Thread: The false self
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Old 24-08-2021, 10:15 AM
JustASimpleGuy
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In two great non-dual traditions - Advaita and Buddhism - there's a common theme and that is Awareness or Consciousness is the limitless and unchanging reality within which the temporal plays out. Body is temporal. Mind is temporal. Thoughts are very temporal.

No matter the degree or pace of change, we are aware from that limitless and unchanging perspective and wholly untouched or disturbed by said change. That's the Realization to be had.

In the Advaita non-dual tradition spirituality isn't the Absolute. It's just a path (practices) to Realization that we are the Absolute. The boat that carries one across the river.

Paraphrasing Jon Kabat-Zinn on meditation but it applies to seeking also: There are many doors into the room and it's not about which door is better. It's about don't stand in the doorway, enter the room.
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