Non duality.

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By Namdrol: "...nondual, but it is not a nonduality" :idea:

clarity! Here is the key of the misunderstanding of the misunderstanding. and shows poor limits of language once more. ism, ity..."a"
Thank you.

With respect without language limits, to teachings and what is meant. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CauF1rAHJfU" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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TMingyur wrote:"Non duality" ... "emptiness" ... mere thoughts, ideas ...

I'd suggest "non-attachment" ...


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Also a thought.
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muni wrote:By Namdrol: "...nondual, but it is not a nonduality" :idea:

clarity! Here is the key of the misunderstanding of the misunderstanding. and shows poor limits of language once more. ism, ity..."a"
Thank you.

With respect without language limits, to teachings and what is meant. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CauF1rAHJfU" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
DKR's talk can be summarized as follows:

He for whom emptiness is possible,
for him everything is possible.
He for whom emptiness is not possible,
for him nothing is possible.
-- Nagarjuna
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I know that my words mean nothing here, but nonetheless i will say what i will...
for me samata/shamata was the gateway that lead on to seeing emptiness of self and all objects. it was the gateway? that enabled me to see buddha nature and the completeness of dharmakaya.

shamata is not a view it is a seeing. to all who view shamata as merely a speculative view. they still are blind to shamata.

i agree with the learned doctor, that it is nothing special, however no form of seeing is anything particulary remarkable.

in my own experience i would possibly never have seen buddha nature were it not for shamata acting as a gateway. it marks the time when one begins to understand awareness.

AN Excersise:

observe the computer screen, feel it with your mind. the sensation, the basic sensation it creates and then after a minute or so focus on the mouse... is there any difference. in the Pali, Samata means Sameness. the word non duality is not used. do you feel the sameness of computer screen and mouse? when you do you can apply this awareness excersise to any objects and experience the sameness of awareness. nothing remarkable.
in any matters of importance. dont rely on me. i may not know what i am talking about. take what i say as mere speculation. i am not ordained. nor do i have a formal training. i do believe though that if i am wrong on any point. there are those on this site who i hope will quickly point out my mistakes.
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Namdrol wrote:
TMingyur wrote:"Non duality" ... "emptiness" ... mere thoughts, ideas ...

I'd suggest "non-attachment" ...


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Also a thought.
Which however has a correlate in direct experience. And I assert that there is no such correlate as to "emptiness" or "non duality".


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TMingyur wrote: Which however has a correlate in direct experience. And I assert that there is no such correlate as to "emptiness" or "non duality".

So you have never experienced an empty bank account? An empty larder? Because certainly in this instant there is a correlate with direct experience. The old "village is empty of a city, city is empty of a village" trope from the suttas i.e. the Cullasunnata sutta, major and minor.

Phenomena are by necessary of free of duality, since they originate in dependence. That absence of duality also has a correlate in direct experience -- see Kaccaayanagotto Sutta i.e. "Everything exists,' this is one extreme [view]; 'nothing exists,' this is the other extreme. Avoiding both extremes the Tathaagata teaches a doctrine of the middle".

The middle way view is by necessity a non-dual view, avoiding these extremes of dualism. That is also emptiness; emptiness cures the views of existence and non-existence -- that can be correlated in one's personal experience.

Apatheia, on the other hand, vairāga, non-attachment, is not a particularly unique Buddhist principle.
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Namdrol wrote:
TMingyur wrote: Which however has a correlate in direct experience. And I assert that there is no such correlate as to "emptiness" or "non duality".

So you have never experienced an empty bank account? An empty larder? Because certainly in this instant there is a correlate with direct experience.
Well now you are referring to "emptiness of ..." The bank account empty of positive figures >= 0 can be experienced on the account statement. In the same vein the larder's emptiness of packaged food.

But the emptiness that is the topic here ... what is empty of what in this context?

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Namdrol wrote:Phenomena are by necessary of free of duality, since they originate in dependence. That absence of duality also has a correlate in direct experience
No because you cannot directly experience duality in the first place.

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TMingyur wrote:
Namdrol wrote:Phenomena are by necessary of free of duality, since they originate in dependence. That absence of duality also has a correlate in direct experience
No because you cannot directly experience duality in the first place.

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Well perhaps you can. For me it is mere thought, mere fabrication. And what is mere thought cannot have a correlate in direct experience.

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In contrast to this what is called "attachment" does have a correlate in direct experience. Consequently its absence has a correlate too. Therefore "non-attachment" applies, whereas "nonduality" or "emptiness (of what??)" do not apply but are mere fabrications.

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TMingyur wrote:
Namdrol wrote:Phenomena are by necessary of free of duality, since they originate in dependence. That absence of duality also has a correlate in direct experience
No because you cannot directly experience duality in the first place.

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Of course you can -- now it is exists, now it does not. That is the experience of duality being discussed.
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TMingyur wrote:In contrast to this what is called "attachment" does have a correlate in direct experience. Consequently its absence has a correlate too. Therefore "non-attachment" applies, whereas "nonduality" or "emptiness (of what??)" do not apply but are mere fabrications.

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It is the same, now attached, now detached; now full, now empty; now exists, now does not exist; these are all dualities.

When the basis for attachment has ceased, also the basis for detachment has ceased: detachment is also trapped in dualism.
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Namdrol wrote:When the basis for attachment has ceased, also the basis for detachment has ceased: detachment is also trapped in dualism.
It may appear so due to the terms being thought. However non-attachment does not "feel" "trapped" but attachment does.

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Edit: "detachment" replaced by "non-attachment" since the intended meaning was a mere exclusion which is better expressed through its negative.
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TMingyur wrote:
Namdrol wrote:When the basis for attachment has ceased, also the basis for detachment has ceased: detachment is also trapped in dualism.
It may appear so due to the terms being thought. However non-attachment does not "feel" "trapped" but attachment does.

Nevertheless, non-attachment is a more subtle trap.
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Well then you continue fostering attachment. It's up to you.

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Attachment is the cyclic existence- Saṃsāra.

Non-attachment is the cessation- Nirvāna.

In the Mahāyāna, neither are taken up or abandoned by the Bodhisattva.

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Dexing wrote:In the Mahāyāna, neither are taken up or abandoned by the Bodhisattva.
In the Mahayana the bodhisattva strives for nirvana too. However it is called "non-abiding nirvana" since he is willing to be reborn through aspiration and prayer (but not through karma).


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TMingyur wrote:
Dexing wrote:In the Mahāyāna, neither are taken up or abandoned by the Bodhisattva.
In the Mahayana the bodhisattva strives for nirvana too. However it is called "non-abiding nirvana" since he is willing to be reborn through aspiration and prayer (but not through karma).


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Of course, and this being removed from the duality of these:

Attachment is the cyclic existence- Saṃsāra.

Non-attachment is the cessation- Nirvāna (with/without remainder).

Is itself proper non-duality of even duality and non-duality.

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I have no issue with duality. There is right and wrong and to know right and wrong is of great benefit.

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Duality usually refers to the imagined apprehended and apprehender, which is a delusion that leads to suffering and the causes of suffering.

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