WelcometoReality

@catcat69123 Yeah it's a great book which has helped me as well.

Hello fellow human being! ✌??

That things are just happening and that it's unknowable is also a perspective which one is true?

@Nadosa ?

?? To me it seems like existence is constantly changing and non-existence is constantly constant. ?

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Yes, it goes somewhere but before realizing where the sound seems to just "vanish". As you practice this you will see that the sound seems constantly changing but there are places where it disappears completely just as it seemed like reality was dual before realizing it was one. When you are melting into oneness you are putting your awareness/focus onto the infinitely large (edit: or rather letting go into the infinetely large is a better way to put it) but here I am asking you to put your awareness onto the infinitely small. Yes from an objective pov energy doesn't disappear just transforms into something else. It's good that you're sceptical. Im not asking you to believe what I'm saying is that you can realize something by doing the practice. I'm not sure what you mean with unconsciousness and non-awareness can you put it into context?

@johnlocke18 Yes I agree. ? But they are two aspects of the same one like the head and tail of a snake both is the snake.

Spiritual factions emphasize either God or nothingness and then they go to war with each other over which aspect is the right one. I'm glad we can keep traditions alive here. ?

Yes, that is great if you are still dieing into this. This is what I'm trying to point to, the investigation of constancy. Is there such a quality? The ENDING of all sensations.

I use time in the pointer but the pointer doesn't point to time. ? See if you can spot the experience of sound vanish into. Does that pointer resonate better with you?

We could say the experience of it. What word would you use? Because the mind can't imagine what's being pointed to perhaps. ?

The words born and dying are pointers to what is. Nothing really is born or dies yes. Apparences are only appearances but that is not what I'm pointing to here. The appearance of time is only possible because of the timeless. From where does the thought come from and where does it go when it end? It's born from the unborn and dies into the undieing. Or if you prefer from where does it arise and to where does it pass. It can be examined and realized if the willingness is there. It seems so but it arises from moment to moment from unexistence.

@Judy2 You can't stop the thoughts and they are no problem, they are simply what's occuring and they are what's causing the suffering. It's more of a disconnection from the thoughts and watching them.

Excellent! ?

What about letting go of that which thinks it has an ego? ? Being arises from non-being.

Yeah you're right. It would be senseless because the senses appear within existence. ?

Thank you. Let's explore this together. ? I see. Because if non-existence would exist within time it would exist and therefore be non-non-existence. So if it were it would be timeless or prior to time. What if non-existance and existance were two sides of the same coin where existence is the 3 dimensions + the dimension of time and non-existence beyond that. Wouldn't it make sense that everything comes into existance from non-existence and back into non-existance once it stopped existing?

@Mason Riggle My last post might have sounded a little harsh but wasn't meant that way. ?

You said this: And in the article it says: "The Big Bang theory is the prevailing cosmological description of the development of the universe. According to this theory, space and time emerged together 13.787±0.020 billion years ago,[11] and the universe has been expanding ever since. While the spatial size of the entire universe is unknown,[3] the cosmic inflation equation indicates that it must have a minimum diameter of 23 trillion light years,[12] and it is possible to measure the size of the observable universe, which is approximately 93 billion light-years in diameter at the present day." It's big but not infinite and you're still taking this from a belief based perspective which wasn't the meaning of my question. If your not willing to introspect and contemplate then just let go and move along.

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But I'm not in my question so you have to put your beliefs aside when contemplating it. ?

You are equating the universe with existence which I'm not doing in my post but trying to point to something else. If it doesn't make sense to you then you could contemplate on it or just ignore it. We could have a discussion about this on a conceptual level but I think that would be off topic.

@PurpleTree Write water on a piece of paper and try to drink it. ?

What was existence before the universe was born?