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Yeah I just don't see how more than one consciousness can be displayed at a time. I think the universe can only give vision, colors, and thoughts to one person at a time. But I believe all of life shares one being's life anyway. I feel like the universe can only be like one tv screen for everyone's eyes to look at, but inside same body.

I think i get this. This is quite hard to explain or understand unless you have thought of it. I could also ask this question..its like the world is revolving around me because quite literally eveything I physically see is from my own perspective. Its not because of being self centered but somehow a realization of existence. Is this what you mean? Ive been asking myself this ever since I was little. It is quite scary to look at.

Interesting. So I have a few questions about that . where exactly is this "highest POV" ..? Like did you capture it in a jar or something? All I'm seeing is my limited little ego POV which can taste the ice cream and taste the dog shit and the tongue will response as "pleasure =good " on one hand and "disgusting =bad " on the other hand . I understand that I'm thinking the difference between ice cream and dog shit ..but I don't feel like I'm responsible for creating that distinction. It feels like an objective distinction. Like that's just how reality is . It's a given. When we create an imaginary world inside our head, we simultaneously disconnect ourselves from reality. This is simply because our mind can do either of the two at one time .it can either reflect the reality it perceives, or create a reality of its own, not both. Now, what impact our imagination will have on us depends on external factors after all, by itself imagination is not absolute. It is our creation of ideas. Depending on the ideas I choose to create, I will be impacted accordingly.

@Leo Gura is there a fast and easy way to realize metaphysical love (I guess it's synonymous with Goodness with a Capital G) directly? Because I had awakenings into no-self and solipsism and even God consciousness..but I'm still struggling to understand that reality is pure goodness ...to me it seems like reality is neutral . I remember you define Love as the realization that there is no difference between anything. How does that work? Are you talking from the universe's perspective or the ego's perspective? Like isn't there objective difference between vanilla ice cream and a pile of dog shit ?

@Chanratt reality is an infinite fractal . You can zoom into a molecule( or any physical object for that matter) forever. Reality has no limits ..because anything that could limit it should sit outside of it ..and so on to infinity. So reality ends up being absolutely infinite. In all directions and all dimensions. I made this thread explaining infinity,so you might find it interesting and thought-provoking.

Are you talking about pure consciousness ? Because its a state of mind, where you are free from all the mind activities. The nature of the mind is to think thoughts, imagine things, accumulate experiences, and impressions and create a circle of thoughts out of it. Pure consciousness is the purest state of mind. When the mind becomes a witness and no experiences or impressions remains on the surface of the mind, you experience the mind as pure consciousness. When one can feel and experience the emptiness of the mind .. all activities of the mind comes to ‘zero’ and all the worldly phenomenon like day , night, hunger , other emotional parameters- become irrelevant etc .. the person is said to be on the state of ‘pure consciousness'. Or am I misinterpreting what you're saying? Certainly pure consciousness devoid of content is possible .but that's a state that only advanced meditators can do ..and honestly I don't have much direct experience with such thing ..so I better not speak about what I'm clueless about .

Being a man is difficult. Being ‘male’ can be a matter of fact, but being a man feels more like a matter of opinion. A lot of what relates to being a man can be both suffocating and unattainable. Being a man in 2022 means being comfortable with a much broader idea of masculinity. The ideas about what makes a man feel a lot less restrictive than they were in the past. It‘s much more acceptable for men to openly express their emotions, talk about how we’re feeling, be caring and not fit into traditional ideas of what makes a man. There’s still a long way to go, but this is a really positive development in the right direction. In my opinion..Being a man to me means being unapologetically you. It means not being afraid to show the world who you are, exactly as you are. Being a man is never Being afraid to show your emotions, to be the little spoon and to ask for help when you need it. Being a man means rejecting toxic masculinity, embracing your weakness and vulnerabilities. What does it mean to be a man for you ? Is there a clear definition? Specific traits ? Should you be toxic and tough and hard nosed and irritating person to be a "real man "? Because that's the image society is trying to draw for what makes a perfect man . And others who lack these qualities are considered faggots or "beta " males. Curious about people's opinions on this topic .

I don't understand what you mean by that.

@_Archangel_ no .this applies to all kinds of Knowledge. It depends on the observer. Without perception..there is no truth. The question is: Is truth a matter of perception? Perceptions = Seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, feeling and thinking No perceptions = No consciousness = No self awareness = No observer= no Truth . Example: Deep sleep, coma and death. For all we know all of our perceptions are on autopilot without any consciousness selection. Nobody has even seen any perceiver standing apart all by himself totally separated from the perceptions. And therefore nobody has ever seen any wall that separates this imaginary perceiver and the perceived. And no one has seen a truth that is independent of consciousness/perception.

@_Archangel_ Often the truths we tell ourselves are merely fragments of the truth and sometimes they're not really true at all. For example, there are people who believe in God and others who don't. Some say God created everything while others believe in the concept of big bang and theory of evolution,so what is the truth? To believe in God or science. The answer is simple it's up to you what you want to believe. Things we see,we hear have a great impact on us,some we understand some we don't. Our this understanding level depends on depth of our knowledge. And yes it is a matter of perspective, after all everybody's understanding capacity and knowledge vary and so does the truth. People live their lives bound by what they accept as Correct and True. That's how they define “ Reality”. But what does it mean to be 'True' or 'Correct'? Merely vague concept. Someone's Reality can be just an Illusion to someone else. Can we consider then that people live in their own world shaped by their own beliefs. People used to believe it's not possible to hear a voice far away. But today we have made it possible, something that was not true then is true now. This all happened using human knowledge to invent telephone. Truth various from time to time and from person to person, it depends upon how vast our knowledge is regarding that subject. Knowledge is Truth. To know absolute truth we should know everything in this universe, which is beyond human capacity. Absolute truth is just a lie... Or wait who knows might be this concept be true in future

I think this is the most important topic i ever started In this forum so listen up . Today I want to solve a big dilemma and a big confusion that people have philosophically. Rene Descartes (the guy in my profile pic) talked about his evil demon doubt. And How he can't trust his senses because it can deceive him. If we dream and the dream world seems perfectly identical to the waking state ..then how do we know that we are not dreaming right now or in some sort of illusory world fabricated by our mind ? Inside the dream there is a complete universe. It has the appearance of depth and solidity that we also experience when we are awake. The laws of physics are sometimes different but not always .and we meet with people that we see in "real life ". However inside the dream, these things appear to be totally normal. They are all created by our mind. We can walk through forests and cities, lie on the beach or make love. We eat, drink and experience the full gamut of life. How can we tell that the waking experience is not a dream? How do we know for sure that when we sleep, that isn’t a waking up experience for another dreamer, the dreamer who is dreaming us? So the questioner can be phrased in this way: In exploring our direct experience, we might often wonder how much we can trust it. When one sees a mirage in a desert, if not aware of such a phenomenon, one would consider it to be real. Even though its not actually real. The definitive answer to this philosophical dilemma is as follows: It's quite right to suggest that nothing that appears within the mind, the body or the world can be completely trusted or relied upon. The short answer is: Only consciousness or being is certain. However, it is helpful to understand clearly why this is so, to prevent us from ever putting our trust in the wrong place again.. As I said in the dream state.. During a dream, our experience seems to have the same reality as that of our waking state. However, upon waking we discover that its apparent reality was illusory. How then, do we know that the current experience of the mind, body and world is not also illusory? We don’t! What then can we be absolutely certain of? To answer this question we first have to understand what it is that qualifies an experience as being illusory. How do we know that the water in the desert or the buildings in the dream are not real? It is the fact that when we go towards these objects or experiences and try to find them or touch them, they are not there. They have disappeared. The substance out of which we thought they were made is not present. If disappearance is the criterion by which we qualify something as being unreal, then presence without disappearance must be the criterion by which we qualify something as being real. Whatever it is that is truly present, and therefore real, in any experience cannot disappear, because that into which it would disappear would be more real than itself. Everything that appears and disappears must have a background or a support on which to appear. For instance, the screen doesn’t disappear when the image disappears, and in that sense it is more real than the image. Whatever it is that is real in every experience cannot change. For example, water is ‘more real’ than its changing forms of ice and steam. Whatever is real in any experience cannot appear or be born, because that from which it appeared or was born would be more real than itself, in the sense that gold is ‘more real’ than an ornament. And whatever is real in our experience must know or illumine itself, for if it were known or illumined by something other than itself, that ‘something’ (which knows it) would be more real than itself. Nevertheless, even if the experience of the mirage or the dream buildings turns out to be an illusion, there is an element of reality to our experience of it. There is ‘experience’, there is ‘something’, even if we are not sure what this ‘something’ is. What then is this undeniable ‘experiencing’ or ‘something’? What is it that is truly present in every experience? Whatever is truly real and present in our experience must be without appearance or disappearance; it must be changeless, that is, ever-present; and it must know itself. So we can now simplify our question and ask, is there anything in our experience that is ever-present, changeless and knowing? And the answer of course is yes, consciousness Only this ever-present, changeless consciousness can be absolutely trustworthy. An intermittent object cannot, by definition, be worthy of absolute trust, because on what would we place our trust when it was absent? Hold on to consciousness alone. However, what could hold on to that? Obviously an intermittent object, such as a personal entity, cannot hold on to the ever-present reality of our experience. So an apparent person cannot hold on to consciousness. consciousness alone can hold on to itself. It is the only ‘thing’ that is present ‘there’ throughout its own ever-presence. However, it is already itself, so there is no need for it to make an effort to hold on to itself. It cannot lose itself. It cannot ‘not be’ itself. Therefore, in order to know that element of our experience that is worthy of trust, all that is needed is to abide as the that we always already are. That is the only certainty, the true security. So in conclusion..consciousness or direct experience is the only trustworthy thing in existence and the only thing we know, or we will ever know about reality. And that's the absolute truth. Please share your thoughts about what has been said and if you have any questions ..feel free to ask .

@Raptorsin7 What you have to understand is that You can come up with the philosophical idea that you are God or that everyone on this planet is God. You can even come up with the philosophical idea that everyone will one day join their conscious minds together. None of those things I just mentioned can be disproven but it can not be proven either way,I say this because I know damn well that I am conscious of my own mind. I know damn well that I exist, and though you have to believe me when I say that, I too have to believe you when you say you’ve got a conscious mind. The Earth realm will always tell you that others have a conscious mind so long as they are alive (or not brain dead), but remember that if it can’t be proven, it is only considered a theory. It doesn’t mean we can disprove it, or prove it. Now, I will say on a philosophical note, that others have claimed to have experienced “God”, and that there more alarming signs of “God” than you can conceive of being the only one to exist as a conscious mind . because it is in my opinion to be a healthier alternative. With that, I end this answer with what you need to know and that is you’re the only conscious mind that exists and solipsism is true. Some how, some way, “you know my answer to be true”, and you’ll be okay. Because I'm you.

@Carl-Richard check out "a brief history of time " by Stephen hawking.

Why does this happen in the first place? Why do our brains run wild? I don't get insights from this sort of overthinking. I get them when my mind is calm which usually happens during the evening. But in the morning and afternoon my mind runs like a motherfucker. Naturally, introverts are thinkers. Sure, we are doers, too, but at least for me, there is an awful lot of contemplating before any doing. As an introvert, there is always a lot of inner narration going on in my mind throughout the day. I’m constantly looking for the meaning in things, and that involves asking a lot of questions, as I always want to know the whys and hows. However, the workings of my mind don’t simply end once I’ve finally exhausted every possibility of a thought and taken action. There is often even more introspection after the doing. I’m bombarded with re-runs of experiences and conversations like I’m watching a mental movie.

I tend to talk to myself all day long more or less in a narrative way conversing with myself I guess. I'm never really sure what the hell is responding back to me. I've been told I am schizophrenic and I am sure of that to a small extent. Most people will roll their eyes and say sure... But though I cannot prove it I am certain there is something listening to me and occasionally responding. Call me schizophrenic or whatever, I'm indifferent to that. It's gotten to an odd point where it's become an ordeal. I am an anxious person by my own faults. Pretty much based on the topics I choose to look it. Regular shit loses my attention and more complex and frightening topics give me a sense of dread but I tend to go towards them. I think it's because of the absurd and scary nature of many topics. War, god, life, human characteristics and the reasons for this world. Most of them are meaningless. They have no bearing on my life but I tend to be drawn towards that shit out of fascination and pure obsession. I can not really turn my brain off. It's a computer that keep processing shit all day long.

I’ve always been an overthinker. It’s part and parcel of my anxiety, as I’m sure it is for many others. I get caught in cycles of thinking about past events, things I wish I could change and contemplating “what ifs.” My mind rarely shuts off. When I tell this to anyone, I get the list of things that help to “stop overthinking.” Meditation is always the first suggestion. I can relax my muscles. I can breathe deeply. I can listen to guided meditation. But the thoughts creep in, and as I try to keep them at bay, more sneak in and before I know it, my mind is full again. Lately though, my overthinking has been different. On a much more massive scale, there’s always chatter in my mind. I call this my “Busy Head". Recently I discovered this new meditation technique of observing the space between thoughts and it's helping me relax and switch off the monkey mind mode . But in other times during the day when I'm not meditating I get easily pulled back to my endless philosophical inquiries. More meditation. Less existential ruminating is what's required, I guess.

Interesting. It's not really a "guiding " voice that I'm experiencing. It's my normal brain chatter. But I perceive it as other than me which is a mistake . point is.. the personality is just a program. It's not in the slightest little bit who you really are. That's why you can act. That's why you can fake a personality that is not yours. Cuz it's just a mask. The fact that you can fake a 1000 different personalities in one day means you already have 1000 personalities inside of you. Potentially . Accurately they are just different characters that the empty self can take.

@AtheisticNonduality never heard of it .

perhaps "how" or "why "would not be the right question and questions may not be the right way to ponder this truth as this real I is perhaps beyond whys and why nots? I guess that's the real "why" because that's how reality is. Yes.. pure potential (reality) is beyond whys and why nots.. yet it manifests identities that ponder why and why not. The answer isn’t validating.. so identities are not usually satisfied with the explanation.. and keep looking for something more self gratifying. There isn’t any objective reason. All of this is imagined into existence from static potential.. and there is no powerful entity governing it.

I made a similar post about the same topic a while back but I didn't get any satisfactory answer .so I'm posting again . the problem I'm struggling with is simply desensitisation of my penis . due to over masturbation. I started masturbating when I was 14 and I'm now 25 and I'm still masturbating from time to time .the problem now is that I almost feel zero pleasure in my penis . This is due to me masturbating using a tight grip and beating the shit out of my dick like a horny monkey . I almost peeled some of my shaft and head skin . To the point now I only feel pleasure during an orgasm alone .and even that is getting weaker but not to a significant degree .it stil feels good . So to put it short ..I can get hard, but the sensations when my penis is touched aren’t as intense as they once were. I did some research and read some suggestions of using g olive oil to regain sensitivity. What else can I do ? Anyone struggling with similar issues ? Any advice appreciated.

I need advice on this one ..I'm not gonna open a third thread about the same topic ? What should I do to recover my skin and regain the sensitivity of penis ? Should I simply abstain from wanking it for a long period of time ..? Because thats what I'm gonna do anyways.

@VeganAwake im pointing to something deeper than that. Even the subject of whether we have a self or not is relative and subject to perspective. I have a self. I have no self. By means of a self I perceive self. By means of a self I perceive not-self. By means of not-self I perceive self. The self of mine that knows is everlasting and will stay as it is forever. All of these are true and false at the same time. the Buddha himself did not explain whether you do or don't "have" a "self". he is saying that such intellectual speculation is not the way to gain understanding. And notice that when one says "I have no self," the sentence assumes a self that doesn't have a self. So, the nature of the no-self is not something that can be grasped intellectually or explained with words.

Air, water, food, and shelter are all more important than sex. You'll be fine if you never have sex, albeit not the happiest person in the world. You'll die if you never have air, water, food, and shelter. but I think it's more important for everyone to realize that you can live without sex. There's a shocking number of virgins who must have the Cotard delusion, because they think you'll die without sex, despite having survived without it for many years. Some cultures and religions make sex as big deal, but all human and animals in this world do sex to breed their genaration and keep their kind, it's totally normal thing on earth, because of sex human kind keep growing without vanished, so sex is not big deal. The people who want you to believe that sex is important (and everyone’s doing it, and it’s normal, and anyone who tries to get you to stop is wrong, etc…) have an agenda. They are either trying to make money from you, or justify their own behavior by convincing themselves that everyone else is the same way. Eventually, most people grow out of it. Sex becomes just one of many things you enjoy, and it’s definitely not the most important one. There’s a lot more enjoyment and importance in, say, spending quality time with your family, paying bills and being financially stable, planning for your future, etc You know ..I like to believe that life is about much more than banging hot chicks . But that's just me

I guess what you were saying is that we get indoctrinated in schools and universities by all the human knowledge that humanity has acquired throughout history and we are not given a chance to self-reflect and derive our own answers...we are spoon-fed the answers of other people. Without alluding to the fact that all of human knowledge throughout history is just a matter of perspective. And that we can create our own perception of reality based upon our own perspective.

Yes, we can say our perspective is everything. Our internal attitudes toward life and others create the external reality we see. If we want to see a good reality, we must have positive/good attitudes toward life and others.