Such generational identities are just one of the ways to get us fixated within in a very limited cultural mindset, self and other, like race, ethnicity, gender, etc while equally propagandized with such slogans as diversity, equity, inclusion. But really its about divide and conquer. And we seek after a group or ideology because we feel adrift in a fragmented world, actually a fragmented mind, and these labels seem to offer some grounding, some meaning. No longer I Am, I am something. But we are being pitted one against the other. You often speak of the spell that is cast on society by our would be controllers, causing us to believe in government, voting, identity politics, but still somehow think these labels, like genx or millennial, have meaning. And the last thing we want to do is to fix such beliefs in our children. Rather, "In Him [consciousness, being, spirit, God...) we live and move and have our being."
Yes the point here is that when we have the consciousness to look at all of these constructs from the outside and see them for what they are as you illustrate here we have the power to play within them if we want or completely deny them if we want. It’s about complete agency and freedom of choice, not the ‘denial of all’ as I believe that leaves us with no-thing and in a vacuum which eventually will result in an existential crisis. For example, the ability to appreciate a great film…even with its flaws and possibly originating out of a dark Hollywood system, we can still see the art in it and appreciate elements of beauty and truth within it and engage in discourse about it to further our own consciousness. If we focus solely on denying everything that is part of the system or culture, I believe we risk isolating ourselves from the all and becoming just another blackpilled nihilist.
Every thing is empty, that is, as matter and the concepts, the simulacrum, we project onto it. We need not deny anything, only see it's reality. As Huang Po said, "People overlook the reality of the illusory world." Thus they only see the illusion, and live an illusion, a fiction, materialism. Our rejection of materialism does not mean we reject the reality of the illusory world. Nihilism like all isms are entirely of the mind, just another cover story of the imaginary separate self. "The only difference between reality and fiction, is that fiction needs to be credible." --Mark Twain
The self is not empty and it has an ontological reality behind it that we can test via many different ways. The self transcends what non-dualists consider to be the ultimate consciousness…(which is actually just an after-effect of the self’s deceived dualistic mind within the simulacrum.). This is why Eastern non-dualists are forced into circular reasoning because they can’t escape this trap of depending on their mind here (that they say doesn’t exist) to confirm their black & white belief because they refuse to accept the reality that there is a higher individuated self that they can tap into outside the simulacrum. So in the end they believe in nothing real except a contrived reality mythos based on a cosmic accident of consciousness forgetting its true nature…
Yes, the Self, consciousness is not empty, as the mind conceives of emptiness. When I say every 'thing' is empty, I am referring to what we conceive as so-called material things, materialism. We can consider emptiness from an ontological basis, that is, free of a conceptual framework, and yet, the essence of that framework, the essence of our reality. We depend on the mind to consider or at least attempt to articulate what is beyond the finite mind, the finger pointing to the moon, as they say in Zen. The finite mind can never describe or frame the indescribable, the ineffable Mind, consciousness, but we compelled to try because it is our essence. We ‘feel’ this reality within us, the Kingdom is within, love. We cannot know what the ‘known’ is until we know what is knowing, our Self.
To understand this, we must investigate the nature of our reality. Most consider (small m) mind (thinking, sensing, feeling and perceiving), as their reality, and this is true, but not as the mind conceives of it, as a finite mind, body and world. Again, Huang Po, people overlook the reality of the illusory world. We have it upside down, as one of your recent guests, Mark Gober, rightly spoke of this. If we turn the mind around from its usual exclusive attention outward, and trace back into the essence of thinking, sensing and perceiving we find only consciousness. This is traditionally called self inquiry. We trace back from the self to the Self, from mind to Mind.
How you arrive at the conclusion that I am speaking of a ‘non-dualism’, a black and white “contrived reality mythos based on a cosmic accident of consciousness” is baffling to me. Please tell me where I have said anything that would indicate such beliefs. I am speaking (aligned with traditional non-dual wisdom) of the direct ‘experience’ of experiencing this reality for all of us, our essence, Love, inseparable, indivisible. It is the embrace of everything. This has nothing to do with the denial of any aspect of life/Life as you seem to persist in thinking about it, but the opposite, by seeing into its reality. Which you might find is surprisingly close to what you consider the "higher individuated self"
If I am everything and nothing than I am the age I choose and not what the World Economic forum choses to stereotype me as. Dr Christine Northrup says the Birthday Jingle is a spell to keep us in the Soul Trap.
Such generational identities are just one of the ways to get us fixated within in a very limited cultural mindset, self and other, like race, ethnicity, gender, etc while equally propagandized with such slogans as diversity, equity, inclusion. But really its about divide and conquer. And we seek after a group or ideology because we feel adrift in a fragmented world, actually a fragmented mind, and these labels seem to offer some grounding, some meaning. No longer I Am, I am something. But we are being pitted one against the other. You often speak of the spell that is cast on society by our would be controllers, causing us to believe in government, voting, identity politics, but still somehow think these labels, like genx or millennial, have meaning. And the last thing we want to do is to fix such beliefs in our children. Rather, "In Him [consciousness, being, spirit, God...) we live and move and have our being."
Yes the point here is that when we have the consciousness to look at all of these constructs from the outside and see them for what they are as you illustrate here we have the power to play within them if we want or completely deny them if we want. It’s about complete agency and freedom of choice, not the ‘denial of all’ as I believe that leaves us with no-thing and in a vacuum which eventually will result in an existential crisis. For example, the ability to appreciate a great film…even with its flaws and possibly originating out of a dark Hollywood system, we can still see the art in it and appreciate elements of beauty and truth within it and engage in discourse about it to further our own consciousness. If we focus solely on denying everything that is part of the system or culture, I believe we risk isolating ourselves from the all and becoming just another blackpilled nihilist.
Every thing is empty, that is, as matter and the concepts, the simulacrum, we project onto it. We need not deny anything, only see it's reality. As Huang Po said, "People overlook the reality of the illusory world." Thus they only see the illusion, and live an illusion, a fiction, materialism. Our rejection of materialism does not mean we reject the reality of the illusory world. Nihilism like all isms are entirely of the mind, just another cover story of the imaginary separate self. "The only difference between reality and fiction, is that fiction needs to be credible." --Mark Twain
Belief is the enemy of knowing.
The self is not empty and it has an ontological reality behind it that we can test via many different ways. The self transcends what non-dualists consider to be the ultimate consciousness…(which is actually just an after-effect of the self’s deceived dualistic mind within the simulacrum.). This is why Eastern non-dualists are forced into circular reasoning because they can’t escape this trap of depending on their mind here (that they say doesn’t exist) to confirm their black & white belief because they refuse to accept the reality that there is a higher individuated self that they can tap into outside the simulacrum. So in the end they believe in nothing real except a contrived reality mythos based on a cosmic accident of consciousness forgetting its true nature…
Yes, the Self, consciousness is not empty, as the mind conceives of emptiness. When I say every 'thing' is empty, I am referring to what we conceive as so-called material things, materialism. We can consider emptiness from an ontological basis, that is, free of a conceptual framework, and yet, the essence of that framework, the essence of our reality. We depend on the mind to consider or at least attempt to articulate what is beyond the finite mind, the finger pointing to the moon, as they say in Zen. The finite mind can never describe or frame the indescribable, the ineffable Mind, consciousness, but we compelled to try because it is our essence. We ‘feel’ this reality within us, the Kingdom is within, love. We cannot know what the ‘known’ is until we know what is knowing, our Self.
To understand this, we must investigate the nature of our reality. Most consider (small m) mind (thinking, sensing, feeling and perceiving), as their reality, and this is true, but not as the mind conceives of it, as a finite mind, body and world. Again, Huang Po, people overlook the reality of the illusory world. We have it upside down, as one of your recent guests, Mark Gober, rightly spoke of this. If we turn the mind around from its usual exclusive attention outward, and trace back into the essence of thinking, sensing and perceiving we find only consciousness. This is traditionally called self inquiry. We trace back from the self to the Self, from mind to Mind.
How you arrive at the conclusion that I am speaking of a ‘non-dualism’, a black and white “contrived reality mythos based on a cosmic accident of consciousness” is baffling to me. Please tell me where I have said anything that would indicate such beliefs. I am speaking (aligned with traditional non-dual wisdom) of the direct ‘experience’ of experiencing this reality for all of us, our essence, Love, inseparable, indivisible. It is the embrace of everything. This has nothing to do with the denial of any aspect of life/Life as you seem to persist in thinking about it, but the opposite, by seeing into its reality. Which you might find is surprisingly close to what you consider the "higher individuated self"
If I am everything and nothing than I am the age I choose and not what the World Economic forum choses to stereotype me as. Dr Christine Northrup says the Birthday Jingle is a spell to keep us in the Soul Trap.
A pleasurable entry in my day. Much gratitude 🙏 ✨️ 🙌