AlexW wrote: ↑Mon Jan 20, 2020 11:52 pm
Age wrote: ↑Mon Jan 20, 2020 1:57 pm
And when, and if, you investigate your own direct experience, even further, then you will come to understand and know, even more.
You stated in a previous post that "Thoughts are the only thing that I can be 100% truly sure of".
If you would have really investigated your experience you would find this to be untrue.
So, if this is untrue, then what is true?
AlexW wrote: ↑Mon Jan 20, 2020 11:52 pm
Or do you believe that if someone pinches your arm that this sensation was a thought?
I do not believe any thing. Are you able comprehend this?
Or is this untrue also?
AlexW wrote: ↑Mon Jan 20, 2020 11:52 pm
Can a thought pinch you? Or can it only state "Someone pinched my arm! This hurts!"
Only the latter. That is why I said that the only thing that I can be truly sure of is the thoughts within this head. But you seemed to have completely misconstrued this, as well.
AlexW wrote: ↑Mon Jan 20, 2020 11:52 pm
Have a good look and see what is really happening.
I have already, but, from your perspective, what is "really happening"?
AlexW wrote: ↑Mon Jan 20, 2020 11:52 pmAnyway, I don't mind if you believe you can "explain ALL-OF-THIS very simply and very easy, with WORDS, so that ALL-OF-THIS is FULLY understood by others". If you feel the urge, please go ahead, if not, this is fine too... but please keep in mind that whatever explanation you will give it is within the conceptual world/belief you have erected - and to me, this is ultimately not true (but neither is it false - descriptions simply do not apply, they are like a finger pointing to the moon, they are simply a finger, not the moon

)
So, what is the 'moon'?
And this is obviously just the conceptual world/belief that you have erected, and/or you have just copied from what others have said.
Also, I do not believe any thing.
AlexW wrote: ↑Mon Jan 20, 2020 11:52 pm
Age wrote: ↑Mon Jan 20, 2020 1:57 pm
Saying things like; The only one 'thing' that exists is really 'not-a-thing' at all, just shows that 'you' do not Truly understand ALL-OF-THIS, just yet.
Investigate your experience and you will never, ever find a "thing".
But it was investigating my experiences Truly Honestly is how and why I found every thing I have that I have yet to explain fully.
AlexW wrote: ↑Mon Jan 20, 2020 11:52 pm
Why? Because you will find no borders, no separation at all, ever - thus all objects/things are simply conceptual entities, never directly experienced. Still you seem to believe things (or at least one thing) exists...
Well, because you look at and see things from your own past experiences, you have completely misconstrued and taken out of context, what I have actually said and meant, and thus the reason why you are so confused and completely misunderstanding me here.
AlexW wrote: ↑Mon Jan 20, 2020 11:52 pm
I don't mind if you do, but maybe, just maybe you are wrong... (and the conceptual framework that you have erected to "Truly understand ALL-OF-THIS" needs revision).
What do you believe is the thing or things that I believe exists?
You seem to like to talk about how what I say is untrue, but you are never actually are specific about what exactly that is, and you also do not actually then point out why what I say is untrue.
And even if there were only one thing then calling it a "thing" is simply misleading, it will not help anyone to "Truly understand ALL-OF-THIS".
So, does calling this 'thing' "not-a-thing" help others in Truly understanding?
AlexW wrote: ↑Mon Jan 20, 2020 11:52 pm
So please tell me, why would you affix certain attributes (e.g. existence or non-existence) to something that is not a thing (that has no second, no opposite)?
Because OBVIOUSLY some 'thing' is NOT "not-a-thing".
Every you just called 'It' some 'thing'.
Are you able to see the contradictions in the way you phrase and say things here?
Also, just because you call this 'thing' "not-a-thing", then that does NOT mean that 'It' can not be explained much better, much more accurate, and much more Truly, with and through 'descriptive words'.
You can believe whatever you want to, but that will never make some 'thing' actually true, other than to your own self of course.
AlexW wrote: ↑Mon Jan 20, 2020 11:52 pm
It makes no sense to me and is a misleading attempt of objectifying the non objective.
That is fair enough.
From your perspective, of course what I am saying would not make sense to you.
AlexW wrote: ↑Mon Jan 20, 2020 11:52 pm
Anyway, I recommend you have a good look at what is actually experienced and what thought might state about the experience - but do it honestly and without the preconceived explanations you have already established and believe to be true.
You could not have a less understanding of me and what I have done even if you wanted to and tried to portray a more wrong understanding here.
Obviously you will continue on with this line of thinking, if you continue on the exact same way as you are now and have been.
By the way, why do you not start explaining what it is you believe I am missing here, and then start explaining what it is that you want me to see and understand here.
Instead of recommending to "others" to "take a good look at what is "actually" experienced", why do you not just tell us what is "actually experienced"?
How would you even know "what thought might state" occurs within this body, about absolutely ANY thing this body experiences?
What do you mean by "honestly"? For all you well know I may have been and are far more honest, than you ever are now.
Are you even able to consider that the views I have here now have come from not having any 'preconceived explanations', and I still look at things from a non 'preconceived' perspective. Remember it is 'you' who is believing and assuming things here. I do not like to assume absolutely any thing and I neither believe nor disbelieve any thing at all. So, how could I have 'preconceived explanations' now?
As for your, "you have already established and believe to be true", comment, this just shows how you have completely and utterly misunderstood me. But this is extremely explainable, this is because you obviously look at what I say from your already obtained thoughts only, and start making assumptions, based on your, past experiences, and then start believing those assumptions are true, before you even thought to remain open and just clarify what I am actually saying and meaning.
But, considering your past experiences, then what you are doing here is totally understandable.
AlexW wrote: ↑Mon Jan 20, 2020 11:52 pm
Age wrote: ↑Mon Jan 20, 2020 1:57 pm
See your point in regards to 'what' EXACTLY?
Is it even possible, to you, that I may well be years ahead of you, in that I already KNOW a way to 'describe' ALL-OF-THIS here, by 'conventional descriptions, which you propose can not even be explained by 'conventional descriptions'?
In regards to what I wrote:
Of course this doesn't mean that a statement may be right or wrong within the conceptual boundaries it has been made - if we work in the world of independently existing, separate objects then the statement 1+1=2 is certainly right, but we should also understand that ultimately even this simple equation is neither right nor is it wrong.
What don't you understand? I am happy to explain.
There is nothing in that that I do not understand.
Do you yet know why you did make such an assumption here, which, by the way, is obviously completely and utterly ridiculous, once again?
Do you yet know why you jumped to such a completely wrong conclusion?
Do you yet know why you believe things that could not be any further from the truth?
You want to use "duality" language but then expect that what you say is neither right nor wrong, or neither true nor false.
But you can not have it both ways.
AlexW wrote: ↑Mon Jan 20, 2020 11:52 pm
Also: Sure, everything can be explained using conventional description - but this doesn't mean that the description is correct. It may be correct according to the conceptual rules you have setup within your own system of belief, but it may be incorrect within another one (e.g. mine).
You are SHOWING in the most significant of ways just how little you know of what I have been saying and meaning.
You appear to have absolutely no idea at all in regards to what I am saying and meaning.
All I am saying is that ultimately ALL conceptual systems, within which we try to explain the non-conceptual, are neither true, nor are they false - simply because the non-conceptual, non-dual, absolute (whatever name you want to use) has no attributes, it has no limit and thus no place to fix a conceptual anchor (sorry, another metaphor - please let me know if you understand the meaning of it).
I KNOW what you are 'trying to' say and explain. This is because I KNOW, with descriptive words, what you say can not be explained with descriptive words.
But OBVIOUSLY you can not say and explain what you are so desperately wanting to and 'trying to' say and explain, because if you could, and did, then this would be in complete contradiction of your obviously very strongly held onto firm beliefs.
AlexW wrote: ↑Mon Jan 20, 2020 11:52 pm
But maybe you believe that everything can not only be explained, but that that there is only ONE true/correct way of explaining something... Do you?
NO.
If you had absolutely any understanding at all from what I have been saying, then you would already KNOW what my answer would be and so would not have made such an obviously absurd assumption, and ask such a ridiculous question here.