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In Advaita Vedanta, non-duality meant being one. In Buddhism, non-duality simply means not two and not being one. Your understanding of Advaita Vedanta is faulty. I've been speaking against this understanding for a few days now, for example, in this post: http://www.dharmawheel.net/viewtopic.php?f=...

60 Commentaries on philosophies constitute a thick jungle in which a roaming mind may easily get lost, in its own delusion. Therefore, true seekers of Brahman should, through right efforts, come to experience the Real Nature of the Self. 61 For him who has been stung by the cobra of ignorance, the ...

You say: You and Malcolm are arguing against a straw man Advaita. Then you say: In a nondual reality there can be no such thing as objective existence. This is the Advaita we are arguing against: This world is unreal like the image of a city in the mirror, it exists inside. Due to the power of Maya...

In a nondual reality there can be no such thing as objective existence. Objective and subjective are dualities, so yes. However you yourself just used the phrase "nondual reality". I do not find that to be an oxymoron. Here is a quotation from one of my Advaita books. I cannot be objectif...

As in a non-duality, yes. So if one posits an objectively existent reality (ultimate or relative), than can one be said to be expressing a non-dual view? Somehow, I think not. I've said several times in this thread that from an Advaita perspective, existence and non-existence are ultimately mithya,...

Is this thread still talking about if it's possible to be Buddhist and Hindu?

Imagine if a person realized the nature of their mind without being exposed to Buddhism. Or, imagine that they were aware of Buddhism but ignored it, and still realized their mind anyway. If such a thing is possible, would this person necessarily convert to Buddhism and teach things in Buddhist term...

Maybe so, but monktastic also mentioned talking with people who've had realizations relevant to Vedanta. Speaking from a Vedanta perspective, I wouldn't recommend asking awakening people to describe their experiences and then treat those descriptions as objective evidence. I did not ask. This is fr...

I have heard it suggested that there is indeed more than one realization that can be appropriately called "nondual," and which feels absolutely final. The idea that "because they're both nondual, they are the same insight," or that they give rise to the same degree of freedom, i...

I have heard it suggested that there is indeed more than one realization that can be appropriately called "nondual," and which feels absolutely final. The idea that "because they're both nondual, they are the same insight," or that they give rise to the same degree of freedom, i...

Isn't the main point to take away here that both traditions acknowledge that their methods - interred in philosophical language or not- are merely conditional devices to hook disciples in the right direction, but which shouldn't be confused with the actual realization/destination which is beyond th...

Padmasambhava: With respect to samsara and nirvana, the difference is simply due to ignorance or to awareness, respectively. But at this single instant of pure awareness, there is in fact no actual difference between them in terms of their essence. He is saying that, ultimately samsara, and nirvana...

Namaste Boomerang, you said; "That quotation sounds like an excellent explanation of awareness in the Buddhist context. I don't believe that Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta are exactly the same; it's just that being nondual, they're similar enough that I can believe both without feeling conflicte...

I respectfully disagree Well the hindu view is different to the buddhist one, so that's to be expected. Okay, so maybe it's impossible to be Buddhist first and then be open to Hinduism? And if you think another path may also lead to nondual realization, you've accidentally stopped being Buddhist?

You either are confused and grasp at phenomena as being real or know that they are empty. In the latter case your wisdom of how things are is also completely empty and not construed as being real. I respectfully disagree, but I appreciate your response, as I love having conversations about nonduali...

Here are a couple of quotations that a cool guy names Tom McFarlane provided for me one time. Buddhism and Advaita both teach that dualities such as samsara and nirvana are derivitave of an ultimate reality. That is a very contentious statement. Buddhism does not propose an ultimate reality - certa...

It depends on the individual person's aptitude. For some people language and logical arguments can take them all the way to nonduality. This is the Advaita route. For other people, what they need is to rest in silence. For others, what they need is to visualize a deity. Some people do zazen. So on ...

...If you take the Buddhist route then you work with the idea that awareness lacks inherent existence. In the Advaita route, it has inherent existence. ... Regardless of acceptance or non-acceptance of this statement by those who claim to follow buddhism and those who claim to follow avaita I find ...

Hi all, I have an Advaita Vedantist friend, she sees lights in crystals as beings living in crystals. I see as buddhist, the lights as reflection of my own mind's vision. Perhaps subtle, yet quite profoundly different. OmAhHung love light space dave Beings living in crystals has nothing to do with ...

Hi all, I have an Advaita Vedantist friend, she sees lights in crystals as beings living in crystals. I see as buddhist, the lights as reflection of my own mind's vision. Perhaps subtle, yet quite profoundly different. OmAhHung love light space dave Beings living in crystals has nothing to do with ...