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Probably mauve.

I will be unhappy until I'm dead. If I don't take my antidepressants I want to kill myself. When I do take them I'm like a robot, but having no emotion feels better than wanting to die.

I think no-self is when you become nothingness, and understand that everything "you" is a changing appearance just like all appearances, with no static thing to actually grasp whatsoever. It's like an experiential form of neti-neti to literal nothingness. I think you described something like an out of body experience, lost boundary between self and other.

The apple could permanently have mass, but it's more about what the apple actually is. What matter actually is. Things like mass, speed, whatever else, they're just descriptors of an object's behavior but don't tell us anything about what the object is in terms of its fundamental substance. Which is to say, we recognize the actual images we imagine (the image itself) is not made out of anything. Usually people think of it as a sort of hologram, where there is some real matter called the brain, but that the image itself is just a mirage that itself is not made of things... Matter is also fundamentally not "made out of" anything in the same way. Once you get to the smallest particle, when there's nowhere deeper to say "it's made from atoms, atoms are made from electrons" (w.e. the case is), and you have to actually confront "okay so what actually is that, fundamentally speaking".

You mean "being" as opposed to "knowing" right? I know that nothingness cannot be known or observed except by being it. I find I can verbalize it, though.

It's actually not, because a "mirror" exists as form. You have to use form as a mirror to find that what is perceiving the forms is literally nothingness. You perceive nothing by BEING it. It's the only way nothingness can be experienced, by using the presence of somethingness.

Claims to knowledge can be based on absolutely true revelations. There are various aspects of reality and the nondual proposition that can be known without question, based on evidence. Faith is the opposite of what Buddha taught. Also very opposite to Advaita Vedanta as initially taught. TRUE religions don't need you to blindly trust some BS in a book, and actually WANT you to find out for yourself.

See "Lucy". Probably the most extreme example in a Hollywood Blockbuster, obviously with sci fi elements to make it an interesting movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUad0ZL-nBU

Law of Attraction has been in the same category as dowsing and wizardry for a long time now. It's very annoying when a truth is completely discredited by association such that nobody takes it seriously.

A property isn't itself a physical object. It says nothing about the reality of a "physical" object really being there any more than the fact I don't fall through floors in dreams. I don't believe free will exists in any space, mental or otherwise. I never choose the thoughts that come into my head.

@BlueOak Usefulness has no bearing on truth; properties aren't physical objects but descriptors of how the allegedly real object behaves. None prove the object is actually externally real. The object isn't really out there, that is the important part.

Both are without evidence. You either know, or you don't. Faith is reading a Leo post and being like "yep! I have zero proof but I'll just believe it anyway because it makes me feel good". The things being discussed aren't religion where you need "faith". It can be known. Kick faith to the curb, attain knowledge.

That is difference... I don't think people's brains, when they read "there is no difference", interpret it as "there is not sameness but multiplicity is of one total being". I think they interpret it to mean sameness. That is surely what the OP means.

Appearance is within reality. Relative stuff is within reality. There is difference... No appearance of difference = nothingness, without even an appearance of somethingness. Nothingness and somethingness is already an appearing difference and is how existence even appears at all point blank. A baby sees color X and Y the moment it is born. It doesn't even know what color or seeing is. The idea some people have is that if they just stop thinking thoughts and simply experience, magically all contrast vanishes. Not only do they see the truth that "this is all mind", but it just straight up vanishes.

Difference creates difference. Smoking a bunch of Salvia turns your entire visual field into one 2D flat blob. There are still multiple colors to that incomprehensible blob. That is difference. Doesn't matter if you interpret X or Y.

That is difference.

No free will as far as I can determine. When I want to do something, the very genesis of the want to do the thing comes out of nowhere and is itself merely an appearance in consciousness and nothing more.

No such thing... And yet I can assure you when I get my teeth drilled, I'm not sitting there enjoying it. I wish I could just sit there in ecstasy getting a root canal. That'd be a great skill.

Kinky.

Have you considered the actual form of the apple though? The round red thing? And considered THAT is 100% subjective.

It doesn't in regards to what objects are. An "apple" can appear 10000000000 different ways. Everything seeing the apple will say "yup there's an apple" because everyone has been taught X symbol = an apple, regardless of how the apple is actually being seen. Most obviously with colors. But it extends to every element of form. ALL form is subjective.

Belief without evidence.

Where is he getting this mythology from lol.

You are a sandcastle made of perceptions on a beach. Whenever a perception ceases, the sandcastle is slightly eroded. When all the perception the sandcastle is made from ceases, there is no sandcastle anymore. But there is the beach.

Leo has not experienced energy shoot from his fingers LOL, he's been watching too much Avatar. You can indeed imagine your hands as tentacles and such but it won't affect "consensus reality". Don't apply your ego to the world around you. Your ego, and your thoughts and desires to control X or Y are themselves appearances in consciousness. It seems to me what is called consciousness, AKA nothingness, is the source of creation and choice. Nothingness is the puppet master. Not me the identity or me the thoughts or me the feelings or me the desires. Those are things the puppet master is puppeteering.