Which university are you studying in? UQ? QUT?

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Which university are you studying in? UQ? QUT?

Just a sharing... something I wrote a week ago.

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Some personal reflections.

As an ego (which is just a delusional identification with a self in this body mind), "I" feel trapped in a body, a body being a victim of my circumstances, my life, my environment, in short the world is "my ...

This is an article that talks about the distinction between I AM and nondual realization: http://awakeningtoreality.blogspot.com/ ... y-ken.html

Formerlysky, you have described impersonality and the I AM realization. However there is a further aspect of no self - first non-dual (no subject-object division), then anatta.

When consciousness experiences the pure sense of “I AM”, overwhelmed by the transcendental thoughtless moment of Beingness ...

Thank you :)

I forgot to add... The last link that I wrote clarifies the difference between no self understood as impersonality, or as non duality, or as anatta.

Ciaran is more about anatta but many people don't really understand him well, I remember in the old forum many people were deemed "liberated" even ...

Hello formerysky,

Seems that you have realized the I AM, which is the profound insight into the essence of mind as luminous pure presence-existence-consciousness.

While this is a precious realization, it is not yet the realization of no self or anatta. I highly recommend reading through this seven ...

Ven Thanissaro doesn't seem to understand that Buddha's rejection of the view that 'I have no self' actually has to do with the annihilationistic view that that the self first exists in life, and then ceases upon physical death (therefore no rebirth and karma). When the view of self is rejected ...

Another aspect about no self is that "I" no longer have a sense of a body in the "background of things". The sense of a body is just a fabricated image collating a few disjointed tactile sensations into one solid thing. The sense of a body/mind is dropped off into just imageless, intimate gapless ...

Something did come up, AnEternalNow.

Could you describe this realisation from an experiential perspective? You're obviously a very good writer with a strong conceptual bent, yet we're also very interested in your actual experience? What's the difference "before" and "after"? How does it feel to be ...

I enjoyed reading your posts, aneternalnow, it's great to connect.
I have just one question that interests me at this point, how would you describe this seeing to somebody who have never heard of it before, what would you say to a sixteenyearold? there is no you, the notion and sense of self is ...

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Hello, first of all it is a joy to read the discussions here, secondly if I have time to chime in I might add my 2 cents (but I am in army* now and replying from my phone on free time, so it is not easy for me to post a lot). Also the immediate cause that brought this forum to my attention is that ...

Hello, just a self-intro, I was not very active in RuthlessTruth (more active in my own Buddhist forum in SgForums, and TheTaoBums, DharmaOverground, DharmaWheel etc) though I was given blue status by Ciaran in the old forum and did post a few post there.

I come from a Buddhist background and I was ...