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Originally Posted by SecretSeven  In your words: "I'd like to say, nothing happens outside of your reality/experience/awareness, it is not a matter of whether it matters, because 'it' doesn't exist. Something that doesn't exist cannot 'matter' or 'not matter'. However, if you think of someone, you are aware of them, they do matter."
See that's where it all gets confusing for me. How could someone just pop out of existence when I'm not thinking of them? I've been taught that everyone exists whether I'm thinking of them or not. So, when I leave my friend's house, they continue to go on with their daily lives...or atleast that's how I've always thought of it. |
If you think that someone exists when you're not thinking of them, you cannot at the same time think they don't exist when you're not thinking of them. Try letting go. Try thinking in the way of sub-r. Try moving into that perspective. "If I believed this, how would I think?"
How can somone pop out of existence? There is no how, there is no method to it. How can you dream? How can you dream up houses, and people? How can you dream of a forest?
Disbeliever:"What, you're saying that when you sleep, a whole.. a whole world just pops into existence in your consciousness? That you can 'make' a whole forest, with all those trees, in your mind, at once, just like that? Ridiculous!" How can you wake from a dream, and have that dream be gone? "That dragon I dreamed of last night, it still exists! It's lying in it's cave, guarding it's treasure as we speak! And when I go to bed tonight and dream, I might meet it again." no. When you go to sleep, you might dream of the same things again.