy, bliss, love, compassion and space-like awareness are all the same liberating essence within us all. That nature is one with the method and the view; emptiness is all. All forms, perceiveables, knowables and concepts are emptiness. To realize that truth through the method of that truth is the result of that truth, linked, together, an inseparable all-encompassing and all-pervasive whole. And that realization requires the assistance of the inner and outer teacher, the inner and outer community and the essence (the dharma).
There is no mind and all is mind. There is no Buddha and there is only Buddha, what could possibly be excluded, who could possibly exclude themselves? All these words merge into each other. So what is to be said and why, other than to remove the illusions of distinction?
I don’t like to do this, because I am not a teacher.
But with that disclaimer, I will give the following powerful method, that I invented to realize the natural state (self-realization in neo-Advaita):
Basically walk around and focus intensely on mundane visual and audio details in the present moment. Examples are wrinkles in people’s clothes or a baby crying in the mall. Or the color of the toothbrush handle and the sound of the water faucet. Even the cracks in the sidewalk, or the sounds of a passing airplane.
Now the second part is to freely use the mind, as long as all thoughts have absolute relevence to the present moment.
Keep this up strictly for all waking hours for minimum two days.
(After two days, you can realize that people ONLY exist as deluded thoughtforms in your own mind. But this realization is somewhat “advanced”, so don’t push it.)
And the moment you see that all is ‘deluded thoughtforms’, you can also see that these words mean nothing at all, because if all is ‘thought’ as against ‘objective reality’, then there is no ‘objective reality’ which is what would be needed to give meaning to the concept ‘thought’. NOT-TWO! The mind, the discrimination machine, is gone, including the initial discrimination ‘I-other’. So does anything exist or not? Who knows. Form is emptiness, emptiness form.
This is just thinking, and will not lead you to the nature of mind. To take the innate mind of clear light as the path requires direct introduction and pointing out by the Lama.
your confusing my method with the result.
Alwayson…
Isn’t your method basically “mindfulness”? Forgive me if I am oversimplifying things here…
Love,
Carson 
simple mindfullness would not have all the elements I describe here
And you have to do what I said with 110% intensity, like your life depended on it
Well your method is exactly how I live my everyday life and how I was taught “mindfulness”. Was never was told it was “advanced” mindfulness and not “simple mindfulness”.
Love,
Carson
Yet you say you are doing it everyday. After two days of doing what I said, you won’t need to do it anymore.
My method is only for two days, and then you are done as long as you did it really intensely for those two days.
Haha. What happens after 48 hours of your method Alwayson? I have been doing this everyday for almost 1 year now…and I don’t “need” to do it as much as it “does itself” now. But it took more then 2 days for me 
Love,
Carson
well then Carson you are all set, if you realize that time literally does not exist.
All is Now…it’s Truth…for me
Love,
Carson
And if time does not exist nothing else can exist.
You would know that yourself only exists as a deluded thoughtform in your own mind. And other people similarly exist only as deluded thoughtforms in your own mind.
Time and people do exist but only as empty concepts in the mind (sunyata).
For example, if you think of your mother right now, she only exists as a flawed packet of memories in the mind. This packet also contains fictitious projections into the nonexistant future.
Why not ? Must there be awareness of awareness in order for awareness to exist ? Or is not the awareness of the awareness really just the awareness in and of itself 
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There are as many realities as there are Beings. None are any more valid then any other. “My” reality is that This is reality.
Depends on your definitions of “time” and “people” .
Love,
Carson
P.S. You konw I’m just screwing with you right? 
P.S.S> Just so that you don’t feel I am “brushing you off”…
I said “All is Now…it’s Truth…for me” because this is not Truth for all “people”…It is Truth from “my” perception (no actual “me”, you are right), but I felt I should qualify saying this by saying “for me” because this may not be so for All (yet?).
Love,
Carson
This is just thinking, and will not lead you to the nature of mind. To take the innate mind of clear light as the path requires direct introduction and pointing out by the Lama.
May I assume that you are speaking for your chosen tradition? The guru is inner and outer, and there is ultimately no distinction between these two. In truth, some will need an external guru, some will meet their guru and experience initiation in the subtle realms, and for some the guru will have no identifiable form. And everything is 'just thinking', isn't it, from one penultimate perspective? I have no doubt that Alwayson's method can show just this. To really see that there are only thoughts, that all is thought, and therefore that there are no thoughts, is a profound yoga, an awakening to the inner guru, the natural state. chinna
Hi Chinna, Sure, one can rely on the inner guru, and outer guru may be represented by the whole universe. But this is the slow path.
It’s not that some will need a guru and others won’t. It’s that some will be lucky enough to meet a wise guru, and others won’t. That’s just karma. Every, every, every great master of any tradition had a physical human guru. I guarantee you that any so-called master who claimed enlightenment from visions and dreams is not a master. You are free to believe what you like. I live in the human realm.
However, thinking and following thoughts goes nowhere. One must encounter methods to transcend thoughts. For example, alwayson describes bringing to bear thoughts that have relevance to the present moment. Whether a thing is relevant or irrelevant is a conceptual judgment. The conceptual mind is the obscuration. You cannot use an obscuration to reveal clarity. One must one way or another realize the ground of mind. That can happen spontaneously. But the fruition of enlightenment will not happen until the solitary realizer meets the methods from the guru.
What you describe as a profound yoga is not a profound yoga. Everything is not just thinking. Thinking is illusory. Which means there is a reality. To discover the reality you have to stop thinking and view the ground of the mind.
If you said everything is awareness, you’d be closer to the mark.
Hi all,
I think the Buddha just left the grove.
Anyone noticed?
Christi
I’ve tried to follow this thread but don’t come here often as i see the same stuff being said endlessly. What is real and what is illusory? etc etc ad infinitum.
These are just words. Words, words and more words.
If the self doesn’t exist and other people are your thoughtforms, that hardly makes logical sense does it? In reality, the Self, the little self, and the rest of the universe and other people DO exist. Nothing is an illusion, just appearances which seem delusory. And the test of a “realisation” that everything is illusory is a power test - go jump off a building if you think you can fly. Make it is a very tall building, say the Empire State Building. Don’t forget to bring a parachute.