tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post7990621676617792580..comments2024-03-18T10:07:38.422+08:00Comments on Awakening to Reality: Death, Reincarnation, Nonduality, and other dreamsSohhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16416159880942160813noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-81008956831100567422018-09-17T23:48:18.815+08:002018-09-17T23:48:18.815+08:00A genuine "seeing ones original face" wi...A genuine "seeing ones original face" will lead to cutting the roots of reincarnation, and not a superficial "theres no rebirth- only i am " kind of rhetoricAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-54735806870397908662013-01-17T02:16:40.749+08:002013-01-17T02:16:40.749+08:00I find that Foster's article is confusing phys...I find that Foster's article is confusing physical death with psychic death/loss of individual existence. The two are only tangentially related... but even then, he confuses psychic death with nothingness/nihilism.<br /><br />Also, as for the Sri Ramana quote that nothing is real unless it also appears in deep dreamless sleep, well that sounds a bit nihilistic to me, which is not his style, so I think it might be out of context. Then again, who is to say what deep dreamless sleep for Ramana was like? There are folks are conscious 24/7, or so they say. I have experienced what I believe was non-REM sleep a few times while being aware... it was infinitely hypnotizing. Not like any kind of dream.<br /><br />I could just as easily say that deep dreamless sleep is the only untrue story, since there is no experience there and we must go on others' word that it, in fact, does exist. Like a koan.TAFKA JESTDRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02262910815138538454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-14666466715542633192010-10-27T08:39:56.559+08:002010-10-27T08:39:56.559+08:00"That which does not exist in deep dreamless ..."That which does not exist in deep dreamless sleep is not real". Man, when this really sinks in... Haha! We/this, are characters in a dream! It's so wonderful!<br />Thanks-Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-72472341740505433012010-10-26T20:32:40.165+08:002010-10-26T20:32:40.165+08:00Also I wouldn't say that 'I am you, you ar...Also I wouldn't say that 'I am you, you are me'... relatively speaking there are separate mindstreams and it would not make sense to confuse two mindstreams as one. Yet ultimately speaking, each mindstream is without an inherent self. Each individual experience is arising without an experiencer.<br /><br />Try finding out if an inherent self exists.... try to locate it and no matter how you find, you cannot.<br /><br />And yet experiencing goes on... hearing, seeing, touching, thinking, everything occurring naturally without a self, a hearer, perceiver, doer... that 'self' which we perceive ourselves to be is ultimately illusory, conceptual and non existent.<br /><br />We just need some investigation with meditative awareness on our experience to discover this truth...<br /><br />Anyway recently I discovered this site, http://www.ruthlesstruth.com , which is apparently very effective in leading one towards the realisation of no-self... you might want to check it out.Sohhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16416159880942160813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-61339480080929188752010-10-26T20:28:00.841+08:002010-10-26T20:28:00.841+08:00Hi,
I think you are misunderstanding Jeff Foster ...Hi,<br /><br />I think you are misunderstanding Jeff Foster (who by the way is the author of the article, not me). As he mentioned.. "Undeniably, life goes on. Millions of dinosaurs are born and die. Humans emerge. Fish, plants, trees, elephants come and go. A cat dies, rots, and maggots feed on its flesh. A human dies and their body is burnt – their ashes fertilise the soil. In this way, and in this way only, Life goes on. Everything else must be a projection of the individual. Why? Because it is in time. All talk of the time and the timeless – that is the ‘me’ talking."<br /><br />There is no denying that 'life goes on', but there is a denying of a separate, inherently existing self...<br /><br />Anyway your views of self and universe is very dualistic... this dualistic understanding of life and the universe is dissolved through awakening to the nature of reality.<br /><br />As David Loy wrote:<br /><br />"...There is only one reality -- this world, right here -- but this world may be experienced in two different ways. Saṁsāra is the "relative" world as usually experienced, in which "I" dualistically perceive "it" as a collection of objects which interact causally in space and time. Nirvāṇa is the world as it is in itself, nondualistic in that it incorporates both subject and object into a whole which, Mādhyamika insists, cannot be characterized (Chandrakīrti: "Nirvāṇa or Reality is that which is absolved of all thought-construction"), but which Yogācāra nevertheless sometimes calls "Mind" or "Buddhanature," and so forth..."Sohhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16416159880942160813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-77427013681779926082010-10-25T18:21:53.491+08:002010-10-25T18:21:53.491+08:00woah
this was one of the worst piles of crap i eve...woah<br />this was one of the worst piles of crap i ever read<br />you contradict yourself in pretty much every single sentence<br />you make so many falsified claims that i wonder if you even realise it?<br />you predefine terms to your definition and keep that as the only possible way<br />in fact you start out with telling me what i think about when i think about death<br />guess what?<br />i dont share your thoughts<br />i dont share your views<br />and i certainly dont share your disgusting view on people<br />people are actually worth something<br />people are the world<br />i myself is in no way my world but i am me (defined by you with "you" in your article)<br />i have experienced death<br />my dad is passed away<br />my gransparents are dead<br />i have burried several of my friends<br />but im still here?<br />that is by your definitions the only outcome that can be and the only outcome that cannot be<br />lets say "george" died<br />george was my best friend thoughout my life<br />i grew up with him<br />all the good times from my childhood i remember him being there<br />if he dies his world ends but it dont<br />do i still not remember the good times?<br />will i not experience death then?<br />but hes me and im him<br />he's dead but im writing to you now?<br />but im dead too then?<br />does he live then?<br />and to comment on the example with the ocean<br />a wave is NOT part of the ocean<br />some of the water will of course be left outside the ocean<br />it will ultimately be rejoined with the ocean as will all water on this earth but it is not part of the ocean at that timeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-74625050167154981112010-10-04T11:35:54.893+08:002010-10-04T11:35:54.893+08:00Hi Jeff,
"Can death just be a mystery?"
...Hi Jeff,<br />"Can death just be a mystery?"<br /><br />Indeed. . .<br /><br />One who has had a Kundalini Shakti awakening has a lot to say on this topic.<br />In 1990', according to my frightened (ex) husband my head lit up like "the Sun" in the bright of day, for several minutes. I sure as heck didn't know what that was about, since I never heard anything like it!<br />But that was only the beginning -- the initial 'Spirit Initiation'. . . <br /><br />If curious, pls. visit my blog spiritspeaks-theofilia.blogspot.com if you can look past my spelling errors and my rambling style.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com