I never was.

[Nadosa]

This is a ride.

Between death, and Life, there shines an everpresent reality, holding an apparent identity, which is all but an illusion, we seek to work it out and fix our neurosis about an apparent self when there never was a self. 

Now it's time to investigate this god. Which is there so pure and fresh, breathing through this body.

[Guest Bazooka Jesus]

4 minutes ago, Nadosa said:

we seek to work it out and fix our neurosis about an apparent self when there never was a self.

And the strangest thing about it all is that this whole charade continues even after you have clearly seen through the illusion... well, at least in "my" case.

[Nadosa]

Same lol.

[Guest Bazooka Jesus]

Cool. So at least this non-existent I is not the only one. 

[Kshantivadin]

Experiencing a similar stream at the moment. What comes to feel even truer is that nothing ever was. Painfully hard to wrap your head around. Then I come back to believe in the old habitual, ingrained grasping patterns. Ignorance hurts.

[cetus]

 

1 hour ago, Bazooka Jesus said:

And the strangest thing about it all is that this whole charade continues even after you have clearly seen through the illusion... well, at least in "my" case.

Dying while alive is a strange thing to behold.

[Guest Bazooka Jesus]

5 minutes ago, cetus said:

Dying while alive is a strange thing to behold.

Just wish this "I" were dead already. Sigh.

[cetus]

44 minutes ago, Bazooka Jesus said:

Just wish this "I" were dead already. Sigh.

Don't get caught up in time and space. 

[WokeBloke]

41 minutes ago, Bazooka Jesus said:

Just wish this "I" were dead already. Sigh.

why do you think this I will die? Perhaps it is immortal and indestructible awareness

[Guest Bazooka Jesus]

6 minutes ago, WokeBloke said:

why do you think this I will die? Perhaps it is immortal and indestructible awareness

Perhaps... that's in the I of the beholder.

[Chris365]

2 hours ago, Bazooka Jesus said:

Just wish this "I" were dead already. Sigh.

The 'I' wishes the 'I' were dead already. Blissfully self-referential. What makes the 'I' alive? Is the 'I' different from what is happening? If this belief is inspected, it can be seen through. Even if it is not inspected, there is no reality to the aliveness of the 'I', other than a thought saying so.

[Guest Bazooka Jesus]

@Chris365

Yup, heard it all before.

Edited December 4, 2021 by Bazooka Jesus