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Past seeking: November 2007

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A life of searching for meaning, and ending in a small country town in Western Australia, leading, through Advaita, to understanding and self-realization. See also my website at http:/ www.beyondseeking.com/. Wednesday, November 28, 2007. The idea of either karma and/or merit is an interesting one and easily misunderstood. As Ramesh Balsekar once said "there is nothing you can do to become enlightened - because there is no you". There being no 'you/me/I' doesn't mean enlightenment doesn't happen - it doe...

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Past seeking: September 2006

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A life of searching for meaning, and ending in a small country town in Western Australia, leading, through Advaita, to understanding and self-realization. See also my website at http:/ www.beyondseeking.com/. Sunday, September 24, 2006. The bottom line is there is either subject or object, nothing else. Everything we know, the world, this human, cars, trees, thoughts, memories, experiences are all objects. Subject is aware of all objects, of all your thoughts, memories, experiences, dreams. The mind crea...

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Past seeking: August 2006

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A life of searching for meaning, and ending in a small country town in Western Australia, leading, through Advaita, to understanding and self-realization. See also my website at http:/ www.beyondseeking.com/. Friday, August 18, 2006. Feel free to view my web site at http:/ www.beyondseeking.com/. But you might have to re-type this address as it's not linked automatically. Posted by Roy @ 6:51 PM. Links to this post. The constantly changing nature of life. Posted by Roy @ 6:02 PM. Links to this post.

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You Are Dreaming: The Mandala is Only Sand

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Writings on Nonduality and Vedanta from Randall Friend. Saturday, June 1, 2013. The Mandala is Only Sand. We had been discussing the Vedanta concept of Mithya. Mithya is that which has no independent reality, that which is just appearance. Mithya really is easy to understand. Do you see that, although that's really the way you think of "things" - that's the way you give reality and independence to the world, it really was never true? So what IS IT, that exists? June 1, 2013 at 10:42 PM. Hi Preston and JD,.

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You Are Dreaming: Dissolving into Nothing

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Writings on Nonduality and Vedanta from Randall Friend. Friday, August 29, 2014. We have been struggling with spirituality, probably for several years. We have read countless writings, books, internet posts, listened to interviews or talks. We try to see what is being pointed at - we try to experience what it feels like to be whole, to know that reality is whole. But that exercise will always be a pointless and losing game. There has been much doubt in regard to the nature of this reality as it appears t...

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You Are Dreaming: No ME To Be Found

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Writings on Nonduality and Vedanta from Randall Friend. Tuesday, March 17, 2015. No ME To Be Found. And encompasses every single thing you think you know. When that falls away, you are left, literally, with nothing. And it is just as it should be. If we must speak of an "I" - an "I" that you know very well, an "I" that cannot be denied by any form of spirituality. we find that "I" is Life itself, Existence itself - we realize that "I" is not a new arrival but the very essence of anything that arrives...

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You Are Dreaming: Find your Self

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Writings on Nonduality and Vedanta from Randall Friend. Wednesday, April 8, 2015. How far do you need to go, to find yourself? Are you in a cave? In some blue spiritual light yet to come? Are you to be found in a new spiritual experience? Wouldn't you already be here, now? If so, then we must try to understand what it is about NOW that is YOU, and what is NOT you. While all of those things, those sensations, those sensory experiences change, that pure and present knowing is always there and doesn't change.

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You Are Dreaming: What is Vedanta?

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Writings on Nonduality and Vedanta from Randall Friend. Is a "nondual" tradition from Hinduism. It is similar in many ways to other nondual traditions like Zen or Dzogchen Buddhism, Taoism, Christian Mysticism (Gnosticism) and Sufism from Islam. Advaita is a "sect" or branch of Vedanta which says that there is a singularity of reality, a "Oneness" or one essence underlying all that appears to be. Yet it is this inherent feeling of limitation from which we cannot escape. My belief about myself is that...

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You Are Dreaming: Form and Emptiness are the Same

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Writings on Nonduality and Vedanta from Randall Friend. Tuesday, October 14, 2014. Form and Emptiness are the Same. It is critical to see the mistake we make about things and the nature of reality. In the Buddhist Heart Sutra, they say "Form is emptiness; emptiness also is form. Emptiness is no other than form; form is no other than emptiness.". Look around you - you see lots of "things". What ARE those things? Did they come into existence independently, apart from all other things? Molecules - atoms - e...