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Pain is not suffering it is pain. That's why it's called pain and not suffering. If you choose to suffer from pain then that's your choice. So I agree.

Agreed. .but the ego is the distortion between what should be and what is (you had it backwards) meaning the ego thinks things should be a certain way. When it should realize that everything just is. But I get your point 👉 But more importantly what I wanted to add to a great post is that the difference between a human snd a crocodile is not evolution it is intelligence. When you are as intelligent as a human and finite- there are going be costs. It will take a deeper ego to understand things and to become enlightened..to have wisdom and to awaken. But the cost is the risk of falling prey to greed. Due to the finite nature of the human it runs the risk of being overcome by greed and pleasure - paradoxically it is not very intelligent for the most intelligent of beings to get lost in this trap. But it is a trap. And this trap will result in suffering. Yet ironically suffering ultimately leads to growth. Sometimes even to enlightenment. So all things come full circle. And you are ultimately right- one must learn to bask in suffering - for then it no longer is suffering at all.

Have you ever gotten emotional and carried away when you think something you love or loved is being threatened? Emotion takes over and rationality gets left by the wayside at least for a moment. This is what I think happened with this war. Israel has overreacted and in doing so has destroyed a lot of innocent people. I get that. But now is the time for them to take a big step back. I know non-zionists will say that time has long passed...but it is what it is. For the record beheading babies - come on...Israel may be a lot of things but If this turned out true then I will be truly heartbroken. War can change a person- but you can't become a monster - it can only be revealed that you always were a monster. And I refuse to believe that.

Netanyahu has acknowledged it was not Israel's intention to kill innocent civilians. This particular attack was indeed a tragic miscalculation I admit that Israel has gone too far here - I think they will start reeling it in now finally and curbing the collateral damage.

@Keryo Koffa Consciousness, Inifnity, and Nothing- are identical. Your mind is making distinctions between them - but when you collapse all distinctions you will realize that they are identical.

OK. Apologies. But maybe add some commentary to it - just a summary of the video and how it pertains to the topic and discussion. You can't avoid some type of dialogue.

@Merkabah Star do you ever post your own thoughts on such matters? It seems tiresome to constantly watch your YouTube video posts.

He kinda reminds me of Caesar in the War for the Planet of the Apes. He hopefully acknowledges the dark side of his own instincts- but also in doing so he preserves his people. Unfortunately this world will corrupt your values unless you want to remain like Maurice. But if your leader was like Maurice you would be wiped out by those less advanced mentally.

@zurew thats extremely interesting. And an excellent insight. You would think that if you had Infinite memory then you could recall some previous game that was the same as yours and thus know the next move. But this fails to encompass the full capacity of infinity - which is ever expanding into something new. Therefore even if you had Infinite memory - this would only allow you to look into the past. And of course this isn't quite right because you could also say infinite memory would include anything new as well because of the fact that infinity is a big circle. Thus you would think it would encompass everything. But even then, still, It would not include something even new beyond - that Infinity is surely capable of. If you think of Ininfity as a fractal, it is ever expanding. So there would still be something possibly new that would be the present game. So Infinite memory would just be one set of Infinity.

Again- preserving survival. Have you once looked at life from their perspective? Cut down and destroyed at every turn. Persecuted for their land. For their very being. Persecuted for being Jewish. Only until you look thought their eyes can you make sound judgemenr.

I don't think it would have the same effect.

Because they are right there in front of you. What you are trying to do is get as close to actuality as you can. Looking at your hands is actual and it's the closest thing to you.

@zurew memorization would only get you so far in Chess. You could memorize previous games or even a pre-thought out attack - but Chess involves being in the present moment with that particular game. It wouldn't use memorization at all. Its a different aspect.

Is it then that which cannot be spoken? Because whatever it is, according to you - it cannot be an experience.

Duality and non-duality being polar opposites would be still a duality. So you are contradicting yourself.

It may be interesting to observe but it really has nothing to do with the conversation in my opinion. That's no different than saying Consciousness is the same whether it's finite or Infinite.

Exactly.

This is interesting..the way you have tried to direct the dialogue. I tried to suggest that Consciousness is none other than Mind - and when I did you appealed to the heart. Then when I said that you labeled Mind as something different than the heart you said that it's male persuasion. You do love to project! I mean seriously man - we are trying to have a metaphysical dialogue and you want to turn it into some type of male vs female thing. At least years ago we had decent arguments.

You've labeled Mind as ego. But that is just a perspective.

What if Mind and Heart were one?

Nothing wrong with teaching or suggesting. In fact i was just suggesting to you....but anyways I'm not even saying it's completely undefinable or definable. I'm suggesting it could be completely subjective.

The irony. Consciousness enforcing Consciousness.

I wouldn't try to objectively define what enlightenment is to anyone. That might make them believe something. And that would be no better than religion. Maybe enlightenment is whatever it is to someone.

In this thing we call reality can you lift a car with your bare hands? To your point that the self isn't Consciousness- well - you're right it isn't- but the Self is..and what are you if you aren't the self? You just might then be the Self - or Consciousness. So again I ask you- can you lift a car? Can Consciousness lift a car in this dream?

Well then perhaps you should start reading the news. What's the definition of a hallucination?