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@Vibroverse and.... how do you know?

@Shin are you dreaming or awake right now and how do you know?

I do wonder how much human beings have learned through the pandemic and various lockdowns, individually and as groups. That is because life was turned upside down and the pandemic is not over, with it being hard to know to what extent it will go on. It is has lead to so much suffering and misery for so many people. Personally, as far as I know, I have not had the virus and don't know that many people who have been really ill with it. I struggled with lockdowns, especially the long one which came in England after Christmas. I have not worked for over a year and had to move twice but I am sure that so many people had to endure so much more. In England, there are so many more people living on the streets than ever. But, my question is what has been learned? I feel that I had so much time for reflection and do think that I am a bit different from before, because I used to take a lot for granted previously. Some people may be experiencing devastating effects of the last year still psychologically. Do you feel that it has made a big impact on your life and those you know, negatively or as a learning curve? I also wonder what humanity has learned. In terms of the virus it affected rich and poor equally. However, the effects of the whole situation is likely to have impacted on different groups and populations differently. I wonder whether it has been a wake up call and whether there will be any real differences in the world. It may be too early to know for sure. Will it make leaders and others more able to see social problems like poverty and homelessness, as well as Mr Climate Change(but he has his own threads)? What do you think? Or, do think it will not make much difference in the larger scheme?

@Blackhawk stay strong brother.

No they are not the same thing. I think this should be obvious enough to point out.

Is there even such a distinction? We go to bed at night and dream that we are some dream character in some dream world.. We might wake up from that dream to find ourselves in another dream. A dream within a dream within a dream. The imagination has no end. What we call the real existing reality is just a layer of imagination that we have temporarily formed an attachment to. And hence it becomes a construct of imagination.

So this whole idea of letting it go seems like an illusion. You can only let go of what is already gone , so in a sense there is nothing to let go of . So it's more of acceptance. Accepting that you have no control and cannot hold on or let go . They seem like opposites of the same pole. Even acceptance looks illusory because there is nothing to accept there is just Truth. You cannot add or subtract from truth ,TRUTH IS before we spin any stories about it . It's like Desire. Fulfilling desires always takes place in the future so it does not allow you to be (happy) now. So if you want to be happy , you are unable to be happy because happiness must come later , in the future after you get or accomplish what you want. And if you are unhappy you desire to stop this unhappiness . Desire is pretty much wanting and as always our wants are not here now so we are suffering until we get our wants/desires. Wanting and not wanting are really two sides of the same coin . So you could want someone in your life and you can also want to NOT want a person in your life. The key to this is not to desire. But then immediately you will see that you desire not to desire lollers! think I now understand the importance of knowing why we the egoes "must" be destroyed.... The buddha keeps calling us a fool. Now I understand why we are fools. We believe suffering will never come to us. So we cling to our objects thinking it will give us pleasure long. It does.... We feel pleasure.... Just like kids playing with our toys.... It's very pleasurable....... No hardship.... Until we go to school.... We begin to have problems. But pleasure never lasts, it never does. It Will never ever last long. Even the earth and the universe. but to cling to our bodies.... Is surely foolish. That's why the Buddha emphasizes the importance of losing our body, the world. It is we that cling to the world and the body. It is us, it is not the problem of the universe. We keep blaming the universe, body, our lack of money.... Etc.... But yet we never look at our selves to see that it is use that clings to these things. We are clinging to them... And that we are blaming that which is lost. We intuitively know everything will be lost.... But we still cling to them. Good example.... A disciplined person. Eating healthy, good to people. Loving, work hard, great relationships, great heart, ... He goes to the doctor because of a sore stomach. The doctor says he has cancer. He says "me? Why me? I work hard, I'm kind, good to people, I have a great heart, I excercise and eat healthy. Why me?" That person is still foolish. It clearly shows that he always believed that his body will never break down if he eats healthy... When actually the it is a natural process of the law of the universe to things to be born and die. So even though he had done healthy things.... And was "kind" to people. He is still foolish to have believed that even his cared body will now betray his belief. But I'm not criticizing his care for health.... But all I'm criticizing is his belief that he will never suffer for clinging to the body. whats wrong with clinging to the earth? Well even the earth will be destroyed. Even the whole galaxy.... And nothing will be left. Which is nothingness we are going for.

You was born in the now. Absolutely speaking. You was born (insert your age here) years ago. Relatively speaking. Time is both real and imaginary at the same time. The past is real and imaginary at the same time.

@Rilles Let me ask you.. What is the origin of suffering? And how can one overcome it? (in your opinion)..

Because we are talking about two different contexts. I mean the waking state not the dream state.

What we call “now” is the unchanging reference point, to which all time is referred. All that came before now, we call the past and all that comes after now, we call the future, but “now” itself, never moves. Since it is now, everywhere in the universe, it is not physically possible to travel to a point that isn’t now, like to the past or future. Only in imagination, may we make such a journey

You can only move forward in time. How can you move backwards?

That doesn't count.

No I'm not thinking about suicide. Otherwise Thanks for sharing your perspectives.

Prove it. What is there to explain? Lol You move your body through the spacial dimension. Forward and backwards and all directions. Now explain how you move through time other than moving forward. Can you go backwards in time? If so.. How?

You was born and wasn't born simultaneously. You as God was never born. You as a human being was born. You are conflating two separate things.

You can forget about it.

@Carl-Richard look, dude, unless you explain how does It work, you are just believing in it. So far you didn't explain the mechanism of time travel. You just said that it's possible. But that's like saying anything is possible. But not sure if that's correct. In this reality context we live in.. Not everything goes. So yeah.. You need to explain how would time travel work.

Not quite. But a huge part of it for sure.

@Salvijus what makes you think you are not ready to accept it all now? This is another limiting belief. Another way to suffer more. The truth is you can accept it all right now and be done with it.

No. There is not only "here". There is apparent distance that we can travel through space.

I do understand your time as a concept now but my orthodox is the scientific principle. Agreed the past is a concept in so much as you can't change it but tell that to my ex-girlfriend. The past is a series of cumulative events that form the now. You can't reflect on the now you, without the you past forming your reality. My relativity comments where to point out the absolute existence of time as a reality. The question then becomes if you can't change it does it then become a concept.

@catcat69123 who do you think you are?

What then ??

@SQAAD I don't know what you are talking about.