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It would depend on if there would be someone there to feel the responsibility in the firstplace.

Ah, I got you. Breath. I see now how my take was an adding to your singular, by dragging it in to a new context of breathing as a process.. I was tempted to say A breath. But, The breath makes the singularity even more apparent the way you put it. Neat! renewal-erosion I like that take. And it got me thinking. What if birth is the arriving into erosion. And death is the finalization into renewal. Since birth itself can't be a renewal of what it's already are. Thank you for your clarification, I needed that. Interesting take!

Thats fair, exaggeration can happen. But if you have a strong habbit of exaggerating thoughts, that can throw you into black and white thinking. That is something you might want to look out for, unless you feel fine with what you think. The thing is, we can't change our basic need. We can only attend to them. You know, eating, resting, and so on. So if you take issue with the base line of life. You will for sure have to look over your reasoning unless you don't mind the confusion it will bring you. You know, lucidity is seeing something for what it is. it sheds the doubt of belief. For example. You got to know in what order basic needs, and your belief about your basic needs, stands in relation to eachother. And it can't be known from a callculated guess, it should be obvious to you that eating, and resting is prior to your resisting belief about those needs. This is the way to lucidity. Learn about your own resistance towards things that aren't meant for you to change or manipulate. This is the tapping into lucidity. Learn to apply it to where it feels most urgent for you, and then work your way from where you are at the moment.

Well, every good lie has some sort of truth to them. Otherwise there would not be anything to believe in if it was all nonsense to begin with.. So let's look at your nr (2) here. Bullshit myself about everything.. If this is true, then that would mean that all that you have been writing down here is a lie essentially. You might not believe in that, but maybe it's true that it is all bullshit after all? Maybe what you believe to be THE problem, is a lie then? Sleep is often sweet because you don't actively think. So you can't judge yourself or the toughts, or your environment as efficent in dreams as you can when you are awake.. Maybe it is your beliefs about your so called biological drives that is creating unnecessary problem in the way you think. After all, if you need to go and take a shit. Why would you go the extra mile to give a shit about what you think about the whole process. Once a turd is flushed, you don't want to mourn it and think about the turd that is gone.. Right? If you got a bad stomach, then of course you might want to consider what you might have been eating prior to your toilet visit. And that is practical thinking, not excessive thinking about every little happening that is going on. Maybe you just need to flush some thoughts?

My advice to you is to drop the colour tags that you have mentally put on people, and that change alone will make it easier to opening yourself up for the possibility to get a glimpse into anyones deeper sense of self beyond your premade assumtions about who you have to come to believe certain people are. Kindness goes along way, but by all means figure out your own bounderys that makes sense to assert when needed. It is great to be aware of no duality, but if you run into someone who haven't got into non duality but are treating you well and with respect either way, don't you think that rings just as true for treating you as themselves despite not knowing about non duality? The very kind act itself should speak volumes if you can recognize it for what it is, rather than doubt anyones intellectual knowledge about their own kindness in action. People can indeed act very selfishly.. And they can also act very generous. But they can't be both at the same time in the very moment. So an act of selfishness can't determine wheter a person IS selfish or not, but rather show a tendency of their general behaviour under ordinary circumstances. Pay attention to nuances in life. If your black and white conclutions about life feels like a safespot right now. Then fine, just keep in mind that grayscales will eventually creep into any Solipstic shell you try to build for yourself, and things can, and will be confusing if you adopt a too rigid mindset around this idea you have right now. My apology for not adressing your points directly here, my intent is not to sound like a know-it-all. But what I tried to point out here for you. Is that your whole solipsistic view of life shows me someone who try their best to put their head in the sand.. It is okey to be confused.. It can also suck to confused. But acting like you have it all figured out by pushing yourself into a solipsistic mindset will not make things less confusing down the road. That is basically what I want you to be aware of. Just be you, as much as dare today. Be kind to yourself and others around you. That's a good starting ground to stand on.

Do with this what you will, but consider this.. When you say "I know I am creating you" and "You are just a figment of my imagination" You might want to start asking yourself, what exactly is it that I'm creating here? The conclution you seem to have arrived at, is that by denying anyones separate existing life as being appart of your own being or imagination. You gain some minor control of the emotional outcome with anyone you interact with if you play into this Solipsism game of it's "all me" that is real in the end of the day.. right? Nobody can intentionally affect your feelings if you decide when or what interaction is real or not as you please. And since your feelings isn't really out there in the world. The world must be an illusion or figment of your imagination right? What this solipsism conclution is, is a half-baked truth at best. Sure, you are the one who have full responsibility of your thoughts/actions/emotions. That makes up the whole world as you see it. It could not be any other way.. BUT. Your view of the world is also your personal perspective/interpretation of the world. This solipsism view shuts down your own potential openness and respect of individuals other than yourself. And so you will close yourself down and make yourself inaccessible in relating with to others who might hold a very different view of things than than you do. And while being wrong hurts sometimes, it will make you stronger each time you are fully honest with yourself. Solipsism is bound to make you dense in your own convitions, and also less and less relatable as a compassionate human. Since the consideration of feelings of others, are easily dissmissed as irrelevant noice in your own mind, you will eventually have a harder time to relate to others at an emotional level. Since any emotional relationship require a certain vulnerability. Vulnerability is essentially your openness towards uncertainty when relating with others.

I'm inclined to agree with you OP, that breath is indeed life. BUT.. Here's the kicker. Breath is not just a breath. As in a single point. Breathing is a relationship between in breath.. pause ..Out breath. All of a sudden you go from a singular conclution as in Breath=life, life=breath. To a triangular realtionship of breath as a rythm of motion. One may want to make the argument that the singularity/inertia of the breath is in the pause itself. But the breathing is stil a selfcorrecting relationship between the three for there to be life. So if the conclution is that you see yourself as breath, there might aswell be three of you, as you see yourself. And that can indeed be a puzzling thought.

I'm not super familiar with all what Sheldrake has claimed. But the gist I got from Sheldrake, is that he is more outspooken and scattered in his worldview. A bit all over the place if you will and are thereby at higher risk of being concidered woo-woo (not that there is something wrong with being all over though). While Hoffmans single idea are more in line with the scientific methood at it's core. He present his case, and invite anyone into exploring that way of thinking. I'm more familiar with Hoffman, and I don't even think he himself has said or suggested that this is how reality of consciousness work. But rather that he puts it out there as a plausible explanation for how the mind might opperate to certain extent. Hoffman comes across as more clinical in his approach imo. And that makes him more relatable to his fellow scientists I believe.

I'd say it is due to a restless mind at it's core. The expectations of tempo in relation of ability to actions, sets the whole body in a certain rythm that the mind might claim to be both useful and a purposeful task. Once this preoccupied intensity drops for any reason. There is a built up tension in the mind that correlates with that of the bodily energy residues that needs a new outlet in terms of mental/physical actions. So the intensity of bordom is due to tempo, while the actual cause of bordom might arise due to the lack of growing connections to be made.

By accepting that you can't accept it is a good start. Instead of you reaching out for acceptance, invite acceptance to come to you on it's own terms. You can come to know acceptance when you don't try to force it through the will of thought.

Try think of it this way. For there to have been a past. There also needed to be the now prior to that past event in where it all took place. If the past is the picture you remembered. The now was the and is the canvas onto where the past exist.

That is some sound advice^^ I might add this for OP. Is the snake a rope? Or is the rope a snake? It might depend on how fast you looked, or how good the lighting was etc. Solipsism is at best a mental gymnastic, and don't get me wrong I don't hate on Solipsism. But it is a sort of mental gymnastic that can be both fun and engaging, and a potential mind exercise. Why would that solipsism mind search for answears outside itself, and then proclaim that any answear it reads, is of it's own making? Solipsism claim to know itself as the ultimate singular. But such solipsism reasoning are dependant on dissregarding everything else as a fluke in regards and favour to the Solipsism midset. One way out of Solipsism if that is desired. Is to acknowledge the possibility that this Solipsism midset is a sort of reduction of the world it sees, and that thinking minds no matter how great, do inherit both biases and limitation inorder to play out certain relationships. The mind might be finite, but that doesn't mean that there must be a indirect problem to be solved in that regard.

Lol I see it Counter-clockwise, and I can't unsee it no matter if I focus on the foot. My conclution is that I got a stubborn mind:P

An inward investigation of will. While your body holds an certain potential for action. Your mind and spirit holds the means and direction for action to spring to life.

I see religion as a sort of public transport. A train if you will. A public transport can take you from A to B. It provides a collective common ground. But for anyone who have the ability or curiosity to question further than that, might wonder what happened to the rest of all the letters.

I don't have a personal interest in practicing this Mahasamadhi. But it got my attention today when a week old video of a monk that was doing Mahasamadhi. And now as a coincident I saw this post mentioning Mahasamadhi. My curiosity is not around the act of it being a sort of suicide, but rather if this practice is a fully concious conlcution of some sort. Maybe inward knowing of coming full circle if you will. An inward knowing must come from a deeper place than our day to day reasoning/logic based of some sorty of causality. As in "I do this/that to avoid/gain this or that". This Mahasamadhi doesn't come across as a choice rooted in worldly things, but rather as a conclution rooted in it's own nature through practice of cultivating a deeper inner access. While the video I saw seemed very real. I also find some doubt in myself regarding this phenomena. Since he could been taking some poison beforehand, or maybe it is an collective act on behalf of the legitimacy of monk practices, who knows. It sparked some curiosity of thought in me. Anyways, this is my random thoughts for today.