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@DaHonorableCourt Well said

Ask yourself, who is responsible for the overall quality of your life?

From the absolute perspective there is only you, because you are one singular consciousness through which finite minds are viewed. Leo always talks in the absolute perspective when it comes to this, so it is very easy to see it as plain solipsism.

There seems to be some sort of mental clarity and energy boost that comes with no fap, but I would agree with the notion that you would be fine just keeping it in moderation. Like anything that stimulates dopamine, it can turn into addiction, so be wary of that. If you want to maximize your pleasure, there is benefit in going without fapping for a long time to reset your dopamine receptors.

@OmniYoga Porn does give value, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's a good or bad thing. Any business is an exchange of values. You pay money and get something back.

@Member But the future is not in your direct experience. And any awareness of particles is not in your direct experience. This is about what exists in your present awareness. When you say you perceive particles, that's not what you're perceiving. That is just what you guess you will perceive if you zoomed into everything and looked for particles. Because you're literally imagining them as a concept right now Agreed Everything shifts according to your awareness of it. If you don't see something, it doesn't exist as a sight anymore.

The tree literally shifts itself according to my awareness. If a see a fallen tree, it exists. If I go somewhere else, it's not in my awareness now, so it doesn't exist.

The only reason you know this is because someone else saw particles and then told you that everything is made of particles, there are no particles in your direct experience right now for you to make that claim

@Member Particles are too small for your eyes to see, you're only aware of particles as a concept in your head.

You're not aware of any particles right now I never said otherwise

Of course, we're talking about a hypothetical question here. There is no actual tree that fell, we're just pretending there is one for the sake of the question. That's just how the tree is. If you were there earlier you would have witnessed a tree falling, but in this case you only see its side effects because you weren't aware of any tree falling. I never said thoughts can't describe truth. But that doesn't mean it isn't a thought. I can become directly aware of something and then think about what I became directly aware of, but in the end it is still a thought, not the actual thing I became directly aware of.

@Member Because everything is within awareness, it's not like you've ever experienced anything outside of awareness. There is no brain in your direct experience right now, just the thought of one. That's literally what is there.

@Member A brain only exists if you become aware of it.

Both actions you are perceiving something. But, you're perceiving a thought, not an actual tree falling. You can perceive thoughts about a tree falling, but it doesn't mean an actual tree fell. There is no line, but you never became aware of a tree falling, you only became aware of the thought of a tree falling. You're just imagining that, you never became aware of such a thing.

@The observer Anything that is perceived. You can become aware of thoughts, thoughts are awareness. But, they are just thoughts, not an actual tree falling. Not too sure what you mean by this. I am not denying that thoughts exist. You can think of a tree falling, but that doesn't mean it actually fell, it's not like you thinking about the tree falling actually makes it fall.

@The observer There's nothing outside of awareness. You will find a fallen tree but it never actually fell, the assumption that it fell at some point outside of your awareness is extrapolation. Sure, it's useful to think that it fell, but it didn't actually happen. That's just a story you tell yourself to explain why a tree is on the ground.

There is no actual phenomenon, only its effects

@Someone here He does have a 2 part series on infinity

@Inliytened1 Yes there are just different experiences but same consciousness

You are experiencing what everyone is experiencing right now but you cannot experience their experience from your experience or your experience would not be your experience anymore

I had a fear like this start when I went to a dog park and pretty much got chased by every dog there, one of them was about an inch away from biting my arm off. It's been a while since then though, the fear seems to have subsided a bit. But, I still get kind of nervous when I see big dogs.

Thats a great quote

Honestly this is one of my favorite videos from him

Honestly i get a similar experience when i simply lay down and look at things upside down. Sounds childish but i find it pretty cool, changes your perspective.