Fwd: The World Is Real...But Not as You Think!
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Rani Madhavapeddi
Apr 3, 2026, 5:48:57 PM (10 days ago) Apr 3
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A short on existence and essence.....Paul I know you do not think of an existence after the body mind exists, but I know you can be open.
Love Peace and Joy.
https://youtube.com/shorts/ZcCgmMAMDIU?si=Xm0f5UtzpXnQbH5O
Rani Madhavapeddi Patel
Paul Rezendes
Apr 3, 2026, 6:35:55 PM (10 days ago) Apr 3
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Rani,
Thanks for sending that. Yeah, I've listened in to him quite a few times.
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Rani Madhavapeddi
Apr 3, 2026, 6:38:22 PM (10 days ago) Apr 3
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👍🙏🏻💐
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Dan Kilpatrick
Apr 3, 2026, 8:43:03 PM (10 days ago) Apr 3
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Rani, All,
Something came to mind tonight as I was watching something. It was that all our ways of seeing how living, and we, are, dissolve as they make themselves apparent. They are simply ways of seeing it all. What remains seems to have no defining, perhaps because there is nothing to remain. Maybe there is just dissolving.......
-Dan
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Apr 5, 2026, 10:25:12 AM (8 days ago) Apr 5
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Thank you Rani for sharing!
Rob MacDonald
Apr 5, 2026, 11:27:46 AM (8 days ago) Apr 5
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Hi Everyone,
Dan's comment brought something up for me. This way of seeing has the capacity for memory, so we do have the ability to recall various memories, but when we recall a memory, isn't it just an aspect of 'right now'? And isn't 'right now' just like the flow of a waterfall? For example, Mike Snider once talked about riding in his truck with one of his band mates, and asked him, "What time is it right now?" In the time it took for his friend to answer that information was incorrect. Like right now it is 11:24, 37 seconds, but even as I type this that moment is already in the past.
I can recall the dreams I had last night, but even as I was having them they were dissolving, just like even as I type this email, I, too, am dissolving. By the time you read this, the version of me that wrote this, and the moment I wrote it in ,have all dissolved.
Peace,
Rob
Dan's comment brought something up for me. This way of seeing has the capacity for memory, so we do have the ability to recall various memories, but when we recall a memory, isn't it just an aspect of 'right now'? And isn't 'right now' just like the flow of a waterfall? For example, Mike Snider once talked about riding in his truck with one of his band mates, and asked him, "What time is it right now?" In the time it took for his friend to answer that information was incorrect. Like right now it is 11:24, 37 seconds, but even as I type this that moment is already in the past.
I can recall the dreams I had last night, but even as I was having them they were dissolving, just like even as I type this email, I, too, am dissolving. By the time you read this, the version of me that wrote this, and the moment I wrote it in ,have all dissolved.
Peace,
Rob
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Rani Madhavapeddi
Apr 5, 2026, 11:37:53 AM (8 days ago) Apr 5
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Rob et al,
Memory is brought into the now.
Memory is in time and when we bring it to now is the memory still valid in the now as you mention everything has moved or changed since that memory? Is the memory that was created in the circumstances the same circumstance in the now? If not does this memory have relevance to the current situations? Directions from memory yes but what about judgements about people and anything else? The people who have moved on from the situation of the memory we have are they the same ? We are not the same as you say!
Just what I was thinking! My 2 cents
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Love peace and joy
Rani Madhavapeddi Patel
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Paul Rezendes
Apr 5, 2026, 12:25:38 PM (8 days ago) Apr 5
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Rob, Rani, everyone,
I couldn't agree more with your two emails. It seems to me that that points to no permanent itself.
Paul
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Rob MacDonald
Apr 5, 2026, 12:47:48 PM (8 days ago) Apr 5
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Hi Everyone,
Rani, in a bit of humor... I remember the person that posted 'Rob's reply' about an hour ago, but it isn't really 'me' 🙂. This version of Rob posting here is far more experienced than that previous version that appeared and dissolved.
It is fascinating, though, looking into the nature of experience. In the dream world last night this point of perception I sometimes refer to as 'me' experienced two of three different realms of experience. Nothing too fantastic like an acid trip or anything chemically induced, but rather settings that use the building blocks from past memories - one such taking place in what resembled my old college dorm room, but it was 100% 'new' from an experiential perspective. There was just the feeling of it resembling my old college dorm room, but the details and events were all new.
It is fascinating, because those dream realms were once discounted as being less real than whatever this here, but aren't they all just experiences of one quality or another.
Lately it has also been interesting to see that those dream experiences possess very little continuity of this 'me' idea that seems to exist as I type here. In these dreams there is interaction with others, and observations of what is happening, but the continuity of a self is just a construct.
Not a well formed idea yet, because I am still thinking about this, but what if instead of thinking about our lives as a linear progression of aging, could we look at life as a moment to moment appearance in a set of circumstances? Right now I show up in a middle aged body with a brain that seems to work pretty well, but the physical body is getting progressively more creaky. I could lament about no longer being the super fit distance runner that would do 50 mile endurance races, but that was just a previous appearance of 'this'...
I think it is just another way of saying what Dan was pointing at with his comment on 'dissolving', but it certainly takes out a lot of the suffering in life when all we do is focus on the appearance of now, instead of grasping at yesterday or tomorrow.
Again, just thinking out loud here!
Peace,
Rob
Rani, in a bit of humor... I remember the person that posted 'Rob's reply' about an hour ago, but it isn't really 'me' 🙂. This version of Rob posting here is far more experienced than that previous version that appeared and dissolved.
It is fascinating, though, looking into the nature of experience. In the dream world last night this point of perception I sometimes refer to as 'me' experienced two of three different realms of experience. Nothing too fantastic like an acid trip or anything chemically induced, but rather settings that use the building blocks from past memories - one such taking place in what resembled my old college dorm room, but it was 100% 'new' from an experiential perspective. There was just the feeling of it resembling my old college dorm room, but the details and events were all new.
It is fascinating, because those dream realms were once discounted as being less real than whatever this here, but aren't they all just experiences of one quality or another.
Lately it has also been interesting to see that those dream experiences possess very little continuity of this 'me' idea that seems to exist as I type here. In these dreams there is interaction with others, and observations of what is happening, but the continuity of a self is just a construct.
Not a well formed idea yet, because I am still thinking about this, but what if instead of thinking about our lives as a linear progression of aging, could we look at life as a moment to moment appearance in a set of circumstances? Right now I show up in a middle aged body with a brain that seems to work pretty well, but the physical body is getting progressively more creaky. I could lament about no longer being the super fit distance runner that would do 50 mile endurance races, but that was just a previous appearance of 'this'...
I think it is just another way of saying what Dan was pointing at with his comment on 'dissolving', but it certainly takes out a lot of the suffering in life when all we do is focus on the appearance of now, instead of grasping at yesterday or tomorrow.
Again, just thinking out loud here!
Peace,
Rob
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Dan Kilpatrick
Apr 5, 2026, 12:49:59 PM (8 days ago) Apr 5
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Rob M, Rani, Paul, and everyone,
What this seems to say is that there is really nothing to hold onto. Even our holding onto is never being held onto. The sense of permanence is flowing, dissolving..... As Rob M and Rani were saying here, the movement of time as permanence.....
I think if you look closely this might be apparent in real-time. It doesn't need to be looked for, it lies in the very noticing of the sense of permanence. It is its own impermanence...... -Dan
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Dan Kilpatrick
Apr 5, 2026, 12:55:10 PM (8 days ago) Apr 5
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Sorry, one other comment here. The sense of permanence doesn't need to go away or be otherwise. It is free to move just like the sunset, and the fog flowing past the window just now. It is not getting in the way of anything, it is the anything...... -Dan
Rani Madhavapeddi
Apr 5, 2026, 1:28:58 PM (8 days ago) Apr 5
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Rob,
Paul 🙏🏻
et al
Also about dreams …. We are not participating but we are watching the persona participate. We are aware of the personas activity and participation! That’s so fascinating!
Love Peace and Joy
Happy Easter 🐣
Rani Madhavapeddi Patel
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Jeffrey Angelson
Apr 5, 2026, 2:54:51 PM (8 days ago) Apr 5
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Nothing to hold onto
When something feels holdable—
a belief, a person, a version of yourself, even “peace”—
there’s tension.
You have to keep it…
protect it…
recreate it.
That’s where much of the struggle comes from.
When it’s seen there’s nothing to hold onto…
something relaxes.
Memory can be there… but doesn’t define now.
People can change… without needing to match your past.
Feelings can move… without needing to be fixed.
And in relationship, love shifts—
from needing things to stay the same
to meeting what’s here.
More space.
Less pressure.
And what you’re after isn’t something new to get—
it’s what remains when the holding relaxes.
Not a state to maintain…
not a peace to secure…
Just a quiet ease with whatever shows up.
Even tension… even the urge to hold…
included.
Nothing outside this.
Notice right now—
before reaching… before interpreting…
Life is already happening
without you needing to hold it together.
Nothing to hold onto…
nothing to defend…
nothing to force.
Just this.
Jeff Angelson
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Paul Rezendes
Apr 5, 2026, 3:20:24 PM (8 days ago) Apr 5
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Jeffrey Angelson
Apr 5, 2026, 3:30:34 PM (8 days ago) Apr 5
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Thanks, Paul… no maintenance 🙏
Jeff Angelson
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