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Does “certainty” prove anything is real?
Or is it just a sensation and thought. Certainty does not prove anything is real.
Pain appears. Aversion may appear as a sensation (tightening, pulling away) and thought “this shouldn’t be happening”. Is there someone doing the aversion? Or ...

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So what gets called “belief” is simply a thought appearing with a sense of certainty, not being immediately contradicted by another thought Sense of certainty that can attach to an opposing thought as a result of looking at the original thought or a related thought?
If the label ...

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My looking isn't going well today, so remind me how you explain what other people call believing one thought and disbelieving another. On a possibly related note, why do some thoughts feel good and others bad?

Glen

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Direct or Actual Experience is:

Seeing
Hearing
Feeling (not emotion - emotion is sensation plus thoughts/labels)
Tasting
Smelling
Thoughts Arising (but not their content, what the thought is ABOUT)
This quote from your April 4th post is what I have referenced in the last two posts of ...

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Does “known” require a knower? Or is “known” just another way of saying thought appears?? When the thought appears the thought is all there is.
Now, go back and forth between thoughts and the sound.
Does the sound appear in a different place to thoughts?
Can you find an actual line ...

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If DE is the five senses plus arising thought, how many seconds before arising thought becomes dominating thought and therefore no longer DE?
How is it known that thoughts appear in your head and become the ‘voice in your head’? I picked up that term years ago from Eckhart Tolle. I don ...

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Look. All the answers are here when looking happens. Logic, theories, remembering spiritual talks, are all assumptions and we are not interested in them. You wouldn’t be here if these worked, right? Right you are.
A thought appears. That is certain. What else is actually present?
Is ...

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When the thought “body” appears, does a self actually appear?
No, I was imprecise with my language.
A thought appears: “I am a body”. In that exact moment, does anything new actually come into existence? Does a self appear? Does a doer appear?
Or is there still only a sensation and ...

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Let’s make this impossible to guess… Right now, stop and look.
What is actually here before any answer forms? Sight and looking.
Look again, fresh!
Right now… Is there a self? No. There is a very strong tendency to bring back a self, but the arising thought gets labeled "thought ...

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Is there actually a “body doing things”… or is there: typing happening, sensations appearing, thoughts commenting?
Where is this “body” as an entity that does?
Can you find it outside of image, sensation, thought?
"Body" is a label/thought, but isn't "typing" equally guilty? The ...

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What were you expecting to carry over?
Be precise. Less thoughts? Better thoughts? A different feeling? A permanent state? I expect to have some of the insights gained through answering your questions become automatic and stick around for normal life. Beyond that I, of course, expect ...

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Do you know what the next thought will be?
Can you prevent it from appearing?
Can you make it appear faster?
When a thought shows up, did you do that? Or did it just… arrive?
I do not know what the next thought will be.
I cannot prevent it from appearing.
I cannot make it appear ...

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So the real question is: Is there any difference in the nature of thought itself, OR only in the story content and how strongly it’s believed? The content of thought changes, the nature of thought stays the same. Thanks for the lingo lesson.
When I said that your previous questions ...

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What is memory exactly?
What is the memory ‘made of’?
WHEN does the memory appear?
Memory is a mental sight and/or sound.
Memory is not made of anything that I can observe.
Memory appears whenever I notice it - the present moment.
What is the exact difference between a ‘general ...

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When the thought “me” is not present, is there even a place where a “me” could live?
Or does the whole thing only appear with the thought? In DE there is no place where "me" can live outside of thought.
Is the image of a body anything more than another appearance?
Does it contain a ...