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Originally posted by Itisnowagain
reply to post by smithjustinb
This is the problem...imagination!! Imagine this, imagine that and then we imagine that what we have imagined has some sort of validity. Then we make stories about it, ask questions about it, come to conclusions about it and then have arguments about it. Forgeting that we don't know anything.
There is this!!! And only 'this'.
Imagination is not what is happening.
Only this is ever happening.edit on 25-7-2011 by Itisnowagain because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Itisnowagain
reply to post by smithjustinb
Only you have the power to judge yourself. Anything you concieve is your perception.
Do you think i have the power to degrade your knowledge?
Originally posted by LeoVirgo
reply to post by smithjustinb
the point has often been called the 'monad'
the one that always was, is, will be......being
so where is the nothing in that?
Originally posted by Itisnowagain
reply to post by smithjustinb
The hate and the fear of being degraded does not come from here, from this direction. These are feelings you are having and because you do not understand duality/non duality, you very stongly believe that there is an 'other' that is pulling your strings. There is only you and experience is arising within you.
edit on 25-7-2011 by Itisnowagain because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by LeoVirgo
reply to post by smithjustinb
i think its more important to understand that something is always 'being' then to keep calling it nothing
for that something, is what all things, are of
and no, it does not have to be measurable, to 'be'
You're right, but if it isn't measurable, then it is both infinite and nothing and depends on perspective to make it valid. For example, time. It is infinite, but it doesn't physically exist.
u dont have to ask questions to get others to bring their thoughts
Yeah, but more often than not, people are rooted in their beliefs and their opinions cannot be swayed. This makes debate a lost cause. I was just trying to avoid and endless debate and save us both the agony.
i simply follow a 'pull' to where i feel another perspective can be added...it has nothing to do with who asked for it
i think you putting so much focus on nothing, limits the greatness of spirit, which is always being-
I put an equal amount of focus on nothing as I do infinity.
Originally posted by Itisnowagain
That Being that was and always will be, is now.
And always has been now.
This now is i am.
Prior to the words 'i am'.
Prior to the word now.edit on 25-7-2011 by Itisnowagain because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Itisnowagain
reply to post by smithjustinb
Does it?
Originally posted by Itisnowagain
reply to post by smithjustinb
There is just being.
It is only the human mind that has any ideas about duality.
Originally posted by Itisnowagain
reply to post by smithjustinb
There is just being.
It is only the human mind that has any ideas about duality.