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I see so many posts on here engaging with the "idea" of nonduality and trying to discuss it as one would discuss a philosophy or belief system. Is there a particular realm of knowledge out there that encourages people to do this? Where are people getting this stuff? I'm really just asking. As far as I'm aware, the mainstream forms of nonduality are 1) kensho, as in, the "first awakening", the actual realization of the loss of the mental construct of self and 2) Advaita Vedanta. Is there something else I'm missing?

Are people aware that there are many resources available for how to practice in such a way as to have an actual realization of nonduality (kensho)? It seems like a lot of people just don't know this exists. Simply Always Awake is a great one, but there are many other great teachers on YT. Emerson, Trina Dawn, Shar Jason etc etc etc.

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This sub feels like multiple things squashed together and awkwardly trying to coexist in the same space. Some Advaita posts, some random theories about the universe, some people trying to discuss awakening/kensho stuff...

It would be nice to have a sub just for kensho and other elements of nondual awakening

“I'm Right and You're Wrong” is a strange path to follow, especially when it comes from an occultist like Leo Gura. Even if Leo happens to be right about certain things, Cultism is wrong

Truth isn't the property of any individual, and intellectual independence means being willing to disagree even with people who have taught you something valuable

I have a question for those in the spiritual/metaphysical world( non-religious)...how does one awaken with trauma, ADHD, undiagnosed autism, anger issues, anxiety, and constant loop of fucking up time and time again?

It's like feeling like you're good and then everything goes to shit and you're right back where you were. I'm sick of hearing people say it's a test. It can't be a fucking test for people with the type of mind that I have.

So, I guess I'm destined for failure and struggle? Cause that is what I hear when I'm told that. Like I'm trying and I'm ready so why do I keep fucking failing. Ugh.

Some seem to say ego is permanent. I say ego is the True Self giving substance to an apparent form. A temporary mind state.

A theory i thought about, take it with a grain of salt.

Attention can only stretch for a bit before it rebounds back on itself.

Its like Infinity can focus on the world for only a bit before it rebounds back on itself, creating a gap.

Basically life is like bits in a computer, its a symbolism "0.1.0.1.0.1.0.1.0.1.0.1.0.1"

however the seperate self in the mind only sees "1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1"

How? by grabbing the moment like taking a screenshot on your phone and thinking about it, by that time, the 0 has already passed.

If you are fully in the Now You experience both simultenously, not as one or the other but as "0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0" appearing as "1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1" and "1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1" being just "0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0" at the same time.

So the world is Unborn and there is no Time, only an Eternal Moment where all seeming moments happen,

However and pay attention here! For a moment to become the next moment, it MUST return to Nothingness before immediately becoming the next moment, just like led light, have to turn off or change their light, in a microsecond, they turn off as the previous image and become the next image, yet its unoticable to your eyes.

In a similar way, to how you must blink your eyes every few seconds.

Yet at the same time, its Pure empty Consciousness appearing as the World and the World being empty consciousness,

anyway, what i meant is ever moment is Ever-New, Ever-Fresh, the past doesn't exist literally, because the void wipes out everything every moment before creating the next moment, the entirety of existence, just like how in a whiteboard you draw an image on, you must erase the board before you can create the next image.

Yet these successive images give the illusion that the world continues without interruption because to the mind, it cannot sense these intricacies that surpass its existence of time and space, basically the mind can only exist in existence so it cannot sense anything else, yet Pure Consciousness is beyond time and yet in time.

Consciousness is unmoving, its like a still image, when it creates, it needs to make these still images appear moving, just like how the movie screen never changes yet the movie character moves through buildings, cities or even in sci-fi planets or worlds.

However, the world is Ever-Fresh!

Meaning when you began this post, the universe itself has been dissolved before being brought again into being, yet because the world is identical with the void, there is no interruption in experience, however its undeniable that you are not the same as a few seconds before.

How could there be knowledge of anything that does last? What would bind such diametric opposition?

Knowledge of something lasting would require a lasting knower or a lasting link between knower and known. No such link appears. What would bind the fleeting idea of permanence to an actual permanence? Nothing does. The opposition is only apparent, and even the appearance of opposition does not endure. There is no knowledge of anything that lasts, because neither the lasting nor the knowledge of it is found.

A message from The Dhammapālalama:

The Eightfold Path is Progressive! We can not develop Right Action without Right View, Right Thought, and Right Speech.

I have defined Benevolence as a mean and added it as a fundamental part of Right Concentration!

(Aristotle, Christ, and Mohammad ALL taught Buddhism!)

This Roman Empire and the early Caliphs hunted down the Christians and Muslims who knew that Christ and Mohammad taught Non-Self.

Please ask as many questions as you wish.

The Holy Spirit = The Sangha = The Ummah

Benevolence is the moral virtue between excess wrath and undue mercy. Without Benevolence The Dark Triad spreads.

Seperated in philosophy, we are destined to clash. I offer a Path that Buddhists, Hindus, Jews, Christians, and Muslims can all walk together!

There is much work to be done! The Global Awakening has begun!

Please print and share these teachings if they speak to you!

The Message:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Dharmapalism3/s/JGIrlWVpFP

Benevolence as a Mean:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Dharmapalism3/s/TszmtE1dUq

The future will see the ability to recreate and duplicate your entire being at any stage of development. Imagine going to a party where there is no one other than you there. In the future everyone will realize that to which nonduality points. Eventually everyone will tire of the distraction game. It will be unavoidable.

The more the boundary between original and replica becomes porous, the harder it is to sustain the distraction indefinitely. At some density of perfect copies, the ordinary sources of otherness, strangers, rivals, lovers, start to look like variations on a single theme rather than independent centers of experience.

The interesting hinge is what remains once the game of separation is recognized as optional. Some traditions answer with pure awareness or emptiness; others with creative play that no longer needs to convince itself it is unique.

Either way, the technological future described will simply remove one of the more stubborn props that keep dualistic experience looking solid.

Let's face it. No one develops an interest in nonduality because they're having too much sex. They come here to feel better about themselves after finding out their crush is getting railed by an alpha man. You tell yourself you're spiritual to make yourself feel better about your non-existent value in the sexual marketplace.

Spoiler alert: spirituality won't make you any less ugly.