Gesundheit

There may be, but even then they wouldn't be able to prove it because it'd only be the case for them. It's not possible to manipulate reality for all humans because there's no one really doing the manipulation. When anything occurs, it's not a human that is doing it. It's the formless God.

It's not a choice. It's a compulsive disorder so to speak. The truth is that it's a game for egos. Without ego, there will be no God.

Well that hurt lol. I guess there's no way out of suffering after all.

Does this basically mean that you're being emotionally reactive? Well...

It's a form of manipulation. We want you to change, to fit better. We could change our expectations too. It works both ways. You want us to change our expectations, to fit better.

I fear I may fall in love with myself lol It's all an act though. A show where I play the devil.

Trees.

Yep. I know I'm late to the party but I have to agree. I've read a good chunk of the thread and the energy @Someone here is giving off feels like someone who holds themselves to have unravelled and understood everything in the universe, like there are no questions anymore. This is not exclusive to this thread. I've noticed the same energy in earlier direct interactions, and it's kinda fine, but dude it's very persistent at this point it's counter-productive.

Yes, there is and it's called "detachment". But then you're left with pure luck to keep you alive. At that point, there is no ego anymore. Ego is dead, suffering is dead, but pleasure is also dead. Practically, you'd have to become a zombie.

Peaceful days.

Realize that there's no difference between learning and teaching. You're contradicting yourself. "Feeling better" is by definition identical to identification. You can't feel better or worse without identity. There is subtle judgement and a hierarchy of feelings that you subscribe to. Feeling annoyed is not a bad feeling, neither having fun is a good feeling, but they may be that way in your mind.

You stop desiring to perceive other experiences as that would still be imagination. So what's the difference? Your perception, my perception. It's one imagination. Waves in the ocean. See?

@Halm Try this: try to see how perception is imagination. Or the other way around: try to find the differences between perception and imagination.

There's no relative truth, only absolute. If relative is true, it will then automatically become absolute. However, there's ego-mind that wants to survive so it creates concepts such as "relative truth" to feel less selfish about its desires, and so that the illusion keeps going. The context of a human being wanting to survive does not make this desire any more "true". Absolute truth is literally irrelevant to survival, although they may cross. Right now you believe that there's relative truth. You don't know what the truth of this "relative truth" thing is.

But then how will you be able to distinguish that from your imagination? Yep. You could think of it that way. And/Or you could recognize that there has always only been one imagination, the present moment.

There's no better or worse. That is an illusion of the ego-mind. Wake up, or don't. It don't matter.

Letting go is opposite to having fun. Can't do both. Choose either.

Which you are imagining, of course. Still imagining, and will always be imagining. Whatever "my" perception is, you're imagining it right now. Even if you somehow were able to "directly perceive" it, it would still be your imagination. Imagination is the only game in town.

You imagine. Because you're reading too much into your own perception. That is the illusion and the entire trick. You perceive a human body, which is creating sounds and voices, which are still perception. The end. The rest, you're imagining. Again, that is one way to look at it.

Problem is that statements so irritating like this prevent me from having the fun. They're just so annoying.

You are conscious of all minds simultaneously but it takes different forms. The reality is that "your" mind creates thoughts, and you assume that they are something else other than thoughts, as if they have some reality to them. You want to know what my experience is like, but what you're reading right now is exactly what I am. No more, no less. The rest is you imagining things about these words, that there is someone there sitting somewhere typing them etc... At least that's one way to look at it.

And what is enlightenment?

It's very easy for me to be a hard-worker. It just comes naturally. My body ignites in flames after a few minutes in, and it feels good while working and even great after I'm done when at rest. And if it becomes a regular thing, my muscles start to take shape, my body looks perfect, and my health maximizes to the top. However, and when it comes to intellect, it's very different, like 180° different. It's the most difficult thing for me to do. I would rather work 8 hours in labor than to study for 1 hour. The reason why I even bother with this whole spirituality and personal development thing is procrastination. I don't want to do the studying. I hate it. I hate everything about it. And worst of all, up until now, I couldn't find a way to make things less worse. I only have two years remaining to graduate out of college. And it's the most difficult thing I have on my list. I have sacrificed almost every other thing, and therefore handicapped myself and my growth, as to be intending to focus on this shit, yet without much results. My life is currently on hold until I move out of this shitty obligation and be done with it. And for what? For a piece of paper called "certificate". I can't sit upright. My neck starts hurting so quickly. I can't sit for too long. I can't keep my mind focused when most of the material is complete BS without actual value in real life. I wish there was a fast-forward button so that I could skip this step. I really dislike everything about college and hope to get done with it immediately if not before.

What you're saying is obvious but I'm talking within the context of the thread. As long as I have different options, it's not that much of a problem. If my partner doesn't like me wearing suits, I'll wear casual, no big deal. And vice-versa, no problem. No one needs to get emotional about what their partner wants or prefers. If my partner disliked my style, I could find other options that would still "express" myself. It's very flexible unless they're asking me to wear clown make-up ? But yeah, that guy is a jerk still, regardless.

Ummm I mean okay but it doesn't have to be one particular way of dressing. I could wear a suit or causal or something in between. I don't build a concrete identity around my clothing. It's very flexible. Women have a lot of options too if I'm not mistaken.