/lit/ - Literature

>>19526389
>I think the concept of absolute unity is meaningless, that everything in existence is somehow united as one substance contrary to naive experience of reality as separate and of multiple natures.
That implies that any theoretical concept becomes meaningless if its contrary to our naive experience, which is obviously wrong. In any case, what Advaita is proposing doesn't actually contradict our experience. Advaita says that Awareness is the ultimate reality in which time, space and all changing phenomena are grounded, but which Itself at the same time transcends them even when they are grounded in It, a one-way relation of asymmetrical dependency. So, it's not proposing that physical objects are someone all the same undivided reality despite differing in shape, color etc (this would contradict perception), the undivided reality in Advaita is what *underlies* the changing and ephemeral phenomena.

When the undivided ultimate reality is our own innermost awareness, there is nothing in experience which is actually indicating that our awareness is different from the innermost awareness of other living beings, because difference is only encountered insofar as it characterizes the things which are revealed to invisible, soundless, odorless, partless, unchanging awareness, there is no difference which can actually be found in this awareness itself, but only in other things. The claim that other peoples awareness is different by virtue of experiencing or illuminating a different mind in a different body is actually an inference or assumption we make and it isn't something that we directly something encounter in sensory experience (hence this isn't sufficient to claim that what Advaita says violates experience), and in any case, that's still using a case of using differences in B to faultily infer a supposed difference in A, because when the B in the form of those two minds is subtracted and there is just the luminous presence of the awareness left which had been illumining those two minds, then there isn't anything remaining which one can take as the basis of a difference between them.

>>18978162
>five main sacred individuals of modern humanity are ... Saint Buddha (founder of the tradition known as Buddhism)
Gurdjieff confirmed for midwit, Buddha was retroactively refuted by Sri Śaṅkarācārya (pbuh)