Mellowmarsh

First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is.

@Hyperion Nothing ever had to make sense.

Btw, you need to simmer down and not get too enraged with bitterness toward all things Nondual, it’s teachers and teachings, especially religious god idolising self serving indulgent fests, especially metaphysical and maga stuff . We’re all born into the same loony bin here, including me and you. Just try to laugh more. That usually helps. It’s just not worth getting hung up on. I don’t take anything that comes out of my mouth seriously, I just love the sound of my own squawks like the best of us.

I was just surprised you posted it here, like you were trying to make a point to me, so I just put 2 and 2 together and came up with 7

Try not to take this too seriously. I openly admit I’m just a parroting idiot repeating stuff I’ve read somewhere as if I believed it. I’m a poser. No big deal. And no I don’t think I’m special, but at the same time it’s true, not many people grasp what non duality is pointing to, my god even you must agree with that, how many people have you met in your lifetime who fully understand nonduality?

I didn’t mean to hate on the image, it’s just my style of weird expression when the Terrapin Station record was mentioned it prompted me to post that image because it was just what came to mind. Certain words trigger me to play the clown that’s all. I don’t mean to be disrespectful, and if I was I apologise.

That maybe true in your personal assessment, but I personally have never viewed nondualism as a form of escapism. In fact the opposite was recognised to be true in that there was the stark realisation of no way to escape or disappear through some hidden trap door. That this was inescapable. So for me it’s both liberating and terrifying at the same time.

Yes, thanks, it’s literally just a discussion about integration that’s all. It’s not necessarily in conflict with the overall principle of nonduality. It’s actually a very refreshing conversation.

Yes, as already stated up thread, every word describes. As I’ve said before we cannot know the absolute we can only theoretically describe in theory relatively speaking. Of course everything known is relative to the absolute because we are finite story tellers. So I’m in agreement with you.

Okay… report back with your opinion if you do manage to get through it. 😬 But it’s still fine if you can’t, no problemo.

Tim came up with the phrase UNI-individualism. Which I thought sounded less severe than no self.

I think Tim makes a very valuable and overlooked point that’s why. He even admitted he could be wrong about stuff he once believed in. He’s even trashed all his books if I recall correctly. It’s all explained in the video, if one is really interested, one must watch the whole video from start to finish. I happen to agree with the message the 3 people are talking about. If you find it hard to listen to that’s fine, you’re already living from your own truth, that’s unique to you. No problem. I listen to almost everything these days. I’m just an ever curious type in that respect.

No, I don’t disagree with the teachings as such, I see the teachings for what they are, insofar as no word can describe radical nonduality, or, every word describes radical nonduality. We can only theorise as to the nature of reality, and can also grasp the illusory nature of knowledge is only ever pointing to it’s own illusion.

It’s not at odds. I don’t know what you mean by at odds. All I’m saying is that we can only have a theory as to the true nature of reality, knowing also that reality is not a theory outside the conception of theory. It

Your theory. The one you post about on this forum.