The0Self

Thinking is not needed.

So, "I refer to I as I." Now, doesn't that sound just a little bit self referential; arbitrary; tautological?

To answer as I am now I would have to use the convention "I"/"you" which means nothing. It's just what's appearing to happen. Or, it could be said, it's just obvious when it's seen.

The crazier you sound, the truer your words doesn't always hold true.

Because there's already no you. Ta da!

That character is not happening to that character. That character is that character. There's no fixed you. You = I, yes, yet they can mean different things -- e.g.. when I am talking to you (so I and you are two separate things in that example) -- therefore they have no absolute defined characteristic other than what they really are, which is undefinable, which is all there is.

All self referential tautologies with no fixed definition.

You have no attachment to the experience of (some random person), so it does not appear for you. You have attachment to the experience of one particular character, so it appears for you. It's the same for every apparent individual, all of which are actually not separate. What's longed for is everything, and it's inescapable.

Why wouldn't they differ by religious background? Especially if they are themselves religious. Not to mention, the experience may have been completely indescribable, yet it's so profound they feel they have to at least try to describe it... And so of course they sprinkle their own conceptual overlay into the description.

(In place of) that which was forgotten -- the "memory" of infinity -- appears as a big terrifying hole that we call death or the unknown, and it compels the individual to look away (compels God to look away, and thereby fool itself into being an individual). The calling back toward the infinite can be as simple as a curiosity about this hole. It's a story, but in a sense, God made this big gaping terrifying hole so that even God would look away from it so that it can sufficiently fool itself in order to pretend that it's a finite individual on a journey to what's longed for. Of course that means the journey or whatever appears is exactly what is longed for -- which is, "by design" so to speak, not understandable (as least not in a finite sense through finite means). What "you" are is nothing (everything) -- infinitude -- imagining something else; awareness/objects. Obviously don't take this as absolute truth. It's not a process that actually happens in time like other things. This is just a pointing to what can only be apparently revealed directly.

The inability to remember things before birth, see things after your death, and experience nothing: So to speak, this is God saying “I’m not done here,” and “what’s the point of that (going there)?” Not that there’s a you that can do those things — that’s the point. There is only the whole of everything — it’s beyond solipsism.

@JuliusCaesar Nice. Probably the first existential crisis I had was after a week of, all of the sudden, astral projecting every night, after having been basically completely ignorant of anything at all spiritual or trans-materialist up until that point. It was like, “okay, okay, I get it, something’s up with what I call reality.” ?

Forgetting that "you" are infinite is itself the entire substance of "you" -- as in it's not even that you are infinite, as that would be a position and a meaning to the ungraspable. If something is forgotten then there must appear to be someone who (unknowingly) forgot -- that's all the someone is.

With infinite power, there is apparently the ability to forget that "you" are infinite -- this is apparently the purpose of the "you" in the first place. Nothing is serious or not-serious -- i.e. "this is seriously just for fun."

@silene Well nothing is needed but there's no real position, limit, location, scale, or context... So yeah, "things just happen (apparently)" is all that can really be said. Basically nothing can be said at all, since what's being pointed to isn't a thing. The reality of any context is illusory. There is only the whole of everything, and what's longed for cannot be escaped. Amazingly. The infinitely empty void being absolutely everything is utterly free of lack or need.

So the side plot in South Park s04e01 ("Tooth Fairy Tats 2000" or something) deals with Zen and enlightenment -- Kyle not knowing what to believe anymore after finding that the tooth fairy etc isn't real, then he feels time and self-existence intermittently fade out until he is everywhere and nowhere and becomes nothing and everything. And then his "I learned something today" was that all phenomena are like actors on the stage of consciousness which is unchanging. Yeah that was in a South Park episode in or around year 2000 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRe-bKJi518&list=PLnjzVz1a4oZtkZLb1MLxr6g-PMjy2Cv3q&index=49

Feel free to skip the first 30 seconds of that first clip. Here are the two clips embedded. The first one should automatically play the second one from the same window but here's the second one just in case it doesn't. Just funny stuff.

"Jesus... Consciousness is The Ultimate Truth of Reality!" Not saying I (or you) ascribe to that, just seeing if that's what you meant.

The impenetrable illusion covers over the reality that arms moving (seemingly intentionally, moving "your arm") is happening just as automatically (and without purpose, for that matter) as wind blowing through the trees.

Succinctly: The irreversible destruction of the illusory sense of personal doership. Or: The end of the dream of separation and being the seeker. End of "I am <definable or finite thing>." End of the dream that there is something other than wholeness.

It is, but only directly and automatically. Not by reading someone else's pointers, even if they themselves achieved it. Good luck doing so without stupid amounts of meditation -- not that it's impossible. Or really just experimenting with many ways of seeing reality, provided the mind is quite calm -- very steady self inquiry can be quite helpful for this, as can psychedelics. The I that you can't find is identical to the entirety of everything -- there's no separation. Everything is undefinably nothing... Pure love; boundless energy; wholeness; the needless void which is whole and complete. Experimenting with ways of seeing like that can be associated with rather terrifyingly awesome glimpses. So-called infinite self understanding is not going to come without a cost -- the cost is everything you want to control... Yet when the cost is paid, nothing is lost, but from the other (pre-liberation) side of the door, it will look like death.

But they have a lot more to go on assuming you've already talked face to face. Online they only see what you look like and what you say -- what really matters is how you say what you say.

If you're very masculine and dominant or at least very aroused in sex, 5.5 inches will likely seem big to most women. Mine was about the same. A little bigger now (well, much thicker, and maybe 6.1 inches long) from jelqing, which takes some time but actually works. I eventually stopped jelqing and I had totally forgotten that I used to be very self conscious about it. Now if anything it seems to be the perfect size. Apparently the bathmate works even better than jelqing -- basically those who tried bathmate and jelqing found bathmate to work a lot better. Derek from MPMD did a video on it. It actually does work so don't listen to people saying you can't change the size lol. Never tried bathmate myself but jelqing definitely worked for me and all I hear is that the bathmate thing works even better. I could make women squirt over and over without even using my hands, even when well under 6 inches, so I really don't think that's functionally small -- it just looks small relative to pornstars. Just be grateful you don't have a 10 inch, which is probably too big for many women to enjoy. My intuition is that the shape matters, especially a larger head, which jelqing actually grows the most. Being very sexual and masculine, or having a confident mindset, or just being generally good at sex, are each (even one by itself) far more significant factors than having a large dick. Now if you were like <4 inches idk that might be an impediment but even then it's nothing that can't be overcome. Not to mention when penetrating deeply a 5.5 is probably going in almost 7 inches anyway. If I pressed the skin around the penis toward me it was about 7 inches, but just over 6 when just measuring normally from base to tip. Girth is more important so if it's an issue for you, that can be worked on as the girth is the main thing jelqing and bathmate improve. Someone with a 4 inch penis is like a year and a half of daily diligent jelqing away from your size, which I'm pretty sure is exactly the national average in the USA, so cheer up. But yeah, if the size really does bother you, you actually can grow it a significant degree. It's not something like height that you basically just have to accept. I'm surprised more guys with small or average size (who are unhappy with their size) don't know about this.

For me, they got stronger with more awakenings, but after a point when there wasn't much left to find (at least in terms of liberation and the need for answers), they got way, way weaker. Because there was basically nothing left to elicit the "A ha! So that's how it is!"