Transcendence

Because, with that still comes an imagined separate entity which is false.

Once the separate entity is seen through...once separation is seen through completely, there is no need/no way TO 'distance' yourself from the appearing body/mind.....there is no longer separation in play...no erroneous idea in play.....just awareness and it's content...all One.



That's what an SVP does....imagines two things and then conceptually 'unified' them in mind....holds them as 'connected.'



That is simply a prescription for a seeker who is sincerely interested to inquire into 'what am I.' The sage who is no longer identified with the body has no need to 'ignore the body.' The body no longer reigns primary....awareness is now primary, with the body as an expression within/to that.



The SVP is generally not a big fan of the idea of it's seeing through...the idea of it's own absence. That sense of aversion you have towards Nonduality...? That right there is the SVP in play.

See...so not totally convinced then that he is 'stampeded'..?

Yes.

A great point of inquiry. SR clearly reveals that the very idea of "human consciousness" is problematic....ultimately, a delusion in the way most think about it...regard it.

Nothing that appears is actually the domain of consciousness....everything that appears, including humans are appearances arising within/to consciousness. Thus, 'human consciousness' is at best, an 'in the dream' idea....at worst, a delusion/illusion that equals imagined separation.

Any experience of communicating with someone after the body has died, cannot be relied upon to tell you the Absolute Truth of the matter....as all experiential content is empty and devoid of Truth....it's all a facet of the story/dream....no inherent, essential existence in it's own right.

The question of a continued 'me character' experience after bodily death has no existential answer....it's a question relegated to the relative realm/context. I've always said that my conversations with my dead loved ones have been as 'real/valid' as the convos I recall having with them when they were physically alive and appearing before me in flesh & bone, but that does not mean I possess Absolute knowledge about life after death...that is the Truth. It's true that I experience such..that I very much enjoy such and that it's become accepted as a relatively common-place experience that there is the appearance of life of my loved ones continuing on....but that's as far as I can go as to say more, to speak of that as representative of some greater Truth, is to try to take mind where it plain and simply does not belong.




It really seems as though ST has completely turned over into a new age discussion forum....very little in the way of talking about the view from beyond/prior to experience.



A group of dream characters, all marvelling over the various shades of blue/pink of the dream-scape sky.....comparing opinions on whether it's more blue or more pink and there's a lone character that enters into the pic to try to tell them they're all dream characters...the sky, just like the character they think they are, is an appearance also within the dream....their opinions about and the colors they see, all dream facets, but their focus is so intent upon the issue of the sky and it's colors that the shift necessary to see what the dude is talking about, is not even on the radar...they think he's a nut who is talking shit.

It really is fine to marvel over the sky and it's beautiful colors....to delve into new age ideas to mull them over and compare...but Nonduality is not about that...it's about seeing from beyond/prior to all that...and in that seeing from beyond, once that vantage point is primary, all that dream-stuff, the marvelling, comparing, whatever, can still happen, but it's now re-framed by the transcendent point of view that is now primary.