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Can consciousness exist without time?
(Question answered in Quora) From the viewpoint of Advaita Vedanta (and I believe also zen and Dzogchen), time is not just something elusive, but ultimately unreal – only an idea or concept. The same with the concept ‘now’, which cannot … Continue reading
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Tagged advaita, concepts, Consciousness, eternity, existence, reality, Shankara, time
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Conceptual vs. experiential
“Self or consciousness does not make the passage to the other shore or cross over. Rather, the crossing is the body and senses acclimating to life without any experience of self or consciousness and all that it implies.” Bernadette Roberts … Continue reading
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Tagged 'conceptual', advaita, awakening, direct experience, experience, feeling, life, living truth, Love, mind, New age, non-duality, Truth, understanding
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The proof of Advaita philosophy
Q&A in Advaita Vision – reproduced here. Q. 388 – Proof of Methodology
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Tagged advaita, doubt, ego, experience, knowledge, proof, reality, realization, self, tradition, trust
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Conversation with ‘H’ – 6
Dear H: I realise that much of our disagreement has to do with the use of language – the meaning each one of us attaches to certain terms – and also to perspective. I base myself almost exclusively on Advaita … Continue reading
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Tagged advaita, Atman-Brahman, awareness, Consciousness, experience, knowledge, matter, Max Plank, mind, non-duality, philosophy, reality, realization, tradition
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Conversation with ‘H’- 3
H. The first thing to say is that I do not understand the question as regards ‘the witness’*, and so immediately agree with your opening statement, save to add that the invoking of a witness seems to connote a subject … Continue reading
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Tagged advaita, awareness, Buddhism, Consciousness, experience, language, mentation, mind, monism, non-duality, objectless awareess, reality, samadhi, Turiya
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Conversation with H (Knower, Witness)
H. ‘… as regards the somewhat artificial distinction (ontologically speaking) that I make between awareness and consciousness, then this is something I do of my own choosing, accepting that there is an objectless state of mind that cannot correctly be … Continue reading
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Tagged advaita, awareness, Buddhism, Consciousness, illusion, intuition, knower, knowledge, mind, objectless, ontology, phenomenology, reality, self, tradition, witness
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Non-duality and depression
Conversation in Quora A. Well….I’m done seeking. Truly now for the past few years, I have watched, listened, contemplated and glimpsed and whatever else.; relief would come and go a lot. Now that I’ve watched and re-watched Tony Parsons, Jim Newman, … Continue reading
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Tagged advaita, depression, liberation, mind, non-duality, understanding
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Is the subjective point of view the actual “you”?
(Originally published in QUORA – with slight modifications). Title was provided by them. It would have been more correct to say ‘subject’ or ‘subjectivity’ instead of ‘subjective point of view’, which amounts to circularity or redundancy. QUESTIONER – I … Continue reading
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Tagged 'subjective', advaita, Consciousness, empathy, experience, life, limited view, mind, non-duality, self, separateness, spirituality, transcendence, uniqueness, world
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Unanimous Tradition / Tradición Unánime 