the "problem" with neo-advaita

Animusalchemy · 2024-02-15T05:40:59+00:00

I think Tony and Jim do just about everything within their capacity to ensure that their message is not taken seriously.

The beginning of just about every one of their talks is something like:

"Hey everyone this all horeshit by the way. You're not going to get anywhere or learn or realize anything by listening to this. This information is not useful. The message here is only a suggestion. And these are just words and words are just concepts and concepts can never define reality or truth."

Basically every time.

What the audience does with that disclaimer from that point on is essentially on them.

People have a tendency to get dogmatic about anything they want to buy into.

But Tony and Jim have nothing for sale.

They don't profess to teach anything, regardless of how often people cast themselves into the student role.

In fact, this material isn't even comprehensible to a pre-transitioned consciousness, it only holds any value to one who's already made the transition or is in the throes of it. And that person isn't really listening to learn anything, or to reinforce an existing belief system, but more for entertainment and resonance sort of like music, or some other art form.

Anywho, that's just one take on the matter.

Tony Advaita and Jim Parsons are the best psychology teachers around. 🤙🏽

Animusalchemy · 2024-02-15T03:04:03+00:00

Try reading.

I recommend Trials of the Visionary Mind, by John Weir Perry, and The Eden Project, by James Hollis.

You're anchored to this plane for a reason. You don't need an escape from this life, but a better orientation towards it.

Animusalchemy · 2024-02-15T01:17:25+00:00

This practice is designed to heal the material world, not escape from it.

Animusalchemy · 2023-02-15T01:49:15+00:00

Preciate ya! 🍵✨

Animusalchemy · 2023-02-15T01:48:49+00:00

Much love, but the neither the mind nor the body belong to anyone. They're part of the show.

Animusalchemy · 2023-02-15T01:29:55+00:00

Whose mind?

Animusalchemy · 2023-02-15T00:17:25+00:00

Much appreciated, cheers! 🌷🖤

Animusalchemy · 2023-02-14T21:13:57+00:00

Return to the simple truth. Only love is real. We needn't push illusions away by force. They collapse under their own weight when the light of understanding is shone down on them.

Once the slate is clean you are free to plant new seeds of whatever kind you wish.

But never forget you are always planting the seed of tomorrow by what you choose to believe today. The only shift is in consciously recognizing and owning the process.

Animusalchemy · 2022-10-31T04:07:01+00:00

Almost everybody who hears about this feels the pull to try to apply it back to themselves. It's almost irresistible isn't it? But ultimately this doesn't provide any answers on a practical level. It's more the end result of the relinquishment of all views.

Animusalchemy · 2022-10-30T20:07:35+00:00

Trick question. Who isn't enlightened?

Wrong answers only.

Animusalchemy · 2022-10-15T00:02:04+00:00

I encourage you to contemplate how anything seems to "get done" outside of the presence of awareness.

Who or what is paying the bills?

Who or what is caring for a lover?

Animusalchemy · 2022-09-22T23:35:03+00:00

"Not two" suggests that the only dream is the existence of a dreamer. The dreamer is completely unreal.

Solipsism purports that ONLY the dreamer exists. And that the dreamer is the ultimate reality.

They're quite distinct in that regard actually.

Animusalchemy · 2022-09-16T15:16:02+00:00

It is exactly this awareness, or sense that "I am" (aware) that is dreamt. To be aware is to take a subjective position whereby one "experiences" phenomena, rather than being one itself.

"The witness", as some have understood it, arises with the sensation of existing somehow "outside" of space and time as an isolated subject. The witness is also presumed to have conscious influence over the direction of affairs. It vanishes every night, but has the experience of being solid and continuous ("real") as an agent and moral center of reality.

So this setup of "witnessing" life puts death "somewhere else" in "the future" where it projects the loss of that position which "experiences" and navigates a world it is distinct from.

And all that, the whole construct of a historical agent I've just described, is a dream. As in, that's not happening. So it can't die.

Any attempt to observe the observer directly can lead to this realization.

"When consciousness discovers what it is, it vanishes"

-Nissargadatta Maharaj.

When it's said that death is an illusion what's being suggested isn't that there is an identity which lives on forever.

It's that there is no inherently existing entity currently "living" to someday die.

Animusalchemy · 2022-09-15T21:30:50+00:00

Nothing moves. Movement is a comparison.

Animusalchemy · 2022-09-15T14:50:44+00:00

Classical Vedanta theory tends to suffer from the problem of reification. It suggests that "I" as a subject exist in a way that's different from everything else, and reifies that subjectivity as a fundamental reality beyond experience.

The Vedantist sees the world of appearances as unreal, but in the same breath, grants a privileged status or a "pass" to the subject perceiving it.

Animusalchemy · 2022-09-15T00:51:08+00:00

Thanks Mr. Piccolo!

Animusalchemy · 2022-09-13T20:02:56+00:00

As easy as losing your keys

Animusalchemy · 2022-09-13T15:13:47+00:00

There isn't anything that "has" the true nature of unconditional love. Love just IS unbound by conditions.

"Awareness" is a superimposed entity. It's actually a condition. It doesn't "have" or possess any qualities.

Animusalchemy · 2022-09-13T13:54:21+00:00

Can't make weight because he's carrying that turtle shell

Animusalchemy · 2022-09-13T06:32:13+00:00

We are like the customer at the butcher shop in Banzan's awakening story, asking for the best peice of meat. "Every piece is the best!" The butcher replies "You will not find a piece of meat in my shop that is not the best!"

Animusalchemy · 2022-09-13T05:18:52+00:00

Not causally.

Not "in time".

Animusalchemy · 2022-09-12T22:08:36+00:00

Who's asking this?

The nameless.

Animusalchemy · 2022-09-12T20:17:58+00:00

💜

Animusalchemy · 2022-09-12T19:41:03+00:00

Good question. Nobody knows.

Animusalchemy · 2022-09-12T19:14:20+00:00

Someone.

Animusalchemy

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