What if you are a nano-scale spec of techno-robot dust, living eternally in a simulated experience while hurling from galaxy to galaxy on a giant comet and feeding off radiation? 🤨
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That was no microdose…
Ok I guess you would not escape even solar system gravity so perhaps just circling the same shitty star over and over!
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Indeed!
Before our sun formed, another different star existed here. It burned for billions of years fusing hydrogen into heavier elements before it exploded 💥 in a supernova ejecting its contents into a giant cloud of gas.
Over billions of years that cloud began to collapse due to gravity, and as it did it swirled because of the rotation of the Milky Way. As the cloud swirled and collapsed it began to form clumps of material where the gravity and centrifugal forces balanced. Eventually the hydrogen made its way to the centre of the cloud and formed a new star and the clumps of heavier elements formed into planets.
4.5 billion years later you now exist on one of those planets, you are literally the remnants of a past star.
There is a theory that we all live in a simulation universe run by AI.
Or we all live in our own simulations, independent of one another. Or we are the AI.
If there is no way to change my set destiny, then just be happy and live each day to the fullest. Maybe we are like it, we just haven't found it yet.
That would be cool, but having witnessed the nature of mind to the point where ideas of subject/ object dissolve, I am not a thing. When the ideas of time, space, and phenomena dissolve into Thusness which is indescribable with words or ideas lol.
Some just call it boundless luminous awareness. But even that just creates another concept about a non- conceptual reality or the actuality that is before thought and sense perception make interpretations about it.
I am a thing - specifically an animal body. There is no mind, only body which performs the mind.
Mind is like bitcoin since it is not a thing it can appear as all things. This is where we come to the teaching of the 2 truths (relative or provisional and absolute). Where is the inherent thingness of the body? Can you find anything that has self existence, or is it compounded of many things which themselves cannot be found to have inherent self existing qualities?
For example a tree is made of many causes and conditions particles, atoms, molecules, come together and form complex systems from dna and all the other products of particle, atom, and molecule. Then a seed must form, conditions for the seed to grow must exist. Water, sun, ground, ect.
Basically what I'm saying is that one cannot find inherent thingness to anything even particles, quarks, strings, ect. Even our observation of these is limited through the five senses and mind which we interpret them through.
Yet we can recognize that all life systems are interdependently originated through this process of logic.
Simply because something can be divided or analyzed in its parts doesn't make it "not a thing"
This cosmos is one thing
This planet is one thing
This body is one thing
This fingernail is one thing
Yet ultimately boarderless, things being aspects of the whole. The organism needs this information to survive in relativistic existence. So the mind attempts to divide an ultimately indivisible reality into parts, which is useful to that end.
What mind?
Since it's not a thing I can't point it out. Lol for what is changeless in the midst of change.
I have a koan I can share on this. It's one of my favorites. I can also share a short video on direct recognition of rigpa. But it's work one has to do for oneself.
Basically Mind is just a convention for talking about what is here before thought and sense perception. Hope this is helpful!
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If so my goal is to "win" at the simulation, since I have no knowledge of or ability to act in "unstimulated" reality. Therefore the possibility of simulation has no ramifications whatsoever.
Reality is an illusion.
Are zaps still a thing in the simulation? 😂
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