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Nothing and everything. First grade stuff ?

Then it's flat. For you. Then it's moving. For you. Impossible. And hilarious. If you did experience them.. How can they not be "true".. What does true mean for you? Matching your thinking or the fact that it is present to your direct experience?

LOL wut ?

Name one (for you)?

@Nahm love you too man. I really wish I could easily understand your thoughts.

@Mikael89 experience is prior to your trust.

@Nahm I didn't understand. Perhaps you should try to put yourself in the shoes of the person who is reading your message.. Your messages are always kinda like you talking to yourself.. You use phrases and ways of conveying that maybe only you yourself can understand. Appreciate your input and patience tho.

I'm not sure if I understand correctly(as always lol) .. You mean if I'm not experiencing it directly how can I understand it (mental illness)?

The real 4 noble truths tho... 1 life is suffering. 2 life is suffering because of desire. 3 it is possible for life not to be suffering. 4 the end of suffering is the end of desire.

.Buddhism in a nutshell. The four noble truths.. 1 life sucks. 2 life sucks because you are an idiot. 3 it is possible for life not to suck if you stop being an idiot. 4 you stop being an idiot by wanting nothing. Desiring nothing.

Except when it's Leo : you are just not conscious of the truth. Stick some 5-Meo-DMT up your butt

Yes. Totally agree. Makes sense. @Martin123

Now all you have to do is imagine Leo saying that to you. Thanks bye. ? It's funny you spend a lifetime trying to figure out who the fuck are you.. And then comes a peep telling you I know exactly who are you lol. Give me a fucking break. Go accomplish 1% of what Leo has accomplished son.. Only then you might get an idea.

Well it is about you.. There is no objective facts out there that you are neutrally conveying.. You don't describe the Leo.. You describe the Leo that appears to you. So yeah it has to do with you and your expectations. I have a question what is wrong if a spiritual teacher acts arrogant? What is "wrong" with arrogance? Why is being humble "better" than being arrogant? Although you are making a naive generalization. A statement or two just for the kicks and the lols are being mistaken for a persona.

What's the point? @Martin123 So Leo has some downsides? Sure as heck.. Ofcourse he is a human (also God but hey)? Maybe the mistake is from your side and your perfectionist expectations. Do you think Leo doesn't go the the bathroom? Do you have an expectation that eckhart tolle never gets upset in the traffic? Do you believe Rupert Spira never had a sexual thought? . I don't even see Leo going that much off the script. So maybe you should work on your expectations of what should awakened masters be like and act like.

I have a sense that those cocky statements that Leo say from time to time are not authentic.. It's not his authentic self.. You can tell from watching him he is pretty polite and nice person.. But come on he has to say some funny.. Cocky.. Perhaps arrogant.. Perhaps dirty stuff sometimes. The controversial opinion are inevitable as well. Right or wrong is relative keep that in mind. Not gonna leave without saying.. Perhaps if you guys realize there is no Leo..?

from the view point of the present moment... The past doesn't exist except as a story that is being told in the present moment. The present moment is inescapable. Because literally there is nothing but NOW. What is not-now is just a concept appearing in NOW. Not sure how does that fit with memories. But as I said you don't need to worry too much about whether your memory is real or not.. Who cares? Your memories could be fake meaning they represent a false past that didn't happen.. But your memory is always true as a thought in the now. The problem only arises when you take a thought to be more than it is. A memory is a thought. As long as it is helping you making sense of yourself as this organism that's navigating its way through space and time.. Then it's a true memory.. If a memory gets you confused or questioning your identity.. Then I would worry about whether this memory actually happened or someone else has planted it on me. This whole concept of fake memory doesn't seem so much of an epistemological issue to me.. Compare it to the problem of fake present lol..How do you know the present itself is not fake?. And the answer to such questions is really.. There is no difference between fake and real.

Yeah sure.. Seems like you have an uncertainty fetish. The trick is you can't ever differentiate.. You just gotta fake that you can and move along. Or stay in your place forever trying to split a a nanometer that you can't even see.

@electroBeam I read your comment there and I totally get what you mean. And I wish you the best man. Although I find it difficult to understand you sometimes are these insights causing you suffering or causing you freedom from suffering. Or a mixture of both not sure. what you don't understand tho.. I don't make that distinction between mentally ill and not mentally ill.. The mind itself is ill. But to different degrees. So there is no safety.. Security.. Answers.. Or certainty to be found in the mind. I'm saying this because you seem to be suffering a bit from these insights. It's all purely mental. Sometimes we get so fucking lost in concepts we can't distinguish them from reality. How? How do you explain memories? You've got memories of suffering no? If you gonna dismiss them you gotta dismiss all memories altogether.. But apparently you didn't because you are using your memory of learning language to type this... who are you without a past?

Dude.. You've reached a point beyond the mind. You are causing yourself suffering by this kind of a epistemological nihilism. How do you know the past really happened? Ofcourse you don't. But you've got memories.. I assume. How can you trust memories? Ofcourse you can't. You can't trust anything. Because you can not trust it if you wish. Simple as that how the mind works. . That's what happens when you push the mind to it's limits. It collapses. You discover that all your mental framework is just a house of cards. I would suggest picking up a meditation practice and just calm your mind and connect with the present moment.

I'm sure Nahm is trying to point to something that is related to op.. Let's wait and see lol

How do you know death is real?

I'm getting lost.. I admit it's a tough inquiry.. And honestly I don't see the link between existence and non-existence and my op...lol ? I would say tho what is possible to see is only existence.. Non-existence is more of a second order mental projection.

I see no point except in my mind. I see no suffering except in my mind. I see no why except in my mind. I see no delusion except in my mind.