The Questions · the self · the connections
What we are bound to?
You are never not connected to reality. The interesting question is not whether the line is open but how many lines there are, and what each one is fastened to.
Four live lines, always on.
The body’s through the senses, the mind’s through attention, the self’s through its core, and one outward line fixing you to a point in reality.
Body, mind, core, and where-and-when.
What this settles
Which turns a vague sense of being present into four things that can each be checked separately. Every one of them is delivering at every instant, and what changes is not whether they are on but what is coming down them.
Not this question
What survives when you doubt everything?
Also in this footing, and a different question. That one asks what is left when you doubt. This one asks what you were fastened to the whole time.
Also asked as
- how does reality even reach you?
- What is the one surviving point?
- What are you bound to?
- So if you're always connected, connected through what?
Where this is worked out
The Four Lines
What If None of This Is Real?
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