The Princess Diaries

[Princess Arabia]

After Spiritualists exhausted all their rituals and practices and got nowhere, now it's SILENCE. Silence is the last resort. If I shut up and not think maybe I'll awaken. Your silence is still noise. You're listening to your silence. There's no such thing as silence but only as a concept. Be still and know that I AM. I AM what. I AM dreaming. One cannot even sleep in peace. There's always something happening. Different stages R.E.M. sleep, eyelids flapping and twitching, dreaming about dragons, nightmares, moving and shifting, some talk in their sleep, walk in their sleep, drool, wet dreams. BE STILL? If you can't even be still in your sleep, how you gonna be still awake. 

Jesus, this shit is so immediate and staring us in the face it's ridiculous. It's not even staring us in the face it is the face. It is the ridiculousness. I'm not really telling anyone anything but this over here loves to think it is. Loves to write and talk. 

Oh shit! I don't want to die. I have to keep this shit going. I can't stop writing and say there's no one really choosing silence as a ritual or practice, it's just happening or it's nothing doing that. Then who is choosing to write this. So it's nothing telling nothing off about it's practice of silence but nothing cannot 'not' say anything because that's what's appearing as nothing and nothing is what's being everything. God, don't make me go mad up in here. 

Do you realize why people pretend to not want this stuff in their lives, because it has the potential to drive people mad. I'm just being dramatic and carrying on with my antics. Don't mind me. I'm good. I'll be silent.

 

 

[kbone]

10 hours ago, Princess Arabia said:

After Spiritualists exhausted all their rituals and practices and got nowhere, now it's SILENCE. Silence is the last resort. If I shut up and not think maybe I'll awaken. Your silence is still noise. You're listening to your silence. There's no such thing as silence but only as a concept. Be still and know that I AM. I AM what. I AM dreaming. One cannot even sleep in peace. There's always something happening. Different stages R.E.M. sleep, eyelids flapping and twitching, dreaming about dragons, nightmares, moving and shifting, some talk in their sleep, walk in their sleep, drool, wet dreams. BE STILL? If you can't even be still in your sleep, how you gonna be still awake. 

Jesus, this shit is so immediate and staring us in the face it's ridiculous. It's not even staring us in the face it is the face. It is the ridiculousness. I'm not really telling anyone anything but this over here loves to think it is. Loves to write and talk. 

Oh shit! I don't want to die. I have to keep this shit going. I can't stop writing and say there's no one really choosing silence as a ritual or practice, it's just happening or it's nothing doing that. Then who is choosing to write this. So it's nothing telling nothing off about it's practice of silence but nothing cannot 'not' say anything because that's what's appearing as nothing and nothing is what's being everything. God, don't make me go mad up in here. 

Do you realize why people pretend to not want this stuff in their lives, because it has the potential to drive people mad. I'm just being dramatic and carrying on with my antics. Don't mind me. I'm good. I'll be silent.

 

 

Your honesty shows through your words. Awesome. The 'mind doesn't know', as it is playing out in/as the appearance of WHAT ONE actually is. All out front, and one can consciously engage it to engage the world, both if which are the flow of the entire interaction (i.e., movement within Stillness).

"To live in the world, but not necessarily be of it."

Ciao for now.

Edited May 24 by kbone

[Princess Arabia]

Self Inquiry is a good practice......for the me, for the one needing validation, for the one looking to get something....for the energy that thinks it's separate and needing to do something about it. For the one lost in it's dreamworld. Neti Neti - not this, not that, is also a good practice but for the above-mentioned psychotic. Hehe. Not making fun, just keeping it real and exposing the lies in Spirituality. 

We cannot say it's nothing, it's all one, there's no time and space, no separation, etcetcetcetc, and then turn around to say and believe all the other stuff to be true. Don't excuse it by saying it's paradoxical. Yes, it's a paradox but don't come to a dead end then say oh well, it's a paradox. Its magic and anything and everything is possible. I will keep doing this shit until i come to a dead-end, till I've exposed my own delusions or until i've confused myself. None of this really matters because it's all Absolutely nothing, but why not?

All spiritual practices are doing is strengthening the me, confirming the person behind the mask to be real and showing how processes is the way to go to get to what is already perfect. I'm not saying they aren't good, I'm not saying they don't provide temporary satisfaction or are beneficial in some way, but it's all within the dream of separation and is not doing anything different than when the body digests a piece of bread and the body feels relief and less bloated. Or running to feel fit or walking on a treadmill for exercise. Nothing will get you closer to what already is or make you more divine or closer to your God or further from being a corrupted human. It's all just a bunch of empty nonsense like everything else. 

This is nothing, right. What makes you think that everything is anything. I'm talking to thought. Thought talking to thought. No one is choosing to or not to do anything and I'm over here jibbering on about nothing. When I'm done, I'll be concerned about my day, maybe worry about something for next week and probably utter some nonsense about what happened yesterday or 10yrs ago. I don't know, I'm not a psychic and don't know what will happen next but all I know is I know I'm full of shit and this world is full of shit and there's nothing really happening, it's all empty and we should all go celebrate this thing called life because it's filled with a bunch of nothing that's causing a bunch of chaos for nothing. Yippee. No I've not gone mad, just free, free to write what the hell it wants. Can't stand this freedom shit, it will get me in trouble and doesn't give a rats ass about the person behind it. Freedom doesn't care. IT could only care if it wasn't free. It's scary....to the me. There is no me. There already is no person/me/I/human/individual, that's why we've named and labeled ourselves, and called it something. You don't get it, do you. 

[Princess Arabia]

See for yourself. See if shit doesn't just randomly appear out of nowhere. Go look at the news today. Random shit out of nowhere. Go to work today, experience random shit out of nowhere. Go order some food. Feeling bloated.....outta nowhere. You'll blame the food, but it ain't...it's just random bloatedness outta nowhere.

The rain, the sun, the moon, the stars, outta nowhere. Yes, we'll build some story behind where the moon and the stars come from, but it's just a bunch of jibberish talk. Say it in Swedish, think the English man understood a thing. Say it in Spanish. Think the French comprehended. All a matter of constructs and what we've constructed. The moon is just a moon and the sun a sun. See the sun now? Maybe youre inside. Go outside and see if the sun doesn't just pop outta nowhere. That car just went by.....outta nowhere and going nowhere. It's not just thoughts. They're the obvious. Outta nowhere. Your momma too. Your cyst, your stomach ache. All outta nowhere. You think this is some gimmick I'm pulling, or some nonsense joke prank. All that outta nowhere, going nowhere. Everything. Existence is nothing. That nothing is BEING everything. It's all empty and that's why it's perfect, void of any substance, void of anything. THE VOID. It's fucking miraculously inconceivable, cannot be perceived, cannot be grasp PERFECTION.

Edited May 24 by Princess Arabia

[Princess Arabia]

Sit there and examine yourself. Somewhere quiet. Like when you're meditating and watching and observing your thoughts like a watchman, a gatekeeper. Say something. Just say hi or hello or whichever word comes to mind. Hear that voice. Notice it. Feel the voice chords. Hear the sound. Lots of stuff happening just from you saying hi. Meditate on that one day. How did you do that. Say hi again. Where did that sound come from. How can I hear my own voice. How can than man hear my voice in his ears and how can I hear the same thing in my ear. Two separate ears, two separate bodies, hearing the same thing. 

This is just the tip of the iceberg. Just kindergarten stuff. When you really start to investigate this shit you will see the fucking magic of existence, the unrealness or the realness depending how you look at it. We take all this stuff for granted and call it mundane and how we're bored and lonely and blah blah blah. When you stop for a minute and pause, stop looking to feed yourself, just pause life for a minute, you'll see the water and the fish disappears. 

Edited May 24 by Princess Arabia

[Princess Arabia]

Name me one aspect of society that hasn't been criticized. Hasn't been negatively judged. One....waiting....anything.....anybody.... Not reality not nature, but society. One. Everything that pops up WILL be judged and negatively so in some way shape or form. Just like your friends and family members and spouses and children.

EVERYTHING by somebody and everybody partakes. It's second nature. Notice something also, we're all participating, engaging. Criticize social media on social media. Complain about smart phones on a smart phone. It's everywhere, at all times by everyone engaged. Go live in the woods. We'll be complaining about the trees and the insects and the muddy waters. Humans cannot help themselves. We find something wrong with EVERYTHING.

[Princess Arabia]

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[Princess Arabia]

When you're arguing with someone saying they don't make sense, that's the Absolute showing you how it doesn't make sense. Anything that makes sense to you is you making sense of it. Nothing makes sense. Absolutely. Lose your brain and see how quickly you won't even recognize the letter A.

Jonklpoitbvc doesn't compute because it's not recognizable. Why is the word "good" recognizable and "gfbvcni" isn't. You are not familiar. If you were taught the word "druybnsa" and it came with a meaning, it would be normal. I can't type Chinese here, but for those who don't know Chinese, that would just be a bunch of jibberish too. The Chinese would understand, but you won't. Same species, same being, same type of make-up, but one can't recognize one from the other. You can read this because you were taught how to read English. Get a translator and turn it into Spanish and the Spanish speaking could also comprehend it with the aide of a man-made object.

 Both are humans but one cannot differentiate one from the other only because they were taught differently. Something inside of you is able to read and comprehend one over the other. Both move their hands the same, move their feet the same way, blink the same, yawn and sneeze the same generally, but understands language differently. All taught. Anybody taught you how to yawn or sneeze or blink. No, it happened naturally.

Why are we believing in language. Words. Why are we taking them as true or false. Yes, in the relative world we need that, but if you take into consideration all I've said above, nothing worded or taught can be true or false. It's all made up shit. This is why we debate and argue. Sense making. We're making sense of what doesn't naturally.

Then you seek Truth. How can Truth be known. Truth is you blinking, yawning and sneezing. Truth is you making shit up to make sense of the world, Truth is. It just is. Therefore, there's no real truth, because everything just is. Shut up. That's truth. cry, that's truth. Anyone had to sit you down and teach you how to cry or laugh. Do your mouth like this and squirm like that, that's how you laugh and cry. No. It comes naturally. You were taught what to laugh and cry about. Burn your hand. Do you need to be taught to yell out ouch. No. It came naturally, or however you responded to the pain. The body responds, the mind interprets. There really is no mind so, guess what. Oh yeah, where is the mind during deep sleep, where are the thoughts. You awaken from sleep here comes the mind. Talking shit. Same as when your Aunt leaves, she ain't there anymore and when she returns, there she is. When you sleep, nothing is there, awake from sleep, it's all back. Aunty leaves, she ain't there, she appears, there she is.

Where did the mind go when you were asleep. To the store? Where did Aunty go. To the store? Both were out of your fake awareness. Now Aunty is just a memory. Is the mind a memory when you're asleep. Don't know. Don't know anything.

Edited May 27 by Princess Arabia

[Princess Arabia]

Ever wonder what constitutes death. How does it happen. Obviously, the heart stops. We're still technically alive a few minutes after the heart stops but I won't get into that part because I don't know for how long and how that happens, but I will say that death is weird. Look at a dead person. Where the hell did they go. The body is lying there dead. A few minutes ago, there was supposedly someone in that body alive and kicking. Stab me in the heart, I die, shoot he in the face, the heart stops. What kind of shit is that. You shoot me in the face, but the heart stops.

Drink some gasoline and the heart stops. Why does the heart interfere with everything. Mind your business, heart, that's a stomach issue, not a heart issue. I get old and i die. Why? Why not live on. Why the body dies. How can a stupid turtle or a tree live for 400 yrs, but smart intelligent me die at 75/80/90/100. The tree doesn't have a heart, what's dying. Pluck my heart out and i die on the spot. Tear a limb of a tree and it grows it back. Wtf. 

If I put a bicycle on a porch and just leave it there, leave it there for my whole life. Let it sit there. I'm 20,30,40,50,60,70,80...i pop dead. What happens to the bicycle considering the porch is still there. Let's say it's under a tree or somewhere that doesn't decay. What happens to that bicycle after 200yrs. Does the bicycle rot and shrivel up and turn to dust. I don't know. I'm just jibbering on tonight. Going to bed now. Enough. 

[Princess Arabia]

FREE WILL AND CHOICE:

If you have free will and choice, why can't you stop suffering, that addiction, why can't you stop doing what it is that you hate doing. If you have free will and choice, why can't you choose to die right now, just by willing it. Just say 'die' and die. Why can't you choose to fly. You're limited? Ok, limit the amount of things you feel. Limit the amount of things you see today. Limit your thoughts. Don't think today if you have free will. Oh. That's different. Can't stop that. Thought you had free will and choice. The free will and choice is you choosing the words to justify why you can't stop your thoughts today. Is that it. You have free will and choice to choose how you feel about having free will and choice, is that it.

Free will and choice your feelings today, free will and choice what appears before you today. That's different? Why? How? You're not in charge of that but you're in charge of the body and your own world? Never pee again, never smile again. Can you free will and choice that. You only have free will and choice sometimes? How come. If there's free will and choice, choose to have free will and choice all the time.

Who chooses when and what to have free will and choice about. You? Have it now, choose to sneeze. Don't feel like sneezing. Well, I just had free will and choice to tell you to sneeze now. You refuse. So, my free will and choice doesn't mean the outcome will be to my liking. Sneeze please. That's a demand. No, you're not sneezing? What good is my free will and choice if I can't get the results I want. Can't I free will and choice the results I want. No. Why not? Why is this so complicated. It's either I have free will and choice or not. Why all the reasonings, excuses, rationalizations and ideas. Free will and choice means free will and choice. IT depends? Free will and choice to stop reading this now. Choose to continue reading. Oh, you have to make the choice yourself. Ok. I guess you chose to continue reading. I don't know if anybody will actually read this. Can I free will and choice who reads this. Jesus, by the time I'm done deconstructing this shit, I'll be dead. Maybe I can free will and choice my way back to life.

 

Edited May 27 by Princess Arabia

[Princess Arabia]

BEING HUMAN:

Why do you believe you're a human. What's a human. Someone with a brain, eyes, mouth, ears; a rat has that. Someone that can comprehend and understand, my cat does that. You can fix things and create things and cry and laugh and you have a heart, cells, DNA, I don't know....intelligent, compassionate, kind considerate...some humans don't have that they're called psychopaths. What makes a human a human.

When you were a baby, did you know you were human. If everybody got extinct from the world before you were told you're human, would you know you were human if there was nobody to tell you that. What if you lived in a cave with your parents who decided to play a prank on you. Mommy and daddy decided to tell you when you were old enough to understand that you were a rat. You live in this cave with mommy and daddy till you were 20yrs old thinking you're a rat, now they die and you found your way to civilization somehow where everybody refers to everybody as humans. What then? Now you're human? Mom and dad fooled you? What if they said you were a dog instead of a rat. Now you're not a dog anymore you're human? Just because everybody refers to themselves as human, now you're human. 

You're still there, right. What difference does it make rat, dog or human. Someone says so? Oh, now you're what someone says who you are. What do you say. What would you say you were if you lived all alone in the world. Don't say that? It's impossible? So you're only human because someone had to conceive you and there are others around that says so.

 What makes you a human. Oh, you're not human, you're God. What's God? Nothing? So you're nothing. Nothing is reading this, typing this, understanding this? What is nothing? It's something that's a nothing? So, you're something that's a nothing. You spawned outta something that's a nothing. What are these words you're reading. Nothing? What is anything. Nothing? Hmm, what is God, If you're God. God is love? So youre love. You went from a rat, to a dog, to a human, to nothing, to love. What are you. I know what I am. Confused about who you are. 

 

[Princess Arabia]

Who or what turns on a remote controlled TV? Is it the remote, the person or the TV itself. Did the remote turn the tv on, did the person using the remote turn the TV on or did the TV turn on itself.

[Princess Arabia]

I enjoyed these two videos about Reality. Kastrup and Huffman are featured. I'm familiar with both and always interested in what they have to say about Quantum Physics, Reality and the structure of the brain and mind.

What I like to do is this: I listen to what the extreme non-duality talkers have to say. The ones that say there is no one, nothing is really happening, there's no person inside these bodies, there is no world, all there is is this, the energy that thinks it's separate is a dream. People like Jim Newman, Alexis, Roses Roses, Paul Hedderman, Kenneth Madden. Then I listen to speakers like Katstrup, Huffman and any interesting video with speakers talking about reality, quantum physics consciousness and so on, relatable videos, not just any ole speaker but reputable ones. Whether what they're saying is true or not because they all have skeptics and not all of them agree with each another. Then I try to compare them all and formulate my own thesis on the information received. Even what Leo says. I don't dismiss or accept any of it, I just listen with an open mind and try to see where the commonalities are. What are they all saying in the underlying structure of their messages. 

Simply saying there's no one is a bit simplistic and doesn't really make sense all on it's own, but saying all is mind, the brain constructs reality, particles when observed reacts differently, there's a delay in perception, the brain filters out what's not important, the mind acts like a computer and so on, it makes for a better understanding of what either side really means and it's like putting together the pieces of the puzzle, in a sense. 

When a non-duality speaker says there's no person in these bodies in control and free will is an illusion, I don't just go with that and start parroting without having an understanding of what that means or is pointing to and when I analyze to myself what the other speakers are saying, it's pretty much the same thing. I say, if that may be the case, then that other thing may be the case, and it fits nicely with what that other is saying.

All of this is also done with my observing myself, people, the universe reality, habits, patterns, structures and not just going off of what these people are saying. I conduct my own experiments this way. I'm not a scientist or quantum mechanist or Universalist or whatever but I am a part reality or all of it and I'm not just something on the outside looking in so I can use my senses and intuition to help in my own little experimental hobby. 

Anyway, these two videos I found interesting; and I wanted to put them here for future reference and to re-watch again to get a better understanding. Nothing is concrete in my mind and it's all an ongoing process and it's what I like to do and find fascinating. I'm not hung up on anything in particular but certain things to me are just baseline and obviously the case but even then i'm still open for other possibilities to emerge and shed a new light on things. I also observe how algorithms work and how technology is able to do what it does and compare that to how reality may be structured. None of that can be made possible without the other as it's all conjoined and nothing is separate from another. Algorithms are possible only because of how the mind works, maybe the brain. It's all an experiment to me, and since I'm involved in all this because I am also not separate from it, it's always interesting what i can come up with by also observing myself and also others.

Whether I am or not, there is no self or not, consciousness and awareness is the dream or not, there are no others or not, free will or not, determinism is a thing or not, it's all up for exploration and experimenting with. Everything and everyone is a piece of the puzzle; and even if there is no puzzle to solve, there's nothing else better to do and be a part of than exploring reality and the likes, for me that is. Even the mundane parts of life plays a role so I don't exclude any of it. 

[Princess Arabia]

Silence:

Silence is good. It's refreshing. It helps with clarity, builds concentration, let's the ripples relax and temper down, it allows for wisdom to flow through. Don't get me wrong when I speak of spiritual practices and rituals in a way like I'm saying they're no good or a waste of time. They're not. Clubbing is not a waste of time either. It gives one an experience, especially when they're young to help with socialization, getting to know how you respond and react to crowds, etc...nothing is really pointless. It all depends on the perspective one has of it, how they use it, reflect on it, learn from it, etc.

Silene, to me comes spontaneously. Not trying to accomplish something. Like I'd be in the middle of something and just stop. Silence. Leave the thoughts alone, no observation of any kind, just plain old silence. When I come back, it feels refreshing and a bounce of energy emerges. Then I continue with what I was doing. Or if I'm on a nice walk, no headphones, music or anything, just walking and listening to the air or the trees, or looking up in the sky, or just walking. I can sit there in silence, but I don't try to be silent. I don't use it as a tool to try and accomplish anything, it just happens. That's how I view it. It's a way and a means all by itself. Doesn't matter if it feels good or not, I'm not looking to feel good. I'm doing what comes naturally. I'm not trying to become, I'm being. 

In this way, I don't act, I become the practice, I become it and it becomes me. It is me, it is who I am. There's no point to get at, then silence stops. It's a way of being. Nothing to accomplish. Nothing to say, I'm there now so i don't have to do this anymore. It acts as a bodily function. The body does it naturally. That's how silence is for me. I don't need a retreat to be silent. I am silence itself. 

Edited May 28 by Princess Arabia

[Princess Arabia]

Your breath isn't real. The Absolute appears as breath. Of course, I'm not saying it doesn't appear to be real and without it you'd still be alive and that we don't need air to breathe, etc. What I'm saying is there's no God giving you breath and taking it away. Breath is just breath. Just like a hand is a hand and the heart a heart. Breath didn't come from a creator who gave it to you and can take it away. When you're dead, it's the Absolute appearing as a dead person. Everything is presence being. There's no continuation of any kind, only appears that way. 

The mind cannot grasp or understand (this) because it operates in a linear fashion and resides in the past and the future. That's why I say there really is no mind since the past and future are projections of the mind and doesn't really exists. If mind is all there is, then mind doesn't exist because to exist means to stand out. Anyway, that's all semantics and up for grabs. I'll continue to say mind because I feel like I have one. Whether it exists or not is not up for my debates and musings with myself.

[Princess Arabia]

I wonder what's above the sky. Hehe. There is no sky. Goodnight.

Edited May 29 by Princess Arabia

[Princess Arabia]

I can only start a personal journal for so long till I discard it. I find just talking about myself and my life....let's see...what's the word.....a few words describes that,....a drag, boring, stale, neurotic, narcissistic, psychotic....wait, that's a bit much. Imagine talking about myself on paper after living with myself all day and everyday, that's like I can't get enough of self. That's why I used the word narcissistic - in that way, I mean. I can do it for so long. I'd rather talk about other people (not gossip), life, the world, reality, even if I'm included it's not like talking constantly about what I did today or yesterday, or what I went through as a child or how this or that affected me or how I feel about this person or that person and what I this or I that or I didn't do or I feel or I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I. Lol. I've had enough of I. I want to know.....see I again....I wish that I could.....wait, I again......i never know what.....my, my.,,.I again. I'm sick of I.

 I mean why relive life. Stale news on paper is quite boring to me. Yes, I'll talk about something that happened or about me at times but I can't just journal about that everyday. I will pop in once in awhile but not on a constant basis. Ironically this post is about I but it's not a typical post and I'm trying to make a point about I, so I have to reference the I. Don't get me wrong, I will talk about I but it is sporadic and spontaneous and if that's the thought at the time. 

I tried once to document my spiritual journey and progress and that lasted for about a week or two before I got bored with that and found it a drag. There is no process or journey here, it's all spontaneous and embodied so I would be just talking about myself again. Life is just so spontaneous and freeing that it really doesn't need documenting. It's still a fun thing to do anyway if that's why you're doing it, or why I'm doing it, because if it's to get somewhere with this or to prove a point or something like that, then that's the drag part. I love writing and sharing my thoughts sometimes and it's quite spontaneous. I speak a lot about reality because I enjoy the topic. I, I, I, I...let me get back to I.

 

 

Edited May 29 by Princess Arabia

[Princess Arabia]

I noticed something today. I noticed the empty space. I couldn't stop seeing it. It wasn't a 'glimpse' or anything like that just noticing how everything was visible because of it. We all know there's an appearance of space, but we don't really see it, we see it's contents. Well, I noticed, not saw, the empty space. It's everywhere, of course we all know that but do we really notice it.

We're so distracted with the contents that we overlook it. We're so object-driven that we get lost within them. We can actually get lost in the empty space that 'houses' the objects. The objects are, because the space is. Without this emptiness, nothing can exist (stand out), pun intended. Notice the use of the word nothing there - NOTHING CAN STILL EXIST, but not in the traditional way of existence. It is still present but it won't be noticeable without a contrast. Without the objects this space cannot exist (stand out). This is why something, rather than nothing, exists. Nothing cannot exist (stand out) on it's own. It needs a contrast. 

We say I think therefore I am or I am therefore I think. No, no, nothing exists therefore something exists. Without nothing, there is no something. Something is also nothing. Nothing is all there is but it cannot exist (stand out) without something. 

Now, what we're doing is looking for this nothing. This is what fish in water means. It's abundantly everywhere but goes unnoticed because it is covered with everything. Any and everything is this nothing BEING (everything). Forget about you're not the body, mind and thoughts. You're also not this nothing. This nothing has no qualities, is boundless, shapeless, free,......matter of fact, just describe air, empty space. That's this. 

It is not you and you are not it. There is no you and there is no it. The word 'it' is the best we have descriptively, so it'll do for now. You are what this empty space looks like when observed. When awareness kicks in. There is no real observer; and this space (emptiness/nothing) isn't observing itself. The illusion is the awareness, the energy that emerges within the body that thinks it's a separate somebody. That's the only illusion. That tree is there, it really is and is not an illusion. Well...not really, it's nothing appearing as a tree but it's only THERE because you are HERE. If there is no you, then there is only a body, a tree, space, a butterfly, a car, the road seeing, talking, laughing, sounds, all just "issing", but without anyone claiming anything, like I am seeing a tree or hearing that sound or I am laughing. Just verbs, just BEING, without a subject/object relationship - that's the illusion/dream/ which really isn't happening only appears that way but only to an observer, which is illusory.

Edited May 30 by Princess Arabia

[Princess Arabia]

The world is as it is simply because of contrast. How can there be peace within peace, stillness within stillness. Everything that appears there is an opposite or else it couldn't appear. It only appears to an observer. Can you say anything that doesn't appear is appearing. You say it's appearing or appeared only because you're there to observe the appearance. You see an airplane up in the sky because it's not down in the earth. If planes were down in the ground, you wouldn't see it appear in the sky at the same time. You see a baby crying because you don't see a baby laughing, you see a man running because the man isn't walking, you see a lady eating because she's not drinking and you see a cat meowing because it's not barking. Can you walk and stand still at the same time. No, but one can still walk on a treadmill without going anywhere but that's what we call an appearance. Appearing to walk but actually going nowhere. 

All contrasts, all in relation to, all relative, all subjective. None of it could be possible without contrasts. Something to compare it to. Suffering appears to be a thing because there is also 'non-suffering'. Without 'non-suffering', suffering would not be and could not be. You would not know you were suffering if you didn't know what 'non-suffering' was like. Can you name a condition or emotion that doesn't exist. No, but we say everything exists. No, everything known exists. Nothing exists. Things only exist because of an observer. Without an observer, there is nothing.

The world exists because there is no world. What you are seeing is nothing BEING a world. Without nothing there is no world and without a world there is nothing - just simply nothing. Nothing has no qualities, bounds, limits, etc so the world has to have all the contrast for the world to stand out. Because the world stands out, nothing retracts into itself. When you sleep the world disappears, when you awaken it emerges, both cannot exist at the same time. You can dream of a world, which is precisely what you're doing right now but the world only exists because you do. Go to sleep, do you think the world is there. No, it isn't, NOTHING IS and always has been.

[Princess Arabia]

The Universe is not inside of you. There are no insides and there are no outsides. There is no Universe and there is no you. There is simply nothing appearing as a Universe and a you that thinks it's observing a universe. You are empty, and filled with nothing. Energy has no qualities it adapts to it's environment and takes the shape of forms. Every form is energy appearing as such. 

Take an electric vacuum cleaner. It is nothing without the power, the electricity. It's an empty shell without being plugged into the wall. Energy takes the shape and form of a vacuum and also takes the shape of a socket and wires and whatever else is needed for that electrical system to appear as something tangible. That vacuum cleaner is nothing, that socket is nothing, those wires are nothing all appearing as something. They are all empty and void of anything real. That vacuum appears to be run by electricity but that's just energy appearing as itself. It appears as a shock when you stick your wet hand in the socket. It appears as a burning hand or a painful finger, it appears as an ambulance driving you to the hospital. All empty and void of any real substance. It appears as you saying to yourself I'm full of shit and go burn myself and shock myself and see if I don't feel it.