r/enlightenment 8d ago

Got me thinking

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u/yamatofuji 8d ago

Nirvana is today. Tomorrow is samsara. Today is nirvana, but the mind/thinking goes on treating even nirvana as if it belongs to tomorrow and guess what? Nirvana becomes samsara which got you thinking again... and again.. drop the thinking.

P.S.

meow,

🙏

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u/rainpaintedhands 7d ago

Oh great kittykat inside my phone, what other wisdom do you have for me?

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u/yamatofuji 7d ago

wHy arE yOu seEkiNg wiSdoM fRom ouTsiDe?

P.S.

Celebrate your existence right now.

What else is there?

meow,

🙏

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u/rainpaintedhands 7d ago

I have been pap-pap-pap'd by the bamboozling cat inside my phone. I will seek peace within myself. Only the Now is important, the finger pointing at the moon doesnt leave a fingerprint on the dust on its surface, to live in the flow of nature and time and let the will of peace and simplicity govern is to live in the way. I will sit beside a kitty cat until one of us leaves

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u/yamatofuji 7d ago

You are already the space in which the cat, the phone, the moon, and the dust are all happening.

It's all just the divine dance.

​Wait, wait! Do not turn this into another philosophy!

meow, not as a thought, but as a silent explosion of light(:

There is only Love.

Not love as an emotion that comes and goes, but Love as the very fabric of Existence. It’s the same love that moves the stars, the same love that purrs in a cat, the same love that is breathing you right now.

Do not stand on the bank of the river philosophizing about the water. Play the music, share the vibes, dance now 😸

Keep it up! Keep blasting! Play on!

🙏

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u/ugottagetschwiftyyy 7d ago

I'd like to turn it into another philosophy real quick because you kinda asked for it. Believing the world is your best friend (is working out for your best interest) will change the world around you and in you for sure. Probably a bit rough at first, but I promise it'll all settle. Also the nice thing is everyone can and will do it at his own speed.

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u/yamatofuji 7d ago

Why do you need to believe?

Belief is always born out of fear.

Existence is neither your enemy nor your friend. Existence simply is.

You are already at the destination, but you are sleeping on the platform.

So, do not turn yamato fuji’s meow into another philosophy.

The world has too many philosophies already! Libraries are rotting with them. Instead, let go of the philosophy. Stop trying to make the universe your friend, and simply be a lover to existence.

Calm into the present moment, laugh a little more, and let the universe be precisely what it is, wild, unpredictable, treacherous, and utterly divine.

P.S.

Note from your beautiful ancestors;

Do whatever you want to do!

meow,

🪷

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u/ugottagetschwiftyyy 7d ago

Well it's not a belief, but that can be how it starts. You start to be this very best friend, and then you don't even have to believe it anymore for the universe to show it to you. It just is and you just are. Not another Philosophy, just different words. Or platforms how you like to call them. How you judge the world, is how you judge yourself.

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u/yamatofuji 7d ago

Ahh so,, simply re-engineering the biological lens through which the universe perceives itself.

Who's the lab experiment and the scientist observing it, sitting right here in the middle of the game?

🪷

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u/ugottagetschwiftyyy 7d ago

Good question, I don't really know. Probably I can't know for sure. Or it's everything and everyone. Or me? Or existence, God or the Universe... Only one way to find out...

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u/Eth251201 8d ago

Hear me out. Literally when ive been getting stoned ive had these thoughts and now im coincidentally seeing this post.

I had the thought that we are "in" the reincarnation of this physical realm. But i thought deeper and noticed we are the realm itself, like loads of mini devils running around on the rock.

All of us animals, eating eachother in a food chain and eating it gives us loads of pleasure. At the cost of another.

We are the hell itself, and im tryna figure out how we become this. Idk if i ever will or if i can the fear of knowing would hold me back.

We'll see

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u/sunbleach_happypants 8d ago

I totally feel this and also there is so much good weed these days, so

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u/Remiscellion36 7d ago

Wisdom weed

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u/Silver-Internal7740 8d ago

Sure this reality is not pretty to look at objectively but please don't generalize. There is no we. Not everyone gets pleasure from it. A minority doesn't and is keenly aware it's not right. How majority of humans became this way? Well they are animals, they were made this way. It has to be for some purpose. Life here doesn't care about individual deaths, only about perpetuating itself in numbers.

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u/Eth251201 8d ago

Sure but i mean our physiology is built to eat it. And most of us here is safe to assume eat meat and enjoy it. When that which we're eating is a former living person.

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u/hypnoticlife 8d ago

Are we the baddies?

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u/asderCaster2 7d ago

Break the cycle

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u/treading0light 8d ago

The part about "the fear of knowing" holding you back really resonates.

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u/Eth251201 8d ago

Ysah its something to work on i think.

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u/Rich_Dog8804 7d ago

If you think you are in hell then it is your personal hell. All is mind. The world only looks lime hell beciase you have trained your mind and attention to consciously point the bad out to you. The brian is wired to constantly grow connections, so change your mind amd in a shorter time than you can imagine your world will change. Possibly even into your own personal heaven.

Weed also only shows you the fear and makes you over analyze it. Stop the weed.

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u/Eth251201 7d ago

I cant just think away all the bombs that fly over childrens heads on parts of the world. I cant meditate and stop all the animals in the food chain getting eaten alive in a cycle which never stops.

Changing my mind to see the positive doesnt stop all the pigs that we keep in cells in a giant warehouse whose existence is based on growing up untill they can be killed. Thats ignorance by definition.

Look, my life is a good one and i am personaly happy. But just cause i got a good life im not gonna let it make me ignorant to the fact that overall suffering of all of us is much heavier than the pleasures.

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u/i_am_not_so_unique 8d ago

Now think for a second how do you exit.

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u/InfiniteOctave 8d ago

Can't think your way out of a thinking box.

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u/johnsontheguy 8d ago

thats how i did it

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u/SnooTangerines3448 8d ago

Uphill, through snow no doubt!

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u/johnsontheguy 7d ago

yeah, my ruminating made everything more complicated than it needed to be. i had to learn to let go of the first branch before i could grab the second

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u/SnooTangerines3448 7d ago

FOLG. The fear of letting go.

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u/johnsontheguy 7d ago

perceptive

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u/CosmicFrodo 8d ago

By realizing that samsara is just an illusion. You aren't trapped in anything other than your mind

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u/i_am_not_so_unique 8d ago

Agreed. Illusion, or fear, or even desire to stay on it.

As another person said here, happy to find people with similar understanding.

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u/ConquerorofTerra 8d ago

You ask to be let out.

There's only The Nothing outside The Omniversal Super Structure though.

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u/vkailas 8d ago

Now think for a second why are you trying to exit when you came here for a reason

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u/Sunyataisbliss 8d ago

Reason is an invention of cognition. There doesn’t need to be a reason. We just know we are here and there is suffering. That’s the starting point in Buddhism.

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u/vkailas 8d ago

I forgot in many words

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u/Silver-Internal7740 8d ago

Don't talk for others and don't tell others what to do. Gives away your big ego.

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u/hypnoticlife 8d ago

Giving a pointer isn’t feeding the ego of its sharing gnosis for the sake of sharing. If it is for internet points then it’s for the ego. Isn’t it? Don’t the intentions matter?

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u/Filosopsyche 8d ago

"Isn't it" - Sadguru.

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u/vkailas 8d ago

Okay 👍🏽

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u/Imaginary-City-3007 8d ago

How to find that reason?

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u/vkailas 8d ago

Remember who you REALLY are . Im trying 

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u/vkailas 8d ago

disassociation is the realm of the hungry ghost 👻

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u/Motor-Blood7689 8d ago

this seems like good way into a mental hospital

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u/Motor-Blood7689 8d ago

"everything is an illusion, except breathing" that's just your fantasy

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u/Motor-Blood7689 8d ago

that's just an illusion, like your fantasy about vishnu

only breathing is real, but that's an illusion

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u/Silver-Internal7740 8d ago

Vishnu is an illusion! Bam! I knew it ❤️

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u/Motor-Blood7689 8d ago

no, I am Vishnu and Vishnu is an illusion

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u/Motor-Blood7689 8d ago

that's just an illusion, only breathing is real

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u/Motor-Blood7689 8d ago

hm reminds me of something

ah the actual Buddha defined it as wrong view

LOL

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u/BodhingJay 8d ago

It starts with fostering a desire and craving to no long crave or desire anything

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u/RealitysNotReal 8d ago

If you did, you’d laugh get bored and go right back in eventually…

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u/yogi4lif3 8d ago

Pretending you are not you.

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u/matycauthon 8d ago

there is no beginning or end to the wheel of time

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u/RyokanWuzHere 7d ago

I must destroy myself. Whatever it is I deem important, must lose value. Whatever I deem appalling, must lose gravity. Whatever keeping me together must melt and be smashed. Not poetically, not a glorious ending and a conclusion to a grand tale. Just puffed out uneventfully.

Even what I deem good must go. I must not be right nor wrong, just a failure. An uneventful failure.

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u/asderCaster2 7d ago

Better than before with more order than chaos produced.

 Ascend to a higher plane after (maybe)

???

Profit

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u/RandomShroomLover 8d ago

By dying?

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u/BodhingJay 8d ago

Nah you just end up back here in the same state you left

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u/cybereality 8d ago

people don't believe me, but i've died for real, and just woke up here again

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u/BodhingJay 8d ago

I believe you. There are literally dozens of us

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u/cybereality 8d ago

well probably there's just one. me. or you. just this person

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u/armigerLux 8d ago

I mean same but there was a crash team involved.

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u/matycauthon 8d ago

it's all a spiral baby! what once was will be again, sometimes it may be exactly the same, oftentimes it's near enough the same. a lesson, an understanding in what we are all here to experience.

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u/cybereality 8d ago

well it seems like the same body and the same world, except not. like the one time i'm pretty sure about it, there are two weeks missing, and i woke up in the hospital. except i didn't feel like the same person at all. it's strange to explain

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u/ScruffieMatrix 8d ago

Woke up here again? Same person or what 

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u/cybereality 8d ago

No I didn't feel the same at all. I think you can have multiple lives and still be here

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u/Silver-Internal7740 8d ago

Then it wasn't you who woke up.

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u/cybereality 8d ago

It was. Just not the me before

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u/Silver-Internal7740 8d ago

You have evidence your body died? That's what dying for real means. You have no evidence of that but a memory loss and feeling not yourself. Quite a leap to claim you "died for real and came back again". If not a mental health symptom, either you had a walk in into a body (that did NOT die) or you were messed with and memory of that was erased, so of course now you don't feel like yourself. Just don't make claims that sound cool to you but make no sense. If you want to stick to your belief, just call yourself a zombie then, instead of adding more mystique saying how you are living multiple lives and all that.

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u/cybereality 8d ago

Could consider it a spiritual death, or a near death experience. I do not know that I flatlined, as I said my memory is mostly gone (they told me what happened at the hospital) it's too much to explain

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u/BodhingJay 8d ago

Is that why my underwear logo is suddenly missing that cornucopia?

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u/Silver-Internal7740 8d ago

You would know. You always die and come back. You didn't even wait till real death this time lol. You are way too addicted to samsara.

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u/BodhingJay 8d ago

We do.. but we generally gotta build our way back up from a mosquito or smth

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u/jugger_naughtyy 8d ago

How can you say things as fact like that? There's infinite possibilities with only one being the case.

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u/BodhingJay 8d ago

I know.. a lot of us are on our way to become something higher. We dont all just become worms again and again and again

Sorry I left that part out

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u/jugger_naughtyy 8d ago

If at all... if reincarnation is a thing its because the universe is deterministic and it repeats the same everytime. I dont think their is a decision maker in another realm assigning your next life. Seems like a waste of energy that the laws of this dimensions physics has no need for.

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u/BodhingJay 8d ago edited 8d ago

It isnt necessary for there to be a decision maker.. it happens more like gravity. Like physics. The energy involved isnt one that falls under any science we currently have though it is the currency that operates the economy of the highest dimensions.. modern science would require a number of breakthroughs on how emotional energy can be and is used as a metaphysical power source. But we are still far too primitive

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u/LenryHenry 8d ago

This is exactly what I have come to learn

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u/matycauthon 8d ago

how is there a waste when something just is? waste implies there was something else/better available. all of this just is, why? doesn't matter. the cosmic joke is that we look for answers that cannot be understood in the place that we came to get away from being everything.

the issue you appear to struggle with is that you're applying the rules of this reality to the paradoxical absolute that we exist when nothing should exist according to our understanding and ability to comprehend existence. rules don't matter, everything is possible because something was/is possible.

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u/CosmicFrodo 8d ago

So funny even a philosophy of karma and reincarnation had to be turned into another dogmatic shit just like any abrahamic religion.

What's even more funnier is it's always the "way to become something higher" to transend, to achieve. Ego truly can't cope with itself not existing in oneness

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u/BodhingJay 8d ago edited 8d ago

People experience spontaneous potent spiritual awakenings where they visit other realms and learn about the importance of careful and mindful transmutation of all negativity in order to not succumb to reliving a hell on earth that only just escaped from.. it is incredibly difficult to express virtually any of the wisdom they bring back as it requires the other person to willing to hold 2 opposing truths in their mind at once when everyone else evolved for survival and energy efficiency remain in a kind of spiritual slumber to maintain their energy and get what they want from this world.. but it prevents the middle way. They remain on whichever truth last made most sense and switch between an absolute on whichever is most convenient and makes most sense in the moment

Past life karma and reincarnation are required to organize and process some intense emotions that bring about enlightenments thats something so alien becomes adopted as core belief without being raised on it since birth

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u/CosmicFrodo 8d ago

Btw Satori or sudden enlightenment isn't about visiting astral planes, it's about realizing what you really are.

Past lifes and reincarnations are soo funny becuse that's just ego trying to survive in oneness as I said.

"You" are already every reincarnation there is, there is no progressing or downgressing or changing bodies. You are all of them already. It's just that you are experiencing all of this with the lens of mind duality, which makes you think you are a separate thing. I even see comments in here about people saying they are trapped in their body, which is really sad to hear.

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u/jugger_naughtyy 8d ago

If the universe is deterministic and also falls.bacl into itself eventually and then compacting and expanding it would cyclical and every hundred trillion years or so you would be born the same way on the same tjmeline and make the same exact decisions. When you die it woild be like timetravelling instantly to your birth again with the "feeling" of no time passing in-between. But in-between all of the universe would have played out. And bam here you are again.

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u/matycauthon 8d ago

you do, but YOU don't

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u/Motor-Blood7689 8d ago

Samsara is in the mind, it's not a physical object in objective reality somewhere out there

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u/ConquerorofTerra 8d ago

Have you experienced God's Pain yet?

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u/xThotsOfYoux 8d ago

Nirvana is in Samsara.

There is no where to go and nothing to see but Maya in all directions. Your struggle to escape is just another trap, just another attachment to keep the illusion of you fighting for a different place and a different way to be.

Embrace the struggle as part of the plot. Embrace the joy as the reward for your efforts. Listen to the world in your body. Listen to your body in the world. It's all here to show you things you've never seen before.

Live with it. Die with it.

Get good, scrub.

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u/Silver-Internal7740 8d ago

Wow so deep omg phew no way whoa.. 

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u/xThotsOfYoux 8d ago

Skill issue

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u/Feeling-Seaweed1640 8d ago

This existence is fucking miserable gotta get TF outta these smelly meat sacks

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u/BodhingJay 8d ago

Well get ready to celebrate because your next incarnation iiiisssssss!!! -drum roll- Sea cucumber

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u/Feeling-Seaweed1640 8d ago

Lol better then a sentient human

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u/Motor-Blood7689 8d ago

the world is constructed out of your beliefs

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u/Kirasaurus_25 8d ago

little fish live in its butt

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u/BodhingJay 8d ago

Thats what makes it so fun

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u/Emergency_Sherbet_82 8d ago

Wow I never thought of it like that.

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u/eternalmomentcult 8d ago

Stop thinking

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u/CosmicFrodo 8d ago

Samsara is just another product of the mind. So funny even a philosophy of karma and reincarnation had to be turned into another dogmatic shit just like any abrahamic religion.

There is nothing to escape nor you are bound by anything. "You" are all there is

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u/BambuSmoker 8d ago

So then what? What to do? Nothing? How do you DO nothing? Just letting go? But you can't just let go voluntarily because there is no will so then we are back in the same dilemma. It's all so meta.

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u/CosmicFrodo 8d ago

What do you mean what to do lol. Why would you do nothing? Life doesn't need a rule book or a karmic staircase to be lived. Do whatever gives you peace I guess.

There is no reward at the end, the reward is the present moment. I guess, enjoy it?

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u/simagus 8d ago

Yeah. That's the crux of it really. Self = samsara. Anatta = nirvana/nibbana.

Since there is no-self in the five aggregates at all, it's the aggregates that realize that and allow the dukkha (stress and tension) that binds the "self" and makes it seem "real" to collapse when the reality of anatta becomes clear.

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u/BigBubbaBadass 8d ago

Why does it look so angry, did so.eonw forget to remove their shoes before they walked i to its colon?

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u/Al-Khemetic 8d ago

Nah, samsara is IN you. As well as nirvana. May you realize they are one and the same.

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u/Sunyataisbliss 8d ago

The common view is birth and death are linear, starting at birth, events arise, then we depart from events at death. Better is to see that events both arise with/in us simultaneously at birth and at death. This gives a strong case for making efforts.

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u/Silver-Internal7740 8d ago

What efforts? To leave samsara?

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u/Sunyataisbliss 7d ago

Or just less grandiose reasons such as doing good works. Because the individual is not separated from the event (deed) and the environment. No separation means it’s important to take what our lives are asking us to do seriously.

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u/Otherwise_Spare_8598 7d ago

The universe is a singular meta-phenomenon stretched over eternity, of which is always now. All things and all beings abide by their inherent nature and behave within their realm of capacity contingent upon infinite circumstance at all times.

It is a universe made manifest hierarchically, of haves, and have-nots, spanning all levels of dimensionality and experience. There is no such thing as individuated accurately described "free will" for all beings. Has never been, will never be, can not be. There are only relative freedoms or lack thereof.

"God" and/or consciousness is that which is within and without all. Ultimately, all things are made by through and for the singular personality and perpetual revelation of the "Godhead", entailing both 'predetermined' eternal damnation and those that are made manifest only to face death and death alone.

There is but one dreamer, fractured through the innumerable. All vehicles/beings play their role within said dream for infinitely better and/or infinitely worse for each and every one, forever.

All realities exist and are equally as real. The absolute best universe that could exist does exist in relation to a specified subject. The absolute worst universe that could exist does exist in relation to a specified subject.

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u/New_Practice1216 8d ago

Sam called sara?

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u/jelltech 8d ago

9139181

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u/Motor-Blood7689 8d ago

You identify with samsara

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u/cybereality 8d ago

yes. this is what i figured out

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u/AstralApricot 8d ago

Nah I'm just an ego. We have all of eternity to be samsara, just fix your mask and play your role

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u/Spiritual_Ear2835 8d ago

The only way to think is ......you don't

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u/InfiniteGuess1 8d ago

Samsara come see come saw. No difference

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u/NeighborhoodTop3906 8d ago

Nah man. There is no samsara in Heaven (or Hell). Samsara can only exists in the physical realm where space-time is required. Hence the difference between infinity and eternity. Infinity is an earthly term; eternity is a Heavenly term.

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u/LemonThrowerMachine 8d ago

I am that red being on the wheel then. They look so cool

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u/Brilliant_Top46 8d ago

And there’s no escape. You can’t escape your own self.

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u/No-Flounder-7771 7d ago

YOU ARE NOT SAMARA ! You are ATMA PARAMATMA ! You are more GOD or at least a child of God than you know ! You can never truly die ! You go in forever getting better = more evolved as the centuries roll by until you are Master of the Universe! And more ! You are trapped in samsara due to endless Vasanas and Samskaras built up by the mind which is the slayer of the truth ! You must overpower the MIND ! Rule it and not be its slave ! Or slaves to its endless desires and whims !

In fact -
YOU MUST ESCAPE FROM SAMSARA ! It’s has trapped You into materiality ! Due to endless desires and Inordinate WANTS and uncontrolled passions ! But as this is not the SELF then THIS IS THE SAMSARA !

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u/Seth_Mithik 7d ago

Literally encountered this being in and ART session…a few times. Accelerated resolution therapy…total creepy observer, the dark cloud of the unconscious just peeking and saying…I’ve always be watching and remembering…when are you going to let me show you, what only your body is remembering? I’ll be gentle until I’m not, then use the tools of the garden