Mellowmarsh

That correction is incorrect. You cannot 'not know' what you already know. Which is right here and now, presently, in the immediacy of now, you know you exist, absolutely. You can't undo this immediate knowing. You can only know what you know, not what you do not know, because even knowing what you do not know is a knowing.

You don't need to ask where knowing is taking place. Knowing simply is, without doubt or error. You know you exist. You cannot deny you exist. Knowing you exist cannot be unknown. Unknown, to me, simply means you do not know how you know you know. But that's irrelevant, because all you can know is that you do know you exist, because you cannot know you do not exist. I've been thinking about this a lot over the recent holidays, and have had a new epiphany into the insanity of denying your own existence.

Body is known, in the exact same way the thought is known. This is how you know absolutely that you exist as a thinking being.

You don't need a mirror to know you exist.

This thread is about knowing you exist due to the irrefutable fact that you are a thinking being. It's got nothing to do with what did you know before birth. You cannot even know what has taken birth, or know what ultimately dies, all you can know is that you exist right now. It's to do with this immediate knowing, right here and now, presently. Right now, you know you exist. You cannot know what you do not know. You can know you do not know, but you cannot not know you do not know. You know you exist as a thinking being. That's an absolute truth, right here, right now, unavoidably so.

You do not learnt to exist. So I disagree. However, I have no problem with your truth that knowing you exist is learnt. That's your reality bubble, not mine.

Good luck undoing that thought.

Why are you now questioning whether or not you exist, isn't it obvious?

That's a thought.

Go ahead, don't hold back.

Knowing you exist.

My point is that nobody learns to exist. You exist absolutely. There's no such learning as learning to exist, or learning to not exist. Which seems to be a popular theme on this forum.

Bye the way. Once the 'thought' has been fully recognised, and fully realised to have occurred, the 'thought' that identified as 'existence' cannot be unthought. And that's where your personal 'meta-thinking' fails, and is revealed to be a huge pile of BS

You enter peoples thread topics just to say that to them. Fine by me, but it's a bit lame, but then....I guess that's how you roll. No problem.

Yes, absolute truth is already absolute truth. That's all I'm saying too. The only absolute truth is that you exist as a thinking being. I don't agree that anyone can deny their own existence. Prove me wrong, if you dare.