SOUL

My mind is unhoused...homeless consciousness one would say.

In what respect are you asking? It was me noting how it seems your binary biases on it aren't really significant in consciousness, so isn't that distinction to be made with awakening.

You've been caught napping...

Just as the moon passes in front of the sun to create a solar eclipse the ego passing in front of awareness to create 'asleep'. The sun is always there just as awareness is always there, although it is a deception of the ego that appears as if there is awakening in consciousness transpiring, absolute awareness is unchanged.

If you transcend the binary biases you have about sex and gender, it will be absolutely clear the answer doesn't have this question.

You don't believe it? Well, in understanding everything of awakening this is recognized as ego 'doubt' that separates from ultimate peace and liberation. It's the ego playing games to keep someone on the hamster wheel with a list of imagined things to be attained and validated so is the obstacle to ultimate peace and liberation.

Patience is often viewed as enduring challenges or tribulations without being disturbed by them. Although in the context of inner life we could also view patience as stillness in awareness of presence within the midst of the active mind without being disturbed by it.

I don't know the way to explain it other than there are other manners of tuning that exists but cannot be measured by the devices of this manner of tuning so they are functionally nonexistent to 'science' but can be accessed with consciousness.

What does validate even mean? Do they need validation? Do you need to validate them? Why does validation even matter? Is there peace with validation? Would it matter in they are invalidated? What would invalidation mean? Is there peace without validation?

@BlueOak ...but the dog didn't call a suicide hotline, so not the same.

@Breakingthewall You have shown an incredible ability to say alot of stuff in a reply without actually addressing the point someone else is making, which makes discussion extremely difficult and I find it unproductive. Good luck with that. Peace.

The simple way is using the common definition of a word, not creating a different one that needs to be explained in esoteric terms. You are trying to portray that if an animal doesn't behave in your anthropomorphic prop it's not the same which you are using to avoid answering the question but it doesn't mean they don't have psychological reactions and distress from memories even if they are unaware that's what is happening. It is an example of the subconscious mind autonomously causing psychological distress, much in the same way it autonomously causes the sense of physical distress in the mind. That's where the sensation of 'pain' happens, in the mind, it doesn't happen in the toe you've stubbed. The mind projects the appearance of pain into the toe, but it's all happening in the mind, it's autonomously created by the subconscious mind. Exactly the same way it autonomously creates psychological suffering in the mind, suffering is pain, pain is suffering. Then, as you clearly understand by your reply, there is an element of conscious participation which is different from all those other autonomous subconscious mind sensations. It comes from our 'self' reflection, this mental anguish comes when we intentionally engage with the autonomous suffering. That is why I make the distinction of the 'self' kind of suffering as you described when we self reflect on the psychological suffering instead of transcend it in our awareness and being. It seems so obvious...and simple.

Again...I dare you to live 'out of the moment', go ahead, try to do it. I'm sure you are thinking that just because we can envision the future or the past or imagine circumstances that aren't presently happening it means we aren't 'in the moment' but welp, no, all of that takes place 'in the 'moment'. We are always in the moment, we are never 'out of the moment'. So you don't think that any animals, not even the mammalian ones, very similar to us, have any psychological reactions in the present moment because of memories from past experiences, though they may not be aware of it as such? All of which takes place in the moment because, alas, everything takes places 'in the moment'. No, I don't agree that suffering is purely psychological because I understand that suffering is all forms of pain, not just psychological. The common definition of 'suffer' is in agreement with that understanding, suffering is pain, pain is suffering, they are synonymous.

That's the type of logic you get when you're halfway through a 12 pack of BUDdha light... It's faulty logic easily exposed as such but I'm not in the mood to get into an epistemological argument on this forum about some hillbilly guru stumbling over the same mistake most of the rest of yall trip over when yall don't see it yourself. Hint...it's in between point 1 and point 2 that the mistaken representation reveals itself. In between, you might ask? How is that even possible?...therein lies the enigma. It is funny how much he resembles dear leader...baha

ShOw A littlE rEspEcT fOr tHe fOrUm bEcAuSe tHe iLluSiOn iS iMpoRtaNt. ^^^ Notice I used capitalization and punctuation! ^^^