I agree Pete, and nicely put.PeteJ wrote: ↑Fri Jun 21, 2019 7:33 pm Hi Dontaskme - Nicely put and I can agree with your analysis. The trouble is that it is very difficult to get from our everyday notion of subject and object to the view you describe. Hence my promotion of metaphysical analysis as away to bridge the gap and open the way for the intellect. Once one sees the need for a theory such as the one you describe then it becomes easier to take it seriously and examine it carefully.
Ramana Maharshi's teachings will most likely seem 'off the wall' until one sees that it is endorsed by logic and reason.
In my opinion only, the world is not ready to hear Nonduality. I don't actually believe this particular channel consciousness is currently tuned into appearing as this 3D matrix was meant to awaken from the dream of separation. Maybe it is, I don't really know, but this is just my opinion. Awakening is the end of knowledge for this particular metaphysical journey of consciousness. It's the realisation that knowledge informs the illusory nature of life on this plane, in that no one is living or dying. Those that do awaken have left the building anyway on rememberance that here there is just everything and nothing infinitely for eternity, there is no divide, so no thing was actually born or can die, and no amount of knowledge accumulated by the mind is ever going to lead to anything or get you anywhere because the natural flow of life has no agenda other than just to be exactly what it is in any given moment...aka this completely unknowing empty flow of formless energy changing from one form to another, from one appearance to another, appearing to evolve itself and raise itself up to great heights of acheivement only to then fall back to square one infinitely for eternity...so it seems that everything is changing, and yet ultimately nothing changes.
The mind still goes on asking question after question after question because there are only questions...never are there any answers, if there were answers, all questions would cease..but questions never cease...So what's actually happening is all those (apparent) thinking minds that come after the ones that leave ..are the crank used to start up the whole dynamic process of self-discovery all over again, and forever the wheel of life keeps turning, round and round going and getting nowhere. It cannot be any other way.
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The problem (illusory problem) for the mind is that Nonduality gives nothing. And what can the mind do with nothing?> that's the whole point, so this metaphysic is not going to have many followers, no one want's to buy nothing which is actually everything. Oh the irony.
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