quote by Dr. Jay L. Garfield

[gettoefl]

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the mind that's conjuring it up mind is the only thing you have to worry about

and that might help

your mind is a conjurer um it's an

amazing conjurer um i'm constantly amazed at what our minds can conjure up

um think about it for a minute

um think about what your minds do for you

um they conjure up a world of

physical objects that make noises and move around and do things in space and

time out of electrical impulses that are generated in your sense organs

i mean just imagine this always just whenever i think about this i'm filled with wonder

suppose that you really experienced your sense faculties as they are

and their deliverances

so instead of seeing colored things moving about in

space what you saw were electrical impulses being generated in your retina

suppose that instead of hearing sounds you felt vibrations in your eardrum

suppose that instead of smelling or tasting things you sensed chemical reactions happening

somewhere and so you lived in a world where all you knew of knew was that there are electro

electrochemical things happening somewhere in your body that wouldn't be

experienced would it that wouldn't be a world of objects that wouldn't be a world of things to which you could become attached

and things from which you could be repelled that wouldn't be a world that wouldn't make any sense at all

but that's all you've got that's all your body is giving you

your mind is taking that pile of sticks that piece of wood that prop and through a medium

called consciousness it's turning all of that into the appearance of things in space

and time to which you can become attached to which you can become repelled that become the objects that you love

and hate and all of that stuff right that's the that's the guma

right the guma is that your mind is taking something that you don't even perceive

the stick of wood that's just all of those sensations and conjuring up a world is that not

fantastic i mean it's really fortunate that it does that because it would be really horrible to be just

aware of nothing but electrochemical things but it's also a powerful illusion

but like like any conjuring trick because as it conjures it it convinces you that you are in direct

contact with the reality that looks taste smells and feels just like that

and notice that your mind doesn't stop its magical activities there

because it also helps you it conjures up effective qualities to those things

vedana right it conjures up pleasure and pain and experiencing these things it

conjures up properties like threatening or pleasant it can't i mean all of that stuff it's

not there in the electrochemical impulses right it's all conjured afterwards and you

think or i think anyway maybe not you i mean you may just be beyond all of this but me

when i experience that i experience that as my reality and i have to think really hard to see

that that is a sky flower and my mind is the process that's generating the sky

flower and that process is empty of all of the things that i take it to have

and then i think my mind is the only thing that's standing between me

either an illusion or me and awakening my mind is the only thing i need to worry about

and then i think if i think that now i'm beginning to get it to dependent nature

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JsAs4IjfKk

 

[Tyler Robinson]

Beautiful Dreamer, wake unto me,
Starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee;
Sounds of the rude world heard in the day,
Lull'd by the moonlight have all passed away!

Beautiful dreamer, queen of my song,
List while I woo thee with soft melody;
Gone are the cares of life's busy throng

Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me!
Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me!

Beautiful dreamer, out on the sea,
Mermaids are chanting the wild Lorelei;
Over the stream let vapors are borne,
Waiting to fade at the bright coming morn.

Beautiful dreamer, beam on my heart,
E'en as the morn on the stream let and sea;
Then will all clouds of sorrow depart,

Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me!
Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me!

 

[gettoefl]

@Tyler Robinson a most luminous landscape, bless you

[Tyler Robinson]

@gettoefl right back at you. 

[gettoefl]

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 the antidote towards solipsism is to remember

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when we say that things are mind only that's not to say that everything is imaginary that's to

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say the subject object duality is imaginary other sentient beings

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are very real it's our dualistic relationship to them that is the object of negation

https://youtu.be/Eg9s_nN-aqg?t=769