Yes, and I've never once denied all that. Simply because there's just what's happening, and no one or thing is making what's happening happen, nor is there any one or thing making what's happening, unhappen.Belinda wrote: ↑Thu Oct 17, 2024 10:53 amYou are not a thing like a dog toy is a thing. You are a set of experiences: the dog toy is nothing but its own history.Fairy wrote: ↑Thu Oct 17, 2024 10:42 amReference is of past tense, which is dead, reference is a pointing to something that is already the case, else it could not be pointed to. What is already the case does not have a secondary reality.
Reality never refers to itself, because there is no other, reality is still and motionless, it's self-evidently self-illuminating and self-standing, all one one without a second.
Things cannot know they exist.
Things are known by no 'thing', a thing in and of itself, cannot know. No more than a machine can never knows it's maker.
The knowing mind is not a thing, but that which knows all things...the mind is a bubbling cauldron of synthetic nothingness, no thing, not a thing...appearing as everything..
As you know, I agree with your view of the absolute (which you refer to as "reality"). But you don't and cannot live
without an ego self. The Indian sages who attempt to do so are kept alive by communities of other people.
I don't know how many times I have to repeat that to you.
Experiences are happening, but they are not happening to an 'experiencer' simply because the idea there is an ''experiencer'' is simply another experience.
No sage is attempting to live without a self, simply because it's impossible to experience the absence of experience. I'm not denying the ego, like you seem to think I am.