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@Mason Riggle there is a clear boundary in My experience .my body starts with my feet and ends with my head and then what's aside to that is not my body aka external world. You clearly define yourself as the physical body. You don't go around confusing yourself with your mom don't you?

The edges of the physical body ?

1. Nowhere of course . 2.both . 3.i don't know. I haven't experienced any deep Cessation experiences to answer this question. I will contemplate it tho . You are always doing what you want to do. That's true .

Yes I am .there is no question about it. Not kidding

No .from observing thoughts In direct experience it is seen clearly that thoughts arise automatically without any input from "you ".

Where does awareness exist ?what's the context or background of this present moment that you are experiencing right now ?

@Anahata i contemplated your question and here is my answer.. existence exists nowhere. We are in the middle of infinity .the universe stretches out infinitely in all directions. I exist in a house..in a country..in a planet ..in a universe....what comes next? Well nowhere of course.

@Anahata good question. I will contemplate that.

@Tim R please move this to the spirituality section. Thanks.

Sure we can chat .do you have discord?

So I was planning on doing nofap for the whole year of 2022. But I relapsed yesterday to porn .I didn't masturbate .just looked at some porn .it took me three hours. And I downloaded some of the videos to replace my old collection that I deleted .it turns out that this stuff is not as easy as it sounds in the beginning of the year .I don't feel guilty or anything .i actually enjoyed myself and it was overall a positive experience. Maybe porn Is not that bad after all. It kinda depends on how you use it and how you relate to it .addiction is a problem for sure .but I'm not sure if should classify myself as an addict or not .anyways just sharing with you guys and being honest about my journey. I'm continuing my nofap journey for the rest of the year .only porn is allowed. Masturbation is not allowed. At least that's the rules for now. And we'll see how it goes .

As spiritual awakening is happening, layers of the onion of the body-mind are being melted away. Many of these layers have an emotional component. Most of us have suppressed much sadness/anger/fear over the years, and as these emotional layers are melting, the suppressed feelings come to the surface. So it is a very beautiful thing that im crying a lot these days. It means much is being released.i should Love the tears — accept them from my heart. After the rain a cool clear sunrise is bound to follow.

@Nivsch i understand. No worries. We're good ?

@WelcometoReality its OK we're good ?

Sure .from your pov guys I could be deluded. I could be insane .I could be lying .or whatever. But from my pov I'm absolutely certain of the stuff I became conscious of . I'm not asking you to believe me .find out what's true in your direct experience and Go with that .

@WelcometoReality then I don't know how else to explain it to you. Sorry .

@Nivsch you will never get it through logic and reason. Turn around and go do something else for you to be ready to fathom the consequences of what's being said here. It might take you decades of work and contemplation to getting the answers. For me one video was enough and it clicked. I Don't know what it will take for you .but the best advice is try not figure it out through the mind and conceptual thinking but through direct experience.

@WelcometoReality God's formless mind is the essence of all of existence. It's pure potentiality. From which all creation manifested . we as humans are figments of God’s imagining. That is an unfalsifiable possibility Think about it ..if an omniscient being was going to create a universe, then it would have to imagine all possible universes from which to choose one. The interesting thing is that it could imagine the entire duration of each and every particle in each and every universe including this one right down to the planck length. That means it essentially runs a full simulation of an infinite number of universes. Do you know what you get when you run a computer simulation of flocking birds using the same rules birds actually use to flock? You get real flocking behavior. The birds may be digital, but the flocking is real. The real flocking is an emergent property. In the same way, if the fundamental rules of each of the imagined universes are simulated with perfect fidelity, then all the behaviors of the particle interactions will be similarly real as our crude flocking program above. Some of those interactions will be the consciousness of beings within those universes. So we are one of the simulations running in the mind of the omniscient being.

@WelcometoReality Wherever you are, whoever you are, you are always floating around as a figment in the eternal mind of God.

Yes .I as God imagined the human self and the human other. But both self and others are Imaginary characters in God's formless mind. Yes it can't be falsified because you can't falsify that which is absolutely true.

@Nivsch read this part again and make sure you get it. I'm getting tired of explaining the same thing over and over again lol ?

No .the imagner is the only thing that's not imaginary. but of course you can't see this imagner because it's pure formlessness.

Because they are Imaginary. Notice this in your direct experience . have you ever experienced other povs or just your own pov ? Your own pov is what's real .other povs are the imagination of your mind . Check this. Don't just believe .check it in direct experience that this is true .

Yes .but it's even more radical than that. The same is true from your pov as well. I know its a mindfuck and you can't wrap your mind around it. An awakening is required to grasp this issue in its full depth . Just the solipsism video +deep contemplating for hours . No .I'm the eternal singular mind that imagines everything else around itself

This is not a matter of agreement or disagreement. It's not a personal opinion or emotional issue. It's about what's actually true .and I became absolutely conscious that all others beings are a figment of my mind .