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Anand Raghavan's avatar

It is impossible to accurately define, firmly grasp - except by relentless negation of all that it is not - but it is not an illusion - it is ever present, awake, always the most immediate, alive yet inert part of this very moment

sharing a short poem i wrote about it a few years ago

https://anandaonly.in/2020/07/07/reflection-on-a-window/

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Starry Gordon's avatar

Well, also, logically, if there is some kind of mental activity going on which one is experiencing then it seems absurd to deny that it is happening to something* somewhere* regardless of whether its content is illusory. (* Allowances to be made for limitations of the ability of language to represent things, states, etc.)

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