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The absolute can't be experienced, that's just a belief system. It's not an experience. You're IT. But one must use language to communicate despite its limitations. Then why do you keep agreeing with DAM (in case you aren't DAM's alt nick), who keeps talking about hallucinations, projections, dream...

Is it impossible to celebrate your competence, ingenuity, perseverance and hard work, without the extreme of calling it "greatness"? Or, it might lead to the courage to try something more difficult. It's good to give credit to others, and luck; it's fine not to talk about your own merit; ...

Atla wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2019 10:41 am

Ramu wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2019 10:28 am nonduality is not a belief system...its all based on direct experience of the absolute..

The absolute can't be experienced, that's just a belief system.

It's not an experience. You're IT. But one must use language to communicate despite its limitations.

Life is a self sustaining reciprocal infinite feedback loop. Birth and Death are Illusions they are conceptual appearances and disappearances and reappearances of infinity. In illusion, life may be long or short or neither. In reality life is endless and beginningless. Birth and Death are just the ...

Ramu, I can understand that point of view. I have read better explanations of it; better because they employ more creative vocabularies. Isn't there an Eastern term for what you call consciousness. Or may be some poetry or a picture? Other terms are Source, God, Being, True Self, Brahman, The Absol...

Ramu wrote: You can't go further back than Consciousness as it is First Order. Everything else..(something) is all occurring within Consciousness. This is not what 'consciousness' means to me and others. It would be better for explaining your theory if you were to use the same lexicon as others. Ul...

Ramu wrote: You can't go further back than Consciousness as it is First Order. Everything else..(something) is all occurring within Consciousness. This is not what 'consciousness' means to me and others. It would be better for explaining your theory if you were to use the same lexicon as others. Ul...

Roydop wrote: ---- pure Awareness, Can "pure Awareness " occur only during wakefulness, or also during dreams, or drowsiness? Can it happen during episodes of depression? Can pure Awareness be induced by mind-altering drugs? Is experience of pure Awareness evidence of a supernatural form ...

Stop making up all these characters in your mind weirdo...awareness does not need a character to be what it is ..it just is. If you insist on inventing a character ..then ask your own imaginary friend for the answers...I’m sure they won’t be able to help you either. Who are you talking to? Who ever...

Lacewing wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2019 5:26 pm

Ramu wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2019 3:12 pm There is absolutely no reason for rudeness on this forum.

But your dishonesty and noise are reasonable?

What noise and dishonesty?

It's not a big deal that you don't understand nonduality.

There is only ever self speaking to itself. If that were true, then I could ask you to shut the fuck up with all the noise you create, and you would do so. :lol: There is absolutely no reason for rudeness on this forum. This is a forum for the discussion of philosophy, not a place to duke it out wi...

So is it true to say : I am not conscious but a manifestation of consciousness ? As the body / mind that is me is an illusion as only consciousness itself is real I only think I am real because the illusion is so powerful it can be hard to deny This may very well be true but as I said before it is ...

I think that I need more time to become familiar with the concept of consciousness and what it really is But I am becoming more detached over time which is compatible with the notion of all reality as illusion Consciousness, the very thing you are can be thought of as the Empty Container. Take a lo...

I know this is a basic question! But why our we here, most people go through there lives not questioning the reason why? People like us have ideas, views an urge to understand what this is all about? Do you think we are ever going to find the answer? Because formless Source as infinity wanted to ex...

Listen, you are the one that says consciousness is an emergent of the brain, so what are we talking about now? the brain or consciousness? If I hit you over the head with a baseball bat you will become unconscious. So I reasonably suspect your consciousness and your brain are interlinked... Of cour...