a personal opinion I think advaita has a concept about what exists prior to "I am" which in itself is dogmatic and I invite you not to let it become a 'belief'
an experience that we are all one is simply an experience there is something else to get when you don't know not knowing is paradoxical like the concept of anti-finite is more accurate than zero or infinite anti-matter may be a more accurate description than no thing I am NOT that that I am NOT in the end there is no 'real' me hope that clears that up :) On 21 March 2011 17:03, roomsearching <[email protected]> wrote: > The message "I Am" is time bound. The principle to which "I Am" refers to > is beyond time, timeless, eternal. > The witnessing of the manifest world happens to that Ultimate principle. > When you observe something, you receive it, record it and deliberate over > it; therefore you are involved in it. > The Ultimate does not receive or record the passing show. > > - Nisargadatta Maharaj (from Seeds of Consciousness) > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > What you people are calling as real is just the manifest world. > Manifestation is observed by the manifest "I am". > But the Absolute which supports the "I am" is unmanifested. The ego itself > is a manifestation and your egos think that the illusion is real. > Manifestation = illusion = unreal. > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > >
