Whatever you say, believe, experience

[James123]

Doesn't matter.

We are same.

[Joseph Maynor]

Maybe the answer is it both does and doesn't matter paradoxically.

[Oppositionless]

Awakening is contingent on material conditions, that ruffles a lot of feathers but it's true. Reality isn't dependent but understanding reality certainly is.

[Joseph Maynor]

Are we the same?  How can we know this?

[James123]

6 hours ago, Joseph Maynor said:

Are we the same?  How can we know this?

You can't. Strip away all your beliefs, identification and I do the same.

What is left? That's what We are. 

[Mellowmarsh]

Same difference.

Nothing is real.