yeah,`this moment' is gone now because i watched THIS GUY without a life!,GET A JOB<GET OFF YOUR BEHIND AND GET WITH IT(sheeshe what a crock of BS!,no wonder the US is where it is today)
I didn't know a "sage" was supposed to behave a certain way. And yes, Arjuna did slay his relatives and kinsmen, at least for the purposes of whoever the author(s) were. It makes gobbly-gook out of Bhagavad-Gita to insist otherwise. I don't care for lobster.
The "now" cannot be found. Try it. This "moment" cannot be found. Try it. Consciousness cannot be "of the moment". It isn't "of" anything. Saint Wayne is wrong, I don't believe he is a real Saint. Would a true Saint boil a lobster to death? Or fry the impressionable mind of a listener to death? No. I will protect my peace of lobster. Errr --- I mean peace of mind. Goodbye Saint Wayne.
The now is... right now. If you try to find it you're looking at it as something that has passed or something that you think will occur. "Here comes the now!" "There went the now!"... those are just concepts, not the thing in itself.
We're getting caught up in semantics and playing the ego game. Watch yourself and see why you're so passionate about your definition or about debunking others' definitions.
I like this guy's teachings but I can't remove the image of him holding a lobster, ready to boil it to its death, out of my mind. Anybody else see that photo? Did Wayne boil a lobster to death?
Yeah, I know.. Arjuna didn't really kill his cousins, it's was all divine play and I understand that, but that image of Wayne and the lobster bugs the heck out of me.
Yes, in that there are a lot of similarities. However, Advaita has an additional non-dualism: that between the self (Atman) and Brahman. This nondualism is not the focal point of Buddhism.
Yes, the concept seems to make sense. It may be more "accurate" than other concepts, but it is still a concept; and thus WRONG. Intellectual games, fascinating and entertaining to no end, but ultimately worthless. Beautiful, isn't it?
Careful, concepts are not right or wrong. They are just concepts. They are there, they're a label, they're a way to communicate. We shouldn't confuse the map for the territory but having a map isn't wrong either.
Wayne does run a pretty darn good "finishing school." What gets finished in clear seeing? Seeking. Then it's all clear for no one: Wherever "you" go, Here You Are... ever-present and unbounded. Full Stop.
He is saying that Now is where it is at and this is obvious.Past and future are just Now playing trick or treat.And Now is not a time word, it is a Power word.
And that "now" -- although it's a helpful idea for people to explain the non-existence of past and future -- isn't real, either. Can you find "now"? When exactly is now? How long is it? One second? A billionth part of a nanosecond? A trillionth part of that? If you think along those lines, you'll end in infinity, because each unit of "time", however short, is made up of more sub-units. There is no time, period. Not a big deal, really.
Now refers to the constant stream of subjective experience. "Now" is much more concrete than measurements of time. A measurement of time is artificial, a mere abstraction. The garbage you're putting forth is backwards. Measurements are completely manmade. They are not objectively real. All that is real is the continuous "now" of subjective experience.
you could think of that as the Great Escape. We exit from the sensescapes and the mindscape, from the nowscape, in our desperate attempts to escape. It is a maneuver we engage in all too frequently, whenever things are not to our liking..and, ironically, even when they are. So we can either inhabit the inner and outer landscapes of the MIND and the body and the world, not really separate, or we can pursue the Great Escape forget our lives as a continually and wonderful pregnant nothingness
now is the very current present running without division of time - time is just when memory remembers any memory and/or imagination imagines a future, then the infinitely current now looks like divided, but when we tell about the now in Advaita we mean the constant presence-awareness that is always 'running' in the now, it doesn't knows past, future or something like.
boring
TheLovesoul1 1 year ago
words words words...boring
FeeelingAlive 1 year ago
Another 8 Fixation preaching Enlightment
Enrique6299 2 years ago
yeah,`this moment' is gone now because i watched THIS GUY without a life!,GET A JOB<GET OFF YOUR BEHIND AND GET WITH IT(sheeshe what a crock of BS!,no wonder the US is where it is today)
MrSteelhead2 2 years ago
The U.S. is where it is today for lack of what this man points to, not because of it
Yoetah 2 years ago
Sorry! No offence intended...
cosmicjazzer 3 years ago
... but when he returns home, his fat and psycopathic wife will thrash him to within inches of his life!
cosmicjazzer 3 years ago
I didn't know a "sage" was supposed to behave a certain way. And yes, Arjuna did slay his relatives and kinsmen, at least for the purposes of whoever the author(s) were. It makes gobbly-gook out of Bhagavad-Gita to insist otherwise. I don't care for lobster.
KosmicCitizen 3 years ago
psstheyyou 3 years ago
The now is... right now. If you try to find it you're looking at it as something that has passed or something that you think will occur. "Here comes the now!" "There went the now!"... those are just concepts, not the thing in itself.
We're getting caught up in semantics and playing the ego game. Watch yourself and see why you're so passionate about your definition or about debunking others' definitions.
musicluvah1981 2 years ago 2
I like this guy's teachings but I can't remove the image of him holding a lobster, ready to boil it to its death, out of my mind. Anybody else see that photo? Did Wayne boil a lobster to death?
Yeah, I know.. Arjuna didn't really kill his cousins, it's was all divine play and I understand that, but that image of Wayne and the lobster bugs the heck out of me.
hirofan 3 years ago
Yeah, that's the whole Hitler.
Alexknobsob 3 years ago
Great stuff
SunshineBuddha 3 years ago
The parallels between Advaita and Buddhism (particularly Zen Buddhism) are interesting. I hope the Advaita traditionalists don't take offence.
identityisrelative 3 years ago
Yes, in that there are a lot of similarities. However, Advaita has an additional non-dualism: that between the self (Atman) and Brahman. This nondualism is not the focal point of Buddhism.
SunshineBuddha 3 years ago
Advaita argument is who is witnessing 'Shunyata' ? There has to be a knower, that knower is the one without second.
kingdecemberblue 3 years ago
"an additional non-dualism" -- hahaha, that is priceless beyond words.
zendakk 3 years ago
String theory of physics supports reality as a hologram. I agree with it entirely. This is one of the best definitions of reality, actually.
ArcadianGenesis 4 years ago
Yes, the concept seems to make sense. It may be more "accurate" than other concepts, but it is still a concept; and thus WRONG. Intellectual games, fascinating and entertaining to no end, but ultimately worthless. Beautiful, isn't it?
zendakk 3 years ago
So you think all concepts are wrong? By your logic, the concept of subatomic particles is wrong. You fail.
ArcadianGenesis 3 years ago
Careful, concepts are not right or wrong. They are just concepts. They are there, they're a label, they're a way to communicate. We shouldn't confuse the map for the territory but having a map isn't wrong either.
musicluvah1981 2 years ago
Wayne does run a pretty darn good "finishing school." What gets finished in clear seeing? Seeking. Then it's all clear for no one: Wherever "you" go, Here You Are... ever-present and unbounded. Full Stop.
charlesdavidhayes 4 years ago 2
He is saying that Now is where it is at and this is obvious.Past and future are just Now playing trick or treat.And Now is not a time word, it is a Power word.
jesuisravi 4 years ago
Is he saying that there is no past or future but only now ? So that the past is really only now in disguise,likewise the future?
taumm 5 years ago
Past is memory, future is imagination. And the only place where memory and imagination can happen is the NOW. Basically time does not exist at all.
ErasedOne 4 years ago
so then why does everything appear to change?
mercurius0 4 years ago
And that "now" -- although it's a helpful idea for people to explain the non-existence of past and future -- isn't real, either. Can you find "now"? When exactly is now? How long is it? One second? A billionth part of a nanosecond? A trillionth part of that? If you think along those lines, you'll end in infinity, because each unit of "time", however short, is made up of more sub-units. There is no time, period. Not a big deal, really.
zendakk 3 years ago
Now refers to the constant stream of subjective experience. "Now" is much more concrete than measurements of time. A measurement of time is artificial, a mere abstraction. The garbage you're putting forth is backwards. Measurements are completely manmade. They are not objectively real. All that is real is the continuous "now" of subjective experience.
ArcadianGenesis 3 years ago
you could think of that as the Great Escape. We exit from the sensescapes and the mindscape, from the nowscape, in our desperate attempts to escape. It is a maneuver we engage in all too frequently, whenever things are not to our liking..and, ironically, even when they are. So we can either inhabit the inner and outer landscapes of the MIND and the body and the world, not really separate, or we can pursue the Great Escape forget our lives as a continually and wonderful pregnant nothingness
beyond1Mind 2 years ago
now is the very current present running without division of time - time is just when memory remembers any memory and/or imagination imagines a future, then the infinitely current now looks like divided, but when we tell about the now in Advaita we mean the constant presence-awareness that is always 'running' in the now, it doesn't knows past, future or something like.
SamuelSkelter 2 years ago
PS: Sorry: ...when mind remembers any memory*
SamuelSkelter 2 years ago
a flower!
sethlopan 5 years ago