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How Death Drives the Anthropocene | Sheldon Solomon

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“I take my stand where no difference exists, where things are not, nor the minds that create them. There I am at home. Whatever happens, does not affect me -- things act on things, that is all. Free from memory and expectation, I am fresh, innocent and wholehearted.

Mind is the great worker (mahakarta) and it needs rest. Needing nothing, I am unafraid. Whom to be afraid of? There is no separation, we are not separate selves. There is only one Self, the Supreme Reality, in which the personal and the impersonal are one.

I am the immovable centre of the movable, the eternal witness of the transient. The centre is a point of void and the witness a point of pure awareness; they know themselves to be as nothing, therefore nothing can resist them.

I am all and all is me. Being the world I am not afraid of the world. Being all, what am I to be afraid of? Water is not afraid of water, nor fire of fire. I am not afraid because I am nothing that can experience fear, or can be in danger. I have no shape, nor name. It is attachment to a name and shape that breeds fear. I am not attached. I am nothing, and nothing is afraid of no thing.”

From “I Am That” by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj (1973).

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Lightning shatters the darkness— the night heron's shriek Basho

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Awareness is always CLEAR: Calm, Luminous, Expansive, Allowing and Responsive. Calm - The contents of awareness (sights, sounds, thoughts, emotions, etc.) always change, but awareness is the changeless field in which they appear to us. The field of awareness itself is still, silent, and undisturbable. In the same way, the screen on which a movie plays never changes while the movie is constantly changing. The screen is never disturbed by the movie. Luminous - Awareness is the knowing presence in which all experiences appear and are illuminated by awareness. It's like a spotlight that makes our experiences known. Awareness is the illuminated that lets the movie show on the screen. Expansive - Awareness is vast and spacious, like the sky. It is boundless. Entire galaxies can fit into the movie that shows on a screen. Allowing - Awareness itself is transparent and insubstantial. It does not obstruct, reject, or cling to any of the experiences that show within it. The movie screen does not resist what is displaying on it. Responsive - Although impartial and undisturbable, it nonetheless engenders love, peace, joy, and awe. In the light of awareness, experiences are recognized to be vibrant and alive, not cold, dead matter. Awareness itself is already awake. "This very awareness is the Buddha," said Mazu. We don't need to get enlightened, or create any of these CLEAR characteristics. Awareness is always already this way. The problem is that we overlook it. We focus on the objects of experience (shapes, colors, sounds, etc.) and ignore the field in which we know them. We are so fascinated with the movie that we ignore the very screen they are playing on. In those moments when we recognize the screen of awareness itself, we are awake. The more we familiarize ourselves with it, the more awake we are. But it's even simpler than that. We are it. We feel like we're a body with a thinking mind, but in reality body, mind, and world all appear in awareness. It's the same awareness that you've been experiencing the world with your entire life. You think you exist in the world, but the world exists inside you, awareness.

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What do you think about the "empty state"? Is it really possible to manifest anything in the void?

What we often call the empty state or emptiness is more clearly known as sunyata.

When Buddhists teach of emptiness, what is actually empty?

Firstly they mean empty of inherent self.

While in Hindu yogic philosophy ultimate reality is sometimes referred to as the Self, in Buddhist philosophy it is sometimes referred to as Emptiness or no-self. Both perspectives teach something useful and both are equally true.

The key distinction here is inherent. Although I can speak relationally of my own self and your own self as individual humans, those selves are temporary appearances. They are formed from transient phenomena that have come together at this specific point in time to give the appearance of an individual. But this individual has a beginning and an end, therefore there is no inherent aspect of that individuality. It does not exist outside of or independent of circumstances.

That is the Buddhist meaning of no-self and it is one particular meaning of Emptiness.

As an aside to close the loop here, in Hindu yogic philosophy, the Self is ultimate reality and it is One without a second. There does not exist two selves, just the one Self. That Self is known by all beings as the feeling "I exist." If you trace that feeling of existence to its source, you arrive at the Self as ultimate reality.

Secondly, there is another meaning of Emptiness which is nothingness--or better understood as No-Thingness. The more I talk about this aspect, the quicker it will seem abstract and strange. So lets just use a quick metaphor.

When you dream at night, you experience yourself in a body in a world. That body is not real but it is based on the physical body you experience throughout the day. The same goes for that dream world you experience.

Even though both that dream body and that dream world seem real with plenty of dream people and dream objects to encounter, in reality all of that is just consciousness taking on different shapes. That is no-thingness, when the distinction between subject and object collapses.

Again, all of this is a way to describe the nature of ultimate reality while also putting into perspective the relative reality we experience as this incarnate dream.

Lastly, you ask if it is possible to manifest anything in the void. My answer would be to look around you. It already has.

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The 1 Thing That Will Awaken You (is the 1 thing you refuse to do!) - Pr...

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Don’t waste time watching and reacting to the minds of ‘others’. Your own mind causes more trouble than the minds of everyone put together. Mooji

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"Understand that you own nothing. Everything that surrounds you is temporary. Only the love in your heart will last forever." Rumi

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What most Non-Duality / Spiritual Teacher’s leave out

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Silence and solitude, the soul's best friends.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

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How to see that Awareness is not INSIDE the body

3 steps to realizing that awareness if not located in and is not a possession of the body.

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