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@Mason Riggle I agree. And that's what I corrected about him because he's saying "the doer is God not me". And I'm pointing out that "God" is "me".

You are God.

Yes that's because not every single apparent trolling comment is actually worth taking action. Keep in mind it's a relative thing. Some people are more sensitive than others (I'm guessing you are sensitive person) and because of your sensitivity you might perceive it as trolling when it's really just another comment on the forum. Maybe ask yourself why are people being racist to you.. Do you see it happen with other forum members.. . Why "you"? Do you think it's because you have a proactive personality?

Just report them and move on.. Besides that.. Who cares for bloody sakes?

Imaginary is just another word for conceptual. You don't appreciate how much of your reality is actually fantasy and imagination vs actual. The external objective world is imaginary. What do i mean by this? You are projecting the idea that what you are experiencing right now has a deeper independent reality to it. Which you call the external objective world. You Believe the world exists when you are not perceiving it. recognize it’s a more of convoluted belief system that requires extra mind baggage.. that careful.. objective.. direct study of experience and reality does not need. In fact.. if you studied your direct experience long enough you’d notice all sensory perception has no solidity to it at all.. it’s just a fluid.. spacious.. fluctuating field of is-ness popping into and out of a void. the “objective” reality science thinks is out there is quite literally impossible if they knew what they were actually studying, which is perception. The thoughts that think there’s an objective layer are also popping into and out of this void. This requires an extremely stable...mindful concentration of what is really happening vs what your mind thinks is happening. However your consciousness of the present moment is actual. regardless of whether you deny perception/consciousness, it’s here, it’s primary, it’s completely undeniable. Any extra metaphysical claims about the substance of reality are subject to unfalsifiable skepticism. The truth of the matter is that any thought cannot be Absolutely True due to the nature of thoughts existing as functions of time which is of course an illusion constructed by the mind.. the fact that thoughts are symbolic representations of reality (the map is not the territory).. and finally.. the fact that all reason and rationality will always dissolve into an infinite regress of reason where one must eventually concede that they’re taking on a belief. . And again.. It's impossible to prove an objective external world outside of your imagination due to the nature of conscious experience only having the ability to exist as experience. Consciousness is all you have to prove a world. So you are always using consciousness as the actual substance of inquiry and you cannot step outside of consciousness to verify is something outside of consciousness. When you give your back to the world your mind assumes there is a world behind you.. You do this because you need to create reality.. Because If you don't create it.. It doesn't exist. If you stop assuming anything on top of what is "actual".. You would see the only actual thing is nothing. You think the phone that you are holding is actual.. It's not.. There is no phone.. Each moment there is a changing appearance but your mind comes in and create out of this groundless flow an illusion of "object". There are no objects. Each moment you are holding a new phone. Because.... Consistency is imaginary. You think you are the same person living in the same world all the time. and you are not recognizing that each moment a new reality is constructed and its constantly fluctuating. if not for your memory which gives the illusion of consistency. Which is of course completely imaginary. Notice : you are literally imagining your memories and your past. You might look at your Hand and you might think that your hand is consistent.. But actually object's permanence is conceptual. There is no "hand" to begin with as a physical "object". It changes every millisecond. Takes different locations in time and space. So It has no consistency from this pov. The consistency is imagined Your hand is literally not consistent. Just because the mind constructs the consistency. it’s actually a different hand each second . The shape.. Location and position have all changed. Moment by moment, some facet of direct experience has changed. Even your hands are not the same hands while staring at it moment by moment. Whether one’s level of consciousness is capable of observing the fluctuations in perception and see through the illusion of consistency is a different matter. My point is.. Almost 90 % of your reality has nothing to do with reality. It's imaginary. But as you can see...these imaginations are so important to your sense of reality and to your stability and functionality.. Without the imagination of the external world and of consistency you might have a mental breakdown. That explains why it's hard to see through the illusion and awaken to the truth.

https://www.actualized.org/insights/sense-organs-are-imaginary

@Dodo you are not appreciating the depth of the problem. 1. Dreams appear real so as the waking state. Why do you then call the waking state the "real world" while ignoring dreams as mere fantasy? How do you justify that bias? Maybe you are dreaming while awake and awake while dreaming? How do you decide which one is "the real world"? 2. Becoming lucid in a dream only to wake up doesn't prove that you are now in the waking state. Ever woke up from one dream to enter another dream? Maybe the so called waking reality is just the next level of dreaming and you have yet to wake up from? Maybe there is no end to Dream levels?

NOTICE each time you mentioned "waking reality" as if it's a given. Notice that when you are dreaming you also assume that the Dream world is "waking reality" until you wake up. If you are being honest..you have no idea what this experience right now is. You imagine dreams at night to contrast it with so that you can define it as "waking reality". But this is fantasy. NOTICE that when you are inside of a Dream.. It seems logical and consistent untill you wake up. Only then you judge it as incoherent.

Truth is a concept/label . It implies falsehood. There aren't any falsehood. So there aren't any truth either. There is only what's happening. Infinity. The conceptual level is truth as is the no-conceptual level. You can't contain infinity in a single word. Or a single understanding or way of approaching. So let's not debate it because it's utterly futile. Let go of the need to smash labels onto infinity in order to understand it and manipulate it and see what happens. You would see that even "Truth" is imaginary.

It's not lost. So it can't ever be found.

NOTICE.. 1 you are imagining that this is waking reality based on the possibility of flying. Maybe that's the dream reality where you can't fly and the night time dreams are the "real" reality where you can fly. Notice that you pick one over the other without any justifications whatsoever. 2 of course it's a belief. Even if you try it 100 times.. You still can't be certain that you can't fly next time. You constantly need to imagine causality and consistency to come to a conclusion. Exactly. Time is completely imaginary. In the sense that you assume that it stops to create a "present moment". There is no present moment obviously because reality is constantly changing. Yet you need to imagine a static "present moment" to ground yourself against this constant change. Needless to say when we talk about jumping off a cliff.. That's in the future.. And the future is completely imagination and hypothetical. Whether you talk about a parent moment or future events.. In both cases you are imagining time.

First of all... Recognize that all this is your imagination. You're imagining logic and nights and dreams. None of them exists in your direct experience. Right now. The general idea is if you try to pinpoint what is actual vs what is imaginary in your direct experience.. Notice that you can't. Because whatever you say isn't actually "there".. It's what your mind is constructing. Get that? A chair is not a "chair". And.. It has nothing to do with what's possible and what's impossible. You can Dream of a possibility that you can't jump and fly... And you can dream of a possibility that you can jump and fly. Yet both are imaginary (dreams). The fabric of imagination is identical phenomenally to the fabric of reality. That is.. You can't distinguish a dream from the "real world". The "real world" is just a conceptual overlay on top of perceptions. You never encountered any 'worlds'. All you have is perceptions. Your mind then constructed a "world" out of these ever - changing phenomenon to construct a sense of reality and stability. You're constantly imagining stuff all the time that has nothing to do with reality.

Dreams are indistinguishable from reality. What's the difference between imagination and realness? This is utter imagination and fantasy. This path is really tricky.

I was kinda going with the flow. I don't even click on "big booty" porn. I like slim women lol

Yes it can be fluid. As I said it's "mostly" due to genetics. Sexual orientation is caused by a complex interplay of gender, genetic, hormonal, and environmental influences. Idk about other factors. What you are talking about is the environmental factors which are hard to calculate because they vary from person to person based on their sexual experiences throughout their lives. From these factors.. Genetics is what plays the most impact. Ever heard of the "gay gene"? There's actually studies that revealed five spots on the human genome that are linked to same-sex sexual behaviour.

Holy shit

And fat ass =? Jk lol

@LastThursday idk. Fetishes are developed later on. But your basic sexual orientation (whether you're gay or straight for example) is highly determined by your genes.

Ok

Osho said that to transcend sex you have to go fully into it. At the the age of 14.. Sex suddenly becomes so important. Until about the age of 42.. Only then it begins to lose its importance.. In both cases due to hormonal changes. I've begin to realize how much of my ego-self was bound up with sexuality and sexual desire. And the effect on spiritual practice has been most profound. I’m not sure I can put it into words. But the practice of sexual abstinence for spiritual development is called "Bramacharya". Let’s just say there’s definitely a good reason why all spiritual traditions recommend celibacy. Sex is great.. but no sexual experience-and I’ve had a lot of them-could even come close to this.” Other yogic texts name abstinence as the surest and speediest way to boost our deepest reserves of vitality and power. many other spiritual traditions-including Buddhism and Christianity-incorporate chastity into their codes of conduct. Spiritual luminaries ranging from Mother Teresa to Ramakrishna to Mahatma Gandhi all practiced celibacy for at least some period of their lives. Gandhi went so far as to call life without celibacy “insipid and animal-like. But the thought that yogis shouldn’t have sex-or at the very least should rein in their sexual energy-challenges our modern notions about both yoga and sex. We live in a radically different world from that of the ancient yogis who spelled out the discipline’s original precepts. Those yogis lived lives of total renunciation. today.. we toss in a Friday yoga class as a prelude to a gourmet meal.. a fine wine.. and-if we’re lucky-sex for the grand finale. Even though much of yoga is based on ascetic precepts that counsel denial. today the practice is often touted for its ability to improve one’s sex life.. not eradicate it-and some people even seem to view yoga classes as prime pick-up spots. Is it served your spirit to abstain from sex?is it possible to abstain from sex completely as a mean to spiritual development?

It's more fucked up than that. Even you don't exist. Self vs other is a duality in thoughts. There is neither you nor others in direct experience.

Yes it's a bias. But did 'you' create it? Sexual attraction is programed Into your genetics. You are just born with it. It's mostly out of your control.

Tell her the truth. Which is that you have no clue.

The underlying reason is that the self is an illusion. If there is no self to whom we can say there is free will.. How can there be free will? To whom?

We don't need speculation. You just have to look at what happens when someone dies. Literally is that their body goes recycling in nature and then eventually a sperm and an egg will meet and BOOM and a new human will be born.