Mason Riggle

I'm challenging the notion of 'self', of 'doership'.. Are you telling me you are growing your hair? You're doing that? If you are, then stop. Can you?

I don't appear to be. Does the path end? "Everything will be okay in the end, so if everything is not okay, then don't worry, that means it's not the end."

'reading this right now' is occurring, along with everything else. This kind of understanding will lead you to the realization that there is only 1 path, and you're always on it. It is very peaceful to know that there's nothing for me to do which I'm not already automatically doing. I am always 'being myself', and I never, ever, have to try to do that.. It's Absolutely Effortless.

When the organism Mason Riggle takes a math test, Mason Riggle solving problems is occurring. I dare you, right now, to do something other than what you are about to do. Think of a thought that's not about to occur to you.

Thoughts clearly shape how my life unfolds. My entire experience is unfolding, and I'm not doing that. Thoughts arise in awareness. Sights arise in awareness. Sounds arise in awareness. It's happening right now and you can notice this.

Why didn't you go through a different thinking process? Or weight out different pros and cons than the ones you did? You can not think that which does not occur to you to think, and you don't decide what occurs to you. There is no 'you' controlling your brain.. your brain is creating 'you' in each moment, as experience.. you are 'the experience of being you' which includes 'reading this sentence'.. this is all you.. the totality of that which you are aware.

I'm suggesting thoughts arise the same way your hair arises.. who is growing your hair? Are you doing that? How hard are you trying to grow your hair? Can you grow it differently that it grows? How hard are you trying to think your thoughts right now? Can you think them differently than they arise? "You" are something that is occurring.. not something that 'does things'.

@Fearless_Bum nice. "Keep it funky, keep it fresh." - Gandolf the Hip.

From your perspective, or mine, it doesn't come from anywhere. This can be noticed directly. What will I think next? I have no idea until the thought arises. But this is true for all of experience. It's happening. Just the same as 'trees are growing' without a separate 'grower' inside the tree somewhere 'growing them'.. thoughts are thinking, without a separate 'thinker' who 'thinks them'.

No worries! We are all expressions of Universal Love.

Also in the article, at the end. - "There are many competing hypotheses about the ultimate fate of the universe and about what, if anything, preceded the Big Bang, while other physicists and philosophers refuse to speculate, doubting that information about prior states will ever be accessible." (settling for 'we can't know what came before, so nothing came before, is like looking at a safe you can't open, and coming to the conclusion that since you can't know what's inside, there isn't anything inside.) I did a little contemplating on my lunch break, while I was driving. I considered, 'how long does non-existence exist?' and the only answer I could come up with, is 'not at all'. If 'non-existence' is finite, then it is encapsulated by 'existence', otherwise, how would you tell how long non-existence occurred? If 'non-existence' is infinite, then 'existence' can never be. But existence IS, now.. so I know 'non-existence' can not be infinite. 'Non-existence' can't sometimes be the case, and it can't always be the case.. so I know it's never the case.

Also from the article you shared as your definition of 'Universe'- "The universe is often defined as "the totality of existence", or everything that exists, everything that has existed, and everything that will exist."

@WelcometoReality from the article- "The universe is all of space and time[a] and their contents" There is nothing which exists 'outside the Universe', because the Universe is 'all encompassing'. The Universe is 'whatever exists'.

The key to 'forgiveness' is to understand that everyone is in the same position that you are, which is that there is no 'you' controlling you. You just 'are how you are'. A volcano is how it is.. we can understand the dangers of a volcano without hating the volcano, because we know that volcanos don't choose to be how they are. People are how they are.. we can understand the dangers of people without hating them, because we know that people don't choose to be how they are... they just are how they are.

@Inliytened1 Absolute Self is Absolutely Selfish. I always do exactly what I want[Love], however 'I' is defined. Reality is how it loves to be. It's all Love.

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@r0ckyreed It is literally impossible for me to do other than what I want to do. It's already always happening, effortlessly. I'm doing it now, without trying. I can't 'not do it'.

@WelcometoReality then I don't know what you mean by 'Universe', and I'm not sure that you do either. Please define 'Universe' for me.

@WelcometoReality I am absolutely equating 'the Universe' with 'existence'. There is one Universe, which is the totality of that which exists.

I like to put all my procrastinating off until later.

@WelcometoReality understand that Existence is eternal and has no beginning, no end. The Universe was never born. What comes after the last number in an infinite series? Do you see how that question is senseless, because an infinite series doesn't have a 'last number'? The concept of 'after infinity' is as nonsensical as 'before the universe began'.

When the seed fully becomes the tree, where is the seed? When you fully awaken, where are you?

@Javfly33 figure out who you really are, if you're not that voice. Flip it around.. maybe you are the voice, plus everything else you're aware of. Just putting it out there as something to ponder.

How would you feel if you knew that Wu Wei is always the case, even when you think it isn't? Effort is an illusion. How hard are you trying to be how you are being right now? The answer is always, 'its effortless'.