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None of them are closer to the Truth, they are all the Truth

They are both true.

Mu!

Right? Do you follow...? Are we speaking the same language? Please, this is very good for each one of us... I love Krishnamurti's breaks in speech haha

The meaning of life is life itself.

Lovely description - we are always looking to the future, but never at the Now. Ah, this beautiful ego.

I see in 2D

It is the path you are on that you are seeking, the goal at the end of this path does not exist. It's the means, not the end, that is of essence. Stop and look around - you might see more that way.

@How to be wise Self-inquiry, 2 hours per day, sounds like a good routine to strengthen the ego by projecting in the future - a hope of 'becoming' something. Psychological time ('I am not this, but I will be that') = thought = fear = ego. As to the OP's question - try to be mindful and inquire 24/7, you can do it everywhere, you do not have to be seated in a lotus position for it. Observe your thoughts and everything around you even when you are studying, walking or going to the shop.

Alan Watts had a good analogy here - he said that the ego is like a burglar in a house, who once the police come in just goes to the upper floor, thus to infinity. Whenever you defraud the ego and catch it, it identifies with something else - can be spiritual ego or any other voice saying 'haha, look at that ego'. So there is an infinite amount of watchers of watchers of watchers - until you realize that there are actually none. Infinite strange loop galore.

Something that can bring you even further from the Truth.

Hello guys, A friend of mine just got his hands on some LSD, so I was wondering what a good first (starting) dose is? I have only done mushrooms and salvia once before, but it was mostly teenage abuse rather than spiritual experimentation.

@Serotoninluv Intention is to experiment with it and see what it has to offer in terms of spirituality. Thanks.

Let's involve prizes and awards in order to hyper-boost our egos even more

Eckhart Tolle presents a lot of Bible quotes in a non-dual interpretation in some of his books - definitely made me realize that there was more Truth in religions than I used to give them credit for.

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@Shin It is still real as it is a perception, just not one limited to sight. As long as you can directly experience anything, it is real. It is still not really a 'hand' which possesses 'handness', but rather a feeling without location. Just a guess really - we seem to be quite attached to the sense of seeing as the ultimate portrayal of reality.

Lovely analogy.

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@Shin because you looked at your hand.

Had a similar insight in meditation this morning - that all there IS is the direct experience and everything else such as science and religion is trying to explain exactly that, but that simply brings it further away from what already IS. A good difference between intellectual grasping and experiencing as well.

There stands a distinction between content and actuality of thoughts - for instance, the thought of you winning the lottery is not YOU winning the lottery, but rather a feeling of excitement in your stomach area and a mental image of you buying a new Ferrari. Part of it is actual - the stomach feeling and the mental picture, but the other part is not - you actually have not won anything, albeit your mind tries to convince you that you did. Distinguishing between these two parts of a thought is relatively essential for understanding the nature of thoughts. As for your question, the reality of the hand will be there even without your thoughts about it - they simply try to categorize what ALREADY IS. The thought gives a conceptual understanding, not TRUTH.

Fear is the source of all this judgment and seeking - even ones on the 'TRUE' spiritual path fear they might be wrong, so accuse others of being ignorant to soothe their ego. As long as there is fear, there can be no Truth. What a tricky thing this mind is, Looking at others, but never at ease.

@TylerJ There is a distinction between the content and the actuality of the thought - the content might be your parents, but the actuality might just be a tingling sensation in your stomach and a mental image of them. Thus, the content is not really there [your parents are not in the room], however, that tingling sensation and mental image are what is actually there [as you can directly experience them] - the actuality of the thought.

@Outer The user Flammable perhaps.