Yin Ling lol don't tell u.

It can be fragrance from another world, can be rainbows of colours, can be continuous mint like soothing sensations throughout ur body, can be dreams of clarity...but the experiences are quite tangible...means not day dreaming type...but my purpose of writing this is to also hear from others having similar experiences.

John Tan oooo I see, those are auspicious signs!

Yin Ling Ur body is very important. As u wrote, "ur body is ur mind" is a crucial insight, treasure it.

John Tan oh ok! Yes I experience a lot of energy imbalance and using the body as a gateway to balance it is the only way I know

Yin Ling u over focused. Take less inflammatory diet also.

John Tan ok. Gonna google what is less inflammatory diet. Haha.

Yin Ling usually those that your mother and grandmother say are 热气 those are inflammatory

John Tan the only two times i experienced fragrance from another world i believe it is a sign from buddha/bodhisattvas (once when i first did garab dorje dzogchen/ati guru yoga in 2012, and another time when tara appeared to me and informed my wish was granted and i found out its true the next morning)

Soh Wei Yu haha...try to eliminate those religious descriptions. Focus on more tangible stuff and how they trigger further insights.

Soh Wei Yu oh wow. I always suspect there’s some truth in it but never heed any advice.

John Tan spontaneous love arising in every cell every moment and breathe as Grace. All as mind flowering into to all as heart.

John Tan thank you. Meditating over here looking at the ocean and the body is feeling far too holographic. Note to self don’t have pork or caffeine on solo meditation retreats

Mr. RB lol. Have enough and rest, don't over focused and result in energy imablance. Be natural and light.

John Tan note taken on not over focusing lol only relaxation from this point onward

Mr. RB but balance and don't laze.

John Tan hahahahaha

John Tan, I imagine you meant to write "When mind is *free* from any dualistic sense of perceiver and perceived.

Joel Agee yes. Corrected and thks!

My experience is the encounter of 'space'. There can never be a time when space was not there (here). It is the natural, unborn, non-caused, natural presence that can not be absent. Though without marks it can not be said to be absent. How could space be absent? How could natural, original, absence of everything ever not be? How could it said to be if it is the absence of all qualities? The natural effortless nature of existence, just as it is, in whatever mode could that be.

Geovani Geo It means absence of the notion of "things" in what appears, like "no-seeing" or "not seeing anything". A way of expressing that one has exhausted the conceptual notions mind and phenomena. Like when all is/are mind, then the notion of mind must also be exhausted in actual experience.

Then, someone may ask: "and what about seeming phenomena? How can 'space', as total absence of things, create them?"

Geovani Geo I think dzogchen termed it "non existence apparent appearances". I just called it "pure appearances". Gelug called "phenomena" without superimposing "inherentness" as "mere existence" however "mere existence" includes both "conceptual" and "non-conceptual".

Lol! Yes! Spiritual and other profound Experiences

Jackson, could be stated that way. But I would not use the term background for it may suggest that its some foreground stating it.

But then.... of course.... no term is adequate.

Any affirmation or to fierce attempt of definition will lead to 'something' that is, more or less subtly, conceptual that then will need some effort to 'get there'. OTOH, when someone says that absolute emptiness is one with awareness, it is pointing to the fact that all and any conceptual mind striving game is totally unnecessary for 'absence' can not fail to be the case, just like the obviousness of conventional space in the material world. Just some thoughts...

And... I would like that my words would be understood as a mutual harmonious investigation and not some words of truth.

Geovani Geo well the foreground is like an outward extension from the background.

Geovani Geo there are no seekers..

less inflammatory diet please ? What do you eat?

Elena Nezhinsky I think it depends on individual. For my body - oat, kiwi, blue berry, tomatoes in the morning, afternoon anything, night porridge, fish, vegetables (70% full).

John Tan you eat 2 times a day 70% full? I need to do 70% full, its a good practice of no-greed

lol of that nondual robot above, I didn't see him long time!

can I ask why the diet to be inflammatory?

Matt Joe Garrett because if you eat in a way that food creates inflammation in the body, you end up sick and no amount of meditation will do, unless you specifically want to be sick and be ok with it - whatever works for spirit to evolve, its individual as John said above