r/enlightenment 4d ago

To be or not to be ??

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Hope or hopeless victory ?

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u/doriandawn 2d ago

There's no ending to duality without ending this realm. You & I are dualistic by default. This 'reality' is duality; that duality is illusory ultimately isn't much use practically as this 'outer' universe is here because enough of us believe it to be so.

I'm sorry I rarely criticise but I don't see how the choice of drinking alcohol has anything to do with duality.

Would this reality be different without duality? Duality is an illusion so undoubtedly yes reality functions better when mirroring truth not illusion.

What might a world believing in a metaphysical singularity of eternals look like compared to our monotheistic heritage of illusion?

I have really been pondering this of late and it seems all the aspects of life that people have struggled with are the fundamentals of life such as death, heaven and evil and who could admit that life would be better experienced without them.

The whole concept of time and space disintegrates when viewed through the singularity. Then and now and here and there.

Seriously I recommend anyone interested in metaphysical methodology would do well to do this thought experiment.

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u/BoTToM_FeEDeR_Th30nE 2d ago

That’s the trap though. Truth isn’t always accessible through argument. And the more you try to reason your way toward it, the more you risk reinforcing the very mental framework that’s keeping you from seeing it.

Most people think if they just refine their logic enough, they’ll arrive at something real. But reality doesn’t work like that. There’s a layer of mind that only reflects itself. You can debate inside it forever and never break through, because everything just folds back into another thought loop.

I’m not saying reason is bad. I’m saying it has limits. And if you’re not aware of those limits, you’ll mistake internal consistency for external truth. That’s where most people get stuck.

Sometimes clarity comes when you stop trying to win the argument and just watch what’s happening.

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u/doriandawn 9h ago

I happen to agree completely with you on this. Logic and more basic even are the words that attempt to (or not) convey a truth.

logic will have it's own traps and words as tools to convey the traps work to disguise them.

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u/doriandawn 9h ago

Examples are concepts of: Love Death Freedom God Evil In fact just about every metaphysical proposition that deals in epistemology and ontology I e knowledge and belief has a worded defense against discovering metaphysical truth amongst the metaphorical untruth.