Wilhelm44

Thank you

I would love to be able to bilocate

I hear you. And I agree, no words can come close when talking about the Absolute. A statement like: "nothing has ever truly happened" is not trying to describe the Absolute though. It's simply pointing to a very logical fact. From the perspective of the Absolute. Hence it's been uttered by so many sages through the years. But yeah, all words are relatively (un)true.

In any dream, including this life, it feels as if things are truly happening, otherwise the dream wouldn't be very convincing. From the perspective of the Absolute or the Changeless, nothing has ultimately changed, hence a statement which i think many a sage has made: nothing has ever truly happened. (You could say this is nothingness happening, ie pure magic.) "No world has ever been created" - Ramana Maharshi

I think i once heard him claim that he doesnt have any thoughts anymore.

Because you're nuts

You bamboozling me with that one Is it not just plain and simple to say: The tsunami didn't actually wipe out my town, it was just a dream. ie it didn't actually happen, period.

Personally I feel earth is part of a larger intelligence system. It's quite possible also that some kind of cataclysmic event is on the way. But there's always some kind of rebirth. The ending scene of Oblivion touched something in me.

@Hyperion When I dream at night that a tsunami wiped out my town. And I wake up in the morning to realize that it was just a dream. Can we not say that what apparently happened in the dream, never actually happened ?

Yeah, it feels like the mind is being sucked in by some singularity.

Really, there are actually people who believe the bus will pass right through them ?

@Hyperion Have you not experienced a dreamlike quality to this reality ? That's all I meant by simultaneously real and unreal. Doesn't mean a bus won't knock you over if you get hit by one. (I haven't met anyone yet who believed otherwise.)

Absolutely

Agreed. I don't think anyone is advocating stepping in front of a bus. (I think this might be many people's misunderstanding with regards to radical nonduality. It is somehow viewed as being in denial of life. And yet it actually leads to a more intense experience of life. The no self thing is just a doorway in my opinion. Less filters, less resistance etc.) You could also be violently hit over the head during a dream (virtual reality) at night, and when you wake up and realize it was just a dream it's as if it never actually happened. Similarly, from the perspective of "that which has no opposite because it is all that there is" nothing has happened.

Thanks, I'm not a fanatic So if I simply said that what I see before me right now is simultaneously real and unreal, would we agree ?

Thanks, I'm curious, can you say a bit more about this ?

@Hyperion Im curious, did you follow a specific path like Vedanta for example ?

I have glimpses of that. Im also experiencing this sense that the mind is melting. Like the mind is realizing that it knows nothing. And Im noticing that the immediacy of whats always already here is literally just receiving everything with love.

Brilliant example here of the arrogance of some materialists

Been on my to do list for ages to read Viktor Frankl's stuff, but somehow not getting round to it.

Radical nonduality is not a big deal. It's just the immediacy of what's always already the case. The cool thing I'm discovering now, is that instead of trying to feel through heavy feelings, simply to make a subtle shift in focus, and notice how this immediacy is already receiving it all with love.

Tim Cliss has a book called This Deafening Silence.

I feel the same

I'm sorry about your mom. Both my parents are still alive, so I don't know what that feels like. I was 44 years old when I joined the forum