The present is the only reality!

[Someone here]

As obvious as that might sound.. It's life changing if you fully get this.  This is not to be confused with solipsism or anti-realism. I realized this directly after hours of continues contemplating and observation. 

Actual reality only comes to you through direct experience.  An image is real but it is not the thing that it represents.  Looking at your hand and thinking about your hand are two different things.  One is sense.. one is image. 

What we gotta get clear about is what is real and what is belief.  If you close your eyelids.. your house disappears from your senses right?  But you still believe the house exists.  But see.. your belief at that point is a concept.. not sensed ..right? That's what it means that your house disappears when you are not conscious of it .  Technically what disappeared is your visuals of the house.  Your belief that the house is more than that is not in the house but in your head.  And those beliefs may persist when you close your eyes.. but your reality of the house.. The visuals have vanished.  See the difference here?  What  I'm trying to show to you is how much of your reality is actually conceptual instead of literal.  When you become more mindful of this.. You can start to see that many beliefs you have about what is real and true are in fact false beliefs.  Your visual of your house is not your concept of your house.  Often times we take the conceptual house and think that that is what is real.  No.. technically what is real is your thought as something sensed and the visuals of the house.  The thought-story (the meaning of the thought sensed) is not real.. Yet that is what unenlightened people take to be most real.  

What is the significance of this?

Well you can see how 99 %of your so called proplems.. Worries.. Fears.. Are not real? 

Edited November 7, 2020 by Someone here

[Osaid]

1 hour ago, Someone here said:

Well you can see how 99 %of your so called proplems.. Worries.. Fears.. Are not real? 

This is a big one. 

So often I'll be stressed out about something, and then I'll realize I'm not actually stressed out because of the thing itself, but just the thought of it. The ego is really good at making simple things seem monstrous.

[Mvrs]

27 minutes ago, Osaid said:

This is a big one. 

So often I'll be stressed out about something, and then I'll realize I'm not actually stressed out because of the thing itself, but just the thought of it. The ego is really good at making simple things seem monstrous.

extremely true

[r0ckyreed]

2 hours ago, Someone here said:

Your belief that the house is more than that is not in the house but in your head.

Your head and brain are also imagination. Other minds and brains are also imagined. You break down your entire reality until you realize that Direct Experience is the only thing that exists. Any thoughts or beliefs about reality are false because reality itself is prior to all of that. Thoughts are just more waves in the water. When you connect with DE, you are able to see the reflection of the truth.

[Shin]

I don't know what'll happen next,

And I love it ?

[Gesundheit]

Cool pic, but boring post. Sorry ?

[Hotaka]

Interesting, I don't know what to say, but I want to reply, because I am curious about what comes through me in this regard. See, sometimes I learn when I read, and I learn from what comes through me as a reply, and, although I don't want to teach anyone, maybe what I say can be learned from, you can learn or someone else can learn, it doesn't matter, I don't really care. Sorry about the tangent.

I guess it's an interesting fine line. The objective reality, and the subjective reality. I have actually been thinking a lot about this lately. The subjective reality is what is going on in your head, your idea of things. The objective reality is what is out there according to science, what can be measured or documented in a semi-permanent way. All of this is in my opinion of course. Reality is somewhere in the middle. It is the thing between the objective and the subjective.

Here is a text that changed my life.

https://www.earlymoderntexts.com/assets/pdfs/berkeley1713.pdf

I think you should check it out too @Leo Gura unless you have already seen/read it, considering how many resources and things you have already absorbed.

[An young being]

6 hours ago, Someone here said:

Well you can see how 99 %of your so called proplems.. Worries.. Fears.. Are not real? 

This is an unarguable fact. Once we realize they are not real, it's easy to break the conditioned mind from its genetic and karmic programming and live a worry free life.

[Someone here]

11 hours ago, Osaid said:

This is a big one. 

So often I'll be stressed out about something, and then I'll realize I'm not actually stressed out because of the thing itself, but just the thought of it. The ego is really good at making simple things seem monstrous.

Exactly! The key insight.. is fear is always about "something bad might happen in the future". But where exactly is this "future"? Lol. The future is impossible even in theory! There can only ever be the present lol 

Genius Peter 

[Nahm]

100%!

[Adamq8]

Agreed mate!?