Mason Riggle

@VirusOfTheCult I'm not confusing the two.. I'm conflating the two... because Everything, which is what there IS, is just One. Everything 'seems to be' happening. 'seeming to be' seems to be happening. Thoughts of 'I am' seem to be happening. 'Everything/Nothing' seeming like 'something' is (seems to be) happening. 'Mason Riggle seeming to be typing on a forum' is (seems to be) happening. 'VirusOfTheCult' seeming to be replying is happening. This is happening. But there is no 'doing'. no one to 'do it', nothing 'to be done', that isn't already 'happening' just how it is, effortlessly, infinitely, selflessly. How hard am 'I' trying to 'be myself' (notice it matters not what definition of 'myself' or 'I' is used here, 'little me', 'Divine Self'.. take your pick)? Not hard at all. 0 effort. I couldn't 'not be myself', even if I tried, because 'trying to not be myself' would just be more 'me, effortlessly being myself'.

@Roy yeah, most have the right hardware, just the wrong software. Notice that you think in the language that you speak. There are some thoughts you can't have right now simply because you lack the vocabulary.

@BlackMaze ? "Can you do that which does not occur to you to do? Who chooses what occurs to you?"

@mandyjw There is nothing for me [the Universe] to do, other than exactly what I [God] truly wish [Love] to do, which I'm already always doing. - Liberation!!

@BlackMaze everything happens exactly and only if and when it does. Imagine a picture with 'hidden images' in it, 'find the hidden object'.. clearly not a difficult task, that almost anyone can do.. some might be able to find them faster than others, but no one can find them 'sooner' than they do. And for someone who has no idea about this picture.. has never seen it.. never heard of it.. they might never find the hidden objects.. they don't even know there is a picture with hidden objects to be found.. When will that person find the hidden objects?? Can they cause themselves to find them? They will be found exactly and only if and when they are.

@mandyjw I wish to be careful about what I wish for.

Actually, it still is what it is, I am just confused about what it is. I never suggested wants are thoughts. What I want is what I want, and never what I don't want, even if I'm confused about what I want.

Do you see the problem here? You can only want what you don't want if [what you don't want] is what you want. When is anything ever not what it is?

Perhaps that will occur.. who knows?

@Nahm like this. <gestures broadly at everything>

@Inliytened1 freely means 'Love'? never heard that one.

@Inliytened1 "It's all happening." "It's all happening freely." I don't understand what the word 'freely' might possibly mean here. Other than how it is?

@Nahm playing the you/You game. Whether 'This/you' is 'Everything/Nothing/God/Universe' or 'a human organism', neither 'do' anything beyond 'be how they are'.

@Nahm no one to answer, no one to 'be free'. "It's all happening, and no one is doing it."

Am I free to want what I don't want? If not, where's the freedom?

Since then, many other realizations have occurred from contemplation (and some help from Leo ). - no self/no free will - relativity/infinity - duality/non-duality - strange loopiness - imaginary reality - Truth/Love/God

@Godishere Just a simple mindfulness mediation. I realized everything is me, and it's all happening, and nobody is doing it.

@Godishere I've tripped 100's of times.. The most enlightening awakening I ever had was completely sober, near the end of a simple 9 minute meditation I tried while sitting at my desk at work.

@Inliytened1 Is the whole Universe aware of itself? Perhaps, and yet here it is, being just how it is.

Consider.. is a tree 'aware' of the sun? How else does it know what direction to grow it's leaves? Awareness doesn't mean 'has the same complex memory and cognitive capacity as a human'.

@GreenLight recognize that you are always 'being you' and there's nothing else for you to 'do'. 'Trying to be like yourself' and 'trying not to be like yourself' are the same thing... both are just more 'what you are doing', which is always 'being yourself'. Your life will unfold how it will. If you want to go to the store, you can ask me how to get to the store, and I can tell you.. but I can never tell you that you 'going to the store' is what you should be doing. Should you want to go to the store? Who am I to say?. only you know what you want to do, and so that's what you do... but you can't want to do anything other than what you want to do without wanting to.. do you see the problem with figuring out what you 'should' do? The only thing you 'should' do.. is exactly what you are already doing, which is 'being you'.. is there anything else you 'could do'?

"God's plan seems suspiciously similar to that of someone with no plan."

? “I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.” ― Alan W. Watts

@Inliytened1 and what is 'imagining' exactly? Well.. it's the same as 'creation'. And what is 'the mechanism' of 'creation'? How does 'creation' happen? Well.. the mechanism is 'duality'... which is just 'pretend limits' or 'pretend distinctions'. How is 'direction' created? Or 'size'? Or 'time'? It's 'imagined' that there's an 'up, relative to down'. There's a 'big' relative to 'small'. There's a 'past' relative to 'future'. Consider.. where are you? Where is Earth? Where is the Universe? Well, you can't really say. You can only 'be somewhere' relative to 'somewhere else'.. but where is 'somewhere' and 'somewhere else'? There's no perspective from which to say. The Universe is everywhere. Anywhere 'outside' the Universe that we could say the Universe exist 'relative to' would be included in 'The Universe'... distance is infinite. How big are you? Relative to an atom, you are huge.. relative to the moon, you are tiny.. but how big is the moon? how big is an atom? They only have relative to size. Relative to the Sun, the moon is tiny.. relative to an electron, the atom is huge... size is infinite. When in time are you? In the middle somewhere? Near the beginning? Almost at the end? You can only say 'when you are' relative to some other time.. but 'when you exists' and 'some other time' only exist relative to each other.. time is infinite. Infinity is 'limitless'.. it's has no size.. no shape.. no form.. it's the same as 'nothing'. And that's what 'you' really are, Everything/Nothing.. Infinity, but you are 'pretending/imagining' that you're not... that you are 'finite'.. that there is an 'up and a down'.. a 'here and a there'.. a 'then and a now'.. a 'you' and 'that which is not you'. All of these distinctions are imaginary duality.. but they 'create' YOU.. all of this, and without these imaginary 'limits', 'you/this' wouldn't 'seem' like anything.

@Inliytened1 "I am. Ohhhhh.. I AM!" - Leo Gura