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Re: How do we know there is only one consciousness
« Reply #90 on: October 20, 2017, 03:03:28 am »
Why have a chat with myself about myself And then fire myself? Wouldn’t that then leave myself in a state where I think I’ve just gotten ridden of myself?

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Re: How do we know there is only one consciousness
« Reply #91 on: October 20, 2017, 04:50:06 am »
Right... I take it all back, how can you fire something that doesn't exist... my bad.. :P :P :P

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Re: How do we know there is only one consciousness
« Reply #92 on: October 20, 2017, 05:01:13 am »
So I have a self now?

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Re: How do we know there is only one consciousness
« Reply #93 on: October 20, 2017, 11:38:17 pm »
Find the one who appears to have a self... that's the trick.

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Re: How do we know there is only one consciousness
« Reply #94 on: October 21, 2017, 12:19:15 am »
I am aware of it s well as I can be. But how does a fish ever know it’s wet. And how to get dry when one cannot choose to leap out of the fish bowl and into the frying pan (not because one is lazy but because how can one do anything? The thing that’s wrong is just an illusion so nothings wrong and there is no fish to begin with)

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Re: How do we know there is only one consciousness
« Reply #95 on: October 21, 2017, 05:56:09 am »
I concur...

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Re: How do we know there is only one consciousness
« Reply #96 on: October 21, 2017, 07:47:16 am »
Nothing is everything and everything nothing. You cannot weigh or measure s thought it is ethereal yet everyone knows what a thought is. And so everything is like this. Have you ever seen that bit in the matrix where the guy says “I know this steak isn’t real, but it tastes excellent.” I understand this intellectually but I still haven’t had the self drop. It’s like purgatory. I’m going to go into business selling t-shirts to the cheese cloth kaftan gang that says: “I understand this intellectually but I’m still not enlightened”

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Re: How do we know there is only one consciousness
« Reply #97 on: October 21, 2017, 11:15:56 am »
Stick with it...

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Re: How do we know there is only one consciousness
« Reply #98 on: October 21, 2017, 03:03:26 pm »
 a nice analogy for all the time I wasted seeking just occurred here. I’ll let you steal it for your next book lol. Have you ever baked bread or a cake and mixed the dough with your hands? Once you get your hands on the mix it’s impossible to get them clean. Wipe one and the dough just sticks from one hand to the other. Your hands are like oneness and the dough is like the false self. I don’t know why I started making illusion bread when I was a child,  But It seems like this animated cadaver is keen to keep wiping one hand with the other. I wonder if all the sticky self dough dries up and falls off.
Do many ever get this far?
Who is there to even get far?
It’s not any distance.
Seriously though, do many apparent people you come across ever have this happen

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Re: How do we know there is only one consciousness
« Reply #99 on: October 21, 2017, 11:32:19 pm »
Yeh, I just tell them to spray their hands with Pam.

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Re: How do we know there is only one consciousness
« Reply #100 on: October 22, 2017, 12:16:39 am »
Hahahaha!

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Re: How do we know there is only one consciousness
« Reply #101 on: October 22, 2017, 09:21:50 am »
I can’t do anything. Intellectual clarity isn’t liberation. Now I’m stuck in purgatory. :/ the cosmic jokes on me

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Re: How do we know there is only one consciousness
« Reply #102 on: October 24, 2017, 11:24:59 am »
I am terrified of the death of self. I don’t suppose you can tell me. But I’d never be able to feel the self centered love for my family again if the “me” collapses will I? Can “I” come back to visit the humans?

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Re: How do we know there is only one consciousness
« Reply #103 on: October 24, 2017, 08:05:26 pm »
Do you really feel/know love, or is it just a comfortable story... i.e., do you know what love really is?

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Re: How do we know there is only one consciousness
« Reply #104 on: October 24, 2017, 10:06:15 pm »
Love as a human is different from the unconditional love you feel. But both are good things I don’t think I’d want to lose that but I guess what your hinting at is that I will lose it. It’s impossible for “me” to know the unknowing you are. That’s the whole mystery right? knowing is what has me in this dual mess anyway. I can’t not know it’s just what the self does. But I am terrified of losing romantic and family/friendship human love as selfish and illusory as it is. Once the me dies can it come back to visit in the form of a self?