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Don't know if the right section... Someone suggested to me to read the power of now by Eckhart tolle... I downloaded it but feel lazy to read it All... If anyone have screenshots or highlighted the best chapters and paragraphs... Please post here. Especially regarding -being present. -eliminating suffering.

How do you know any of that? Sounds like a story to me.

But if we remove the 'I'.. Then it's a totally different question.. Asking about why being even exists which is a difference... I'm asking why are you a human being right now and not a shark for example? Could you elaborate?

@Mason Riggle because simply it's not your experience. Maybe you are God from ultimate perspective. I have no problem with that. But within this moment.. This current human being that you are is too weak and vulnerable. It needs God outside of itself. And that's why major religions teaches that God is separate from you and bigger than you and you need him (it) etc..

@Gesundheit he wasn't been able to provide any evidence so far. And a psychedelic Trip isn't an evidence.

The parts about Solipsism and reality being imaginary (his idealist philosophy).. I think it's ultimately false.

In a short sentence. Because there is a lot of confusion and varying opinions on this forum. Some think it's THIS and you are already awake. Some think it's the falling away of separate self. Some think it is an insight into the true nature of reality. What is awakening? For you....... And why there is different opinions? And how do you know if you are awake?

Why? How? Is it a coincidence? How it can't be otherwise? You could've been a cat.. But you are not.. You are human.. And not African human.. But European human... All coincidence?

@AdamR95 Why are you you in the first place? You get what I'm saying? Why you ain't a dog or bird?

@Tim R doesn't makes sense. What's the alternative then?

You?

You guys are just underestimating the question.

No he said that regarding other people... How do you know of other people have 'real I'... Is the characters in your dreams also have real 'I' The primary question at hand is 'are others aware'... And his answer is 'yes'.. But he didn't provide any evidence. It requires 'evidence' because he is talking about others not himself.

Apparently. We are two separate human meat bags inhabiting different points in the space - time. Yep. I am sure that right now I'm not Leo.. I don't see my head bald lol...

This is the crux of the matter. How do you know? You just said 'there is real I "... Without providing any evidence.

I think Leo might /should change his mind about some of the insights that he's got from psychedelics.

What is your biggest fear and why? And how are you dealing with it?

LOL there you go. I'm clueless just like you. Just like everyone else (if they exist lol).

Yea I mean within the assumption that others are real... You don't know what's assumption and what's not... Do you agree that you know nothing??? Now make that conclusion about others being the same as you.. Because we are all in the same situation because we are all in the same boat......

@AdamR95 contemplate what is 'knowing'? And how is it different from experience? Maybe it's just thoughts? What does it mean to know something? And if you are clueless.. Doesn't that automatically mean that everyone are clueless just like you (because they are a second you)?

Truth or happiness? Or something else? And why? What are all humans fundamentally searching for?

Well think about it.. Is it a good or bad news that no one knows jack shit?

@BlackMaze appreciate you man But I'm really not a good reader. I don't almost ever read a book from start to finish.. I skip through. I will try to read thorough them. But the thing is I'm not in the mood to read introductory chapters and I prefer to read the most important parts.

@mw711 yes you have absolutely no idea what anything is. The good news.. That everyone also has no idea what anything is. Lol

I agree. A tangent question tho.prob asked many times before lol but.... .. Why does pain even exist? If God is all powerful and all good.. Why create suffering???