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  1. Cool @Fishy

  2. "healthy" Mind

    abrakamowse replied to actualized1's topic in Mental Health, Serious Emotional Issues

    That's normal. When we accept the idea of no self there's always a shock. That's the ego response to what it was find out. I would recommend you to take a rest, relax. Go out, have fun and everything will be Ok. The mind just need to absorb the impact.
  3. @cetus56 That's why I like zen koans Zen Koan: Monk: “What is the true meaning of ch’an, (Zen) Master Joshu: “A cypress tree grows in the yard.” Monk: Master do not use objects to guide people.” Joshu: “I am not using objects to guide people.”
  4. @Light_Ray Maybe this books can be of your interest. http://www.holybooks.com/the-zen-of-advaita-the-teaching-mastery-of-nisargadatta-maharaj/ There's a link to both books in pdf format, the part 1 and part 2 The Zen of Advaita – The Teaching Mastery of Nisargadatta Maharaj
  5. @cetus56 Yeah, crazy stuff. hehehehe... I think the best option (and one that I am beginning to slowly adopt) is do what Mooji suggest, to say: "I don't know"... hehehehe...

  6. My Path To Somewhere, I Hope...

    abrakamowse replied to abrakamowse's topic in Self-Actualization Journals

    I just discovered that I enjoy a lot being in total darkness.
  7. And the "spooky action at a distance"??? hehehehehe... https://www.technologyreview.com/s/427174/einsteins-spooky-action-at-a-distance-paradox-older-than-thought/ "It involves a pair of particles linked by the strange quantum property of entanglement (a word coined much later). Entanglement occurs when two particles are so deeply linked that they share the same existence."
  8. Amazing.
  9. I think we can't comprehend from our dualistic point of view. We can say it exists and it doesn't exist, but that's just words.
  10. It's difficult to talk about it, it's better to experience it hehehehe... Our logic won't work there, we need to throw away the logic.
  11. Thanks @Natasha I was thinking in reading him as well, thanks for the heads up. Good stuff. :-)
  12. They are not separated, they are the same. It's us who separated them. In my opinion they begin to align more and more until they become one only with reality. They merge from our perspective, but they were never separated.
  13. True, the idea we have of a "self" is also a concept. We think a "self" is necessary to be "conscious" or to know something. But, who knows?
  14. @Natasha That woman is so awesome, she explains so clearly and you can see that she knows what she's talking about. I think she's the most enlightened person I have seen lately on youtube, more than a lot that are considered masters. Amazing!
  15. But consciousness itself is not a self, right? So it would be right to say there's no self. Consciousness = Vijnana is the fifth of the Five Skandhas. And The skandhas are collections of components that make up an individual.

  16. Questioning My Reality

    abrakamowse replied to Katiee's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

  17. @Fishy thanks Fishy. I didn't understand that part. Lol Thanks again.
  18. I'm reading the Zen of Advaita part I and part II based on the teachings of nisargadatta Maharaj and it's blow minding. I found them online free I pdf format. I'll send u the links later.
  19. What about No-self? I understand that Zen says there's no higher or lower self. There's really no self. Conciousness is just another phenomenon that is "perceived". But there's no perceiver.
  20. That's so cool @cetus56 . I think I am heading to the same direction. I need a break, I can't stop reading hahahaha... good to know your experience.
  21. Enquiry Hint: The head represents the concept of knowing or imagining knowing will help or mean something, or is something. The sense of knowing must be cut off. Zen Koan (modified) What is the essence of wisdom?
  22. One hand seamless Without location Without no location No sense of “I”-ness Without sound The Absolute
  23. Buddha The Diamond Sutra: “No being has ever entered Nirvana.” "Isness" is an illusion

  24. Questioning My Reality

    abrakamowse replied to Katiee's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    Yes, everyone experience that. The "thing" you believe you are gets shocked, but it's not you. Just let it be, don't get attached to thoughts, they are not yours and they never were. There's a "being-ness" behind all the crazy thoughts that transcends all our imaginary problems created by believing we are an imaginary being, the false idea of a separated "self". It's a secret that's it's in the open. Every real teacher has spoken about it, but the majority (including me :-) are still trapped in the self centered idea. Nietzsche wrote about it, Jean Paul Sartre, Buddha, Jesus, Mohammad, philosophers, etc... but the world can't listen because the illusion is strong. I didn't read this book yet, but I think it has a lot of truth in it. I just read some parts, it's from an english philosopher called Wei Wu Wei http://spiritual-minds.com/easternrelgions/WuWei/Open-Secret-Wei-Wu-Wei.pdf As long as subject is centred in a phenomenal object, and thinks and speaks therefrom, subject is identified with that object and is bound. As long as such condition obtains, the identified subject can never be free—for freedom is liberation from that identification.