Breakingthewall

A revolution is currently underway in Iran to overthrow the Ayatollahs' regime. The population is in the streets, government buildings are being set on fire, and in many cases, the police are joining the protesters, Israel is ready to act. This is a global event of immense importance, and the news isn't saying a single word about it. Why?

The only way for Iran to free itself from the medieval obscurantism of Islamic dictatorship is through a military coup. I suppose the regime has placed loyalists in positions of power, but there's always ambition. Perhaps at some point a leader will emerge and the regime will fall, only to be replaced by another dictator. What seems impossible is for the people to triumph through protests and establish a democracy.

Taiwan has been Chinese for 400 years; its inhabitants are ethnic Chinese, Chinese who fled the communist revolution. The problem is that it was colonized by several powers, including Imperial Japan, which left a strong imprint. It's the only place where the Japanese didn't behave like psychopaths. The problem is that for the Chinese, the Japanese issue is very serious, a wound like the Holocaust for the Jews. And Taiwan is linked to Japan. It's a constant wound in Chinese identity.

It depends on what you call God. If God is total reality, the unfathomable source of being, that is, your ultimate nature, then it's not nonsense at all; it's the opening of your energetic structure to your total nature. Enlightenment. If for you god realization is realizing that you are creating a dream, etc ,then yes, it's just an idea

Intelligence involves selecting among options or possibilities within a system, aiming for maximum coherence. For example, one could say that life is intelligent in its evolutionary drive, or that an entrepreneur is intelligent in their market analysis and the adaptation of their actions. Consciousness means the perception of an external reality from a perceiving center. This conscious center can be more or less intelligent depending on its ability to read the variables of the system in which it operates and its capacity to seek maximum coherence.

Yes of course. It's the wise choice in any case.

The one who holds that belief is not limitlessness itself, but humanity, and they hold it because it is true. The confusion lies in believing that you are limitlessness, when the limitless is not a "you." A "you" is a perceiving center, therefore limited by definition. If something believes it is limited, or believes anything at all, it is because it is a perceiving center. The limitless does not believe anything; it is the "substance" of beliefs. Beliefs are form. Changing beliefs is changing form, but not opening yourself to the totality. The human being, who is a perceiving center, is limited and desires self-preservation; that it's nature, and denying it is pointless. I Yes but same time the human structure that is going to disappear perceives itself and wants permanence. Denying that the form is real doesn't work, in my opinion. The point is to open oneself to the totality as much as possible, to make the structure as transparent as possible to its essence. Then, although the desire for permanence will always exist, dissolution can be accepted. But if you deny humanity as an illusion and claim to be immortal god, you are exchanging a real identity for an invented one to stop fearing. This limits you completely, turning you into a narcissist who invents the reality he wants to feel better.

Then you mean deeper perception of existence. Like a new possiblity of perception that was closed for you now is opened or is starting to be opened

What exactly is an awakening? What does it entail? Based on your posts, I gather it's realizing you are a god. How do you realize that?

The body needs food and a suitable temperature to survive. The mind needs belonging and many other things. What's the difference? Is the mind perhaps a mistake of reality that should be fixed by turning it off?

The big problem is that the US makes tyrants look good because they appear to be the resistance against a vampiric predator, which isn't entirely untrue. The left will support the ayatollahs, Kim Jong-il, or whoever else stands up to the resource-stealing Goliath. We might think: the smart thing to do is to collaborate with the US; it's the hegemonic power, and opposing it is stupid and you gain nothing. But in many cases (too many), if you let it have its way, it will rape you like an 8-year-old girl on Epstein's island

What I am as human is in constant change, it's a changing reality

Identity is real. You are a form that reality takes called human. This is not an illusion; it is simply a fact. Regarding God, however, we would need to specify what we mean by God.

Any manifestation of unlimited being is a limited form, since without limits there is no manifestation. Any perception, or consciousness if you prefer, occurs when the limited manifestation splits in two. For example, a living organism that exchanges information with a universe of which it is a part but from which it is separate. This is perception of form from within form, as you said before. For example, a bacterium receiving information about ionic concentrations or temperatures to exchange information with the outside, or a bird receiving electromagnetic waves in its retina to generate an image of the outside in its brain that allows it to move and functioning. In the human case, reality enters a third phase of dissociation, which is the mental phase. Phase one: the primary, non-dual universe. Phase two: self-preserving life, which establishes its own laws within the primary universe and separates from it. Phase three: the human mind, which, based on biological life, which in turn is based on the primary universe, separates and creates its own framework of laws, symbolism, and logic, freeing itself from the limits of the purely biological. This mind has access to the direct perception of form upon form, but at the same time, it can open itself to the perception of that which is formless, of its unlimited nature, since it is not subject to absolute limits. Or rather, it is, but it can free itself from them. This liberation is what spiritual work is all about. When we say that the mind perceives its unlimited nature, it doesn't mean that it perceives it as one perceives sight, sound, pain, or hunger, nor as a mental structure, idea, symbol, or projection. It has to take a further step, and here's the point: to open its angle of perception to the essential, to its own nature. This is a challenge because, in principle, it is bound by the sensory, and beyond that, by the symbolic. And the symbolic is based on atavistic emotional triggers created by life to optimize group cohesion and evolution. The mind must transcend these phases and open itself to the essential, to what is prior to any form, to its nature, to what reality truly is. This, obviously, cannot be symbolized because it is not at the symbolic level.

The nature of reality is not form; form is its manifestation. Its nature is unlimited being.

Consciousness is the fact of being conscious right?

Consciousness is not something that can be immortal; it is something that happens. Consciousness is reality being aware of itself. Reality is not consciousness, it's conscious. What is immortal is reality. Ultimately, it is what you are, and everything else is changing form, including consciousness. Enlightenment is being aware of what you truly are, of the totality. Who is aware is the reality in the form of you, a self that is conscious of it's nature.

When you say that you generate the mental image, while the sensory image is generated by the brain, we're entering into a subtle distinction. The sensory image is generated automatically, rigidly, and predetermined. It belongs to the animal mechanism, completely tied to genetics with no room for maneuver. But it's still you, the system that you are. The mental image is also generated by the brain, but it can be modulated by a center that directs, decides, and analyzes: the self, which is also a structure created by the brain. The difference is that this self/mind is not rigidly tied to genetics. It is based on it but evolves freely. It does exactly the same thing that life does with respect to the universe. It depends on its laws, but creates its own laws, self-preserves, and evolves. The mind is another phase of reality that operates on the genetic basis without being bound to it. It's the third phase of the reality that we know. Universe, life, mind. Life is part of the universe but is separated of the universe. Mind is part of life but it's separated of life. Separated in the sense of independent, self legislated, operationally autonomous, self preserved. all are the reality, but in different phases. So, when spirituality considers the mind as maya and the sensory to be direct truth, what it is doing is attempting an impossible regression out of nostalgia for the pre-apple Eden, when what they have is the ultimate model of hyper-complex structure, of unimaginable possibilities, which reality, in its inevitable expansion, aka infinite intelligence, has given birth. Who gets enlightened is not the monkey, is the mind. The mind is form and as a form is limited, but can open itself to the unlimited. Can perceive its unlimited nature from a wide, but still limited structure.

It's very simple to understand what consciousness is. It's the reality expressed in a duality.

I've repeated a lot of times that the self is an expression of reality, but to refute it you say that I said it is its source. The only possible cause of manifested reality, whether the self or any other structure, is the inevitable absence of limits, which is the foundation of reality. Without limits, reality expresses itself in dynamic relational patterns that must be limited and coherent with each other to be "something", forms, and dynamic and open to be ultimately limitless, since they are the limitless expressed in form. All this rant has no relation to enlightenment; it is a deduction of my logical mind by elimination.

Both are made by you. Your brain creates your perception of an apple through a cloud of trillions of processes a few nanoseconds after the light reflected by the apple enters your retina. The thought of the apple is the same, only it occurs several hours, days, or even years after the information enters your system. If someone throws a rock at you, you move aside because your system perceives it as potential harm. If someone insults you, you react because your system perceives it as potential harm. After millions of years of evolution, it has become clear that your position in the group affects your survival, just like the rocks thrown at you.

The separate self is real as a manifestation of the reality now. You could put adjectives as illusion or anything but the fact is that it is now. Obviously it is, or do you think that it's an illusion? It's how reality appears, nothing else. Exactly, enlightenment is a refinement of the self. Nothing else. The self can be unrefined, like, say, Donald Trump's, or highly refined, aligned in such a way that it perceives itself as the unlimited manifesting, like, for example, the self of Buddha, but both are self That's just a change of perspective and it's irrelevant. That's what the neo-Advaita claim, that they realize the self isn't real and that's enlightened. No, enlightenment is realizing what the self ultimately is, not that it's an illusion. Enlightenment is perceiving the totality in all that exists. Perceiving it not as knowledge or a perspective, but as what reality is. That would be structural knowledge. You know there is no center. That's the opposite of the fact that there is a center. But you remain closed to the essence, to what you truly are. You are the unlimited, period. Imagine having a lobotomy and not knowing what a center is, or anything at all, but being completely open to the unlimited nature. Imagine your mind being a hole and everything that is perceived is the bottomless, living totality, the total being. You don't know that you can be damaged, or that you are a human, nothing. Just the totality alive open to itself. There is no time, no registration, no differentiation. Then there is not a center, not a self. But there is perception? Difficult to say, right? There is no time, cero time. There is not perception, it's deep sleep, nothing. Reality manifested. But reality in its absolute totality. Do you see the image? Now imagine that they reverse that lobotomy and you regain a mental structure. You perceive the entire dynamic of form around you, you grasp all the nuances of relationships, and you feel the need to protect your body, and the timeline. You find it wrong to torture children, and women attract you, but you remain open to the essence of what everything is. Then you would say: I perceive the nature of reality, what reality is, and at the same time I perceive that I am a self-preserving structure that appears as a center that perceives and registers the form . This structure may be temporary or whatever, but it is. Right now, it is a reality. To make a mental shift to see it as an illusion or a dream of God is irrelevant and useless. It is what it is, a manifestation of the whole, like everything else. The point is perceive it's nature, the unlimited.

What I mean that the feeling of centrality, of "I amness," is a structure that reality adopts when it manifests as a human mind. It is not an illusion; it is a relative structure that appears at a given moment and that appears as an absolute center, receiving all experience. It's really a center, from it's perspective. But it's not the absolute as a center, it's an expression of the absolute, a relative expression. Relative as the experience. The receptor center as one limit, the appearance that happens as the other limit. Both are the experience . The absolute is let's say the substance of which the relative structure of experience is made, articulated by a self that registers it. That substance is indefinable, you could call it limitlessness or unlimited being. "Being" doesn't mean "conscious of being" means just being, and can be said that it's a synonym of unlimited. The absence of límits is, because it has not limits. Being is everything, but it's nothing defined. Anything defined is an expression of being, or reality, or limitlessness. That's a good description, maybe a perfect one. The absence of limits is total vitality, since nothing limits it. Vitality as total potential, unlimited being. Enlightenment It's about being open to your unlimited essence and being one with it. It's not about knowing that reality is infinite and all that, but rather about having your human structure aligned in such a way that its essence is perceived without obstacle. The one who perceives it is the current human form, but that form is ultimately the totality, manifested as form. Then enlightenment is the totality perceiving itself.

There is no ontological difference between them; both are manifested reality. One as an image of an apple, and the other as an apple. You can't eat the image of an apple, but that doesn't mean that it's not real as an image.

Then raw sensory is the truth , and mental construction are lies. Well, this mental construction is your opinion. I respect it but I don't agree The self is how reality appears from the self. Without limits, any part is the whole, and the whole always manifests as a part. It is absolutely impossible for it to be otherwise. Every manifestation is relative to another. "Other" means another state, form, reflection. All these "others" are also the whole. There is no center, and at the same time, there are infinite potential centers. Therefore, the self is the whole manifested as self, and a neuron that is part of the structure of that self is the whole manifested as a neuron. Both are centers and parts at the same time. The self is a way in which dual experience is structured. There is experience without self, but there is no experience without duality. When reality manifests in the human structure, there is always self. Experience is not the foundation of the reality, is a possibility that arises The self dissolves into totality at the moment you die. Before that, it can open itself to limitless. Then it will be an enlightened self instead of a contracted self, but it will always be a self.