Mark, that's only just a bunch of party-line neo-advaitist
gobbledygook that does nothing to help sincere seekers, and actually
only serves to prop up the spiritual ego of the one who claims to
'know' that that kind party-line type of thinking is the only truth.

Some of the statements are true from an absolute perspective, but
really do nothing to remove ignorance. Ignorance is removed by
knowledge and ultimately that knowledge itself is left behing. This
whole "giving up seeking" teaching does not remove ignorance or give
knowledge of one's true nature and is just a relatively recent flash
in the pan teaching mostly used by those who are not really as
interested in helping seekers as they are being professional spiritual
teachers.

The teaching of "It's just THIS" is a teaching based upon a flimsy
concept. THIS is nothing. It doesn't exist except in concept and
imagination. Reality can never be defined or comprehended by any
concept, let alone one such as "THIS." A parrot can be trained to say
"There's only This," and "You are already enlightened," but with a
parrot you get the added benefit of not having to pay $10 for a
satsang, or hundreds or thousands of pounds for a retreat, and you
still get the same message and understanding.

The neo-advaita teaching you are giving is a good example of the mind
imagining many things and believing them to be true.

You said: If the teacher is coming from NO MIND then perhaps, but a
teacher coming from a place of being SOMEONE who is teaching YOU how
to be enlightened won't really help.

I agree. I think you make this point quite nicely in your post.


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