What Does "Not Separate/Oneness" reference?

Everything you're talking about here is relative context. Mind-body and spirit, everything that appears as "related/connected"....those are relative ideas, mystical insights at best, NOT "realization."

The realization of Oneness is not about "connecting" appearances, it's about realizing that fundamentally/Absolutely, there are not "two"...that all distinction arises within/to Awareness, and is temporal appearance only, absent inherent existence in it's own right.



To see the mind/body as an appearance only, is not to "renounce" body/mind. Again, you've taken your mangled understanding of Nonduality pointers, and created a straw-man argument. You've been told this over and over again, but continue to hold to your erroneous understanding of what's being said.

You're still asleep in the dream, erroneously believing you've awoken. And in your ignorance, you are snide, arrogant and condescending to those who offer you Pointers to freedom.

It's not experiential "divides" between apparent objects/things that was ever the problem! It's mistaking that appearance for fundamental separation.

The fact that a baby can distinguish a finger held up to grab hold of it, indicates an apparent denoting of the finger as distinct....

It's only ever "fundamental/existential" separation that is the issue. That's the deluded belief. Apparent distinction/apparent division by which singular objects/things can be denoted from one another, are non-problematic...there is no need to deny apparent distinction.....freedom from the world does not mean denying distinction, it means "realizing fundamental Oneness."

Ultimately, "Awareness/witnessing/seeing" is singular and fundamentally existent/actual....but there is no existent "witness" per se...where there is a sensed/perceived "knower/witness,seer/Some-one/thing, an entity that is believed to be the "witness/some-thing that IS itself aware," that constitutes an illusion in need of seeing through. You are looking at a mirage and mistaking it for an actual oasis.

There IS no existent witness behind "witnessing/seeing." Awareness is not a some-thing that IS aware. Awareness is not an aware entity. It's just awareness itself. Awareness can stand alone...absent content, or there can be awareness "of" content. Where there is a sense of being a something/someone that IS aware, that is "content." Relatively speaking, as the story goes, as people, we are aware.

The unawakened mistake that apparent me character/person, for an existent entity within which, awareness arises. That is adelusion that gets seen through as separation/the SVP gets seen through.




Damn...that must have been quite a shock. I'm sorry to hear and I truly hope it went well and he heals quickly and fully.

That's cool that he had an out of body experience, like that. I've had several myself, starting when I was very young...during lucid dreaming I sometimes experience a real-time, venturing beyond my sleeping body, seeing and experiencing things that I am later able to verify....so called "astral travel"...that kind of thing. These are mystical experiences that leave one with the "insight" that awareness/consciousness is not dependent upon body/eyes that see, brain, etc.

This though, is still an "in the dream" insight and not to be conflated with the shift in locus of seeing to beyond/prior to all appearance, that is SR.

That "knowing/observing" from beyond the body, that continues to include a personal/me character reference, is still experiential, a mystical, generally awe-inspiring, but, still, personal experience.

In an OBE, there still the personality, history/memory involved, the sense of "me character/story" involved...it is simply in that instance, devoid of the experiential sense of seeing out of bodily eyes and hearing out of bodily ears..of being tethered to an appearing body....it is still "a temporal experience" that is beyond the consensus trance reality, that is "out of body" but not out of the "dream-scape."

My deceased loved ones tell me this is what it's like to continue to experience as a me character, post bodily death.

After-death experience though, is still "in the dream"....."experiential content/appearance only," and not to be conflated with actual "liberation/freedom/SR." SR is awakening TO the dream...a seeing that is completely beyond the dream....beyond the confines of the me character.