Apparently Michael believes he is the mind, a doer, and individualizes himself even as the dreamer and the creator of it that pulls the strings of all puppets. Everyone that appears in his dream he dreams them up creates them, and controls all that appears to be happening. He even said “it’s very personal.” It almost sounds like he’s adopted ancient beliefs that didn’t originate with him, in other words, he acquired them later. It also seems to blend a bit with solipsism considering he speaks in terms of being the mind that creates the dreams so if he believes only Michael’s “mind” creates every other mind that’s solipsism. He didn’t really elaborate that far on it though. When “you” dream are aware of the dream? Yes. Or how else would explain even knowing about the dream? There can’t be consciousness without awareness but there can be awareness without consciousness. So in being aware that you are aware and not just aware of transient images, then where is knowledge and awareness of creating and controlling the dream?? There’s none at all because there is no doer, creator, or controller, but only the appearance of everything happening is only a dream when in reality nothing at all has ever happened nor will ever happened. The mind’s answers are completely imagined (dreamed up) because the mind ignores its own ignorance from that which it arises and is entirely dependent upon for its appearance in form and function. Nothing is what it only appears to be. To only take the appearances and the mind’s interpretation of them as something that is known about them is leaving out a great deal of the truth out of the picture. All such knowledge is nothing but the mind labeling its own ignorance as being knowledge to avoid the conditioning of fear that it really isn’t what it appears to be and therefore doesn’t really exist as it appears to begin with. The mind fears having to face its own essence because it is conditioned with beliefs that death, nonexistence, no mind, no self, annihilation is the opposite of life, existence, consciousness, awareness, which the conditioning of the mind ignores all that is prior to its projected by that which isn’t a mind but can project itself of itself as itself appearing as something other than itself only from the projected form and function. It’s the conditioning of mind that divides and distorts reality with its imagining what everything means but this seeking manifests from the mind’s ignorance that nothing has any meaning nor needs a meaning. Why does the mind desire to find a meaning for the indivisible no thing that appears as everything the mind divides up the infinite into being finite separate some things that have independent realities that the mind imagines elaborate and complicated stories it calls knowledge or fact to explain their existence as being real? Because then the mind can make it seem it has an important purpose and rely on the meaning as a reason why it is needed by the Absolute reality to continue to exist as a separate individual entity while ignoring the truth of its own essence which when the finite mind is turned back within itself rather than letting it to continue to project imaginative thoughts the mind naturally surrenders it’s form and function subsiding into the beingness that projects itself as Awareness, Awareness projects itself as Consciousness, Consciousness projects itself as imagination from which images and thoughts appear out of nothingness. There isn’t multiple “things” nor any separation, reality is not two. It’s not even limited to being one, but is infinite without beginning or ending. Nothing and everything are not opposites, “they” are not a duality, it’s not even a paradox. There is no true distinction because the no thing is everything and everything is not really the things they appear to be according to the conditioned ignorance of the mind. There is nothing missing, nothing incomplete, nothing imperfect that needs to be perfected. That all arises from the mind’s mental conditioning of ignorance that is projected on every other finite mind consciousness projects itself as then imagines that there is something missing, something unknown but needed to be unknown, something that needs meaning and purpose. However, before this conditioned “human” mind appeared to come into being, apparently, the universe needed to know itself through a mind identify it plays as being individual humans. That’s it’s most common contrived meaning and purpose it gives itself but attributes it to the universe but has also attributed to many different Gods, and more commonly today with science. According to the mind’s own imagined story it tells as being known to be real is the universe preceded the human mind some 13.65 billion years sustaining itself. So if it didn’t know itself before the human mind then how does the universe without any help of this so called human mind suddenly spontaneously create itself in space and time and expand and fulfill its own “needs” without any human minds around to figure it out? Perhaps the mind doesn’t anything it imagines it does, and being that there is an awareness of this mind appearing to us and even more telling is how the mind completely disappears when the awareness is turn away from this apparent object called mind back in on itself and there is only the being aware of being aware? Awareness never disappears but the mind does in both meditation and deep sleep. Only appearances disappear and the mind is an appearance as our direct experience of the mind shows. When the mind is believed without question leads to delusion and perpetuates the mental conditioning of other apparent finite minds. Seeking answers from the mind is only done in its own ignorance. It’s the mind that raises the questions with the I-thought which you’ll take this thought of I to be you. It’s not you. It’s the mind pretending to be the self-image of the individual it imagines that has a body with a mind in it. Ever hear of the concept of the Soul explained as being trapped in the body until the person dies and the Soul is freed from the body but never dies? The mind imagines and assumes every identity it projects. The mind tells you are the person who is born and will die but there isn’t any person at all. There isn’t really a mind but the mind wants to exist eternally because it fears being what it really which that is eternal but the appearance of it being a mind iz only an appearance that must always disappear. The appearing the mind calls “birth.” The disappearing it calls “death.” There is neither life or death, these are concepts that make the mind’s dream seem real because it keeps awareness projecting outwardly but never outside of itself which when aware of the appearances it seemingly becomes attention. When attention is turned away from appearances and back in toward Awareness it ceases being attention and reveals itself as it really is and even the mind, thoughts, and the world disappears when you abide in the pure awareness of being aware of being aware, if only even momentary and Awareness projects itself as the mind again then it almost appears that Awareness disappears but it never does, it is ever-present, it’s the constant attention to objects that seemingly veils and hides awareness like a mask covers and hides a face. Don’t believe the mind’s answers, don’t be consumed with the questions about objects either, but rather stick to questioning the mind’s answers and stories, questioning all it’s questions about objects, and even question to whom does this mind even come to? What is the essence of this mind? By turning the mind inward rather than being interested in the thoughts and appearances be even more interested from where this all comes and to whom it appears then it will reveal itself to itself and there won’t be anything else other than itself. The no thing is appearing to be the everything and being it’s only an appearance of being everything it remains fully the no thing even while appearing as everything.
🕉@Michael Jacobs :: is obviously a "birth name" that was "given" to be a separately agreed conjured name :: to; by; for; from; about; with; upon, and around another self-conjured, conjured self, that independently believes and knows what it independently thinks it believes and knows :: to; by; for; from; about; with, upon, and around a body-mind that either recognises it is not separate from "The Absolute" or that it is a separate entity, on its own, upon an "Infinite Universe" of an infinitudinally complexified array of innumerable manifestations. 🕉Nobody chooses either, as though "The Absolute" is exclusively so or is exclusively not so, since no-body possesses a free will and choice of one's own. Free will and choice is only seemingly used, once it is THOUGHT to be how and why there is an apparent appearance of an independently separate, human body-mind complex / action figure that matters :: to; by; for; from; about; with; upon, and around a self-conjured, conjured self, that thinks it matters, more or less than somebody else. There is only the apparent appearance of independent, separate people, that temporally, temporarily, apparently appear in one of innumerable human corporeal forms, "in" the world, and not "of" the world. There is both that which is real, mixed with that which is unreal, that comprises "The Absolute" as always ALL ways, inseparably so and not so, ad infinitum. >
MJ: " "They all go back to You. Which does not exist." (my, TT words) Who believes that you don't exist and who denies that you exist? I get the impression that you didn't even watch the first two minutes of the above interview! " TT: I cannot tell you. That is the point.
ha, no... now you wanna teach your crap...??? Wanna be a Tolle!? Took me 2min09 into it, to reach again a point where it becomes non-sense... It´s always the same: If the things you think are just imaginations, how to correct your thinking with another thought by your own...(which is again thinking...!?!). How is that not imaginary again? There is a loop in that concept...
The point is not that your ideas are 'just imaginations', but rather, that they are YOUR imaginations. When you acknowledge that fundamental truth (again and again when needed), you confirm that indeed you are the powerful creator of your imaginary world - instead of being its helpless victim. :)
aaaand again... YOUR imagination is also JUST imagination. Where is the difference? If you would follow your own conclusion, you would see that the idea of "YOUR imagination" inevitable is also "JUST imagination" - must be... How is this thought different from others. You have to acknowledge that the point you make is your "powerful creation", YOUR imagination! How do you exclude your self...? All thoughts are imagination - is an oxymoron. Then how to acknowledge truth?
'How to acknowledge truth?' The truth is this: YOU are the one source of your thoughts. They are imaginary, but YOU are not. By confirming this out loud, e.g. 'All thoughts are mine' or 'Who has these thoughts', you establish yourself as the creator of your imaginary world, and as its authority. Doing so restores your sense of honor and brings a sense of peace. Over time, it also increases your self-appreciation.
I´ve tried multiple times, but you dont get my point... Read your self again! All you say is based on your thoughts. Confirm this out loud: 'All thoughts are mine'. You (might) establish yourself as the creator of your imaginary world. Your philosophy too is based on YOUR thoughts, hence imaginary. You keep disproving your self... And again, you didn´t give an answer. How, according to your conclusions, do you acknowledge truth when all your thoughts (also the thoughts about truth) are YOUR imagination ... (It seems you and your thoughts are free of that conclusion)
The truth is who we are. We cannot find the truth outside of us, not even in our thoughts, as you correctly wrote. By confirming this in one form or another (I simply say 'All thoughts are mine'), we can return home and establish our authority whenever we want or need to. We are truth-speakers: we always express our ideas or act upon them. That is how we create our imaginary world. Our reality and the ideas upon which it is based are illusory, but we ourselves, as creators of our world, are real. Without us or outside of us, there is no truth. We're it. :)
