Mellowmarsh

Knowing is known as the limits of the known, the unknown is but the limits of itself as known; limit remains boundaries fold and unfold as but a river.

Can the unreal be a problem? If you know that all thoughts are about the real or the unreal, but are never themselves the real, do they have to be taken so seriously?

Yes, exactly true. Thought and language are not understood as referring to fixed objects that pre-exist in a world outside language. This is because those things can simply not be found.

How much of a self is truly needed in everything you do this day?

You are both empty and full of where. Both, yet neither.

Is there a witness behind thoughts, or is “I am witnessing” just another thought passing by effortlessly?

This statement is very true. The Tao is never a fixed theory. A theory would only dam up the flow, altering what’s already past and gone, completely untouched. In other words, the Tao of reality cannot be freeze-framed into someone’s personal ideal theory. But yes, it seems we’re all just different authors appearing here, writing our unique stories using nothing more than pure imagination identical to stroking water-colour paint upon a flowing river.

Thank you for your help, it’s really appreciated, beautiful man. Continue to show your shining light. It’s refreshingly inspiring. Has helped me enormously. 🫠

Beautiful.

The point is to Surrender control. To let go of the illusion of control. The self-concept has no power to control anything. Let go of enlightenment and nirvana too. It’s all mental stuff.

I’ll play too…the false attachment to “my” self died. That’s not running away from or bypassing anything, it’s living from real truth ..

A flame is dependent upon and inseparable from countless conditions such as fuel, oxygen, thermal friction and so forth. Every flame continuously changes because fire depends upon conditions with no existence of its own. Since fire is not self-maintained it is impermanent. When conditions for fire are no longer present, we say the fire died. Yes, this is understandable, but it is important to see that each instant, the fire is a different fire, not the same fire. Furthermore, since an appearing fire depends upon conditions that are not considered to be fire, fire lacks its own self nature. After all, fire does not burn itself. So fire does not and cannot die as an entity that ever existed in and of itself.

Because hysteria is just an integral part of living the burn that is life without fear, and notice how endurable the burn is. What doesn’t kill ya makes you stronger. Do what you love and let it kill you.

Beautiful understanding. 👍

Exactly! All form, both gross as in a tree, and subtle as in thought, depend upon innumerable conditions and are not the fixed entities that they appear to be. Nothing actually remains the same for an instant. What is perceived to be an unchanging object is on the contrary, an instantaneous, indivisible movement of disintegration and formation, even though this transience is imperceptible. It is in this sense that what is called death is also life, as the ongoing transformation of all phenomena. There’s no fixed observer, so yes, even the observer vanishes.