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14267048 No.14267048 [Reply] [Original]

where were you when you realized that consciousness is an illusion?

>> No.14267069

consciousness and existence is the ultimate mystery. I'm getting a mini existential crisis thinking about it.

>> No.14267080

>>14267048
What is the actual, practical difference between consciousness and the illusion of consciousness?

>> No.14267114
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>>14267069

Because there is not one single phenomenon
That is not a dependent-arising,
There is not one single phenomenon
That is not empty

existence is empty. consciousness is empty

embrace Śūnyatā my friend and you will see that your crisis too is empty

>>14267080

consciousness, if it were real, would have phenomenal properties -- taste, tingles, sights of color and the like. the illusory consciousness we actually have has quasi-phenomenal properties -- functional properties which trick us into saying that we have tastes and see colors

>> No.14267386

>>14267114
Anon asked for a practical difference

Also I can tell you've never astrally projected

>> No.14267403

>>14267080
Your conscious identity is the illusion, that's the practical difference between the two.

>> No.14267475

>>14267386
astral projection is a fiction you tell yourself on the moment you come down -- like your dreams at night (they are really just stories you come up with in the morning)

also every night you die and are replaced with a new stream of consciousness

>> No.14268002

>>14267475
Truly spoken like someone who hasn't astrally projected