Mellowmarsh

Is a squirrel awake?

I’ve noticed you’ve said a few times the “chosen one’s” That’s nonsense, it’s not an understanding specifically designed only for the “chosen one’s” to know. It’s is not a personal achievement, it’s either understood or it’s not, and when it is, it is consciousness recognising its own universal interconnected nature. For Human mind there’s a sense of separation that helps them function in the physical world. Beneath the surface of everyday thoughts lies a continuous field of existence where everything is fundamentally connected. Awakening doesn’t mean 'you' awaken. It means that there is only awakening. There is no 'you' who is awake; there is only awakeness. That’s what Ramana is pointing to in the op video.

Anyways, getting back to the original point, dogs don’t know they know. Unlike humans who do not lack metacognition. Metacognition is unique to humans serving as an interpretive story ( fiction ) we tell ourselves after the fact.

Like words inscribed upon a flowing river with watercolour paint.

No, there’s just the raw experience of eating without any thought involvement as to whether it’s a valuable experience. A dog will even eat it’s own vomit, it doesn’t understand value, the vomit is still as good as the food before it was regurgitated. You’re barking up the wrong tree again.

Dear Diary, Today was a very big day. I saw my tail again. It was right behind me. I turned around fast. It ran away. I spun in a circle. It spun too. We played a game. I almost got it. Then I got dizzy. I fell on the rug. The tail stopped moving. I won the game, I think.

Well said. 😎 The thing is, only 1 out of 5 million people ever fully grasp the concept of nonduality. So it’s perfectly normal for the remaining people who don’t grasp its meaning to fully reject it, even fight to the death to defend their defencelessness. That’s why most people choose to stay asleep, it’s more comfortable and familiar.

It’s also important to make up your own mind about what you are listening to within the voice of others as to what you personally find as valuable to you, and not just have them tell you what they think is best for you. What’s best for you is for you to decide, no one else.

There is a lot of grifting about it for sure. No human being does anything for free these days. Talking about Something that’s not for sale really is just a business venture that’s open to anyone willing to pay, nothing wrong with that if one is desperate to pay for knowledge, and where’s there’s muck there’s brass so to speak. And also what I find irritating is when someone else tells you you’re not awake yet because you have not yet reached a certain expansion of awareness that they have reached. I mean how can someone else possibly know the consciousness level of another person is beyond me.

No one knows what consciousness is though. You can define consciousness as a concept known but no one has ever seen it or can look at it and say that is consciousness or that is what consciousness looks like because it cannot be imaged. A image of consciousness would not be a thing outside of itself to be looked upon. The thing is we can’t know consciousness because we are consciousness. So we can’t actually know what or who exactly is waking up, or having an awakening experience, so to speak. The human mind seems to have the capacity to transcend itself, or for the mind to fall away from consciousness, and for pure consciousness to become aware of its Self. This begins to get into areas which philosophy and theology have been trying to go for millennia. But none of it can actually get there because as soon as it is put into thoughts or concepts it becomes relativised. And no relative is the absolute, and so it will be never be that absolute Truth, that Ultimate Reality. It will always be fallible, uncertain, partial, imperfect, and it will pertain to the particular, the finite, the limited, the temporal, it will be conditioned. It will not be Reality as-it-is.

Known but never seen. Felt but never touched.

It’s a fiction, you only believe to be real. Show a ten ton brick of gold to a dog and watch its reaction, it doesn’t say wow that’s going to buy me some super luxurious life. It hasn’t got a clue what gold or money is. The dog just lives in the present unknowable.

But this is just knowledge. It’s a fiction.

If God wasn’t convinced of the delusion of acting for no audience and the characters were all illusory puppets, then this acting wouldn’t have been possible. It had to be convincing or God wouldn’t bother to play it. That’s why the illusion had to be very real and convincing, which it is, that’s why no one can awaken from the illusion because there’s no experience other than the illusion, there’s no way to experience the none existence of illusion.

To act for no audience, can be pointless, might as well just leave the stage if nothing is real. Unless the act is believed to be real along with the believable audience watching the performance.