Evolution : As every days, I was walking in the streets of Paris.
I saw the eiffel once again, and the buildings and cars around me.
Then I was thinking we have come so far, we built so many amazing things. The computer from where I am writing this is so wonderful.
The internet is a blessing tool for information, communication and sharing.
We changed so much since 1945, we evolved much but it is not over.
We have now to consciously evolve further.
We have now the means and knowledge to unite and turn this world into heaven.
Yet we are spending all our time and energy into useless things (mostly war in USA, which is the most influential/powerful country).
Yet a LOT of people are living in misery, with no clear water and not enough food.
Even people with clear water and enough food are not fulfilled because the truth is missing.
It is not possible to be filled with life if you do not see the big picture of life, and almost nobody can see it.
People are spending their time seeking pleasure, running after dreams and they miss reality, the wonders of life in the process.
As morcheeba says in the song “enjoy the ride” : the day you stop running is the day you arrive... stop chasing shadows just enjoy the ride.

We are so close to heaven, we just have to slow down and use our minds to overcome themselves, to increase our awareness of life.

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It is impossible to be conscious of being unconscious (from page 2 of The Present on www.truthcontest.com)
If you are reading this, you are conscious.
Every moment you are conscious of is the present moment, the eternal now.
You cannot be aware of anything else.
Every pieces of life you get through your sense are comming from the present.
For exemple you cannot hear something from yesterday.
You can think about what you heard yesterday, but that is just a memory, an illusion in your mind.
When you sleep you are still semi-conscious. It is easy to check : if you are sleeping (now) and suddenly the alarms rings (or any loud noise) you will hear it and wake up.
If you can hear, smell, taste, see or feel something you are conscious.

The only reason this is not obvious, is because your mind is between you and everything you can get through your senses.

To be developped.

He calls memories an illusion, but he doesn't realize that appearance to awareness itself is an illusion.

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Things you get through your life senses are reality, that which is, everything else are illusions.
If you smell something or feel the heat of the sun on you for exemple, it is reality.
In other words, if you are aware of life coming to you through your senses, it is not an appearance or an illusion, it is that which is.

This post was edited by Eti_fr on Apr 24 2013 05:32pm

You're doing what most people do when they refer to objective reality versus subjective reality. You give objective reality an inherent existence, and then that creates the other side of reality to be a nothingness, specifically subjective reality. In Buddhist philosophy, at least Nyingma, they say that reality itself is a mixture of spontaneous presence and primordial purity, which means that reality is simultaneously an appearance through awareness (spontaneous presence), and an ultimate negation of reality through emptiness (primordial purity). In other words, we see a tree but we know the tree itself is not the way it appears to us and depends upon our own conceptual constructs and senses that give us a general idea of what a tree is, and that tree could be perceived completely differently, which, ipso facto, would prove that emptiness of the tree means that it is essentially a blank presence, a spontaneously appearing emptiness.