Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Thu Oct 04, 2018 4:18 amIn advaita-vedanta there is the belief there is still the individual atman [soul] that transmigrate after the physical death of the person to another entity.
I have never heard of such. And besides, this kind of belief can be interpreted in as many ways as the imagination can stretch. But to me, all it means is there's just this one energy that cannot be created nor destroyed, aka its infinite without any KNOWN beginning nor ending, its the groundless unchanging substrate aka source of all manifestation..and this boundless constant unchanging unmoved mover, by constrast is constantly changing in the illusory sense from one form to another, which feels about right to me. Obviously other people are going to make up their own minds about how they vision their reality.
Advaita, the bible, the koran, or just about any other esoteric knowledge you can think of is of no acceptation, in that they're all just like any other story written by the mind that is human imagination. It's all dream story at the end of the day, because no one has ever seen a mind.
Also, the belief that belief is real, is just a myth, its a mentally created fictional story. The belief in any thing has to dispelled, you do not have to believe in reality, reality ''JUST IS'' with and without the belief.
And in that sense one moves away from belief to the clarity that is right here now always right in front of our face, closer that our very own skin.
Obviously if we are to hold onto the belief we are ''separate beings'' then without that belief there is no movie of ''I''
So in essense we are basically creating our own dream world of what we believe to be HERE, in this dream world full of believed fictional characters within the dream of separation...in that if there is No belief, there is no movie of ''I''
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Thu Oct 04, 2018 4:18 amNevertheless you believe in the Absolute, Oneness, Pure Awareness, and the likes.
I have argued this is an illusion. I invite you to prove me wrong on this point.
But like I've explained above, the belief is in the dream of separation. In reality there is no requirement for belief, for you are without doubt or error, you don't have to believe you are. Throw away the belief which is fictional, and see beyond the belief to the sea of clarity.
Obviously and I repeat, you ARE no thing and everything, but in order to be a ''separate someone'' that dynamic requires a belief. One FIRST needs to BE before one can be (another) aka a (belief). The 'other' is your 'identity' as believed, the fictional story of separation. A dream within the infinite dreamer, which is always and ever YOU this immediate self evident ''first person appearance'' where all ''other'' appearances are couched always and forever within that ''first person subjective appearance'' it can't be any other way.
That there appears to be ''others'' outside of you, is an assumptive belief,which is not real. For there is no ''objective world'' existing outside of your ''first person appearance.'' its all IN YOU.
Now, you either ''get this'' or you don't. If you don't, then there is no way in hell anyone is ever going to convince you OTHERWISE from your own belief as to what you believe reality IS...''getting it'' is to see that there is nothing to get, and to see that you are THIS without having to believe you are.
YOU cannot be an experience, neither can YOU experience the absence of YOU. The ''experience'' is within the dream of separation, the fictional story of I
All couched within what is always here and real aka ONENESS. It's this right here / nowhere.
NO ONE is being IT, ..IT, is being no one and everyone.
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Thu Oct 04, 2018 4:18 amI believe the aggressive one sided slogans of non-duality and 'No You, No Me' is counter productive overall in life as such a view portrays the ego and personal identity as negative as if it is evil.
No it's not really, because it's all but a mind story arising and falling in you, just as any thought arises and falls within you, just as any sensation arises and falls within you. Notice that you never arise and fall, you don't change, only thoughts you have about you change.
This is so difficult to explain to someone who doesn't get it, so its pointless to even try. But here is another rub, 'you' don't ever 'get this' anyway. THIS realisation 'gets you', only when life evloves that in 'you' and not one second before.
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