Woah. What a welcome to the Spirituality boards! Damn!

Quote Originally Posted by Stoner Shadow Wolf
the truth is hard to swallow... that reality is nothing. it is impossible to believe that we are nothingness, observing thoughts.

it cannot be accepted that everything we think, see, and feel are nothing more than thoughts.


no one wants to believe that if you put enough effort into a single thought that it can become real.


this is how reality started in the first place. the thoughts behind our very universe were given enough effort to become real.

I totally agree. I'm in a physics class and the first day of the class he told us that none of us are real. We are all just thoughts. Everything we know, everything we touch, everything we see, everything we hear, everything we smell, and everything we taste are all thoughts. We only exist in each others' imaginations. Quite a lot to load an a 10th grader, eh? Well. According to The Buddha, I shouldn't believe anything unless it agrees with my mind. My mind agrees with that idea. What if I were to completely block out chocolate from my mind? What if I somehow tricked myself to see any amount of chocolate as a mint or something? In my mind, that chocolate would look, smell, and taste like a mint. And I'd have no idea that I'm wrong. Pretty deep stuff on these boards...