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OK seriously I'm genuinely interested in knowing the answer. How in the world could there be an enlightened someone when there aren't any someones in the first place?????? How can something that doesn't exist become this or that??. "I" is a thought.. Is a thought enlightened? (and enlightened is a thought as well)

Contemplate these concepts for yourself " An enlightened being who is constantly high on bliss "is just a funny Fantasy in my opinion. It doesn't make any physical sense even. This is enlightenment. You are looking at it. It's not event that happens to your non-existing ego.

I gotta say there is no such thing as enlightenment or enlightened beings or permanent anything including happiness or any other temporary emotion. Just sayin it as it is .

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Well everything you can ever get is in the present moment or non at all. You can't get something in the future because it doesn't existssssss(with osho voice lol)....And since the present moment itself is always shaking like a jelly.. You can't get anything from it either.. So you can't get anything from anything.. To exist means that nothing important is waiting you. Good luck. Ps. Now at this point he will be no longer your friend so you don't have to worry about it lol.

It's ok lol. You don't have to convince him of anything. Even his belief that he is not in the now is happening in the now..whether he is aware of it or not . Because he is the now.. All else are thoughts playing with themselves doing their life purpose . Let them

Also the trick is in thoughts and thoughtlessness. Past and future only exist in thoughts. If you don't think then they don't exist.

@Dodo well really look at how hilarious this is.. If he asks you where is this "Eternal now".. Tell him "you idiot.. Where is this fucking past and future you believe in.? The now is right in front of you.. Now You tell me where is your past and future"?? Lol And ofcourse he will confuse the content of the now (which is endlessly changing) with the now itself which never changes. The only unchanging thing is changing.. It goes full circle. Change is changless as change.

Well it's really not. Just go directly. There is no such thing. It's always NOW and there is nothing else. Where is the future or the past? Can you point to it? Can you grasp it with your hands? All the future (or past) really is.. Is just an idea that is happening in the NOW about something that is not happening in the NOW!!

@Dodo I get you. And nice post btw. Just thought I would add that note

Time is not three dimensional (past - present - future)..so there is no year that comes and year that goes. It's just one present moment with ever-changing content. Just like a static TV screen with constantly changing images (pixels).. The screen (present moment) never changes yet the content is constantly changing.

What is a question? What is anything? Any answer is gonna be thoughts about thoughts. Thoughts inside thoughts about the nature of thoughts. A thought is a thought and that's rock bottom. A rock is a rock and that's rock bottom. Meaning it is exactly what it appears to be to direct consciousness without any conceptual stories or "explanations". Now ofcourse you can get underneath that endlessly because that's the nature of things.. It expands forever in all directions.. But that doesn't make any place different from where you are at. It's all the same and it's all different at the same time!

It's so weird! Everything is so fucking weird. I open my eyes in the morning.. Here we go.. I am here.. Consciousness.. The ultimate miracle. A body is here.. The consciousness seems to be located or attached to the body.. Yet upon closer investigation it is always in the background and never touches anything. Yet somehow the illusion of body - identity has to continue to be able to function.. When you know you are not the body yet you have to pretend that you are the body!! When you know you are not your name yet everyone calls you by your name and you are supposed to respond or you are being rude!! Wtf,!! Seriously what the fuck is this body doing here.. Moving around.. Breathing automatically.. Blood flows automatically.. Electrical signals.. Move the hands.. Grab the phone.. All automatically.. Holy shit I am not in the driver seat.. Holy shit! Look.. The body is moving on it's own.. Who is me then??.? Holy shit the body is a prison.. Constantly keeps asking me for stuff.. A chore after a chore.. Feed me.. Hydrate me.. Please me.. Rest me.. Repeat repeat repeat motherfucker!.. Why? Just because! Oh my God I exist inside a three dimensional space.. Another prison.. Why can't it be a 4 dimensions or 5000 dimensions..? Holy shit the content of this space keeps changing constantly.. Look! It doesn't stand still for a single fucking moment!! Everything is running away.. Quickly...why are you running away? From what? To where?. Every experience gets born to die.. In the same instance. Impermanence is such a mindfuck. Everything is a fucking mirage.. It's all bullshit. Wow. It's so weird.

The source of Corona virus? This guy thinks it's a human made genetic mutation in a laboratory.. And that guy thinks it came naturally from unclean bat soup eaten by some Chinese dude..... Well fuck you both.. The real source of Corona virus is nowhere.

Words. You either have words or silence. Seems like you are still attached to words even if it's words about what is not a word. Don't worry sooner or later you will be totally free .

"No one can "say" because it is not words " - Alan watts.

"There is no goal anywhere.. Existence is not moving towards some target. And it is good that it is not moving towards some target ..because If the goal is there.. Sooner or later it will be achieved.. Then what?! ".

Who's aware? There aren't entites who own awareness right? think I got ya now. There is only awareness without "someone" who is aware.. so the conflict between "self" vs "other" being aware or not doesn't even arise from that perspective.

@Bulgarianspirit thanks but that question was directed towards @Nahm

Give me an example of something that is not a belief.

Happiness and Truth. We all are basically searching for these two things.. What a joke?. Don't you realize that Truth is all that there is and you can't search for it because it can never be lost? Don't you realize that nothing external will give you actual happiness because it's fleeting and trivial?. A cosmic joke of endless searching for that which can only be found when we stop searching.. Is what life is.

That's the only thing you can't lose. Btw there is no "you" who loses or gains "it".. Remove the "you" and all that is left is "it".. Or don't. Not to get you schizophrenic out of your goddam mind but there is really no such thing as "you" "yourself" "myself" "my" "I am-ness".. Etc.. There is only one thing at a time and it can't reference to "itself" because the "itself" s are copies of "it". You can't have the same thing twice.

LOL

So the I-am-ness ONLY exists when you are alone and away from people? And about this?

Maybe.. But do you know that you don't "have" to think of it this way?