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There’s a book that I would like to read that I feel it has to be with this called The Game of Life and How to Play It Written in 1925 I’m not sure if it’s a good book but definitely the title sounds interesting.

What do you think? I am learning to program some video games in Godot and other game engines. I feel like life is a game. We imitate what happens in Reality with our video games, also with movies, etc... art is life. Not sure if this topic if for this part of the forum, but just wanted to know what do you think about it and share POVs.

I realized some more things... I remember now... one is that sometimes we feel that life is difficult, I always wondered. Why sometimes things are complicated? If I am GOD then I can do it easier... but look at the games, we build them with difficulties, if it was easy it wouldn't be fun... I think that this pattern is repeated in real life too. Same as other games, like soccer, sports... we practice them because it requires effort, soccer you can't touch the ball with your hand. We could it in a way were you can do whatever, but it would make no sense. So the difficulties in life are there so we can grow.

I would go with Ramana calling it "That" hehehehe...

Basically is a matter of 'words' some like to call that God (you) others simple "you" as you has said. The main problem is that it can't be described with words. Anything we say is wrong basically.

I ordered the book... thanks for sharing :-)

@trenton I think video games come help too in some ways, because I more and more feel that what we are experiencing is also like a video game... hehehe... we try to imitate life and probably consciousness in ways that we don't know... there's a childhood song that reminds me of that always... row row row your boat.. and you know how it ends... life is a dream, a game...

I used to have a lot of times sleep paralysis as a teenager but not anymore and only once I had a lucid dream but it was spontaneous. I am trying now some techniques but not luck yet hehehe... interesting experiences. :-)

@Yimpa Did it work before or never worked for you? Trying to guess why it happens. There's also a limit when you upload images and you need to delete some before adding more or changing to a new one... not sure if that's the problem... Maybe @Leo Gura know better about that hehehe...

Leo said the website is perfectly cell phone friendly so there's no need... :-)

It happened again one day I was sitting in the dentist chair and he was doing a root canal hahaha... and I felt clearly I was doing all the work to myself. Crazy... it didn't happen again since that day. I think is just knowledge that we receive in certain moments so we know what's happening in the background.

I was sitting in the computer, I am learning some game mechanics in a game engine and I was feeling like I am not really learning anything. I felt that the information was flowing and there was no one learning. It was weird, I don't know how to explain it in words. The letters were in the screen I was looking at a tutorial in youtube and the information was just flowing and no one was there learning, it was just a free flow. Then there's the idea that someone is sitting in front of that computer learning and someone else have done the video so I can watch it and learn but the truth is nothing is there. There's just reality making its own thing. :-)

Lol 😂

Everything is a dream...

Enjoying this post a lot. Thanks @A Fellow Lighter

God is famous but no one notice him. He's a great magician. Everything was created by him, but no one knows him. In the end, all will be surprised when is revealed. Lol.

There’s no privacy for the whole, for God. Luke 12:7 But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.

I don’t see any poison

I want to talk something about Christ here because I see that there are some posts on the subject and it seems to me is worth to explain the message of Christ a little more clearly, since he used many metaphors and many confuse metaphors with strictly exact, textual things like it is written in the Bible. And it's not like that. First point before some may say that "Jesus does not exist” and that he is a creation of the mind. True, but I think we should not go so meta to explain some things first. Many times in the forum we go to much non-dualism and go to extremes. To talk about the subject we have to move in the field of dualism. At least for a bit... Jesus constantly spoke from the non-dual point of view and moved on to dualism. That confuses many but it also teaches, impacts, creates shock and that helps to transmit the message, remember that he gave the message more than two thousand years ago. Many including his disciples did not understand his message well and that is why we have a church like this now. Confused, transmitting a wrong message that in my opinion does not help anyone to get "salvation”, "liberation”, "Enlightenment" or whatever you want to call it. I'll try to be brief. Difficult thing on this subject. The history of non-duality is clearly seen in Genesis. Genesis tells us that we lived together in paradise with God. Basically it is a metaphor of the moment that everything was not manifested yet. And the moment that separation from God is created is when we "sin". The devil offers the forbidden fruit to the woman and her to the man and thus we are separated from everything. (Remember this are metaphors or stories made long time ago) That is, at that moment the idea of separation is created. God Himself creates that idea, because everything is created by him, by his mind. So the devil in this case is also his creation. In the Bible it is said that the devil has a purpose, if you ask a pastor or priest they don't know how to explain well why. But if you understand non-dualism you will realize that the purpose of the devil is to create separation, and that way we can have experiences in the world. The Bible itself says that God gave the world to the devil. It is basically a symbolism similar to the idea of Maya from the Eastern religions. We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. (1 John 5:19) That's how it all starts. “You do not know me or my Father," Jesus replied. “If you knew me, you would know my Father also."(John 8:19) Here it is clearly seen how Jesus had assimilated that unity with God. He saw Himself as one with all, one with the universal truth, one with the creator, one with God. But not because he was the only one that experienced that. He was talking about what he had experienced and that was that he and God were one. But he knew everyone can experience it too… He even prayed God so we can all experience what he had experienced. “I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one—as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. And may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me. “I have given them the glory you gave me, so they may be one as we are one. I am in them and you are in me.” (John 17:20-23) Something that we can all experience, the church has taken it upon itself to twist this teaching to continue with the idea of separation, that is basically what is taught in the churches is totally the opposite of what Christ preached. This ultimate truth he expresses in “I and the Father are one.” (John 10:30) The truth will set you free "Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."(John 8:32) The truth that we must know is the same that Jesus knew, that he and the father (God) are one. This is achieved by experiencing when we die to our individuality, to our idea of an “I” separated from the whole. That is the original sin, to believe that we are separated from the whole (God) and that we can fend for ourselves, for our selfish desires without seeing that we are one with God. With the universal consciousness (for those who don't like the term God). When we experience that unity we realize that we simply “are"... I am.. we are pure existence. That's what Jesus experienced. It is the “I am” that the Bible mentions to us, when God speaks to Moses he says “I am who I am". (Exodus 3:14) To know that truth we must die and be born again. What is this death that Christ speaks? It is to die to our individuality. The need to sacrifice our individuality in order to be born again is a recurring theme in the teachings of Jesus Christ. Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life. (John 12:24-25) Whoever tries to keep their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life will preserve it. (Luke 17:33) Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it. (Matthew 10:39) ‘If any [man] will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever will save his life shall lose it: and whoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?’ (Matthew 16.24-26, and also Mark 8.34-37 and Luke 9.23-25). And there's much more to say but I don't want to extend too much. The last thing would be the very resurrection of Jesus. Jesus had such a strong revelation that he could do things basically like God and the resurrection as a way to show his message to everyone in a dualistic way let's say. His death is a metaphor for the death of individuality and his resurrection was the sign of the power of God that was with him because he had understood that supreme truth completely. Come back to life. Showing the true power of God, which is inside everyone but it is so difficult for us to understand it. I am posting this because I see many posts from Christians (I was a Christian in the way that Christianity is understood actually so I know what I am talking about). I almost become a bible thumper. And that’s not good, and is not what Jesus preached. I still consider myself Christian, because I like the way he teaches, but now I understand his teachings in a very different light and more in his original intention, that is the non dual Jesus. Non duality is the basic teaching of Christ.

Religion sadly fell in the same trap of keep thinking we are separated. The truth is difficult to accept. What Jesus taught was not understood but some have understood. Luke 8:8 Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up and yielded a crop, a hundred times more than was sown." When he said this, he called out, "Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear."

True he asked to repent of our sins. What keep us separated from God? The sin. So the sin is what happened in the original sin. The devil made us sin and at that moment we become separated. Because we knew and we created a god (with lowercase) that is the ego. Repent and know I am.

The word I points to the absolute but we think it is the egoistic I wrongly. There’s only one I who tricks itself in several different and smaller I to experience itself.

I liked how Jesus talked from both points of view when he needed or when he felt it was necessary to transmit his message. When he said "Me and the father are one" he was saying "I am one with reality" or "Reality is one thing so I am that too". He moved from one POV to the other and that made crazy the religious people that finally decided to crucify him. Because they didn't accept or understand the truth.

That's true... you are right. Nonduality, sad, and funny at the same time hehe...