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Language is an expression of human expression. Language is the expression's self-awareness. Looking for language in expression is like looking for 'I' in yourself.

A child becomes an adult by being taught that it musn't be unruly. An adult becomes a seeker by telling himself that his mind musn't be unruly. One cannot rid oneself of unruliness. Ones unruliness is necessarily unruly. It does not submit to anything. It gets to play whether you like it, or not. Reconciliation is the path to transcendence. One can only solve himself by solving all problems. By seeing that having problems is not a problem. It's play.

I was raised as an Atheist and I always asked various religious people these questions: Why are you so sure that your God is the correct God? What God would you believe in if you were born in the rain forest? What if each time that you pray to the wrong God, you make the true God madder and madder at you? At one point I realized that this advice may be applied to my atheistic upbringing and I started to question it as well. This insight is what led me into spirituality. I hope that this perspective will calm your mind @Cara. There is no need to fear hell. Fear itself is hell.

Enlightenment is... I don't know. I am... I don't know. Since there is only one 'I don't know', then perhaps I am enlightened? ?

Not trying to claim that I know high level spiritual truths, but I have something to add. Humans are the environment that they destroy. Humans are the planet. Our destruction of the planet is the result of our never-ending drive to solve problems. To see the problem in the destruction of the environment is a manifestation of our excessive need for solving problems. Nobody has ever solved a single problem. We have only renamed them, or hid them from ourselves.

When I saw that there is no meaning whatsoever I saw that having meaning is meaningless. It came to me that the only thing worth doing with your spare time is to meditate. So I did. I grew like a tree. A tree has no problems to solve. When you have no problems, a mind that seeks problems is a problem. The world without problems is meaningless. The meaningless world has no problems.

Death is the only solution to life. It is true. What is questionably true is whether life needs solving. Trees need no meaning to live. Trees have no problems to solve. You have gathered momentum throughout your whole life by trying to solve things. Now, no things need solving and yet - you keep on going. You look for a solution for having no problems. When everything is truly meaningless, stopping yourself is meaningless as well. Just keep going. There is no reason to stop and there is no reason to go. Do you need a reason to enjoy life? Do you need a reason to dance? What is the reason for having a reason?

You're welcome friend. It's okay to blow up. It's okay to break down. It's okay to feel lost. It's okay to feel. It's okay.

There's nothing to handle. It's okay. The moment that you think that something is true is the moment that you've missed that you assumed a perspective. A no-perspective perspective has nothing to ask and nothing to share. There is nothing wrong in assuming perspective. There is nothing wrong in abandoning it. Your perspective was right at the moment you assumed it. It still is, but you chose to abandon it and became a different person. I really enjoy your threads, Markus.

One eye open. One eye closed. Both watchful.

If you do not embrace the dark side, it will embrace itself without your conscious attention. When you identify as 'good', the other is identified as 'evil'. The good always do evil to combat evil in a way that seems good to them. Thieves steal to feed their families, policemen shoots to subdue an uncooperative suspect. The only problem of being good and evil at once is that there is no rule set to 'solve' life. Some people cannot handle it. It seems to them that it is impossible to make a decision. It is, and it is the point. You are not making decisions, but self-evaluating and rationalizing your behavior. You are necessarily ambivalent in nature. Just like a tiger, a monkey, or a blade of grass.

Placebo effect is when a mystical solution solves a physiological problem. Your question suggests that you treat meditation as a physiological solution to a mystical problem. If one solves the other, then what is the difference between those two domains?

Giving up control is not limited to relationships. Give up control of your emotions as well. Give up control of giving up control.

What is thought?

@Faceless What is the relationship between thought and memory? I was counting on your explanation, as you always seem to be talking about thought .

Farewell!

@Monkey-manYour post is very interesting and I will address it later on today.

That is only through the contemplative perspective. As you go through your daily life, these are mixed and intertwined with each other. A physical pen relates to a physical piece of paper. You don't even have to notice the pen and think of a piece of paper. All you can think of is the text you want to write, and yet - these things come together without your attention. You don't even have to think about the answer, but about the question and the answer comes to you by itself. These references are not meaningless in the sense of being unimportant. They are meaningless in the sense of being arbitrary. That you can link them in various configurations. They are however most of the time emotional in the sense that they 'suck you in' - just like a good movie. Is this Maya?

@cirkussmile I can relate to this. Thoughts are not an esoteric otherworldly, immaterial phenomena. A material, physical stone is a thought. You can silence the chatter of the mind and it is still obvious that a stone is a stone. There is no need for a thought-word 'stone' so that you can recognize the stone. @Maycol Damn, aren't you a quick learner?

I'm not looking for my answer in your answers. I'm looking at my answer in your answers.

Sure it can. Just look at all of the answers in this thread. They all are different shapes that can be cut out of a knife. They are all true. Even your answer is a knife cutting itself by not cutting itself.

Have you ever tried answering questions by asking questions?

The conclusion is that the premise can necessarily never be clear. The premise can only be clear by inattention to details. By not looking anymore. The moment that something is clear is the moment that you start to solve the problem that you created yourself. Even if a person comes to you for solutions, you can only solve problems of your own mind. Your understanding of their problem. The same reasoning applies to the problem of hierarchy of people. You can only assess worth of your understanding of other person. By saying that you are better than him, you are saying that you are better than your understanding of him. Saying that is to say that you are better than yourself, as you are your understanding of others.

Try doing it in the opposite way. Given your understanding of yourself, try to explain to yourself why ordinary people are that way. If this explanation says that they are better/worse than you - you have the root cause of your fear of rejection. You have to find an explanation that does not rank you in any way. That any differences come with both pros and cons that balance each other evenly. This is when you will be able to speak to other people about your experience freely. If you feel better than them, you will seek rejection in their reactions.

Sanity is a social construct that measures two things: your ability to express your experience to everyday people everyday people's ability to relate to your experience There is no way for you to trust that you are sane, as that requires input from others. You can work on your ability to communicate your experience, so that your questionable sanity becomes normal.