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and with more context it could also be said no permanent or set attachment or set identification with passing constructs... Btw. per the non-dichotomy of non-dualism elemental energies that arise or pass into various forms are not disconnected or illusion per -se just an incomplete perception of "samsara" that when properly understood being nirvana"....(my paraphrase)

How many schools of Buddhism speak of Buddha nature, and did not the historic Buddha speak of same himself, For instance: thus to me there was far more than him only walking around on auto pilot and repeatedly saying no-self, no-self, no-self; btw who or what is it that "escapes" per his quote above....(?)

cut the silver cord and one may locate at who knows where and also with no way back.

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Will someone please get this lady a hair net or help her with pony tails, everyone on the space station must be getting infiltrated with her hair?!

one can also get little hand cranked generators. Btw. I have a small radio that has a tiny generator and crank built right into it, it also has a USB power out port that will charge devices as long as you crank away....

"In Hindu philosophy, the Akashic Records represent a universal memory bank. Derived from the Sanskrit word akasha (meaning sky, space, or ether), these records are believed to store all events, actions, and thoughts of every soul that has ever existed". Don't know much about this and less as far as how other religions or philosophies address it. Per the quoted description above that is one very huge memory bank, and who has would access would seemingly have great purity and great need to do so...(for the keepers/guardians to allow it) On a personal level I know that pure masters can access the memories of their students - memories that their students may have forgotten long ago although still stored somewhere in their mind.

things take place (evolve or devolve) in times and spaces, no-thing is not caught up in that way...yet is simultaneously the source of things. Suffering in Buddha Dharma could be called a thing - yes or no, yet I'd say "Buddha Nature" could be said as not being caught up by or limited to Dharma(s).

Painting gremlins: If you have ever done much painting, more so on the inside your home, then sooner or later the painting gremlins will get you almost no matter how careful you are with brush, roller and drop-cloth. How do you tell, by an unexpected drop of paint left here or there. Btw. if you are really on top of your game you will catch a drop or drops before they dry but that is not so easy with latex paint that tends to dry very quickly. Anyway 99.9% of such drops can be caught and cleaned up by a careful painter but the gremlins will almost guarantee that least .01% get by... which will probably be thoroughly and pointedly pointed out by your spouse...

Thanks also Stirling, you are always upbeat and a great correlator!

Thanks for your honest feedback Keith, You are a cool guy. In your comments you said, "suffering is plain as touching my nose on my face"...well to me that is not exactly written in stone since suffering or what feels like a curse one day can end up turning into the best thing that ever happened to oneself after its ran its course. I think you probably know what I mean but for an example, my brother was in the county jail for awhile which he said was dangerous and filthy but when he got out he said it was one of the best things that ever happened to him because he then knew he really had to get his act together!

"aspect" sounds like a key meaning

thinking mind would like to pin Brahman down but it can not, for if it could "Brahman" would be a "thing". To borrow from Taoism's T.T.C. chap 43, "Only nothing (or to me no-thing) can enter into no-space".

well that sounds logical but Brahman is non-evolutionary and can not be added to or taken away from, thus progress does not apply to It (as the source of cosmic cycles) because if it could then It's regression or de-volution would also be possible. (as it is for things)

hmm, is suffering also a story we tell ourselves? And I've wondered why the first noble truth is not enlightenment, since as you seem to say all the rest are stories.... (anyone else is also free to reply, a cat may have got to Stirling'?) Some little quotes that one may come across: 1. "We are intrinsically enlightened and lack nothing." – HH Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche 2. Paraphrasing Zen Priest Kobutsu Shindo, the first thing the Buddha said when he awakened was, “Wonder of wonders, all beings are truly enlightened.”

well the present "cosmos" is alive for the present and very long cosmic cycle, until it returns, but then starts all over again...(like the seasons)

interesting in that historic Buddha didn't see Buddhism as an ism yet what has transpired over 2500 years....?

ok, and take this as you will, "Ultimately, Nirvana truly realized is Samsara properly understood". Nagarjuna

we can walk around repeating to ourselves and everyone else no self, no self, no self, illusion, illusion, etc. , or we could walk around repeating to ourselves and everyone else Self, Self, Self, reality reality... etc. but doing either on auto-pilot is more or less problematic although if either is used correctly they can help answer the questions and quandary of who, why, what and how are we. Btw. where in hell does real illusion or real reality begin and end? For if non-duality truly is then I'd say there is no real dichotomy except per our limited perception. (and again per our limited perception) the universe of roaring silence can not ignore the call of Sincerity, and by its own law must answer....good fortune to you.

the saying of, "what we are is the entire field of experiential phenomena happening in this moment" is not quite right for Hinduism in my understanding of its teachings, although an awareness of those categories could be had,; anyway Brahman is transcendent (and I believe the Buddha said something similar with "beyond the beyond") of all phenomena which it is the source of but not limited to various things, including all things. Also we could say the "center" or Self is so exceedingly fast that It is standing still every where at once beyond any measure of only being here or there in a particular time and space.

The "Eternal" or true meaning of the Self is another illusion to be negated per some Buddhists but imo here is a pointer from the historic Buddha himself: "There is, monks, an unborn — unbecome — unmade — unfabricated. If there were not that unborn — unbecome — unmade — unfabricated, there would not be the case that escape from the born — become — made — fabricated would be discerned. But precisely because there is an unborn — unbecome — unmade — unfabricated, escape from the born — become — made — fabricated is discerned. Nibbāna Sutta: Unbinding" (thus we could say beyond created categories, which is also a pointer used for Brahman)

well, there is also the problematic choice of whether to be a householder with that related dharma or a monk/nun with that related dharma which arises at some point...(besides all the rest of dharma) since one can't really do both well at the same time. A lot of the quotes/teachings here are coming more from the renunciate people but how many of us westerners are really or seriously going to go take renunciate route, (at least in earlier life?) probably only a few. Besides it takes a good support system for that to be done in an often fast paced modern world. (including the world of 2500 hundred years ago which the historic Buddha renounced)

Great communications "mate".

God or Supreme Being are words and so is Nirvana and all the rest...and have a purpose up to a point. The Self is so profoundly simple that thinking mind can not know it since thinking mind can not and does contain It. btw, I meant the four-fold negation per Nagarjuna, right?

Btw the Buddha is recorded in well recognized sutras as having had conversations with and awareness of gods/devas, so denial of that does not fly per those sutras....although the meanings of all that is a further matter.