Nos7algiK

Don't be an ass just because of some absurd social myth that women only love assholes. That type of personality will only attract birds of a feather and though it may give you short term rewards. It will only have severe long term negative effects on both yourself and those you may talk to. If you are a good person inside you will regret being like that if you keep it up long term. Just keep trying to be yourself. Even if it isn't successful you will get better and better at being yourself. The main key here is to be comfortable with yourself so others will feel comfortable around you. Women, or really people in general, are extremely attracted to those are who kind, caring, emotionally mature, and willing to listen. All of these qualities are much less common than the asshole qualities many have. So they are a treasure when found. Anyway, in my own opinion, she isn't worth the trouble. Someone who's going to start fights with you for seemingly no reason is a massive red flag.

It is the apex of seriousness. There is no other way it could be and the very concept of existence is perfection, but perfection manifested by something. We can call it Nothing/Infinity. Even if it is the apex of seriousness, that doesn't mean it can't be fun. Much like a professional sports game it is both serious and fun to play the game. I forgot, I should give you some non-dual answer. There is no answer, stop searching. Nothing is real....

“There is Buddha for those who do not know what he is really. There is no Buddha for those who know what he is really.” ~ Kobori Nanrei Just replace "Buddha" with Jesus, Mohammad, Ra, or really anyone/thing.

I'm just going to use both until the actual individual tells me otherwise. Then their wish will be respected. I've seen this topic talked about quite a few times in my life and it seems from observing what women have to say, it's about a 50/50 slit on if they are offended if someone calls them "girl". Since there doesn't seem to be a majority that would take offense then I have no reason to consciously change my wording, again unless asked. Though, primary women is the term I use.

No they would not. Considering reality itself is tethered to your own "mind" I would highly doubt the reality that generates with the person who is enlightened would manifest them into a mental hospital.

Been wondering where she has gone as well. Would loved to have seen some of her input in a few of the more recent threads here. She seems to be somewhat active on her YouTube channel.

I suppose so, they are pretty neat though.

That's usually pretty difficult to find since those who genuinely have them aren't flaunting them around.

@Salvijus I understand where you are coming from and I would agree our perception of fear drops the more self-aware we become. But, that doesn't mean we become fools who lack self preservation, at the same time it doesn't mean we become fools who live in fear of death. It's not definable, yet it's always being expressed. It just "is". Whatever "is", is it.

Of course there is no "if you were enlightened then you would" lol. That's what I'm trying to say, hence the projecting the meaning onto the photo.

@SalvijusBut, the monk was suffering. That is why he self-immolated in the first place, in protest of the government. If he truly had no suffering or compassion for others. He would feel no need to do anything even if the government was carrying out radical acts. He was literally protesting and rejecting the nature of how reality was presenting itself to him and other Buddhists. Shall I say, that's how the story goes. All we see is a picture and I believe there is a video as well. So any conclusions we have one what is happening is not actual and just a projection of how we wish to feel about it.

There is nothing to be found, but nothing is paradoxically Infinite. We should not deny reality itself and only call it Nothing. We should not attempt to talk in non-dual ways and say there is no self or experience as the answer for that is not non-dual. Rather we should embrace the experience itself as it is. It just "is". There is nothing we can do wrong, because no matter how you see it you are seeing it correctly. No matter how much you unrealize it, you are unrealizing it correctly. I'm a firm believer the quote "Before enlightenment, chop wood carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood carry water." is one of the most profound and actualized statements. Once the illusion is truly seen, nothing is truly gained. For there was nothing to gain and because of this we allow ourselves to breath with the illusion itself. The middle statement of "enlightenment" is that of nothing gained as well. The only difference between before/after is we are content with the chopping of wood and carrying of water after and before it was a burden. We should take reality as is, always.

I use to feel the exact same way. At one point of my life, all doubts disappeared. But, eventually all truths and knowings disappeared as well. Regardless we are able to create our own definitions of what we believe in. It is relativity true to us, but false as well for the paradigm that holds the belief can shift/evolve at any point. To argue the definition is futile.

There is nothing to be found, so believing there is something is the deception. It's not truly an illusion or deception as in a malicious trick. But, rather what we perceive to be "grounds" to reality are impermanent and are not grounds at all. It's difficult to put into words, at least for myself, because like I mentioned before you can't point to it. To give a more practical concept. It's like sand forming more sand and believing the shapes it sees somehow isn't sand. No matter what shape it seen or how aware of how much sand there was of itself. It would always be the same thing, sand. You could shape a human that perceives itself in the sand that is seeing the face of God in the sand. But, it's still just sand. The sand would be deluding itself to ever think it was more than that. The delusion itself is part of the sands property, therefor there is no delusion it is just sand.

Fully agree with you. The tricky part for most is there is infinite illusions to which someone could perceive on their path. The idea of getting closer to the center or growing in consciousness by latching onto practices and the experiences from the practices is all rooted in deception. If one truly set their intent to chasing these experiences they would have them their entire life never reaching a bottom due to the infinitely deceptive nature of realty. But, once someone recognizes this deception and there never was a more grand mystical experience to be had they will be liberated instantly. If all is the same "substance" for lack of a better term and that substance is using itself to "form" itself to view itself and this substance is Infinte/Nothing than no matter what I did or didn't do I would always be the same thing, that substance. It would be literally impossible for me to ever be more or less, to ever find more or less, to ever believe more or less, and to ever move away from it's center. All concepts, ideas, beliefs, forms, and anything would all be inherently the same. There is no " I " to be had because the " I " is a delusion of this substance which has no other. I can't point to it, because it's not it. Yet, if I pointed to it, it is only it for the thing I'm pointing to will always be it just as the hand that is pointing, the room that I'm pointing in, the idea of the pointing, the message that goes with the pointing, and anything else conceptualized with it. It just "is". Is'ness is....

A woman who is authentic and shares a similar belief system as me, knowing thy self as God. But, someone's who persona differs than mine because two of the same person would be boring. But, I've found all of this with my current partner so I'm a bit biased lol. But, this is what I wanted because I know who I am inside. I wouldn't say the knowing of what I wanted is a mystery but it was a treasure I couldn't go out and search for.

The only concept of me that exists to you is the words on the screen. There is no human body typing these words to you from your POV. It is just you sitting at a computer or on your phone typing on a forum where text is sent back to you from Nos7algiK. What you are perceiving of me now is all that exists to you in your moment. If you was to inquire further and talk to me on a personal level. You would manifest a deeper belief of what I am. If you went all the way reality would manifest a body into your awareness if you wanted to meet me. But, until all of that happens it's not actual, only the typing is. We could reduce it more, but again always talking about how there is no you and there is no it causes a forever loop and is boring to repeat.

Past/future are just concepts you are creating. It is all happening "now". This "now" is infinite and can manifest itself as whatever it wishes. It it taking parts of itself, variables of infinity, which is this moment. It can take anything it whishes, whenever it whishes and that whenever is "now". It is like if you took every single concept ever possible an put it all on top if each other and merged it all into one. Your perception is the lens that focuses these concepts into your awareness. They are always there ready to be available. It just depends what you wish to focus on now. Just like your own imagination you can imagine whatever or whoever you wish. You imagination has no concept of time. There is no one to perceive the experiences of our imagination if you imagined a person. They do not have a POV, there is only the perception that you are imagining a person. Sure, you could imagine you are seeing through their eyes, but then its actually just your eyes lol. You adamantly reject what I say and call it a belief while telling me a belief you hold lol. The experience is the whole. "IS" is the keyword here. Everything "is" there is nothing you can point to that isn't this "is'ness", because it's You. It is the same substance which is manifesting your perception. If it's all consciousness, and dare I say there really is no word for it but it all is the same substance, then seeing, thinking, believing, perceiving, being, touching, feeling, tasting, outside, inside, giving, receiving, and I could list anything here is all the same substance. Infinite/Nothingness. If you are existing then it is existing, for it is You. Just because it doesn't seem like it can think/feel and all of that jazz does not mean the substance it's made of isn't self aware. If it wasn't self aware, you wouldn't be able to perceive it yourself. Hence self-aware. Yes, pretty much. The emptiness of a cup very much exists and it is the foundation that is needed in order to fill the cup up with somethingness.

I am yourself, now. Not future, not past. In your dreams you have at night do you experience the same dream but from another POV different times you fall asleep? The "now" is One instance and this instance is eternal. I am not a you for you to experience. But, the you now is under the illusion it's talking to me, but what's really happening is you are under the deception that this manifestation around you has another to be experienced at some point. This IS the point, there is no other point. A computer is experiencing for if you perceive it then it is You, it is One. There is no separation between you and it. So to say it's not experiencing is to create two. It is not "outside" of you to have it's own perceptive bubble, rather your perceptive bubble is the experience of it in total. You denying this, is also the experience. It is not right, nor is it wrong. There isn't even a you really, but I find that whole "there is no you" jargon to be tiring and silly to repeat as an answer for all things. The absence of an experience is an experience. It is the absence of experience, experience lol. The substance of all experience is the same. It is the essence of Nothingness brought into being by it's own Infiniteness. It can be anything it wishes, it is not even an "it" to be it. It just "is" or should I just say .... "is'ness is". How are the characters in your dream interacting if they are all just a product of your imagination? The same applies for reality.

Your original comment already dabbles in the idea of separation. Which this is a tricky idea. If someone truly was to program you it wouldn't matter how conscious you become because you could never see past that programming. Which could imply that you only see yourself and then others as AI or even see all as One. There would be no way to self-reference if the AI made it that way. Yes, but really it is all just You. Like having a conversation in a cave with your own echo, Is the echo you(the ego) or is the echo something "new" due to the transmutation the sound would have from traveling through the air and bouncing off the walls? Your computers are experiencing, because you are experiencing. But, really there is no computer or you to have the experience rather the whole is the experience. The experience is that of an " I " that perceives itself in a way where it conceptualizes what it calls a computer into it's awareness, but regardless of the concepts all of the field is yourself. 0% experiencing is still experiencing. But, now do I have my own bubble of perception? I'd say what is surreal is that from my relativity everything you are asking I could ask you and it would still hold up.

And something couldn't have created you to respond that way? If you were somehow able to experience the exact same variables you would respond in the exact same way. Much like an algorithm. But, to be more direct, we are as real as you wish to believe we are. Let me rephrase that, we are as real to you as reality wishes to manifest in a perceptional bubble that believes it's a self that has the ability to determine if others are real or not.

Are you creating or are you reacting to the variables being imputed into you?

No you

Simply put there is no experience behind the experiences that you are told. The experience of listening to the experience is the direct experience itself. If someone tells you about a dog then your experience is that of being told about a dog. Nothing exists outside of this notion but your own imagination if you would think about them seeing a dog. That is it, that is all there is. Now if your mind wished to latch on or conceptualize a grander narrative behind them seeing a dog then you could ask them questions such as the color of the dog or breed. These will be reciprocated in a way that conforms to your general belief system of what seeing a dog could potentially be like. Reality will reflect this back to you through the perception of the words of another in order for you to feel more grounded or keep your paradigms of belief in check. But, there is nor ever was a they "actually" seeing a dog. But, again there "actually" is you are being told a story about a dog. An issue can arise though when we start to realize that someone's stories never actually happened. But, it's not because it in itself is scary or hard to process. But, rather our mind selectively is pointing at what not to believe actually happened rather than seeing the full picture at once and accepting that. It's best to go with the dream rather than questioning the actuality of what isn't present in the dream. Accept the story of a dog as truth rather than a Lie by the universe to deceive you. If we were to only look at the deceptions, there would be no place we wouldn't find them.

"Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.” ~Rumi