tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post4965847939543688305..comments2024-03-18T10:07:38.422+08:00Comments on Awakening to Reality: Three Kinds of Non-DualSohhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16416159880942160813noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-17720525859750761552018-01-10T23:50:34.648+08:002018-01-10T23:50:34.648+08:00All phenomena are empty-clarity without duality, t...All phenomena are empty-clarity without duality, the way we relate with phenomena through delusion -- conceiving subject-object duality, inherent existence of self and phenomena, is itself the vasanas or tendencies and causes all kinds of grasping, desire, aversion, fear and suffering. <br /><br />They are released through realization. Samatha meditation (calm abiding) that temporarily stops thoughts from arising does not release vasanas, they just temporarily suppress them.Sohhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16416159880942160813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-31513993001502911842018-01-10T14:46:00.108+08:002018-01-10T14:46:00.108+08:00How is one to deal with thick vasanas(tendencies) ...How is one to deal with thick vasanas(tendencies) obstructing the light of atman ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-90918941527103373202018-01-07T14:29:12.563+08:002018-01-07T14:29:12.563+08:00For the initial realization of Awareness or the I ...For the initial realization of Awareness or the I AMness, self inquiry is a good way.Sohhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16416159880942160813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-10275463986700824292018-01-07T14:28:45.565+08:002018-01-07T14:28:45.565+08:00Anandamaya Kosha is not the bliss of your real nat...Anandamaya Kosha is not the bliss of your real nature.<br /><br />The bliss of your real nature is revealed in various degrees according to the depth of your realization.<br /><br />As Thusness wrote in 2007,<br /><br />"Like samatha meditation, each jhana state represents a stage of bliss associated with certain level of concentration; the bliss experienced from insight into our nature differs.<br /><br />The happiness and pleasure experience by a dualistic mind is different from that experienced by a practitioner. “I AMness” is a higher form of happiness as compared to a dualistic mind that continuously chatters. It is a level of bliss associated with a state of ‘transcendence’ – a state of bliss resulting from the experience of “formlessness, odorless, colorless, attributes and thoughtlessness’. No-self or non-dual is higher form of bliss resulted from the direct experience of Oneness and no-separation. It is related to the dropping of the ‘I’. When non-dual is free from perceptions, that bliss is a form transcendence-oneness. It is what I called transparency of non-duality."Sohhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16416159880942160813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-11822866867847624472018-01-05T22:39:05.702+08:002018-01-05T22:39:05.702+08:00How to experience the anandamaya kosha(bliss)?How to experience the anandamaya kosha(bliss)?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com