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Exactly. We can’t “know” the truth. We can only be the truth. that’s why Jesus said “I am the truth” sorry for the late response

Are you suggesting that God must "die" in order to be truly omnipotent? The issue IMO, is that God is everything. If God "dies," He still is, because even death, non-existence, or the absence of self is within the scope of that everything. Whatever exists in any state... being, non-being, presence, absence is still part of what we call God. Consciousness, Brahman, the Self, That... which ever name you choose... is beyond dualities like life and death. It is not subject to creation or destruction. Even the idea that "He is not there" is still encompassed within the totality that is God. In essence, God doesn't die or live. God is... always, in all forms and in formlessness. Outside all concepts, including the concepts of existence and non-existence. It's better not to create ideas of what IS... IMO

Are you asking from the point of view of the ego and body or from the point of view of the true self? :-)

Glad to know that! :-)

Everything you currently perceive in the so-called "real" world is ultimately not real. The ideas you form about reality are mistaken, because they arise within the illusion (within Maya). Even if someone like Leo has directly realized the truth, the moment he tries to express that realization, it becomes just another concept, another idea within the illusion. In truth, nothing that can be thought or spoken is ultimately real. Not even your most profound ideas. Consciousness, or Brahman... is the only reality. In order to experience multiplicity (the appearance of being many), Consciousness manifests matter, what seems to be "not-itself." But even that apparent "other" is still Consciousness. There is nothing outside of It. The One appears as the many, yet remains unchanged. The totality (Brahman) includes both what appears to be, and what appears not to be. It is beyond duality, including both form and formlessness. The truth cannot be grasped through words, teachings, or the minds of others. It can only be known through direct realization. And when you do realize it, you may feel compelled to share it, but the moment you put it into words, it is no longer the truth. Because the truth is beyond language. It is Being itself. Don't cling to any idea of concept and don't take anything as the "ultimate truth".

And so are you

There's no "you" that knows anything

I have breakfast

The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth—it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.

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...