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The true nature of our experience.

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southflorida

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If we are consciousness that is aware as everything, then we are not really even aware of what we perceive, as in, there are no perceivers, no doers, there is only this one experience occuring, always and only "now."

The body, mind, and the "outside" world are simply elements of this one experience.

The biggest illusion or confusion is that we are a "separate-self" existing inside a body/mind perceiving stuff outside our bodies.

This confusion is the root of our never-ending suffering and unhappiness.

And the root of this confusion are false beliefs and assumptions.

The body/mind that we believe we are is nothing but a thought, a concept.

Our true nature is absolute consciousness.
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what I'm writing here is not for anyone to believe in, I'm simply offering an opportunity to look into your own direct experience, while putting aside all the BS you have been spoon-fed by our fucked-up society and look clearly into what is "actually" occuring in this moment right "now." And by the way, this "now" experience is the only experience that we ever have going on.

there has never been and there never will ever be anything except now. Past and future are nothing but thoughts occuring "now" in the self-mind that has been programmed by the sick society that we are existing in.

if anyone likes to close your eyes and believe in the BS going on inside your mind and around you in the world, based on cultural programming - it doesn't mean everyone has to do the same thing.

I, and anyone else can choose to actually look into what is occuring in our own experience and make conclusions based on that. Thank you.
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What is also very interesting is that the majority of our awareness is focused on resisting "what is" and simultaneously seeking "what is-not" in a possible future.

Most folks don't actually pay attention to where their focus is on a moment-to-moment basis. If they did, they would notice that their self-mind is constantly either looking back into a past (that doesn't exist) or forward into the future (which also doesn't exist) and is hardly ever focused on what is actually occuring NOW.

...if in doubt about this, take a look at your actual personal and direct experience for a day, and you will see how your self-mind keeps you trapped in the concept of time, which is nothing but a thought and an illusion.

...in reality there is NO time...there is only NOW.
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Since most folks are hypnotized by their thoughts (beliefs, assumptions, convictions, etc) they never grasp that we know our body, our mind, and the world through perception.

Since perception is a secondary process, there is actually no way of directly perceiving reality or experience.

Perception is the interpretation of data delivered to our mind through the nerve endings.

Perception works similar to radar, where what we see on the monitor is not the plane, but a dot.

Since folks believe and assume that they are perceiving reality/experience directly, they are confused in a major way.

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Dope time

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Enjoy each day SF (not at Others Expense in any Way Such as the Media OFTEN Deliberates)

I see you Often Speak like this.Sad Mann.. Don't
Enjoy where you Live and Whats on Offer

Must say Regarding the Last Statement.Well,as has been Said,by yourself too What Is Is.Same thing
and round again..
 

vapor

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Dmt woke my mind to the awesomeness of this experience. We only see and understand so little of what is going on around us.
In the past i would say is this all there is to life work job grind money stress etc etc.
Then my mind was opened for a short moment enough to know that what we are being feed is not the meal i want to eat.
exploring your mind and your emotions can lead you to the realizations you seek.
Love is the place we come from, this world we forgot that when we are born.
Jungle love plants are our teachers be open/fearless
 

Olifant

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I disagree with your concept that there is some sort of ideal state of mind or outlook which prevents suffering or sadness. IMO, without suffering the world would be without any of its greatest artworks, music, philosophy and literature included. Suffering and sadness are common traits in social mammals. Dogs( wolves, elephants, monkeys, apes, and whales are all thought to experience depression over the loss of a loved one. Love cannot exist without longing. Empathy cannot exist without pain.
 

siftedunity

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If we are consciousness that is aware as everything, then we are not really even aware of what we perceive, as in, there are no perceivers, no doers, there is only this one experience occuring, always and only "now."

The body, mind, and the " outside" world are simply elements of this one experience.

The biggest illusion or confusion is that we are a "separate-self" existing inside a body/mind perceiving stuff outside our bodies.

This confusion is the root of our never-ending suffering and unhappiness.

And the root of this confusion are false beliefs and assumptions.

The body/mind that we believe we are is nothing but a thought, a concept.

Our true nature is absolute consciousness.


thanks for clearing that up mate!
 
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longearedfriend

southinflorida, don't let the people giving your post(s) a negative hit keep you from posting your elaborations

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ezak420

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you can't have anything without one. everything is an extension of one.. one mind, one consciousness, one existence, one experience, one universe. singularity must precede multiplicity.

"the greatest illusion in this world is the illusion of separation"

in an existence with laws governed by necessity, all that exists, is meant to exist. there is no missing link, everything is here, in the continuous moment of now.. creation.. the ripple of consciousness expanding into the void, leaving reality in its wake, as it 'feels' its way into the next grandest version of itself, while evolving or decaying at the same time.
 

Eighths-n-Aces

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now, SF ... upon whose or what Authority do you make these claims? C'mon ... answer me please. like, is a god yr authority? a book? a utube clip? a dream? or are these subjective impressions you bring to us? mere mental meanderings?

how do I know what you say is true? and why should I respect YOUR authority to say so? what is your need to express these ideas ... to talk to us in this metaphysical sense (if indeed that's what yr doing)?
 

ezak420

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everything existing is conscious because, of fluctuations. to what degree of awareness and intelligence differs depending on the nature of being, both inwardly and outwardly in the environment that it exists, within the cosmos.

but, there could exist a formless, unbound, singular consciousness of absolute truth and experience that allows for true freedom and will for an eternity.
 

siftedunity

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everything existing is conscious because, of fluctuations. to what degree of awareness and intelligence differs depending on the nature of being, both inwardly and outwardly in the environment that it exists, within the cosmos.

but, there could exist a formless, unbound, singular consciousness of absolute truth and experience that allows for true freedom and will for an eternity.

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dank.frank

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I just wanna know wtf was wrong with the last thread that we needed to start another one with the exact same jibberish...

Maybe I made to much logical sense in the last one...or did it finally find it's way to the trash bin...

All this conjecture built upon the notion that there must be something behind our being here. Again...let me say this for you...

We live. We eat. We shit. We die. We rot. Worms eat us. They shit. They die. And smaller things eat their shit...that also die...and so on goes the cycle.

What more "meaning" do you want from all this experience? Is not composting back into the earth and helping promote the continuing cycle of life enough?

Why is it people are so willing to THINK that we can THINK ourselves into more a meaningful existence?

Again - you haven't found some magical way of looking at the world that suddenly makes the whole cosmos your play pen. NO. You are still stuck on this rock all the same as the rest of us - you will still die - the worms will still eat you.

You say you are not trying to convince anyone of anything - how come in the last thread - you NEVER answered ANY of my direct question, but rather went off down the road of babbling more whimsical self projected circular questions that actually provide no answers, but only reiterate your previous points, except as if having been written a second time using a thesaurus...


WHY IN THE WORLD - must you start 20 of these threads??? WHY can't you keep all this topic neatly pieced together in ONE place?

Guess when a thread gets to be so utterly full of it - you start a new one???



dank.Frank
 

dank.frank

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I am beginning to think each and every one of these posts is the result of one too many - and you sir, are just a bit permafried.

The only REAL self is the one you lost to however many sheets in the wind you are...



dank.Frank
 

southflorida

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It's truly amazing how powerful our cultural programming is.

Most folks are so blind and believe such absurd BS that it makes me wonder why they have been put on this planet :)

The fact is that all there is, ever has been, and ever will be is THIS-ONE-PRESENT-MOMENT-EXPERIENCE.

It is a whole, undivided, structure. It is ONE. It is NOW.

And if anyone that is NOT aware of this puts their programmed beliefs and assumptions aside for a moment and actually looks clearly at what is TRULY occuring in their direct experience, right NOW, they will see that they have been living inside an illusion.

They will see that there is no body, no mind, no world.

All there is, is this ONE experience occuring NOW.

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Sadly, most folks are too f*cking lazy to do that, it is easier to keep repeating second-hand hearsay instead of actually directly experiencing reality without their beliefs and assumptions.

Believing the same-old-shit that you have always believed leads to perceiving these same-old-BS beliefs and assumptions.

What I'm trying to point at in this thread is that we, as consciousness can actually directly experience the true nature of ourselves by putting aside our programmed beliefs and assumptions and actually jumping into what is actually occuring NOW, and always, and only NOW.

There has never been a past and there never will be a future.

Trying to live as if there is a past and a future will only lead to suffering and struggling with feelings of loneliness, being trapped, and never-ending-doubt.

Past and future are simply impossibilities.

There can never ever be anything but NOW.

anyone that doesn't grasp this is guaranteed suffering.

and to escape this suffering one will continue to keep running toward an illusional future where he believes that he will finally get his desire (material objects, relationships, addictions, etc) and then will live happily ever after.

NOT.

this will never happen, because the only reality is this ONE experience, only, and always occuring NOW.

resisting this NOW, while believing and assuming that there is a past and future is the root of all suffering and unhappiness.

...there are NO exceptions!

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P.S. btw...if billions of people believe a lie, it doesn't make it true...this is something to think about for those folks that keep repeating their programmed cultural BS.
 

southflorida

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imho...the primary confusion about our true nature comes from a false belief and assumption that, as human beings we directly perceive reality.

this is NOT so.

What we perceive is actually an interpretation of data delivered to our self-mind through the nerve-endings. Perception works similar to radar.

What we really perceive is our imagination, i.e....images recorded inside our mind...period!
 
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