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I am surprised. Since you are indian, the most profound stuff Leo says Indian culture has too. Granted, Leo's insights are much more than that, but still.

@Meeksauce You said that your fear of death is not out of the system. How can that be? Did your awakening not point to infinity?

Oh you definetly can. Read some salvia trip reports where a person experienced a whole life only to drink something weird or use some drug to wake up in this "reality". There are dreams within dreams... Let that sink in for a moment.

This guy is so wrong, there is no him to begin with!!

Yeah, like everything? Can experience and perception cease? Also, unless you are awake, you too make stuff up everytime so, yeah lmao.

@Sugarcoat Isn't this what nothingness awakening is? Your senses are gone but your self doesnt go away. I think its something like that, because otherwise, how can people report it? And most who report this kind of awakening said that they were terrified by it, meaning the self was there. I think we do get into contact with nothingness everynight(deep sleep), but we just aren't aware of it(avidya/ignorance) we are not conscious in nothingness, thus we are ignorant of this facet of the self.

Yeah, just like everything and anything anyone ever said or thought is projection onto reality

Interesting. This seems like a good analysis. The only thing I really "knew" about the game was that it is difficult, and has awesome boss fights. Its nice to know that the builds are flexible and you can change it easily, I really like that.

I need to play hollow knight first... One day maybe Is it fair to call it a 2D Dark souls? lol

And think... Hmmmm. I question. But good to consider @Natasha Tori Maru See, if you can doubt something or some knowledge, is it really true? If you see a possibility of it not being the case, is it true knowledge? An example of true knowledge beyound doubt in everyday world would be, lets say you have a headache. You know you have it, its undeniable, you can doubt it that you have, others can doubt, but the doubt is irrelevant to the present condition that you find yourself in. Spiritual knowledge is like that, but more profound because it deals with reality itself. I am not saying that one should cast doubt away, no, doubt is the beginning of wisdom so to speak. But there comes a time where doubt comes full circle, and you start doubting your doubts

I know my response there might have lacked nuance on not knowing. But I do understand what not knowing is point to. And I do understand the relationship between not knowing and knowing. And also its relationship to meditation.

It is 100% a question of understanding. And the subject is you or reality. I agree that is not trivial. Not knowing is a tool for you to use to toss away your fat ego and maybe bring about understanding. There is a possibility of knowing 100% what is reality, you will not stay in not knowing forever. Be careful, not knowing might be a trap too. Buddha himself laid out stages of Jnanas(Knowledge), that one travels in the spiritual path. Spirituality is about understanding and knowledge, don't kid yourself thinking its not.

You might have a belief that you do not know, but you might actually know. This too needs to be abandoned. I like to draw parallels with the moment of recognition that you are dreaming in a lucid dream. In that moment, there's no doubt whatsoever of the reality that you are in. That for me is knowledge, true knowledge, where others can doubt, but its irrelevant. You just know, you didn't study for that knowledge, but you KNOW, and its sudden. No matter what other dream characters say, its completely irrevelant for the thing you just realized -- the nature of reality. In my experience, that's what true knowledge is, everything else is just belief, or borrowed knowledge. Everything else can change, but not self-knowledge. True knowledge is self-knowledge, and that's what spirituality is.

The issue is deep. You also assume that you know what belief is, that too is a knowledge claim. Can't escape what knowing is, whatever that's the case, you might be wrong Also, question that you aren't directly in touch with the nature of anything, that might not be quite right. Just a thought.

That looks like a picture that came straight out of /b/ 💀💀

@ryoko No map, however elegant and complex is enough, the map is not the territory. That doesnt mean maps dont reveal truths about the world.

why not

Well, see this. Say I kidnap you and we go to my torture chambers. If I really tortured you, there will come a point where you will beg for me to stop, and you will cry and implore for me to return you to your life. Even if your life is average, and you are a cynic(not saying this is the case just an example lol), an egotist, and you have financial problems, you will beg for me to return you to your average life. In this begging, the burried love is revealed. Avoidance of pain is subconscious love. Love doesn't need to be hot(like in an orgarsm or psychedelic experience), love can be subtle, and it can even be hidden and unconscious. Most people does not experience hot love in daily life(like I imagine an awakened person experience) but I would say most experience unconscious love, which is basically fear and avoidance of pain lol.

Why not？Do you love your little self?

Not defending Razard per se. But theres no conflation between the 2 so to speak. But at the same time there is conflation. It depends on perspective. That's why speaking about awakening is so misleading, its never what we talk. You might come at me like "Dude, convey consistent stuff stop being a psychosis patient" well, yeah but truth is not clearcut. Again not defending him, just trying to understand.

I have learned so much on this forum, it is a gold mine indeed. There are very wise people here. So, I would say my main purpose here is learning from other people and getting to know others perpsectives on things.

False. At some point in your life these things were not clear to you. And even if they are clear to you right now, you might be fooling yourself that you truly understand these things.

If there's an object there's an observer. An object can't exist in a vacuum. And If there is an observer, there's context. Something along these lines

A better question might be, what is NOT context?