who is it that is absent from the "I"? another "I"?
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my tweet wasn't a definitive statement but a mere question. i've wrestled with advaita or nondualism for a long time. i feel like a dog chasing its tail. ha!
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am pretty sick now / hard to focus enough to be clear - but when i finally "got" it, i was angry at all the wordy glamorized accounts which lead astray - but it's a 24/7 job in a way - to dis-identify with thoughts, associations etc. / to feel underlying reality (also illusion)
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Technically, there is no self or homunculus in the brain calling the shots, so to speak. I can do the Tony Parsons style "all there is is this" lingo. But bottomline: there is this body-mind thing that has to be dealt with. I don't believe consciousness...
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... exists by itself, in itself, in the void, somehow. Consciousness is a byproduct of the nervous system...
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i agree with you - there is no consciousness without the body so ... no one knows anything ... (?)
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Yeah. Ramana and all those advaita people believe in consciousness with a capital "C". That's just blind faith. There's no evidence for that. We're back to "just have faith", again. Might as well pray to the tribal god of your choice. Ha!