Galyna

Imaginary ofc, it is a projection of your mind.

Also, there should be certain rules, code of how reality words to be plausible for the perceiver, so we do not want to dismiss science with its 0 and 1 binaries. When in matrix, we should follow the lows of matrix, right? Here I am rather playing approach, not ofc buying into the matrix, always remembering the illusion. Out of fear, because if your ego wants to preserve itself, it won't be ruining this little house of cards where it stays. So it creates the web of beliefs and holds on to them, pure survival... Consciousness evolves in its experience by pretending a little separate self that experiences "my" being now.

It is your mind. Mind is the awareness of the current experience, call it present moment, which includes the following elements: feelings, thoughts and perceptions. Mind is a quality of consciousness, consciousness comes prior to anything...prior to mind.

Thanks I just got another realization: nothing hides behind perception, LOL when there is no perception, there isn't such thing as "something or nothing".

Why do you think that nothingness is just a void, or a pure black space with nothing in there? This is how a human being imagines “nothing”. This is not the case. Notice, it’s still something. You are not a human being; this is how it your “understanding” starts. I will use the language here just to explain the concept. However, you cannot fathom it by the means of language. When the observer takes a back seat in consciousness, and just observes the reality, the self of sense drowns in void, disappears. Try not to put labels and describe what you see. Language is not needed. What you will discover soon is that the stencil, or what you call individualized personality, will cease to exist. When there is no self, there is no one to register the reality. That’s a key moment. There is no cognition and description of what you see, smell, or hear. You do not need to close your eyes to think yourself out of reality, you actually do not even need to meditate for this. All you need to do is to stop naming the objects and phenomena you see, stop creating the meaning of the experience. When this happens, experience is still there without the description, but at the same time it is not there either. So, we cannot call it “experience”. However, when there is no observer, you cannot register the reality. Drop the observer that your mind creates to lurk you into so-called Enlightenment! This is a trick it plays with itself to never let "you" go. This is how the illusion (maya) of the solid world has been creating “you” for a long time. It’s been creating “you” through the stencil of the perceiver and the perception. By returning back into the seat of consciousness, when you drop all the notions, language, descriptions, you are disappearing. You do not need to close your eyes for this to happen, because even with the eyes closed, you mind still separates and divides between inner and outer, thoughts and void, cognition, feelings, and emotions. “You” are still there! Don’t stop your thought process, no need even for that, let it be there. You do not know yet the true meaning behind the objects that you see. You really do not know who you are, everything that you know comes from language (reasoning, prior knowledge, and beliefs). What if you do not have language, are you still your body or the holistic experience? Are you still separating and dividing between “mine” and “not mine”? No, when you drop the language and knowledge, all you’ll get left with is a holistic experience, One, picture that contains everything, and your body is just another object on that canvas. You are not in your body. By slowly putting your attention back on awareness, by dropping even that!!! you begin to experience nothingness. Who said that nothing is empty? Actually, nothingness can contain all the elements of perceptions: sound and color, tactile senses. This is how illusion has been created, illusion that there is something there, when in fact there is not. You are walking on the bridge between dualities without realizing that wholeness is couched within nothingness, and nothingness contains and gives birth to everything. How? By giving experience some description. It is very simple, by reasoning… It does not mean that everything appears into Being from void, it’s already there: nothing and everything, non-dual infinite potential. What it means that by changing the perception, you can realize, but only post factum, that everything is nothing. It only appears as is colors, sounds, senses, but everything is nothing in its core, and vice versa. When you drop the stencil of the perceiver and start having the experience of Being/Totality, without any cognition and linguistic recognitions. Who is there to acknowledge the factuality? Nobody right, nobody could say there is a tree, because “you” as the perceiver is NOT there. What is there then? It cannot be communicated, that is the trick… Does it mean that the light was off, and everything zoomed in into the black dot? No. We do not need to switch the light off for existence to become nothing. All you need to do is to “think your way out” of existence as a human being. When there is no you, there is no world. Because “world” is just the linguistic description of your mind. There is no such thing as world, it is all mental construct for you to see the plausible reality. Once you break the meaning of everything, and drop all the notions, reality as know you, will cease to exist because you will take your illusory self out of the equation. Death is not real; this is literally how you die. Time only exists as a descriptive mechanism to make sense of the continuum from moment to moment, or a motion. Again, when you do not describe the motion, you do not have time. Contraction and dilation of time only happens in your mind. Hope the reader will understand my point. Thanks for your time and attention.

@PepperBlossoms Nice post, thank you But at the end, there are infinite numbers of variations to explain reality, never ending story, and more fuel for the mind. Theories collapse immediately when we are leaving the paradigm of the conceptual reasoning and are left "naked", drowning in the raw experience of unknown.

Notice, how thoughts about "others" have been created. "Others" is just a thought. No thought- no "others"! Right? There is no such thing as "you" and there is no such thing as "other" people. You are not a human being, you are an idea, you are a thought with perceptions and feelings. "Your" mind, full of thoughts, creates another thought which is called "other" people. What is mind? Mind is the awareness of the current experience, call it present moment, which includes the following elements: feelings, thoughts and perceptions. Mind is a quality of consciousness, consciousness comes prior to anything...prior to mind.

?lol, absolutely….

@PepperBlossoms remove all the adverbs and “you “ are good to go ?.

Got you, I thought you meant the other evolution. Great point. Totally agree!

This guy is a not apart from you.

But if you are totally honest with yourself, you do not have evidence of this? Evolution? What is evolution rather than just a story, bunch of thoughts in your mind. You truly do not know where the logic comes from, what you saying is something you have heard, it doesn't come from your direct experience. So we cannot lean on the past, lets talk about something closer, like something we can figure out right now.

Remembering those times when I was a student and seeing that commercials for NLP in the Kharkov subway, even went to their center of Ron Hubbard to study Dianetics ("Dianetics, from Greek dia, meaning "through", and nous, meaning "mind", is a set of ideas and practices regarding the metaphysical relationship between the mind and body created by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard. Dianetics is practiced by followers of Scientology and the Nation of Islam (as of 2010). by wiki". My opinion: this stuff really works while you are believing that you are a human being with the free will and so on and so forth. Remember when living in matrix, matrix's rules can be applied and executed. Once you drop the notion of being a human, you see the "real deal", LOL. But if it helps while in the game being a hero, why not using it? You can always walk on the bridge between duality and non-duality. Play with it. It is totally up to you, (if being aware enough,) when to fall back asleep or when to wake up.

Absolutely agree, everything is factual, no layers....

....and even that is nothing just Awareness, without "you"....

Thanks, I agree Notice please that nothingness is not real "thing", and is only a concept, polarity that minds create to oppose to something.

This is not what I was trying to convey. Then what is it? Does it come prior?

Thinking is just an appearance, perception of thoughts in your mind, what is the thought? - Language or a certain image. What is the language, a sound prescribed to an object, or a vibration? What is an imagine which appears in your mind as a thought? Visual memory that you mind reproduces. Thoughts come out of nowhere, there is no source that produces them. It is just an inner perception of the reality with your mind, something you cant see. What it sees outside, same is reflected inside. Bear in mind, that everything happens within the Consciousness.

@Bruins8000 Real deal: life appeared as it has happened, but "in reality" life has never happened, therefore it is nothing, appears as something. But it is an illusion. Time is a construct of your mind.

This is not what non-duality means. Non-duality, non-dual, not two, in other words, there is no subject and object, all is one, non-duality is when in experience there is no separation between two opposites, for instance: me and the other. You are confusing non-duality with something else. Dream paradigm: real vs. illusory for ex. when describing the nature of reality.

I think you are idealizing awakening. First off, is there "your deal"? Hm...very interesting, looks like a free will to me. Second of all, should it be a certain script of the process, if yes, who determines that? Infinite potential realizes itself as is right now. Since it is infinite, who says that one facet of it is more correct/truthful than the other?

The nature of the mind is to reason, contemplate and reflect. This is how mind produces the food for "your" survival, to sustain itself. Time and length of the process is needed to keep the ego on the journey. Would it be interesting for the highest good to hide itself and immediately be discovered? Confusion is there for a purpose. Experience is slowly unfolding, each confusion and realization/insight leads to another door and deepens the experience of the Being. You are in the maze. That is the point, to confuse you. Reality gives you exactly what you believe in it. It is a two-way street. Remember how the photons of light were changing their qualities when being observed? The observer and the observation are one, they depend and impact one another. You get exactly what you put in.

Yes, it is just a game, and a word game also.... We cannot go there with language, there is a huge stop sign and you'll have to leave everything behind. The trick is you have to leave yourself! The Truth cannot be communicated, I realize it. Thank you, my friend!

yep, I agree, too lengthy. I need to delete some sentences. People won't read such a long text. But it is hard to do, LOL...it is my creation. "Brevity is the soul of wit" - W.S.

Isn't what I am saying here: What it means that by changing the perception, you can realize, but only post factum, that everything is nothing. It only appears as is colors, sounds, senses, but everything is nothing in its core, and vice versa. ???? Somehow we need to use the language to contrast between two notions.