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The Self
A bicycle isn't its wheels. It isn't the frame, the chain, the person pedaling, or the road. Take any one away and you don't have a broken bicycle but something that was never a bicycle to begin with. We point at things and say that's 'it'. That's the self. That's what's real. But every time you reach for the thing itself, you find it's made entirely of other things, which are made of other things and somewhere in that regression you either panic or you start to find it funny. The self […]https://ridiculousbharath.wordpress.com/2026/05/12/the-self/
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The Self
A bicycle isn't its wheels. It isn't the frame, the chain, the person pedaling, or the road. Take any one away and you don't have a broken bicycle but something that was never a bicycle to begin with. We point at things and say that's 'it'. That's the self. That's what's real. But every time you reach for the thing itself, you find it's made entirely of other things, which are made of other things and somewhere in that regression you either panic or you start to find it funny. The self […]https://ridiculousbharath.wordpress.com/2026/05/12/the-self/
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The Self
A bicycle isn't its wheels. It isn't the frame, the chain, the person pedaling, or the road. Take any one away and you don't have a broken bicycle but something that was never a bicycle to begin with. We point at things and say that's 'it'. That's the self. That's what's real. But every time you reach for the thing itself, you find it's made entirely of other things, which are made of other things and somewhere in that regression you either panic or you start to find it funny. The self […]https://ridiculousbharath.wordpress.com/2026/05/12/the-self/
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The Self
A bicycle isn't its wheels. It isn't the frame, the chain, the person pedaling, or the road. Take any one away and you don't have a broken bicycle but something that was never a bicycle to begin with. We point at things and say that's 'it'. That's the self. That's what's real. But every time you reach for the thing itself, you find it's made entirely of other things, which are made of other things and somewhere in that regression you either panic or you start to find it funny. The self […]https://ridiculousbharath.wordpress.com/2026/05/12/the-self/
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The Self
A bicycle isn't its wheels. It isn't the frame, the chain, the person pedaling, or the road. Take any one away and you don't have a broken bicycle but something that was never a bicycle to begin with. We point at things and say that's 'it'. That's the self. That's what's real. But every time you reach for the thing itself, you find it's made entirely of other things, which are made of other things and somewhere in that regression you either panic or you start to find it funny. The self […]https://ridiculousbharath.wordpress.com/2026/05/12/the-self/
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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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I know that if anyone is reading the #dafYomeme tag, they're probably expecting a daf of Talmud, but I'm tagging this for our daf of Likutei Moharan and posting some #nondualism memes inspired by today's daf
#mazeldon #jewniverse -
Running with that idea in my own words: by starting to categorize things as tov and ra, we create a differentiation - which becomes a difference/distance between ourselves and g-d. Similarly, death enters the picture the moment we begin engaging in the dualistic point of view (eating the fruit of knowledge of good and bad -> certain death). We begin to sort, "this is good, that is bad, god is here, god is not there, this is lively, that is dead", and we begin to see our own perceptions of things rather than existence as it is. (Only a sith deals in absolutes.)
Jewish practice makes things sacred and holy by honoring and making them different. It's "performative" in the Butlerian sense. We dance with the tension בֵּין קֹדֶשׁ לְחֹל as we strive to recognize that creation is still unfolding, there is no "tov", nor "ra", and we're still in the presence of the holy one.
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What am I made of?
"I" am made of "non-I" things.
And what are "non-I" things made of?
"non-non-I" things...
Feeling into this, we can see that all things are, as Buddhism says, "empty" of any independent existence.
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@RickiTarr Not all humans do separate their minds and bodies into two categories. It's very much a Western philosophy, although quite an old one. Mind/body dualism is usually credited to Descartes, but elements of the idea date back to Plato and Aristotle.
As a Catholic, I reject #CartesianDualism in favor of an older #nondualism, but it's one of the basic foundations of current philosophical theory in the West. To my knowledge, there is no equivalent philosophy outside of Western Civilization; nor was it widespread prior to Descartes and his disciples.
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#SwamiMedhananda - #Metaphysics: #Essence and #Existence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YQ3h9zU-pI
#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfConsciousness #Consciousness #PhilosophyOfMind #Mind #Religion #God #Life #Meaning #Soul #Spirit #Dualism #Monism #NonDualism #Causality #Buddhism #Hinduism #Space #Time #Vedanta #ClosertoTruth #RobertKuhn
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The idea that there is a bunch of matter existing in time, and a "me" existing for a short time within that, is a useful model of the experience going on, so it tends to be by far the most common one and goes silently unquestioned.
At any moment it can be recognized that this is only one such model and that there are infinitely many others.
It is also possible to be without any such model at all. An empty transparent state of mind, completely free and awake.
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A friend of mine recently mentioned Occam's Razor and I thought it would make for a good approach to meditative inquiry.
The reality right in front of us is simple and clear, when we shave away all that is unnecessary or added by "us", then rest there.
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Recent #meditation thoughts:
What is the difference between "awareness" and "attention"? Is shifting my attention around the same as shifting my awareness around?
When I look closely at the nature of my experience, I notice that there is in fact an awareness of attention.There can be an awareness of where attention is focused. Awareness doesn't shift around.
It is so subtle but the closer I get to the "I thought" and relax into it, the clearer this becomes.
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I don't have kids but I really loved listening to this short and wise childrens book...
It is indeed for ages 4 to 104!
I'm reminded that all is temporary. Feelings, experiences, personality, even a solid sense of self all come and go. And yet there is that sense of direct "I" that always stays regardless of all that. Just raw conscious experience itself.
#rupertspira #meditation #mindfulness #spirituality #nondualism #children #books #consciousness #animation
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I guess I'll do an #introduction, now that I'm here!
Howdy y'all, I'm Em.These days I'm feeling too #queer for shul here in Germany, too religious for the queer "community".
I spend a lot of time thinking about how Whiteness and White supremacism manifest in our society and minds. I'm learning to #decolonize my self and always looking for friends who actively seek the same.
I also spend a lot of time these days thinking about #phenomenology, #animism, #panentheism(/ #monism?), and #nondualism.
I'm a software developer by day, but that world is becoming less and less important to me.
My partner and I have a 70 year old steel sailboat that we're completely overhauling together, and someday we hope to set sail from #Hamburg towards wherever the wind takes us. I'll tag posts about the boat with #SVBellaCiao, you can follow that tag if you want.
Until then, come on over. Let me make you a tea. How ya doin, but I mean it, really. Whatcha thinkin about these days?
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@thor i did a course of this when i was in a mess; it kinda helped, but for ultimate results go all the way to #nondualism
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#AdvaitaVedanta (/ʌdˈvaɪtə vɛˈdɑːntə/; Sanskrit: अद्वैत वेदान्त, is a #Hindu #sādhanā, a #path of #spiritual #discipline and #experience, and the oldest #extant #tradition of the #orthodox Hindu school #Vedānta. The term #Advaita (literally "non-secondness", but usually rendered as "#nondualism",and often equated with #monism) refers to the idea that #Brahman alone is ultimately real, while the #transient phenomenal world is an illusory appearance (#maya) of Brahman.
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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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3 lessons on emotional sobriety
https://embrace-autism.com/3-lessons-on-emotional-sobriety/
#Emotional/affectiveempathy #Compassionateempathy #Pathologicalaltruism #Emotionalregulation #Emotionalsobriety #Cognitiveempathy #Emotionalcontrol #Socialawareness #Self-sacrifice #Mentalhealth #Camouflaging #Codependency #Alexithymia #RupertSpira #Compassion #Nondualism #Awareness #Altruism #Buddhism #Empathy #Books #Video -
3 lessons on emotional sobriety
https://embrace-autism.com/3-lessons-on-emotional-sobriety/
#Emotional/affectiveempathy #Compassionateempathy #Pathologicalaltruism #Emotionalregulation #Emotionalsobriety #Cognitiveempathy #Emotionalcontrol #Socialawareness #Self-sacrifice #Mentalhealth #Camouflaging #Codependency #Alexithymia #RupertSpira #Compassion #Nondualism #Awareness #Altruism #Buddhism #Empathy #Books #Video -
3 lessons on emotional sobriety
https://embrace-autism.com/3-lessons-on-emotional-sobriety/
#Emotional/affectiveempathy #Compassionateempathy #Pathologicalaltruism #Emotionalregulation #Emotionalsobriety #Cognitiveempathy #Emotionalcontrol #Socialawareness #Self-sacrifice #Mentalhealth #Camouflaging #Codependency #Alexithymia #RupertSpira #Compassion #Nondualism #Awareness #Altruism #Buddhism #Empathy #Books #Video -
3 lessons on emotional sobriety
https://embrace-autism.com/3-lessons-on-emotional-sobriety/
#Emotional/affectiveempathy #Compassionateempathy #Pathologicalaltruism #Emotionalregulation #Emotionalsobriety #Cognitiveempathy #Emotionalcontrol #Socialawareness #Self-sacrifice #Mentalhealth #Camouflaging #Codependency #Alexithymia #RupertSpira #Compassion #Nondualism #Awareness #Altruism #Buddhism #Empathy #Books #Video -
#nondualism #dialogic #dialectic #scybernethics
Hi Andrea. I have developed a non-dualist "dialogical dialectics" which could may be interest you ?! At least you may find interesting refs to follow. Here's a link toward it:
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https://youtu.be/nWIK5T_7WPE
This is an interesting bit of insight from #CarlJung, read by the always insightful #AlanWatts. You can't connect with others if you pass judgment on them. Learning to accept others' flaws also means learning to face and accept your own dark side.
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@mmeadway
Reminds me of an #AlanWatts quote:
"There can be Eichmanns and Hitlers and Himmlers just because there are people who are unconscious of their own dark sides. [These people] project that darkness outward into Jews or Communists or whatever the enemy may be and say ‘There is the darkness; it is not in me. And therefore because the darkness is not in me, I am justified in annihilating this enemy!’”
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@SrRochardBunson
Curious what got you interested in #Taoism? I haven't read all of the Tao Te Ching, but I started to get the concept. I recently became interested in various types of #nondualism. It seems to make it easier to cope with our frustrating species and remain decent. -
Adding some hashtags since my interests are all over the place. I'll add more when I think of them. #PositiveMasculinity, #Ethnomusicology, #Afrofuturism, #OldPeopleOfMastodon, #AlanWatts, #AlanLomax, #nonduality, #nondualism, #esoteric, #DarkAmbient, #SpiralDynamics, #metamodernism, #Neoplatonism, #IFS, #InternalFamilySystems
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Questioner: I do not have to do anything?
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj: What have you done so far?
#nondualism #MastoArt