For those of you who are curious about nonduality, Swami Sarvapriyananda gives a 20 minute overview of this at a SAND conference from both an Advaita Vedanta perspective with a sprinkling of Mahayana Buddhism's perspective.
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What Is Nonduality?
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A coin with no sides.
BSM1
What? Me worry?
Wouldn't that be non-nothing?
Despite the appearance of two sides, there is but one coin.
My Guru's Guru's Guru would play with a Vedantist who only understood it intellectually. He'd sneak up behind and touch the chap on the shoulder. When the fellow jumped and said 'Who's there?" (demonstrating that the concept hadn't sunk in at any depth) the Guru would smile and say 'it's just you." Non-duality is something that is realised at the deepest of levels, not just regurgitated cause you heard it. At least that is my understanding.
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dybmh
דניאל יוסף בן מאיר הירש
That's a great little story...
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
No coin.A coin with no sides.
Abrahamic and theistic philosophy speculate a separation between God and creation. Dualism (two things)
Nondualism says God/Brahman and creation are not-two. So what we think of as this universe and individual beings is all a thought-form a play/drama illusion (Maya) of the One/God/Brahman.
Nondualism says God/Brahman and creation are not-two. So what we think of as this universe and individual beings is all a thought-form a play/drama illusion (Maya) of the One/God/Brahman.
The Jewish Kabbalists, or at least some, don't.