#non-dualism

[ultred]

10 things i did that made me a better manifestor.

one. i let go of logic because life itself is not logical. even the physical world. (3d) we live on a flying rock stuffed with magma with an ocean we barely know anything of around a giant ball of plasma with other floating rocks in a galaxy within another galaxies within a universe and apparently we are the only living beings we know of so far in an infinite universe where time doesn’t really exist. oh, and our flying rock has another flying rock that orbits it and all of this is held together by gravity. does that sound logical to you ?

two. when i want something, i give it to myself in imagination as if it is already happening/already happened. i experience my desire in my imagination. i don’t care anymore about the 3d and i don’t wait for it to validate me. i validate myself.

three. i manifested small things first. i would put my awareness on things that i don’t really care about or stuff i’d like ‘cause why not and would instantly manifest them. i kept finding ways to prove to my “ego” that the law is real and now it shuts up more often.

four. i stopped listening to music, films, content, and tv shows that impact my mood negatively. this might not be the same for everyone but i noticed that the songs i continuously listen to heavily impact my mood and put my awareness on things i don’t want to manifest. same with the other media. however, i still acknowledge that i’m fully in control now. just when i started, i preferred to distance myself from them.

five. i listened to neville goddard’s books as i fell asleep. (i did it once and woke up feeling and thinking completely differently for some reason. even some of my manifestations happened while listening)

six. what worked, worked and i stopped overcomplicating it. so many manifestation “techniques” worked for me especially subliminals, affirmations, scripting, and visualization ! i didn’t keep searching for other techniques. these worked so i just continued doing them and that’s it.

seven. i used my stubbornness in my favor. i am a really stubborn person and i decided to use that in a way that benefits me instead of whining about being stubborn about stuff that aren’t in my favor.

eight. i fully acknowledged that everyone is me pushed out and tested it. eiypo is 100% real and it doesn’t matter what anyone says because no one has free will in your own reality and if you focus enough, you’ll see it.

nine. i stopped trying. i stopped being the person who puts too much effort into anything. my relationship, my friendships, my connection to others, finding a job, getting money, etc. etc. i just assume that i have what i want and that’s it. i don’t want to be the person who does everything and puts all the effort anymore.

ten. 3d and 4d are the same. practicing non-dualism has helped me a lot in manifesting. 3d and 4d are the same. there is no separation. everything is you and you are everything. that’s it.

[esotericpluto]

desire: the root of all suffering

The root of all suffering and lack is desire. The more you desire, the more lack you inflict on yourself, the more lack you experience. The very nature of desire is to lack, as you shall not desire something you already own.

When you drop the desire, you allow yourself to be fulfilled and complete as you are, you connect to your truest essence and realize you are awareness and already have everything you thought you desired. You never lacked anything and if you ever saw lack, you saw an illusion that separated you from who you truly are.

You're the beginning and the end, yet you're also an infinite, complete being. You don't have to do anything, you don't have to be a doer, you don't have to act towards love or abundance as you are already nothing but love and abundance. You cannot lack what you already are, you cannot lack your essence. If you're everything, how can you not have everything already?

[goddessxeffect]

« INTRO: AWAKEN TO (YOUR)SELF »

A BEGINNERS GUIDE TO ALL THINGS CONSCIOUSNESS

This blog used to be a journal in the process of self realization of it's creator but has yet turned out to be a collection of sources and information guiding you too on your way back to your true Being. It all started with the question: “Who are you really?” and the realization that reality is not what it seems. I'm at a point now where I do not follow any teachings or concepts anymore nor did I consent in strictly deviding law of assumption from non dualism in the past. Nowadays, I see myself as an advocate for Self-realization. That being said, I really want to distance myself from any "new age manifestation/law of assumption" (do this to get xyz) teachings practised on youtube or tiktok.

I did create my own content in the past but stopped because there is nothing new to say and my understanding has deepened. Posts and annotations written by me are easily recognisable by my typical colour code, which is obviously displayed here. I only answer questions for understanding or clarification, guidelines here.

HOW TO START

Advaita Vendata (Non Dualism): an Introduction

Core of non dual understanding

If everything is consciousness, I am everything and everything is me? I still feel like "me", I don't feel like god of my reality How to become aware(ness) How to control the thoughts How to be free from emotions and thoughts Stop concerning yourself with the wants and needs of Ego How to loose attachment to Ego What you really are How to be Consciousness/ Awareness

In the end, the only question remaining should be who you are without all the labels attached to "I am". You will come to discover you do not want freedom from this shape alone, but from all shapes. Be aware of your past being over. "External world shows otherwise? Just be like "for how long do you think it can keep this up when you have nothing to do with it?" @Ada

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You can experience pain in your life but you don’t have to ‘suffer’ the pain.”  - Anon I mus

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ADDITIONAL MATERIAL

... what to find on my blog through the tags

Advise/FAQs: Koda, Nova, iam-you, Cassie, Bry, Jag, Vesora, Lain, more What is Ego? How it feels to be Self / Awareness All on Self Realization and Detachment All on LOA trough a non dualistic view Books

If you still want to focus on "getting your desires" after been through all the info, search Neville Goddard (all his books and lectures). If you have a hard time understanding Neville, I advise some people who break down his teachings in a short and modern way of speaking: Edward Art (Reddit(Series), Audio), embodythestate, niclasupgradetolife, Josiah Brandt on YouTube

[cisnnel]

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⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀como se desapegar dos sentidos?

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⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ o caminho para o despertar!

onde começa as suas frustrações? onde termina os seus desejos? você está tão agarrado nos sentidos que provavelmente não pode dizer.

a ânsia por essa libertação é pungente e seu caminho é naturalmente espinhoso para mente humana, pois ela está terminantemente envolvida em todas as camadas de preocupações que esse corpo a obriga ter.

é por essas preocupações que obedecemos "o chamado interno" de ir ao encontro do silêncio, da apatia e indiferença por esse mundo.

para maioria das pessoas, o desapego é um processo e consequentemente um progresso, e como você sabe se está progredindo? observando a si mesmo.

observe se quando alguém o irrita o ódio lhe consome, se você gasta horas e talvez dias remoendo e voltando psicologicamente ao estado primordial daquele sentimento ruim. se a resposta for sim, então você não está progredindo.

observe se quando você deita a cabeça no travesseiro e fecha os olhos o seu coração se enche de intenções e tensões passadas, "preciso passar no vestibular", "preciso emagrecer" ou então "odeio o que fizeram comigo na semana passada", "odeio que meu vizinho faz barulho todos os domingos". se a reposta for sim, então você não está progredindo.

nada adianta se você faz longas leituras espirituais, ouve palestras ou seja lá no que mais você busca validação só para depois reagir ao mínimo desagrado. você ainda está preso em maya, maya é a realidade aparente, que nutre sua identificação com a carne e reafirma sua humanidade. mas não pense que ser desapegado de maya é negar as experiências dessa vida, é sobre sentir, observar e então não reagir profundamente e disso nascerá a AUTOINDAGAÇÃO, o seu caminho e sua única verdade.

a autoindagação é a prática mais simplista de compreender a irrealidade do "eu". faça o seguinte: todas as noites quando ir dormir e sua mente começar a ser violada por todo tipo de pensamento (bom ou ruim, importante ou banal, não faça distinção) faça uma indagação.

se sua mente fazê-lo pensar que amanhã precisará levantar cedo para ir trabalhar, pergunte: "para quem vem esse pensamento?"/"quem tem que ir trabalhar amanhã?". se sua mente fazê-lo pensar que você ama demais seu namorado, pergunte: "para quem vem esse pensamento?"/"quem tem esse namorado?"/"quem ama esse namorado?".

perceba que você não está julgando e nem refletindo sobre seus pensamentos, você apenas observa e então faz um questionamento gentil. é importante entender que você não deve tentar forçar sua mente a nada, não tente trazer pensamentos mais agradáveis porque parece mais confortável, deixe a mente reclamar o quanto quiser, a mente sempre vai relutar e tentar sair do molde que você quer encaixá-la, mas adivinha o que acontece quando em vez de tentar mudá-la você apenas escuta? ela se cala! ao fazer isso, você rejeita qualquer tipo de vínculo que maya tenta estabelecer com o eu, o eu que é puro, que não tem nada e não é nada.

talvez você hesite ou queira desistir da autoindagação quando a mente lhe confrontar com pensamentos ruins, que te deixam amedrontado, mas não dê de ombros. sinta as emoções, deixe elas impregnar seu coração enquanto você continua indagando quantas vezes for preciso até vir outro pensamento, e então você verá que logo o pensamento anterior estará morto, ele não irá mais pertubar sua mente, ele não poderá deixá-lo angustiado e temeroso, afinal, ele não teve resposta quando você perguntou para quem ele vinha, pois você (o eu) não existe e o que não existe não pode responder, não é manchado e não cede aos caprichos de maya. você verá maya como ele realmente é, apenas uma ilusão, onde os problemas não incomodam e até as belezas e amores não são interessantes, o mundo se tornará distante e indiferente e você será intangível a ele, você estará desapegado de tudo isso! sabe a sensação de estar assistindo um filme na tv? de estar assistindo um vídeo do youtube no seu celular? é assim que a vida irá parecer para você, é assim que ela é no final das contas; apenas algo lúdico para ser observado.

novamente, é bom reforçar que despertar para a verdade e o desapego não é sinônimo de desdenhar das graças de maya, aqueles que alçaram esse estado de imaculação ainda desfrutam do que desejam, mas eles não esquecem da verdade, eles lembram que não há nada realmente ali e se soltam de sua humanidade tão facilmente quanto se recolhem nela.

[omegaphilosophia]

The Philosophy of Zen

The philosophy of Zen is a branch of Mahayana Buddhism that emphasizes direct experience, mindfulness, and the attainment of enlightenment through meditation and intuitive insight rather than through doctrinal study or ritualistic practices. Originating in China as Chan Buddhism and later flourishing in Japan as Zen, this philosophy seeks to transcend the dualities of ordinary thought and to awaken to the true nature of reality, which is seen as beyond conceptual understanding.

Key Concepts in the Philosophy of Zen:

Direct Experience and Enlightenment (Satori):

Immediate Awareness: Zen emphasizes direct, immediate experience as the path to enlightenment (satori). This means engaging with reality without the interference of conceptual thought or the ego, often through practices such as meditation (zazen) and mindful awareness.

Satori: Enlightenment in Zen, known as satori, is often described as a sudden, profound realization of the interconnectedness of all things and the emptiness (śūnyatā) that underlies reality. This insight transcends ordinary understanding and reveals the true nature of existence.

Meditation (Zazen):

Seated Meditation: Zazen, or seated meditation, is the core practice of Zen. It involves sitting in a specific posture, focusing on the breath, and observing thoughts without attachment. The aim is to quiet the mind, develop concentration, and eventually experience deep states of awareness and insight.

Beyond Techniques: While zazen is a formal practice, Zen teaches that meditation can extend into all aspects of life, encouraging practitioners to bring the same mindfulness and presence into everyday activities.

Koans and Paradoxes:

Koans: Koans are paradoxical statements or questions used in Zen practice to transcend logical thinking and provoke direct insight. A well-known example is, "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" The purpose of a koan is not to find a logical answer but to break down the barriers of conventional thought and open the mind to a more profound reality.

Beyond Rationality: Zen often challenges the limits of rationality, using paradox and contradiction to point out that true understanding is beyond intellectual comprehension.

Non-Dualism and Emptiness (Śūnyatā):

Transcending Duality: Zen philosophy rejects the dualistic thinking that separates the self from the world, subject from object, and good from bad. Instead, it teaches that all distinctions are illusory and that true reality is non-dual.

Emptiness: The concept of emptiness (śūnyatā) is central to Zen. It refers to the idea that all things are interconnected and lack an independent, permanent essence. Understanding this emptiness is key to realizing the impermanent and interdependent nature of reality.

Mindfulness and Present-Moment Awareness:

Living in the Present: Zen encourages practitioners to live fully in the present moment, without attachment to the past or anxiety about the future. This mindfulness is cultivated in both formal meditation and daily activities.

Mindful Action: Zen teaches that any action, no matter how mundane, can be an opportunity for mindfulness and awareness. The concept of "being one with the task" is emphasized, where the distinction between the doer and the deed dissolves.

Simplicity and Naturalness:

Simplicity: Zen values simplicity in both thought and lifestyle. This is reflected in Zen art, architecture, and daily practices, which emphasize naturalness, austerity, and the beauty of the unadorned.

Natural Flow: Zen encourages a natural way of being, in harmony with the flow of life. This idea is often illustrated by metaphors of nature, such as the effortless way a tree grows or a river flows.

Compassion and Ethical Living:

Bodhisattva Ideal: Although Zen emphasizes direct personal experience, it also upholds the Mahayana Buddhist ideal of the bodhisattva—someone who seeks enlightenment not just for themselves but for the benefit of all beings. Compassion and ethical conduct are integral to this path.

Engaged Buddhism: In modern times, Zen has also inspired forms of engaged Buddhism, where mindfulness and ethical living are applied to social, environmental, and political issues.

Art, Aesthetics, and Expression:

Zen Arts: Zen has profoundly influenced Japanese arts, including tea ceremony, calligraphy, poetry (such as haiku), and gardening. These arts embody the principles of simplicity, mindfulness, and the transient nature of existence.

Expression of Enlightenment: In Zen, artistic expression is often seen as an extension of the meditative mind. The spontaneity and directness found in Zen arts reflect the same qualities valued in Zen practice.

Non-Attachment and Letting Go:

Letting Go of Ego: Zen teaches the importance of letting go of the ego, desires, and attachments that create suffering. By relinquishing these attachments, one can experience a deeper, more peaceful state of being.

Non-Striving: Paradoxically, Zen teaches that enlightenment cannot be attained through effort alone; it requires a state of non-striving, where one lets go of the desire for enlightenment and simply allows it to arise naturally.

Silence and the Ineffable:

Beyond Words: Zen often emphasizes the limitations of language in capturing the essence of reality. Many Zen teachings are conveyed through silence or direct, non-verbal actions, highlighting that the deepest truths cannot be fully expressed in words.

Ineffability of Truth: Zen suggests that true understanding comes from direct experience, not from intellectual discussion or analysis. This is reflected in the Zen saying, "The finger pointing at the moon is not the moon," indicating that teachings are merely pointers to the truth, not the truth itself.

The philosophy of Zen offers a unique approach to understanding the nature of reality and the self, emphasizing direct experience, mindfulness, and the transcendence of dualistic thinking. By cultivating a deep awareness of the present moment and embracing the simplicity and natural flow of life, Zen practitioners seek to realize the interconnectedness of all things and attain enlightenment. This philosophy has had a profound influence on both Eastern and Western thought, inspiring not only spiritual practice but also art, literature, and approaches to everyday living.

[manifestingnoobie]

Why I Like Non-Dualism

From a spiritual perspective:

It confirms to me what I've thought of before, that none of this is real. I don't know maybe I'm weird but sometimes I stare at my hand or myself in the mirror a little too long and think "lul how is this real." There is only one, universal truth and true identity, and that is consciousness or awareness. Everything else isn't real; the mind-body we occupy that we call human, or in ND terms, the ego, is but a role that consciousness assumes. Ego is one form or extension of consciousness. Another is imagination, dreams. Both are equal and valid as a form of consciousness and both are as unreal as the other, equally a product of the human mind. If you were numb head to toe, deaf, blind, and with your sense of smell and taste removed, then is there really any difference to being awake or asleep? Consciousness or awareness is the only truth that is always present (or source, universe, the divine, God, but ultimately all of existence is all one and no separation).

From a manifesting perspective:

If it's not real, why even get so worked up for? It is all one and no separation, imagination and physical, equal in terms as a form of consciousness, temporary and unreal while consciousness will always remain, the only truth. Thoughts come and go. Now, just because it's not real doesn't mean there's no point to anything and we shouldn't enjoy things, that's not how I view it. All it means to me is again, there is no separation and they're equal, so with that in mind I treat imagination with as much meaning and valid of an existence (if not more) as the physical.

I feel like Law of Assumption, at least in loablr explanations, doesn't explore and do the deep dive as to WHY we SHOULD accept imagination as the true reality and what it really means to be consciousness, the operant power, etc. Plus everything seems to imply we affirm/visualize/script to get, form an assumption, get into a dominant state, to know and etc. when there is nothing to get at all. Okay to be fair, we get told we have it already, it's not a process, the 3D is irrelevant and past assumptions blah, but WHY? Why is it past assumptions? Why do I have it already? Why should I ignore the 3D?

After learning non-dualism and reflecting on the ways my life unfolded, everything just makes more sense to me now. Consciousness, awareness is our true identity. It was never about believing or even conscious knowing and deciding (after all, our lives do not unfold from those things alone before we even knew of manifesting) but where awareness is.

Where awareness finds itself becomes truth.

Also thank you to @manifestingitgurlll and her referring to @msperfect777 for learning about non-dualism and this total click and sense of awakening for me. 💕

I literally mini-shifted with these applications and understanding, I'm so grateful. 😭

[gnosisandtheosis]

This weekend my church's annual Conclave is happening. Our Conclave isn't to select a new head of the church, it's a gathering of clergy and laity with speakers and opportunities to share the liturgy. This year is the first in person one for a couple of years (not counting the mini-clave here in Australia last year to ordain our bishop). Luckily for me, since travel to the US isn't safe for people like me at the moment, I've been able to watch the talks remotely. I missed the first day due to work/timezones but I caught all of today's talks and they were great as always. Today's talks were:

Theosis and Theurgy: Christian Mysticism as a Magical Narrative by Carl McColman, lay Cistercian and author of The New Big Book of Christian Mysticism among other titles.

St. Athanasius and the Gift of Divinization by Most Rev. Dr William Behun, archbishop of Wisconsin and Primate for the United States of America for Apostolic Johannite Church.

Non-Dualism, The Johannite Tradition, and a Fresh Perspective on Jesus' Message by the newly minted (as in ordained at Conclave today) Rev. Deacon Brad Rees.

Principles of Gnostic Spirituality by Dr M. David Litwa author of 20 books in the fields of early Christian and Gnostic studies.

All of these were enjoyable to listen to and I recommend checking them out when they are uploaded to the Apostolic Johannite Church Youtube channel, which also has lots of recordings of past Conclave speakers.

One more day of speakers tomorrow that I'm excited for, despite the timezones meaning I have to get up at 5am to walk the dog before the first lecture at 5:30.

[raffaellopalandri]

Desire Desire Beyond Lack: Deleuze and Guattari’s Ontology of Production and Its Cross-Philosophical ResonancesDesire

In their groundbreaking work Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari revolutionise the very concept of desire, severing it from its traditional association with lack and repositioning it as a force of positive production. This short post offers an in-depth exegesis of their pivotal assertion “Desire is not a lack, it is a plenitude, a positivity: desire…

[alephskoteinos]

A view to a solar non-dualism

During my study of the Greek Magical Papyri, a while back I encountered a phrase at the end of PGM IV. 1596-1715, which is a spell for Helios. The last line of the papyrus says that, when the consecration is complete, the magician must say the following: "the one Zeus is Sarapis".

I thought about that phrase again recently, maybe while going through The Concepts of the Divine in the Greek Magical Papyri, and it strikes me as a solar image of non-duality.

"The one Zeus is Sarapis", "heis Zeus Sarapis", but Sarapis (Serapis) is also an image of Hades or Plouton, being a god of the underworld and lord of the dead (not to mention a fusion of the god Osiris and the bull Apis). That's actually quite explicit when you get to Sarapis' iconography. In fact that were instances where Serapis and Hades or Plouton were explicitly identified with each other. In fact, that link is even more explicit in Porphyry's Philosophia ex oraculis, where he described Serapis as one of the gods who rule the infernal daimons, the others being Hekate and the demon dog Kerberos.

From this standpoint, I interpret the formula "heis Zeus Sarapis" as meaning that Zeus and Hades are one. In some ways that could be seen not only as a form of syncretism but also as an expression of theological monism, or certainly of the kind that was being developed around the time of Hellenistic Egypt.

But there's more to it, because this is also a solar image. Zeus-Sarapis was also Zeus-Helios-Sarapis, or Zeus Helios Great Sarapis. In the eastern desert of Egypt, under Roman occupation, one could except to find many images of the god Zeus Helios Megas Sarapis. especially in a place called Dios (now called Abu Qurayyah). There was also a temple dedicate to that god at Mons Claudianus, consecrated by a slave named Epaphroditos. Some scholars, of course, interpret this as a Greek interpretation of the Egyptian god Amun Ra. Furthermore, the phrase "heis Zeus Sarapis" has been found inscribed on a depiction of Harpocrates, Horus the Child, a deity who was frequently syncretised with Helios and thus seen as a solar god. Zeus, Helios, and Serapis were also sometimes seen as one godhead. This perhaps derives from an Orphic saying, purportedly attributed to an oracle of Apollo, which says "Zeus, Hades, Helios-Dionysus, three gods in one godhead!". In Flavius Claudius Julianus Hymn to Helios, this is rendered as "Zeus, Hades, Helios Serapis, three gods in one godhead!", which perhaps suggests that Serapis was being identified with Dionysus. Either way, it establishes a theology in which the three gods are mutually identified and unified as a solar godhead.

Since Helios was the sun god par excellence in this context, Zeus-Helios-Sarapis was seen as a solar deity, and thus it is a solar image. More importantly, it is an image of the non-duality of the sun. This incidentally is not out of step with certain monistic trends insofar as they also reflected a kind of solar theology. For example, Macrobius interpreted the myth of Saturn or Kronos as an expression of the generative power of the sun, thus identifying Saturn/Kronos with the sun, which Macrobius thought was the highest divine principle and even the ultimate basis of all the other gods.

The non-duality that I'm getting into, by this point, should be understood as something that involves and transcends a certain measure of "evil", or at least contains the infernal in itself. This lends itself to a dual-natured solar divinity that is by no means unfamiliar within ancient polytheism. Sun gods, perhaps like many other gods, were very double-sided. For example, the Iranian sun god Mithra was seen both as a benevolent deity concerned with friendship and contract, and as a mysteries, uncanny, and even "sinister" or "warlike" deity (though, these aspects are often attributed to his syncretic form as Mitra-Varuna). Kris Kershaw suggested in The One-Eyed God: Odin and the (Indo-)Germanic Männerbünde that the daeva Aeshma actually represented an aspect of Mithra's being. In Egypt, the wrathful goddess Sekhmet was also understood as an aspect of the power of Ra. The Mesopotamian sun god, Utu, or Shamash, was also a judge in the underworld. Another Mesopotamian god, Nergal, was a warlike god of disease and death who also represented a harsh aspect of the sun. Apollo, an oracular deity who was eventually associated with the sun, was also seen as a destroyer and shared Nergal's association with disease in addition to healing. Helios himself was also sometimes referred to as a destroyer, as indicated by one of his epithets, Apollon. In fact, even Helios may have been connected or in some cases even identified with Hades. At Smyrna, Plouton was worshipped as Plouton-Helios. This may even have reflected the notion of a nocturnal Sun that shone in the realm of the dead, perhaps inherited from Egypt. In some parts of Greece, Helios was also invoked alongside a chthonic form of Zeus in oath-swearing ceremonies.

The real fun I'd like to get into with this concept comes from hongaku-inspired forms of medieval Buddhist theology and their influence on the Shinto pantheon. And in that sense our focus turns to none other than Amaterasu, the Japanese sun goddess who was also the divine patron of sovereignty. The medieval Amaterasu was to some extent equated with all deities at all levels - naturally, this meant even the demonic and chthonic deities. Thus Amaterasu was both a saving deity and a wrathful deity in the Buddhist context. Late medieval Shinto theology had even crowned her a "deity of the Dharma nature", a unique kind of deity with no original ground, and thus a transcendent power akin to that of Dainichi Nyorai (Vairocana Buddha). The Tenshō daijin kuketsu identified Amaterasu with Bonten (Brahma), Taishakuten (Indra), and Shoten, and then with Yama in the underworld because she records the dharmas of good and evil, and from there it asserts that we are dealing with the same deity in all cases. The same text also says that Kukai interpreted Amaterasu as the great deity of the five paths in the underworld, and therefore the primordial deity controlling birth and death. In some respects she was even seen as an araburu-no-kami just like Susano-o, both sharing a double ambivalence that is projected onto their opposition. In other cases, Amaterasu was identified with the Buddhist god Sanbo Kojin, the wild or demonic god of the three poisons who was interpreted as the honji or "original ground" of Amaterasu, and then by extension Amaterasu was identified with Mara, the demon king himself, in the same way.

All of this, of course, is an expression of the non-dualism of hongaku thought, in which the darkness of unenlightened passion and ignorance (thus the realm of the demons) is at once enlightenment and Buddha nature, and not only this it is both simultaneously the ground of enlightenment and Buddha nature and also, ultimately, indistinguishable from enlightenment and Buddha nature.

[themotherofrevelation]

Devī is everything; She does not force-perform. There is no such thing as free will in the absolute, non-dual Universe. Grace is omnipresent.

[perfesh]

Is non-duality like a slime that can mold itself to be anything?

Like you're a slime (awareness) and you mold yourself into a man name Andy (from toy story), but that's not who you truly are. Andy is a character you are currently acting (conscious/observing) as, but your true being is just the slime (awareness)?

Is that what imagination is? Molding awareness into something it's not. If so, now I understand why people say that they are imagination.

[thinundualseita]

Tudo o que aparece é você. Perceba👁👁

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Ai eu ainda vejo tanta gente pensando nossa eu tô tão frustrado por não ter isso não ter aquilo como que você vai ter algo ou deixar de ter sendo que tudo é você, ai mas se tudo é eu por que tantos problemas aparecem para eu mesmo? simplesmente problemas só aparecem, tudo isso aqui é nada mais nada menos do que o amado eterno aparecendo como tudo, você é esse amado que aparece como tudo, você que é o amado aparece como essa falsa aparência aparece como seus pais sua família aparece como tudo, tudo é você inclusive você também é em si ADR e também instalagem. Que como eu disse tudo é você, tudo é composto pelo amado infinito eterno. Vários nomes podem chamá-lo, mas eu prefiro chamá-lo de amado por conta do Tony Person, e é sobre isso. Então basicamente não se estresse por não ter algo, porque é impossível você ter ou deixar de ter, porque os problemas simplesmente aparecem. Não ter algo é algo que simplesmente aparece, não existe, ninguém tendo estes problemas. É que nem o vento, você não consegue pegá-lo, eles não existem, são inexistentes, perceba isso.

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[goddessxeffect]

《 MASTERPOST: Let go and let God 》

Quotes from blog post and answers from other bloggers regarding certain topics based in the teachings of law of consciousness and non duality. This is a summary of everything I think is incredibly useful and has been for me in understanding and applying this lifestyle. Long post ahead.

Basics & Teaching

"I contain all, nothing contains me." - Nisargadatta Maharaj

This subject cannot be learned intellectually, it cannot be learned through the mind [ego] because it's perceived just behind the mind. We can use the mind to gradually undo the limitations enough so that we can get behind the mind by getting it quieter. @4dbarbie-backup

What you can point out as 'this' or 'that' cannot be yourself. Surely, you can not be 'something' else. You are nothing perceivable, or imaginable. Yet, without you there can be neither perception nor imagination. Identity or Ego is merely a pattern of events in time and space, which are also just concepts belonging to the world of ego.@4dbarbie-backup YOU are life. you are life itself. you are all. you are how this all works. "me? this body? this mind?" not the body, mind, ego or thoughts. not even the feeling, beliefs & emotions. i'm talking about Self. Infinity. God. I AM. the awareness. the one that observes all. the life force is you. you animate all of what you see. @lains-reality

Realize you are never not IT. We are actually fully realized all the time. We are fully realized Beings saying that we are not. @4dbarbie-backup There is no becoming "aware". You can't become something you already are! You keep forgetting you are not the body-mind (ego). The body-mind lacks things, the body-mind takes it's surroundings to be real. The body-mind has a very limited viewpoint, it knows what it knows, it only sees what it sees. @iamthat-iam The [body-]mind cannot intimidate the Pure Self, it can only intimidate the idea you have of who you are, your self image. what the mistake is, is that we are taking the idea of who we are as the fact of who we are.@lains-reality

Everything you see and experience is only a mental condition, a dream-like state, easy to dispel by questioning its reality. Both sleep and waking are imagined.@4dbarbie-backup Dreams are just "materializations" of whatever our consciousness is aware of while the body rests. You can touch it, you can interact with it, your senses become active when you're dreaming at times. there's even a phenomenon where people actually thought their dreams were memories or something they legitimately experienced.@piercedblunt "But I am not conscious of myself when sleeping?!" You are aware of something though, being unconscious, which manifests instantly, you are sleeping. Being unconscious is an experience, and you're doing the same thing in the waking state.@4dbarbie-backup

Let's now take a look at this so-called physical world. The apparent solid outer world is just an illusory world. We created it mentally, which is also backed up by human science. But, and that's the catch, it is not external and so the only way to control the outside world is to step out of the world. The ego IS IN the world, and not you. Both the ego and the world are IN YOU.@4dbarbie-backup

When 'you' desire something, you [Consciousness] already have it. How do you already have it? Your true self is everything, it can't desire anything if it's already being anything. Everything that your ego desires already exists within consciousness. Remember that whenever your ego tries to bring up a desire. @iamthat-iam After all, when 'you' desired in your mind, wasn't there a moment where you had it? Where you imagined what it'd be like to have it, what it'd look like or how it'd make you feel? @cheryawa It is not instantly visible to you because you identify with the body and not your pure being. No matter how much you use your mind/imagination, you are who you are regardless of the imagines playing in the head. I could think of a panda a million times, imagine what it's like being a panda a thousand more, that doesn't make me into a panda when I still know myself to be a person.@4dbarbie-backup

Here's a scale of emotions you'll go through in your journey, from bottom to top: apathy, grief, fear, hostility, anger, indifference, acceptance, freedom finally - and then unlimited, independent joy. @4dbarbie-backup It’s not an euphoric feeling either but a real feeling of knowing and with that - indifference and power. It is very calm and serene, as if nothing can disturb you. @adadisciple

I've been looking at the things I want as existing for me to experience them. When I have a desire, I experience it as something that already belongs to me because everything is coming from (within) me. @4dbarbie-backup

NON-DUALISM

"It is the Self that believes there is a person and is conscious of being IT." - Ada B.

Let's break the word down first. “Non” of course means “no” or “not.” And “dual” means “two.” So, non-dual means not two. It says there is only one. This is referring to you, awareness [or consciousness], that there is only you, [...] the only thing that exists. You are the true reality. The only purpose for awareness is to observe, to oversee, to be. Nothing more, nothing less. For example, awareness is human, it can take on a human form, but human is not awareness or defines awareness as a whole. A human is simply a temporary form, but awareness is always free to be aware of any other form @itzalizeyyy

Whatever you imagine is the same as seeing it in the physical world, because both are still being an observed experience by the awareness, and therefore both are the same, as one (imagination). @itzalizeyyy

Helpful metaphors: When you watch a movie, you know it is a movie bc you are outside of it. you are observing it. now what about the characters in the movie? they dont know its a movie bc they are not outside of it. they think they are just regular ppl and they dont see the truth, their true selfs: which is just characters in a movie. @msperfect777 The ego is like your character in the game (of life), it's already a "manifestation" so it can't manifest (just like a book can't write itself or another book). You are aware of a character you go through life with. @consciousnessbaddie

Ego Death is then the disappearance of the egoistic sense of Self. You feel that your are no longer that.You don't disappear; you don't lose anything. There's no reason to fear losing your body, or losing anything. Yet, most of us are fearful that we're going to lose our body and be nothing. That's a serious error. You could be a hundred bodies! When the idea 'I am this body' dies, the witness does not. Death is merely the idea 'I have lost my body'. What you think yourself to be before death continues to be after death. Your sense of Self survives. @4dbarbie-backup

In Non Dualism, the goal is to stop identifying with ego and realize who you are.You see there's no seperation between you and anything so that means everything you once "desired" is already who you are. You never feel the sense of desire again because of this. Any "physical materialization" that happens after will not seem like such a big deal, since it was already who they were to begin with. @iamthat-iam

"I am that, I have always been that. All is well. There are no mistakes. I am in my right place." All you have to do is realize/ know your are not the mind (= identitiy, character, ego). Robert Adams

Self-Inquiry

" To know the source as source and appearance as appearance, and oneself as the source only is self-realization " - Ada B.

The mind is doing a good job actually, because it bites you and kicks you and teases you, because if it doesnt do that, then you'll want to make this limited feel your home.@lains-reality

Every thought is a thing of limitation. Therefore when we quiet the mind, we still these limiting thoughts and this infinite Being that we are becomes self obvious to us. We have convinced ourselves over the millenniums that we are these limited bodies, and we think it takes time to let go of these concepts of limitation. But time is a thing of the ego, it's a thought. @4dbarbie-backup

Learn the art of being aware of you (awareness). [...] You must not become what you already are, as the detached witness of every thought or sensation that comes and goes. [...] The practice of self-inquiry is returning to the fact of who and what you are. @anon-i-mus

It's a kind of surrendering but to me, truthfully and honestly, it felt more like a giving up. Even if it makes you miserable, accept the person you're identified with until you no more fear it or care if you stay the same. @4dbarbie-backup

-> Questions to ask yourself

Detachment

"Transcend your desires and your fears and you will have everything." - Ada B.

As Buddha taught, the root of suffering is attachment. It is not having the emotions and thoughts [...] but resisting or supressing them, and resisting the transitory nature of life and all things. Emotions and thoughts pass. No big deal. It is holding on to them when they are just coming up to leave or pass through that causes suffering. @lains-reality You need not stop thinking. Just cease being interested. It is disinterestedness that liberates. If you say, “There's no problem,” they won't vanish because you're saying, “There's no problem.” You're mentally holding onto the problem and therefore sustaining it. Erase the problem from your mind means to know (be aware) that everything is perfect and then the problem is necessarily non-existent. Basically, let go of it, because the problem is just an illusion. @4dbarbie-backup

You then ask how to stop being "Vanessa" ? - the reason you can't stop is because it's ALL YOU THINK YOU ARE. For example: You're driving a car. "I AM" is the car. You know how to drive it because you're already driving it by being Vanessa. Vanessa is something you add to the "I AM" and not you. You can't stop being Vanessa while being Vanessa! I think that's what everyone keeps asking: Vanessa wants to be Lara, not awareness [first]. @4dbarbie-backup

To talk of re-uniting the person with the self is also not right, because there is no person, only a mental picture given a false reality by conviction. Nothing was divided and there is nothing to unite. You are That. @4dbarbie-backup Nothing can remove your being. Nothing has ever stained your being.@lains-reality You think you have to do this and that because you think you're it, and you should act from it. That is not the case. There's nothing to do except disbelieve. But disbelieving and denial are not the same thing. Denial is when you deny reality to something you're already giving reality to. @4dbarbie-backup

Detachment is not lonely. It's freedom and it's real love. Needing is selfish, it's self-centered. The self has no preference and it's because of that that it can be everything. @4dbarbie-backup

Some of you are on this path for a while but to some extent still are identified with ego and that's OK. Don't get caught up in "your" expectations of what self-realization is supposed to be like. The expectations are making you turn this into a task, when it is supposed to be effortless. Yes, we have talked about feeling peaceful once you've realized yourself, but you're going to need to drop the expectations. It's okay if ego isn't completely grasping it, ego isn't real and it isn't who you are. @iamthat-iam

Fear is an invitation to remember who you truly are. Acknowledging fear doesn't make you any less worthy of or further away from what you truly desire. Similarly, acknowledging your shadows does not dim the Light that you are. The shadows you battle against are simply the seeming absence of you. Becoming entangled in the world of shadows is simply the forgetting of your Self; and Light casts shadows that come and go only to remember itself. The truth is that Light knows no opposition or enemy. Shadows have no separate existence from Light. Your fears are made of you. @lains-reality

The more I detached from ego, the freer I was to imagine what ego wanted without interference from conflicting thoughts/thoughts that "oppose" the desire. @iamthat-iam In fact, abandon all imaginings and know yourself as you are. Self-knowledge is detachment. All craving is due to a sense of insufficiency. @4dbarbie

To anyone who also wonders "how am I still picking this ego?": how many times have you thought about tomorrow? next week? future plans? there's your answer. and the worries about "life" come from them too. "if I don't prepare for/worry about this event that'll happen, I'll have to deal with the consequences of this action" you're telling yourself you will keep waking up as this exact same ego over and over. @glitterdoll888

If you come straight from Law of Assumption or Law of Attraction please keep on reading this last section!

“The simplest answer is usually the right one!.” - Occam’s razor

I think, that what we call 'manifestation' is life itself. i do not mean life in the way that you live A life, like its happening outside of you. i mean it as: it is natural & normal to manifest, its existance itself. it is not something you have, it just is. 'manifestation' is just life itself. it's how all works & is.@lains-reality

The similarity between ND and LOA is in the fact that What you’re aware of, is. LOA’s inner self is still ego. To talk about fulfilling self means fulfilling ego. There is nothing to fulfill if you are the Self and the only one that needs to be fulfilled is an ego, you’re still catering to an ego. @adadisciple

Please, please, understand that you don't have to DO anything! You are always awareness,you will never lack anything. Please stop worrying about the "physical" world and stop trying to materialize things within it! Non Dualism isn't a "new manifestation method" to "get what you want," you are realizing you never lacked anything this whole time. @iamthat-iam

The way the sun rises up in the morning, in the same way Vanessa happens to awareness. It is natural. Do you try to make it happen? It comes by itself (because you choose it as you).@adadisciple For example "I am a body" is a thought that runs automatically ("subconscious), because we do not look at it/know it, we have just accepted we are bodies and that's why we "see" a body. @4dbarbie-backup

You just need to allow something else to happen, not try to make it so!! You cannot help being what you are: Vanessa is the absolute to you now. But if she can be TO YOU, if she happens TO YOU, who is YOU? Your Vanessa "I" runs on autopilot, she is a symbol. She has no free will. To the Self, she is only an idea. She has been conditioned and programmed to think the way she does, it’s the only way she knows how to function. And that’s fine, let her be. Just don’t pick her as you.If she were a random stranger on the street, you would have no concern about her life. If you were Lara now, where would Vanessa be in your thoughts? That is the behavior you should strive for in your thinking, dispassion, disinterest, detachment. Let the thought of being her go. Just let them BE. The way you let Vanessa be. And you let Vanessa be by thinking that’s all you are, that’s what is true. @adadisciple

If you want a "method", then the very best method of all methods is to quiet the mind to see the Being that you are. Pose the question: “Who am I?” and if other thoughts come in, ask, “To whom are these thoughts?” The answer is “To me.” “Well, who am I?” and you're back on the track, seeking to see your Self. @4dbarbie-backup I sit in the feeling while focusing on something else in the present moment, and it usually goes away. @iamthat-iam

Non Dualism does not believe in “affirming” or “persisting” because if awareness is already everything, then it does not need to affirm or persist for its desire if it already has [or IS] its own desire. @itzalizeyyy Like repetition, it keeps you in lack. Do you need to remind yourself that you are a man or a woman? That experience, that form, is already being observed, is already being aware of. You know 'your' gender. @4dbarbie-backup

The truth is, there was no "3D" or "4D" in the first place. there is no imagination VS reality. nothing is real, it has always been illusion VS illusion. If anytime you get thoughts like "why is it not here" "why don't i see it" "why hasn't it manifested yet" you are immediately identifying with your human self. [...] Relying on the human senses will always be our downfall. @iamthat-iam

If you don't have the discipline to at least cut off all this excess of knowledge of information, you'll only be making it tougher on yourself. After you do that, stick to it until you're ready to let go and rely on yourself. Until you start behaving like the teacher and one is needed no more. You create the teacher because you think someone is more knowledgeable than you. That's fine for now, but trust the teacher, listen and apply.@4dbarbie-backup

I have Psychiatrist & doctors appointments, work, still need to eat, want to commit suicide? Psychiatrist appointment. What is that for? To correct your thinking, isn't that right? Reconditioning, changing, or even eliminating patterns of the mind. Now, I'm not telling you to stop going/stop working and or eating. That would be irresponsible of me. Leave your mind alone, that is all. @4dbarbie-backup

DO NOT ACTIVELY INTERFERE in ego's life or try to stop living that life while still being very attached to it, i.e. still identifying with that ego. Let the person continue to live it's life and fulfill it's obligations like studying, but maintain the knowing that it's not who you are. @iamthat-iam

But what about random things that I wasn't even aware of before they came? It's very simple, really. You are aware of being Vanessa and with Vanessa come specific beliefs. Characters have their own beliefs like certain weather can give you a cold, certain environments have insects etc. Thoughts dominate you only because you are interested in them. By resisting evil, you merely strengthen it. If you are "I AM", it means you are not the person experiencing the 3D world/thoughts/circumstances, you never were. The problem is excessive interest, leading to self-identification. Whatever you are engrossed in you take to be real. @4dbarbie-backup

[sleepyzane]

“It’s just something my body does”

Reframing the many negative things in my life as "just something [that] my body does" can be wonderfully helpful. Hair I don't like? It's just something my body does, I guess? Pain? It's just something my body does, unfortunately. Anxiety? Well that's apparently just something my body does. Immobility? I can't control that, and I'm not responsible for it, because it's something that my body just does, without my consent. Having to cancel something due to any of the previous? It's something my body needs me to do for it. That sucks. Not being able to do XYZ? I wish I could, and maybe one day I will be able to, but right now, not being able to is something my body is doing to me. To do so is simply not available in my world. All bodies are different. All bodies need different things, perceive things differently, are born differently, look different, feel different, sound different, have different amounts of hair, pimples, blemishes, and scars, among an infinity of other biologically inevitible variations. These are just things our bodies do. You may not like them, and I'm in the same boat. But you're not responsible for them, they're not wrong, don't necessarily need fixing, and these things aren't the most essential part of you. Next time try saying "It's just something my body does" like someone might say about a noise their car makes. It goes without saying, no intent to invalidate people if this way of thinking doesn't help, or is irrelevant to you. It just works for me and I wanted to share it. Please share your experience in the comments if you wish to.

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