Direct path seekers of enlightenment and self-realization via Advaita Vedanta, known also as non-duality, Vedanta, nondualism, advaita, or nonduality, can find discussions here regarding your original nature and the means for dwelling in the natural state. The nisarga or natural yoga as presented by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj is offered.
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F.: (Continued from 19 February 2008) Yesterday, this pointer was offered:
The fact is that no seeker’s movement along the “path” should be delayed by joining in the “blocked vs. warped vs. distracted” debate.
Instead, these key pointers remain:
1. Maharaj said that each person could realize merely by tapping into the inner resource or the inner guru except that there are “obstacles in the way.”
2. As far as illusions and concepts, “Vedanta” refers to the end of knowledge, so why not end now the dualistic accumulations of religious and/or spiritual knowledge (a.k.a., “learned ignorance”) and be free of those obstacles once and for all?
3. In addition to concepts as obstacles to Realization, even the beingness can obstruct the seeing of truth if it is not understood that the beingness, along with all concepts associated with it, is also illusion.
(Where You were in the days prior to conception, there too You were for thousands and millions of years…for infinity. Whether the beingness—the I AM—is or not, That You Are. Note also that terms such as “where” and “The Absolute” are used only for discussion and are otherwise meaningless.)
4. All assumptions regarding “individuality” are untruths to be discarded, nothing more than projections of consciousness, no different from the fact that the “world” (and all thought to be contained therein) is merely a picture of each person’s “I” consciousness.
Whether those assumptions, projections, learned ignorance, concepts, and illusions contribute to “warping” or to “blocking” or to “obstructing” is less relevant to the “journey” than realizing that those assumptions, projections, learned ignorance, concepts, and illusions include the following that must be discarded if Full Realization is to happen:
Belief in duality
Impressions
Memories
Dogma
Blind faith
Fears
Desires
The “mind”
Traditions
The refusal to at least question the thoughts and words of teachings from those considered “the authorities” (whether in the political, governmental, religious, educational, military, law enforcement, or spiritual fields)
Learned ignorance (especially of the variety of so-called religious and spiritual knowledge)
The refusal to transcend spiritual and/or religious roles
Ideas
Attitudes
Concepts
Emotions
The unnatural
The “supernatural”
Personas
Ego
Egotism
Mistaking uniformity for unicity
Assigning supernatural explanations for naturally-occurring events on the planet
Belief in “better than”
Belief in “not good enough for”
Belief in "different from"
Belief in “separate from”
Belief in “mine”
Belief in “doer-ship”
Belief in individuality
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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