Nonduality

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The story of a transformation where nothing changed but everything is different. With endless gratitude for @SimplyAlwaysAwake, the friend who showed me edge and let me know it was ok to just fall.

Erik Ireland - Mountain Awakening

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Suzanne Chang - Free of any need

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source: https://www.littlebang.org/the-india...with-buddhism/

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Enjoy hundreds of recordings of in-person meetings and retreats with Jac. The content explores the nature of mind and reality. The approach is spiritual, embracing both direct and progressive paths to abiding wakefulness.

Jac O'Keeffe - 138. Lancashire, England, June 18, 2010 (1)
https://jacokeeffe.podbean.com/e/138...une-18-2010-1/

Home: https://www.jac-okeeffe.com/

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Suma Gowda interviews Kenneth Madden

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Angelo DiLullo - July 2020 Retreat: Talk - Aspects of Self
On social anxiety & nonduality @ 13.30 https://youtu.be/YBU7xAtfDcg?t=806

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Angelo Dilullo - Self-Inquiry
On social anxiety & nonduality @ 53.00 https://youtu.be/ezprHZt6P9Y?t=3177

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I think I just came across an argument that shows that duality is not only wrong but impossible. There are 8 billion human brains on the planet right now. On duality there is absolutely no explanation why I'm produced by this particular brain over another. You could say that this first-person experience is just what happens when my brain is functioning properly, but wouldn't that be true of every brain that supposedly produces consciousness? There doesn't seem to be a truth-maker that makes it the case that I'm produced by this brain and not another. In nonduality, it's all one consciousness, so it makes sense that I'm conscious from this body's perspective, because all there is is consciousness.

I don't know if that makes sense, but it's so obvious to me that dualism can't be the case.

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Jeff Foster - Why I quit "non-duality" (and fell in love with our vulnerable humanity)



A comment by Frank Yang in the comment section below this video on YT:
"You are correct. Many people who get into non duality get stuck by identifying with awareness and using it as a new identity to suppress and bypass their human “stuff”.

There’s a tendency for the mind to reify (make things solid, grasp onto phenomenons as if they have an essence), whether that’s reifying “awareness” or “human” it’s actually just 2 sides of the same view in extremity/duality.

By clinging onto “awareness” you are identifying with Being and Eternity. By clinging onto “no self” or “emptiness” you are craving for Non-Being and you skew your view to Nihilism, likewise, clinging onto “the human” is just another version of the same process of reification.

You are neither awareness nor human, nor anything in between.

The Middle Way transcends but integrates all of these views, is beyond but includes both existence and non existence, as you see clearly how all phenomenons from the most divine to the most mundane are co dependently arisen, thus empty of essence.
This does not mean things don’t exist, but they don’t exist INDEPENDENTLY, and INHERENTLY.

Im not trying to establish another view here on the intellectual level. This is merely a reminder to let go of grasping at the most subtle level experientially and sensorially."

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Frank Yang - Dealing with Anxiety


Q: What is Frank Yang’s Perspective on anxiety ?

A: All anxiety comes from a self thinking there is a version of the world available other than the one that is simply unfolding now without the possibility of an agent in control. “When we no longer imagine or hope that there is another version of what is simply happening right now, and see that there is no one that could do so”, then there is freedom from fear and anxiety. Death doesn’t even make sense.
Q: What do I do when anxiety arises ?

There’s not much you can do about the stuff that comes up except for applying compassion and love and let them be exactly as they are without resistance. Most importantly, realization that clinging and grasping is simply impossible without a center.

Sometimes it’s helpful to work with the content and release a story with another story. The way you use a thorn of a rose to remove another thorn and throw them both away. But other times it’s helpful to see that on the ultimate level, there is nothing to heal. There are no such thing as traumas or conditioning except for the story you are creating yourself right now. And it has nothing to do with what happened in a nonexistent past.

See, all traumas are the accumulation of expectations, which creates victimhood.

Every time you have an expectation, you instantly become a victim of a version of Reality that cannot possibly exist.

But at the level of pure being without time, none of it is possible. Nothing in your expectation will ever happen. Ever.

Expectations are just thoughts, and all thoughts are disjointed and have nothing to do with each other.

Whatever ties thoughts together is simply another thought. And thoughts don’t know anything.

They are simply assumptions about other thoughts and none of them have the awareness to know other thoughts, let alone what’s going on in the present moment Reality, is also unknowable, ungraspable, and empty.

This mystery is where beauty lies. Readers beware, you’re in for a scare!

source: https://frankyang.wtf/blog/dealing-w...ht-of-the-soul

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Michael Taft - Effortless Nondual Awareness