I genuinely couldn't stop laughing at the absurdity of my stupidity. Now, I cannot stop laughing at the absurdity of your stupidity.
This might sound harsh but it's actually quite funny.
I keep scrolling and scrolling tumblr and I always find 9999+ misinterpretations of the same thing the “non-dualists” say. Not to mention how funny the “non-dualists” tag people give us(I am assuming I am included, idk, lol).
Change one single sentence and you have found a new way to misinterpret the same thing.
They use the word "imagination", and you make it into "manifestation".
They use the word "peace", and you make it into "enduring a pathetic life".
They use the word "nothing", and you make it into nihilism.
They use " ", and you make it into a practice of catching the space between and pervading all there is.
They use the word "appearing", and you make it into fate, script, destiny or a puppet show.
There's more but this is enough for now.
Oof. I used to do this too, lol. So if you find all of this relatable, you get where it's all coming from.
Do you seriously think all these "non-dualists" who were probably(most assuredly) entangled in the hell of manifestation, shifting, or at least, chasing desires etc. would settle for something like "peace", a "practice of detachment", "oh it's all fake who cares", "let's go and meditate in a cave". I mean, they could be interested in all this, but for the sake of the argument, let's just assume it makes no sense.
I don't think they would settle for any less than total and unconditional freedom, in EVERY. LITERAL. SENSE. OF. THE. WORD. Yeah, and neither would I nor did I, lol.
Of course, there aren't any real "people" either, like in a dream where everything is just mental, or should I say like in experience in general, where everything is just as mental. So, it's not like they should behave "logically" but it also doesn't mean they aren't behaving with any consistency. Dreams don't have to be logical but it doesn't mean they aren't internally consistent or coherent. Not like there's any "logic" beyond the narrative of it.
If someone tells you something in a dream, and you know it's a dream, do you take what they say as truth? Isn't what they say, do, etc. all an imaginary narrative in the first place?
It's not "There are people". It's just "I believe there are people."
It's not "There is a world". It's just "I believe there's a world".
It's not "I can't shift". It's just "I believe I can't shift".
Yeah, and last but not least:
It's not "I exist". It's just "I believe I exist".
I just hesitated a lot to use the phrasing "I believe", but I trust that you will understand what I mean. Oh wait, who am I kidding! Anyway, to be clear, it's not an "I" that's an independent thing that exists, which "believes". Even this "I" is itself a belief.
If everything is just a belief, and there's no "thing", only the "belief there's a thing"... it means any belief can occur and that would be the thing itself. NO, THIS IS NOT THE LAW OF ATTRACTION OR ASSUMPTION OR WHATEVER.
It's not sticking with a "belief", so the 3D can change or whatever.
The 3D is nothing but the "belief there is a 3D".
If you see a 3D, it's just that you believe there is a 3D. You believe you see a 3D.
If nothing's changing, it's just that you believe nothing's changing.
And NO, there's no "outside" which you then use as evidence to conclude that you are not “believing hard enough”. Either you believe it is or it isn't. It is or it isn't. It's not, "I believe it is" and thus, "it is". There's only "I believe it is". I repeat: THERE'S ONLY THE BELIEF THAT SOMETHING IS. In other words, everything is purely, utterly mental. The mind itself is purely, utterly mental.
Therefore, if "you don't see something good", congratulations. You are wrong, lol. You are merely believing you don't see something good.
Hmmm, for example, “I believe there's a world and I believe I am a human being and I believe I am quite limited in what I do and I believe life is quite pathetic". Thus... NO, there's no thus or therefore after this. It's just belief. Once again, it's not "I believe it is and thus, it is". It's just "I believe it is". THE END. No buts! That's the end.
So, what do you believe? What do you believe that you believe? What "you" do you believe?
Also, yeah, this "belief" is synonymous with "imagination", "assumption", "storytelling", "knowing" etc. OMG, the word "assumption" gets on my nerves for some reason. I wonder why. 😤
Oh, I forgot to add to my point. Like I said, what you believe you see is what you believe you see. So, if you don't see any "non-dualists"(to be precise, you don't believe you see any "non-dualists"...) magically creating unicorns and creating supernovas out of nowhere, then of course... you just don't believe you see any or that it could be possible. No, our supposed lack of superpowers doesn't contradict anything we are saying. What you believe is what you believe. All we are pointing out is how everything is a fabrication, a conjured up narrative, etc. and that the only truth is...
(no, there's nothing to fill in, not even "nothing".)
(I just realised I could have used bold text mid-way but I am too lazy to edit the rest.)
Anyway, that's the limitless creative potential they all talk about. Guess what it means? No, they are not saying there's some external god that's doing what it wants. The point is... if all is just a belief, then you can freely believe anything.
Of course, one might force oneself to believe something while they are already believing something else. That's the definition of delusion. That's not what is being talked about, here.
Right now, you are believing something "undesirable" and of course, you are also believing that it is undesirable. That's okay. I guess you could call this a "habit" of believing something, which is once again a "belief". It's hard to explain but... I guess you could say since you see that it is all "belief", you will eventually believe something else because now you see that the only thing you believe was stopping you from something else is also a belief. So confusing, I know, but this is the best I can do. Note that this "eventually" implies this "belief" is in the future, but there is no "future". This is why it's hard to explain. The best I can say is if you are believing in X, that's the end. If you are believing in Y, that's the end. There's no separation between the belief of X and the belief of Y. The belief of X is the the belief of Y because both are equally beliefs. So, there's no need to force yourself to believe Y. That introduces separation which is utterly false. If there's a belief of X, that's the end. If there's a belief of Y, that's the end. And both beliefs are actually the same belief because there's no separation.
This is what happens when I try to put into words. 😵💫
Kind of like how when you thought something was true and cried a lot at some point in your life, but when you saw that it was just a thought or a belief, you stopped crying and that belief stopped showing up eventually. Again, this "eventually" still implies a "future", which is also a belief. I have no words that could explain this any better. Everything is HERE and NOW, effortlessly and perfectly. It's impossible to make sense of this. Language cannot capture this. Language only makes sense when there's separation, distinction etc. but it cannot meaningfully describe what "no separation" implies.
Of course, this is really confusing and I admit it. But, that's not a bug. It's a feature. You cannot explain it no matter how hard you try. It's inexplicable. If you find it confusing, that's wonderful. If you didn't find it confusing, I would be worried because then it would mean a narrative was being taken as some truth. This... inexplicable uncertainty... is the point. There is no need to find an explanation that doesn't exist. After all, even "sense" is ultimately manufactured.
I hesitate to say that direct experience is the way because like, what you believe you have right here and now is already a direct experience of what you believe you have right here and now. There's nothing to "achieve". It's already a belief in and of itself. It's already "direct experience" in and of itself.
Is this "boring"? Is this "interesting"? It's just what you believe, anyway. If you believe this is boring, that is what you believe. If I believe this is interesting, this is what I believe. And so on.
Anyway, this "freedom" shows you how you can freely believe in "being limited", "being unlimited", "getting what you want", "getting what you don't want" etc. There's no limit to what stories can be written, obviously. You clearly don't need me to tell you that. There was never any need for anything at all, anyway.
So, technically, if you believe that you are a limited, helpless creature constantly chasing around desires and at the mercy of the external world... it's not wrong to do so. It's also a nice story. But er, it's just a belief, lol.
So... let's just do what we want, or should I say, let's just believe what we want... like we always did, shall we?
Oh, yeah, and while I am at it, these "desires" are also what you believe to have. Not anything special.
And when the bloggers say... “don't bother with these ideas”, “don't take any of it seriously” and so on... they are just talking about how it's all "beliefs". Nothing concrete. I don't take beliefs all that seriously, do you?
Oops, I yapped way too much... didn't I? If I don't stop, I will keep yapping forever. I'll stop. 😭
Oh wait, just one more thing. "ignorance", "realisation" and "recognition", "enlightened" also don't make sense because if all of this was just a belief all along, you never were "ignorant", there was never a time you "realised or recognised" something. It was all just believing. Nothing more.
Anyway, how is this not "total and unconditional freedom"? You see how we didn't settle for anything less?
I'll stop for real, now. 🙏
My aesthetic is bleh... sorry if the post doesn't look attractive. Oh wait, there's no aesthetic at all here. 😭
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