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I'm trying to work this out.

Sorry I mispoke, it's impossible

It doesn't work. It's absurd.

If reality is something, and non-duality is a reality, is non-duality something?

If they hit me because of something I did then they do not have unconditional love and I feel extremely sorry for them

Unconditional love is an interesting thing. To show unconditional love if someone hits you in the face do you turn the other cheek? Love your enemy? You can, but why? When someone hits you in the face you feel sorry for them because their mind is corrupted to the point where they think using violence against you is acceptable. You show empathy for their broken mind.

Hate is impossible, it was simulated so we could learn

Love is the only thing in reality. From love everything else came. Love exists in a duality with time. It is both love and time however it is only love, so a paradox. You can't have love without time. Love finds a way to make anything happen in love. Time can do anything. Love powers everything. Time is rational and without time love would not know how to operate in a rational way. Love requires that everyone in reality have a consciousness. It is not loving for people or animals to not be conscious. Idealism cannot be subjective with only yourself being conscious, it's not loving, not to mention lonely. However idealism still makes sense with this framework of love. It can be done. Love does not allow for concepts such as free will. Free will means peace is not possible. Someone can always break the system. Love means family connections are permanent. We can never break family connections because reality relies on them for it to work. Even if you think your family hates you, deep down they love you.

Thanks for you replies, I have read them many times over, but I find it hard to understand. I don't know what my propositions are, I'm just throwing ideas out there and seeing what sticks. I have only just become a stage orange materialist, being stage blue religious all my life before that. Being newly orange I am interested in rationality and concepts. Is that what will lead me to go around in circles forever?

Thanks I like your explanation of concepts and boundaries. Regarding "non-thing" isn't it a paradox? You can't have a non-thing because anything you name would be a thing? Wouldn't that make "thing" nondual? Sounds interesting and I'm willing to try to explore it. I just recently became stage orange and very materialist minded so struggle to understand nonduality, but open to new things.

What is the most foundational concept of all the known concepts and is it a duality? So for everything that exists there is something it is not? What about thing? What is a non-thing?

So there's no foundational concept in reality? What's the closest we can get to that?

Thanks for the replies, all are helpful, I'm quite new at this and I find it very interesting. I understand there is no non-dual thinking now, makes sense. Can you explain more about "all duality can only ever be illusory"? Can you explain more about mental categories ultimately not being true? Are you saying that because finite things only exist in a duality, there is no foundation to build on, therefore reality is not real?

I've been watching Leo's videos for about a year and reading about the topic of duality and trying to understand it. I have two questions: 1. Is everything a duality? 2. Why is non-dual thinking considered more "spiritually enlightened" then dualistic thinking?