Mellowmarsh

I agree.

The physical eye structure acts like a camera lens recording incoming data that’s then archived to memory bank within the biological computer that is the brain. The brain is what is projecting the data as a living movie, but it’s just a synthetic simulation, it’s an imaged representation of an unknown imageless reality.

You are the knowing that cannot be known. This apparent paradox must exist for knowledge to exist. Truth is, there is no truth that can be known. That which is known, knows nothing.

Quite right, these actors take themselves way too seriously, but can’t say I blame them for that, else if they didn’t act seriously, probably no one would give them any attention, and would probably most likely walk out of their show, calling it a false shit show. Haha, 😂.

You are referring to a knowledge known. The knowledge of distinction. And that’s all the mind can do is relate to the apparent distinction. That’s the nature of mind. Therefore, without the distinction of knowledge, for example: the knowledge of ( no form) and ( form) must by definition be recognised as concepts known by distinction, as a process known as mental construction, where by the knowledge of a concept without distinction would be totally meaningless, and totally senseless. So the construction of distinction must be by association, and it’s in the construct of that apparent connection that gives rise to the knowledge of meaning to what would otherwise be totally meaningless. That’s all that is being pointed to as and through each and every concept heard as knowledge. What’s actually being pointed to, which you personally seem to be overlooking, is that there’s no separation there between the knowing of something and that something known. Similarly, there’s no separation there between the observation of something and the something observed. That’s the illusion that is being pointed to within the collective spiritual community. The illusion of the knower and the known being two distinct things separate from one and other is the illusion of separation that’s being pointed to, it’s an illusion that is not there in reality, that’s what knowledge of distinction does , it separates reality into a knower and the known, albeit illusory, because the illusion doesn’t actually exist. Only the absolute is, and the absolute cannot be known to be known without creating an artificial divide of knower and known. So to clarify. The absolute cannot be known , simply because there is only the absolute. No one can know the absolute because no one is the absolute. No one & one are completely and utterly identical, they are one and the same one always and forever, there is no other one. One is never divided, because there’s no other one. Knowledge of opposites, or distinction, is only ever pointing to the illusory nature of the apparent division. No where in these nondual pointers is there being a pointing to this immediate seamless totality as being the illusion mentioned , no, that’s exactly NOT what is being pointed to by the collective spiritual community. The illusion being pointed to, is the personal claim made by an avatar that the absolute totality can be known by a “ someone “ no, that’s not what is being pointed to, that is the illusion. Not the pointing itself. The pointing is not pointing to a “ someone “ who knows, because that’s the separation right there, it’s an illusion, that’s not real. Everything is already the absolute totality, without ever claiming to know it through knowledge. The knowledge of absolute totality is the illusion, and so that’s all knowledge does is point to the illusory nature of knowledge. I don’t think you are personally grasping what is actually being pointed to. No one is denying the sense of a separate self who is identified with knowledge. Again, all that’s being pointed to is that knowledge is the apparent illusory separation that doesn’t actually exist in reality. The pointing is only pointing to that illusory nature of knowledge, not reality itself which is without an illusory story about it.

😂 It wants to play.

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Maybe. With infinite possibility, anything is possible.

“ In the depths of winter, I finally realised there was within me an eternal summer.”

A I The Psychological View: A Functional Mask Psychology does not treat the ego as a physical thing, but rather as an essential mental construct. The Reality: You need an ego to function. It helps you distinguish your body from a chair, hold a job, obey laws, and manage relationships. The Illusion: The ego often distorts reality through defense mechanisms (like denial or projection) to protect your self-esteem. It makes you believe your temporary thoughts, labels, and roles are your absolute identity. ———— The infinite absolute cannot know itself as an identity. It already is this immediate infinite absolute without the illusory division of knower and known. There is no gap between the knowing and the known. Any apparent gap is a mental fabrication, an illusion. The illusion that artificially creates the gap can equally close the gap. And nothing will have changed.

It’s not a mistake, that’s the illusion. The Awakening is already this open unlimited vastness. Instead of the ego thinking it is a limitless being (which leads to grandiosity), the awareness of relative change, is a flip so that the infinite recognises the finite vessel it is currently inhabiting.

My daily experience of life hasn’t changed one iota. The only change is an apparent recognition that reality is not what thought thinks it is, rather, it whatever it is, is not limited by what thought thinks it is, rather it’s a liberation from limitation it’s the entry into the infinite. I am infinity knowing a finite experience. Not a finite experience knowing it’s infinite.

This idea is never grasped. The idea is simply known, directly. The known is a mental fabrication. A mental fabrication is never physically seen. Therefore that which is known, knows nothing.

Exactly! Your brain tricks you into believing you have a permanent, solid "core self" behind your eyes. In reality, your brain is constantly recreating your identity from moment to moment from one thought to another, then another and another ad infinitum. Call it evolution, it’s how you believed you got here in the first place. 3 million years ago is the same place as right here and now, similarly, 3 million years into the future is the same place as right here and now, because only the eternal present is ever known to be real. The “named thought one”is only a story of “I” , not real, with no director, no screen, and no audience. There’s something beyond that, that’s always present,that something is not a finite named thing, the present is infinite, it’s the beloved, the unnamed one , the unchanging one, the uncaused one, the unmoved one. One is One, and no other. This is it.

I like the way you think dude. For me personally, I give myself the permission to know my own God.My way, and that’s that. 😎

@VeganAwake On point. 👊 The moment reality is defined, it becomes something shaped by the concepts used to describe it. From transparency to opaque.

You’re doing it again…listen, no one is denying anything. There’s not a personal “someone” denying they exist. The personal “someone” is the illusion. The personal arises and falls away like a cloud. Yes, it exists as a cloud exists, but it has no fixed identity or location. Illusion doesn’t mean nothing ever arises and falls away, because even that is known, in this immediate direct knowing that cannot be known. There is no separate individual and personal you. However you are and I am. The I everyone refers to every time they say it is the formless, attributeless present awareness we all are at our core.

Sorry, typo alert. That was meant to say ( THIS IS IT ) Amen.

Tony Parsons would sometimes say in his talks ( There’s only the Beloved ) Its just another way of saying (God) So of course all these words are pointing to the same God, I mean what is not God. God is just blindingly obvious. (This it it) 👈 That’s the title of one of Tony’s books.

There’s no such thing as nonduality, because nonduality is not a thing. Unmistakably.

Good James. 👆Excellent pointing. Are you really in control of the actions you experience? Do “you” send messages to your muscles telling them to operate? To your eyes telling them to see? To your brain telling it to understand? Do you tell the wind to blow or the sun to shine? Aren’t these happening all by themselves, without a story of “you” required to make them happen?

Yes, moving beyond the Witness means realising that the observer and the observed are not separate. If there is "nothing beyond the witness," it means you have stripped away all identifications with the body, mind, and emotions, arriving at pure being an unnamable space of emptiness and awareness without a centre.You no longer stand apart from the universe as an observer. The Witness simply dissolves into the totality of the experience itself.

I just say God is the everything without an identity. The everything that’s infinitely unfolding from within and out of itself, it’s only self, as in the spider and the web analogy. That’s how I personally interpret God. I have no idea what God is being seen for someone who has used psychedelics to reach God realisation, because that’s never been my personal experience. Personally, I believe we’re each our own universe, and never the Twain shall meet. When two universes collide, in my opinion they become one universe together. Or something like that, it’s just how I’m able to describe the way I see it. Its going to be different for each individual universe, obviously. When I say individual, I mean different strands of the same infinite web.