UnbornTao

It depends on what’s being addressed. Is it a watermelon, a principle, a mathematical formula, fear, soccer? Your question is useful - it invites new ways of thinking about things, even if they’re commonplace. But could you clarify it a bit more? You can always go further by asking yourself more questions, like: What exactly am I trying to talk about? What’s my experience of it like? How am I relating to it? How does it affect me? What do I feel in relation to it? What would I say is there, as that particular thing, without considering its relationship to me?

Locate in your experience the profound and pressing background urge to believe - in anything at all. Why is it there? What is it based on? What is it like to stand on your own two feet, without any belief whatsoever? What don't you find in such a bare - and yet more real - experience?

No one. There wasn't even a post to begin with.

But what is a tree?

@Sugarcoat same.

I've actually had experiences like this, when you just stop doing stupid things with your mind. In the meantime, I'll suffer the fact that I've failed to fully eliminate self-imposed suffering.

@Sugarcoat I responded to your edit above.

I don't see why that has to be suffered. Not being in pleasure doesn't automatically mean you have to be suffering. You may well experience some pain or discomfort, but these by themselves aren't suffering. And you can enjoy difficult things. Many people do enjoy, in your example, exercising, even though it often is uncomfortable. edit: "You cant enjoy suffering right? Because it goes against the very definition. Or is there a sort of mind trick I don’t know that makes it possible to enjoy suffering? I would like to know that mind trick then." Not a mind trick; actually embrace it. Stop resisting it. Look directly at it. Of course, this tends to eliminate the suffering, or may transform it into something else, like a sensation of some kind. Basically, practice turning into it. But we might be getting off-track.

Not unless you enjoy it! Since you are generating it (except the physical one, for the most part). So fucking enjoy it already.

Ay ay ay, no mames, wey.

Also, quit caffeine for a few days or weeks, and you may notice that time seems to pass more slowly. Just an observation.

Got it, thanks. I’d add that it might have more to do with your state than the circumstances - like being "receptive" when looking at the stars at night, or a dog, or something else entirely. Maybe it could be done with a simple object - I don't know. Of course, in some of these cases, you’re not physically touching anything, but more like feeling it with your soul, metaphorically speaking. It’d be interesting to investigate what that experience is based on, or what helps create that - whatever it is we’re talking about (incredibly sensitive altered states, perhaps?). I was thinking the same. Imagine doing all of those in some form for three straight months - as an intense practice/retreat. That'd be something.

Is it mute or moot?

Would you categorize the experience as a psychic phenomenon?

The more you look, the more you find yourself obstructing the act of looking. https://wikiquote.org/wiki/Jiddu_Krishnamurti

Interesting.

I haven't really learned how to play yet; need to practice much more.

Poor, poor robot.

This might be a naive suggestion, but what software do you use? You might find Scrivener to be an efficient way to organize the project. You can break it down into sections and smaller documents, keep all relevant files in one place, see the big picture, etc.

Exchanging beliefs can be useful but it is not the same as becoming conscious of stuff.

Depends on what you mean by spirituality and what your goals are. Essentially, I'd say that its ultimate purpose is becoming conscious of the absolute truth, aka "awakening." Another purpose could be to become increasingly honest with oneself - aligned with what's true on every level.

Iced tea.

Of course. this is a joke

Not sure I've experienced something similar, but I appreciate the sentiment. Sensitivity can be very powerful.