Mason Riggle

@Barna ? "I have no other self than the totality of that which I am aware." - Alan Watts What is mistaken to be the experiencer of experience, is just more experience.

@Barna there is no 'the will'.. there is just 'what will'. I am cautiously curious about what will.. what will happen next? What will you say next? What will I think next? I have no idea until it happens... oh how exciting!

It's Always Now. The Truth (It) is Eternally (Always) this Moment (Now). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "It is always now. However much you feel you may need to plan for the future, to anticipate it, to mitigate risks, the reality of it is now. Now, this may sound trite, but it's the truth. It's not quite true as a matter of physics, in fact, there is no "now" when it comes to the entire universe… You can't talk of an event occurring simultaneously occurring here and at the same moment occurring in Andromeda. The truth is, "now" is not even well defined as a matter of neurology. Because we know that inputs to the brain come at different moments and that consciousness is built upon layers of inputs… whose timings have to be different. Our conscious awareness of the present moment is in some relevant sense already a memory. But as a matter of conscious experience, the reality of your life is always now. I think this is a liberating truth about the nature of the human mind. In fact, I think there is probably nothing more important to understand about your mind than that if you want to be happy in this world. The past is a memory. It's a thought arising in the present. The future is merely anticipated. It is another thought arising now. What we truly have is this moment. And this. And this…" - Sam Harris

"Gratitude is what makes what you have enough." ?

How much more 'free' can it get than to realize there's nothing to do? ? There's nothing for me to do.. ahhh liberation!!

What is mistaken to be the experiencer of experience is just more experience. What is mistaken to be the doer of what's being done is just more of what is already happening What is mistaken to be the thinker of thoughts is just more thought occurring now.

There once was a boy who said though, it seems that I know that I know, but what I'd like to see, is the I who knows me, when I know that I know that I know. -Alan Watts The experience of 'an experiencer' separate from the experience is just more experience, which is all there is.

@Eren Eeager great question. what do you mean by 'if it wants to?' well.. what if it doesn't want to? Who, or what, decides what 'it' wants? I think what we find when we contemplate these questions, is that Reality is Always how it Loves to be, the same way lightning always travels in the path of least resistance.. that's the way lightning ''wants' to go. When we use language like 'can if'.. it implies choice, but this is an illusion caused by language.. 'if it wants to' creates a duality between 'it' and 'what it wants', creating the illusion of 'choice'... creating the illusion of separate 'doer' of 'what's being done'. This is a limit of language. Consider... right now it seems that there are infinite things I could think about.. but the reality is, I can only think that which occurs for me to think. It doesn't really make sense to say, 'I am free to think anything I want'. It's more accurate to say, 'I can only think what I want to think, and nothing else'. This is how people make the leap from 'I suffer from thinking reality could/should be different than how it is' to 'I accept that reality is how it is, because it couldn't be any other way.' Reality must exist exactly how it LOVES to exist, otherwise it would exist some other way than it does.

@Breakingthewall just to expand on what you said, 'reality is real'.. yes, and circles are circular... but notice that 'circles' are, by definition, 'circular'. 'Reality' is, by definition, 'real', even if 'what reality is' is 'imaginary', it would still 'really' be imaginary. One can't escape 'the 'realness' of 'reality' by showing it to be 'illusion' or 'imaginary'. This is why I often ask, 'Is this forum real, or does it just seem real?' This honest answer to this question is, "it doesn't matter" or "there is no difference if I can't tell the difference"... or simply, "'real' and 'seeming to be real'(imaginary) are the same thing." This is a problem for logic and language, and we end up with people saying contradictory sounding things like 'reality is imaginary', to which some people will say, "of course! Real and imaginary are the same thing!" and others will say, "that makes no sense, because 'real' can not mean 'not real'." and here we go round and round..

@Flim let me put it this way.. Does it make a difference which it is?

Does it matter which it is?

Does it seem like there is stuff going on outside your perspective? Like, does it seem like there's a me, with internal thoughts, talking to you? My point is, it doesn't matter whether or not there actually is a me, with internal thoughts, that you are not aware of.. as long as it seems like there is. Either there's just your perspective, in which is seems like there are other perspectives, or there are actually other perspectives. If you can't tell which it is (which you can't) then it doesn't matter which it is. Does this forum exist anywhere when you're aware of it? It doesn't matter, you see?

@Javfly33 really stubborn, or imaginarily stubborn?

That's what I said. Imaginarily Real. Really Imaginary.

That's what I said.. Imaginarily real.

Saying reality is 'imaginary/real' makes more sense than thinking some imaginary person is 'really confused'. (an imaginary person could be imaginarily confused, or a real person can be really confused). That's like suggesting a person in my dream is having strange thoughts. "I know [Adeptus] is just a character in my dream, but he is really thinking some strange thoughts, and I should convince other characters in my dream of this".

@Inliytened1 if a difference doesn't 'matter'.. then what difference does it make?

because I'm a 'materialist/idealist'... I have no qualms about suggesting that reality is imaginary... and it's imaginarily real.

@Inliytened1 doesn't matter.. Is this forum real, or does it just seem that way? It doesn't matter, you see?

@Carl-Richard what's the difference between something 'actually being material' (substance) and something 'appearing to be material'(appearance)? I'm conflating the two, because there is no difference.

What is a 'materialist' to someone who is not a 'materialist'?

@Inliytened1 who, exactly, must discover that physical reality exists within Consciousness and there is noting independent of Mind? Some physical organism called Adeptus? If you think this, isn't it you who must discover that there is nothing independent of Mind? That there is no independent 'Adeptus' who must discover anything??

@Inliytened1 not exactly 'conflating' the two, but transcending the duality of 'the separation between 'absolute' and 'relative'.

"There is no doubt whatsoever that the universe is the merest illusion." - said the illusion to itself, confidently.

@Carl-Richard is 'seeming real' (immaterial dream of forms) different from being real (material)? If so, how?