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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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‘Satisfaction’
From ‘Nondual Clarity’ – Feb. 12, 2017 David Aldridge. As Liberation matures you notice how much of life is devoted to the search for stimulation and excitation. Once all that is dropped, there is a release into true Satisfaction. SA. … Continue reading
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Tagged Chandogya Up., Excitation, Indra, liberation, maturity, Prajapati, Satisfaction, self, Virochana
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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’ – 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 – Cont.
12.3.16 In my previous comments as a preliminary reply to H – taking into consideration his scruples on the use of language and of certain anthropomorphic-sounding expressions in particular – I accepted that much of the language in Eastern texts … Continue reading
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Tagged Consciousness, Creation, God, hyperbole, illusion, imagination, knowledge, Krishna, language, Puranas, reality, religion, sacred language, self, superimposition
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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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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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“I don’t know what Consciousness is, but I am That”
As far as intelligence, feeling, and depth, can anything be added to the following? “Everything is Consciousness – everything. When you ask ‘what is Consciousness?’, there is no valid answer. When someone asks me to write a book or give … Continue reading
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Tagged appearances, awareness, Beauty, Consciousness, language, Oneness, reality, self, silence
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Unanimous Tradition / Tradición Unánime 