Atla wrote: ↑Sun Jun 23, 2024 7:23 amNo offense, but imo this wording just sounds like the typical misguided beginner nondualism. Both the Hindus and the Buddhists often make the mistake of ascribing a special status to awareness. It's a secondary dualism smuggled back in, it's not 'pure' nondualism.Fairy wrote: ↑Sun Jun 23, 2024 6:59 amThe personification just happens to appear all by itself within existence itself, appearances are happening all by itself. It is existence itself that is simply aware of personification happening as an appearance, as if there is a sense of doership, like I am aware I am personifying this awareness to be a separate object to myself. There is no awareness in the separate self, because it's simply an appearance already being awared by the neutral one. The sense of there being Separate selves have no existence apart from the nondual pure neutral awareness itself, which is all of existence as a whole.
The pure nondual self doesn't have qualities like awareness. It's not a big entity that's 'aware of itself'. It's not a being in any sense of the world, unless proven so. The pure nondual self is simply existence itself, the world, it's simply existence itself that people keep conflating with awareness.
Awaraness as in self-awareness is a typical feature of the human mind, it's also part of existence just like rocks are. Most people reach self-awareness in early childhood.
Known concepts aside, no concept is ever aware of itself as a 'big entity'. Concepts are simply being awared, there is simply existence aware of itself, else no concept would ever be known. without known concepts there would simply be a state of not-knowing, not-being, which is never the experience of the human mind. The human mind is a concept known by something else that cannot be negated or experienced to not exist.
All you are doing is just replacing one concept for another. You replace awareness with existence.
So what is aware existence is, then? Who is saying existence exists?