YESTERDAY TALK IN THE POOL
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Unknown: Hi, what's your name?
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ZeRo: Zero
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Unknown: No, seriously ...
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ZeRo: Yes, seriously, I call myself Zero
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Unknown: But that's not a real name
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ZeRo: No name is true. What you think your name is, is not your real name
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Unknown: Oh well, where are you from?
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ZeRo: Mantua
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Unknown: I meant where you were born.
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ZeRo: I don't know.
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Unknown: How do you not know? Maybe you don't want to tell me, anyway I think you're South American.
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ZeRo: I would like to tell you but I don't really know and even if I want to identify the presumed geographical position I would answer that I don't know where I was born.
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Unknown: I know instead, I was born in the province of Verona.
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ZeRo: Are you sure?
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Unknown: Certainly. My parents told me.
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ZeRo: If you are sure not because you have ascertained it with your awareness but only because others have told you, then it does not seem to me a very safe and reliable data.
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Unknown: Well, I may not know the exact location but at least I can trust that information
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ZeRo: If I told you I was born in Utopia would you believe it?
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Unknown: Utopia…? Did you mean Ethiopia?
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ZeRo: No, I really meant Utopia.
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Unknown: Does it really exist?
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ZeRo: Of course yes. It is probably the only place that exists.
Utopia means "no place", so being born in Utopia means being born nowhere.
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Unknown: Nowhere?
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ZeRo: Nowhere in particular. And not being born in a single particular place means being born in the Absolute space which is precisely not a relative or particular place.
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Unknown: f*K if you're complicated… I don't follow you !?
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ZeRo: Ok, so let's say that I was not born in a physical place, in any place visible to the eye, in any place identifiable or representable by the human mind.
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Unknown: How the name? No name is true.
ZeRo: Exactly, like any name.
Any word would be inappropriate, vague, fallacious. It would be an invention.
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Unknown: Do you also mean that my knowledge of my name or my place of birth is an invention?
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ZeRo: Obviously. Everything they taught you is an invention of the human mind, therefore nothing significant, nothing important, nothing essential and above all nothing true.
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Unknown: All false?
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ZeRo: Yes, what you know is basically all false.
So everything is forgettable and nothing memorable.
Knowing it or not would be the same thing.
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Unknown: Would knowing be like not knowing?
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ZeRo: Sure.
Knowing something useless, invented, false ... it would be like knowing nothing.
The knowledge of the common man is an invented, fictitious, almost useless and therefore negligible or forgettable knowledge. Indeed, forgetting that knowledge, that is, forgetting those inventions, would paradoxically be authentic knowledge. That forgetting of superficial knowledge would be a profound understanding.
I speak to you starting from that deep understanding, you instead listen to me starting from superficial knowledge, it follows that communication between us is impossible ...
If you talked to a person who dreams, would he/she understand you?
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Unknown: No. But this is not our circumstance.
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ZeRo: This is precisely our circumstance.
It is as if I were talking to you awake, beside the bed, looking at you with detachment while you dream of talking to me.
When I communicate with others I feel exactly like that, as if I were watching children dreaming in their bed. Sometimes they make me tenderness, other times pity, but for the most part I remain indifferent to their dreams. Sometimes I whisper something to them for the sake of seeing their reaction, to see if they continue to dream, if they continue to believe in their nightmares or if they open at least a little eye.
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Unknown: Shit, you are such a complicated type ... Better let it go. And I just wanted to have an honest chat. However, I understand that you don't want to open up to a stranger. You are right not to trust.
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ZeRo: Ah Ah… I assure you that I talk like this with everyone, not only with strangers but also with my family; therefore, it is not a question of distrust or unfamiliarity. And honestly, of the two I think the most sincere was myself. However, I guarantee you that I am open. I was sincere when I told you that I don't know where I was born or when I explained to you that I was not born in any particular place, in any physical location. It's just that we speak on two seemingly different levels, so you don't understand me. I could answer that I was born exactly where you were born, that is, I was born in the Only Reality there is. Or I could tell you that birth is only an appearance within the collective dream and I assure you that in all cases I would not try to evade your question but would only try to be as frank and sincere as possible.
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Unknown: And why would you be more sincere than me?
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ZeRo: Simply because I would respect pure awareness. I am not answering like a parrot, but I am presenting you with incontrovertible data that you can ascertain with your awareness. I do not tell you what others have told me but I offer you what I have achieved directly. In this sense I have been as sincere as possible not so much with you but with my pure being.
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Unknown: But your answers don't make sense.
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ZeRo: They make no sense to your intellect, to the ordinary mind, the mind conditioned by false knowledge (the sum of the invented names I was telling you about earlier). But from the standpoint of pure awareness it is all very clear. If you listen to me with the belief in the notions invented by the mind then it is obvious that you will not be able to understand me. If, on the other hand, you try to explore what you really are, stripped of the inventions of the ordinary mind, then you may find that basically my answers are not that complicated, senseless or evasive.
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Unknown: I give up, I'm going to take a dip. You gave me a headache ...
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ZeRo: Maybe it hurts you because I let you use it for good ...
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