Grapefruit said:

You just need to look at it and look at it and keep looking and trying to understand and then it will hit you. Then you'll understand it.

Only then can a skeptic pass any sort of judgement on it, but the skeptic will be gone. Guaranteed. Everytime.

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Grapefruit said:

Problem with this is, you need to have been self, oneness and emptiness to see all sides of the story. Thing is a skeptic hasn't had oneness or emptiness. It's an experience not a belief its not like believing in god for a Christian is or believing in anything else.

It's a direct tangible change. Literally peace.

If you haven't seen oneness or emptiness, how can you judge it? surely you have to find it before you can judge it? You can't see it before you have it, because it's an experience.

Not any philosophical concept, an obvious change.

You just need to look at it and look at it and keep looking and trying to understand and then it will hit you. Then you'll understand it.

Only then can a skeptic pass any sort of judgement on it, but the skeptic will be gone. Guaranteed. Everytime.

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Everytime.

and then if Jesus cums into your heart you will know the truth but not until then dood.

Quote:

Bullshit.

How on Earth can you claim to know how every single skeptic will react to ego loss?

How can you assume skeptics have not also seen what you choose to believe in?

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Because it's better than beleiving in self. So you may as well believe in it. Peace is just nicer! The skeptic would ask themselves(mental monologue)...

"So if i now i don't beleive in self and i see emptiness. Then both can be perceived in the mind as true. Thefore i do not know which is right because there is no way to know. Therefore the best decision is to go with what feels best. Because i'm given no more information than i can feel."

I don't choose to believe in emptiness. I am emptiness just like for you right now you are self.

Enlightenment literally is Enlightenment. You feel like a massive weight has been lifted from your brain is the best way i can describe it to you. You realize ego put this on your brain, disallowing peace.

Also the enlightened one is the true sceptic because he holds no notions. Right now you're mind state is self whereas i mine is neither self or selflessness. So I have no beliefs about what life should be. I am emptiness. I see it for only what it is. Peace

gc1966 said:

One must ask, if one is so clinical in their research of scientific facts,what is one doing on the "shroomery" board. Maybe you should rattle your views off at a legitimate science blog, and leave us "shroomers" to contemplate our own blissfulness and oneness with the universe, without your pretentious bullshit.

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  I think the ones who argue against oneness understand it just as well as the ones who accept it.  Truth is subjective though.  To each his own.  (Besides, a philosophy board can use any structure it can get.) 

Grapefruit said:

Please, just see the world! STOP having truth, STOP looking for it and realize there is NO TRUTH to be had. Just live, just be happy.

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Grapefruit said:

Please, just see the world! STOP having truth, STOP looking for it

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Grapefruit said:

But that's exactly it, there isn't any truth to find and you never will find one. Your looking for something that simply isnt there to find.

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Cervantes said:

Chronic777 said:

My advice to you, if i could be so bold, is to not just look around you, look from within, yet around. Only externally you'll find billions & billions of answers, inside theres only one answer.

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And you wonder why Icelander questioned your logic?

Although I admit he was less than tactful in his word choice.

I have no idea what you are talking about.

But from what I read and understood, it seems you think I am a shallow man.

Do you really think I am SO shallow that I only LOOK at the world around me and never look inward? That I don't question my own mortality? That I have never experienced ego loss?

And are you really so shallow, that you believe there is only one answer which can be found within?

I doubt it.

Look, if you wish to communicate with PEOPLE about specific THINGS, you should use the language of science. Believe whatever you want... that is not a big problem. The problem starts when you claim you have ONE TRUE ANSWER, but you admit you can't even begin to explain it.

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I dont say you are shallow, you just assumed i said it?
When did i imply you are shallow?
Who got so offended by simlpe words and took it to mean "he called me shallow"
Dont get defensive, please, just find out who takes offense...

Who gets offened by somene knowing a singular truth!?
I wonder if Ramana & other sages had people running up to them
"the universe is not one, you are a liar!!! how dare you say you have one ultimate truth!!!how egocentric!!!"

What gets offended by another finding inner peace?
Why do some find it so hard to accept that some have found inner peace in oneness?

I am not imposing my truth on anyone, merely sharing it as that is what i see is the only thing worth "doing", spreading love & peace. Do you find offense in this?

If you have experienced "ego loss", why let it be found again?
Let it stay lost. Isit really worth beleiving in?

In truth there is no ego to be lost, just a false belief to be let go of...

Grapefruit said:

Funny thing is i probably would have been saying exactly the same things as you this time last week but hey ho!

I give up doesn't really matter anyway in the end. Want to be happy all the time? Look to lose self then selflessness. Don't? Stay in chaos then, your very much welcome to it! I'm gonna go spark up a Phatty.

Live for the moment.

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I actually live a very happy life and I love and nurture my ego.

Living for the moment, I can definitely agree with...though I think that may mean something a bit different to me, I don't think it requires a lack of self.

Grapefruit said:

you truly have no insecurities, fear, doubts? Uncertain future plans? You don't wish that anything could be changed about your past and your content with any moment life might bring you and make it like it were your last? Hell, I love peeling a bucket of potatoes at work!

Ego has wants for the future. That's almost what ego is. When you have ego you worry about things that might knock your ego or damage it. You feel the need to change your ego to make it better. When really the best thing you can do is let go of it completely thus taking out the root of all your worries and problems.

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Sure, I experience fear, pain, anxiety...but the good things in life overpower all of that.  Uncertain future plans are a good thing in my book. 

I don't want to lose my ego.  Life is about survival (or it has been up until the present anyway).  If I can survive with an illusory ego, why not?