Mellowmarsh

Maybe. With infinite possibility, anything is possible.

“ In the depths of winter, I finally realised there was within me an eternal summer.”

A I The Psychological View: A Functional Mask Psychology does not treat the ego as a physical thing, but rather as an essential mental construct. The Reality: You need an ego to function. It helps you distinguish your body from a chair, hold a job, obey laws, and manage relationships. The Illusion: The ego often distorts reality through defense mechanisms (like denial or projection) to protect your self-esteem. It makes you believe your temporary thoughts, labels, and roles are your absolute identity. ———— The infinite absolute cannot know itself as an identity. It already is this immediate infinite absolute without the illusory division of knower and known. There is no gap between the knowing and the known. Any apparent gap is a mental fabrication, an illusion. The illusion that artificially creates the gap can equally close the gap. And nothing will have changed.

It’s not a mistake, that’s the illusion. The Awakening is already this open unlimited vastness. Instead of the ego thinking it is a limitless being (which leads to grandiosity), the awareness of relative change, is a flip so that the infinite recognises the finite vessel it is currently inhabiting.

My daily experience of life hasn’t changed one iota. The only change is an apparent recognition that reality is not what thought thinks it is, rather, it whatever it is, is not limited by what thought thinks it is, rather it’s a liberation from limitation it’s the entry into the infinite. I am infinity knowing a finite experience. Not a finite experience knowing it’s infinite.

This idea is never grasped. The idea is simply known, directly. The known is a mental fabrication. A mental fabrication is never physically seen. Therefore that which is known, knows nothing.

Exactly! Your brain tricks you into believing you have a permanent, solid "core self" behind your eyes. In reality, your brain is constantly recreating your identity from moment to moment from one thought to another, then another and another ad infinitum. Call it evolution, it’s how you believed you got here in the first place. 3 million years ago is the same place as right here and now, similarly, 3 million years into the future is the same place as right here and now, because only the eternal present is ever known to be real. The “named thought one”is only a story of “I” , not real, with no director, no screen, and no audience. There’s something beyond that, that’s always present,that something is not a finite named thing, the present is infinite, it’s the beloved, the unnamed one , the unchanging one, the uncaused one, the unmoved one. One is One, and no other. This is it.

I like the way you think dude. For me personally, I give myself the permission to know my own God.My way, and that’s that. 😎

@VeganAwake On point. 👊 The moment reality is defined, it becomes something shaped by the concepts used to describe it. From transparency to opaque.

You’re doing it again…listen, no one is denying anything. There’s not a personal “someone” denying they exist. The personal “someone” is the illusion. The personal arises and falls away like a cloud. Yes, it exists as a cloud exists, but it has no fixed identity or location. Illusion doesn’t mean nothing ever arises and falls away, because even that is known, in this immediate direct knowing that cannot be known. There is no separate individual and personal you. However you are and I am. The I everyone refers to every time they say it is the formless, attributeless present awareness we all are at our core.

Sorry, typo alert. That was meant to say ( THIS IS IT ) Amen.

Tony Parsons would sometimes say in his talks ( There’s only the Beloved ) Its just another way of saying (God) So of course all these words are pointing to the same God, I mean what is not God. God is just blindingly obvious. (This it it) 👈 That’s the title of one of Tony’s books.

There’s no such thing as nonduality, because nonduality is not a thing. Unmistakably.

Good James. 👆Excellent pointing. Are you really in control of the actions you experience? Do “you” send messages to your muscles telling them to operate? To your eyes telling them to see? To your brain telling it to understand? Do you tell the wind to blow or the sun to shine? Aren’t these happening all by themselves, without a story of “you” required to make them happen?