tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2962818812490239064.post3584611578081152149..comments2024-02-12T19:44:43.493+11:00Comments on The Nondual Cafe: Sitting in silence, doing nothing in particularDean Paradisohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03898106701950641326noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2962818812490239064.post-20606844349215243952018-07-12T13:48:50.320+10:002018-07-12T13:48:50.320+10:00Thanks for the comments, Keith. I know that some s...Thanks for the comments, Keith. I know that some students of Nisargadatta (and Ranjit Maharaj) find that Sri Ramakent is a great teacher and resource. For myself, I didn't feel an attraction to him, but it's different for everyone. It would be well worth visiting one of his tours to the US (unfort he doesn't visit Australia). Best.. Dean Paradisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03898106701950641326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2962818812490239064.post-42293478104092958972018-05-09T15:20:41.004+10:002018-05-09T15:20:41.004+10:00I found that by putting "Tuesday Talk Ramakan...I found that by putting "Tuesday Talk Ramakant" in the youtube search you get the talks. The lineage of Nisargadatta and Ramakant Maharaj don't charge anything. When I tried to donate it wasn't accepted. After all how or why would I charge myself for telling myself about myself? Keithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15799349535843406753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2962818812490239064.post-38262360616323579022018-05-09T14:57:27.899+10:002018-05-09T14:57:27.899+10:00I just dit (oops, I mean sit but I like to leave t...I just dit (oops, I mean sit but I like to leave the mistakes because, how can I dit?) every day and let the mind notice the limitations of thought as it tries to impose it's ideas of identity and value on itself. It is an open never ending attempt to close perceptions into assumed to be real and defined something or other. I also do mantra throughout the day as "commanded"(just kidding), no suggested, by my teacher. He says the mantra works like an antivirus. I see it as replacing thoughts with nothing in particular because I mostly don't notice the meaning of the words. This seems to have a "cumulative effect" on the usual sense OF being. What I call any sense of difference from my usual sense of being can only be noticed in what seems to be time oriented sense and in retrospect. Now I can put it to "my" mind, how can I have a different sense of being when now there is always some sense of being? By letting this kind of open inquiry take it's course, the attempts of thought to close in on particular identities and values gets undermined. "Thought's own" attempt to validate "being" as known in a particular way (it's own closed way)isn't allowed to be proud but instead remains open. I realize sometimes that this inquiry is a never ending search but at least it's an open, not closed search. This, along with reading stuff by Nisargadatta and Rupert Spira and others, like stumbling onto this blog, there is a gradual deepening or emerging of a sense of Real Being that can't be known as anything in particular yet absolutely is undeniable. The truth of what I am and everything is is getting it's own evidence that I and everything is Nothing In Particular. Nisargadatta has said this "about" himself. But there's no "about" about it. Kind of like pure self evidence. Ramakant Maharaj calls it Selfless Self. By the way he is planning to be in the Baltimore, D.C. area in September for a while and to see and hear him and meet with him is free. If you read his book "Selfless Self" ahead of time (or at least a good portion of it), it is extremely likely you can receive the Mantra which is of great importance to me. You'll also get to meet one of Ramakant's foremost students who I consider brilliant,John Richards. We have weekly on line meetings that get posted to youtube which you might be able to find. I participate but haven't gone back to find them myself but maybe by searching youtube and Ramakant discussions you might find them. I didn't know I was going to be mentioning this when I started this post. Back to what I was saying, even if I/we/you observe any perception it's become evident to me that I can't find anything that is strictly particular. Every border and or feature of anything is sharing it's "self". Absolutely nothing is ONLY. I see now that only "nothing in particular" is love, truth, beauty and freedom. I wanted to share this because I love being nothing in particular. In fact I did a search for "nonduality nothing in particular" and it brought me here. More or less power to ya. Seeya. Keithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15799349535843406753noreply@blogger.com