Sugarcoat

Nice I resonate with that last part in particular

You are somewhat. I just can’t seem to awaken to what you’re speaking of

I think I can understand what you say conceptually but ofc it is different than having that awakening of reality being mind

I don’t know what you mean by the last part but that’s fine. Someone said ”The simplest way to describe the sense of self would be that it's a illusion created by combined sense perceptions. So if we posit that brain runs the show, this would be it's way to simulate what it would be like to experience things. For the sake of improving survival maybe...who knows? Obviously there's noone to know that there is a brain etc, but it sure does appear that way.” I resonate with it

Ok I understand. So the self is just this illusiory appearance that mind (reality ) imagines in the same way it images everything else

I’ve heard the brain imagines the self too like a persistent hallucination have you heard that? Is the outside world imagined in the same way the self is?

So everything being activity ?

If reality is mind then what do we call thoughts? Or is it it all the same substance ? beautifully written btw

Complete openness would be enlightenment ? So no sense of separation

Ok I see so you don’t have thoughts anymore or? Because all thoughts divide reality right ?

Does the brain create this first person pov self illusion ?

You might like this video, it’s a bit old so I don’t know how much still stands true today

The emoji lol

I see

The first thing that appears is a contracted energy that says I’m here or something

The first knowledge that appears is the knowing of “I’m here” am I right

Maybe it’s because the mind is quiet when we love something aka are happy thus feel present so its that absence of thoughts that makes it seem more real and intense. I’m not sure tho. So the mind being the barrier /veil on reality and absence of it would reveal reality for us and it would be like the highest love so it’s like reality is that love is how you mean kinda?

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So it feels like love to be in a state of not imagining division anymore? That non dual awareness if I can call it that

@Princess Arabia I intuit that too. If it’s an illusion then how could an illusion get rid of itself

Do you mean like when we love something or someone , aka we are deeply happy, the psyche is quiet and we are in state of flow ? So we want to open ourselves like this to reality totally ?

Agreed. But I can’t seem to dissolve myself

It’s difficult to get rid of the self i see. I’m saying there’s no conscious intent behind creation, that would be like a separate god creating this and having a will and intent

@Butters ok

I was thinking that