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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

Yeah it's surreal. (I later heard from the police that the same guys tried to take a bicycle from another guy in the neighborhood. This guy put up a fight and they actually shot and killed him for his bicycle.)

Gentle zen slap to the face, thank you🙂🌠

I hear you. Could there possibly be a planet out there, where they have transcended war ?

That's wild !

That would be crazy terrifying. Just over 20 years ago I went through an attempted car hijacking, where a gun was held to my head. The sheer terror was unbelievable. I managed to escape unharmed, and when I got home I literally downed a bottle of wine. Adrenaline was so strong the wine had no effect on me. (I have heard stories of soldiers who claimed they never felt more alive than they did on the battlefield.)

Quite magical how every intro has the same message, but is literally never expressed in the same way twice.

@Mellowmarsh When you say there is something terrifying about having no choice but to be aware of all the hardships etc happening here, How do you reconcile that with " Unconditional - all allowing Love….perfect in every immediate moment even in it’s seemingly imperfection. " ?

I still love that phrase: "This can appear as anything"

I'm beginning to understand Jim's use of the word 'anarchy'

Thanks for being here💫🙂 (I think Trina was mentored by Emerson, I find her quite chill to listen to.)