Advaita Vedanta is a school or philosophy of ancient India. It derives its teachings from the Vedas. Vedanta is a term denoting the end of the Vedas. In other words some feel that Advaita is the end of all knowledge as it is the highest.
Advait posits that everything is Consciousness. Every thought, feeling, emotion, and judgement is an appearance in Consciousness.
Ignorance is what has caused mankind to embrace separateness. Through ignorance we superimpose our ideas and concepts onto reality. This causes us to suffer and to want to seek truth to escape suffering.
Nisargadatta Maharaj says: "Even for a moment do not think that you are the body. Give yourself no name, no shape. In the darkness and the silence reality is found."
"I can find little solace in the profound " I think, therefore I am" solution. In the first place Descartes never proved that it was he doing the thinking"(Richard Rose).
David Carse says: "Everything, including the body/mind organism you call yourself, does not exist as something separate in itself, but only as an apparent functioning in Consciousness. There is no separate self or mind, only dream characters in Self or Consciousness. There is only thinking happening in this apparent organism, in these dream characters. We experience this. We experience thoughts happening; but the assumption that they originate inside these heads in something we call a mind is an unwarranted leap. It's the basic misperception from which everything else, all of dualism, all of the illusion of separation, all saMsAra [cycle of death and birth] follows"
A book im currently enjoying that I got these quotes from is called "Back to the Truth: 5000 years of Advaita" by Dennis Waite.
Advait posits that everything is Consciousness. Every thought, feeling, emotion, and judgement is an appearance in Consciousness.
Ignorance is what has caused mankind to embrace separateness. Through ignorance we superimpose our ideas and concepts onto reality. This causes us to suffer and to want to seek truth to escape suffering.
Nisargadatta Maharaj says: "Even for a moment do not think that you are the body. Give yourself no name, no shape. In the darkness and the silence reality is found."
"I can find little solace in the profound " I think, therefore I am" solution. In the first place Descartes never proved that it was he doing the thinking"(Richard Rose).
David Carse says: "Everything, including the body/mind organism you call yourself, does not exist as something separate in itself, but only as an apparent functioning in Consciousness. There is no separate self or mind, only dream characters in Self or Consciousness. There is only thinking happening in this apparent organism, in these dream characters. We experience this. We experience thoughts happening; but the assumption that they originate inside these heads in something we call a mind is an unwarranted leap. It's the basic misperception from which everything else, all of dualism, all of the illusion of separation, all saMsAra [cycle of death and birth] follows"
A book im currently enjoying that I got these quotes from is called "Back to the Truth: 5000 years of Advaita" by Dennis Waite.
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