http://nondualism.blogdrive.com/ nondualism Mon, 13 Jun 2005 21:35:02 PDT http://www.blogdrive.com Copyright 2005. Spirituality http://nondualism.blogdrive.com/archive/30.html Mon, 13 Jun 2005 17:19:53 GMT Following on the lines of the post I wrote after our previous meetings, here is a brief synopsis : This session was pretty much a continuation of the last one. The main issue discussed was the problem of Adhyasa, which is the central problem in Advaitic metaphysics. Adhyasa means superimposition and Advaita holds that the phenomenal world of plurality is perceived only because we superimpose this erroneous world view on top of the one nondual unconditional nameless formless consciousness denoted by Brahman. So then the problem with this theory is that how did the process of Adhyasa... (more) http://nondualism.blogdrive.com/comments?id=30 http://nondualism.blogdrive.com/archive/29.html Mon, 13 Jun 2005 03:16:33 GMT That's exactly what a team of scientists is discovering as they watch new love literally blaze its trail across the living brain. Using real-time MRI brain images of people in the initial throes of passion, they're finding that love originates far from the brain's logic center, its emotional nexus and, perhaps most surprisingly, its centers of sexual desire. In fact, love may vie for the same real estate in the brain as drug addiction. Read more... http://nondualism.blogdrive.com/comments?id=29 http://nondualism.blogdrive.com/archive/28.html Sat, 11 Jun 2005 18:18:02 GMT The third meeting of our Advaita summer discussion group happened recently. Following on the lines of the post I wrote after our second meeting, here are some notes, not explanatory in any way. The advanced definitions of bondage and liberation in Yoga Vashishta. Perception of duality vs attributing absolute reality to duality. Advaita vs mysticism. Shunyata. Non contradictibility as an indicator of Reality. The real "purpose" of Vedanta is not just to become a better this or that but the realization of your identity with Brahman. The stranglehold of the phenomenal world... (more) http://nondualism.blogdrive.com/comments?id=28 http://nondualism.blogdrive.com/archive/27.html Fri, 10 Jun 2005 22:35:07 GMT "Physism does not try to explain why there are such miracles, but reduces them to a unique one," says Omnès, because mathematics is "the laws governing the universe and its particles." Read more... http://nondualism.blogdrive.com/comments?id=27 http://nondualism.blogdrive.com/archive/26.html Thu, 09 Jun 2005 04:49:32 GMT She said the research investigated the extent that certain types of trained meditative practice can influence the conscious experience of visual perceptual rivalry, which is what happens when someone has two different images shown to each eye, or is shown an ambiguous image such as a picture that can look like two faces or a vase. Read more... http://nondualism.blogdrive.com/comments?id=26 http://nondualism.blogdrive.com/archive/25.html Sun, 05 Jun 2005 18:08:25 GMT In the mid-seventies, as part of an experiment in a psychology class, a blind student had been made hypnotically deaf (the signal to awaken was a touch on the shoulder). When the professor fired a blank pistol near his ear, the student didn’t flinch. On a whim, the professor then asked the blind and now-deaf student that if some part of his consciousness was still listening, to please raise his index finger. To everyone’s surprise, the finger raised. Even more strangely, the student then asked the professor why his finger had raised. Read More... http://nondualism.blogdrive.com/comments?id=25 http://nondualism.blogdrive.com/archive/24.html Sun, 05 Jun 2005 16:12:57 GMT A really really brief timeline of western philosophers http://nondualism.blogdrive.com/comments?id=24 http://nondualism.blogdrive.com/archive/23.html Sat, 04 Jun 2005 13:23:09 GMT The second meeting of our Advaita summer discussion group occurred about 2 weeks ago. Before I completely forget what transpired, here is a brief synopsis. It is not explanatory and is only for my own notes. The different notions of "god" in different systems. The standard usage of the term. The concept of an anthropomorphic transcendant creationist god and an impersonal transcendant immanent reality. The difference between monist (advaita like) systems and monotheistic (Christianity, Vaishnavism etc.) systems. The similarity between the Judeo/Chrisian/Islamic (JCI) religions and... (more) http://nondualism.blogdrive.com/comments?id=23 http://nondualism.blogdrive.com/archive/22.html Thu, 26 May 2005 03:20:58 GMT This article talks about the reductionist tendency in web technology. Admittedly, nothing advaitic about it by a long shot, but still a hoot. http://nondualism.blogdrive.com/comments?id=22 http://nondualism.blogdrive.com/archive/21.html Mon, 23 May 2005 17:11:54 GMT We live in a culture where the dualities of good and bad pervade everything. All actions, emotions, desires, thoughts etc. are classified as good or bad (or an intermediate shade between the two). In the language of the upanishads, (where certain sanskrit words have no suitable english descriptions) , the mind-stuff (chitta) flows along the rivers of good and bad impressions (vasanas) So yesterday, we got into a discussion about why is it easier for the mind-stuff to flow along the bad impressions. For e.g. why is it easier to develop any "bad" habit than a "good" one. Looks like a naieve... (more) http://nondualism.blogdrive.com/comments?id=21