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Absolutely.

I just chalk it up to the fact that everything in reality is connected, by virtue of being everything. There ultimately is no difference between anything, even physically speaking. All the words you are reading are pointing to the same singular experience. Everything must connect in some way or another at some point because it's all occurring at the same time.

Yes correct. Point being, you don't see distinctions. Seeing doesn't distinguish. Mind does. Mind is all distinctions.

If white and black always exist together, what actually separates them?

You could say it like that. It's just words and definitions you learned over time. If you never learn the distinction it doesn't really exist. There was actually a point where you didn't fear death, until you learned what it is. Only by learning it you can believe that it will happen to you.

If you are looking at white and black, are you looking at them separately, or together? To frame it another way, can you look at two colors while looking at only one color?

Two is probably just easier for the mind. You could divide those things into much more if you wanted, couldn't you?

What separates white from black?

What shape/color is a duality?

It's more like an assumption or belief which can be dispelled. Like believing in Santa Claus and then realizing he wasn't ever experienced. Someone who doesn't believe in Santa Claus doesn't really know anything. They just aren't assuming or believing. Removing a belief is subtractive, it's not some kind of knowledge gained.

Duality wasn't created. Creator and creation are the same occurrence. There's no creator without a creation, and no creation without a creator.

It's all one seamless occurrence. Call it psychosomatic. Or the butterfly effect. Or just unity. Spoiler: There really isn't. Just gotta look a bit closer. When is the last time you heard a division? Smelled one? Seen one? Tasted one?

Can confirm this too. You will literally be so sleepy that you'd rather fall asleep and risk going back into it rather than moving and waking up. Super weird in hindsight. It seems that you're physically too tired to move around and wake yourself up, the sleepiness is much stronger than the wakefulness, and so you just get pulled back into it again.

You need an awkward sleep schedule, perhaps combined with previously accumulated sleep deprivation. I could induce sleep paralysis with about an 80% success rate coming home from school and sleeping from 6pm - 12pm and then falling asleep again at about 3-4am. You essentially need to fall asleep twice, the first time should be about 4 hours so that you are tired enough to finish it later. Mileage could vary, and it was very long ago, but doing this always consistently gave me sleep paralysis.

1 banana sliced + 1 tbsp maple syrup (darkest type) + cinnamon = heaven (full of b vitamins) It's very light but definitely an adequate source of energy. I pair it with peanuts and coffee in the morning. The crazy part is how simple it is and yet it tastes better than any other processed food, although I do seriously love maple syrup. It is interesting to see that the taste of maple syrup completely evolves depending on what you combine it with. Combined with bananas it turns into something really heavenly. Working with whole foods makes me realize that less is more a lot of times, in terms of taste. I tried to add peanuts to the above recipe and it honestly took away from the rest of the flavors in a bad way IMO. I just eat the peanuts separately for that reason. The more simpler it is, the more pronounced the ingredients become.

There's nothing separate from the body experiencing a body. Thus the question doesn't make sense. There's no one separate from a body experiencing a body which could accumulate separate things. The question is false because it is asking about something which is never perceived. Like asking "Why is the sky green? Explain it to me!" Divisions don't explain divisions, they just create more divisions to be perceived. Thoughts don't explain thoughts, because there's nothing separate from the thought to be explained. The explanation happens now, so no one experiences what the explanation is describing. Meaning, there isn't anyone from the past who is here experiencing the explanation. If you do a genuine surveillance with your other senses, this is very obvious. But there is a confusion that happens with thoughts. For example, there is no such thing as seeing in the past. There isn't a seer which can be seen, there isn't a hearer which can be heard, etc. All the senses are self-contained perceptions which only ever occur now. When it comes to thinking, there is an error which says that there is a thinker which can be thought of, which is not actually true. The thinker is never experienced because it is a belief. Understanding is separation. It is a narrative. Narratives are about separate things, because they describe things. "Non-dual" isn't a narrative, it says no one experiences narratives. You say you understand, I say no one understands. You say you experiences narratives, like past, birth, body, etc. Those are the divisions which are two, and not non-dual. Who is entangled with memory? There's nothing separate from the memory which is also memory. Thus there is nothing separate to be entangled with anything. Again, it is obvious with all the other senses, but thoughts and memory create a belief in a separate self which is never actually experienced. Duality is the belief that someone is owning your body. "My body"? What's separate from the body? If the body is seen, can you see the seer? If the body is heard, can you hear the hearer? If the body is touched, can you touch the toucher? Look at your perception.

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In perception, no one is producing perception. You don't smell the smeller You don't see the seer You don't think the thinker etc.

Amazon has failed to produce a camera which can record Leo's alien transformation. Such is the spite of the universe. Alternatively, the ever-present non-dualness of the universe is always presently available to be seen and experienced, by any and all cameras. There is no non-dual cockblocking from the universe. All cameras have non-duality built into them by default. Interestingly, I know of schizophrenics who use their phone camera to discern whether what they are hallucinating is physically real or not, and it actually helps them traverse their symptoms. Not a bad tip at all. Some on the forum might benefit.

You can change her direction by focusing on the foot lol very cool

People aren't beliefs, or logic which can be proved and quantified. None of reality is, actually. Wake up, you're in the map! The belief in non-existence has nothing to do with consciousness. It's just someone who likes doodling on a map saying "this doesn't exist, that doesn't exist, this isn't real, that isn't real, I cant wait to reach the ultimate description of reality through this map!"

Your memory isn't actually describing something that happened in the past because descriptions don't happen in the past. That is an assumption about the memory. Descriptions happen now, not in the past. Physical objects aren't perceived in the past, like a shop. Look at your memory, it is comprised of physical appearances (a shop) which must have happened now. Thought says "I experienced that in the past" but it is always relative to now. The actual experience of a shop doesn't happen in the past. You have only ever experienced thinking now, not thinking in the past. Your entire life has always been a single continuous "now", including thoughts about the past or whatever else.

Difference is a concept not experienced. Like "non-existence." Practically, I would suggest looking at thoughts appear and disappear as suggested before. Assumptions don't need to be experienced in order to be felt. If you assume there is a bear in your closet, you will feel fear without seeing the bear. Emotions and feelings happen now. Concepts and divisions don't. Concepts and divisions point to "not now." But the pointing happens now. The emotion is how the assumption feels. There is a symptom (emotions) which is experienced now, but the cause (thoughts) is not actually seen or experienced anywhere. Similar to mistaking a rope for a snake. Investigating the rope and realizing there is no snake dispels the emotion, because the emotion was equivalent to the belief that there was a snake. Trying to stop imagination is like trying to stop sight, touch, sound, etc. Existence can't stop existence. "Stopping imagination" is a thought about something separate from existence that can control and stop existence. The belief that you can or can't stop things is imagination. The imagination isn't actually controlling whether you can or can't stop things, because you aren't the separate thing that the imagination is describing. Just because something is being described doesn't mean it actually exists; check your experience to verify this. Imagination itself is the idea of control, there is no such idea outside of it; it is entirely self-contained. Imagination can't stop anything, it can only describe it, but what is described is never seen or experienced. There is no such thing as a mindset where you have nothing to lose, because a mindset describes things that can be lost. The point is that you can't be described. Not losing anything is just the default state of existence when there aren't any beliefs about separation operating. In the same way how removing your belief about Santa Claus isn't a mindset, there's just nothing left over. First figure out what the problem actually is before you decide to do anything to it. What is an attachment? Look at it and figure it out. Only when you know what it is, then you can make an informed decision.

The key is understanding what it is, not looking to stop it. You only want to stop it because you are assuming that it has some kind of power to it. That assumption is the attachment. And now because of that assumption, you are ironically attached to stopping attachment. The belief in attachment is itself attachment. Attachment is purely an assumption, nothing else. It is purely fueled by an assumption, otherwise it has no other power to it. If you understand what it is, it will lose all of its importance because you will realize that it isn't describing anything that actually exists. There is no experience of attachment, there is only an experience of a belief in attachment. In the same way that there is no Santa Claus, only an experienced belief. This belief goes on until the belief is dispelled, and realized to never have been experienced. The only reason you are attached is because you think you can imagine things to be attached to; but there is no such experience. There is just the assumption that there are objects from past and future which relate to you. Very simply, if you stop imagining the past and future, there is no attachment. Because then there is nothing to lose. There is your "liberation." Attachment is the assumption that you can experience a past and a future. The assumption can be dispelled by examining the experience of thinking. "Attachment" is thinking happening now, and your entire life has been thinking happening now, nothing else.

Attachment doesn't stay. It is very ephemeral. It is like a hologram that appears and disappears. You have to make a conscious effort to bring it up and think about it. Pay attention to when it vanishes and how it feels for it to vanish. If you watch it appear and disappear like that, you will naturally become disillusioned.