Ex. Trad Buddhist awakening: impermanence, dissatisfaction, nonself; where is interdependence-connection-love for all beings? So many facets
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I’d say all of that is ancillary and potential w/in the recognition of identity in contentless awareness, depending on established behavior.
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1/9 OK. As you know, neurologically, there is no such thing as "contacting pure awareness.” That can’t actually happen. That's just a
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2/9 concept. In experience, however, you can only contact awareness through an experience of something. (Even if that something is nothing.)
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3/9 And as much as we'd like there to be one, real, simple nondual experience that is never the case. it's always mediated partially through
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4/9 the way you're contacting it. For example many, many teachers point out nondual awareness (NDA) through use of space, or spaciousness.
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5/9 But as you've pointed out, that's not actually a quality of conscious awareness. You can just as easily notice NDA in total contraction.
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6/9 Or in anything else, FTM. Each of these angles on awakening is different & liberating in a different, unique, and equally valid way. But
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7/9 that means that the one, real, simple experience you're suggesting, Jody, can't actually be an experience. It's a concept. An idea about
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8/9 NDA, which can never be experienced directly. And that feeling that it's somehow the one theory that explains everything is just part of
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9/9 nondual fundmentalism—it's the only true Truth. I'm not so sure about it.
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The 3rd person view is beautiful & simple but none of us are having that experience.
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Just a thought.
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