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Nondualism includes a number of philosophical and spiritual traditions that emphasize the absence of fundamental duality or separation in existence. [1] This viewpoint questions the boundaries conventionally imposed between self and other, mind and body, observer and observed, [2] and other dichotomies that shape our perception of reality.
Non-dual tantras utilize both anger and desire as an antidote to delusion (avidyā), focusing on both the physical and mental, void and brilliant, aspects of enlightened mind. The example typically advanced for this category is the Kālacakra Tantra. The Sakya tradition also considers Hevajra to be a non-dual tantra but other traditions ...
B. Bodhi comments: "Suffering spurs the awakening of the religious consciousness," it shatters "our naive optimism and unquestioned trust in the goodness of the given order of things," and "tears us out of our blind absorption in the immediacy of temporal being and sets us in search of a way to its transcendence."
Norbu considers these methods of samatha (shine) and vipasyana (lhagthong) to be "principal practices", even though they work with the mind and are not non-dual contemplation itself. [ 28 ] According to Namkhai Norbu, through these various methods one may arrive at "the state of non-dual contemplation" which is without doubts.
An ordinary person who has not attained any of the four stages of awakening are called by the Pali term puthujjana or the Sanskrit: pṛthagjana (i.e. pritha: without, and jñana: knowledge). These are unenlightened commoners or "worldly" people trapped in the endless cycling of samsara in which one will continue to be reborn into many ...
In Scientology, Operating Thetan (OT) is a state of complete spiritual freedom in which one is a "willing and knowing cause over life, thought, matter, energy, space and time".
The implications of "essence/function" and "body/its functions" are similar, that is, both paradigms are used to point to a nondual relationship between the two concepts. [ 49 ] A metaphor for essence-function is "A lamp and its light", a phrase from the Platform Sutra , where "essence" is the lamp and "function" its light.
Kashmir Shaivism and Advaita Vedanta are both non-dual philosophies that give primacy to Universal Consciousness (Chit or Brahman). [76] In Kashmir Shaivism, all things are a manifestation of this Consciousness, [ 77 ] but the phenomenal world ( Śakti ) is real, existing and having its being in Consciousness ( Chit ). [ 78 ]