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That's awesome @cetus56 Thanks for sharing it... I like a lot another talk by Alan Watts that is really similar to this one.

Thanks @Muwuwei90 what you say makes a lot of sense. I was never convinced about the use of psychedelics.

Nice! Thanks for sharing @Applejuice

Oh, Ok... it is in Netflix, it explain that too... it's interesting to watch. I thought that maybe you saw it there. hehehe... just guessing. One thing that I understood about the particle thing, that it appears and disappears in different places (like time travel). What I understood is that the particle is in every posible position potentially, until is observed. There's a mathematical formula where you can "predict" the position called "Heisenberg's uncertainty principle". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle

Crazy, right? hehehe

Did you watch "What the Bleep do we know?"

That's why "thought" cannot touch it. We can't make images or mathematical representations, but we can't know the real thing with reasoning, logic or thoughts.

That's awesome. Niels Bohr always say that talking about "atoms" make no sense.

You are very welcome. If it is hard for you (as it still is for me) to deconstruct the belief about matter being real, watch more stuff about quantum physics, Leo's videos about that are really good. And read about Niels Bohr. He actually said (and he was a hardcore scientist) in fact, he had to admit about matter this: "Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real." Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/niels_bohr

hahaha...

Yeah, it is... I think the oxymoron begins when someone believes that there's something called matter, Lol...

This is still a materialistic approach, but maybe it can help to "see" that there's only consciousness... Probably this could be a first step to understand reality is an hallucination from the materialistic pov. But then you will see that the brain that is supposedly creating that hallucination, is also made of the same "matter" as that hallucination. So, it is basically hallucinating itself, like a strange loop as Leo said in his video about strange loops.

Don't talk to them the truth. Continue acting and observing you, how do you react but keep it for you. The truth is so harsh for them to accept it that they will isolate you. You can be with them without having to share anything. You don't need to share, only to those who you feel can be open to the truth or that they ask you about it. Remember what Jesus said: "Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces."

Let's do it like the sermon on the mount. Lol... Leo just go to a mount, and he talks there to everyone who is there to listen to him.

The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain. Buddha

NYC is better for that.

Bye, hope to read you again soon when you are enlightened

You are welcome!

Thanks for sharing Zoey, I found these ones some time ago... http://ashidakim.com/zenkoans/zenindex.html

hehehe...

What happens is that the ego always want something. But, if you want it, is because you don't have it. So... the ego says "I will get it in the future". When it gets it, it's disappointing. It's not what he expected, because in the imagination the ego created and idea of what that will be and is never close to what is in reality. So, he begin to search more, and to seek... and is never whole, never complete. Is always searching for a new thing. And that's what happens with enlightenment, he converts it in an object that you can have in time. And that is preventing you to see that you are NOW reality. You are NOW whole, and complete.

Yes, very close. Good! :-)