#nondual — Public Fediverse posts
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A little bit of noticing goes a long way.
https://dailynonduality.substack.com/p/a-little-bit-of-noticing
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Because the "Secret" IS the very cessation of grasping, we never see anyone grasping for it and achieving it - it is invisible. Because of that, we think either it's impossible to achieve, that it is imaginary, or that it is of no value since nobody else seems to want to go for it.
Spirituality to me, is largely having the invisible truth consistently known in context, not forgetting, and having little doubt.
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RE: https://mastodonapp.uk/@BuddhismNow/116345953943414132
> The motto for becoming genuine: nothing is gained by speaking. The goodness of Vimalakirti enters the gate of nonduality.
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What remains when thought, memory, and sensation fall away?
This 3-minute guided meditation isn’t a philosophy—it’s an invitation to look directly.
A short experiential inquiry into pure awareness, beyond identity and language.▶️ Listen →
https://youtu.be/SQtOc_yNyQM#Zen #Meditation #PureAwareness #SelfInquiry #Consciousness #Nondual
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"No One Does The Doing"
Ownership/authorship/doership are the illusion. It's imagined and elaborated. Contrived and sprinkled on top.
But doing, participation, struggle, and even the feeling of a "self", are actually there regardless of any owner/author/doer.
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In the spiritual and philosophical world, I've come to find the real answers and solutions are in the silence.
The teachings or "non-silence" are just tools, not answers or solutions.
The tools can help reveal the silence by clarifying the mind, if I use them as tools. Picking up when needed and putting down when done.
Mental silence is not totally nothing either. It's the root of flow and being.
It's the difference between practicing vs just learning.
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What is always certain, but totally lacks "thingness"?
Pure observation. Awareness. Consciousness.
That thou art.
Verify for yourself.
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When was the last time your mind was satisfied enough by its own activity, that it stopped and came to rest in its natural state of peaceful awareness all by itself?
Perhaps the best way to answer this question is simply to allow it to relax into its natural state here and now, instead of with more activity trying to think or remember the last time.
Then your answer to this question, no matter when it is asked, will always be the same...: Now.
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I disagree with quite a few points, but overall I think I understand and feel most of it.
I try not to be a troll. I agree that people tend to be kinder to to each other and ourselves when we're not in physical, emotional, or existential pain. However, surgery involves additional wounds, anaesthetic involves extra liver injury, and social correction involves self-aware discomfort. (And obv evn more if you prolong it to avoid ego pain by reacting defensively.)
All that to say, removed from the context you've given here, to be fair: I think sometimes 'trolling' (strictly as a negative response and deterrent to repeating whatever the trollee thinks caused it) can be productive. Not the extreme stuff, anything restricting non-harmful freedoms, or advocating population control, more like:
"if you look for loopholes to slide around the letter of an agreement to subvert the spirit of the agreement, then your intent is wrong and you need to reflect before you harm others and yourself by cutting yourself off from the consequences of your actions."An example could be nuisance DDoS attack on organisations that push for restricting healthcare from certain demographics.
Another might be a punch to someone openly avowing neo-nazi views: not death, but immediate response that other people's lives are more important than allowing rampant hate speech for the sake of looking "impartial". I'm impartial af to people being allowed to live their best or more fulfilled lives as far as not harming others.
But sometimes, people are so deep in their pain that they assume there is no hope out or they dig their heels in and refuse to acknowledge that they could be wrong, change, or be worth anything (much less exactly the same as anyone else).Generally, yes: do no harm. Step lightly, reduce risk and mitigate harm where it's unavoidable. However, I'm against "turn the other cheek". Yet, there is always, always nuance. "Everything in moderation, including moderation."
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I didn't know what non-dualism was until I just looked it up. I read a book on tdaoism in high school that might have mentioned it but I probably forgot because yay horrifically stressful life.
People have described to me a different definition of 'shit-posting', but it's possible they were being ironic and I missed it without the original context, or the meaning drifted with time and change in usage. In any case, I know it more as "being intentionally obtuse to provoke a response"'. That's also pretty similar to my definition of art: any piece of media or multimedia created with the intent or retrospectively (retroactively?) considered to resonate emotions in the people engaging with it.
And neither of those are necessarily *only* negative, either. Or always intentional, or limited, etc.
But there are as many definitions for things as there are people who use the term..
I don't think it's possible to say "what the Buddha meant by that was..." unless you were in their head, to nitpick.
And finally, if profit incentives and hierarchical thinking continue, then of course tech will continue hostile design.
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Anger is NOT solely negative. Transformative, yes, and can be destructive to people or an idea, but there is no growth while staying exactly the same. *Something* is removed, with some amount of force.
Or as I read it somewhere, "anger is your body telling you your boundaries have been crossed". And what is a boundary if not an extension of your needs?.
I dig the vibes, overall.
I'm not spiritual or religious. I am angry because I want everyone (*every*one) to have the opportunities I had and didn't have.
If there is an afterlife, I don't want it. I want the inarguable rest of nothingness, and have done since I was a child. (Yaaaay childhood trauma from selfish adults refusing or being unable to access therapy!)You've impelled a lot of thoughts out of me with this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKuAmp0kbeU
#buddhism #buddha #spirituality #nondual #shitpost #uhhhh #IgotNothin
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"All you need are these: certainty of judgment in the present moment; action for the common good in the present moment; and an attitude of gratitude in the present moment for anything that comes your way."
- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 9.6
The commonality being "in the present moment". We don't need to cultivate these these three... we only need to return to the present moment and we always find them.
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Love Joans post - clear relatable words about thought and nondualism, without sounding too lofty.
https://joantollifson.substack.com/p/a-few-thoughts-about-thinking
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Are you attached to the tranquility of meditation?
Are you attached to the Mind?
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CW: Metacognitive & Philosophical Discussion about IDENTITY, with rhetorical questioning around a state of awareness similar to (but not restrictive or disconnecting as) DEREALIZATION, DEPERSONALIZATION, DISSOCIATION.
@erincandescent I love a #nondual perspective to subsume a view which engages the construction of oppositions.
There are means to transcend the divisions of #dualities of the mind that the humankind oft confuse for a fundamental #reality.
The opposition of those complimentary parts of any pair appear illusorily within the #aesthetic #judgement(s) of the mind.
To peer beyond the (dualistic) #constructs by which humankind passes down our relative knowledge is to loose one's bondage to dissonant aversions in the face of cognitive complexity.
The #dialectic is helpful with this: neither does the sun set that Earth not revolve about it, nor does Earth revolve about the sun that the sun not set, but so sets the sun and also revolves Earth about it.
When I engage my #metacognition, I understand "recognized reality" to be constructed by an internal #dialogue along an #Identity-#Environment axis that synthesizes a (re-)projection around pardox: awareness includes phenomena only unique to itself (awareness does not commute or permute except locally) whilst embedded within a a common substrate (the universe, not necessarily matter) _and_ the collective of which one is part is extensibly indefinite and conformally diffuse (I.e., at/to what extent is one separated from one's predecessors? From one's mother? From one's morning meal, the sweat [sic] on one's breath, or the roles played out in sleep with which one recalls no association?)
I used to #joke that "I am g-d, and you are too!" in a trans-solipsistic way, because I see the embedding of our Beings in a cross- and self-referential reality as the #divinity of what #mundaneity might else lead to hopelessness in #nihilism, though that joke usually left my audiences scratching their heads or scoffing at me in #misunderstanding (for surely I am not a primagenitor of all the squiggliness in life, but some of it for those after me and, by internalized self-projection, "All [Most of]" the squiggliness within my 1st Person PoV).
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Having found myself over-conceptualizing the nondual again lately, I wrote a somewhat lofty post to remind me of the subtle trap in this.
While the post is indeed conceptual, its my favorite kind of concept - the one that helps free me from them 😜.
I'm getting back to focusing on the peace and equanimity of nondualism through the experience and embodiment of it rather than the "idea".
https://vijayprema.com/end-game-non-dual-non-attachment/
#nondual #mindfulness #enlightenment #embodiment #spirituality #noself
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I often write articles that I myself want to re-read frequently.
Today I wrote a collection of short pointers and exercises for those interested in meditation, finding mental peace/clarity and non-dualism.
I intend to keep updating this page in future (and perhaps write a book about it eventually... stay tuned).
I hope it helps you find peace as much as it helps me 🙏
https://vijayprema.com/spiritual-pointers/
#meditation #mindfulness #nondual #nondualism #awareness #consciousness #spirituality
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Die Aussage " Du bist was du isst " haben wohl die meisten von uns bereits 1 mal konsumiert.
Vor kurzem bin ich auf die Aussage " Du bist was du suchst " aufmerksam geworden und ich empfinde volle Zustimmung.
Daher biete ich dieser Aussage eine Bühne https://rainerroessler.de/blog/emotionen-persoenlichkeit/du-bist-was-du-suchst-rainers-erfahrung/
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Time for another #Introduction.
Hoping with practice I’ll feel less awkward.American living near #Louisville Kentucky, home of #KFC. Grew up there when Dad was Colonel Sander’s head of #PublicRelations and #Franchising, Dad helped launch the first wave of Ky Fried Chicken stores in the UK and #Japan.
I’ve practiced #NonDual #Meditation for 40 years, heavily influenced by #SiddhaYoga, #Muktananda, #Nisargadatta, #SallyKempton and #RupertSpira.
There’s a good chance I’m #ActuallyAutistic.
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Tao Te Ching
Stephen Mitchell translationCh. 13 1/2
Success is as dangerous
as failure.Hope is as hollow as fear.
What does it mean that success is a dangerous as failure?
Whether you go up the ladder or down it, your position is shaky.
When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance.
What does it mean that hope is as hollow as fear?
Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self.
When we don’t see the self as self, what do we have to fear?
See the world as your self.
Have faith in the way things are.
Love the world as your self;
then you can care for all things.1 & 2
#TTC #Tao #Taoism #Chinese #Dao #Philosophy #Quotes #Books #Taoist #NonDual
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Third Patriarch of Zen
19/20One thing, all things, move among and intermingle without distinction.
To live in this realization is to be without anxiety about non-perfection.
To live in this faith is the road to non-duality, because the non-dual is one with the trusting mind.
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Finding out WHO YOU ARE is not about being more, doing more, having more, manifesting more, creating more, being the best you can be, finding out your imagined mission or purpose in life, or having financial success.
Finding out WHO YOU ARE is the realization that everything is made of the same substance, and YOU ARE THAT ONE SUBSTANCE.
-- Stephen Wolinsky - Beginner's Guide to Quantum Psychology
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Back to the Pool where Odo went,
That's where I'll be when my concepts are spent.
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@bizarrogirl
I'd love to know more about the #nondual #nondual healing. :) -
It's that time of year when I get reflective and think about what worked and didn't work over the past year. Two things that contributed enormously to my well being and had the biggest ROI:
1) taking a new job that I love, where I feel supported and valued, and where I feel in sync with the corporate values and culture
2) working with a #nonDual healer, taking a #nonDuality intro course, and participating in a #nonDuality weekly circle
Lots of goodness spiralling out from those two points
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Greetings fellow #Mastodonians Making a self #Introduction here: I am engaged in #Environmentalist, #Meditation Teacher, #MasterGardner, #RESIST, #Nonviolence, #BidenHarris, #TibetanBuddhism, #vajrayana, #Dzogchen, #Mahamudra, #nondual #FBR, #PlantATree, #AntiFascist, #BlockMagats
