Ask a nondual "person"

[SalixIncendium]

Inspired by @VoidCat's Ask a nonbinary person thread. Ask me anything nondual (or about nonduality of you so wish). Keep in mind I'm only speaking from my own experience and no one else's and I don't speak on behalf of any religion or philosophy. Flood the thread with any argument you wish. I'm game. If you want to attack me or my view, I won't put you on ignore, but I will ignore you. However, I won't ignore you if you tell me I (mind and body) don't exist. I might even agree with you.

 

[Guitar's Cry]

How do you define "nondual" in terms of your personhood?

 

[The Sum of Awe]

Is there a difference between monism and nondualism?

 

[SalixIncendium]

How do you define "nondual" in terms of your personhood?

My personhood is an appearance in absolute reality (Paramartika).

 

[SalixIncendium]

Is there a difference between monism and nondualism?

I think so. There are different type of monism, and while there are similarities, none really fit with my brand of nondualism, which posits that the apparent plurality is a result of time/space/causation, and that they appear on the substrate of an absolute rather than appearing from a single substance.

 

[Guitar's Cry]

My personhood is an appearance in absolute reality (Paramartika).

How does this influence your every day life?

 

[John53]

I don't even know what nondual means.

 

[Viker]

For folk not in the know.....

Nondualism

 

[Viker]

Inspired by @VoidCat's Ask a nonbinary person thread. Ask me anything nondual (or about nonduality of you so wish). Keep in mind I'm only speaking from my own experience and no one else's and I don't speak on behalf of any religion or philosophy. Flood the thread with any argument you wish. I'm game. If you want to attack me or my view, I won't put you on ignore, but I will ignore you. However, I won't ignore you if you tell me I (mind and body) don't exist. I might even agree with you.

Happy Birthday, BTW.

 

[SalixIncendium]

How does this influence your every day life?

Knowledge of what I am results in my being unaffected by actions of others or what happens in transactional reality.

 

[mikkel_the_dane]

I think so. There are different type of monism, and while there are similarities, none really fit with my brand of nondualism, which posits that the apparent plurality is a result of time/space/causation, and that they appear on the substrate of an absolute rather than appearing from a single substance.

Yeah, I in the end get the same result.
But as always we also do it slightly different due to the apparent plurality as for individuals as per nature/nurture as a result of time/space/causation.

 

[The Sum of Awe]

Knowledge of what I am results in my being unaffected by actions of others or what happens in transactional reality.

Does this mean you do not get angry or sad?

 

[The Hammer]

I think so. There are different type of monism, and while there are similarities, none really fit with my brand of nondualism, which posits that the apparent plurality is a result of time/space/causation, and that they appear on the substrate of an absolute rather than appearing from a single substance.

:Informative:

 

[SalixIncendium]

Does this mean you do not get angry or sad?

I can't recall the last time I was angry.

As far as sadness, I don't find myself getting sad for myself, but I will occasionally find myself weeping as a result of another's suffering. It's a bit like getting caught up in the moment when you watch a tearjerker. You know you're watching a movie, and that the characters are merely actors portraying them, but you get caught in the scene and find yourself tearing up even though you know you're looking at nothing more than light reflected off a screen.

 

[Vouthon]

@SalixIncendium

Is non-duality something that you have directly experienced, in a subjective sense, or is it more of a philosophical belief about the nature of reality?

If the latter, what convinces you to believe that it's accurate versus say physicalist-materialism or Dvaita?

 

[SalixIncendium]

@SalixIncendium

Is non-duality something that you have directly experienced, in a subjective sense, or is it more of a philosophical belief about the nature of reality?

If the latter, what convinces you to believe that it's accurate versus say physicalist-materialism or Dvaita?

It's something I've experienced directly, the first time when I was in me early teens.

 

[The Sum of Awe]

Do you believe that all events in spacetime are predetermined?

 

[SalixIncendium]

Do you believe that all events in spacetime are predetermined?

The argument of determinism versus free will doesn’t really interest me.

That said, who or what is determining?

 

[The Sum of Awe]

The argument of determinism versus free will doesn’t really interest me.

That said, who or what is determining?

Hm, so you don’t have an opinion on it? As far as who is determining? I suppose God of some sort.

I have another question; do you consider yourself a pantheist?

 

[SalixIncendium]

Hm, so you don’t have an opinion on it? As far as who is determining? I suppose God of some sort.

I do, but I just wanted to get your thoughts.

As I see it, karma is what determines events in one's life. Karma is the sum of one's deeds over lifetimes. Who is it that does the deeds?

That's where, in my opinion, the free will versus determinism falls apart. A jiva does their will, which creates karma, but they perform action as a reaction to karma. Thus continues the cycle of samsara. Cause/effect.

I have another question; do you consider yourself a pantheist?

At one point in my life I did. But then I realized that my view that God was immanent and permeating all that was in the universe was occurring in reflective consciousness, thus illusory, and that I was merely a witness to this.

I consider myself a transtheist.