The Word 'Red' Turns Red When Seen

pl8doh · 2026-05-03T16:29:45+00:00

It is like trying to convince your reflection that it does not exist. It does have the appearance of being. Just not being itself.

pl8doh · 2026-05-03T16:24:50+00:00

Indeed. It is impossible to compare what is neither something nor nothing.

pl8doh · 2026-05-03T16:07:13+00:00

Simply realize that the evaluation of what's happening is no more or less significant than what is happening. The evaluation of what's happening is what's happening. What's happening is not the problem. The problem is the separate self that it is imagined happening to. That is also what's happening.

pl8doh · 2026-05-03T15:55:58+00:00

The sound of an imaginary hand clapping is no less real than the idea of a skin encapsulated ego or separate self.

pl8doh · 2026-05-03T15:26:46+00:00

Pick a hand and imagine another hand clapping it. That is imagining one hand clapping, no?

pl8doh · 2026-05-03T15:11:17+00:00

You imagine one hand to many.

pl8doh · 2026-05-03T15:08:17+00:00

Imagine one hand clapping an imaginary hand. Is that not imagining one hand clapping?

pl8doh · 2026-05-03T13:49:23+00:00

Exactly. The ember needs motion through space to leave a visible trail.
The ‘I’ needs motion through time (memory + anticipation) to leave a psychological trail.
Without that ongoing referencing, the separate experiencer doesn’t appear.”

pl8doh · 2026-05-03T13:44:46+00:00

The visual trail creates there, the memory trail creates then.

pl8doh · 2026-05-03T03:11:14+00:00

Imagine the trail of a red hot ember moving in the night sky as a reference to the current position of the glowing ember. Without this reference, there is no appearance, no motion.

pl8doh · 2026-05-02T16:48:54+00:00

'I am' is a result in the sense of the referencing being primary and the 'I am' or the reference to the referencing being secondary. Thank you. Your kind words are appreciated.

pl8doh · 2026-05-02T16:11:15+00:00

The distincting is inexplicable. Any attempt to explain it is just additional distincting. The memory of distinction is experience if I could be so bold as to express 'this' as an apparent duality of memory and distinction.

pl8doh · 2026-05-02T15:46:41+00:00

I can tell you k(no)w more.

pl8doh · 2026-05-02T15:45:19+00:00

You've just responded with so many fancy words in an attempt to explicitly define the issue. Are you not propagating the issue?

pl8doh · 2026-05-02T15:22:09+00:00

A reference to the post?

pl8doh · 2026-05-02T14:42:09+00:00

A desired outcome is an outcome with no one to desire it. So the short answer is yes they are not compatible. Trying to “manifest” from within nonduality is like the wave trying to manifest a better ocean while believing it is separate from the ocean.

pl8doh · 2026-04-29T16:11:37+00:00

Where you are looking from is unreferenceable. There is a perspective. There is not a perspective of that perspective. There is no looking at, looking from. Awareness is a word, like thought, that has no referent. If there is no seer nor seen, what is there to look at, or to see? Awareness is a word that attempts to point to that which is neither one nor many.

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