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Is duality real?
Subject-object – Advaita Vision comment Anon.: ‘No matter who says what, it is your job to look directly at your own experience/mind without the images of models, teachers, books, and like minded people, and to recognize how the subject-object dichotomy … Continue reading
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Tagged duality, mind, non-duality, reality, self, Shankara, superimposition, witness
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Can we step out of Plato’s cave?
Quora — posted on September 17, 2017 by amartingarcia X As I remember, Plato spoke of the few that escaped into the bright light of day, becoming (at least temporarily) blinded. That, by itself, has a metaphorical meaning. But if the question is … Continue reading
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Tagged 7th letter, Advaita Vedanta, Diotima, five koshas, non-duality, Oneness, oral doctrines, phiosophy, Plato's cave, supreme arché, Truth
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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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Appearance and reality
Can appearance itself be doubted? (Discussion in QUORA) The question is not about the relation between appearance (things) and noumenon (thing in itself). It concerns only the appearance ITSELF. That means, I’m not asking about whether appearance is capable to … Continue reading
Consciousness and reality
Q/A in Quora /www.quora.com/What-is-reality-in-the-absence-of-consciousness?__snids__=1702272616 What is reality in the absence of consciousness? I’m beginning to be convinced that in the absence of consciousness there is nothing. Can anyone shed some light on this? Answer: (M) That is an impossible, or … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, communication, Consciousness, Creation, Dante, experience, God, Intelligence, language, life, Love, non-duality, reality, realization, spirituality, understanding, Universe
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Consciousness and neuro-science
https://www.quora.com/What-makes-the-hard-problem-of-consciousness-so-unexpectedly-hard (Different from above) Prof. Donald Hoffman – The Case Against Reality . A professor of cognitive science argues that the world is nothing like the one we experience through our senses. Evolution has shaped us with perceptions that … Continue reading
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Tagged chaos, Consciousness, cosmos, evolution, experience, illusion, knowledge, life, mathematics, mind, non-duality, Quantum physics, reality, reality and illusion
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Conversation with H – 7
Please Note: This post, H-7, should be read after H 7 bis, which precedes it. Sorry for the confusion. H. Thank you M for the quote from Max Planck. Yes, we clearly “cannot get behind consciousness”, and I often address … Continue reading
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Tagged awareness, Consciousness, experience, matter, Max Planck, mind, non-duality, object, reality, realization
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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’ – 5
H. (… if I may, I shall just add a few follow-on remarks in connection with your particular, numbered points:) I originally said:“in my opinion there is always the risk of leaning too much on concepts that are not … Continue reading
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Tagged awareness, concepts, Consciousness, experience, illusion, intuition, knowledge, mind, multiplicity, no-mind, non-duality, objects, reality, realization, self, spirituality, wisdom
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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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Unanimous Tradition / Tradición Unánime 