Is the World Real or an Illusion?

[@rosedragon108]

listening to "recognition sutras' now, from Audible, and plan soon to buy the book for my spouse - whom i met as my Zen teacher in '93

[@Number-one-good-friend]

this is ware acceptance and compassion can truly take us to great heights. i remember the first time i entered into nothingness. i wept. the experience kept growing and expanding further and further with visuals that took me away from body and my physical surroundings. when it all cracked open and there was nothing there. i felt betrayed by life, my teenage mind did not handle it well at all. 15 years later i was able to rest into acceptance and concluded that "we are all in this together". my disappointment and heart ache became a wellspring of compassion and acceptance for all things in existence.

[@rosedragon108]

ok... guess i have to look up 'non-dual' tradition and what that signifies en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondualism is that correct? ^ do you define 'non-dual' somewhere?

[@christopherwallis751]

yes, see my video on "What is Nonduality". the Wikipedia page is not sufficiently clear or accurate.

[@nathanhays1746]

I so very much appreciate how you take us deep into philosophical discourse and the manifold interpretations of Sanskrit, not glossing over the gloss, if you will. It doesn't feel at all pedantic. I studied in the PCC program at CIIS and love critical thinking about these topics. But unlike the reductive, causal reasoning usually ascribed to philosophizing, working through the implications of non-dual Shaivism opens up the paradigmatic vistas. Your detailed explanation of the processes of awareness has given me a new and perhaps better language for describing the orientation towards the nature of things I've long become comfortable with: Acausal potentiality "folding" or "collapsing" into a causal history and how consciousness rides the edge of that process. Both of your audio books have played on my commute for months now. I've started taking notes in the softcover formats as well. Namaste my friend. May your words flow widely and deeply throughout the mindscape of our world.

[@christopherwallis751]

more books on the way!

[@drjitendratanna8713]

Superb. As always. Please please communicate if you are coming to India again.

[@christopherwallis751]

in Kashmīr right now!

[@drjitendratanna8713]

@@christopherwallis751 - so out of reach. 😭🙂 Till when are you in Kashmir?

[@szymborska]

5:01 Lovely talk, thank you! I think of Terrence McKenna's "True Hallucinations" concept. Reality, in a way, is a True Hallucination. Perception itself is a kind of hallucination. Dream Yoga mantras like "this is a dream" highlight this unreified dream-like perception in the midst of all experience- waking, sleeping, and in between. On a side note, I think of the physicists who say direct perception of reality is impossible, because there's no evolutionary benefit- so all living creatures see a version which allows them to survive- find food, shelter, and procreate. In that sense all living creatures can only "see" the realities which are fit for their survival, and are therefore living in subsets of reality, kinds of hallucinations, which change over time according to the populations creating them for shared survival.

[@ddaavvee68]

i’ve experienced reality twice, for about a minute each time. is it common for these expriential insights to come and go overtime?

[@christopherwallis751]

i would say so, yeah. have you read Adyashanti's "The End of Your World"?

[@ddaavvee68]

@@christopherwallis751 I haven’t read that…i’m currently having my mind blown by The Recognition Sutras ❤️

[@joaobarbosa2536]

Have you ever read works by Rene Guénon or Ananda Coomaraswamy? I think you would benefit by it. Taoism and Sufism, particularly Ibn Arabi is non-dual metaphysics also.

[@jharnabajracharya]

❤🙏

[@amanda_veneto]

How are you Hareesh! Looking fine ;)

[@rosedragon108]

can we use language that's more 'intuitive' aka 'RE-IFIED' ? Robert Thurman uses this word a lot too, and i just do not GROK

[@christopherwallis751]

It's good to learn new words, esp. when those words express what cannot be expressed by other words.

[@ericestibeiro2100]

Are you in Chennai still?

[@holyvoid]

😇🕉

[@FaYT02]

Ôm !

[@ericgenaroflores7069]

In fact in the traditions of central mexico the tonal and the nagual have similarities with shiva and shakti. shiva and nagual being the absolute 0, no names, no knowledge, no feelings, no descriptions. Now my question is this have you practiced not-doing and stopped the world? In other words dreaming awake and acting with intent? Let's say that when every one of us is born we bring with us a little ring of power. That little ring is almost immediately put to use. So every one of us is already hooked from birth and our rings of power are joined to everyone else's. In other words, our rings of power are hooked to the doing of the world in order to make the world." "Give me an example so I could understand it," I said. "For instance, our rings of power, yours and mine, are hooked right now to the doing in this room. We are making this room. Our rings of power are spinning this room into being at this very moment." "Wait, wait," I said. "This room is here by itself. I am not creating it. I have nothing to do with it." Don Juan did not seem to be concerned with my argumentative protests. He very calmly maintained that the room we were in was brought to being and was kept in place because of the force of everybody's ring of power. "You see," he continued, "every one of us knows the doing of rooms because, in one way or another, we have spent much of our lives in rooms. A man of knowledge, on the other hand, develops another ring of power. I would call it the ring of not-doing, because it is hooked to not-doing. With that ring, therefore, he can spin another world."-CC

[@jorgeemil5898]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@captaindiabetes4244]

Ok but what's that crap around your neck?