What I mean is that you don't exist, but arational reality does and "you" is the entirety of reality. The body which you see is a part of arational reality. But you can only experience this yourself. Talking of it is the same thing, it is thinking (when what I am saying is that we should not think) because it's just creating maps upon maps. If you just look around, imagine this is arational reality. Then you name an object, that's a thought, which is a map. When thoughts are quiet and you are not labeling and you have given up the notion of "you" existing, you have merged.
Of course it requires you to do the work, and it's probably going to take a long time to give up the map of "you", I haven't done it myself.
You seem to be strongly attached to whether or not something exist and the binary classification of something either existing or not.
Of course it requires you to do the work, and it's probably going to take a long time to give up the map of "you",
That suggests that I have a single map of "I". That doesn't happen to be the case. There might have been a time where my level of introspection was structured in a way where it's true but that's not the case today.
You argument resolves around you yourself having a wrong map that you haven...
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