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The answer that you are looking for comes from within.

All of that is imaginary. Time is an illusion within Consciousness. Gateau is your imagination. You are imagining that you are not imagining. Remember that parroting others is imaginary and not True. The Truth is in DE. Truth is primary. All others that you imagine are secondary. When you pursue Truth, you are all alone. You are imagining that you are talking to others and that it is not imaginary, but real. There is only DE. No you. No other. No duality. When you are in DE, you will realize that there are no issues, problems, fears, pain, vacation, God or morality. Whatever you think God is, is not God. God is beyond everything you think because thinking itself is dualistic and ego. Rule of thumb: Any time you are thinking, you are in ego. You never left square one. There is no returning. No location. No leaving. Everything is already as it is. Where else is there for you to go if there is no here nor there?

Okay. Thank you. I will keep "looking" at "my" "hand" until "I" can "become" directly conscious of Infinity. I have a conceptual idea that everything I see is an infinite regress, but I need to make it Actual.

Interesting. But isn't Actuality all that there is? Whatever I think is outside of Actuality or beyond Actuality is inside Actuality? I guess that there may be different levels of Actuality, but this is getting too conceptual now.

Awesome. "I" cannot wait to discover the other facets of DE. How can "I" go beyond Actuality and Pure Being? I mean since all pain, suffering, and fears are imagination, what is left is I guess a kind of "paradise" in the Eternal Now or DE. All that there is in DE is complete acceptance and oneness with what is, but I am not for sure if that is what you mean.

Good and bad is also a duality and concept and imagination. When I look at my hand, I see no evil or good. Direct Experience is what it is. Good and Evil is imagination. @peachboy The picture is imaginary. Notice that the map is NOT the territory.

“Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” — Shakespeare

There is no talking happening. It’s all imagination. You are hallucinating this forum, message, and Hiroshima, as well as your entire life. What YOU are is concept and imagination. There is no debate. All debating does is it adds more concept and imagination over more concept and imagination. DE is all there is. Anything you say is outside is DE is inside of DE. That’s all concept and imagination. I already manifested it and uploaded the pic in my imagination. Now what? Notice that chocolate, hazelnut, marshmallow, Amy Barrett, etc. are concepts within imagination. Behind that picture is a thousand words and a thousand ideas and beliefs. Words, beliefs and thoughts are concepts and imagination, not Truth.

Solipsism is imagination. Preaching already assumes duality as truth. Hiroshima is imagination. NPC zombies are imagination. No experience is imagination. You are imagining it. It is the story your mind is playing. Notice that you are imagining it. Notice that DE is all that exists. NOW is the only thing that exists. Anything outside of NOW or DE or Consciousness or whatever you wanna call it is imagination within Consciousness. The idea that you are the only thing that exists is imagination. The idea that other people exists is imagination. There is no self or other. All of is duality and imagination. Let me ask you this: Do you believe that you are sitting or standing on a round planet called Earth that is orbiting around a sun? Notice that all concepts, thoughts, ideas, and beliefs are false, which means that they are not and cannot be true. Truth is prior to all concepts. What happens when you get rid of all that is false? Only Truth remains. Watch Leo’s video on Actuality vs Concept. It really helped me out. Reality is imagination is another video you should watch.

All that exists is Direct Experience or Consciousness, or whatever you want to call it. The name of This has no actual name. All names are dualistic, finite, and limiting. Whatever it is, It is what It is. It is as it is as it is.

All of that is imagination. Your own birth is imaginary. The only thing that exists is NOW. Everything else is imagination. Look at your hand. That is Absolute Truth. It’s not dismissing. It’s realizing what it is. It is imagination within DE. Me too. This is a preference and has no moral truth to it. Morality is emotional, not logical, rational or even true. Logic and rationality are tied to emotions. In other words, it’s a tool of the Devil.

Look at your hand right now. That is consciousness. Ideas about No consciousness, God, or whatever are concepts and imagination. When you look closely at your hand. You will realize that there is no hand and no looking, but rather just Pure Consciousness and Being. That is the Absolute Truth.

All other minds that you think exist are imaginary. Homeless guy is imagination that exists within Direct Experience (DE). There is no different point in eternity. Again. The sandwich, the homeless guy, and everyone who judges are imaginations within Consciousness. Choice is also imaginary because it implies someone who is choosing, which is also duality. When you have non-dual awareness, there are no distinctions between anything. You won’t even have an idea of an earth or your own name because all of that is duality within nonduality. No such thing as objective anything. All you have are first-person appearances in Subjectivity. Who is it that decides whether you are selfish. How do we know that they are right? Another thing to consider is that selfish cannot exist without selfless. If somehow selfishness is able to be found on a tree, it is the selflessness of the tree the allows it to exist. They both define each other. Without selflessness, selfishness loses all of its meaning. But then again, there is no meaning. It doesn’t matter if you are selfish or selfless from Absolute perspective.

Nothing can be outside of NOW. Even a myth about a world outside of NOW can only occur in the NOW, which seems interesting in and of itself. But even to call it a myth adds more imagination to the imagination that is happening NOW.

So I watched Actuality vs. Concept (great episode btw). But a question came to my mind after I read Jed McKenna’s chapter on the veil of perception. Jed basically tells us to look at our hands and notice that we do NOT and cannot experience them directly. We only experience the world indirectly. We do not experience ACTUAL reality. The only thing that is perceived is consciousness or perception itself. There is no evidence that our perceptions are based in reality. I find the basic idea of “direct” experience to be true. There is nothing outside of consciousness. I think of consciousness and “direct” experience or actuality as the same thing. However, since we do not experience reality directly, we should just call it “experience” or “consciousness” or “actuality” instead of “direct” experience because this notion of direct experience seems to imply that we have a direct experience of reality. But the fact is, is that we do not know if reality even exists. I mean if our imaginary brain is perceiving the world, then this shows that we only have a secondary experience of reality. Everything else is being interpreted by imaginary neurons and nervous system, which is itself an idea. So we do not experience an ACTUAL hand or ACTUAL reality, but the perceptions of a hand and reality. Consciousness itself and the room I am in now is what I think is meant by actuality, but we should not call it “direct” experience. To you, my room and “me” is a concept, and even “you” and your rooms are concepts to “me.” Gosh this is confusing lol. Man I am literally typing to an imaginary friend lol.

LMFAO!@@@@@@@!!!!! 5 mins later, I am still laughing!! but I realize its all just imaginary, which makes it more funny!! LOL!!

No. There is no purpose to life. Look at your hand right now. Notice what is Actual. Purpose and Meaning is not something found on your hand or in a tree or in the universe. Meaning and Purpose are a projection of your mind applying value and worth to something when there is nothing. What is the meaning of money? Money has no intrinsic meaning or value. There are no intrinsic values. Money only has worth relative to you. We are not meant for that. Enlightenment is devoid of all meaning and purpose. It really doesn’t matter if you wake up or remain asleep. It doesn’t matter if the the human race goes extinct, or if the earth or galaxy vanished. Meaning is relative to you, and it is what you create. Existence is prior to essence. Whatever you think Enlightenment is, is false. All of your beliefs, ideas, and thoughts are false, which means that they cannot be True in any sense.

Someone or something is what you imagine. No thing is conscious of sound. Sound is just an appearance within DE. Someone behind the mask of persona is more imagination. When the imagination ceases, the persona will cease. The idea that there is a thing watching is just an idea. All that there is, is DE. Snapping your fingers and listening to sound already assumes duality as truth. It implies a listener and snapper. There is just Pure Being or DE Whatever it is you think you are, you are imagining it.

I think we are talking about the same thing, but just using different concepts. I do not have a Self. The Self just is with no owner. When I look at my hand, it is actual. When I am thinking of Infinite lives, it is imagination. But even this is wrong because I see now that there is no looking no looker, and no hand, and not even an “I” that understands because all of that is imaginary. There is no you because you implies a me. That is duality, but it sounds like that what you mean by You is what I mean by Universe. It’s just what is. All that there is, is Direct Experience. What I mean by the Universe is Direct Experience. Everything else is imagination.

Someone else is also imaginary. This forum and everything that I typed so far has been imaginary. The idea that you are a human at a computer, typing on this forum is imaginary. There is no real you. What you are is a concept held within Direct Experience or God or Consciousness or Actuality or Now, whatever you wanna call what is right in front of your imaginary nose. The Absolute Truth is NOW and it is Eternal. Existence is in your Direct Experience. Anything you imagine to be outside of your Direct Experience is still inside your Direct Experience. There is NO you that is experiencing the Universe. Rather it is the Universe that is pretending and imagining to be you. This life is just a play, and this forum is full of actors. But even to say all of this is too conceptual and takes us away from what is Actual. You are That.

The brain, Coronavirus, emotions, politics, and the external world are imaginary.

Very nice thanks this helped me. I ultimately realized as I was looking at my hand is that there actually is no hand. All that is there is what is there. A hand is a distinction in direct experience. The Waking Up app has also helped me out with the concept of headlessness that Douglas Harding discusses. Richard Lang who is one of Harding’s disciples has a practice session on the app that I think is quite helpful.

@Shin I think he means that the story about color (coming from light rays into my optic nerve, rods and cones, and being transferred and perceived by my brain to be color). when I am just with the color red fully, all that is there is the Direct Experience of it with no imaginary story behind what is being Directly Experienced. Even the story of me seeing red will vanish, and it will be just Pure Being. And there may not even be a “color red” because that itself is an imaginary distinction within Direct Experience. @kai0 Feel free you correct my interpretation of what you said. It is just my imagination of what I believe you meant.

@Leo GuraThank you so much again for your help with my journey. That Actuality vs concept has to be like the MOST important videos of yours, but that is just a belief, concept and imagination. I am starting to see the Actuality is essential to any meditation because like you said we want to strip away all concepts and baggage to have the NOW raw and fully experienced. Very good. Thank you!