Fetfree: You actually can experience non-existence. And you did. If you ever blacked out for hours but it was a blink for you, closing eyelids opening eyelids. Or if you went under anesthesia. During that time you ceased to exist as consciousness/mind. You went back to Nonexistence.
Blackouts are a reminder of Nonexistence, cradle of existence. Absolutely no perception of any kind and no observer to perceive any thing neither any time nor any space.
James: What you is that? The non-existent you or the Fetfree you that wrote the post above? The only you…non-dual existence shining as unborn whole and complete consciousness…is present during deep sleep, even though the illusory fetfree you is only a thought, which is not non-existent but is as good as non-existent because it is in an unmanifest state. This is why you know that “you” experience nothing when “you” are asleep, in a coma or under anesthesia.
Experiencing nothing is not an experience of non-existence. It is the experience of the absence of things. There is no non-existence because you can’t say there is non-existence if you don’t exist. You always exist. You are immortal, beyond birth and death. The body-mind-sense complex is born and dies. It exists when it lives but is non-existent, meaning unmanifest (except as rapidly dispersing chemicals) when it stops breathing, thinking, willing etc. Blackouts don’t know they are blackouts. They are insentient events that remind the unborn immortal existent you, of the absence of the conceptual you. A man called his wife at home and said, “Is anybody home” and the wife neglected herself and said, “nobody is home.”
How can anything hold (cradle) non-dual existence? Existence would have to be a duality if that were true. But one thing cannot contain another, particularly a non-existent thing…except conceptually. And because concepts are in the same order of reality that kind of duality is not possible. You may not mean what you say, but the way you use words don’t make sense, as I have tried to point out. Just saying.
