Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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.
Advaita (non-dual in sanskrit) refers to the ultimate and supreme reality, Brahman, [note 9] which according to Ramana Maharshi, as interpreted by some of his devotees, is the substratum of the manifest universe, [28] and if describable at all, could be defined as pure consciousness.
Advaita Bodha Deepika, Lamp of Non-Dual Knowledge, is an Advaita Vedanta text written by Sri Karapatra Swami. Contents The ...
Dzogchen practice (gompa) relies on the Dzogchen view which is a "direct, non-dual, non-conceptual knowledge" of the pure nature. [50] This is achieved through one's relationship with a guru or lama who introduces one to our own primordial state and provides instruction on how to practice. This "direct introduction" and transmission from a ...
Thus, Fazang's model of practice is one of sudden and non-dual awakening which holds that as soon as bodhicitta arises, full awakening is present within it. Since any phenomenon contains and is interfused with the entire universe, any element of the Buddhist path contains the entire path – even its fruit . [69]
The fifth stage of Yoga, states the text, is awakening state. This is the state of learning about the self, the non-dual state , arousing the inward consciousness, of correct knowledge in within, where one functions in the empirical world and also fully aware of oneself. [27] [28] The text presents the sixth stage of Yoga as the Turiya state.
[note 7] In the Kaccānagottasutta (SN 12.15, parallel at SA 301), the Buddha states that "this world mostly relies on the dual notions of existence and non-existence" and then explains the right view as follows: [58] But when you truly see the origin of the world with right understanding, you won't have the notion of non-existence regarding ...
Within the vision of the Mahavairocana Sutra, the state of bodhi ("awakening, enlightenment") is seen as naturally inherent to the mind - the mind's natural and pure state (as in Dzogchen and Tathagatagarbha) - and is viewed as the perceptual sphere of non-duality, where all false distinctions between a perceiving subject and perceived objects ...