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this is why synchronicity happens all the time .

Obviously not 100%.

You,silly .

Nice excuses. Where is "peace be upon him"? 😂

Great quote. Sufis are great but no one beats indian sages . This one by Nisargadatta is an absolute gold I just now finished listening to it and I feel like I understand everything 😂

What is "opening the self "?

Here's the story of everything: once upon a time there was nothing. Nothing is one and singular so it does not know itself. So it decided to know itself .the only way it can know itself is by fooling itself that there is something else other than itself ..by imagining itself as separate subject perceiving a world populated by others . (Metaphorical obviously).

@Joseph Maynor if one realizes he is everything and everyone..isn't spreading and giving love to everyone kind of the only rational thing to do ?

Obviously it's not "dog-realization". Some words hit closer than others as to what you are . The definition of God is an entity which is infinite ..boundless ..eternal ..immortal..omnipotent..omnipresent......omniscient ...all Good and more . And that's what you are .so what should that be called in your opinion?

Because everything in the universe is contingent..everything depends on other things ..therefore there must have been something eternal and doesn't depend on anything else .

The most fundamental thing ever (and there has to be a most fundamental thing ever to give rise to anything at all that exists ) is pure presence. It's present all times and all places and in all conditions.. Right now and before an hour and after a million years . "Consciousness " in the sense of "perception " is not that . i get that spiritual teachers call ultimate reality as "consciousness " but it can be confusing .

Two sides : 1-there is something that is always present and ever-present. Whether you are awake or sleeping or dead or whatever. And it doesn't need conscious attention to give it existence or credence. 2- conscious attention obviously is not ever-present. You can create a distinction between pure presence which is always there and conscious attention which is not always there.

@theleelajoker totally relate with you. what i have found is inside of my being there is emptiness. Literally there is no one or thing inside of me .yet I observe my thoughts and my actions or reactions as something the body is programmed to do .then I say that others are also empty vessels like me and all I hear inside of me or in the crowd is silence.

Sure ..in the sense that if we don't use language or concepts and just sit in silent meditation in a thoughtless state then there is no question about the nature of direct experience or whether it's solipsistic or not . But the difference is I'm using "direct logic"..which means I'm investigating direct sensory experience as it is ..whereas you are reasoning about additional layers of abstractions (relationships ..casuality ..point of views ..absence of limits etc).

What is immediately present here and now.