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Maraya1969

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37. I believe what you say and there is an entire spiritual philosophy that says the same.
Mon May 25, 2020, 06:41 PM
May 2020

It is called Advaita. Or Advaita Vedanta.

And yes, by practicing that philosophy somewhat I have realized that the "mind" is just a collection of thoughts and some visual pictures that come and go. If you are upset and ask yourself, "Who is it that is upset?" and look inside you will see that there is no one there.

What we have as an identity is just a bunch of characteristics that we have gathered through the years. Like our name, race, family, job, ideas etc. But if you think of yourself as a brand new baby before you added any of these things you were just a bundle of awareness. The goal of Advaita is to get back to being that bundle of awareness and let go of all the other stuff.....which happens to be all the stuff that makes us miserable. And from then on their is spiritual stuff which I am still trying to learn.

Two books on the subject at called, "I am that" and "Becoming nothing"

It's all about that.

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