There is no self.....no little s self....no big S Self. :shock: Perhaps some explanation would be rather helpful here Toombaru. I haven't come across this proposition in any of my readings so am interested in what you mean. The I amness emerges concurrently with the conceptual mind of man. It exist...

The root cause of human suffering In the most private spaces of each person's inner conscious life, a deep dissatisfaction is lurking, a nagging sense that life is somehow out of kilter, misaligned, not quite as it should be. No matter how rich or secure or successful a person may be, a fundamental...

The root cause of human suffering In the most private spaces of each person's inner conscious life, a deep dissatisfaction is lurking, a nagging sense that life is somehow out of kilter, misaligned, not quite as it should be. No matter how rich or secure or successful a person may be, a fundamental...

The critique to be found with the link below gave me something worthwhile. It also expressed more coherently than I have some of the hesitations felt. Anyway ... check it for yourself at:- http://luthar.com/sri-ramanas-teaching-and-western-neo-advaita-by-alan-jacobs/ Hello, been looking in now and ...

I'll try and keep it accessible for reading. ... Perhaps leaving it as reading material is the proper 'middle ground.' Oh, thank you! [ok] :D Yes, thanks for that Leo, it's nice to be able to drop in and put things back into 'non-dual' perspective. And keep my memory of all you good people alive, (...

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Many characters
One Heart....

Many thanks, Leo and all, and best wishes.

I'd say you're all lazy with your boxes and should delete some of them now and again.

meL wrote: there
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the good One ... God

good one

Thanks Anna,

I'd been looking at this image before I read your post, and it seemed to fit. It represents 'The Fool' tarot card, the fool who has the courage to make a leap of faith. Do you fly to the sun, or just hold it in your hand..

Yes ANNA, Life is the greatest romance, a romance torward something I cannot even see.

attachment to this illusory form
of romantic notions
and name of no substance
a joke of irony
in a dream of delusions

Dreams are said to be there as messeges from the sub-conscious self, perhaps the message life most wants us to hear is that 'We are One'.

May my life/dream sing this message to me.

Does it really matter whether THAT what appears as everything and nothing is named or not named, labeled or not labeled, pointed to or not pointed to as.... The Nameless No-Thing-Ness Tao God IT One Shiva Vast Emptiness Allah Maha Mudra Brahman Self This Beingness Jahweh Father Mother She S-HE Sour...

what if (nobody) wrote: " It is the personal story that is so seductive......and the glue that binds the dream of separation " Personal story... like a lifetime of conditioning, not so much seductive, as annoyingly persistant :? But where would I be without it... can anyone life afresh in each mome...

What I am can't be seen. How can I step outside of myself to see myself objectively, there would have to be two of me to do that. Maybe I am subjectivity - judgment based on individual personal impressions and feelings and opinions rather than external facts. Or maybe I am the consciousness of that ...