You had a sort of altered states of consciousness experience which you have aligned with advaita vedanta specifically the pseudo-advaitins who rushed into the easy way out or realization.Dontaskme wrote: ↑Fri Oct 05, 2018 11:30 amNotice I have never said that to you, because I actually find you facinating to talk to. What exactly do you believe there is here in reality that is counter to itself?Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Fri Oct 05, 2018 10:35 amI won't be wasting my time on them because you lack foundation thus not be able to understand [not necessary with] my point to counter it effectively.
I find it absolutely fascinating that someone could come out with such an outrageous statement like ..'' because you lack foundation thus not be able to understand [not necessary with] my point to counter it effectively.''
Those who are into advaita-proper and has achieved a certain state of consciousness [developed and positive] cultivated that through years of studying the right materials and carrying out the right spiritual practices.
You admitted you are not interested in establishing those kind of foundation as advocated the advaitin masters. What you want to rely on it what you had experienced long ago and the memory of it.
Without the necessary foundation you are not likely to get far in a discussion except to blabber 'There is No Me, No You, No Person, No Self' it is only a story, etc.
This unqualified "no one here" is sickening.When I'm trying to point to you the realisation that there is no one here to make such assumed ''differentials''... albeit in the dream, a fictional illusional story within the dream of separation. That you AV believe is real.
You must read this by Jeff Foster who was once a very famous pseudo-advaitin who now admitted his radical advaita views like yours [no-one, no-me, no-you] above are all fake.
I suggest you try to get out of the above rut like what Jeff Foster did above.Jeff Foster wrote: The birth and death of fundamentalism in nonduality and Advaita teachings.
by Jeff Foster
http://www.lifewithoutacentre.com/writi ... teachings/
A few months ago I made this announcement:
- “I am officially no longer an ‘Advaita teacher’ or ‘Nonduality teacher’ – if, indeed, I ever was one.
Life cannot be put into words, and however beautiful the words of Advaita/Nonduality are, they must be discarded in the end.
I could never claim to be any sort of authority on this stuff. I will continue to speak, to sing my song to those who are open to listening, but gone is the need to adhere to any tradition, to use ‘Advaita-speak’ to avoid real, authentic human engagement, to pretend that I am in any way more or less special than you, to kid you that I know more than you, to play the ‘teacher’ by refusing to meet you in the play, to stop listening to you because I see you as ‘still stuck in the dream’ or ‘still a person’.
This message is about love, in the true sense of the word – otherwise it is simply nihilism masquerading as freedom. The ‘Advaita Police’ reply ‘Who cares?’ I say I do. I do.”
In this essay I want to explain why I made this statement.
THE MESSAGE OF RADICAL ADVAITA
If you listen to certain nonduality/Advaita teachers who are on the scene at the moment, you may get the impression that there is something terribly wrong with having a personal ‘story’.
Having a thought-created story about yourself, your past experiences, your relationships, your feelings, your desires and hopes and fears, and so on – in other words, being a living, breathing human being – is a clear sign of delusion and duality. And you need to wake up from this mess!
If you go to a public meeting held by a teacher of ‘radical Advaita’, and they invite questions, and you start talking about something personal – for example, the death of a loved one, an addiction you have, a painful event that happened in your past – they will tell you that you are ‘stuck in your story’, or ‘lost in the dream of time and space’ or they will simply say you are ‘still a person’ and ‘haven’t woken up yet’.
The fact that you ‘told a story’ shows that you are still coming from duality – you are still identified as a seeker, stuck in the personal. Once you ‘get it’, you will no longer tell personal stories. You will exist in the eternal Now, and know nothing of your past.
These teachers, of course, no longer ‘tell stories’ (well, except the gigantic story that all stories are a sign of ignorance…). They imply that they themselves exist in some sort of mystical state beyond the personal, or that they have entered into a kind of space where the personal no longer has any meaning, relevance or interest.
They don’t have a past or future, they don’t have ‘personal relationships’ (who is there to have a relationship with?), and they certainly never suffer (because all suffering is an illusion, right?)
And so you end up feeling inferior to these people (or non-people, or nobodies, or absences, or whatever they are calling themselves today) and terribly guilty and narcissistic for still having interest in your personal story.
Liberation or enlightenment obviously hasn’t happened for you yet! And so you wait and wait for liberation to happen. And although these teachers say there is nothing you can do to reach liberation, and nobody there who can do anything anyway, you carry on going to their meetings and reading their books, in the vain hope that it will happen one day. Although there’s no ‘you’ it can happen to. And no ‘one day’….