“There doesn’t need to exist a territory for there to be a map, even though a map may arise from a territory.” Having a thought or concept about an apple does not necessarily guarantee its existence, even though an existence of an apple allows for a concept or representation of it. Just something I thought Id share something that occurred to me recently. Thank you.

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Today i was contemplating distance, and had the insight that distance is actually a concept. The idea of "me being in here behind the eyes" is conceptual, thus the idea of "me here, wall there" must be conceptual, and therefor the idea of "distance between me and wall" must also be conceptual. As I was contemplating this along with other aspects of mind like "inside the skull, emotions, sense of self, beliefs and thoughts" I began to wonder...Where does any of this actually exist? It can't be coming from inside my head or brain because even that notion is a concept that I am doing, so it must just be imagined out of pure nothingness "thin air" if you'd like. Anyone come across this? Cheers

I recently completed a 10 day silent meditation retreat, and on this retreat I had the realization that what we call the "mundane" is actual a beautiful place to be, possibly the best place to be. When most people sit alone with nothing to do they go to boredom, loneliness, self conflict and fantasy. Yet when we move through those things or stop doing them, we become present. We rest in Being. There is nothing to do but listen to the sounds, breathe, rest in awareness. This to me is the pinnacle of existence, just Being, presence. Yet, most people see this as hell, so they go on chasing trivial things. Yet to me the real hell is being a slave to some idea that you need to be someone, or live a unique exciting life and be special. Recently i've been contemplating "specialness" and dropping this whole pain in the ass notion that I am somehow special or unique and it's been a great relief. Thanks for reading.