You are a conscious agent.

[Endangered-EGO]

No, you're not a conscious agent.

You're the consciousness of the thought being a conscious agent.

No, you're not.

You're the consciousness of the thought of being consciousness of the thought being a conscious agent.

No, you're not.

You're the consciousness of the thought of being consciousness of the thought of being consciousness of the thought being a conscious agent.

Sorry, I felt I needed to post that strange-loopy meta-thinking about oneself anecdote.

[Thought Art]

You are consciousness. 

[This]

Consciousness is a word, i'm not a word. 

[Thought Art]

@This You aren't the finger I point with either...

[Endangered-EGO]

@Thought Art You aren't the thought about the finger pointing either ?

[Thought Art]

25 minutes ago, Endangered-EGO said:

@Thought Art You aren't the thought about the finger pointing either ?

You are consciousness. 

Collapse all the duality and what is left?

I get that these conversation happen, but they are also annoying. 

I'd like us to recognize the difference between relative and absolute truth and the difference between pointing to something and what I am pointing to. I realize that there is a lot of work for all of us to make these distinctions and to be mature about them. 

"The tao that can be spoken is not the eternal tao" should be like, fundamental to talking about truth. paradoxically ahah

I won't reply to any more dualistic jokes or whatever on this thread ahaha

Edited August 6, 2021 by Thought Art

[Endangered-EGO]

1 hour ago, Thought Art said:

You are consciousness. 

Collapse all the duality and what is left?

I get that these conversation happen, but they are also annoying. 

I'd like us to recognize the difference between relative and absolute truth and the difference between pointing to something and what I am pointing to. I realize that there is a lot of work for all of us to make these distinctions and to be mature about them. 

"The tao that can be spoken is not the eternal tao" should be like, fundamental to talking about truth. paradoxically ahah

I won't reply to any more dualistic jokes or whatever on this thread ahaha

Nonono.

 

You're the consciousness of those paragraphs!

 

I'm getting childish now sorry. Last reply

 

We both get what we are saying ?

[This]

On 8/6/2021 at 6:43 PM, Thought Art said:

@This You aren't the finger I point with either...

Well, obviously im not a finger, duh!