Aboriginal Australian non-duality

[Tyler Durden]

Aboriginal Australians could be the oldest population of humans living outside of Africa. They migrated from there 70,000 years ago and inhabited Australia. For the most part of their history, they were completely isolated from the rest of the world.

I was reading about their spirituality and found some very interesting aspects of their religious beliefs. Within this Aboriginal religion, no distinction is drawn between things spiritual/ideal/mental and things material; nor is any distinction drawn between things sacred and things profane: rather all life is 'sacred', all conduct has 'moral' implication, and all life's meaning arises out of this eternal, everpresent Dreaming.

It's really fascinating that they came to the same conclusions as other mystical traditions of world religions, without any input from the outside. I guess non-dual teachings are universal all around the world, only the different terminology is being used.

Edited December 19, 2021 by Tyler Durden

[Tyler Durden]

@Yarco I understand some of your objections. People in the West tend to look down on Aborigines because they didn't build a civilisation and were very primitive for their standards. But maybe living in the present moment and being connected with the nature, keeps them closer to the Truth than our highly developed society and culture. We forgot who we truly are because of our obsession with aquiring material possesions and living in the past/future. Maybe we should learn more about them to deepen our understanding of how spiritual practices developed around the world.

Edited December 20, 2021 by Tyler Durden

[The Rainmaker]

18 hours ago, Yarco said:

Funny because they don't have a written language, their history was entirely passed down through oral tradition until the English showed up.

So, by that logic, you think that the Ancient Greeks or the Ancient Romans or something have more credibility just because their ideas have been passed down in the form of written language? How do you even know that modern scholars haven't purposely mistranslated all of their writings as they have seen fit? Don't you think it's just as much of a shot in the dark to assume that our decipherings of ancient languages are correct as it is to assume that oral traditions haven't been muddled by time?

Edited December 20, 2021 by The Rainmaker

[Carl-Richard]

18 hours ago, Yarco said:

Funny because they don't have a written language, their history was entirely passed down through oral tradition until the English showed up.

The teachings in the Vedas were also orally passed down.

[Iesu]

17 hours ago, BenG said:

Dogs are the most enlightened beings on earth.

Only rivals being cats 

[Iesu]

18 minutes ago, BenG said:

That's true.

"I have lived with several zen masters; all of them cats."

-Eckhart Tolle

Read my mind 

[herghly]

@Yarco A lot of that is just straight wrong. 

If you're interested to learn about aboriginal spirituality and way of life read - Sand Talk

 

Highly recommended it and it's been a popular book in the "integral world" because of Jamie Wheal