Mellowmarsh

Yes, mind boggling indeed.

You still have to live as an individual wondering how it’s even possible to live as an individual. If there was no individual, there would be no such event as birth or death, which would run polar opposite to the reality you know and understand. That knowledge is quite basic common sense, even for you.

The “You” is included in the coming and going. Without the birth of “you” and the death of “you” there would be no “individuals” essential for the “you’s” reality to make any sense. The truth is….” Individuals ” are the very experience of being human, so suffering and attachment is unavoidably an inevitable consequence of being human. This human experience seems to not only be bearable but endurable, and it has nothing to do with being spiritual or enlightenment or awakening to a higher consciousness. It’s just the natural process of what is ultimately this immediate order and chaos that is evolution in progress. In my humble opinion, and nothing else.

@moonawakening444 I maintain my sanity by adopting pure acceptance, plus absolute total resistance to what is and what isn’t, not expecting situations to be any different, becoming the master of my own mind and emotions, constantly shifting my focus on becoming mindfully aware of living the path of least resistance. Letting go of what I cannot change and living from a state of pure surrender and non attachment.

Yeah, unwritten fictional stories comparable to empty dreams.

Humans are known. But it’s not known what knows the known.

There’s not a some of us, there’s only consciousness reflecting itself, looking at it self. “Selves” are an auditory illusion of light and sound.

Everyone has their own unique journey in life, and no matter how much you may want to guide or influence someone, they ultimately need to find their own way. Not you.

Sweeeeeet!

Truth. Well said 👍

Lovely. So much beauty and genuine pure heart. ♥️ Always a pleasure to read.

No one is denying their humanity, nor giving themselves pole positions in the art of human expression into the actual nature of being a talking head human, Nemra. Expressing this discourse is just the other side of the proverbial coin so to speak. 😐

Aren’t we all though. Aren’t we all just trying to understand the God of our own understanding. 😐 Let it be.

Nicely put. 💯

It’s more to do with surrendering the “doer” by understanding the idea that there’s no “someone” like a little person inside the body who is in full control of its body. There isn’t, even though it kinda feels like there is. This is about surrendering to the illusory belief that there’s a separate little “ someone” called (me)who is the doer, doing everything, when in reality, there’s just everything doing everything. Totally, one without a second. Doing is done, no doer thereof, where actions and events occur through natural, total functioning, but there is no separate, independent ego or “individual agent” behind them. That’s all James is pointing to.

Yes thanks for that, I agree with you, and yes, I’ve already done the surrendering so I know what you mean, in fact I understand everything you ever talk about on this forum. 🙂

It’s also funny how being never gets to choose being or nonbeing.

Thanks Nemra, I’ve heard about how psychedelic usage is a beneficial experience for those seeking to transcend the illusory sense of separation. But I’m not into it, never have been, never will be. I could be missing out on something amazing but I’d rather stay grounded, I have a fear of heights, lol, just kidding. 😊 Thanks for engaging in this kind of discourse.

I exist but I don’t know how I exist or why or what I am. Imagination fills in the not knowing. Imagination is like watercolour paint upon a flowing river.

In my experience it’s just not possible to touch that still state of thought free awareness without causing a ripple to form on contact. It’s like trying to jump ahead and beyond your own shadow. Anyway, that’s just the way I personally feel about it, because one still has to deal with external distraction which predominantly dominates one’s existence. Yes, the still screen of awareness is ultimately what we are, but we’re also the movie inseparable from the screen. I personally experience the movie more than the screen. That’s just the way it makes sense to me.

Who knows? Question the answer. And does an answer even need to be questioned, else all there is are questions with no answers.

What I mean is things are not known even as they exist unknowingly. For example: A tree exists, it can be observed to exist. The tree is functioning as a living organism that exists without doubt, but the tree itself doesn’t know it exists. That’s what I mean by not being there in a self knowing sense. The tree doesn’t know it exists even though it’s observed to exist because there’s some thing that is aware of the tree. So my question is if a tree is unaware of it’s existence, then what is aware of the tree? Im sorry if this line of thinking is just a rambling mess, apologies in advance. But I genuinely like to be able to understand how other people interpret their reality, it has always fascinated me how differently each of us seek to understand ourselves and the reality that we’ve been born into. I just feel like this is the first time I’ve been alive, and here I am trying to figure out how the heck I got to be alive just to die. I really don’t know what’s going on, except to imagine everything, and even that is unknowable to me, it’s just a word with meaning attached, but ultimately means nothing if I’m just going to die anyway.