07-23-2010, 12:05 AM
ninth octave wrote:No-self is simply another observation about experience( since everything has impermanence /dependent arising), that it is possible to be liberated from the constriction of a life centered on "self" and to experience life more freely and joyfully.
Nonduality co-originates with no-self. The teaching that the things we ordinarily see as separate and distinct from each other or even as opposites are ultimately not two, not separate and distinct. You and I are not two, not separate and distinct( the candle analogy fits nicely here). Nirvana and samsara are not two. Everything in the universe or mutiverse is ultimately not two. Strickly speaking, nonduality does not mean that "all is one". Nonduality means only that ALL is NOT TWO, period. Nonduality means only that all is not two, but all is not one either. So nondual can be understood to mean "neither two nor one."
Zen / Toltic /Buddhism Middleway/Christianity/etc. all share common element in the experience of being human. For an example a Christian theologian David Tracy notes that while the Buddhist and Christian ways are clearly not the same, "neither are we two, in any easy way, merely other to one another." Borrowing the Buddhist notion of nonduality, Tracy suggests that perhaps "we are neither the same nor other, but not-two. Only the further dialogue will tell."
Got tea?
I'm a bit short on tea, but I have a goodly supply of beer.
Nonduality co-originates with no-self. The teaching that the things we ordinarily see as separate and distinct from each other or even as opposites are ultimately not two, not separate and distinct. You and I are not two, not separate and distinct( the candle analogy fits nicely here). Nirvana and samsara are not two. Everything in the universe or mutiverse is ultimately not two. Strickly speaking, nonduality does not mean that "all is one". Nonduality means only that ALL is NOT TWO, period. Nonduality means only that all is not two, but all is not one either. So nondual can be understood to mean "neither two nor one."
Zen / Toltic /Buddhism Middleway/Christianity/etc. all share common element in the experience of being human. For an example a Christian theologian David Tracy notes that while the Buddhist and Christian ways are clearly not the same, "neither are we two, in any easy way, merely other to one another." Borrowing the Buddhist notion of nonduality, Tracy suggests that perhaps "we are neither the same nor other, but not-two. Only the further dialogue will tell."
Got tea?
I'm a bit short on tea, but I have a goodly supply of beer.