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I think the judge "thing" is more about labeling things.

@Dodo Yes, I agree... I think that was the way consciousness gave a big shock to the ego. The ego worst fear is to lose the identity. The problem is that he doesn't know that "For whosoever will save his life (ego) shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life (ego) for my sake (consciousness) shall find it."

@Dodo I had a dream some years ago that I described as "the worst nightmare I ever had"... when I woke up it was like I couldn't think well. I was in shock... In the "nightmare" I lost my identity. I didn't know who I was... I wish I had that dream again. At the moment when it happened I didn't know anything about spirituality. That made me investigate spirituality differently. I was doing it wrong.

@Prabhaker very good book! Thanks!!!!

@Natura Sonoris I see... Ok, here there's a cheaper one but not sure if it is the same quality and it's not very cheap. :-P https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/isbn/9780824828936/

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The only thing I know is that I AM. The problem is that after the knowing that I AM thoughts appear and say "I AM the body" "I AM bored" "I AM sad" "I AM happy" That happens because those thoughts are covering reality.

Awesome Martin!

@Snick what is doubt? I know is a thought, but what generates it?

And even that is only an idea... the mind makes it an object right?

But how that sensation of physicality is created? If there's no consciousness we wouldn't be knowing that there's a body. That's why I think that the body is inside consciousness. In fact there's no inside or outside, but you got the idea...

I had the feeling that the body mind creates the thoughts and consciousness picks up which one is the one needed to experience. Consciousness is the discriminator that the advaita vedanta teachers talk about. But I don't know, just guessing.

That makes me remember a part in the Bible where a soldier goes and asks John The Baptist about what he should be, because he was a soldier and he had to kill enemies. John said "Don't extort money and don't accuse people falsely--be content with your pay." He didn't tell him not to kill...

We are eating ourselves

I really have no idea what I am doing, but I am doing it anyway. I am trying to focus on awareness, observing everything as the witness. And meditating everyday half hour or more. And when I meditate I do mindful meditation with self inquiry. I also do meditation observing an object, like a candle, a glass of water, etc...

Nice @Shanmugam that's good stuff. Now I don't believe in anything upfront but I try to see all the options and keep them "open" until some experience confirms it. And even when that happen I am always open to change my ideas, or a new thing that I discover makes me change my opinion, but I try not to cling to my opinions. I really posted that more to try to show another "side" of the coin but I really don't know if any of the theories is true, because we need to defy the conventional thinking (that is that the brain makes the thinking) and the unconventional (like the one I posted about the heart) we have to double check like the way you did. And we only have our experience, any idea that we get from "other" people is not on our experience and it becomes a belief. Remember the old saying... "If you meet the Buddha, kill him.”– Linji We can not rely even on the scriptures and at the end of the path we have to even let go the idea of enlightenment.

I read an article that people who got heart transplants get the skills or abilities of the person who was the donor of the heart. It was published on an Chinese newspaper that I got in the subway in NYC. We don't know nothing at all. https://www.thesun.co.uk/archives/health/388617/transplants-changed-our-personalities/

How do you know that there's a body?

Is there a brain?

Nice, that makes sense. Thanks @cetus56

I am studying the buddhist doctrine, something that I feel so true and really helped me to understand what was happening to me was how a "person" is created. That is the 5 aggregates of buddhism. I found this on wikipedia: What caught my attention was that Buddha grouped consciousness into the 5 aggregates, and I had the idea that we are consciousness. So, it can't be an aggregate right? What am I missing? Thanks!!!!