Bindi

It seems to me Nondualists want to dissolve their salt and have it too.

What part of the salt doll is personality?

I wouldn’t characterise alignment with the Dao as nonduality, as far as I can understand it alignment with the Dao is about making the spirit and the body one, divinising the human to reflect the Dao. The mundane ego “I” may be dissolved, but the ‘True yang’ or Yang Shen (or higher consciousness) replaces it. The outcome as I see it isn’t the erasure of individuality, but the embodiment of the Dao through a fully integrated human being.

I noticed yesterday that all old posts have disappeared, I had tried to find a quote from an old post of mine and only 3 pages of recent history existed. I checked another members history and found the same, I assumed it was to do with the daobum reset and that it was common knowledge as I don’t come on here very often.

I don’t know this experientially ant this point and I won’t believe it as an article of faith.

I’m interested in higher consciousness being established within, where the personal self is dissolved, and ordinary mind and form are transcended. I think this does completely change who you are.

Actually, I arrived here with an interest in some neidan images I had come across. Neidan is not nondualist, it’s a process that comprehends duality (yin/yang), stages of transformation, and embodiment. Remember the interests of the founder of this site? But having an interest in these things I’m now politely being shown the door? This board shouldn’t “represent non-dual views”, non-dual views are just the loudest voices. My beliefs are led only by my dreams and experience, and tend to align more with aspects of neidan and Sanatana dharma.

I had to look up Om Tat Sat, and came across Hari Om Tat Sat, which is what I’m getting at:

Would you equate ‘Spirit’ with the Shiva archetype within?

Feel free to share your thoughts on this here!

Gotama certainly thought karma was important to actually deal with. He said: Through many a birth I wandered in samsara, seeking but not finding the builder of this house. Painful is birth again and again. But now, O house-builder, you are seen! You shall build no house again. All your rafters are broken, your ridgepole shattered. My mind has reached the Unconditioned; I have attained the destruction of craving.” — Dhammapada 153–154 But his “Unconditioned” realisation left him with many conditioned beliefs such as: I don’t think it’s unreasonable that I think unconditioned should be genuinely unconditioned. Also I don’t see any reference to a higher consciousness that was installed. A Buddhist won’t see this as important perhaps, but it is something I’d look for in anyone who claims to be beyond karma.

To me a relationship holds the possibility of personal transformation. Some of the problems are mine, difficult to see and own but transformative if I manage to. Some of the problems are a partners problems, will he or she see and own them? That’s up to them. Like Nungali said, opposites attract, I think to give us a mirror that we can look into and with any luck start to see ourselves. The more opposite, the closer to reality.

How would anyone practically go about removing actual karma? Not conceptually, but energetically, directly. That seems like a good place to start.

Honestly, I’m just tired of hearing the same stock responses, especially from Buddhist and nondual traditions. It often feels like the same counterpoints get recycled no matter the context - they’re so familiar that they’ve started to feel more like auto-pilot than insight. I’m trying to speak from a different layer. I’m not interested in theories. I’m interested in what changes us for real — what breaks the loop, opens the heart, allows actual higher consciousness to actually inhabit the body. Karma needs to be healed in energetic reality — not understood and dismissed as part of a philosophical concept. Until it’s felt, integrated, and released at the level of the subtle body, I maintain it continues to shape our experience, no matter what view is espoused.

I’m not at all sure what first stage enlightenment is but I fully agree resolving personal karma is necessary for ‘spiritual’ progress. For me, the word forgiveness doesn’t quite capture the process. I don’t experience karma as something to forgive — I see it as a psychic wound, a frozen moment of overwhelming emotion that couldn’t be felt at the time it occurred. It’s not “wrong” — it’s unintegrated. So I see healing karma as less about moral reconciliation and more about fully feeling what was once unbearable. At this stage, I’m focused on personal karma. While I don’t outright discount broader layers like collective or even galactic karma, I feel like complicating our situation with those levels can distract from the immediate work of healing what’s right here, in our own subtle field. If the personal isn’t healed, we’re not in any position to honestly perceive or address anything larger anyway.