Bindi

How do you ascertain the truth?

dreams will use your symbols, but they’ll use them to make an objective snapshot of you. Here’s a challenge, share a dream here and we can analyse it, see if it holds any objective value for you.

A good question, what is a bulwark against delusion. Not a person, but I have always used dreams as the bulwark. Rising from the subconscious, untouched by subjective beliefs, dreams are as close as I’ve come to objective reality.

I mean an upgrade in our perceptual system. A more direct perception, literally. I believe any information you have gained from within your system is beneficial, awareness of your system is the organism being aware of its own functioning, and being aware of its own functioning we as the organism can improve our functioning.

The soul of the soul may know itself, but it’s my awareness of what the soul of the soul knows that allows the system to shift. Knowing the rule doesn’t affect the system, believing the information is of zero benefit.

I am my body, I am my subtle energy body, and I am the consciousness in my body, but this consciousness is currently more limited than its potential. I see us as evolving beings, taking who knows how many thousands of years, to step into our consciousness potential, which is not emptiness or the absolute or pure beingness but a biologically based extension of perception capacity. A multitude of different peoples efforts will lead us to our next evolutionary step, with many missteps on the way. But the people who step in the right direction will slowly create a surer path for those that follow. We’re all part of the great evolutionary experiment. I agree our consciousness can be our only object of attention, but what we attend to within this pursuit can make all the difference. If you’re looking for zest and ease you might find it, but that doesn’t make zest and ease the actual evolutionary step.

But… what if being weighed down by beliefs is part of the problem? A belief can lead you to direct energy to the wrong places, an entwined belief doesn’t lead to whatever your ultimate is, it’s just another shackle. We do have to believe something, our minds are meaning making machines, the Daoist way of allowing the system to self-correct seems to be the most powerful, but it requires letting go of beliefs that overshadow reality. I agree “it can be known within when uncovered”, but any belief that pre-states what “it” Is keeps you from “it”. This is just an extension of my dislike of short order nondual realisation, belief establishes the lens and self gratuitous declarations of having arrived follow, but inner reality hasn’t been established. Emotional bypassing, karmic bypassing, clinging to beliefs, leads to staying on the merry go round for longer.

Your philosophy is one amongst a number of philosophies, there is no consensual agreement about your belief. The most I could agree with is that some humans, especially spiritual seekers, often feel that something is missing, which your belief system calls the absolute or the Self. What’s actually missing, how can it be known, and how can it be reinstated, without referring to any external philosophies?

What if there is no Absolute that an embodied human can ever partake in? I suspect the “Absolute” Is a philosophers dream, embodied reality is a far more complex issue. In embodied reality it’s likely impossible to simply not worry and be happy, anyway it would be fundamentally immoral to take this attitude in some situations.

I think ‘evil’ or ignorance has to be shown the door, it doesn’t self destruct. If we get a hundred monkeys to destroy ignorance, then things might start to change. Right now yes things are bad, but like zerostao said they’ve always been bad just more hidden. The bad is showing its hand, and the other faction are standing against it. We’re in dangerous times, but we have been here before and the good has won.