The Zen of Advaita - Stephen H. Wolinsky Ph. D.

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THE ABSOLUTE:The Ultimate ThornRealize that empty is empty ofempty (there is no such thing asempty).And that empty is still aperceiver-knower-awarerexperiencer-basedperception.We can appreciate that the“Absolute” is a way to deconstruct“All That Is”.Because the “Absolute” is not aperceivable-knowable-experiencableawarer-based perception.It is prior to the reflected worldand the consciousness-emptinessillusionary mirror.Without a knower-perceiverexperiencer-awarerthere to knowitThe dream endsThere is “waking-up”Without159
Nisargadatta Maharaj:“Nothing perceivable orconceivable.”Enquiry Koan Story: When you goto sleep at night, and dream of ahouse. Upon awakening the houseis gone. Where did the house go?What was the house made of?Indian Metaphor: A man walks downa road. There is a rope in themiddle of the road. Given thepoor light, he mistakes the ropeand sees a snake. Does the snakeexist?Buddha: “...what we refer to as abeing, or a world. But the beingor world does not exist. We justcall it a world or a being.”There is no such thing as nondualityprior to the word nondualityEnquiry Koan: “Is there such athing as non-duality outside ofthe duality-non-duality dream?”Zen Story: A monk asked Daizui,“When the I Am dies, so does“your” world and everything init?”160
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The Zen Koan NotebooksCourse ICrack
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IntroductionThere is no oneThere is
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until 1975, (that there is no sucht
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Section OneWATCH YOUR STEP!A WORD O
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As we will see Koans, like EnquiryQ
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given. What becomes apparent isthat
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Many Zen stories of teachersdemonst
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who was in the room with me thathis
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or lenses through which theirpercep
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Maharaj to “me”: ”What was yo
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Realize who is in front of themReco
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Zen it says that we should let goof
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Nisargadatta Maharaj:“… Anyone
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teach?” might say, “A dog isbar
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unlock the doors of the perceptuali
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onto the I Am” which deconstructe
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is neti neti (not this not this).Ev
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words, a point of view or a fixedpo
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also realized that all perceptionsa
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larger context, namely Buddhism.Eve
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sun, there is nothing special ordif
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condensed or solidified emptiness,t
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“how” and “where” the Koan
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Cracking the Code ofthe Zen Koan Pa
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Both Quantum Physics andneuroscienc
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First, since there is no separate
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or even non-existence areabstracted
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No form, form is emptyNo sensation,
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The no “I” state is a state, an
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There is no self in the veil ofthe
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Diamond Sutra: “A bodhisattva who
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Diamond Sutra: “I shall liberatea
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(which is an abstraction), noBuddha
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conceivable is dependent upon theab
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All perceptions have a point ofrefe
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Krsna says, “I am the doer andenj
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To illustrate this “It is as itis
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learned. This “spiritual reframe
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this frustration with thisparticula
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which could be viewed as part ofthe
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meaning by referring to otherwords
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To illustrate, the thought called
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To appreciate this and its depthis
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SMASH THE MIRRORSShattering the mir
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The abstracted path is areflection
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All that you think it is, orimagine
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Enquiry Koan: “Something isnothin
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SECTION IIIdentifying, Unassuming a
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For the water, there are no wavesor
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Zen Saying: “The finger thatpoint
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Page 164 and 165: BibliographyNisargadata Maharaj See
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