Conceptual pointlessness.
Every exit door that you perceive to be an exit from illusion is, in actuality, an entrance way into another illusion.
Which kinda make conceptual distinctions between reality and illusion pointless.
Can a self continue to act as if it is real, while embracing the belief that it does not exit?
The evidence suggests that it can and does, IMO.
Every time that you articulate the belief, internally and/or externally, that the self does not exist, but your actions say otherwise.
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I have an idea: let's play 'let's pretend.'
I'll pretend that I'm Tony, and you pretend that you're Dana.
Then we can look at ourselves objectively, from a different perspective so to speak, and maybe then we can render an objective opinion.
Nah, probably a stupid idea!
I tend to agree with Peter, real or illusory, who cares!
All that matters is the direct experience of whatever the hell it is, without any judgments about it whatsoever.
Why do we have to turn everything into a Disney world?
Aren't ordinary miracles enough?
"Can a self continue to act as if it is real, while embracing the belief that it does not exit?"
Until it is consistently seen that conceptual understanding is limited, I find I continue using mind as a weak source of illumination. I’ve come to accept the risk that how mind sees in the low light of logic and reason may not be how it actually is in the physical realm.
I accept I am embodied awareness, the manifest tip of an iceberg sort to speak, temporarily unaware of its connectedness to the vast unseen, unfelt, unmanifest beneath the surface. So I start where I am, at the surface of things, at the level of illusion.
In brief, I am no longer going to pretend “I am not” when I am pretending that “I am.”
Tony