Re: Thinking about death
Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2023 5:44 pm
lorenzop wrote: ↑Wed Dec 20, 2023 3:19 pm These exercises look like Buddha's teaching to gain equanimity in pain and pleasure, and cessation of suffering, so technically I'd say these are not a method to recognize one's true nature. However if one were practicing the above, one would be more likely to stumble upon one's true nature then if one were not practicing any self examination.
Recognizing one's true nature is the undoing of a separate self, of being in or of the body.
I was in a mindfulness meditation how-to session and I asked: If i experience self as unbounded pure awareness (Samadhi) . . . the response was to come back to the breath. So based on this I'd say mindfulness meditation is not a method of recognizing one's true nature.
BTW, I am not suggesting the above are to be avoided . . . I'd say these are admirable skills.
Ok, so this is the core difference between the intuitive thinking path and the standard 'nondual' approach, which we have discussed many times with you and Eugene. Basically, we say that the 'undoing of a separate self', or the undressing of the clothing put on by the core spirit in each incarnation, can only be done through the portal of intuitive thinking, which involves exercises aimed at purifying, strengthening, and enlivening the whole human being in the activities of willing-feeling-thinking. The core spirit undressed of its normal body-soul layers would necessarily pass through the spheres after death and gain insight into them. That is one way we can know for sure that the 'nondual approach' does not actually undress the layers - it would be impossible to expand into genuine unity with the universal Spirit and fail to notice these after-death spheres.
Here all the various misunderstandings and accusations come in. The intuitive thinking path is projected as examining crumbs and stains on the table, tinkering around in the 'dual world', or something similar. The precise knowledge of the after-death spheres is accused of being outright fantasy and lunacy. It simply isn't entertained that maybe the current nondual approach is missing something essential for unity with the universal Spirit. It isn't conceived that the intuitive thinking path is exactly about undressing the layers of the separate self and experiencing the core spirit at ever-higher stages of unity with the World-creating perspectives of the Cosmos. I don't think anyone is interested in exploring all of that again because the reasoning we offer will simply be ignored.