YmirGF
Bodhisattva in Recovery
Ben is not one of my reincarnational aspects.Then are you not existing as Ben? Why not?
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Ben is not one of my reincarnational aspects.Then are you not existing as Ben? Why not?
I took your gold story as an analogy and saw it mirrored the same self identification with form as human culture.... which is an illusion of perception relative to non-duality..... Advaita as I understand it is that Brahman is omnipresent...all apparent attributes, aspects, etc., are then maya.. Non-duality is not about any conceptualization, it is about stilling the mind to realize the underlying unity of existence...what follows next is not a concern...to think about it prevents stilling of the mind.... As I said above,,,non-duality is an impossible goal so long as one can only practice meditation part time....this is for those who are prepared to give up their self identity with the human form...That then is your understanding.
Gold as the non dual and attributeless substrate and various forms built of that non dual substrate is the standard advaita metaphor. Gold (atman) is conscious, is the basis of all forms and names yet is distinct and untouched by the changes in the forms.
Jnana, wisdom, means that the self identification with names-forms has ended. Names-forms as dance of nature may continue without tainting the wisdom of non duality.
Ben exists as an expression of non-duality.....Then are you not existing as Ben? Why not?
YmirGF is also an expression of non-duality....though in his case....the expression is getting ahead of itself...too big for its britches...Ben is not one of my reincarnational aspects.
I see it the other way around.No, it's Tibetan Buddhism and far superior to Zen.
No one can know what is called Cosmic Consciousness, you can point to it, you can tell what experience you got from it, but you can never say what it is. actually I thought you would have known that ??.So you don't know what "Cosmic Consciousness" is? Why do you keep going on about something if you don't know what it is?
Is there any discernment in absence of aggregates?
No one can know what is called Cosmic Consciousness, you can point to it, you can tell what experience you got from it, but you can never say what it is. actually I thought you would have known that ??.
I see it the other way around.
I see, I'm sorry to putt in.GNG continually refers to "Cosmic Consciousness" and it's clearly central to his belief system, but he refuses to say what he actually means by it. I think that's very odd.
You consistently attack the pointing finger....
Jnana, wisdom, means that the self identification with names-forms has ended. Names-forms as dance of nature may continue without tainting the wisdom of non duality.
That you think the squirrel is experiencing non-duality....
Oh, how I love word play lol.No, for the squirrel there is just the nut.
Then the squirrel buries the nut and later in the year digs it up, hence:
"First there is a nut, then there is no nut, then there is".
All your describing is how the mind is seen to function in the normal person in a human cultural and social environment... That functioning is by evolutionary design...dualistic...and has to be that way... I on the other hand am talking about the potential of the mind....free from all these human cultural and social demands....to be stilled so that self identity with the form does not arise! Of course i know that this can't happen if you have family, have to work, share your life with others, etc....but non-duality is not for the part timers...
YmirGF is also an expression of non-duality....though in his case....the expression is getting ahead of itself...too big for its britches...
No, for the squirrel there is just the nut.
Then the squirrel buries the nut and later in the year digs it up, hence:
"First there is a nut, then there is no nut, then there is".
I see the ending! I see the ending!!!
I took your gold story as an analogy and saw it mirrored the same self identification with form as human culture.... which is an illusion of perception relative to non-duality..... Advaita as I understand it is that Brahman is omnipresent...all apparent attributes, aspects, etc., are then maya.. Non-duality is not about any conceptualization, it is about stilling the mind to realize the underlying unity of existence...what follows next is not a concern...to think about it prevents stilling of the mind.... As I said above,,,non-duality is an impossible goal so long as one can only practice meditation part time....this is for those who are prepared to give up their self identity with the human form...
Ben is not one of my reincarnational aspects.