An Advaita Vedanta forum focusing on Realisation, (Realization), enlightenment, non-duality, Real Love, peace, freedom, Your original nature, the natural state, and Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.
(A series offering pointers for moving through the relative existence in Love, in peace, in harmony, and in touch only with that which is natural)
F.: Among the Realized—as a result of being free of any notion of doership—nothing is believed to have been done, no person is thought to exist, so no sense of “personal benefit” or “caring about a slight” can happen. Beingness happens, and it happens without a “mind,” without noise, and without any sense of a personal doer or doingness.
Among the non-Realized masses, thoughts and words and doingness dominate, all driven by the assumption of personas as identities and by the perceived desires or fears of those personas.
To “find them out,” to uncover the false personas that are driving a non-Realized person that is preoccupied at any given moment with “getting benefits” or “caring about slights,” two Italians phrases can be used to provide the key questions that can be asked and that can reveal which personas are generating discontentment.
If discontent, upset, angry, offended, disappointed, or irritated, ask, Cui bono? (Who benefits?) or Chi se ne frega? (Who cares?) To find the false WHO is to find the fictional persona(s) affecting “you” as a result of the fact that “you” are not identified solely with “You” or with—at the point of total de-accumulation—with the Void.
At the retreat/satsang that happened last week, the pointer was offered that every personal identification accepted as real will soon be upgraded: “The Spouse” become “The Super Spouse”; “The Boss” becomes "The Super Boss"; “The Teacher” become “The Super Teacher.”
Whereas “The Spouse, Boss, and Teacher” can "survive" (at least in their own “minds”) with a spouse, an employee, and students, respectively, “The Super Spouse” must have “A Super Spouse”; “The Super Boss” must have only “Super Employees”; and “The Super Teacher” must have “Super Students.”
If the people engaging with those who have mentally upgraded their own false personas should fail to play out their co-dependent counter-roles in a "super" fashion, then the one taking himself/herself to be so "super" will make certain that those people shall pay a heavy toll for not meeting the super standards set by the one assuming "super role status."
Just as there is no such thing as a “Super Mirage,” there is no such thing as a real, "super ego-state"; therefore, there can most assuredly be no “super” version of any persona. Frustration will be guaranteed among those who have upgraded their false identities by use of the false content of their “minds” and who demand that all persons dealing with them function at a "super level" as well.
Furthermore, those upgraded versions soon inspire the formulation of hierarchies that falsely validate and thus insanely perpetuate a sense of separation. Ego and egotism have resulted in the military establishing a hierarchy; in police and fire departments doing the same; in churches and temples and mosques doing the same, the ego-state of “Supreme Leader” evolving from the latter, for example. Those ego-and-egotism-based beliefs will generate constant in-fighting.
Ego-states rooted in nationalistic tendencies do the same, with one nation's arrogant citizens proclaiming publicly that they have formed “The Greatest Nation on Earth” while some others believe the same but keep quiet about it. The most arrogant persons rank all nations from “their superpower nation” at the top down to “Third World Nations or worse” at the bottom while casting the remainder in between at various points of their imaginary hierarchy. Those ego-and-egotism-based beliefs will generate constant fighting and wars on an international scale.
Additionally, ego and egotism can generate two-person hierarchies in a “personal relationship” and one person will always think he/she is “better than” the other one. Again, ego and egotism result in “upgrading” and “downgrading,” in a sense of separation, in disharmony, in chaos, in misery and in suffering.
Only an understanding of the Oneness and the None-ness allows the relative existence to happen with spontaneity and therefore with Love, with peace, and with harmony. Only Realization can guarantee that the relative existence will happen in a manner that is natural vs. (1) a manner that is controlled by unnatural thinking and talking and doing or (2) a manner that is dominated by the magical-form-of-thinking that supernatural beliefs generate. Please enter the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)
Among the non-Realized masses, thoughts and words and doingness dominate, all driven by the assumption of personas as identities and by the perceived desires or fears of those personas.
To “find them out,” to uncover the false personas that are driving a non-Realized person that is preoccupied at any given moment with “getting benefits” or “caring about slights,” two Italians phrases can be used to provide the key questions that can be asked and that can reveal which personas are generating discontentment.
If discontent, upset, angry, offended, disappointed, or irritated, ask, Cui bono? (Who benefits?) or Chi se ne frega? (Who cares?) To find the false WHO is to find the fictional persona(s) affecting “you” as a result of the fact that “you” are not identified solely with “You” or with—at the point of total de-accumulation—with the Void.
At the retreat/satsang that happened last week, the pointer was offered that every personal identification accepted as real will soon be upgraded: “The Spouse” become “The Super Spouse”; “The Boss” becomes "The Super Boss"; “The Teacher” become “The Super Teacher.”
Whereas “The Spouse, Boss, and Teacher” can "survive" (at least in their own “minds”) with a spouse, an employee, and students, respectively, “The Super Spouse” must have “A Super Spouse”; “The Super Boss” must have only “Super Employees”; and “The Super Teacher” must have “Super Students.”
If the people engaging with those who have mentally upgraded their own false personas should fail to play out their co-dependent counter-roles in a "super" fashion, then the one taking himself/herself to be so "super" will make certain that those people shall pay a heavy toll for not meeting the super standards set by the one assuming "super role status."
Just as there is no such thing as a “Super Mirage,” there is no such thing as a real, "super ego-state"; therefore, there can most assuredly be no “super” version of any persona. Frustration will be guaranteed among those who have upgraded their false identities by use of the false content of their “minds” and who demand that all persons dealing with them function at a "super level" as well.
Furthermore, those upgraded versions soon inspire the formulation of hierarchies that falsely validate and thus insanely perpetuate a sense of separation. Ego and egotism have resulted in the military establishing a hierarchy; in police and fire departments doing the same; in churches and temples and mosques doing the same, the ego-state of “Supreme Leader” evolving from the latter, for example. Those ego-and-egotism-based beliefs will generate constant in-fighting.
Ego-states rooted in nationalistic tendencies do the same, with one nation's arrogant citizens proclaiming publicly that they have formed “The Greatest Nation on Earth” while some others believe the same but keep quiet about it. The most arrogant persons rank all nations from “their superpower nation” at the top down to “Third World Nations or worse” at the bottom while casting the remainder in between at various points of their imaginary hierarchy. Those ego-and-egotism-based beliefs will generate constant fighting and wars on an international scale.
Additionally, ego and egotism can generate two-person hierarchies in a “personal relationship” and one person will always think he/she is “better than” the other one. Again, ego and egotism result in “upgrading” and “downgrading,” in a sense of separation, in disharmony, in chaos, in misery and in suffering.
Only an understanding of the Oneness and the None-ness allows the relative existence to happen with spontaneity and therefore with Love, with peace, and with harmony. Only Realization can guarantee that the relative existence will happen in a manner that is natural vs. (1) a manner that is controlled by unnatural thinking and talking and doing or (2) a manner that is dominated by the magical-form-of-thinking that supernatural beliefs generate. Please enter the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)
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Below are five lists containing thirty-three Advaitin subjects that are discussed on the YouTube videos that follow each of the lists.
(The numeric counter information is provided so that you can move to the exact location in the videos to find any particular discussion that might be of interest)
Below are five lists containing thirty-three Advaitin subjects that are discussed on the YouTube videos that follow each of the lists.
(The numeric counter information is provided so that you can move to the exact location in the videos to find any particular discussion that might be of interest)
Advaita Topics 1-9:
1. Defining Advaita Vedanta (Counter 28-55)
2. Methods of Teaching (Counter 55-144)
3. Unicity / Nonduality (Counter 144-239)
4. I AM THAT; I AM (Counter 239-331)
5. Learn vs. Unlearn (Counter 331-413)
6. Unlearn What? (Counter 413-444)
7. Person vs. Realized (444-525)
8. The Triad (Counter 525-745)
9. Before Conception (Counter 745-901)
Click on the arrow below to start Video One and topics 1-9:
Advaita Topics 10-16:
10. No Body Continuity / “ME” (Counter 1-56)
11. Not Born / No Creation / Cannot Die (Counter 56-200)
12. No Peace of “mind” / My “mind” / “Their “mind” (Counter 200-333)
13. Brain vs. “mind” vs. Consciousness (Counter 333-500)
14. Not in the World (Counter 500-603)
15. Inner Guru (Counter 603-715)
16. Personality-Suffering Connection / Upgrading Illusions (Counter 715-840)
Click on the arrow below to start Video Two and topics 10-16:
Advaita Topics 18-24:
18. The Role-Playing + Co-dependency + Suicide Link (Counter 1-205)
19. Upgrading / Downgrading Illusions (Counter 205-300)
20. Emotions vs. Feelings (Counter 300-422)
21. Religion and Spirituality (Counter 422-547)
22. Question All (Counter 547-713)
23. Natural vs. Unnatural vs. Supernatural Living (Counter 713-833)
24. When Trillions Are Wrong (Counter 833-920)
Click on the arrow below to start Video Three and topics 18-24:
Advaita Topics 25-31:
25. Christ the Advaitin (Counter 1-150)
26. Child Ignorance / The Pre-”mind” State (Counter 150-340)
27. Child Ignorance vs. Learned Ignorance (Counter 340-439)
28. Two Levels of Witnessing (Counter 439-554)
29. Desires and Fears (Counter 554-641)
30. Consciousness vs. Awareness (Counter 641-720)
31. Real Love vs. false love (Counter 720-846)
Click on the arrow below to start Video Four and topics 25-31:
Advaita Topics 32-33:
32. Zero Concepts (Counter 1-120)
33. The Nothingness (Counter 120-250)
Click on the arrow below to start Video Five and topics 32-33:
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