tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post6795715772550145895..comments2024-03-18T10:07:38.422+08:00Comments on Awakening to Reality: All Around, All at Once: Part 3: “Unfabricated”Sohhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16416159880942160813noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-83864171424507201142018-12-15T17:21:23.728+08:002018-12-15T17:21:23.728+08:00If you cannot have faith, at least keep an open mi...If you cannot have faith, at least keep an open mind.<br /><br />I can only report to you that whatever I realized and experienced, completely aligns with what the Buddha taught in the scriptures. That is why I have confidence in the Buddha's teachings.<br /><br />I have little use for blind faith and dogmas too.Sohhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16416159880942160813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-73667994190634583902018-12-15T01:23:47.088+08:002018-12-15T01:23:47.088+08:00To believe what a human being who lived 2000 years...To believe what a human being who lived 2000 years ago taught as source of 'gospel truth' is equaly foolish and dogmatic . Over the years,Buddhism has diluted through 'add and delete' we never know that the historical buddha really taught anymore...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-63284902060960566232018-12-15T00:54:14.785+08:002018-12-15T00:54:14.785+08:00I think it's incredibly foolish and dogmatic t...I think it's incredibly foolish and dogmatic to suppose that Nirvana cannot be attained in this human form. In the Buddha's times, thousands of his students attained arahantship - the complete ending of all 'taints', let alone Buddha himself.Sohhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16416159880942160813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-1140102332836908852018-12-15T00:30:49.665+08:002018-12-15T00:30:49.665+08:00Again,whats the essence of this 'deepening'...Again,whats the essence of this 'deepening', or development? It has to do with letting go. The more we dwell deeper into the inner self,the more we let go of our earthly nature(the lower self).<br /><br />Ultimately,the goal is to transcend this physical/material realm .Only then can progress be made in the higher plane. Its pure ignorance to suppose the end can be attained in this human form.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-49084048535106636102018-12-15T00:09:44.554+08:002018-12-15T00:09:44.554+08:00Genuine realization is an increasingly deepening p...<br /><br />Genuine realization is an increasingly deepening process,instead of one single 'aha' and then we r done ....<br /><br />Why deepening? Ignorance-vasanas is unlike a single thread,and you just cut it once and be done with it ! No .<br /><br />The 'aha' is simply realization on superficial level,for until one dismantles the layers upon layers of the sheath-ignorance(vasanas) ,no true freedom is to be found.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-11923742763672300542018-12-14T15:11:35.425+08:002018-12-14T15:11:35.425+08:00Criteria for moksha*Criteria for moksha*Sohhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16416159880942160813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-89709677654921786252018-12-14T15:10:58.325+08:002018-12-14T15:10:58.325+08:00I should also add that the Transparent Witness is ...I should also add that the Transparent Witness is not the last stage in the Atmananda system, as they also talk about the collapse of the witness and the dissolving of even the notion of consciousness. However they consider the transparent witness stage as criteria moksha.Sohhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16416159880942160813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-27898812540800585972018-12-14T14:57:07.563+08:002018-12-14T14:57:07.563+08:00If you are already at the north pole, trying to &#...If you are already at the north pole, trying to 'go deeper' into the north pole is going further away from the north pole. Any movement is wrong. You cannot 'go deeper' into north pole, you can only realise you are there.<br /><br />Actually according to Sri Atmananda teaching, in the Vedanta system once you realise the Transparent Witness (which is like the I AM realization), you are already free, or attain moksha and freedom from rebirth. There is no more wavering, as I wrote about my I AM realization. No more 'gaining or losing it', it is no longer a maintenance state or passing glimpses which I had for years prior to that realization. Instead, there is a doubtless certainty of what you are and you cannot lose it.<br /><br />But even this is not yet liberation from samsara and rebirth from the Buddhadharma standpoint, not yet Anatta. So different traditions have different views.Sohhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16416159880942160813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-57055078929082533612018-12-14T14:35:13.383+08:002018-12-14T14:35:13.383+08:00Also you should not ask
"Thats why the Q bei...Also you should not ask <br />"Thats why the Q being asked, the how of it - how to go deeper into (increasing) 'inner self' ?"<br /><br />Going deeper is an illusion. You can only realise what your Self is. Attempting to 'go deeper' into what you are is dualistic and comes with sense of subject and object. <br /><br />Just continue asking Who am I until you realise what you are, Existence or Presence-Awareness, without a trace of doubt.Sohhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16416159880942160813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-84920633241176843502018-12-14T14:32:36.181+08:002018-12-14T14:32:36.181+08:00Other paths do not reach Anatta, Emptiness and Dep...Other paths do not reach Anatta, Emptiness and Dependent Origination, and thus do not reach liberation.<br /><br />They are however able to transcend identification with forms and realize the Formless I AM. But just as in Buddhadharma teaches -- and I am not just speaking out of dogma but my own experience, this is not yet liberation.<br /><br />Although I have great respect for Ramana Maharshi and always recommend his teachings to those practicing self-inquiry, I do not think he reaches the same liberation as Buddhadharma. <br /><br />As someone who was deeply devoted to Ramana Maharshi and went deeply into I AM and Non Dual before I guided him to realise Anatta once said this after his realisation of Anatta, "To my saddness, I realized that my favorite master, Sri Ramana Maharshi, is not speaking about Anatta, or not even about Nondual (as far as I can see), He mentions that even in Sahaja Nirbikalpa Samadhi (the ultimate state, according to Him) there is "something" there which mediator is at One with. Well, He must be talking about something different, not about Anatta or Nondual."<br /><br />He wrote a good e-book (still unpublished) which you should read: https://app.box.com/s/7u47emus4osjxzpnqs03<br /><br />As Thusness wrote to someone in 2007,<br /><br />"Hi Grim, <br /><br />As much as I would not like to say, although you have experienced the fruition of ‘seeing’, you have not experienced the fruition of ‘dropping the Self -- The ONE INFINITE EXISTENCE’. If the essence of experiencing manifestation without the background is not fully realized, there is no hope in understanding the ‘dreamless sleep’. To hold on to a familiar state of awareness that is experienced in waking state and attempt to bring this familiar experience to ‘dreamless sleep’ state is a distortion of what awareness is. It is an attempt of our thinking mechanism to replicate to what it thinks 'pure awareness' is into 'dreamless sleep'. If ‘conscious knowing’ does not give way to spontaneity of being no one, then there is no hope in understanding ‘unconsciousness’. Knowingness is the very flow of spontaneous manifestation. <br /><br />Good Luck!"Sohhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16416159880942160813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-45768700595893655652018-12-14T09:59:00.051+08:002018-12-14T09:59:00.051+08:00The 'outermost' of this 'layers' ,...The 'outermost' of this 'layers' , of course, is this dense,material realm. Our bodily existence belongs to this lowly vibrated plane. And any valid path,should be to increasingly delve deeper into 'higher vibrated' inner layers of our being.<br /><br />And real progress is only possible when this dense,material plane had been transcended.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-19641672718473106432018-12-14T09:36:51.058+08:002018-12-14T09:36:51.058+08:00Samsara,again,is buddhist view and concept.
An al...Samsara,again,is buddhist view and concept.<br /><br />An alternative,and likely more valid way of seeing is this :<br /><br />A human being consists of 'multiple layers' , sheaths . Spiritual path (for human being) should be to increasing going deeper and deeper into these 'layers' or 'dimensions' .<br /><br />Thats why the Q being asked, the how of it - how to go deeper into (increasing) 'inner self' ?<br /><br /><br />Honestly i think you should be more open minded and view from other perspectives instead of all tied up into buddhist pov.If we cling too tightly to a cretain view/perspective, even any personal realization may still be contaminated by those pov.(my $0.02 :-) )Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-30594129984638837792018-12-14T01:14:37.440+08:002018-12-14T01:14:37.440+08:00Sutta source: https://www.wisdompubs.org/book/midd...Sutta source: https://www.wisdompubs.org/book/middle-length-discourses-buddha/selections/middle-length-discourses-140-dhatuvibhanga-suttaSohhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16416159880942160813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-2244597761487187862018-12-14T01:14:04.289+08:002018-12-14T01:14:04.289+08:00Anatta is the only way one can be freed from samsa...Anatta is the only way one can be freed from samsara.<br /><br />Buddha:<br /><br />"31. “Bhikkhu, ‘I am’ is a conceiving; ‘I am this’ is a conceiving; ‘I shall be’ is a conceiving; ‘I shall not be’ is a conceiving; ‘I shall be possessed of form’ is a conceiving; ‘I shall be formless’ is a conceiving; ‘I shall be percipient’ is a conceiving; ‘I shall be non-percipient’ is a conceiving; ‘I shall be neither-percipient-nor-non-percipient’ is a conceiving. Conceiving is a disease, conceiving is a tumour, conceiving is a dart. By overcoming all conceivings, bhikkhu, one is called a sage at peace. And the sage at peace is not born, does not age, does not die; he is not shaken and is not agitated. For there is nothing present in him by which he might be born. Not being born, how could he age? Not ageing, how could he die? Not dying, how could he be shaken? Not being shaken, why should he be agitated?<br /> 32. “So it was with reference to this that it was said: ‘The tides of conceiving do not sweep over one who stands upon these [foundations], and when the tides of conceiving no longer sweep over him he is called a sage at peace.’ Bhikkhu, bear in mind this brief exposition of the six elements.”"<br /><br />I don't believe in external signs.Sohhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16416159880942160813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-48413901567134835432018-12-14T00:05:35.451+08:002018-12-14T00:05:35.451+08:00In other words,how to Un-earthbound ? Even after d...In other words,how to Un-earthbound ? Even after dying,99% of humans will still remain "earthbound" . Will it takes many2 lifetimes? If one were to cut short the time taken,what kind of extreme renunciation needed? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-29784006086040205482018-12-13T23:54:14.475+08:002018-12-13T23:54:14.475+08:00How does one destroy "earth-roots" , i.e...How does one destroy "earth-roots" , i.e the knots that binds oneself to this physical,material realm? Many teachings,whether its nondual,advaita,Buddhist's no self etc.. seems shallow,full of empty views and concepts. But practicaly speaking,how to go deeper and deeper and destroy the very 'binds' so one can 'fly like a bird', free unto the sky ?<br /><br />It is said at the time of the death of Sri Ramana, a shooting star passes through the sky....must be his soul finaly 'flying leaving this earth realm'Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com