Truth Addict

Share your understanding of lies/illusion. Just gathering perspectives for a potential future thread.

Maybe I'm just tired, but all I really want right now is silence.

I realised that I believe that that's how it works. In other words, that's the paradigm that I've limited myself to operate from. Maybe further questioning will remove that paradigm and then I'll become able to create stuff merely by my will/thoughts? Interesting possibility.

Being is so obvious that it doesn't even require you finding it. Being is always the case. That's what makes it tricky. Being does not require knowledge or understanding. In fact the knowledge and understanding are being.

@Angelite @Jkris It's not that I convince myself of things at will. I don't choose what I believe, just like I don't choose what my next thought will be. When a belief is operating, it's truth in its existence, and true in its content. Whatever I believe is a lie becomes a lie. That's how I create the concept of untruth. Again, I don't choose what I believe in. It's all planned by God. Haha! No. Those insights cannot be lies, because once you have seen beyond your ordinary potential, you will see that you are more than what you seem to be. Infinity cannot be a lie. Still, with the proper (rather improper) thoughts/paradigms, I can convince myself that those insights are lies. Imagine a 100 Mega hertz CPU that has suddenly become 100000 Giga hertz. How can you believe that the 100000 Giga hertz CPU was a lie? The 100 Mhz CPU creates a concept of a dream or a hallucination, and then attach that concept to that state.

Okay. Thank you so much ❤️ Although I'm not sure about depression, it's been a very very long time since I've experienced any.

@Angelite You will not be able to fathom what I have to say. I'm not trying to convince you of mysticism or of leaving your religion. If you love Islam so much, then by all means, hold on to it. What do you want?

That's called religion, not mysticism. God is beyond definition or description. Even if I say God is everything, it still doesn't seem fair. God is beyond Itself. What do you mean by this?

@Angelite Don't get me wrong. Religion is great, but mysticism is a whole 'nother thing. Religion hardly teaches true mysticism.

Yep, without the help of psychedelics and without willing it at all! I am the luckiest one!

Because God becomes formed when it identifies Itself as thoughts (I am this, I am that). The formless God is infinite and it's not identified with anything (I am everything, I am nothing).

@Inliytened1 Thank you David. How do I prepare for the backlash?

I'll try it for a few days and might give my opinion.

Now that's what I call epi-funny! ???

Bingo! Applies also to your whole post.

Then again, maybe you're right

Well, maybe not whatever you say

That was not an attitude. I meant it literally. Whatever you say/think/believe becomes the truth.

You believe that you prefer so

@mandyjw I meant to say that whatever you say/think/believe becomes the truth.

@rNOW You've succeeded in disidentifying yourself from external factors. You've created a gap between 'you' and 'other'. Now that you've become aware of how suffering gets created, it's time to collapse that gap. It's time to take no-suffering to the next level, peace of mind. Take more. Reject less. Do more. Think less. Soon enough, that peace of mind will turn into happiness, and that happiness will turn into bliss.

BUT, according to that premise, unless you're already balanced, you can't be objective, so?

Whatever you say.

@tsuki Whatever you say. Thanks.

@tsuki I don't get it. How can there be something that doesn't exist. How is illusion real but is not existing? Is the interpretation of truth what you mean with the word 'illusion'? If so, Is not the interpretation being? What I mean by the word 'appearance' is one irreducible thing, be it thoughts, sights, sounds, interpretations, etc... or a mixture of some or all of them. We might as well call it 'the present moment'. Or, is the relative a lie?