Carl-Richard

If you're thinking about suicide, the last thing you should be thinking about is what happens after and instead what is happening before. Sincerely, get some help. It's possible to get better. Many of us on the forum are proof of that.

I take the things Tate said about himself seriously

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I've experienced my finite experience fade away and seen that it was not essential to myself, hence solipsism cannot be true, because my finite mind is not what is essential. Me looking at another person and saying "they cannot be experiencing anything like this, because I am currently only experiencing this" is to conclude that my finite mind is the basis of reality, not boundless consciousness. Boundless consciousness arises prior to any looking at another person.

@AtheisticNonduality Great, get some adults in there

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Try it!

I'm just balancing out all the threads of the people who cry their balls out because they nutted in their sleep on day 40 of nofap

Yes, it's absolutely crucial. Talking about the absolute is not the problem. It's to have a conversation about relative distinctions and then suddenly flip into to the absolute without acknowledging it which is the problem (or jumping back and forth between them like a jester).

Yet here you are calling them by different names.

To not be able to hold a coherent conversation is not a sign of spiritual development. Keep your absolutes and relatives in order and everybody will be happy.

Yet here we are talking about it.

They're the same thing from the absolute perspective, but they're not the same thing from the relative perspective, which is the perspective we're talking about — you know, the place where we make distinctions.

It's possible to break identification with the human and live from the identification with Mind most of the time. That is what spiritual practice is pointing towards.

Why is not the universe the same as a single human being? The same reason why a swimming pool in not the same as an amoeba.

Absolutely not. The entire universe is not the same thing as a single human being.

True. The only being that is conscious is not a person, so to say that other people have no consciousness is meaningless, because no person has consciousness in the first place. The person, the human character, does not have consciousness. It's an apparent limitation of consciousness, which we refer to as perception (sights, sounds, smells, tastes, sensations, etc.). Consciousness is an infinite being, not a finite person.

The solipsist thinks their finite mind is the only thing that exists, but reality cannot be reduced to something finite.

Do you like that?

I very well know the difference between my anus and my back, thank you.

Make sure to only turn it on at the very end (and obviously no clothes on). You don't want to get desensitized

I wasn't exactly crouching over the fan

Negotiate boundaries?

Explain to me how it works.

Whatever level of suffering exists, there will be people who think it's the greatest injustice, "how could God do such a thing?", etc. The thing about life is that it's adaptive, and what makes us adaptive also makes us suffer. Suffering is what makes us play the game. If you didn't suffer, you would become infinite formlessness right now. Even a person who spends most of their time in non-dual states has moments of resistance, subtle residual patterns that still needs working on.