OMG professor! I'm re-listening to all of your courses/lectures. Profound simplicity! I've read and listened to them all, i.e, Watts, Spira, Dalai Lamma, etc. It absolutely confounds and amazes, how simply you communicate such difficult ideas. I will continue to follow your path, as your path is a light to my,(our) path. Peace 🙏🏾 Mac
Thank you so much for your time and efforts that you have applied to these videos. I’m very thankful to have found your channel. You Sir, do good work!
One can be as enlightened as his own learning, understanding, experience or spiritual enlightenment, and it can be at different levels up the ladder. We can never be sure how far we have Come and how far yet to go, and each is at a different step on the ladder. Not discovering Atman may mean at lower levels, seeing and experiencing disease, pain, excitement etc, and finding the true self is termed as blissful and un-compromised acceptance, by people like Ramana Maharshi and others. Atman cannot be experienced by the People who are agitated, anxious and in pain, and so, the need for meditation to calm it down.
i'd contend an "enlightened" individual knows nothing, but intuits much; as to anatman, that's a bunch of hooey, but it's also perfectly true; so, too is atman; atman/anatman; true/not true; this is easy/not easy to understand; such is the essence of the essenceless; also, the parable of the arrow: fabulous;
I'm automatically suspicious of anyone who claims to be enlightened. I take Adyashanti's view on the matter when he said, "There are no enlightened persons. When enlightenment happens there is no one there to claim it." In other words, the deeply transformative shift in consciousness that the traditions describe as "enlightenment" doesn't happen to the ego-self. It's just another name for the embodied realization of our own essential nature. The LAST thing someone who'd experienced this shift would do is go around talking about it. As Laozi wrote in the Dao De Jing, "the more you know, the less you understand." And also, "Those who say don't know, and those who know don't say."
OMG professor! I'm re-listening to all of your courses/lectures. Profound simplicity! I've read and listened to them all, i.e, Watts, Spira, Dalai Lamma, etc. It absolutely confounds and amazes, how simply you communicate such difficult ideas. I will continue to follow your path, as your path is a light to my,(our) path. Peace 🙏🏾 Mac
Thank you so much for your lovely feedback! 🙏🏼
so many questions. You are a Master of your trade, and seemingly found your dharma. Thank you.
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Whirling pooling, this is such a profound thought!
Thank you so much for your time and efforts that you have applied to these videos. I’m very thankful to have found your channel. You Sir, do good work!
Thank you Derek! 🙏🏼
As a follower of Advaita Vedanta, I think Buddha was wrong regarding anatman, but if people are called to his teachings, great!
This is too big of an idea to do justice to in UA-cam comments, but I think the two traditions overlap more than it first appears.
@PeterBolland Sure, but at the end of the day, everything isn't nothing (even if you round up or down, as in this case). 1 =/= 0
One can be as enlightened as his own learning, understanding, experience or spiritual enlightenment, and it can be at different levels up the ladder. We can never be sure how far we have Come and how far yet to go, and each is at a different step on the ladder. Not discovering Atman may mean at lower levels, seeing and experiencing disease, pain, excitement etc, and finding the true self is termed as blissful and un-compromised acceptance, by people like Ramana Maharshi and others. Atman cannot be experienced by the People who are agitated, anxious and in pain, and so, the need for meditation to calm it down.
i'd contend an "enlightened" individual knows nothing, but intuits much; as to anatman, that's a bunch of hooey, but it's also perfectly true; so, too is atman; atman/anatman; true/not true; this is easy/not easy to understand; such is the essence of the essenceless;
also, the parable of the arrow: fabulous;
Thanks for watching Asher, and for your playful and spot-on comments. Indeed, whatever "truth" is, it transcends all binaries.
Sounds like a processing
Are you enlighted?
I'm automatically suspicious of anyone who claims to be enlightened. I take Adyashanti's view on the matter when he said, "There are no enlightened persons. When enlightenment happens there is no one there to claim it." In other words, the deeply transformative shift in consciousness that the traditions describe as "enlightenment" doesn't happen to the ego-self. It's just another name for the embodied realization of our own essential nature. The LAST thing someone who'd experienced this shift would do is go around talking about it. As Laozi wrote in the Dao De Jing, "the more you know, the less you understand." And also, "Those who say don't know, and those who know don't say."