WelcometoReality

Pleasure and happiness. Is there a difference between the two?

@Phyllis Wagner Even if the mathematical model is a 100% correct model of how reality is behaving it's still just a model that is within reality. Remove reality and there is no model. Remove model and reality still exists.

Yes we are conditioned to move towards pleasures such as sex, food etc. Can we transcend those? Maybe we can or maybe not. What we can do is see through the misery and struggle we create. Is the glass half empty or half full? Seeing it as half empty certainly won't bring more happiness into your life will it?

Consciousness was still aware even though there was nothing to be aware of. Just a recognition of a presence nothing else.

When Rupert had the anaesthisia the mind stopped being aware but consciousness was still there. Nothing influences it on that level. Time happens within consciousness.

@Daphnedenninghoff23 Be that and it will start to embody you.

Yeah it might be worth investigating. ?

@Endangered-EGO You're starting to become aware of your thoughts and that can feel overwhelming but it's a step in the right direction. Thoughts can come at any time and no need to put so much attention to them. Maybe a mindfulness practice where you hone in on your other sensations could be helpful.

It's not as much a "metaphysical suicide" as much as it is a stripping away of untruth. Pushing through to what? ? Pushing would imply that there is something to move away from.

Have you seen this video on the do nothing technique? Maybe it will be helpful for you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ6cdIaUZCA&t=566

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@Tal If you're not ready to let go it's best not to push yourself to let go. Connect to that which is unwilling to let go that's the way to heal.

When you are starting to anticipate something to happen can you see the anticipation and drop it?

Yet you are here to tell us about it. How could that be?

It's nice to see some badass dedication. What I'm "trying to" convey is that it's more of a relaxing/leaning back/effortless feeling to it than than a striding/pushing/stuggling one.

@cosmocat What if you drop "trying to put my awareness on awareness" and let the realization come by itself?

@Valwyndir that was a beautiful conversation. It brought tears to my eyes.

Freedom from freedom

Freedom from rigidity?

Trump got the moves like Jagger ?

If words are made up and reason is made with words does that mean that reason is made up? How do you determine whether your reasoning is sound?

That's a good sign of a significant realization. I think I've had that song on repeat aswell.. or maybe it was a different song. It might be old and annoying but the hardest part could be that you don't know how many times it will play until it stops. What I did was I stopped listening to it. I took long walks or something that connected me to my senses. That way the intensity of it lessened and after a while it didn't bother me anymore even though it still was playing in the background. Eventually it stopped even though I can't recollect the moment it did. When you don't care whether it's playing or not it doesn't really matter anymore. ?

Yes the human eye can't see all tye light spectrum. And the ear can't hear all frequencies so the human can't perceive all of reality if we assume that such a thing exist. To me discrepancy is a better terminology to use. The word "wrong" seems so black and white and it implies that we shouldn't experience the car being red.