What is the self ? What is consciousness? What is reality ? According to Advaita

[Someone here]

4 minutes ago, Breakingthewall said:

I can meditate (sometimes in 2 minutes) until the subject-object duality collapses, and then reality opens without limit. At that moment, there is no "being conscious of." This doesn't mean one is unconscious, but rather that the act of being conscious dissolves into the reality that is.

Afterward, the structure returns, and I think: wow, I was conscious of the absolute without being conscious of being conscious, because if I had been conscious of being conscious, there would have been a duality, which is a structure, which is a barrier.

I don't know if I'm explaining myself clearly.

You are not explaining yourself clearly, that’s for sure.

you didn’t answer the question. You once again treat this as a philosophical discussion about what is more rational instead of a scientific investigation into what is actual .

what is more actual and tangible? Consciousness/experience? Or your ideas about what an “absolute “ should be ?

Edited 2 hours ago by Someone here

[Breakingthewall]

Some others . I'm quoting just to show, imo their explanations are too dark, could be much more simple and direct, but at least there are not mistakes. 

 

"The person merges into the witness, the witness into awareness, awareness into pure being, yet identity is not lost, only its limitations are lost. It is transfigured and becomes the real Self." 

 

"As long as you are a seeker, better cling to the idea that you are pure consciousness, free from all content. To go beyond consciousness is the supreme state." 

"The source of consciousness cannot be an object in consciousness. To know the source is to be the source." 

"You have to be there before you can say 'I am'. The 'I am' is the root of all appearance." 

"The 'I am' itself is an illusion; you are not the 'I am'. You are prior to it." 

"In pure being consciousness arises; in consciousness the world appears and disappears."

"One thing is quite clear to me; all that is, lives and moves and has its being in consciousness, and I am in and beyond that consciousness." 

[Someone here]

16 hours ago, Breakingthewall said:

Consciousness arises as a disturbance in the Absolute, and in consciousness the world arises. When you realize that you are not the person, but the pure observer, you take a step back. But the observer remains in consciousness. You must go even further, to the Absolute, where there is no consciousness of 'I am,' where you are the Pure Being prior to all being or non-being. The Absolute is your true state, unchanging and imperishable, unaware that it is.

— Nisargadatta Maharaj, "I Am That"

The way I understand this btw is he is saying the ultimate truth can really never be said because once you’re “ there “ you don’t need to voice it or explain it . You just abide in the moment .

[Breakingthewall]

10 minutes ago, Someone here said:

what is more actual and tangible? Consciousness/experience?

What is actual tangible is being. Consciousness/experience is an idea that implies that you are conscious or something, that you are having an experience. What Happens  is that "being" in this form appears as experience, but experience is secondary 

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[James123]

6 minutes ago, Breakingthewall said:

So he says that the true self is the sadguru, the eternal friend and guide , but it means that reality is nothing. Well, if you say so....

He also said this: 

"The source of consciousness cannot be an object in consciousness. To know the source is to be the source. When you realize that you are not the person, but the pure and calm witness, and that fearless awareness is your very being, you are the Being. It is the Source, the Inexhaustible Possibility."

It is simply Being, which is eternal, never born or dies. 

In simply Being, or pure consciousness, either reality or not doesn't matter. Life is untouched, flow it's own. 

You are the source of the water, yet water flows it's own. 

As body, life, existence all itself. Yet source is You. 

Existence will fade away, or body. 

You are always what You are.

[Breakingthewall]

2 minutes ago, Someone here said:

The way I understand this btw is he is saying the ultimate truth can really never be said because once you’re “ there “ you don’t need to voice it or explain it . You just abide in the moment .

The ultimate truth is unlimited being. You can't being open to the unlimited being if there is any structure, but after when the structure returns you can say: I was conscious of the ultimate nature of reality, and the subject and the object were one.