Preetom

Metaphysically speaking, Black holes=Portals to the absolute. The 'I', the now, the silence, the space, the knowing, the happiness are all portals to the Absolute. They are the black holes in their respective domain. There are other more gross form of portals like a mantra, visualization, breath. If you stay focused on any such portal or black hole long enough, you and the entire universe gets sucked into the black hole once and for all to the other side in the Absolute.

Resonate with it 100% the word 'guide' can be replaced with any object whatsoever. Knowledge, money, rationality, growth, gain etc you name it

@Rilles The real question is do your perception create the banana or was your perception created by someone else's banana

More accurately, you don't feel the need when its there. Its significance is only felt when it is absent. For example our teeth. Eeeeeeee

@Anderz You disagree...until you dont anymore. Ta DA! ?

Reality cant play tricks on your perception. Your perception IS the reality you can ever know.

The first thing people need to know about objective reality is that there ain't one. -Same ol' daddy McKenna

Damned you are if you talk about it. Damned you are if you dont. Right?

Religions are not often made by the lord prophets themselves but through their brainchilds and followers And yet to publish his holy book ?

Dont worry hun, you are already doing exactly that right now simultaneously. Its not Pouya that will come back again to be an ant, a slave down the line. The end of pouya is the end of pouya, but not the end of you. The Pouya that is sad, the Pouya that accumulates beauty and wisdom and speculates about being born as an ant, wont born as an ant. The ant will be something else. So dont let Leo scare pouya with his stories

@Anna1 The whole theme of any serious spiritual teaching is this: ignore the conventional, material world that everyone is used to and in turn focus more and more on the metaphysical realm. Any serious spiritual teaching can be fit into this description. Imagine if a devotee renouned all her 'worldly' fears. She only fears God or more accurately takes God seriously. What do we fear most in our lives? The fear of losing the things we are most invested and attached to. Those are the things which take up most of our concerns. Devotional teachings instructs to surrender that burden on God and only remain faithful to God. I know, superficially the term fear of God sounds weird. But thats where the paradox lies. Its a fear that can consume all other fears. Just like self inquiry sounds and seems like the most selfish position one could take-ignore everything and only focus on your self keenly. And yet thats how the self gets transended once and for all. On the other hand, if one ignores the ego self and keeps attending to other things, that ego will always remain intact and fatten. Similarly, devotionally speaking, if a seeker doesn't fear God that doesn't mean he stops having fear. No! He actually starts having the most petty, selfish, irrational fears due to his material attachments. And the bit you talked about being infinite, free etc-those are the fruits/byproduct of the work. Enlightenment or total surrender whatever you call it

Lmao ?

No one likes a good enlightened boy. Thats the irony and tragedy. They are either exiled or beheaded

Yeah it starts as that respect for the holy books and prophets, but it ultimately means to surrender everything on God. There is a saying in Islam which is fear none accept Allah. Just imagine what would happen if you trained yourself to that instruction. All fears in phenomenal realm will eventually be consumed. Spirituality is a serious business with the greatest cost and casualities there is : your entire life

What kind of a sick joke is that? ? I never got any invitation to surrender myself to master's lotus feet Am i that unworthy? Just because i dont have the physic of a 16 yo Asian chick? ?

Prepare your metaphysical system to receive the thick shaft of your beloved master @Shin pls banish this deluded fool's neediness with your GRACE ?

David "the unanimous enlightened master" Hammond ???

"Fear of the lord is the beginning of knowledge" Actually this is a very important instruction for any serious spiritual journey to begin. Its a religious/devotional way of saying the same thing Advaita considers as a very important first step as well which is having a strong doubt and distaste towards the mundane/conventional reality which one believes in for granted. There is no further inquiry without this vairagya or dispassion. This same message is instructed in the devotional teachings as renounce your busy, stupid, anxious life to God. Stop being an atheist/materialist and start trusting the all powerful force which is God. The fear of God is the fear that consumes all other fears and thus liberates a soul from all fears and anxieties. Similarly, the utter distaste and diapassion towards the transitory sense objects is the distaste that consumes all other distastes and thus fulfills one with infinite bliss of the Self. Basically the same thing told in a slightly different twist. Hope this makes sense

No! I refuse to be happy until the rest of the deluded herd gets on the ride as well. I am a fox whose tail has been cut. Now i must convince the rest of the foxes in the jungle to cut off their tails as well. Then only i can be happy ?

Andrea is just trying to take you guys back to Sunday church and start a friendly christian community. While you nonsualists are trying to kill Andrea. You heartless sickoes ? ?

For me its not the spelling but the whole David "the enlightened master" Hammond gimmick thats been an absolute cringefest ?

oh and another thing to mention, Vedanta almost gives zero fuck about the mind and its idiosyncrasies. It gives zero fuck about morality, values and how the state of affair in the world 'should' be like. Mind is the realm for psychology. In other parts of Vedas, all things about human endeavors are discussed. But Vedanta is all about and only about the hot and narrow pursuit of the nature of Reality and nothing else. Or as Jed McKenna puts it, its about writing 'further' on the bus and driving the damn thing full speed up the giant's ass; come what may; let all hell break loose lol

vedanta is very very cut throat, logical and discriminative. There is no place for woo-woo, feelings, beliefs or any subjective bias. If something cant survive elaborate, surgical scrutiny, its not even worth bothering about-that's the kind of attitude Advaita Vedanta has. And hence it still stands tall amidst the test of time. And its no wonder why it appeals so much to the modern, rational minds. If a visionary scientist/intellectual ever roams in any religious realm, its almost always in nondual side of things. Rupert spira often says that he personally believes that we as humanity is finally culturally ripe for the direct path of non-dual teachings without a bunch of middlemen, dogma, stories, temples, authorities, history, holy books, tradition etc.

Okay no biggie ?

yeah they have one. It's called 'Aham' which means 'I' or more accurately 'Ahamkara' which literally means "the feeling or sense of I". That sense of being located and personally owning your experience. Its right there! Vedanta categories this ego as one of the modes of mind just like other modes e.g thoughts, intellect, tendencies, memory etc. More accurately anatta or anatman means non-self. No-self is actually a negative, void term empty of meaning, an oxymoron or contradiction of terms. It is as redundant and non-sensical as the word ''jdjwjsudjwosodj" But the word anatta has a positive significance. It means all non-self stuff; all things that are NOT the Self aka all objects of Absolute Consciousness. While Absolute Conscioisness is the real Subject or the Self