bahman wrote: ↑Sat May 09, 2020 7:51 pm
I don't want to repeat myself but you need to explain these things as well to explain the reality as it is, memory, experience (what do you stress), decision, causation, and thinking (the process of what you perceive). I said that I experience the self once. Your system of belief lacks these things.
What I am trying to communicate is not a belief system that has conceptual answers for imaginary (purely thought based) things.
But, you like explanations, so here we go:
Reality: Look, hear, smell, taste, feel - minus what you think you see, hear, smell, taste, feel - this is reality.
Memory: A conceptual thought appearing now referencing an - apparently - previously formed concept (or experience)
Direct experience = Reality
Decision: A conceptual thought appearing now referencing an - apparent - choice between different options (which are again only concepts)
Causation: : A conceptual thought appearing now referencing an - apparent - cause (which is again only a concept) for a thought or experience
(Process of) Thinking: A conceptual definition/theory for thoughts appearing now attempting to link them into a "logical chain" of thought (which is again only a concept)
Yes, you said you experienced the "self" once.
I say that I experience it all the time - why?
Because there is only the self (as the self is nothing but reality itself - minus all the ideas and theories you might have about it).
As such I don't need a theory about the self, about reality, as it is perfectly clear and obvious here and now - and every theory you might have only veils it, it hides it behind a curtain of concepts. Now you can add more and more conceptual layers and explain stuff that is purely imaginary or you can look and see.
To thought this might sound absurd - and if you live in thought-world, actually applying this way of being might be the end of "you", but this "end" is actually the place where real life - life in and as reality - starts.