tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post112102304854642291..comments2024-03-18T10:07:38.422+08:00Comments on Awakening to Reality: The Magical Fairytale-like Wonderland and Paradise of this Verdant Earth Free from Affective Emotions, Reactions and SufferingsSohhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16416159880942160813noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-21720240295166982502023-07-11T01:49:14.994+08:002023-07-11T01:49:14.994+08:00Related: https://www.awakeningtoreality.com/2020/0...Related: https://www.awakeningtoreality.com/2020/04/different-degress-of-no-self-non.htmlSohhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16416159880942160813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-73706566300380903202023-07-11T01:17:48.126+08:002023-07-11T01:17:48.126+08:00Divine will is a sub phase of I AM I have been thr...Divine will is a sub phase of I AM I have been through, that we call impersonality. See https://www.awakeningtoreality.com/2018/12/four-aspects-of-i-am.html<br /><br />Anatta is a deeper insight.Sohhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16416159880942160813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-32831075877431931672023-07-10T23:25:02.606+08:002023-07-10T23:25:02.606+08:00I dont think u fully understand the essence of tot...I dont think u fully understand the essence of total surrender of self to the Divine Will....your 'in the seen only seeing ' type of experience is just a loosening sense of individuality , not full 'absorptioh by the Divine' ....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-58567162362495071122020-01-03T12:11:46.240+08:002020-01-03T12:11:46.240+08:00“(74.075 kHz according to Buddha: 6400099980/86400...“(74.075 kHz according to Buddha: 6400099980/86400=74075).“<br /><br />The theory of momentariness is not from Buddha but the Abhidhamma commentariesSohhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16416159880942160813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-22286146695630116442020-01-03T05:07:17.600+08:002020-01-03T05:07:17.600+08:00Buddha simply saw the principle of computer simula...Buddha simply saw the principle of computer simulation - 2500 years before it was a human invention.<br /><br />"existence time" is synonymous with "process time slice" (74.075 kHz according to Buddha: 6400099980/86400=74075). <br /><br />But "this" is not a simulation that runs on a computer, but a living "simulation" of life / consciousness itself. Therefore: Consciousness IS the things.<br />Dieter Vollmuthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11388672505405640947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-65636232419797333292019-03-23T16:13:35.565+08:002019-03-23T16:13:35.565+08:00And you failed to grasp thisAnd you failed to grasp thisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-73178221093742559422019-03-23T15:58:38.411+08:002019-03-23T15:58:38.411+08:00I intent to mean authoritarian in a psychological ...I intent to mean authoritarian in a psychological sense, and not to be taken literally.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-67051014576521833722019-03-23T14:02:41.452+08:002019-03-23T14:02:41.452+08:00Also you fail to understand what the word "au...Also you fail to understand what the word "authoritarian" means. As there is no authority in this blog whatsoever, there is no authoritarian approach by an authority involved whatsoever.<br /><br />Dictionary:<br /><br />adjective: authoritarian<br /><br /> 1.<br /> favouring or enforcing strict obedience to authority at the expense of personal freedom.Sohhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16416159880942160813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-4388869172222310812019-03-23T14:00:54.930+08:002019-03-23T14:00:54.930+08:00Ken Wilber is a philosopher who is also self-reali...Ken Wilber is a philosopher who is also self-realized and has attained up to Thusness Stage 4 realization.Sohhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16416159880942160813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-61586621704365809042019-03-23T14:00:21.727+08:002019-03-23T14:00:21.727+08:00That is obviously not true and Greg Goode has desc...That is obviously not true and Greg Goode has described his realizations and experience very well.<br /><br />It is also not just Greg Goode but many others -- see for example Archaya Mahayogi Shridhar Rinpoche, who realized Atman-Brahman and his realization was confirmed by his Vedantic masters to be correct and profound. However he later had a deeper realization by encountering Buddhadharma.<br /><br />See: https://awakeningtoreality.blogspot.com/2013/01/marshland-flowers_17.html<br /><br />Then we have Soto Zen teacher Alex Weith, who said,<br /><br />"<br /><br />What I realized also is that authoritative self-realized students of direct students of both Ramana Maharishi and Nisargadatta Maharaj called me a 'Jnani', inviting me to give satsangs and write books, while I had not yet understood the simplest core principles of Buddhism. I realized also that the vast majority of Buddhist teachers, East and West, never went beyond the same initial insights (that Adhyashanti calls "an abiding awakening"), confusing the Atma with the ego, assuming that transcending the ego or self-center (ahamkara in Sanskrit) was identical to what the Buddha had called Anatta (Non-Atma).<br /><br />It would seem therefore that the Buddha had realized the Self at a certain stage of his acetic years (it is not that difficult after all) and was not yet satisfied. As paradoxical as it may seem, his "divide and conquer strategy" aimed at a systematic deconstruction of the Self (Atma, Atta), reduced to -and divided into- what he then called the five aggregates of clinging and the six sense-spheres, does lead to further and deeper insights into the nature of reality. As far as I can tell, this makes me a Buddhist, not because I find Buddhism cool and trendy, but because I am unable to find other teachings and traditions that provide a complete set of tools and strategies aimed at unlocking these ultimate mysteries, even if mystics from various traditions did stumble on the same stages and insights often unknowingly."<br /><br />- https://awakeningtoreality.blogspot.com/2011/10/a-zen-exploration-of-bahiya-sutta.html<br /><br />Etc etc<br />Sohhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16416159880942160813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-62404658625766723782019-03-23T12:14:52.842+08:002019-03-23T12:14:52.842+08:00Greg Goode is more of a philosopher(which is why h...Greg Goode is more of a philosopher(which is why he reasonates with you,for you r prone to intellectual analysis and claiming realization based on that) than a serious spiritual practitioner .Much like Ken Wilber.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-88046938562952988892019-03-23T11:21:49.550+08:002019-03-23T11:21:49.550+08:00I don't have to "join some organization&q...I don't have to "join some organization" to be deeply familiar with other systems.<br /><br />And it is not just me, for example Greg Goode, who has definitely joined many Advaita systems and learnt from many Advaita teachers with gurus, have this to say:<br /><br />http://awakeningtoreality.blogspot.com/2014/08/greg-goode-on-advaitamadhyamika_9.html<br /><br />"<br />It looks your Bahiya Sutta experience helped you see awareness in a different way, more .... empty. You had a background in a view that saw awareness as more inherent or essential or substantive?<br /><br />I had an experience like this too. I was reading a sloka in Nagarjuna's treatise about the "prior entity," and I had been meditating on "emptiness is form" intensely for a year. These two threads came together in a big flash. In a flash, I grokked the emptiness of awareness as per Madhyamika. This realization is quite different from the Advaitic oneness-style realization. It carries one out to the "ten-thousand things" in a wonderful, light and free and kaleidoscopic, playful insubstantial clarity and immediacy. No veils, no holding back. No substance or essence anywhere, but love and directness and intimacy everywhere..."Sohhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16416159880942160813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-73324414444885188472019-03-23T08:37:27.651+08:002019-03-23T08:37:27.651+08:00Yr 'stating differences' is nothing more t...Yr 'stating differences' is nothing more than cop-out justification.You never join and experience the systems you criticize deep enough(perhaps never at all) to be able and qualified to tell any difference. Its all based on yr self proclaimed realization and trust in Thusness's wordsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-79587255188616280132019-03-23T08:31:43.616+08:002019-03-23T08:31:43.616+08:00Yr rigidity in presenting Yr (or Thusness's) s...Yr rigidity in presenting Yr (or Thusness's) stages as superior over all other systems (advaita had beeen yr easy target) all these years make it authoritarian,though in a subtle way, but authritarian nevertheleast<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-37492960638911060212019-03-22T10:35:07.754+08:002019-03-22T10:35:07.754+08:00I was also reminded of what Richard of actual free...I was also reminded of what Richard of actual freedom distinguished between “expertise” and “authority”:<br /><br />Authority and Expertise<br />Authority: Expert, specialist, professional, master, scholar, adept, pundit. Oxford Dictionary<br />Peter: There are two meanings to the word ‘authority’ and the one that causes all the troubles is the one connected with power. (The power of the authority to enforce obedience; the power of the authority to enforce moral or legal judgements; the power of the authority to command or give the final decision; the power of the authority to control; the power of the authority of a governing body; the power of an authoritative holy book; the power of the authority to inspire belief and so on). The second – less used – meaning is: an expert on a particular subject.<br />Richard: Because I live in an actual freedom twenty four hours a day, I am automatically an expert about what it is like to experience freedom from the Human Condition. I have no power – or powers – whatsoever. It is very simple to be an expert on actual freedom ... one has but to live it and report to others from this on-going experience of being here now. (Expert as in specialist, professional, virtuoso ... or being experienced, proficient, able, accomplished, apt, competent and so on).<br />I freely acknowledge – and delight in – my expertise on all matters pertaining to actual freedom and spiritual enlightenment. This expertise is drawn out of my personal experience on a day-to-day basis, for the last eighteen years ... twenty four hours a day.<br />If one wishes to maintain that this makes me an ‘authority’ as in the spiritual meaning of the word ‘master’ then one is entirely missing the point of all I have said, written and demonstrated. Because those otherwise intelligent ‘Enlightened Beings’ have surrendered their integrity to the psychic Power that lies hidden as the ‘Unmanifest Authority’ behind the scenes. This divine entity can go by many names, most of them obviously a god, but the most pernicious is the one usually described as either ‘The Truth’ or ‘The Absolute’. To have surrendered to ‘that which is sacred’ is the root cause of all the religious wars that have beset this planet since time immemorial. Power is what the ‘authority’ of a guru / master / sage / avatar / messiah / saint is all about. As they have surrendered to a ‘Higher Authority’, everyone else has to slot into the inevitable hierarchy which ensues. And so the battles rage. The hunger for power – or the subservience to it – is the curse of humanitySohhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16416159880942160813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-46426898565843505262019-03-22T10:33:18.445+08:002019-03-22T10:33:18.445+08:00There is very much a difference between authority,...There is very much a difference between authority, as in holding power over people or a (spiritual or non spiritual) organization so as to demand that the organization or people involved move and act in a certain way, such that the Pope has power over the Catholic Church, the President has the power to influence and exert control over the country, so on and so forth.<br /><br />As neither I nor Thusness have any intentions to hold ourselves as religious leaders nor set up any authoritative organization to dictate how followers should act and live in order to remain as members of said organization else be “excommunicated”, as there is no such structure of membership and dictatorial powers and authorities, we cannot be said to hold any authority or power. What we are merely doing however, is to present factual reports of our experiential realizations and the path which led to our realizations, and what others do with these factual reports is their business. And if people were to ask if what is presented here is similar to what so and so have realized and expressed, we have to factually state yes or no, and give an accurate and factual explanation of why this is so. However there is absolutely no intent or motivation to demonstrate some superiority of our realizations over others, despite stating differences when necessary. I very much prefer that others have similar realizations and I have stated examples where other genuine teachers of past and present have reported similar realizations.<br /><br />The benefit of providing these factual and experiential reports out of genuine care and concern for other fellow human beings is that others can now have confidence that a genuine freedom is possible, and have directions to a genuine freedom, should they decide to embark on this journey. These reports that Thusness and I made are born out of complete certitude from direct experiential realization and there is zero insecurity involved, there is no insecurity here whatsoever, nor do I need any confirmation of what I say, even from Thusness.<br /><br />These reports are factual, experiential and authentic, but not authoritative as we hold no position of power nor do we intend to set up an authoritarian structure and organization. <br /><br />Sohhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16416159880942160813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225985453951330898.post-92192868142756301922019-03-22T10:30:05.072+08:002019-03-22T10:30:05.072+08:00Unfortunately, i dont see this as creative word ex...Unfortunately, i dont see this as creative word expression of personal awakening state, but simply a clever play of words.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com