Hobbes' Choice wrote: ↑Fri Sep 01, 2017 10:47 pm
"Reality itself" - a completely absurd notion. It does not and cannot be conceived. Our perceptions have to be partial.
Pointing to the unknown using known concepts is an absurd notion. So the notion of ''Reality itself'' is a conception conceived in the act of perceiving as a perceived perception...aka conceived aka become known as a concept.
That which is perceived, is conceived in the same instant in the immediate unborn unknown now, however, what is known now is already in past tense, in a memory...because there is no gap between a now and another now for a ''knower'' to make the claim ''I am the KNOWER'',
....all actions in reality are seamless without beginning nor end. Beginnings and endings are CONCEPTS KNOWN...AKA reactions after the event, reflections.
HERENOW / NOWHERE there is no room for A perceiver to perceive itself directly in the instant, it can only reflect upon itself as past tense, in a dead memory, and is why I often use the terminology ...''welcome to the zombie jamboree'' ... which I find quite amusing, IT'S the cosmic joke the sages speak of, but not all egos find that funny.
Relatively speaking, all known things are integral parts of the whole that cannot be divided, known by the only knowing there is, which is consciousness. Consciousness can never be known or divided, only the mind is born not you. The mind is thought, and thought divides, albeit illusory.
To solve the mystery of reality one would have to step outside of their consciousness to stand apart, and no one has so far pulled off that trick.
That there are parts is the illusion, parts are concepts,or thought things which appear to divide and separate. In reality no such reality exists. Take away all concepts and thought, and what's left is absolute reality.
Any relative notion in regard to the absolute is the absurd.
The Absolute is the only reality, and it's here right now, nowhere.
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Hobbes' Choice wrote: ↑Fri Sep 01, 2017 10:47 pmWhat do you mean "that which knows the known is an unsolvable mystery.'
Same answer I've given above, also applies to this query.
It's a divine mystery how a phantom can apparently be a knower of a reality where the phantom appears to know it is alive, that is indeed the most powerful unsolvable mystery known to man.
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Something here would have to be separately apart from the whole to be able to look and examine itself in order to solve that mystery.
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It's the mystery that keeps life exciting,ever fresh and brand spanking new in every moment. If life was no mystery anymore, it would be game over, there would be no more incentive to even bother getting out of bed in the morning, and unfortunately, there are many of us who already feel just like that, there are some people who have no incentive to live, and the reason for this is because they have all their life habitually lived off of other peoples old and worn out ideas that have been passed on to them from one generation to the next, and these ideas have stuck so passionately that the thought that they could have one original thought of their own doesn't even register with them. They are so far stuck in their own dug out grooves they seem unable to get out.
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