I don't know if avatars are avatars or not. I don't much care. It's not that interesting to me, really. I am only interested in being free from suffering. I do know that when thoughts subside, there seems to be a freedom from suffering. I take this to be the beingness that they talk about. The thoughts are a superimposition on this freedom which we experience also in sleep. In sleep we aren't concerned with anything whatsoever. This is because thoughts are not present. I understand meditation to be this state as well.
I missed something, why was the avatar thing a big deal?
