Joseph Maynor

Those videos are so good! The interaction is amazing! It think they are good for understanding what is going on with neo-advaita.

Watch those two videos and look at how he relishes saying no like a stubborn kid almost. It's weird once you see it.

Neo-advaitans seem to be obsessed with saying no. They love that.

This is a very good description of Love IMO. Realizing everyone has a different/differing Truth on some level. I know this is paradoxical -- if one is looking at things from a Truth perspective alone.

I agree. In the context of health, overthinking is often the opposite of what needs to be done. It's diet, exercise, and getting off addictions. That's all action-taking and habit re-formation.

This is a very fascinating statement actually.

My take from reading Ramana Maharshi (mostly written not by him notably) is his primary teaching is snuffing out the I-Thought. I seriously doubt he is a solipsist. He would not attach to the mind in this way, I don't think.

Who is letting go?

I didn't realize there is a Part 2. I love it.

This is the ultimate neo-advaita video IMO. Hilarious.

How do you know the body exists?

There seems to be a Purpose or we might call it a Telos that is driving toward growth and Wisdom. There's a Point to It.

I'm actually not an athiest. My insight is that Truth/Reality/God whatever you want to call it is concerned with personal development, teaching, learning.

@Inliytened1 Do you have a view as to whether Reality/Truth/God has a purpose and what that purpose is?

This sounds like the no separate self insight.

I don't think anyone enjoys being homeless. That's a little bit of a stretch IMO.

Clarity tends to zero in whereas wisdom tends to zoom out IMO. They're not entirely separate paradoxically.

I don't see much agreement happening between points of view on this topic.

Is it difficult to get enlightened or to stay enlightened?

I point to that with Truth or Absolute Truth, so I think we just have different words for the same thing, maybe. God to me has too many religious connotations, so I avoid the word. But what it points to is what matters most, I think.

This is a good point. But we need to be careful about reductionism here where we reduce direct experience to a deeper sort of analysis such as quantum physics.

Okay.

I see what people are pointing to with the word God although it's not a word that really resonates with me. But that shouldn't matter to anyone either. It's just my preference or bias or whatever.