The Advaita Trap 1: Absolute and Relative Confusion - The Cartoon

"The Advaita Trap" by Jeff Foster, in cartoon form. http://www.lifewithoutacentre.com

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• xtranormal
• advaita
• nonduality
• enlightenment
• awareness
• awakening
• non-duality. nihilism

[cybervigilante]

She needs to beat him with a stick, to see if it bothers him, since there is no stick  and no on beating him with it ;')

[melvinbrand]

In this way, it's almost like talking with a fundamentalist Christian. It's not so much a worry that all of their theories are wrong, but rather the creepy way they take those theories into their personal lives and nauseate everyone with it. The miracle of fundamentalist Advaitas is that like fundamentalist Christians, they actually have a kind of sociopathic inability to see how they come off and how it makes others feel.

[Taaplari]

@Firenz7777

This is difficult with my English abilities, but there is SO many point of views in dualistic levels which are "correct" from the places they are perceived, but I still don't think there is free will if we look from the "mountain top". My point was that people should not explain their actions saying; "I really don't have free will, so there is nothing wrong in what I did." So, as long as we FEEL that we have possibility to select, we have also responsibility.

[Firenz7777]

@talkinghead22 haha to me this is the fun part of non-duality. It can arise in any manner of life, no matter how small or big and important something is, there is non-duality in everything ( and nothing ...). Once you come to see this, you can truly enjoy anything, hate anything, love anything, etc. The emotions and feelings are no longer dependent upon a source, they can spontaneously be there outside of the 'real' context of the situation.

[Firenz7777]

@Taaplari It's not that we don't have free will, it's that we have it and we don't have it. This is the problem with thought, it arises after something happens. Thought is never truly in the current moment, it's in the past. When something happens, we have a measure of control over that occurrence, a choice so to speak. After this something happens, it becomes pre-destined to have happened, it happens exactly as it was supposed to happen. This all occurs simultaneously though.

[perceptionsevrything]

the funny thing is both of them (and all awakened One's)

talk to One another as if they are separate, and argue back and fourth

they are both just confirming their illusions

hahaha, it's so true

[Taaplari]

@MrEngineer103

We have an illusion of free will, so do you think that we should not use it, because it's an illusion? If we are in the level of experiencing free will, we have also experience of some control. That's why we also experience influences of that control, how ever illusory they may be. That's how we create karma. If I don't let my dog out, it pees on the floor.

[kreonsa]

This was uber fun! :D

[Meggo55555]

this is great :)

[MrEngineer103]

All of us are manifestations of the single consciousness bound by karma.

Whatever is bound to happen will happen based on karma.

We are a witness to our actions with no control over the results.

[engimalover]

advaita is nothing but indian bullshit