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What is "truth" in your book? Isn't truth ="the world of form"?

It's not so much the wording that matters. Call it work or whatever else. My question is what's the point of these activities? What's the biggest aim behind all this? It's not a straight line. Sometimes I enjoy them. Sometimes not.

Nothing?

Enlightenment and Self-help work such as :meditation.. Self inquiry.. Contemplation.. Yoga.. Exercise.. Diet..shadow work etc

What do you mean?

@Consilience is "lasting happiness" a realistic goal? Since everything is impermanent

Then what's the point of doing the work?

Nice explanation. I think I agree with you. I had the same insight. I even wrote about this the following passage in my journal : "This is the only reality. Here and now. I know it's a dead horse at this point. But literally think about this. .. You think this present moment came from a past?. Well if you only bother to look right now and see that you can't find any past here. Except maybe in your skull (thoughts) which is where again? Here lol. You can only find here here and now now. You are not moving from a past to a present. You are creating (imagining) a past in the present and calling it a past. Just a label "past" made of present ofcourse. Every word is precisely what's happening. I'm being infinitely accurate please focus on every single word and validate what I'm saying. You got it completely backwards. The present didn't come from the past. The past is constantly coming from the present. And where did the present come from? No need to speculate. Let's find out. Look and see. Do you find anywhere else but here for here to come from? No. Therefore literally the answer is the present didn't come from anywhere. The present is God. Here didn't come from there. You don't find you will never find a here and a there. It's always ever here. Here didn't come from there. There is always constantly coming out of here not the other ways around. THIS is the beginning of time. Right now this is God saying let there be light. Not even being cute or exaggerating. Something very radical is being said. You don't need to believe me. Look and see if it's true. What exists? Here. What about yesterday? It's here. The big bang? It's here. As a thought. Forget about your entire past and literally try to grasp that now is completely fresh unbelievable godness that has nothing to do with a past or a big bang or gods or Jesus or Leo or this or that. And notice that here didn't come from somewhere because it's all here. Everything you want to know is right under your nose. You are literally nowhere. You are literally just here and that's it. I am that I am?. But but how do you got here? Where did you get here from? Who told you that you got here from there? Do you find or can you find anywhere else but here for here to come from?. This is the first moment in your life. Yesterday is a thought found today. Always. Every yesterday is always found today and it can't be otherwise. You are stuck in todayness forever. This is the last day of your life. No more days. Just being here in the eternal now. Now in the eternal here. The time is not 6 pm or 6 am anymore. The time is always now. "

@Tim R the content of this present is constantly moving and changing. Isn't time synonymous with change? How do you explain memory and past events if there is no time?

Because of your survival agenda

@Tim R If there is no "now" then what exists?

@Tim R What I understand is that motion is necessarily a process. It does not exist at any given point in time. It exists ACROSS time.

God is everything

I want to quit cold turkey. @dflores321 you are right. The problem is with my lazy ass. @Gesundheit2 nice suggestions.

@Goldzilla delusional.

What do you mean?

@dflores321 dude that's outside my comfort zone lol. Too lazy

The scientific approach to death is that when you die, the machinery that generates those memories of who you were, those ideas of who you might be, and your awareness of those thoughts and of the world currently around you now and how you feel about it, that machinery stops working. So those thoughts cease to be. Sadly, then, I fear that when you die, that is a permanent end to present awareness. Is it true that after you die.. It will be just like before you were born? Completely lights out? Or am I going to pop up out of nowhere again mysteriously just like my previous birth? And why do I find myself anxious about both possibilities?

@Tim R thank you. Although I meant a long summary like those on the mega-thread

I didn't watch this video yet. Can someone make a summary of it?

@gettoefl beautiful. I love osho. You spoke earlier about karma and reincarnation.. What evidence do you have of reincarnation?

So what do you mean by "awareness"? Isn't it a byproduct of brain activity and being alive? So when the body drops dead.. Awareness will go with it?

I don't understand your point

@RMQualtrough awareness will remain without content to be aware of?

I only remember until about age 5 yo. I have no memory of anything before that. And I certainly don't remember what I was before birth. But I like to think of it as similar to the deep sleep state.