Principium Nexus

What we find here is passion and love for self-discovery, which is the whole thing finding enlightenment works on. To find and to realize love and passion in any story in the now with some sort of logical/rational reasoning behind it. Like you say, there is nothing to know. We all understand that, but beyond that there is this fascinating but paradoxical world of wonder and awe. We will never understand it, but attain to know it. Any perspective is valid, even total rejection of self-actualization, just follow your heart and you will be where you have to be. We are all but poets of a narrative we write together, the most epic one that will ever exist.

@eskwire Is celibacy still working out for you?

Seeing infinite finites, would that be an enlightened ego? Confined but limitless.

From all language out there, mathematics seems to be the most amazing and complex. Is it a transcendental language where everybody seems to come to the same conclusion and is therefor the most objective in describing reality? What do you think math is? Does it exist out there in nature? Do you think math should be able to describe all phenomena that exist or will happen? What is number and why are there numbers beyond the positive natural numbers (e.g. fractions/negative/irrational)? Are math and geometry one? If math is able to describe relativistic relations within reality, aka geometry, which is the natural language of nature then it could be said that it is the language of god?

@Ilya You can only change the world by loving the things you do. And if you think a relationship is egoic then you certainly dont do it out of love

@Loreena I agree the other science are equally amazing in trying to describe what it happening, but math seems to be at the fundamental root to do objective predictions in any of these sciences. It is able to deliver concrete value and to me feels the most pragmatic, somehow it seems to be the root of all logic we derive in all those other fields and to me that's very fascinating Whereas mathematics might feel little bit cold the other disciplines give meaning to what is found regarding to the context where they operate in. It's nice to see how this relation is the basis of all science.

I think this thread does still somewhat apply to Leo's series on Infinity and his way he tries to explain relativity. Sorry for the bump

The truth of being is always and everywhere, but it does come in many different forms. Thinking of the past or the future is still happening in the present, the present is always and therefor there is only but truth. Perspective can be deceiving, there is only the present, even experiences of the past/future are present in this moment. So in short, the truth is now which is always. The illusion that something is more or less truthful is an illusion.

@QandC Yeah LDR is pretty hard, especially because you cannot be physically there if someone is sad or has a great experience that they want to share with you. Good to hear it work out for you

Nothing worked for me, I gave up.

@egoeimai Thanks for your advice Oh and congratz on your 1440th post, maybe sounds weird but 144 is a very special number regarding to cycles in nature.

@Nahm Thank you. But in my comment I ment it is real in the sense that it is happening, despite any labels, identification, etc. Whether those illusions of who I think I am are true don't really matter. Even thinking that they happen but they actually don't is a happening on its own haha. We are now.

How can you question if reality is real if you experiencing it now? Yes, the believes might be false depictions/illusions, but the totality of all those things is reality and that IS.

Are we just observers of the screen of reality, are we the screen or is the existance of an observer as the observed an illusion? And how would enlightenment and derealization relate to this phenomena? From what I have experienced, knowing that you can look at reality like it is a movie screen give great insight, but this is not preferred for long periods because you can get the feeling of watching a movie instead of being in the movie. I think enlightened persons do have insight of knowing that reality can preceived as a screen, but come back to actually being present in the play. They as to say in direct experience of what they do, not reflecting upon what is happening in a second perspective. I feel being distant of direct experience is excellent for conceptual thinking and imagination, whereas being in the experience leaves imagination out the picture (then you are all that is, mind and body). How do you experience this? Is experiencing one or the other more preferred or is it about balance?

@zazed You know this reality is pretty crazy but very funny at the same time ? We are all dressed up monkeys running around on a rock flying through space. What a joke, if there is a creator he certainly has some humour hahaha

@zazed Do you think most people are being hijacked by thoughts as to speak? ?

The ego asks, to justify its actions. The non-ego just does, because it knows it is the right thing to do.

@Leo Gura Is enlightenment the emptyness before one tries to grasp/construct/attain a perspective based on presumed labels that are not the things they resemble? You made a very nice example regarding the picture box with pizza. I realize now that this symbolic material representation also applies to mental symbolism (which are concepts/things). What I see now is that most people who try to get enlightened, try to eat as many pizza pictures as they can, but never actual eat the real thing. Thoughts and thinking is only symbolic, direct experience is truth, when one begins to understand this one has stopped seeking.

@zazed Thank you for commenting. I know the truth deep down, because I am. I know that all is nothing, but it is the mind that keeps making up questions to answer why it exists. For me this will be a life long battle to surrender and tell myself to shut up, that I cannot and will not understand why I am here and that this is also the reason why I am here. I know no specific technique or philosophy is needed to achieve what I want, but I would like to know which philosophies you like the most. I would like to read about the most common ones and expand my understanding why people believe those things.

@Shin Very wise words, I like it. @IVONNE He is just projecting his frustration on you. If you try your best like you said, it is not your fault to directly know how to do everything for someone's position you are covering out of the blue. Compassion is key.

@Leo Gura I have experienced a complete ego-death, which showed me all that is arises from nothingness. However, I have difficulity putting this knowledge into actual practical use in the ego game. I think trying to explain/understand what it is on a intellectual level will only make me walk in circles and will do the opposite of becoming enlightened. Isn't the purpose of self-enquiry ultimately to understand that one should stop seeking? Like going full circle to realize one already is and that all external theory will bring you further from the truth? Or is there no such thing as truth at all?

@Joseph Maynor I were to ask, what then is truth, but then my mind became silent. Truth seems to be the most prominent when completely silent, because only then the mind is still and fully present. Thanks for your reply.

@zazed Well said, I fully agree with your statement. One thing I do not fully understand is how we can give identities to other things if we are all one. If we are all one, for example the oceaan, why do the waves still act or think they are seperate from the whole? What gives rise to this illusion of seperation? Is it because we fail to comprehend that we are reality itself? If someone can answer the question, why do we feel seperation, one would have answered why whole totality exists. Is there any enlightened person why can answer me?

I think you title already contains all you need. You don't have to understand it, you are already the living truth.

@Voyager But if nothing exists how do you explain the experience you are now having? Even joy or anxiety, why would you be able to percieve those feelings if it is all nothing? I know your mind is grinding on some very tough existantial questions, but you have to find some peace of mind to evaluate these things in a calm and objective manner. Don't draw conclusions too fast. Life is a paradox, I think most people can agree on that, but how much does that matter? I feel we are all here because the universe is in balance. I enjoy the act of being alife even while it feels like the most crazy irrational thing ever. What you have had is an ego death, a very prominent one. To asure you things will become more normal again, I have stood in your shoes 5 years ago. You probably feel like reborn at the moment and that you have been thrown back into this world after millions of years. You will familiarize yourself again with the ordinary things you do in life but it does cost effort. You have had one of the fullest ego deaths one can experience, which is the most enlightening but also the most unsetteling. Try to take some rest for all the theories you are having, go chill, experience your senses with awareness, let the sense of you slowly grow, but this time differently! You have to chance to fully rediscover all the mechanisms behind action, which no normal man ever will learn. It will only help you to come close to the truth, to seek it and to find it and live closed to your heart. Try to cover all the basic understanding which human society has generated so far and question its validity? What characteristics of reality can you identify, what forces do you feel, how would your perfect story of how things would work look like? Those are some questions you have to answer. You feel like a long way from home but you will get there