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The (illusory) sense of being a separate self inside the body. Ego is you. Who you think you are as an individual entity. That is the ego in spiritual circles. In psychology it's more of the pride or arrogance. It's more of a trait than an entity.

@r0ckyreed When you wake up from a dream.. you don't say that you were a character because you are the creator of that dream. The entire dream (not the dream elements) is actually you.. not only the character you're playing. The other characters that appear on that dream are just components that make up the whole dream.. they don't have a life of their own to wake up at the same time with you. Don't take this too literal.. just that in real life you're not a character or a human, you're the entire Universe that you're experiencing right now. This is not solipsism . This is absolute oneness and nonduality.

Note: words like "pov" .. "You" .. "Me" are just for communication purposes to deliver the idea. Don't get too hung up on them lol. Once again to my favorite topic lol. The solpisism syndrome : Am I all alone? Other people are real independent agencies or dream characters in my world? If I don't have access to anything other than my pov.. How can I be sure others are real? Well here is the final answer. Your pov is absolute truth. Please notice this. You don't know anything else. and whatever you come to know must be inside your pov. So is my pov. My pov is also absolute truth . How can we have two absolute truths? It's not two ... notice my pov is within your pov and your pov is within my pov. So they are actually one. I exist inside you(your pov) and you exist inside me (my pov) and me exists inside you and repeat and repeat.... So we both are groundless.. For you to exist for me, I must experience you.. And for me to exist for you, you must experience me .. So ultimately none of us are real only to the extent of experiencing each others. =me and you the same thing. Get this? Lol. Another way to put it.... I am nothing but your pov. And you are nothing but my pov. So ultimately none of us are "there" by themselves. We are dreaming each others up. Make sure you get this. This is good for a mindfuck. Everything that can exist for you must be perceived and considered by you. Look and see. Anything literally anything is but an appearance in your pov. So even when you are talking to me you are talking to an image in your mind. If you say "no lol I'm talking to a real person with awareness" .. Then you are talking to this idea that you've constructed. You've constructed what I am and then you are talking to your construction. The actuality is I'm just an an image in your world right now. You are becoming the image right now as you are looking at the text. So yes you are always ever talking with yourself. And ofcourse I'm saying this to myself. It's not a zen deception per say. I have nothing else to do but interact with myself. Hope this ends the solipsism confusion for good. If you have any questions go ahead.

What is matter? Never mind. What is mind? Doesn't matter.

@VeganAwake nothing really matters. Apparently.

Yes that's true. The first step is to notice that literally nothing exists but your perception bubble. That's the entire universe for you. Your bubble is not occurring in the universe.. The universe is occurring in your bubble.. So it's not that my bubble and your bubble are occurring in the universe.. No.. My bubble and the universe are occurring in your bubble?. And from my pov the opposite. Your bubble is occurring in my bubble. So to me you have no reality outside my bubble. And to you..i have no reality outside of your bubble. But see still.. From your pov my bubble literally doesn't exist except as an appearance in your bubble. Your bubble is all that can ever be lol. And ofcourse I'm saying that to myself

That's not actually happening but it is what's happening for YOU. Get this right in your mind. You don't know what's actually going on. For you what's going is what seems to be going on. Leo said "I'm telling you what's true for you.". Don't be silly if no one is here but you then what's the point of communicating with each others. Who is Leo talking to when he is saying there is no one but you lol. This doesn't fly lol. Yet that is what is true from your pov without a doubt. Your pov is absolute. But don't forget that my pov is also absolute.

@Amaal I just made a thread addressing this issue exactly. Check it out. Hope you find it helpful.

Starting from minute 24 is pure madness. Yeah don't watch it if you don't want to get skull fucked.

Because your pov is absolute truth. As I said. There is nothing but you. Even if you become me you would still be you. experiencing an absolute pov.and you will ask why am I someone here and not Gesundheit. It doesn't matter who you are.. The same being is experiencing all people's simultaneously and asking why am I me and not someone else? Because there is no someone else. The someone else is YOU.

Leo during enlightenment experience sharing valuable insights : "Youtube is called YOU Tube.. Ofcourse.. Youtube.. Metube.. Ustube.. We all tube.. For YouTube.. Ofcourse!.. OFCOURSE!!"

Don't worry your life is like a movie it's all scripted. You are merely playing the script out. If there is no "you".. Then there is no you to make of the fact that there is no you anything lol. I'm not saying there is no you and no free will so you might as well just sit on the couch doing nothing. What needs to be done will get done. Kinda like when you have to go to the bathroom you have to go to the bathroom lol. Stuff will still get done via your body mind. It's just that there is no "you" in the middle of this whole thing doing anything.

LOL you enjoyed the group rape? Jk. Nice report and valuable insights. Thanks for sharing.

I'm going to post a thread soon answering your question. Will explain how self and other work. Meanwhile just know you are correct.

Everything already happened in one moment. But this moment lasts forever

No problem with that either. The only problem is you can't do it. It's just a thought. No "you" is thinking thoughts . And holding on to them . Come on take a look and grasp This. It's not so hard lol.

There isn't any you. YOU as the absolute is everything. And anything and no thing. Any line you draw is imaginary and flimsy.. Since where exactly does anything starts and ends? And who is drawing the line if the line is you?. Each moment there is a new me because there is a new "I" thought. And when the "I" thought doesn't arise there is literally no "I" in that condition. You are trying to ground reality. Reality is a groundless insanity.

. Do not read this if you are mentally unstable person. If you are sensitive to existential topics. If you are going through existential crisis or mental illness or just trying to be grounded. What I'm about to share is going to shake and remove the ground underneath you and leave you free falling forever. And there will be no going back. I simply became conscious that reality is infinite forms. Infinite images. Infinite consciousness. Label it however you want. But you get the idea. Imagine right now any possible image.. Anything.. I don't care how crazy it is.. That thing exists. And everything you can possibly imagine exists. And it can happen. If you can imagine it.. It is real. That's the rule. What happened is simply I had the craziest dream I ever had in my life. I can't even describe it visually. It was an infinite forms coming into being and out of being for no reason. An infinite chaos. An infinite explosion and implosion of everything imaginable. It's really hard to describe it. Try to imagine infinte forms being manufactured right now.. Animals cars people hell realms flying spaghetti monsters. Imagine a universe where you are getting tortured forever. Imagine a universe that consists of infinte copies of Leo avatars eating each others. And make sure to imagine the most insane logic-breaking mind shattering image or scenario possible for you to imagine...... And imagine they are actually being actualized. Not just thoughts in your mind. That's what the dream was like! But that was just a dream?.so what? You are missing the obvious .ofcourse it was a dream. You can dream anything. And that's exactly the point. You can dream any fucking thing.. And the kicker is.. the dream IS reality! Reality is capable of imagining anything into being! Dreaming it. Imagine a TV screen that displays whatever image you wish or imagine it to display. That's like what reality is. Needless to say there is no TV screen in this case. The images are literally being imagend in the middle of nowhere. If anyone experienced with psychedelics and other realms have had insights into what I'm talking about. Correct me if I am wrong. I really hope I'm deluded here. But it just can't be unseen at this point.

@Endangered-EGO all you have to do to answer this question of free will is to observe your experience. Go about your day doing what you normally do but just observe yourself carefully. Where do your thoughts and actions come from and how they come about. That's all you need to do and you will get a satisfying answer. For example I'm observing myself typing this Comment and I'm noticing that I'm not doing it. The words are being downloaded into my mind and my fingers are moving. What you think is "you" that is the doer is just a thought. Get rid of the "you" thought for a moment and notice that everything is being done by itself without any you doing anything. It's not that you don't have free will. It's that you don't exist and free will is just a thought. Stuff just happen. Simple.

Stop with your smart assery and get this. THIS is all there is. All your bla bla bla are themselves THIS. Ideas and beliefs and skeptic thoughts about what is not THIS are THIS appearing as that. What death what birth what before what after? Notice these are literally airy fairy tales not any less fictional than Santa clause.

Yep.

@Gesundheit if you can't distinguish between actuality and concept.. What can I help you? You can't distinguish between the bla bla bla of your mind and what makes your bla bla bla even possible. You can't have bla bla bla without THIS. But you can have THIS without bla bla bla. Choice is yours.

Yes. Truth and infinty are synonymous. Real and unreal are just words pointing to concepts. It's not real or unreal. It's what it is. Nice story. It's not just limited to what you already can see. It's true you can't imagine something that you didn't already see in the world. But notice what you already see in the world is unlimited. So is your imagination.

You can't even distinguish between actuality and your thoughts. You are lost cause.