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That's how it appears. Once you are alone that's your real self . As soon as you leave your house and meet people you put on a thousand masks . Water appears real in a mirage but its not really there . In a nighttime dream an entire world appears real which is not really there . Don't judge by appearances. People appear as if they are unenlightened delusional fools ..but that random guy over there might be more enlightened than you . You never know. We are supposed to hide our authenticity from others .

@Inliytened1 I don't solipsize anymore

"Nothing " is ultimate substance of everything ..where everything came from and what everything is . Where are the universe ?Where is it existing? Like we exist inside the universe.. right ? Then where does the universe exist ? Let's imagine that the universe exists in some sort of container that is bigger than it ...OK fine ..but that is just pushing the problem back one level ..because we have to ask where does that container exist ? And immediately you should see that we are facing the "turtles all the way up " situation here. Existence has no beginning or end . And therefore it exists quite literally in the nowhere. But that's the macro level that I just explained..let's consider the micro level . What do you think is the building blocks of existence? You might say atoms . But of course you have to ask what are the atoms made out of ? And again you are just pushing the problem down one level and we are facing a "turtles all the way down "again . We can do the same thing with Time as well . At all dimensions you can look at it ..the substance of everything is nothing . The location of everything is nothing. The destination of everything is nothing . Bur of course you can't see the nothing .

@Inliytened1 I don't see why you think that response was AI. He is saying there is no such thing as "nothing " in actuality and that "nothing " exists only in imagination or a concept. I'm not saying I agree..it's deeply misguided and cofused but that's what he thinks in any case .

You mean OP ? I don't think it's AI .it reads like a curious human asking.

Ultimately speaking of course anything is just what it is as it is in direct experience. Red is red .thought is thought .the taste of honey is the taste of honey. They are that and there is nothing more fundamental to ground them In. Relatively speaking we can define things in relation to other things or by categories . Like red is a colour or a human is an animal. In case you're asking what's the substance of everything or what is anything at all ? It can't be said with words.

Tony Parsons calls it "the open secret " because everyone knows it . I assure you that no one on this earth doesn't know this deep down (to varying degrees though) . They act and behave differently though not from this understanding as you yourself told me that the body still requires money to live etc .

This song gets me high lol.

Yes ..right . God is also a pointer .call it God..no self ..nirvana etc.

If you want and you can and you are going to be a responsible caring father ..go ahead .nothing better than a kid laughing at Tom & Jerry to show you how adults are full of shit .

"Nothing" is not the absence of something . Conventionally when we say you have 1000 bucks in your bank account then that's something. If you have zero dollars in your bank account then you have nothing . The simplest way to put a label on objects. An object is a something. Lack of objects is nothing . But the word nothing in spirituality (like Sunyata in Buddhism) is meant to describe no ultimate substance to reality . You could zoom into reality forever and you won't find anything ..you will just find more and more infinity .also things are always changing. Nothing stands still even for a microsecond .constant flux. There are different ways of looking at it .

@Dodo 1- It didn’t crumble at all and i didn't get triggered or feel offended at all. Re-read the entire conversation again and pick who's the one angsty and who's taking it lightly and joking around . 2- Robert Adams is like one of the most spiritually awake people ever but unfortunately he is extremely little known and underrated. 3- didn't Jesus say to love our enemies? I'm bringing up Jesus because I remember you admire him . 4- how are you feeling today ? Are you closer to love and light and god and goodness and truth ? Isn't that all that matters ? Why are we playing ego games ?aren't we supposed to be above that stuff ?

Exactly.

In the sense that this realization of no self promises nothing to the self Illusion. You see through your own illusory identity and you see through others as well but that doesn't make you special or superior to others nor absolve you from playing the social game and acting like a clown to fit in society and all the nonsense of human existence. So it kinda cancels itself once you become super conscious of the self illusion you don't crawl up in a corner somewhere but you play the social game even better.

@Dodo you do realize you are doing the same fucking thing lol?

@Dodo you don't even know who you are ..and now you know who I am and what I do ? Lean on to the humours side of life .

@Dodo know thyself . If you still don't know who you are that's a you problem.

Because you have a dick.

Right .its relative . Yet you take the no self thingy as absolute truth and unquestionable and blatantly obvious when you do know it too is relative and not obvious .

"God-Consciousness " is solipsism missing the ism.

Do you struggle emotionally with the solipsism thing ? I don't anymore . You can take the fact that its all you as a bad thing or as a good thing .in fact ..the best thing ever . You're in heaven once you realize those annoying mofos called others are not real . Robert Adams said the whole world could spit on my face and I won't even give a flying dam..I would just laugh .

@VeganAwake is suffering funny though ?

Yes of course. This present moment did not come from the past . You are imagining the past in the present not the other way around. Keep losing your mind .awakening is a radical thing .

@VeganAwake I don't exist at all. Why u talkin' to me? 😘