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Bodhisattva in Recovery
Hey, there's no better way to sell people on what is supposedly a Buddhist idea than by using the thoughts of a Hindu Swami.Oh no, not again! Are you trying to brainwash us?
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Hey, there's no better way to sell people on what is supposedly a Buddhist idea than by using the thoughts of a Hindu Swami.Oh no, not again! Are you trying to brainwash us?
Holy dogmatic pigeon-hole, Batman.Reflect on what you are saying....what is to let go of attachment? ..There is the non-dual reality in the one hand....and the 'I' that is attached on the other....two things! For there to be absolute non-duality, one of these two must disappear....which one? The 'I' that is attached of course! How does the 'I' that is clinging disappear? When the mind ceases thought...the 'I' does not arise in the mind and bingo....pure non-dual awareness is present...
Do you understand....it is the 'you' that is attached or not attached, is clinging or not clinging, that is the cause of duality....it is you who must cease to exist (not permanently of course} for non-duality to be realized....
Your emotional immaturity get's in the way of your sense of mental balance....the word religion comes from the Latin Re again and Ligio to tie, to connect, to unite...religious practice is one meant to realize union with the Oneness...Tao...Buddha Nature...Brahman...etc... and the context I always use it is in this way.. In case you have never noticed...I am not a follower of any human religious institution....In a religious context? Why would I give a crap about a dogmatic religious context, Ben? You asked me for my definition. I told you... and you seek to "correct" me, LOL. That is too rich... Obviously, you cannot fathom what I tried to express. Got the picture?
Whenever I consider the concept of Freud's Id... I wonder if it has anything to do with idiot?Whenever I walk to my zafu and sit down, I make a distinct realisation that my legs have suddenly dissapeard. There are no more legs. Then I get up and walk away.
There can't be a clinging without that which is doing the clinging and that which is clung to....that pal is duality....where have you been all your life?How is clinging conducent with duality?
It's like saying a lobotomy unites the brain.
No...dogma pal...there is no possibility in all eternity for human self conscious to realize non-duality.... If you think otherwise....please explain the process of how your dualistic mind can become one with the oneness.....or become non-dualistic?Holy dogmatic pigeon-hole, Batman.
There can't be a clinging without that which is doing the clinging and that which is clung to....that pal is duality....where have you been all your life?
Whenever I consider the concept of Freud's Id... I wonder if it has anything to do with idiot?
Do you understand now why clinging means duality.....just a yes, no, or no comment will suffice...Please no inane irrelevant comment....this forum is not meant for persistent consistent vacuous comments.....one every now and again is tolerable but not every time...thanks Nowhere Man..So much for dryer sheets.
Do you understand now why clinging means duality.....just a yes, no, or no comment will suffice...Please no inane irrelevant comment....this forum is not meant for persistent consistent vacuous comments.....one every now and again is tolerable but not every time...thanks Nowhere Man..
So what do you consider duality to mean wrt the human mind process?To answer your previous question at the top of your post will be henceforth be revised as,
Clinging does not mean duality. So no.
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Gassho.
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So what do you consider duality to mean wrt the human mind process?
The human mind is the human mind...it perceives via the senses and conceives through thought processes....and the mind's identification with these that gives rise to the sense of being I, ego, self... What aspect of the mind's process do you consider dualistic?The aggregates were explained by others to you by which the phenomina of mind arises.
I need to know first if you consider mind as being the ego, or considered as something other than ego as the question seems too general in scope yet to answer atm.
Oh, I see, it is perfectly reasonable for you to assert something, but I must show my proof. Brilliant thinking.
What you probably don't understand is that my current ideas of personality grew out of my period when I was enmeshed in Vaisnava thought.
Define "Reality". Or at least what you think it is. And is "Reality" more real than "reality"?
Oh no, not again! Are you trying to brainwash us?
Just nuts.
"Clinging" is longing or attachment, no? The first few verses of the Hsin Hsin Ming refer to letting go of the duality of longing and aversion, no? {attachment/aversion is duality. Letting go of attachment/aversion would then be non-dual in this respect.}
Hey, there's no better way to sell people on what is supposedly a Buddhist idea than by using the thoughts of a Hindu Swami.