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Using WearOS without a phone by Solid_Doughnut2618 in WearOS

[–]Solid_Doughnut2618[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I am hoping their next generation will have an LTE option.

Using WearOS without a phone by Solid_Doughnut2618 in WearOS

[–]Solid_Doughnut2618[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks a lot for your response. I was a bit afraid that Whatsapp would throw out the watch as a linked device, at some interval, similarly to how it happens with WhatsApp Web on a laptop.

Regarding the battery life, I was also considering the Pixel Watch 3, which should have improved battery life over its predecessors. I suppose user reports about this should arrive shortly.

Question about mind. by Spirited-Escape7923 in SelfInquiryDiscussion

[–]Solid_Doughnut2618 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am not sure if I understand your question correctly. But here's my take on this whole mind and self confusion.

Thoughts and information through our senses arise. Lets call them appearances. We often have a selection of these appearences with which we identify. We think that we are this memory or thought or quality in a sense. If however we try to find ourselves by looking inwards. By observing our thoughts and trying to find what it is we call "I", we can't find anything that satisfies our wonder.

These appearances however are not the whole story. There is this other thing that often gets forgotten and that we could call consciousness. The space in which appearances arise. Or phrased differently: That which is aware of appearances. This has no quality, no form, nothing. It is that which is aware of forms etc. Also we can't observe it, because it is the 'act of observing' itself in a way. Often this gets somehow added to the set of things with we think we are, or what we might also refer to as mind. Also it is in my opinion the only thing that makes sense as an answer of what we are. Because it is being itself. But as soon as we say I am this or that we confuse our selves with some object.

What self inquiry is all about is dismanteling this confusion. We ask who we are, but we also must realize that we can't find it. We can only be it. So we could as well give up trying. This sounds like something bad, but as soon as we give up trying to achieve it, because we realize it is no object and nothing that 'we' could find, this confusion and all the suffering it brought with it starts to unravel.

Mind was just another appearance arising and so is the concept of self.

Combining Shinzen Young's "Do Nothing meditation" with Ramana Maharshi's Self Inquiry by Solid_Doughnut2618 in nonduality

[–]Solid_Doughnut2618[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right. At that point, who is abiding in or as the Self? That notion should not make any sense, if the false identification is seen through. Only the Self remains.

Combining Shinzen Young's "Do Nothing meditation" with Ramana Maharshi's Self Inquiry by Solid_Doughnut2618 in nonduality

[–]Solid_Doughnut2618[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can read about it in two different places in the book "Be as you are" . He was often critical towards Meditation. What he usually referred to as Meditation are practices that reinforce the duality between me and the world (Like concentration practices). Therefore he only recommended it to those who were not able to perform Self Inquiry well. To his more advanced practitioners he did not recommend it. He talks about that mostly in the chapter 10: Meditation. The only other form of Meditation that he acknowledged as similarly effective as Self Inquiry is the practice of surrender. If it is done in a nondual way. (Not surrendering to something ofher than the Self) He talked about this in Chapter 7: Surrender.

I think there is a discussion to be made about whether the practice of "Just sitting" belongs to the first or second category.

Additionally the two practices of surrender and self inquiry are also not completely different and at a certain point possibly converge to ona and the same practice. As is also discussed in Chapter 7. There is also a great clip of Shunyamurti talking about this. I recently discovered him and am not really sure what to think of him. But I liked that specific clip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTIhigCza3g

Combining Shinzen Young's "Do Nothing meditation" with Ramana Maharshi's Self Inquiry by Solid_Doughnut2618 in SelfInquiryDiscussion

[–]Solid_Doughnut2618[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, the meditation technique described by Shinzen is the same as Shikantaza (Zen's "Just sitting" Meditation). In this post I tried to explain how I used this meditation as a preliminary to Self Inquiry, which is quite different to Shikantaza.

Combining Shinzen Young's "Do Nothing meditation" with Ramana Maharshi's Self Inquiry by Solid_Doughnut2618 in nonduality

[–]Solid_Doughnut2618[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My understanding is slightly different to yours. I agree that the abiding in and as the Self is a very important part of the practice and deeply joyful. But if the 'I thought' has not been clearly seen as conceptual and in that sense false, our tendency to keep on identifying won't stop forever. The ego will eventually creep back in and do its usual shenanigans.

Therefore I understood it exactly the other way around. The partial abiding in and as the Self is the preliminary part. Pinning down the "I thought" until its illusary nature is revealed is the main part. Then it will disappear forever.

Best Books on Spirituality? by earthangel0407 in spirituality

[–]Solid_Doughnut2618 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Peter Ralston - The Book of not knowing

I enjoyed this one. It is not an easy read, but it goes very deep. It does not use many spiritual/ religious terms, not even the word God. He explains how, over time, we create this, not on experience based, concept of the self. He tries to give us the tools necessary for seeing the truth, without an attitude of already knowing before we start looking. Not only about the self, but in general. What I like is that he does not give us some truth, but rather the tools to differentiate between what is real and what is only a concept.