Mellowmarsh

A pointer is like a signpost it can point to multiple points, except itself. James is like a signpost trying to point to the pointless, which is pointless.

Imagine that!

Ask him from where does he get the answer to a question?

Imagination pointing to silence? If you are referring to silence, then why fill it up with imagined words?

The only absolute certainty is the immediacy of the present moment. So no such thing as infinite regress.

Clowns can’t read.

Once upon a time no one wrote a story about an idea known mentally as IT and that this IT can’t be written about because IT isn’t a story. This IT that is not a story because IT is unwritten, can though, magically, be read by everyone, because all one’s are the same ONE because there’s only ONE reading these words. Thanks for reading the IT story that is not a story, since no one wrote the IT story, and yet everyone, no one, the one and only one is reading IT 😀

Then no one is intentionally appearing as robotic, parroting, or solipsistic or nondualistic.

Ask your mother.

Only sane men cry for real on camera knowing the whole world is watching. I cried watching you cry.😢 Thanks for all you show us. 👍

Like a finger pointing to the moon. Two words, finger and moon. Which one of the two words is the IT that’s being pointed to?

Well thanks for yet another story that’s not IT

I’ve heard we must first forget in order to remember IT We can’t just know IT without knowing what IT actually is, can we? So not so much STUCK … “Forgetful” seems more of a fitting word.

And since you’re obviously into the robotic mind game called semantics, then how about you turn what is only your opinion back on yourself and realise what a deluded belief it is to think you are thinking for yourself. If thoughts belong to a SELF, “your” self, insofar as you are creating your own thoughts, then you as the creator of your own thoughts have the same power to stop creating them. So I invite you to try this “thought experiment” ..Try to STOP making your thoughts, and see what happens. Me thinks you’ll soon find out what happens when you follow my instructions. And I’m fairly confident you already know all this silly nonsense anyway, you’re not that smart.

Maybe I should have said THOUGHTS and not DREAM. The OP was someone’s personal thoughts. Which tbh, is analogous to dreamscape, in other words, fictional story telling. Oh well, such is the nature of semantics. It seems the words NONDUALITY or SOLIPSISTIC do tend to hit a nerve or two with some people. But yeah, of course, aren’t we all just guilty of parroting. I mean, WHO told you to say words you speak? Have you not just been mimicking every word you ever heard from the very first day you were born.. Lol 😂 From babbling to …………well, you know, you kind of get the gist, I guess.

It’s not not true either. It’s an idea. A thought. THOUGHT existed first before any thing else. Can THOUGHT be denied to exist, does a THOUGHT not exist? The answer to that question is absolutely NOT. Not this. Not that. Both, yet neither.

@Someone here The OP is nothing but your own personal dream. You’re the only one dreaming the content of your own mind from the perspective of You there. And so from the perspective of You there, there’s absolutely nothing else happening. …. Many authors appear, but there’s only ONE reading the writings no one writ.

You’re making a lot of assumptions here. Ask for clarification first, instead of just presenting your own representative model of what you think others are talking about. Firstly , the guy is actually a girl. And I never implied infinite consciousness as a bad. I said there’s no escaping it, which is a valid point. Sometimes the ego is misinterpreted as being something that must be permanently eliminated for awakening to be fully realised, but that’s just a false belief. The ego is very much in the drivers seat when it comes to self-realisation. The ego is both present before and after any apparent awakening. So there’s zero escape from this sense of separation, or individual (I) It’s not bad or good, it’s absolutely neither. Because the absolute reality is completely mute and indifferent to human opinion, owing absolutely nothing in the way of our endless questions that are never answered for one very good reason. There’s no formless without form. The formless is form. This consciousness cannot escape the sense of separation in favour of unconsciousness because the sense of self and the body are identical twins, conjoined infinitely for eternity, appearing as every conceivable shape and form. Popping in and out of existence forever like the inbreath and outbreath. Like sleeping then awaking…then sleeping…there’s no break in this seamless symmetry, certainly no escape.

And yes. This world is a trap to every known conscious agent. Because awakening informs infinite consciousness that there’s no way out of infinite consciousness. And that sleep is one’s only relief.

But of course there’s also a YOU as well, there’s something identifiable, the objective world of others exist. The external world is not being denied here, it exists as a dream exists, where this apparent real You, can be seen as a not You, an unreal You. There’s nothing that is Seeing You. You is known conceptually, never SEEN

Because vision is only forward facing, it proves consciousness has no beginning, or that it’s not coming from some past, rather, consciousness is appearing only now, eternal present. It cannot be freeze framed into having a beginning or end. Consciousness is simply popping in and popping out of existence at any random juncture within infinity. There’s no discernible start or end to consciousness, because it’s the absolute source of existence. From source to source an endless spring.

It could also possibly function in a cyclical fashion. Maybe why the arrows on the clocks never move in an anti-clockwise fashion the same reason river’s never run backwards, or that seeing can only see what’s in front and never what’s behind. Did life ever have a beginning. Or, is life just an endless seamless stream of energy appearing, disappearing, and reappearing, infinitely for eternity?

I’ve been reading a lot of your posts lately , for no reason other than they never fail to draw me in to a truth that is so raw and unfiltered that it’s probably very difficult to be heard by some readers. Personally what I’m reading when I read your posts is an exact model of how I would present my own personal mental musings when thinking upon these same thought things. Once the illusion of separation is shattered there’s no returning to it. That’s why I’ve often heard people talk about awakening as a realisation that most people wouldn’t want. Although it’s not even some state to achieve anyway. The recognition is often a purely spontaneous process brought about by just being a self aware agent who is capable of self reflection. Not everyone identifies with their reflection as being unreal,, rather they prefer to identify it as being real.

Consciousness being likened to water, is this imageless infinity reflecting transient images upon contact.

The phrase "The wild geese do not intend to cast their reflection; the water has no mind to receive their image" is a line from a Zen poem that illustrates the principle of spontaneous, unforced action and acceptance. It suggests that things happen naturally without conscious effort or desire, a concept often used to teach mindfulness and letting go of attachments. The geese do not try to create their image, and the water does not try to hold it, yet the reflection appears and disappears as a natural occurrence. Spontaneous action: The geese fly and the reflection appears without any intention or goal from either the geese or the water. Non-attachment: The poem teaches that it is natural for things to be transient. The water has no need to "keep" the image, just as the geese have no need to "cast" it. Natural flow: The line is often used to encourage a way of being that is free from self-consciousness and unnecessary effort, allowing events to unfold naturally. Metaphor for life: It's a metaphor for living in the present moment, noticing beauty without clinging to it, and accepting the natural, changing flow of life.