Can you answer this

[Ierrellus]

@Ierrellus

If you look at me, with your eyes only, you will only see yourself.

Addendum–Wm. Blake noted that, if we are to see reality, we look through the eyes, not with them.

[Arcturus_Descending]

@Orb

And most everyone knows by now, You can’t play with fire.

But you can fight fire with fire, sweet Rumi

[Artimas]

Water would be more effective.

[Percarus]

I am a magnificent being just en par with the magnificence that is everybody else and the rest of creation. I am completely wellard but o’ so constrained in freedom of expression for reasons that I am not even sure of. I am but a man, a man with virtues, a man with values, a man with passion, a man with purpose battling through this great show of life just like you, him, her, it, them, and everybody else. We are all in this together…

[zinnat]

@A Shieldmaiden

Who are you?

Names, nationalities, and virtually any other socially-defined attributes do not count.

Deep down, who are you?

I think that the most common answer, with which i also tend to agree, is that i am a human, unless you do not ask me which type of human i am.

What i am or any individual think about himself is not important. The more important issue is what the benchmark definition of a human one use to has.

And, that may be different to different people, depending on their level of knowledge and wisdom.

with love,
sanjay

with love,
sanjay

[Lev_Muishkin]

@Arcturus Descending

@Lev Muishkin

@Arcturus Descending

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“Imagine a multidimensional spider’s web in the early morning covered with dew drops. And every dew drop contains the reflection of all the other dew drops. And, in each reflected dew drop, the reflections of all the other dew drops in that reflection. And so ad infinitum. That is the Buddhist conception of the universe in an image.” –Alan Watts

Spider webs are awesome.
I’ve always loved this Thought. I am a dew drop - we are All dew drops. We do reflect one another in one way or the other.

Having this thought is like being drunk. What’s wrong with that? Ask a glass or water!

I like your above statement - kind of buddha-like also and mysterious. Can you explain what you mean by it?

We live in a world were some dewdrops want to fuck you, kill you, cheat you or love you. If we were really all the same you’d never know which one was which.

Now, looking at it that way, that statement kind of puts a different slant on the “dewdrop” metaphor.
The word “reflection[s]” was used, Lev. One way that I might look at it is that maybe we can imagine those reflections changing, transforming moment by moment. We can say that we are multi-faceted dewdrops, reflecting our current aspect depending on our behavior and and yes even thoughts.

Those same dewdrops which you spoke of above are multi-faceted reflections. Yes, they do want to F _ _ _ you, kill you in some way, cheat and also love you - save you, and also demand that you grow. We come to know the different facets of ourselves by peering into the other dewdrops and seeing just what we see - if we’re lucky, we see what is actually there. We are all the same and we are all different.

Humans get drunk - its nice.
A glass of water gets drunk - and it’s no more “glass of water”

Sure we are all the same, and yes we are all different. But such platitudes are meaningless in the face of specifics.

[Lev_Muishkin]

@Ierrellus

@Ierrellus

If you look at me, with your eyes only, you will only see yourself.

Addendum–Wm. Blake noted that, if we are to see reality, we look through the eyes, not with them.

Sounds profound but means nothing.

[Orbie]

I am who you see, you think you see.

Or, who you think you see you think.
Or who you think you see, you see.
Or who you see, you think you see.
Or who you see you think , you see.

So, who am I? Who are You?

[Lev_Muishkin]

@Orb

I am who you see, you think you see.

Or, who you think you see you think.
Or who you think you see, you see.
Or who you see, you think you see.
Or who you see you think , you see.

So, who am I? Who are You?

Relax, and get on with it.

[A_Shieldmaiden]

Lev wrote:

Relax, and get on with it.

LOL

[phoneutria]

I’m a belly dancer, I shake forevers and I never care.
I’m a building jumper, roof to roof you see me flying in the air