05-19-2014, 10:49 AM
True enough mate, many of the nondual spiritual masters and zen teachers and now even quantum physicists say very much the same message albeit through very, often radically, different frameworks, which makes me think they are onto something here. The phenomena based world of the conscious observer is really illusory over the true fundamental nature of "reality", and we as people in society are completely conditioned to be unaware of this.
Indeed there is a huge difference between knowing this intellectually and actually achieving this realisation with your entire being; this seems to be much harder to "do". In fact most of the non doctrinal versions of this say that it is not a "doing" practice or an intellectual movement that will get you to your own self realisation, it is simply being meditative without proscription, and that is not something where x hours meditation = x level towards self realisation. So you don't have to put a "plan" into effect, but I would say, definitely being meditative in daily life can only help. :) oh and eating better is definitely the way to go. I went light paleo, non grain and felt immediately better only a week in.
I myself am only about a half year into my own "practice" shall we say and I can say I have seen some changes in knowledge of myself and a shifting of perspectives coming through...a long long bloody way to go, but it's a worthwhile "endeavour" to explore the nature of oneself, that doesnt necessarily reside in the molecules and sinew and nerves that makes up your body, nor in the procedures, systems and patterns that currently make up human society. When it comes to art, well it has certainly changed my perspective too. All the study, all the jobs, all the stepped hierarchy of accolades and achievements, amount to nothing if you aren't doing what your own consciousness wants to express with it. It literally changes the game and turns it on its head.
In your YT travels look up jiddhu krishnamurti, alan watts and joseph campbell (i guess this is the campbell of whom you speak?) You've probably come across them all before, but I've been getting lots of resonance with their approaches. :) you don't have to respond with a long message, I know you have limited typing hand hour quotas. :)
Indeed there is a huge difference between knowing this intellectually and actually achieving this realisation with your entire being; this seems to be much harder to "do". In fact most of the non doctrinal versions of this say that it is not a "doing" practice or an intellectual movement that will get you to your own self realisation, it is simply being meditative without proscription, and that is not something where x hours meditation = x level towards self realisation. So you don't have to put a "plan" into effect, but I would say, definitely being meditative in daily life can only help. :) oh and eating better is definitely the way to go. I went light paleo, non grain and felt immediately better only a week in.
I myself am only about a half year into my own "practice" shall we say and I can say I have seen some changes in knowledge of myself and a shifting of perspectives coming through...a long long bloody way to go, but it's a worthwhile "endeavour" to explore the nature of oneself, that doesnt necessarily reside in the molecules and sinew and nerves that makes up your body, nor in the procedures, systems and patterns that currently make up human society. When it comes to art, well it has certainly changed my perspective too. All the study, all the jobs, all the stepped hierarchy of accolades and achievements, amount to nothing if you aren't doing what your own consciousness wants to express with it. It literally changes the game and turns it on its head.
In your YT travels look up jiddhu krishnamurti, alan watts and joseph campbell (i guess this is the campbell of whom you speak?) You've probably come across them all before, but I've been getting lots of resonance with their approaches. :) you don't have to respond with a long message, I know you have limited typing hand hour quotas. :)