Oppositionless

impermanence is Your, God’s, infinite love of novelty death is the ultimate expression of Love

consciousness exists as a kind of monad in an intimate relationship of an infinitely loving, intfinitely intelligent, infinitely complex organism consciousness can become infinitely more conscious of itself. awareness comes and goes and yet it only inhabits the single space and always arrives in exactly the same state

ahh shit is it just semantics, or do you think there is something different between solipsism and nonduality? when I think of solipsism, I guess what I’m thinking of is my own ego being everything. so that’s what, I believe, alien consciousness would disprove.

technically, to debunk solipsism you'd have to experience becoming a different consciousness.... alien consciousness?

Brad warner talked about this. “nonduality” wasn’t really a thing 2500 years ago. the thing the Buddha was saying doesn’t exist is what we would call ego. Zen and Advaita began the true self doctrine about a thousand years after the Buddha died

Buddhism has lots of different schools with lots of different teachings, and even within the schools there is a variety of belief. Huang Po understands. The text you've shared is from the beginning of "The Chün Chou Record of the Zen Master Huang Po (Tuan Chi)," which is part of John Blofeld’s translation of Huang Po's teachings. The excerpt reads as follows:⸻ PART ONE The Master said to me: All the Buddhas and all sentient beings are nothing but the One Mind, beside which nothing exists. This Mind, which is without beginning, is unborn1 and indestructible. It is not green nor yellow, and has neither form nor appearance. It does not belong to the categories of things which exist or do not exist, nor can it be thought of in terms of new or old. It is neither long nor short, big nor small, for it transcends all limits, measures, names, traces and comparisons. It is that which you see before you—begin to reason about it and you at once fall into error. It is like the boundless void which cannot be fathomed or measured. The One Mind alone is the Buddha, and there is no distinction between the Buddha and sentient things, but that sentient beings are attached to forms and so seek externally for Buddhahood. By their very seeking they lose it, for that is using the Buddha to seek for the Buddha and using mind to grasp Mind. Even though they do their utmost for a full aeon, they will not be able to attain to it. They do not know that, if they put a stop to conceptual thought and forget their anxiety, the Buddha will appear before them, for this Mind is the Buddha and the Buddha is all living beings. It is not the less for being manifested in ordinary beings, nor is it greater for being manifested in the Buddhas.

it's beneficial for the west to keep russia tied up in that war indefinitely. aid is flowing, but not enough, just enough to keep them in the fight, presumably forever we live in the dark ages.

the better question would be ”Why is God suffering in hell?”

but honestly, the spiritual benefit of fasting is questionable. it doesn’t lead to awakening.

believing psychic abilities are a sign of awakening believing awakening is one - dimensional belieiving awakening is the same for everyone

prison planet, that’s one of the most dangerous false teachings I’m aware of. law of attraction / manifestation isnt necessarily wrong, but it would be way more effective to work on yourself and especially your self esteem than try to manifest by doing some techniques. guru’s grace, transmissions, anything that makes you believe you can awaken without work. wow this thread is reminding me of the two cults I was involved in.

if you do no water don’t do it without water fasting for a couple days before. and I wouldnt go more than 16 hours without water.

Hello Does the teaching of infinite imagination contradict the advaita view that reality is fundamentally awareness? Is there a part of consciousness which is not awareness? is imagination and infinite intelligence other than awareness? thank you.

All for one, one for all. I’m starting to think alien consciousness means actually becoming another awareness. the end of solipsism. That would be the most profound fucking thing .

true. believing I was God was a big ego trip. smoking weed fed into that. Getting sober while doing spiritual work has been the best thing in my life.

I have a casual interest in the subject but I can get a glean of the immense complexity of what this is by looking at the complexity of math Physics reminds me that there is more to awakening than just an empty void of nothingness that buddhists talk about. if that was the end all, well, I don’t see why we would be able to talk about it!

that’s a very poetic way of saying it

that’s one level of awakening, but there seems to be an immense degree of intelligence, structure and intent behind this nothingness. after all, the heart beats , the mind thinks and the body speaks.

I’m not sure. I’ve been obsessed with God as far back as I can remember, watching the pirates of the caribbean movies and learning about voodoo. did you know voodoo means “spirit of God”?

I love that there’s so much more to learn. I’m gonna be digesting just knowing that there’s more for awhile before I explore it. Deal with the mundane stuff like talking to girls and life purpose. Thank you.

it’s been an interesting journey from materialism to idealism to…. just this, the obvious. thank you. I’m okay with not knowing what this is yet. maybe I’ll explore psychedelics again in the future. love you, and everyone else who shared their thoughts on this thread.

You could substitute the word consciousness for mind if that makes it more clear. there are mental processes occuring which are outside of your conscious knowing of it. the unconscious, and the superconscious. intelligence, and the question of where thoughts come from. unconscious perceptions, like the sense of being stared at. psychic impressions. the stability of the material world. law of attraction. so mind could be bigger than just awareness.

God is everywhere at all levels. the intelligence of your hand is innate, it doesn’t need a God above to be infinitely intelligent. but yes, I completely agree that there are no limits at all, no top level. the buddhists were right about that one. the notion of self is interesting. self is just an appearance, a thought. I fear death but part of me knows that I’ve died before, that I’ve died every time I ceased thinking of self, and yet, here I am. I fear the death of the body but I also have some limited knowledge that the solipsistic awareness in which self arises has nothing to do with the body.

what I was asking is if there is an intelligence which operates without awareness. my question comes from watching videos of Bernardo Kastrup talking about the mind at large and explaining the universe as “what the mind at large looks like from across a dissociative boundary.” to me, that isn’t how reality works. because it is intelligently designed. awareness is fed with perceptions by an infinitely intelligent mind, and that mind doesn’t need to have awarness to function. it might but it’s not strictly necessary, and in some ways it might be more infinite if it doesn’t have awarwness.

I don’t think that awakening to consciousness is all necessarily reveals what consciousness is. Or what intelligence is. someone can tell you that God creates the universe with infinite imagination and infinite intelligence, but do you really know what those words mean? if all you know is that consciousness is all, great, you know more than 99.999% of people, but that doesn’t mean you know what consciousness is. if all you have is the understanding that consciousness is all, then it’s easy to just give up and say some nondual cliche, like consciousness is nothing, or consciousness is awareness, or truth can’t be spoken. and then you turn around and say “there is only one awakening” because no one around you knows anything else. I sort of admire the zen philosophy, not because it’s correct, but because it doesn’t give any definitive answers. and it doesn’t deny the physical world. but to expand on that I would say that the physical world is part of an aspect of consciousness that is outside of awareness.