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I can exist as a separate thought entity, and I don't think there's anything wrong with that. I was told that suffering is illusory because of separation like when thought separates itself and contracts around a sensation, but I don't know... I think my circumstances were so difficult that I was dealing with pain through non-dual teachings. I think one can understand the immense human need to project the ultimate parent they call "God," because that's how human psychology works and life can sometimes be very defficult indeed. Projecting everything that it is incapable of holding onto itself outwards. It's curious, because perhaps both symbols like Jesus and Satan are just symbols of the same mind, reflecting its own tendencies and the infinite conditioning that influences behavior.
I think it's that there are so many descriptive models for reality, but you can't really capture everything completely. The default mode of perception we all come with is to feel that centrality in the body and to think we are absolutely responsible for it. But then the causal and interdependent model comes into play when you start meditating and reading non-dual teachings, in which one can consider that all phenomena are generated in a infinite causal way, being themselves convergence of other phenomena along causality. But the more you study it, the more you realize that you can't even understand what's happening.
One of the long-standing realizations was that most interactions occur unconsciously, and that they are two bodies interacting for no reason. This should suggest that the body must possess a certain level of intelligence to function on its own, but studying the experience more deeply reveals that it's not really possible to draw a line indicating when a behavior is unconscious or conscious, and one becomes even more confused. But I always find it interesting that the body possesses enough intelligence to be able to interact and solve problems unconsciously. I don't know, but I don't think the separation can be so easily dismissed. There is a living entity, and that living entity is pure thought and it suffers and suffering must be payed attention to.
It is also interesting to see how each culture has dealt with suffering.
I think it's that there are so many descriptive models for reality, but you can't really capture everything completely. The default mode of perception we all come with is to feel that centrality in the body and to think we are absolutely responsible for it. But then the causal and interdependent model comes into play when you start meditating and reading non-dual teachings, in which one can consider that all phenomena are generated in a infinite causal way, being themselves convergence of other phenomena along causality. But the more you study it, the more you realize that you can't even understand what's happening.
One of the long-standing realizations was that most interactions occur unconsciously, and that they are two bodies interacting for no reason. This should suggest that the body must possess a certain level of intelligence to function on its own, but studying the experience more deeply reveals that it's not really possible to draw a line indicating when a behavior is unconscious or conscious, and one becomes even more confused. But I always find it interesting that the body possesses enough intelligence to be able to interact and solve problems unconsciously. I don't know, but I don't think the separation can be so easily dismissed. There is a living entity, and that living entity is pure thought and it suffers and suffering must be payed attention to.
It is also interesting to see how each culture has dealt with suffering.
