Someone here

@blankisomeone thanks for the resources man

@Nahm Hmm. Idk as far as I know dreams are intrinsic parts of REM sleep..they must happen.. Although not necessarily that you remember it when you wake up.. Is it possible to have no dreams at all? I don't know. The fear is part of the dream itself.

@WaveInTheOcean Interesting you brought that up. That means none of us are here on our own accord. We were meant to be here. Not "chosen" by an external force.. but by the internal force which led to my inevitable reading of your comment, which led to my inevitable negative reaction, which led to my writing of this post driven by my passion for Truth. We're not plotting the course, we are the course. Not even the universe knows how this is all going to play out, but it does everything it can through the present moment to evolve. Now, I don't know for sure if what I just said is true, but it seems nice.

@BipolarGrowth I agree. There is not a personal self experiencing anything, it's just concepts, beliefs, physical sensations floating around. It floats around so seamlessly that it is really convincing that YOU exist, but in reality there is no entity there, it's just a sum of all this that gives you this illusion ...so there is no perception, awareness, or whatever you wanna call it. Thats duality. It's just being

@WaveInTheOcean Leo is exactly right And he uses the rape example deliberately to convey the point. That none of us deserve praising or bashing. It's all your selfish biasis There is absolutely nothing inherently wrong about rape or a rapist in actuality. Read this again. In the big picture, none of us are doing this. Not the act of seeking, nor the act of surrendering. You are not in control of either one. Its easy to prove if you try to imagine the thought you're going to have in the next 10 seconds. In a sense.. I'm not writing this.. and you are not reading this. It's all being played and it's all karma. Circumstances are infinitely complex and destiny is inevitble. As the awareness watching the movie, we have zero influence over the plot. "You're not doing it, it's doing you" - Alan Watts When you let that sink in you will understand what Leo meant.

It seems like Perfect nothingness. As if nothing ever happened and never existed. It seems like there is no consciousness during deep sleep.. It's not even dark, black or empty.. It's so much nothing that even the concept of nothing isn't it..... What happens exactly during deep sleep? Ramana maharshi used to say 'you are closer to your true nature during deep sleep'. thoughts?

That won't work. Usually what you do in the waking state doesn't carry to dreams. They happen distinct of each others. It's just the thought that "what if I get stuck in a nightmare" that makes me afraid and unable to sleep. And when I wake up something very weird happens...... I see people transferring into animals and then they start attacking me. I wake up afraid. But then I started having the sensation and fear that I would forget how to move my body. Because I don't even know how I'm moving my body. If I don't know, then what if I forget?????

@ll Ontology ll the fear is due to having those dreams in the last two weeks. Now each time I go to bed I'm afraid I'm going to have a shitty dream again. I don't know how to address it.

Reality is not an illusion to the common sense. Or else there is no difference between illusion and reality just like there is no difference phenomenologically between dreams and the waking world. However.. 99.99% of how you interpret the world is illusion. Almost none of what you "think" is real.. Is real. funny part is it takes one second to realize you have never been existed. At it's best.. I like to put it (self) as "a type of electrical flow in the brain.. the error.. the beautiful error.. beautiful fractal

Nice Reality cannot be encapsulated in words. Or looked upon from only one angle. Rather it's the sum of all points and all possible POVs. Furthermore... paradoxically it is not an it. Language haha The trap of science is confusing the map (atoms) for territory (reality) In my definition.. reality is seen by the mind that does not think— it doesn't think.. it's just awake. Its knowledge is immediateas in knowing whether water tastes cold or not without deliberation. That's what knows. Actually.. it's who knows. Who is that? It's just selfless awareness.. your own mind right now. It's not just that non-discursive mind sees reality— it alone is what is reality. I can say that! When oneself partakes of reality.. then one sees reality. It's not good or bad.. it's just what is.. and you can see it as it really is without discriminatory psychological projections. Or scientific filters. Reality is mystical. It's fundamentally mysterious and unknown. But it's completely direct That there is no gap for knowing. So the nature of reality is …what? Even better.. since reality can actually be seen... not explained.

@Swarnim there is no truth to seek and find. Truth is all there is. It's sort of like a fish seeking the water. You can't seek it because you're in it. Truth comes when you give up on going somewhere.. But you will only have the wisdom to see that after looking everywhere other than nowhere. So go look.. Absolutely everywhere for the truth. And when you're burnt out.. Rest in the now.

Of course it does matter deeply to a teenager for example. unlike an old man with dead libido. It doesn't matter that much for him And you said "the only thing that matters".. Idk if you were serious.. Obviously air, food and water matter as well. And matter more. Survival comes first.

False.

TRUTH is YOU. You cannot seek the truth simply because you are the truth. You cannot search.. Seek.. And find that which you already are. There is no process. You cannot learn the truth. Truth is totally effortless and is nearer to you then breathing. It can only be allowed and recognized. Your seeking it.. Veils it. Get out of your own way. The problem is you don't seek the truth (you can't seek it.. It's already available) what you really seek to end seeking.. Which Is the end of you. Because you are that seeking energy that is never satisfied with just what is.

"Desire is the root of suffering " Buddha

I'm going through a desireless phase in my life.. Where I pretty much aim for nothing. Because I see everything as a fleeting experiences that don't bring lasting fulfillment. To transcend desire.. Isn't that the Greatest win? Because You arrive only when you git rid of the idea of the destination.. When you achieve a desire.. It spawns into more desires.. Because when desire is achieved it just multiply.. And you run after them and never arrive. Now I'm left with aimless attitude.. saying.. what's left now.. if there is nothing to achieve.. what's the point of getting out of bed ? what's the point to anything ? what's the point of being ? if there is nothing to aim for.. there is nothing to build. do I just have to cry. laugh.. and do all the mundane things like being ? The only thought of having nothing to deal with makes me neutral sad. is being the end ? what's left to discover ? what's left to create ? is it boringness is all that is left ? I wasn't into this work for not suffering, I was here to improve.. now that I see there is nothing to improve.. what's left inside me ?

No it isn't.

Leo says everything is Consciousness.. And after contemplating this enough I think it's not quite accurate. Because consciousness implies something that is conscious and another substance that it is conscious of.. A subject and object. A perceiver and a perceived. and that process is Consciousness. So 'you' are conscious of existence. That's a duality. When we say everything is Consciousness.. The problem is that the conventional meaning of the word consciousness rings duality (perceiver and perceived). Whereas upon closer investigation.. It turns out everything just is. There is no perception process going on.. So there is no consciousness in that sense. Unless what is meant is sound and sight and other phenomenon.. It's the same thing... The most accurate description is that reality is being. Because everything just is being itself. It's not perceiving itself or conscious of itself. For example you might think that your eyes see the world.. There's false.. Your eyes are just being the appearance of an eye.. And the visual field occurs exactly where is it occurs.. And they are distinct. And each one just is being itself.. The eye doesn't perceive the world.. The eye is just eyeing and the world is just worlding. Am I missing something?

@BlackMaze I'm not advocating nihilism.. Nor am I saying it's the "right" way to live. There is no right or wrong way to live. I'm just in that nihilistic mode right now and that's all. It's what it is.

.. Isn't that what you called a dualistic projection?? I am conscious is a duality .. It implies a me that owns a separate thing called "consciousness" and it implies a separate object that I am conscious of.. Well it's not so obvious. If we look closely.. There is cluster of phenomenon happening but there is no one separate from them. You could say there is only consciousness without someone being conscious which is what I mean by "being".. But "I am conscious" is really not what's happening here If we Investigate deeper.

I like this. Couldn't agree more ?

@Inliytened1 I guess my point is that when I'm looking at an object.. There is really no me and no looking happening.. It's just the image of the object. that's all there is. So it's not accurate to say I'm conscious of the object or the substance of reality is Consciousness as in "perception". I guess "being" is closer.

@Juliano Zn there is no perception. No perceiver or perceived. That's just a conceptual interpretation and projection. There is just what is.. Without any conceptual overlay.

I get it.. All that is my dualistic projection upon "being". Because we use consciousness to say "I'm conscious of X". So the word itself has a dualistic implication inherent in it. We use "consciousness" in a dualistic way in language. If you agree with me that perception is an illusion then I think the word 'being' might be preferable than consciousness because it gets confused with perception. No you got the point right.

Because hedonism is a trap.