Where are you?

[ROOBIO]

I am here? Where is here? I am 5m away from that tree? Does that mean your body is 5m away from the tree? Or if see a guy and I am 10m from him?

What is the you that I am trying to locate? The perceiver? OK, so when you say "where are you," you mean where is the perceiver of things? Ok, so where is the perceiver of things?

When I perceive a tree, am I in my head? Which is 5m away from the tree, which is in Himalayas, which is in India, etc, we can go forever and ever. It's just a chain of "where" stemming from the head, because you can keep giving another word for where the other word is. So no you aren't even defining a location for something. You are coming up with more perceptions and words to define a location for the previous word, which in turn is leading to nowhere.

So you are still here by actually struggling to find where you are. The stories you give yourself are there to make comfort for your life, they give your life a grounding. But really, there is only perception. So even the question: where are you? is a perception within the sea of perceptions.

And you are the knowing of the perceptions. So where is that?

When I look at a tree, is the act of perceiving happening in my head? Or is it happening "as the tree is known", is the tree self-knowing? Is that where I am? But if every perception is self-knowing and that is where I am, I am not located. Location is happening inside what I am.

 

Edited yesterday at 12:34 AM by ROOBIO

[Hojo]

You are outside the universe. Looking into it. Close your eyes that space is outside of the universe.

As if the big bang never happened you are looking into a tiny hole that contains everything.

Edited yesterday at 01:40 AM by Hojo

[Eskilon]

2 minutes ago, Hojo said:

You are outside the universe. Looking into it. Close your eyes that space is outside of the universe.

Where`s outside the universe？ And what is outside that?

Edited yesterday at 01:42 AM by Eskilon

[Hojo]

@Eskilon the universe is surrounded by a void of nothing. Like a black hole ate the whole universe.

You are the black hole that ate the entire universe looking inside of yourself.

Edited yesterday at 01:49 AM by Hojo

[Hojo]

@Eskilon The 'outside' is the identity of the thing. The set of all sets. Its the name 'God'. Its whatever God is.

Edited 4 hours ago by Hojo

[Joseph Maynor]

Metaphysically, once you have an original thing presupposed; then a  relation becomes something that then needs or tends to want to be defined.

[Yimpa]

I am IN LOVE.

With CONSCIOUSNESS!

Consciousness is IN LOVE with ITSELF!

Talk to me? Tell me your name!