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@Nahm you are responsible for this.

@Harry2 The same and different. Of course. Oh really? Because in my experience dreams (sleep dreams) are perfectly identical phenomenologically to the waking world. And that's why you can't tell that you're dreaming while you are dreaming. Because there is no difference. The boundary between "real" and "illusion" is not as solid and clear as one might think. That's where most people don't want to go.

@Harry2 A classical one. See the trick is what is "awareness "? If you define awareness as sight.. sound.. touch.. smell.. Taste etc.. That's definitely will be absent. Just like in deep sleep. But the problem is we identify ourselves with these temporary appearances when we are actually the ever-present emptiness that contains everything inside of it. So you wake up in the morning.. Sight sound touch smell.. A body and a world appear.. They appear inside of what ??? Inside of awareness.. For if there wasn't An awareness that is prior to these appearances.. Where else can they appear "within"??? .. Ok so in deep sleep there isnt even awareness.. That's right.. Deep sleep is the sate of nothingness.. That's your real nature.. That's who you really are.. That's the only thing that doesn't come and go.. Ever-present.. Therefore the most real state of being is the state of nothing.. The most fundamental state of being is the state of nothing .... And" within" this nothing appears awareness.. And within this awareness appears all sorts of dreams... The waking dream and the sleeping dreams. Are just temporary appearances within the ever - present nothingness. Again this is not mere philosophy.. Check your experience and see if what I'm saying is true.

All these questions regarding analogous life similarities ontologically to a "dream" have no answer. You can read Rene descartes ' meditations where he asked the simple question "how do you know you are not dreaming right fucking now?.... Given that every time you dream you don't know it". And ofcourse the answer is you don't know and can't know. I would drop this whole inquiry and go grap a snack. But cool discussions you start! Keep em going ?

@Gesundheit well it's really a choice between the bad and the worst. There is a new movement in sustainable agriculture to embrace ideas like the Lean Farm.. or small intensive acreage of high value crops. I do not think these new models are popping up and so attractive because they make farming easy (because almost nothing does).. and I’m not sure they are possible until you have considerable access to capital and are established but… they all bring up the idea of creating farms where we try to do less of everything and get really good and specific things and systems. Using an approach where we look seriously at time management.. at work flow.. at profit margins for individual crops means thinking about limits as part of farming. The problem is many of people who get into farming have issues with limits. On the other side.. Usual societal work is not as exhausting if you have enough self-care. I do think there is a point when lack of self care and trying to do it all drains you so you do nothing well.. or most problematic for me drains me to the point that I can do only one thing well… keep working and moving. And even more problematically I was always rewarded for this work by everyone. I was practically high fived by everyone I knew for doing it all. Only twice in the past 10 years has someone actually asked with concern about if I was doing too much. Otherwise everyone was happy to help me celebrate being super efficient.

Yeah breeding your own food and farm work etc.... Still it's extremely uncomfortable relative to our modern life.. I don't get the argument for it being better. Nvm may its just me.

Cute dream...... Now wake up! (might) Sound euphoric when you think about it... But come on.. Who really wants to give up the luxury of modern life and freeze his ass off in the wilderness and run after animals for food ??? You have been programmed by thousands of years of evolution to seek comfort and pleasure and run away from pain and dangerous situations. Because that helps your survival. Which is the only game in town.

@RealTruth so no one is going to ban this creature?

How is calling Anna beautiful or even "hot" offensive to "you"?????????

@zeroISinfinity hey another one liner has arrived

Sure and a long left back alley filled with dog shit!

Let us understand how that conscience comes to be.. then find that there is nothing else to do. A true understanding of what the universe even is. or why.. is very probably inaccessible to us. I think being bound to a given space and interval of time.. and even as a species.. is what destroys me.. alongside any will to do anything. Being bound to a condition I know mediocre. Being bound to the inability to understand most things. Being bound not to ever grasp what a thing even is.

@Javfly33 the term "absolute infinity" was originally coined by the mathematician George cantor.. Not Leo. (look him up) Some infinities are larger than others. For example.. The positive real numbers are infinite.. Yet if we include the negative real numbers we get.. Paradoxically.. A larger infinity. But that's just numbers.. Same thing applies to colors.. Sounds.. Dimensions.. Feelings.. Etc Take the largest infinity. Not the partial ones. Take the infinity of all possible infinities...... And that is what is known as absolute infinity. George cantor himself equated that with GOD. Is reality absolutely infinite? How is this possible? Well how is it possible that reality could be finite?? Every limitation you imagine upon reality must be imposed by a larger limitation. And so on to infinity. So reality ends up being absolutely infinite. In all possible ways conceivable or inconceivable. And that's it.

Hippies r anti bald. Sorry not playing. Ya know the 'ladies' on here get triggered soooooo easy. Life is so simple when you are not a woman ?

? Strange loop. Should be able to. "I created myself .. I came out of my own vagina" lmao. (relax Leo just poking some fun).

Tadaaaaaaaaa

Despite the blonde.. She is average honestly. But her content is very healing.

Anna brown. Check this chick out.

@Adamq8 ❤️

I will try to put this as simple as possible. This question comes up time & again: If there’s only One Thing (non-duality) how do you explain all the apparent ‘many things’ we see manifested? Our bodies? The hard solid ground? The water we can see.. feel and drink? The atoms.. quarks and other particles of apparently ‘real’ matter that make up water.. earth and bodies? (Apparently, indeed. Science has already confirmed all atoms are 99% space.. less than 1% “matter.”) Unfortunately.. You are asking for a mind-based.. mind-understandable answer.. and insisting ([“non-objective] answers won’t help”) on limiting the answer to something the dual.. subject/object-based mind can comprehend. “If there’s only One Thing, which means all body-minds are illusions or projections.. could you please explain what that illusory body-mind is…to my illusory body mind:-) See the problem? It’s like a person’s shadow. Can a shadow explain what’s casting it.. or jump up and become the person casting it? Your right eye is a non-duality. You only have one right eye. It cannot see itself as a non-duality. That would take a second eye sitting outside the first eye, looking back at it…and then you’d be back to duality. Within your nighttime dream.. you always think you are your body and your body is real. When a dream car swerves towards you.. your dream body jumps out of the way to avoid getting hurt. Your dream is created by just One Thing. Your mind. No one else’s. So it’s just One Thing, creating all these many things. Real things, or at least.. you’re quite certain their real” while you’re dreaming. But then you wake up.. and you see they were just projections from your One Thing. Your waking dream is no different. “It just seems to be more continuous and last longer,” as Ramana Maharshi said, “but a dream projection, nonetheless.” At the Absolute level.. it’s obvious there is only One Thing.. or more accurately, NoThing. The Unmanifest. The Void. In enlightenment, or what you call ‘transcendence,’ we can get a fragrance of that. But we can only be The Absolute.. Not know it. because The Absolute can not know Itself. That would take two.. right - The Absolute and a separate “knower.” Then it wouldn’t be The Absolute anymore.. it would be a duality. So what can we do? We can know that the One Non-Dual Thing is ‘in the background’ behind all duality, projecting itself through The Everything.. including our bodies.

You see I don't take stuff for granted anymore.. Drop all your ideas about God from your culture.. You are trying to match your direct experience with your fantasy about God.. That's precisely backwards.. Start with your own direct experience. Not with the beliefs.

you are basically asking how did all of existence come about.. To which the answer is it didn't come from anywhere. It has always existed. Because anywhere that it could possibly come from must be explained by another where and this leads to infinity. Infinite regress its called. God (A) created God (B) and God( C) created God (D) ... To infinity.... In a way its like that.. The small gods (me and you) are part of the whole God. But also we are the whole fucking thing. A finger is part of the hand.. But also.. It IS the hand.

Yes he can. The thing is.. Dude.. You need to have a nondual experience. Your every day experience of life is not at all what it seems to be.. Apart? Just not possible. In our everyday awake state of consciousness.. the body is perceived as made of separate organic “stuff”.. and seems to has a clear boundary between itself and the surrounding space. But in reality “stuff” can not exist. no mathematicallly precise boundary is possible between any object and its surrounding. In some altered state of consciousness the solidness of the body can dissolve and the skin boundary can seem to disappear. I myself has experienced this it's both frightening and amusing (It's not an out of body it's more like there is no body!). You may call such altered state of consciousness abnormal or even delusional. But paradoxically it's such abnormal perceptions that more closely mirror the true nature of reality. Our so-called normal perception of a material world populated by material bodies is more like a functionally adaptive chronically sustained delusion. More or less... Your experience is what matters.

@Vlad_ @Vlad_ I hear ya.. I'd say nothing matters except for the quality of the present moment. Cuz hey.. That's all there is. Yo don't let it make you take it seriously. It can happen out of nowhere.. for no apparent reason. All at once.. the familiar can become strange. It’s like waking up in the middle of a bizarre dream. With no warning.. you can be surrounded by questions: “Why am I doing this?” “Where is this all heading?” “Is this going anywhere?” “What’s the point?” And so on. This is no abstract philosophical fluff. It can lead to serious problems in your life. Philosophically mined people toy with such concepts but most people don't. Just be amongst the herd. It makes no difference either way. Good luck.