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The body gives signals involuntarily when it needs nourishment, the ego is not required to get hunger pangs, it just wants to choose the meal...well, that and take pictures of it to post to social media.

I encourage you to be aware of nuance with what I said. As someone who sells a book list you have incentive to defend reading lots of books so it doesn't surprise me you noticed my comment even though you misunderstood it.

Reading lots of books filled with ideas and allowing them to occupy the mind conceptualizing into paradigms that the ego identifies with is mental masturbation.

@Nahm Maya is a beautifull creature even if it's a little temperamental.

@Nahm

Haha... just haha.

@Dodo sock monkey guru

.....absolutely.

@Shin

It's clear someone needs some more money so the guerilla marketing tactics....

If a thought is untrue, then wouldn't the thought that just being a thought makes it untrue be untrue? Hm

There was a time as a very young adult where this sort of discussion baffled my mind with all the conflicting ideas and the volume of information would serve as a distraction. Although after many years of personal experience in awakening consciousness there's such a degree of clarity it transcends understanding. Now when I encounter these discussions the effects of personal experience in awakening consciousness in another shines through the chatter. It isn't a matter of agreeing about ideas, it is recognizing the genuine nature of awakening that resonates in all consciousness and is not a mental understanding that comes from merely studying.

I don't doubt that.

@Mighty Mouse You have such complete faith in your own doubt that you absolutely doubt another's faith.

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@alyra Yes, it is quite a bit of food for thought fought though be aware the mind fight doesn't make a brain fart causing heart fraught so letting go will ultimately be good for taut taught.

Then I encourage you to finish barking up that tree. Barking about no mind, no self, no ego or no brains is no sense in no duality, no shit? If all distinctions ultimately collapse in unity then right/wrong, reality/illusion and truth/false collapses ultimately. When the barking ends the silence begins or is that just another distinction that ceases to be in being 'one'?

You are accurate in part, well, just one aspect and not really as you intended but close enough that you may understand more from it. It's really quite a significant revelation and I may have only realized it because of my own personal autodidact path to awakening. Because the 'absolute' in it's absolute form is so formless it appears as 'nothing' even though it is anything but nothing, it's the fullness of everything and missing nothing so it has no distinctions to observe in the same way that absolute nothing appears but is absolutely inverted. How one gets to be aware of it's authentic nature is through it's reflection in our consciousness from our personal experience. This is why no two descriptions of it from different people will ever be exactly the same, similar yes especially if they share common personal experience but it's revelation is as individual as each of us are. Even the way it reflects in us revealing it's nature appears to transform as we evolve mirroring our growth, it's our changing that creates this appearance of change, not it's changing. This is why I avoid describing the exact details as much as I can, I realize it's such a personal revelation only I will fully appreciate it and it may only serve to confuse others without their own awareness of the absolute. Does that make any sense?

@blazed The challenge is communicating something indescribable. Is that an organic free range meal worm fed small farm locally-sourced egg you want me to suck? Nevermind I'm going vegan.

Anybody can awaken to being as long as they are asleep to it, except animals, they aren't asleep to being. Yes, your dog and cat are a zen master always being, what's your excuse? Haha.

@Faceless Gah please stop the spinning wheel my friend it will make you dizzy. I said I'm not about truth, I'm about well being... now... here. So using love with it's characteristics of acceptance, embracing, faith and surrender filling whatever may be the self dispels any fear and creates a sense of well being bringing joy, peace and fulfillment. That's it, got nothing else on it. The details about the "truth"? Well, I'm on a need to know basis and I don't need to know...so..... We cool?

@Monkey-man What is before it....and all during it......now....so be it.

This begs the question to be asked.... how does one know that nothing can be known?

@Faceless The physical manifest is created through love but it is kept through fear. It is embraced, pulled together in love but it won't let go, gripped in fear. This includes self identity.