Life goes on. Nothing changes. There's just a shift in consciousness, that nothing is "mine". It's a kind of liberation.
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Yes, and if "you" are lucky, "you" will retain enough of "your" faculties to watch "your self" more or less evaporate into the mist of it all. Unless it happens during sleep, of course.
Duality's as convincing an illusion as it gets, Right?
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There really is no "you". It is a reflection of the thought process. This is where the confusion lies.
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Hence the quotation marks. What makes it tricky? The others don't get it & "they" will put "you" in "prison" if "you" don't pay "your" "TAXES" ..So, eventually, all our airy transcendent philosophizing gets sorely tested. Yeah, I know it's true, but so's brain Cancer.
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Taxes get paid. Work gets done. Everything continues as it is. There's simply no one doing it. It does itself.
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I get U; 55 yrs ago, I read everything I could find about consciousness, duality, Maya, the illusory nature of identifying as a separate being, but what you're saying can seem like intellectualizing if you're being stabbed in the face & someone says, "Relax, there's no YOU." C?
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You come up with the goofiest hypotheticals. "Stabbed in the face"... lol.
All I know is if attention is observed, when it is not on a thought, the sense of "you" is absent.
But if you're worried about getting stabbed in the face, it's not gonna work 😆
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You seem 2 B in great shape in terms of dealing with it all with serene indifference. It sometimes appears that you're one who finds it all sad & cruelly pointless & would prefer to not be here, but now "you" have taught me that "you" don't even exist, hence..No problem, Eh? :-)
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I hear that! Whatever works...while it works! :-)
At my age? I'm watching "my self" fade in tiny phases with the seasons. One day, as I said, if enough of "me" is left to consciously watch - the "I" part will leave the room & close the door behind it. But it's all talk.. :-)
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Yeah, it's kind of like the ego "I" dying before the body dies. It's a relief.
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OK, except, again: something we can call "I" or "Nobody" has to run a few errands, pay 3 bills, take some prescriptions, etc...OR...some things "I" don't want to...will happen to "me" - which may not exist..in some deep intellectual sense..but will FEEL it..HARD. C what I mean?
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You keep saying you understand what I'm saying, but you obviously do not. The "I" or "you" is not a "something". It's a grammatical fiction. It's a reflection of the thought mechanism.
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