Why spirituality is an illusion?

Stephen Wolinsky is one of the few living direct disciples of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj. In this "Enquiries" series he gives answers to some of the basic questions arising to seekers on their path. He is the founder of Quantum Psychology and Post Deconstruction and the author of 14 books. Stephen Wolinsky work can be found at www.NetiNetiFilms.com

Category:

Education

Tags:

• consciousness
• non-duality
• advita
• vedanta
• Nisargadatta
• Maharaj
• meditation
• yoga
• eastern
• philosophy
• Stephen
• Wolinsky

[joinery11]

Yep totally true

[KatiaTemAxePoderoso]

i just ask to myself if goes deep inside the mental concepts helps to reach illumination...

[nyclear]

@violinoamore i believe he was with him for 6 years.

[MrNytn2001]

this nigga look like planet of the apes! i can't take him serious.

[violinoamore]

Direct disciple ? Means he visited him once or so ?

[cssuntherrao]

All these are mere words. You use the terms spirituality, meditation, awareness, absolute, consciousness, enlightenment etc. In the very process of talking, conveying & communicating itself, is there not an I? That there is a state of Absoluteness is a statement which cannot obviously be understood by the limited mind. Yet, how is this state to be realised, is the question.

[culturacolombia]

Very good point. thank yoiu .

[Tukuklan]

i agree with you, there is no spirituality or even an i to say there is spirituality, simply because they are concepts of the mind and the mind is the ultimate illusionist. But in meditation if you're thoughts cease and there is only watchful awareness that is left, you will feel that there is no sense of me, no sense of i. and in that state you will see that everything is only a matter of perception and perception is ever changing, what never changes is that i less i that is there in stillness

[bubbagogo]

They say that the I causes all the problems but maintain there is no I. Whats wrong with this picture?

[stevenp68]

Are you saying everything is an illusion including the absolute, that oneness is a fake concept because there is nothing and not no-thing? Consciousness does not exist and therefore we are not even here to question existence. How far down the rabbit hole does this go? Without the absolute to stop the spiral existence is not even occurring. Spirituallity may be an illusiary concept but existence must be real. What exists is only known through illusion.