Is consciousness the real illusion

[Ewwerrin]

Originally Posted by JustASimpleGuy

What happens to...
...with each birth and death.

This is because you are thinking in terms of time and change. I will explain what Time ACTUALLY is and what Change ACTUALLY is. From the nondual truth that has always been the absolute truth, and always will be, but more importantly, IT IS RIGHT HERE AND NOW ALWAYS.

Nothing ever gets added or substracted. The uniqueness of existence and consciousness is eternally unchanging. So you could say, you are always gaining a new expression/experience, but that newnesss is actually an eternally infinitely absolutely unchanging quality of existence itself; it's uniqueness. IT NEVER CHANGES! IT IS ETERNALLY UNCHANGING.

Are you beginning to understand what time and change actually is, now?

Originally Posted by Ewwerrin

Are you beginning to understand what time and change actually is, now?

If in fact I Am beyond time, space and causation then time and change are of no consequence. Shadows on the wall of Plato's Cave. Insubstantial. Ephemeral. Tools of mind's hypnotist.

[Ewwerrin]

Originally Posted by JustASimpleGuy

If in fact ...
... hypnotist.

And yet, when they are realised for what they truely are, the consequence of them, as with all things, are absolute. Without even needing to change anything about any of it.

Like being delusional, and simply letting it be exactly as it is. Because it will always transcend any and all definitions. Like everything that exists. Always here and now, the eternally unchanging uniqueness of existence. In and of any and all things. As all as one as all. Evermore being unique, without even needing to become, in order to remain unique as it always has been and always will be. And is, right here and now. Forever. Unique. Again and again. Without ever having become anything else. Ever. With zero change, absolute being unique, forever, eternal and infinite. untouchably absolute unique.

To realise every single new here and now moment, the exact same unchanging uniqueness of existence.

Without anything ever having changed at all.

Originally Posted by Ewwerrin

Without even needing to change anything about any of it.

"Isness is God."
Meister Eckhart

"To realise every single new here and now moment, the exact same unchanging uniqueness of existence."

Evanescence is not a swear word (not the band)

Originally Posted by JustASimpleGuy

time and change are of no consequence.

The ego decides what is of consequence and what is not, what it attaches status to or not.

Originally Posted by SpectralDreamer

The ego decides what is of consequence and what is not, what it attaches status to or not.

For the Absolute? For the Enlightened?

Originally Posted by JustASimpleGuy

For the Absolute? For the Enlightened?

Who/what is Absolute and who decides what is or is not Absolute? Who decides who is Enlightened or not, what enligenement is or not?

Who decides this is this and that is that?

Beyond ego there is no Absolute, no Enlightenment, no non-Duality.

Originally Posted by SpectralDreamer

Beyond ego there is no Absolute, no Enlightenment, no non-Duality.

Everything is relative?

[MikeS80]

Originally Posted by SpectralDreamer

Who/what is Absolute and who decides what is or is not Absolute? Who decides who is Enlightened or not, what enligenement is or not?

Who decides this is this and that is that?

Beyond ego there is no Absolute, no Enlightenment, no non-Duality.

All of It is the self processing information, relative to it's self. The mind processes information through thoughts.

The absolute is the reason why we exist, people call this absolute god, brahman, the tao, etc etc.

I will not say consciousness and enlightenment are the absolute and put them on a pedestal like many spiritual people do. The absolute is neither above or below us, in fact the absolute is us and we are the absolute.

Originally Posted by JustASimpleGuy

Everything is relative?

No relative either. I guess the only way to describe it in the least inadequate words is complete Isness.