Nonduality & Levels of Communication
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- Опубліковано 1 гру 2024
- We communicate from different levels of understanding and experience, yet all these levels are braided to make nonduality community anti-fragile along with being decentralized and self-correcting.
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Summary of the Talk:
Different Levels of Understanding: In the nonduality community, people come from various levels of understanding, intention, and experience. No one fully understands what another is saying, and communication often involves trying to adjust or complete others' perspectives. This diversity strengthens the community.
Examples of Levels:
Curiosity: Like a journalist assigned to report on nonduality without personal interest.
Belief: Intellectual agreement with nonduality ideas, such as "we are all one."
Faith: A deeper trust in the truth of nonduality teachings without full realization.
Knowing and Practice: Those actively investigating nonduality in daily life through meditation and self-inquiry.
Freedom and Playfulness: A more spontaneous, fluid level where one lives with humor and expression, detached from intellectual clarity or traditional practices.
Interaction Between Levels: Communication between individuals from different levels (e.g., someone experiencing Oneness vs. someone experiencing non-separation) can create misunderstandings, but it also enriches the dialogue.
Community Strength: The diversity of levels creates a strong, resilient community. Nonduality's strength comes from its antifragility-it becomes stronger when challenged. This antifragility is enhanced by the community's decentralization (no single authority or center) and self-correcting nature (no final, absolute truth).
Comparison to Politics: Like conservatives and liberals in the political arena, people in the nonduality community come from different levels, and trying to bring others to your level often fails. However, this diversity and interaction strengthen the community.
The nonduality community is like an emergent system, where complexity arises naturally from the interaction of its members without centralized control. Each person's level of understanding contributes to the whole, creating a strong, adaptable system.
Antifragility and Decentralization: The community becomes stronger through challenges. No one person, book, or teaching defines it, which keeps it dynamic and evolving.
Inclusivity Across Levels: People contribute from various levels of understanding. This diversity ensures that the community is inclusive and able to adapt to change, fostering a sense of resilience.
Freedom and Playfulness is my favorite level. Yeah, I know there are no levels, and it's all a dream, and nothing ever happened, and there's no one to have a favorite level, etc. etc. but it's still my favorite level just the same.
No One to have a Level. Having a Level or not, is part of the Dream.
Hey get with the latest meme: There's no Dream.
@@Nonduality, yes. Reminder of a story where: An old man was telling a story, when the King inquired, "Who are you?!” The Buddha replied with a single word, “Awake.”
How do I get involved with a nonduality community?
I’ve been in nonduality for over 5 years and would love to meet like minded folks!
There's online community and real life community. Online communities are on Facebook. Do a search for nonduality. An online search for nonduality meet-ups in your area might by helpful. Reddit has an excellent and active nonduality page. You can make inquiries there. You could also start a meet-up where you live. Let me know if you have further questions.
I got a little specific about the use of language to formulate concepts and methods using breathing with visualization and thought forms or what is called in the pali language of Buddhism the 'nimitta' which is the steady constant mental image that appears after a lot of dualistic practice (twoness turns into oneness)...it can be done with breath or even without focus on breath and directly having consciousness in the nimitta you have created ...can work either way...either by diligently practicing a dualistic method which bears the oneness fruit of the constant mental image such as a continual tunnel with a white light at end of it whenever you close your eyes or can be a part of the body or form of the body you choose to fill with light...anyway can't get too specific coz knowledge is power and it's big money hence stinginess with methods..secret arcane ways kept from the public...secret methods handed down thru hundreds of years in a family just because some man went to live in a cave and practice meditation 16 hours a day
I am inspired to point out to u that not only is duality illusion...oneness is illusion too as is the endless multiplicity of details which come from duality ..from positive and negative...the dualism of man and woman joining together to form one (a baby) ...the only reality is nothingness ..what cannot be seen or quantified...the unknowable...it seems a percentage of folks in the non duality community are deluded into focusing on oneness as reality which ain't the case...oneness is made up of all the endless details which amount to nothing in the big picture...what is illusory and therefore non existent always appears to be changing..shifting...and what is real is beyond change...it is eternally the same
Yes, thanks.
can try at another time but as stated some info they won't allow for the reason that it is too specific and specialized...did not go too deep but deep enough for them to hold onto it...whatever as stated in a previous comment reality is nothing is happening and nothing exists so all these words are part of illusion that in reality is not happening...language can be tweaked in myriad ways to formulate constructs which if practiced enough can be applied to material situations
lot of comments getting deleted here...even just a short insightful comment...your channel is seriously compromised