Are we really all God in disguise?
>>41181033All? No. Not even a very few.
>>41181033Not all
Not sure- we don't have free will as much people like to believe.
>>41181033If I'm God I'm really bad at it
>>41181033God is all of us but we are not all of God (at least in our present form)
>>41181120lmao, same brother, we all are. Just gotta do a little better each time is all
1/2That is one way to phrase it, but it conjures images of the western “man in the clouds” which isn’t accurate to the theory or non dualism. Of course we are not all some omnipotent being that can control the world. In fact that image of god isn’t even a good depiction for Christianity! But I digress. The claim that we are all god would be better phrased as “we are all the universe”. But let’s use the term god anyway here. You are “god” because experiencing and being conscious is a manifestation of the things you’re conscious of in the first place. You can’t see a bicycle. A bicycle is a thing your experience creates. A “bicycle” might not look like that when viewed from another dimension for example. This is *your experience* and it is entirely self contained. It has to be. You cannot experience something outside your senses. If it were outside your senses you would have nothing to sense it with!So all experience is internal. Things that seem like foreign objects outside are actually only existing in your own head. Now you say “they must exist outside of me. I’m not hallucinating all of this”. Well yes…sort of. What I’m saying is that the “physical world” itself is your experience of it. You are experiencing something and that’s why it exists to you.
God Is Us. But *we* are not GodYa dig?
>>411814792/2In short, the stuff around you exists to you as your senses telling you stuff. The rock is there because you see it and feel it. Both internal things. You can argue that is an objective fact that a rock is there whether you see it or not yes, but you cannot argue a rock is there if you are looking at a blank space. The world “outside” your body only exists as a concept you create based on feelings “inside” your body. Therefore you are an extension of the outside. You are a naturally occurring observer. Imagine if the world has no living beings. There were just rocks and sand. In this case you’re picturing a planet covered in rocks and sand in the sunlight yes? But there is noone to see it. So by picturing it you’re inserting yourself into the world and negating the “no living beings” part. But the rocks still exist even if there’s nobody there to experience them. They just don’t exist to anything that doesn’t experience them and only come into what we call “existence” when *we* experience them. So, you are creating reality by observing it. Therefore it is an extension of you. In fact you could say you’re also an extension of it. or even go so far as to say “You” and “It” are just distinctions; labels made by humans to organize a material experience into individual “things” that we can point to, but the world being made up of separate things is just one framework. It’s useful for communicating with other humans, but isn’t raw reality. It’s an organizational grid we put over reality. Untraining yourself from seeing the world the way it’s talked about will reveal “god”. God is all. The expansive everything. You are a part of the all. Not more or less important than anything because everything is needed in order for there to be the all. IWithout dividing lines in your head you can see this clearly not just in theory but in palpable experience.
>>411815143/2You are “god” in disguise makes it sound like you have grand powers held back by lack of belief. Really you are god in disguise because god exists as life. You.
>>41181479So essentially our consciousness is generating our physical reality, and all objects/things we view as “separate”, are really not so separate, because they exist only in our personal consciousness. I think I sort of understand what you’re trying to say.Why does the mind then tend to create duality and believe it is seperate? Because of our ego?Is the goal to awaken from this illusion?Thanks friend
>>41181479>>41181514This anon gets it.Especially the label part. Once you start to peel those back, it becomes really easy to start to see through the illusion of duality.
We believe what we’re taught. Parents negatively reinforce kids who ignore them when their name is called for example. Responding to your name is an acknowledgement that “someone else” sees “you”. See how that creates separateness? It’s a tool for survival we teach kids and we never let them explore the “whole” world.
>>41181033ultimately you are sat chit ananda existence consioussness and bliss, and that is basically what god is,
>>41181033>Are we really all God in disguise?no, obviously not
>>41181035>All? No.Yes, all.>>41181479>Of course we are not all some omnipotent being that can control the world.Yes, we are.>>41181514>Imagine if the world has no living beingsEverything is alive. Everything is you.>>41181532>You are “god” in disguise makes it sound like you have grand powers held back by lack of belief. Which is precisely the case.>>41181541>Why does the mind then tend to create duality and believe it is seperate?Because you willed it.
Why do non-dualists usually degenerate into monism when there is an opposite path that is possibly more relevant?>Monism > Dualism > Pluralism >I guess I'm not enlightened enough to start speaking hindi and pretending I'm God.
>>41181888I think non-duality is something you can only ever experience. Describing it theoretically simply doesn't work because language is limited.But non duality is not monism because monism still implies SOMETHING.
THE CONCEPT OF DUALISM IS A LINGUISTIC IMPOSITION
Advaita is so gay.None of these people here will ever tell you how to get superpowers. This board is faggotry personified.
>>41181033I'm kind of a Cynic and one day when I was meditating the Holy Spirit said, "Will you be One?" And I perceived the One but as a Cynic I remained Other. Yet initiation into the path of non-duality is freedom from One and Other. One day I will be so transcendent that God will be like a gnat to me. This is entirely Scriptural because the Buddha is the God of Gods.
>>41181933I think that's incidental. A non-linguistic species could be dualistic. Dualism is entailed by the laws of causality. Ignorance is the root of everything causal and you may clearly perceive with your own mind that ignorance is rooted in Void. Void has no root. The unity of Void and Light as in the Bardo state is the consortship of Samantabodra and Samantabodri. This freedom from non-duality crossed with the 4 Brahmaviharas shows that Buddhism is not a nihilism. You also don't need any special insight to see this as it emanates from the most basic emptiness. This non-duality of Void and Light just is the emanation of the Tree of Life from the Ein Sof. If you know the external world is Mind-only you can see what you can do now. But the first step is to relieve suffering(Samantabodra and Samantabodri are the Father and mother of all Buddhas)
>>41181033The soul is a fragment of God itself!
>>41181035>>41181039Fuck off, Kali
>>41181033You telling me that that sick bastard who rapes innocent little children is God in disguise and He shows His love by raping them lil children? Nah huh. That guy is not God in disguise, no way!
>>41181033>33Noice>Redpill me on non-dualityAre you aware that language and descriptions are essentially dualistic, right?
I am who I am
