Mellowmarsh

No "Person" Awakens: Enlightenment is not an experience that happens to a person, as that implies the person (ego) can possess or lose it. Instead, it is the realisation that the person is not the ultimate reality, but rather awareness itself. Who awakens: It was I: and yet, it was not I. We might say, everybody has two "I"s.

No one ever awakened. Words, which denote first principles cannot be defined, people think that they can but they ignore the blatant fact that they are either self referential, or anthropomorphic. In this never ending story of make-belief. In this conception.

Belief.

Define you?

Not conditioned by religion per se , but conditioned by our society a make-belief believed via the mental construction of human linguistics.

“Relationship, surely, is the mirror in which you discover yourself. Without relationship you are not; to be is to be related; to be related is existence. You exist only in relationship; otherwise you do not exist, existence has no meaning. It is not because you think you are that you come into existence. You exist because you are related; and it is the lack of understanding of relationship that causes conflict.” –Jiddu Krishnamurti

How can you be self-aware and not be a little in love with yourself?

Yes, so true. Nothing can exist without a mirror to reflect upon itself. So the question is what’s being reflected in the mirror? On looking I see only nothing. I am the looked upon. The mirror trick is the real and true self recognition where there’s only a sense of “ you” which is a mental psychological construct of the brain mind mechanism based on memory, perception and emotion, not a fixed thing. Life is a seamless uninterrupted flowing process, always in constant flux and change, not a fixed entity. Nothing is ever seen, only known , in this immediate knowing that cannot be known. Including this….

The ego is a concept known to exist and what is known to exist can never be unknown to exist. The ego exists as a concept in the immediate knowing of it. A concept is known, never observed because whatever concept is being looked upon is simply an empty mirror reflection of this imageless empty looking. Non existing concepts are still concepts known in this conception.

You are what you are because of what you are not.

They’re not your friends.

Because there is only awareness, the content of such is already awareness which cannot be split into knower and known separately. Reality is seamlessly one flow flowing from itself and returning to itself. Knowing is immediate one without a second. Knowledge is always on demand, never immediate. Therefore knowledge can only appear to be a real fiction for the mind. —— A.I. “This statement aligns with philosophical and psychological perspectives that distinguish between conceptual knowledge (labeling, static information) and direct experience (immediate awareness). Here is a breakdown of why "knowing" is often considered more than just a concept: Experiential vs. Conceptual: Knowing is frequently described as experiential, immediate, and of the "being," whereas knowledge is often stored information of the mind. For example, you can know about honey (concept) or know the taste of honey (experience). “

To be unapologetically you. The real fictional character.

Flush it.

Wasn’t he banned from this forum? Do you understand why?

The natural artist is not in nature. Nature is in the natural artist. Art is natural, nature is artificial.

Because only idiots are born. Not the smart one.

Phil wasn’t smart enough to realise we’re all smart. I’ve never missed that important fact.

I agree, it’s utterly vile, I’m throughly disgusted at the thought.

He deleted everything because he’s an idiot. Idiots are being born every minute.

It’s just the truth. You who goes by the name of Joseph didn’t conceive yourself from your own balls, you came from your father’s ball, who conceived Joseph by name only. I mean who told you you are Joseph? Oh that’s right your parents told you, okay. You knew nothing but the label you were given and believed was you.

Not necessarily, but obviously necessary for you to remind me.

If I recall I was registered to post here before the ban. My registration was accepted, but I didn’t start posting until about 10 months later. I was just lurking around initially, just getting a feel of the place first.

That says more about Phil than anyone else. It’s always amused me how sages choose to ban what they believe are just shadows. It’s such flawed thinking.

I’ll tell you what’s really weird. Hiding stuff that’s about Joseph. Are you too ashamed to step out here into this wide open space, and bring all your gods and demons with you. Something to hide, have you?