Mason Riggle

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  1. @WokeBloke so, if a person is an experiencer even when not expriencing anything, then a dead person is a subject, yes? There needs to be an aware 'you' for there to be 'an experience'.. The two are one in the same, even though they 'seem' separate. There's no inside without outside. You might think, other 'experiences' continue, while you don't have an experience, like while you're sleeping, but you have never experienced that. This is an assumption. How sure are you that you're not dreaming right now? You've been lost in dreams before, that seemed so real, you didn't realize it was a dream.. mind is powerful. If the 'experiencer' tries to 'experience itself', all it will find is more experience.
  2. @WokeBloke you think there can be an experiencer that doesn't experience anything?
  3. @WokeBloke can a subject have no experience? Notice that the two are inseparable, like the inside and outside of a cup. There is just the cup. Inside and outside are imaginary distinctions. Observer/observed are two sides of the same coin. The 'imagined separation' between you and not you, is called ego.
  4. @Matthew85 ah.. for a reason. That clears everything up.
  5. @Windappreciator God's plan is suspiciously similar to that of someone with no plan.
  6. @axiom the 'wanting' isn't a literal wanting.. it's like saying 'lightning travels in the path of least resistance... that's the way lightning 'wants' to behave.. that's the path it 'chooses' to take.'. The Universe behaves exactly how it Loves to behave.. otherwise it would behave some other way than how it IS behaving.
  7. @Leo Gura I never do.. I'm just saying, it's a bit redundant and doesn't explain anything. Saying 'whatever is, is how it is, because that's how it wants to be' means the same as saying 'whatever is, is how it is, because that's how it has to be'... or 'because that's how it chooses to be'... or 'because that's how it's forced to be'... or 'because that's how it prefers to be'.. 'or 'because that's just how it is'.
  8. @Leo Gura this seems like adding this idea of 'wanting' where none is needed.
  9. How does God decide what it wants?
  10. I had an experience recently that was rather similar to what you are asking.. I was drifting off as my wife was talking (not to me), and began dreaming, and was momentarily aware of both, the dream and her talking.. the experience woke me up and the dream ended.
  11. I have only tried meditation once as an adult, and it was perhaps one of the most profound experiences of my life.. I feel like it stuck. I haven't felt the urge to meditate since. It was a sensation not unlike waking from sleep. I was finally really awake. Like, more awake than I've ever felt before. Perfect clarity. It's difficult to put into words.
  12. @axiom Is there anything a tree can do other than 'be a tree'? It seems like trees 'do all kinds of things'.. they grow branches this way and that.. they grow leaves and flowers and fruits... but show me the 'tree' that's growing 'it's branches'.. are not 'the branches' the same as 'the tree'?? Where is 'the tree' who 'does what a tree is doing'? Same place as the 'you' who's 'doing what you are doing'.. there isn't one.
  13. @axiom if you 'ARE' the dream character, there's nothing you can do to change the dream. The dream changes. It's changing. You ARE something.. you don't DO anything (other than 'be how you are already automatically being').
  14. @axiom is there anything for you to do right now which you're not already doing? Can you do something different 'Now' than what you already ARE doing? Can 'all of this' be any different 'now' from how it's already being 'now'?
  15. @axiom Nothing and God are identical. There is 'what will'.. or 'what is'.. that's it. Whatever occurs, occurs exactly how it WILL, and there's nothing which can change this.. Reality is already changing as it will. "Any attempt to change what is occurring, is just more 'what is occuring'" There is ONE path, and we're ALWAYS ALREADY ON IT.
  16. @WelcometoReality can one 'choose where to focus' without thinking about it? How is there a choice (how is it my choice) if any thoughts about the choice are not 'originated by me'? This is like saying.. a computer didn't write it's own code.. but when you play against it in Chess.. it's the computer that's really choosing it's moves, as if this gives the computer some amount of 'freedom' in how it behaves.
  17. @axiom typically when people say 'there is no you', what they mean is, 'there is no separation'.. They mean "you = everything there is" and there is no 'separate you' who is 'witness to' everything there is. This distinction is clear here: When my organism says, "I am growing my hair", it may understand that it's 'the organism' that's growing it's hair, automatically (the organism is already effortlessly being itself, always, without trying to be).. there's no separate 'I' somewhere inside the organism who is 'doing that'. What happens is, an organism will think, "I am thinking these thoughts", and suddenly it imagines a separate 'self' (ego) which exists somewhere inside the organism who is 'doing' what the organism does... but that imaginary 'separate self' does not exist... Organisms do.
  18. @axiom it's obvious when you notice it. (should probably be explicit here.. an organism finds it obvious when it becomes aware that it's doing what it does without trying to).
  19. You guys are overcomplicating this. It's sooooooo simple. There is nothing to do, because it's already happening. You (the organism, the ego, God, awareness, consciousness, the Universe... however you wanna define it) don't 'do' anything.. you ARE something, and you ARE it without trying to be.. and trying to be what you are, or trying to not to be what you are, would both just be more what you effortlessly ARE being..