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It’s true that there is only one “I”, there is no other, but, the actual “I” or awareness, can merge, or can remain attached to its contents. For that reason, this affects awareness’s own understanding of itself, or in other words, it’s identity. But identity is like a tree like structure in the min...

henry quirk wrote: ↑Fri Oct 16, 2020 3:51 pm

AlexW wrote: ↑Fri Oct 16, 2020 4:25 am

Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Fri Oct 16, 2020 3:52 am
First round on me.

Now you're talking

g & t, bit of lime: I'm good to go

or beer...lots of beer

let's go, gentlemen

Well that’s one way to lose your self

Everything is not all in our Heads. Our Brain/Mind creates the reality that we Experience out of Surrogate materials of Mind Stuff, so we can Detect the External World. Maybe I missed something, but do you deny the existence of an external Physical World? This is how the higher function of the orga...

I can see language is very important to you, Well, only here, because it's the only way you and I can share ideas at the moment. It's really all we have. ...but you seem to think that the logic of language defines the reality of the brain and human existence. No, I don't think that. But I do think ...

Is it a thinking thing, or, do thoughts happen in it? "In" what? :shock: What is this "it" of which you speak? "It" must be a thing, because "it" is grammatically just a pronoun, and every pronoun holds the place of a particular proper noun. What's the proper noun you mean when you say "it"? You se...

I expect you mean deep dreamless sleep. Some dreams contain self awareness, some don't. There is no self in a dream. The self arises as a conceptual idea, which is emptiness appearing full. . I understand Dimebag's description of the self without ego self. Once, briefly, I lost my ego self and foun...

Skepdick wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2020 8:01 am

Dimebag wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2020 5:42 am Where you look from IS what you are, awareness, everything else plays on its surface.

There are many things which are awareness that are not me, therefore I am not awareness.

I don't know what I am. I only know that I am.

Maybe, but do they appear IN awareness?

As I see it, the only thing one cannot doubt is that there is "something" rather than "nothing" - doubt can only arise once one attempts to describe and interpret what this "something" actually is. Well, for certain, you know it has to be a thinking "something." It has to be a conscious entity. If ...

As DAM mentioned, in Indian spiritual traditions, there is still the belief in a “higher self”, the true self, or pure awareness. And this can still be conceived as an I. It is an experiencing I, but not a thought based I. It is impersonal, meaning it is not the source of likes, dislikes, or problem...

Here is a simple introspective experiment. Perform some simple task, like picking up a cup, or something banal and easy like that. Now, after you do that, reflect back on the experience, and see if you can remember doing it, or whether it felt like you almost disappeared? This for me has that sense,...

So just to sum up, IC, you seem to feel there is some definite internal essence or subject to which experiences occur, and that accounts for the sense of a self? Sorry, DB...I didn't see your question, because you didn't happen to use the quote feature. Yes. It's inescapable. One cannot say, "There...

I am my Experiences. This might be all I am. But Experiences might encompass more than we usually think they do. So what do you think experiences them? Or do experiences inherently contain the “experiencer” within them in your view? Do you think there is somewhere it “all comes together”? I know yo...

"Be observed "is grammatically in the passive voice" It does not specify any observer, nor exclude any. "The observer" is the subject of the sentence, but not the doer of the action, therefore. There is no reason why a second observer cannot observe he first observer. That would be the observer als...

So just to sum up, IC, you seem to feel there is some definite internal essence or subject to which experiences occur, and that accounts for the sense of a self?

You seem to be inquiring as to the purpose of all this. The closest I can come to answering this is: This realm is a Divine game, with the goal being to escape the game. Like entering a labyrinth. I'm here to help consciousness escape the game, not to engage in philosophical debates, as thought is ...