What is the thing you became directly conscious of that is usually taken as a belief?

[thierry]

I was curious about this question:

What is something you have directly experienced, something you know from firsthand insight, that most(or some) people only believe conceptually? How does direct experience of it differ from merely believing it?

Or, alternatively: what is something most people consider true that you’ve realized, through direct experience, is not actually true?

 

[Inliytened1]

@thierry God.

[Hojo]

That you cant die, you just go into 0 D. AKA Shiva.

Edited Saturday at 04:55 AM by Hojo

[Yimpa]

You don’t exist is a common misconception. Actually, Existence is all that exists and it is boundless.

[cetus]

On 11/28/2025 at 11:40 PM, thierry said:

How does direct experience of it differ from merely believing it?

Direct experience is like a flame that can never be extinguished.

[UnbornTao]

Does that really matter? Become conscious of the truth for yourself. Short of that, anything you or anyone else has is just a belief, conclusion, or guess - a kind of faith, or at best the notion of an unrealized possibility that is, by definition, unknown - until you get it for yourself. 

[Sugarcoat]

Don’t tell your doctor, they’ll prescribe anti psychotics (that won’t help)

[Mellowmarsh]

On 29/11/2025 at 4:40 AM, thierry said:

What is something you have directly experienced, something you know from firsthand insight

Being dead. 

[UnbornTao]

12 hours ago, Sugarcoat said:

Don’t tell your doctor, they’ll prescribe anti psychotics (that won’t help)

Tell them what - and why?

Edited 4 hours ago by UnbornTao

[Sugarcoat]

3 hours ago, UnbornTao said:

Tell them what - and why?

For example your deepest thoughts about how you think your brain works and thinking your brain is abnormally wired . I told them that because I had some problems so I thought “well might as well try psychiatry I won’t loose anything “ 

It connects to the post in the sense that, the poster asked “what are you directly conscious of”, and for me in the past years I feel , not only conscious of my own mind but it’s like I can sense certain processes in my brain so the science start making sense 

[Schizophonia]

@Sugarcoat You had to listen to Dr Valentin 

[UnbornTao]

47 minutes ago, Sugarcoat said:

For example your deepest thoughts about how you think your brain works and thinking your brain is abnormally wired . I told them that because I had some problems so I thought “well might as well try psychiatry I won’t loose anything “ 

It connects to the post in the sense that, the poster asked “what are you directly conscious of”, and for me in the past years I feel , not only conscious of my own mind but it’s like I can sense certain processes in my brain so the science start making sense 

Okey dokey.

[Sugarcoat]

4 minutes ago, UnbornTao said:

Okey dokey.

When you give up replying to her oddness 😂😂

[UnbornTao]

2 minutes ago, Sugarcoat said:

When you give up replying to her oddness 😂😂