Breakingthewall

I am the mind, without mind there is not I. Spirituality denies the obvious and only succeeds in confusing people. Where is the problem being a mind? That's what you are. It's the manifestation of reality now. Spirituality, in reality, attempts to deactivate the mechanisms of the human mind to stop suffering. That is, someone perceives suffering as bad, so they devise a series of mental strategies to detach themselves from that suffering, convincing themselves that they have no preferences, except regarding suffering, which must be avoided because they don't like it. That has no relationship with enlightenment, in fact its a hindrance

Sure brother, I'm not free like you, I hope that now you are happy. Then, leaving that matter resolved, what I meant is that the body, the mind, it's the same, an experience is happening, perceived change. It's not false, it's a fact. This change is the reality manifested, and Is perceived because there is a duality, a reflection. It's not a dream or false, it's just the reality.

Absolute nothingness is the absence of form. The absence of form is the absence of change. Change is the necessary contrast for form to manifest. There is always change since the absence of change is "never," or absolute nothingness. Absolute nothingness is essentially the same as form; it is limitlessness manifesting as change. The fact of manifestation is inevitable, not essential. What is essential is the total absence of limits.

It's change perceived, for the body or anything, that's the same. The point is that is

Chaos is chaotically coherent. We could say that reality is absolute intelligence because everything that exists is absolutely coherent with everything else; otherwise, it wouldn't exist. This would be ontological intelligence, the essential quality of manifested reality. Cognitive intelligence, on the other hand, is the capacity of an actor within that system to understand it.

Experience is change perceived. There is change perceived right?

Those kinds of ideas, that the self doesn't exist, that reality is illusion, that it's all a dream, etc., are just mental constructs. They're completely meaningless. Whoever says the self doesn't exist is the self😅 In spirituality, always keep this in mind: in humanity, in every field, there's a vast majority of people who are simply seeking emotional relief. In the field of spirituality, even more so.

Any experience is truth, there is only truth, nothing that is is a "lie" in itself. The reality is, and it's nature is absolute, if you are open to that nature, you see what you are. It's an experience because you are a human , a structure that reality takes who have a dual experience. It's not complicated, very simple. There are not dreams, lies, etc, just close experience and open experience

The only way for Iran to free itself from the medieval obscurantism of Islamic dictatorship is through a military coup. I suppose the regime has placed loyalists in positions of power, but there's always ambition. Perhaps at some point a leader will emerge and the regime will fall, only to be replaced by another dictator. What seems impossible is for the people to triumph through protests and establish a democracy.

Taiwan has been Chinese for 400 years; its inhabitants are ethnic Chinese, Chinese who fled the communist revolution. The problem is that it was colonized by several powers, including Imperial Japan, which left a strong imprint. It's the only place where the Japanese didn't behave like psychopaths. The problem is that for the Chinese, the Japanese issue is very serious, a wound like the Holocaust for the Jews. And Taiwan is linked to Japan. It's a constant wound in Chinese identity.

It depends on what you call God. If God is total reality, the unfathomable source of being, that is, your ultimate nature, then it's not nonsense at all; it's the opening of your energetic structure to your total nature. Enlightenment. If for you god realization is realizing that you are creating a dream, etc ,then yes, it's just an idea

Intelligence involves selecting among options or possibilities within a system, aiming for maximum coherence. For example, one could say that life is intelligent in its evolutionary drive, or that an entrepreneur is intelligent in their market analysis and the adaptation of their actions. Consciousness means the perception of an external reality from a perceiving center. This conscious center can be more or less intelligent depending on its ability to read the variables of the system in which it operates and its capacity to seek maximum coherence.

Yes of course. It's the wise choice in any case.

The one who holds that belief is not limitlessness itself, but humanity, and they hold it because it is true. The confusion lies in believing that you are limitlessness, when the limitless is not a "you." A "you" is a perceiving center, therefore limited by definition. If something believes it is limited, or believes anything at all, it is because it is a perceiving center. The limitless does not believe anything; it is the "substance" of beliefs. Beliefs are form. Changing beliefs is changing form, but not opening yourself to the totality. The human being, who is a perceiving center, is limited and desires self-preservation; that it's nature, and denying it is pointless. I Yes but same time the human structure that is going to disappear perceives itself and wants permanence. Denying that the form is real doesn't work, in my opinion. The point is to open oneself to the totality as much as possible, to make the structure as transparent as possible to its essence. Then, although the desire for permanence will always exist, dissolution can be accepted. But if you deny humanity as an illusion and claim to be immortal god, you are exchanging a real identity for an invented one to stop fearing. This limits you completely, turning you into a narcissist who invents the reality he wants to feel better.

Then you mean deeper perception of existence. Like a new possiblity of perception that was closed for you now is opened or is starting to be opened

What exactly is an awakening? What does it entail? Based on your posts, I gather it's realizing you are a god. How do you realize that?

The body needs food and a suitable temperature to survive. The mind needs belonging and many other things. What's the difference? Is the mind perhaps a mistake of reality that should be fixed by turning it off?

The big problem is that the US makes tyrants look good because they appear to be the resistance against a vampiric predator, which isn't entirely untrue. The left will support the ayatollahs, Kim Jong-il, or whoever else stands up to the resource-stealing Goliath. We might think: the smart thing to do is to collaborate with the US; it's the hegemonic power, and opposing it is stupid and you gain nothing. But in many cases (too many), if you let it have its way, it will rape you like an 8-year-old girl on Epstein's island

What I am as human is in constant change, it's a changing reality

Identity is real. You are a form that reality takes called human. This is not an illusion; it is simply a fact. Regarding God, however, we would need to specify what we mean by God.

Any manifestation of unlimited being is a limited form, since without limits there is no manifestation. Any perception, or consciousness if you prefer, occurs when the limited manifestation splits in two. For example, a living organism that exchanges information with a universe of which it is a part but from which it is separate. This is perception of form from within form, as you said before. For example, a bacterium receiving information about ionic concentrations or temperatures to exchange information with the outside, or a bird receiving electromagnetic waves in its retina to generate an image of the outside in its brain that allows it to move and functioning. In the human case, reality enters a third phase of dissociation, which is the mental phase. Phase one: the primary, non-dual universe. Phase two: self-preserving life, which establishes its own laws within the primary universe and separates from it. Phase three: the human mind, which, based on biological life, which in turn is based on the primary universe, separates and creates its own framework of laws, symbolism, and logic, freeing itself from the limits of the purely biological. This mind has access to the direct perception of form upon form, but at the same time, it can open itself to the perception of that which is formless, of its unlimited nature, since it is not subject to absolute limits. Or rather, it is, but it can free itself from them. This liberation is what spiritual work is all about. When we say that the mind perceives its unlimited nature, it doesn't mean that it perceives it as one perceives sight, sound, pain, or hunger, nor as a mental structure, idea, symbol, or projection. It has to take a further step, and here's the point: to open its angle of perception to the essential, to its own nature. This is a challenge because, in principle, it is bound by the sensory, and beyond that, by the symbolic. And the symbolic is based on atavistic emotional triggers created by life to optimize group cohesion and evolution. The mind must transcend these phases and open itself to the essential, to what is prior to any form, to its nature, to what reality truly is. This, obviously, cannot be symbolized because it is not at the symbolic level.

The nature of reality is not form; form is its manifestation. Its nature is unlimited being.

Consciousness is the fact of being conscious right?

Consciousness is not something that can be immortal; it is something that happens. Consciousness is reality being aware of itself. Reality is not consciousness, it's conscious. What is immortal is reality. Ultimately, it is what you are, and everything else is changing form, including consciousness. Enlightenment is being aware of what you truly are, of the totality. Who is aware is the reality in the form of you, a self that is conscious of it's nature.

When you say that you generate the mental image, while the sensory image is generated by the brain, we're entering into a subtle distinction. The sensory image is generated automatically, rigidly, and predetermined. It belongs to the animal mechanism, completely tied to genetics with no room for maneuver. But it's still you, the system that you are. The mental image is also generated by the brain, but it can be modulated by a center that directs, decides, and analyzes: the self, which is also a structure created by the brain. The difference is that this self/mind is not rigidly tied to genetics. It is based on it but evolves freely. It does exactly the same thing that life does with respect to the universe. It depends on its laws, but creates its own laws, self-preserves, and evolves. The mind is another phase of reality that operates on the genetic basis without being bound to it. It's the third phase of the reality that we know. Universe, life, mind. Life is part of the universe but is separated of the universe. Mind is part of life but it's separated of life. Separated in the sense of independent, self legislated, operationally autonomous, self preserved. all are the reality, but in different phases. So, when spirituality considers the mind as maya and the sensory to be direct truth, what it is doing is attempting an impossible regression out of nostalgia for the pre-apple Eden, when what they have is the ultimate model of hyper-complex structure, of unimaginable possibilities, which reality, in its inevitable expansion, aka infinite intelligence, has given birth. Who gets enlightened is not the monkey, is the mind. The mind is form and as a form is limited, but can open itself to the unlimited. Can perceive its unlimited nature from a wide, but still limited structure.