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What is the duality?
upekka
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according to what you have heard and what you have read so far, what do you think 'what is the duality?'
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"Two" =Subject & Object ...Non-duality = "Not Two"
Link please, @upekka. Thanks.
this is in sinhala
if someone can translate it into english and forward to this thread it would be much appreciated
i can do that, but there is a grate probability that i might changed the exact meaning in it
So your interpretation of 'what is the duality' might actually be inaccurate?
i am not interpreting it, i understand it, it is knowing
no matter how hard i try to explain it you people would never understand it
but the sermon is given by one of Arahnnts living at this moment and if one could translate it into your language who is at the same page as you are (in your language) then it might be helpful for you to understand
it might or might not
it depends on at the moment you are listening (or reading) to it and how much you have been trying so far (not just on this life time, but also in your previous birth) understand Buddha's Teaching
just the Cause and Effect
nothing else
If you understand it why did you name the thread "What is the duality?"
What do you mean by "you people" ?
"You people" is duality...
Unfortunately my sinhalese is a little rusty....
What is the duality?
Give me two glasses of wine, and I can sing in Sinhalese, Pali and old Greek
Give me two glasses of wine and like Dr Doolittle I can communicate with the animals.
"You people" is duality.
"THE duality" is more duality...???
I don't mean to fry minds in the small hours of the morning but contemplate this.....
What is the Triality?
what's teh point
Indeed
I can guess overthinking is indulging in duality.
And dukkha.
Two for the price of one.
Second arrow...
Quite so!
In the early manifestations, one-pointedness is about focus/attention/being in the moment/mindfulness - in other words a singular being.
Later on though much the same, it examines duality, Dr Do-Little, singing to ones empty glass etc from an emptiness rather than a full of [insert 'you people' expletive] ...
Duality is the lack of clarity.
Incidentally I do not believe 'we the people' are being insulted. It is a translation problem ...
correct
spot on
see, this is the reason that i hesitate to translate
Duality is something added on to reality. It isn't there all the time for example when listening to beautiful music or admiring a scene.
In the seen, there is only the seen,
in the heard, there is only the heard,
in the sensed, there is only the sensed,
in the cognized, there is only the cognized.
Thus you should see that
indeed there is no thing here;
this, Bahiya, is how you should train yourself.
Since, Bahiya, there is for you
in the seen, only the seen,
in the heard, only the heard,
in the sensed, only the sensed,
in the cognized, only the cognized,
and you see that there is no thing here,
you will therefore see that
indeed there is no thing there.
As you see that there is no thing there,
you will see that
you are therefore located neither in the world of this,
nor in the world of that,
nor in any place
betwixt the two.
This alone is the end of suffering.
...
When contemplating duality & non-duality ...I've use this simple quote as a meditation tool to bring the two together to become "not" two... where the mind just resting in awareness, so to speak...
"Awareness is fundamentally non-conceptual before "thinking" splits experience into subject and object. It is empty and so can contain everything, including 'thoughts' .It is boundless . And amazingly it is intrinsically 'knowing' "
Give me two glasses of wine, a pint of Guiness, a shot of vodka and a partridge in a pear tree - and I can make up any shit I feel like and believe it
(not having a go at anyone, just taking the piss
)
exactly
that is why
if one just think about 'anything including thoughts' one gets more and more questions and get irritated and get tired too
chetanahan bikkave kamman vadami
but if one does Insight meditation, one would be a step closer to the answer and one feels like doing more and more Insight meditation to get into the depth of the Teaching
it is obvious, shit can be seen everywhere