This is my goal in life tbh <| sep |> So I ' ve heard ! Excited to get them set up and hooked up to my new to me Advent 3002 s that are enroute <| sep |> Litten pls ! There have been popplios and rowlets giveaways . But I haven ' t seen one exclusive for Litten <| sep |> They really , really do . <| sep |> My understanding is that lightwaves hit your eyes , soundwaves hit your eardrums . What do you mean by ' contact '? It ' s hard to explain . Lightwaves is the mental picture we have for what ' s happening , what we actually see is just what we see , with or without that explanation . So in a sense what we see is always just what we see , and the way we describe it makes no difference to it . Why is this so ? Sound waves and light waves can be measured with machinery , and will produce consistent results . Doesn ' t this provide a fair amount of evidence that sound waves and light waves are there and that it ' s not just our experience or thoughts of them ? Well , the machines are just a combination of experience and thoughts , aren ' t they ? Everything is . Not that the explanations aren ' t valid , I think they ' re definitely great explanations , but they ' re only ever experienced in terms of awareness and thoughts and such . That ' s the solipsistic aspect , not that nothing but you exists , but that everything only exists as you . I can agree that everything is subjective to an extent , but I don ' t see how this should cause the belief that nothing is real other than yourself . The thing that ' s happening here is that you see yourself only as a particular part or entity within your experience and you say that that isn ' t everything . Of course you ' re right , but I ' m saying you ' re all of your experience at once and no particular part of it can be called you or not you . See what I mean ? Of course , again , it totally makes sense to talk about bodies and minds and people and whatever the culture uses as ways to express our experience , but they ' re not fundamentally what ' s going on , they ' re ways of description . Would your ability to experience anything cease completely ? So that ' s a tough question . Your ability to experience anything in particular would cease , experience subsist . Existence subsists and you ' re not other than existence . Like I ' m saying , it ' s a solopsism that doesn ' t exists in anything . Anything that can be differentiated as personal to me , has no real existence outside of the reality that is absolute . you can always test this empirically , more or less , by trying every way you can to get away from experience . You cannot . the ultimate experience is of course , dying , to test this , but that can be done , and it ' s part of what Zen is about . Stepping out of yourself to see what ' s there .