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Well, except there is no one that reaches the misperceived awareness of nothingness that is only an illusion of truth.

Of course, it is all an illusion, nothing is real. There is no now, this precise moment doesn't exist, the present is a mirage. No self, no ego, no brains, no body, no soul, no spirit, no life, no death, no god, no enlightenment, no actualizing, no awakening, there is nothing to realize and there is no way to choose to even if it were real. Just delusional zombie meat monkey robots blindly pounding away on keyboards in maya urging each other to wake up from a dream that isn't really happening. Only awareness of nothing but even that is misperception.

@Joseph Maynor Yes, what if it's a delusional misperception about a story of an illusion?

There really is no duality, only a mistaken perception of it by the mind......hehe.

Baha, are you ok man? Take two deep breaths and just be....hehehe

@Truth Yep

It really comes down to what is meant by "free" and "illusion", I think that is what creates the confusion.

Well, then your "separate self" still exists... haha.

It depends on what you mean by "illusion".

Though you can remember your name, where your house is, where you put your keys, the member name here and the password, right?

Do you remember any memories of your life?

Um... well, I didn't say skepticism is a belief but that it takes belief to be a skeptic. Besides, "skepticism is a word not a belief" is a belief.....baha

An illusion is real.... it's really an illusion.

@Joseph Maynor II personally don't create a belief that belief prevents awakening or peace. Since our perception is a subjective experience the question of it being 'truth' is not something that is in the context most skeptics view it. We are being 'true' to our subjective experience of it not to an objective standard so completely contrasting beliefs can be called 'truth' with spirituality. The issue arises when people make universal or objective claims on their personal subjective experience. Skepticism is a quirky thing, even suspending belief is founded on a belief that there is value, a benefit, is better or is preferable to it. Also, it's the belief that we can even withhold it to some effect or can even assess if something is worthy to extend it to. It takes belief to be a skeptic. Haha

It's almost insidious the way the mind will continue to frame everything as a duality. It is a misperception of the mind but one that served it well so doesn't relinquish the habit easily. Which is evident in the way even non-duality is unconsciously framed as an opposite of duality. This is why I place considerable attention in brining to awareness the hallmarks of how it is expressed. Although, I don't put too much importance on a concept to replace it otherwise the mind may try to contrast that in dualism as well with a right and wrong or good and bad dochotomy.

Try not thinking about 'enlightenment' or self actualizing for a few days and see how that works. Can you just 'be' without trying to 'do' it? Haha...... you addicts.

It's a challenge to communicate personal subjective experience to others without having a dogmatic aspect to it. Our experience as it unfolds is a spontaneous event and the revelation in that is authentic but when we tell others of it it turns into conceptualization by the very nature of the act. Not that the conceptualization is inherently a negative or less awakened but since everbody's experience is so individualized and divergent the teaching of our own direct experience can be dogmatic. Especially if we take a tone of authoritative knowledge which can happen in the zeal of expressing it to others.

I'm not talking about the video, I also don't claim to be 'right', which is a dualism concept as well. My perspective which is cultivated through my own subjective experience allows me to transcend the duality in those concepts without necessarily dismissing them as useless.

I didn't watch it and it doesn't require me to watch it to know it's just him expounding upon an old concept, though I'm sure some may get value from it.

Except that isn't the dualism being expressed by "life is a dream", it's the real-illusion duality that people interpret as real-not real. It isn't really a duality though, an illusion is real, it's just that it isn't as it appears but it is still real, it's really an illusion.

Conflating what? I am aware of it...that "it" being the dualism in your perception that you aren't aware of yet. I don't have to impose any belief for the manifest to exist, it just does, that you think you can "proof to yourself the illusion" is a self imposed belief, one based in duality.

@7thLetter Leo didn't "come up with this insight", it's a regurgitated belief that has been circulating for a very long time. It's also a very slumbering dualism mindset that perceives the physical experience of the manifest as an opposite to spiritual experience and if you wish to transcend any duality in the mind you will not adopt this belief paradigm as your own. Haha

Be at peace, kid, healing happens.

Yet, this is what you have been doing this whole "issue" thread you have posted. I have repeatedly made aware our commonalities and attempted to bring clarity to why anything may differ to bring unity in it but you have been arguing about it right from the start even with someone who posted a video about their own experience that you see differently. Let it go and let it be.

Although, he said eat my body... so......haha