Introducing the real GOD of the Universe

I am thy Emperor in the Sky, the Demiurge, thy Jealous and vengeful Lord of all Worlds!

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Behold! The Way, the Truth, and the Light!

(MorgueOfficial) I discovered the REAL God | Why the Monad [the One, as taught in the varied traditions we collectively call Gnosticism] was too dangerous to teach.

The Lost Sutras of Jesus

So that even the Goddess of Wisdom (Sophia) as exemplified by Apostle Mary Magdalene (the closest and brightest apostle, the real intended successor of Jesus, not dogmatic Peter/Petra, an emissary of Sophia, Barbelo, the true GOD or godhead) had to denigrated and erased.

It's why Jesus the Anointed One (the Christed) had to be repurposed by imperial powers, misquoted, and made to work for the state (Emperor Constantine's Roman Empire and subsequent Christendom), and inverted until what the church says he said is nearly the opposite of what he was teaching.

(Gnostic Talk) We won't be judged after we die, the Archons do this instead

• Real God? It's Alan Watts: When I found out I was God

I oppose the status quo, the temple priests, the official "Church," and the moneylenders!

• Buddhism and the God Idea
• NEWS: The Buddha was made a Christian saint!
• Is Buddhism atheistic? No. It is nontheistic
• FOR SALE: Buy Fantasy 'Nordic Christ' at Best Buy

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  Hi, I'm not Jesus. I'm Sal Mundi

  Gnostic Jesus
• Pistis Sophia (Koine Greek Πίστις Σοφία) is a Gnostic text discovered in 1773, possibly written between the 3rd and 4th centuries AD. The existing manuscript, which some scholars place in the late 4th century, relates one Gnostic group's teachings of the transfigured Jesus to the assembled disciples, including his mother Mary, Mary Magdalene, and Martha. (In this context, "transfigured" refers to Jesus after his death and resurrection, not the event during his life where he spoke to appearances of Moses and Elijah on a mountain). In this text, the risen Jesus had spent 11 years speaking with his disciples, teaching them only the lower mysteries. After 11 years, he receives his true garment and is able to reveal the higher mysteries [entheogens] revered by this group. The prized mysteries relate to complex cosmologies and knowledge necessary for the soul to reach the highest divine realms. More
• Apocryphon of John
• Princeton Prof. Elaine Pagels, historian of religion
• The Gnostic Gospels found at Nag Hammadi library
• Jesus Christ (Saint Issa, Eesa) as a Buddhist
• We've been LIED to about Christianity
• VIDEO: Ven. Jesus?: "The Christ of India"

Atheists must be crucified like my son!

Why become a follower following in the footsteps of the guru to know what the guru knows when you can just pay lip service to the guru, praise, worship, sing about, and never actually follow anything he taught, pat yourself on the back for being a good "follower" (a pious Christian hypocrite), and call it a day?

Heaven awaits for all kiss-ups who never bothered to read, investigate, study, or experience what the Teacher taught. They just let child molesting intermediaries interpret it for them so they could be sure to get a good seat to the afterlife. God would be so proud!

So all true believers get into heaven?

It's interesting that many modern Christians, contradicting their own official sacred texts (council-approved books of The Book), believe in and speak of a God that sounds an awful lot like the Monad Jesus was really talking about.

The ancient Vedas, Brahmin priests (Brahmanism), and modern Hindus also speak of such a GOD (Brahman, not Brahma) that is not a being in the sky, not an old, bearded man on a cloud throne but rather "the absolute or ultimate reality behind all of the illusion" (the maya or simulation or the ever-revolving samsara). That GOD is called Brahman even in a polytheistic, henotheistic, sometimes pantheistic tradition with so much variety and complexity (because it's an amalgam of all the beliefs and practices found in India by the occupying British who could not understand it until they lumped the diversity into one big pile and called it a "thing," a "religion," of which ancient Indians had no concept, because like most people of the world, spirituality and daily life were not treated as separate).

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  What is the Greek logos, word, seed sound?

  BRAHMAN: In the Old Vedic and subsequent Hindu religions, Brahman (Sanskrit ब्रह्मन्) has a "variety of meanings," but in the Upanishads and later Indian philosophies it connotes "That" from which all existence proceeds, and to which everything returns [1, a], [the Source,] the origin and cause of all that exists [2, 3, 4]. In contemporary Hindu metaphysics, Brahman is the highest universal principle, the Ultimate Reality of the universe behind all the hide-and-seek "divine play" (lila), complexity, and confusion of maya (illusion). [The nondual of Advaita Vedanta.] More

That's what I've been trying to say: we're all divine

This Monad (ONE) is Brahman (GOD), and it probably the TAO, the Great Spirit of Native American lore, and it is likely the "Father" Jesus (Gnostic Jesus, Y'shua, Yeshua, Joshua, Isa, Saint Issa) was really talking about in an anionic (timeless/eternal now) Kingdom, not a heavenly rebirth but a timeless ("eternal") reality right now, for those [mystery cult] initiates ready and able to undergo purification and ego-death (loss of self to gain the kingdom of heaven) and be raised up in a rapture (bliss, unburdening, realization, union) of understanding (comprehension) and gnosis (actual experience) before passing away from this world.

Science vs. Religion: embrace mystery

(Finding Meaning Project) When religion and science say same thing...

The phenomenal world as illusion (maya)

The impersonal ultimate reality behind all?

The basic recurring theme in Hindu mythology is the creation of the world by the self-sacrifice of God—"sacrifice" in the original sense of "making sacred"—whereby God [or GOD] becomes the world which, in the end, becomes again God.

This creative activity of the Divine is called lila, the play [or drama] of God, and the world is seen as the stage [platform] of the divine play. Like most of Hindu mythology, the myth of lila has a strong magical flavour.

Jesus Lived in India

Brahman is the great magician who transforms [it]self into the world and then performs this feat with [its] "magic creative power," which is the original meaning of maya in the Rig Veda.

The word maya—one of the most important terms in Indian philosophy—has changed its meaning over the centuries. From the might, or power, of the divine actor and magician, it came to signify the psychological state of anybody under the spell of the magic play [the actors or audience lost in the play].

As long as we confuse the myriad forms of the divine lila with reality, without perceiving the unity of Brahman underlying all these forms, we are under the spell of maya....

The Tao of Physics (Fritjof Capra)

In the Hindu view of nature, then, all forms are relative, fluid and ever-changing maya, conjured up by the great magician of the divine play. The world of maya changes continuously, because the divine lila is a rhythmic, dynamic play.

The dynamic force of the play is karma [act, action, deed, doing, intention], an important concept of Indian thought. Karma means "action." It is the active principle of the play [the acting], the total universe in action, where everything is dynamically connected with everything else.

In the words of the [Bhagavad] Gita, Karma is the force of creation, wherefrom all things have their life.

— Fritjof Capra, The Tao of Physics (1975)

• Morgue Official; Frijof Capra; Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Jen B. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit

Ram Dass: We live in the world we choose

Ram Dass: We live in the world we choose | 1980s | [full lecture | restored archive]

Nothing new by nobody special

Seva Foundation (seva.org)

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(Baba Ram Dass) June 8, 2026: Ram Dass' full lecture interview from "The Congress of Planetary Initiative for the World We Choose" in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1983.

• Who is "God," Ram Dass? The Monad (Gnosticism), Brahman (Vedas), Maha Brahma (Buddhism), Brahma (Hinduism)? We need to make a distinction between the lesser personality many call "God" (the Demiurge or "Fabricator") and that all-encompassing reality behind the illusion (Brahman), which in the West may be called the Monad (One).

Remember: Be Here Now (Ram Dass)

In this interview, Ram Dass (formerly Harvard's Dr. Richard Alpert) presents his viewpoints regarding the state of the world and what we can do. He skillfully weaves his way through his perspectives on personal responsibility, American media, and spiritual practice.

• 0:00 Welcome Every1
• 0:11 What is "initiative"? Initiation?
• 2:22 Form and Formless paradox
• 5:55 Special vs. Unique
• 7:20 Intellect and Intuition
• 12:00 "I crochet" story [method]
• 15:25 We are all interconnected
• 18:08 Ram Dass Transmission!
• 21:00 Transmitting being
• 24:04 Ram Dass' TV show idea
• 26:10 Ram Dass and the Banker
• 28:01 The City of the Dead
• 29:50 Peace Family!

The Love Serve Remember Foundation is dedicated to preserving and continuing the teachings of Ram Dass and his love guru, Neem Karoli Baba. Find out more at ramdass.org. Social media: Instagram (babaramdass), Facebook (babaramdass), TikTok (ramdassofficial). Patreon: ramdasspodcast. Support channel in offering more content like this: igfn.us/form/dHI2oA or text YouTube to 91999. This is an all-time favorite Ram Dass piece, so enjoy! SUBSCRIBE to channel for more magic Ram Dass moments.

First stage of enlightenment: Heart Sutra

(Alan Watts Essential Membership)

(Swapnaloka) The biggest illusion is ME? (Maya, Lila) the Divine Illusion (Advaita Vedanta)

What must Bodhidharma have thought?

I was trying to read the Heart Sutra to chant it in Sanskrit. But it doesn't make any sense translated into English. At least it didn't until Wisdom Quarterly's Dharma editor explained it.* Now it's clear. Now I know why "enlightenment" eludes me. Now I know what to study and put into practice to know-and-see. Thanks, WQ!

• *The Heart Sutra: Buddha's Mother: Perfect Wisdom
• The Heart Sutra over the years (Wisdom Quarterly)

Do "I" even exist, Bhante?

(Buddhism) Do "I" really exist? Concept of anatta (not-self) in Buddhism

Stream-Enterer Sutra

The Scythian Sage: The Buddha

[At Savatthi the Buddha said:] "Meditators, there are these Five Groups clung to as self. What five groups?

1. The body-group clung to as self,
2. the feeling-group,
3. the perception-group,
4. the mental-formation-group,
5. the consciousness-group clung to as self.

"And when, meditators, the noble (Aryan = "enlightened," "awakened") disciple understands as they truly are:

• the arising and the passing away,
• the attractiveness and the danger, and
• the deliverance from the five groups clung to as self,

The Devi (Goddess) Pallas Athena (Klimt)

one is called a noble disciple who is a stream-winner, no longer liable to ever fall into subhuman states of woe [1], assured of full and final enlightenment."

• NOTE: 1. The "stream-winner" (sotapanna) is sure to become fully enlightened (an arahant) within seven rebirths and will not be reborn more than seven more times, and such a person will never again be reborn in any state lower than the human plane.

The beginning of wisdom

(Buddhism in English) Put ego away and humbly ask questions

1. the one "with seven rebirths at the utmost" (sattakkhattu-parama) ["one with only seven further rebirths at the utmost," is one of the three kinds of stream-winners (sotāpannas).
2. the one "passing from one noble family to another" (kolankola),
3. the one "germinating only once more" (eka-bījī, lit. "one seed" or perhaps "at most once more seeded").]

Watts on Hindu/Mahayana 'enlightenment'

Alan Watts reveals the big secret, reality, and LSD (alanwatts.org)

As it is said (e.g., Pug.37-39; A.III.87):

What is the greatest bliss? Seeing release.

(1) "If a person, after the disappearance of the three lower fetters (personality-belief, skeptical doubt, attachment to rites and rituals), see samyojana), has entered the stream [that leads inevitably to nirvana], that person is no longer subject to any rebirth in the lower worlds [anywhere below the human plane], is firmly established, destined to reach full enlightenment. After having passed among celestial beings (deva) and human beings (manussya) only at most seven times more through the Round of Rebirths, one puts an end to all suffering. Such a person is called "one with seven rebirths at the utmost" (sattakkhattu-parama).

I continued to practice to make an end of all ill.

(2) "If a person, after the disappearance of the three fetters.... is destined to reach full enlightenment, that person, after having passed among noble families two or three times through the round of rebirths, makes an end of all suffering. Such a person is called "one passing from one noble family to another" (kolankola).

(3) "If a person, after the disappearance of the three fetters...is destined to full enlightenment, one, after having only once more returned to the human plane, makes an end of all suffering. Such a person is called "one germinating only once more" (eka-bījī).

• See Sotāpatti-Samyutta (S.55)
• See also SN 55.24, Note 7:
• 7. This is an encouraging message for many! Compare it to the end of MN 22 and also the charming image of the newborn calf in MN 34. The Commentary (MA) to MN 22 says such people are termed "lesser stream-winners" (cula-sota-panna). This term is discussed in The Path of Purification (VM XIX, 27). [This term is more fully explained in The Path of Freedom (Vimuttimagga).] The stress laid here on the importance of faith (actually saddha, "confidence," "conviction," the trust sufficient to investigate that precedes personal verification) is interesting in view of later developments such as the Pure Land schools (e.g., Jodo-Shinshu or "Shin-Buddhism" in Japan).
• (SN 22.109 PTS: S iii 160 CDB i 9650)
• Maurice O'Connell Walshe (trans.), Sotapanno Sutta: The Sotapanna, "The Stream-Winner" Pali title based on PTS (Feer) edition; Dhr. Seven (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

Connecting with Universal Consciousness

(Gaia) Connecting with Universal Consciousness [or Source]

Can we become angels (devas) by meditating?

Feeling a pull towards deeper understanding and greater connection with the Universe? This could be signs of an impending spiritual awakening, a profound shift that changes our understanding of self and reality.

This post may help in understanding everything we need to know about this transformative experience – from recognizing the early signs to navigating challenges and enjoying its benefits.

Ready for an [Eastern, more Hindu than Buddhist] enlightening journey? Let’s dive in, beginning with this guided meditation.

Key points

• A spiritual awakening is a transformative experience where we become aware of our "true selves" and connect to a higher power.
• Signs of spiritual awakenings can include feeling disconnected, reevaluating beliefs, having vivid or lucid dreams, experiencing shifting relationships, and increased intuition.
• Each person’s spiritual awakening journey is unique and personal, guided by one's own beliefs, experiences, and inner wisdom.
• During a spiritual awakening, individuals may also experience a strong connection to nature and have physical symptoms. More
• Tibetan Meditation Music; EnhancedApp.io, Spiritual Awakening: Everything to Know; Gaia.com on YouTube; Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Jen B. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The purpose, meaning of life (Alan Watts)

There's a small Cat in a tall Hat, and that's that.

Discover Alan Watts' profound insight into the Western illusion of meaning and the freedom found in Eastern surrendering to life’s mystery. In this powerful lecture from his 1959 TV series Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life, Watts explains why our desperate "search" for purpose can often lead us AWAY from true peace.

What is shoshin or "beginner's mind"?

Embrace the present, let go of control, and understand why [the sense of] nonsense might just be the key to enlightenment.

In 1958, Watts toured parts of Europe with his father, meeting the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung and the German psychotherapist Karlfried Graf Dürckheim [29]. Upon returning to California and the Bay Area in the United States, Watts recorded two seasons of a TV series (1959–1960) for KQED public television in San Francisco, Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life [30]. More

• Nothing makes sense…and that’s the point | Alan Watts (Simply Art - Inspire) "Sense of Nonsense"

• He explained it this past Sunday on KPFK FM's Buddhist Radio on Sunday mornings:
• Alan Watts Sunday, August 31, 2025, 8:00 am
• Pacifica Free Speech Radio, online archives (KPFK 90.7 FM)
• Original calligraphy painting by Yoko Collin | Japanese art on paper | Gai Shan Kaizen "Improvement"
• The Cat in the Hat (Dr. Seuss); Mr. Krabs (SpongeBob SquarePants); Alan Watts (alanwatts.org), 1960; CC Liu and Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

A hidden secret behind all religions

• Brahman versus Maya
• Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth
• The Hero with a Thousand Faces
• Quantum vacuum state
• God is Love
• Is it possible to love everyone boundlessly?

Am I 'spiritual,' Joe Rogan? Levels of awakening

Joe Rogan: The Path to Roganlightenment | The Daily Show

(The Daily Show) July 30, 2025: From his humble beginnings in Newark to his scrappy days in Boston, Joe Rogan has always pushed his brains to the limit. Rogan's stand-up comedy led him to a career in television, eventually inspiring him to start his own podcast where he could ask the really important questions, like, "Wouldn't it be crazy if a wolf wore a fedora?" This is The Daily Showography of Joe Rogan.

Brahman, Self, Atman, Shiva: India's seers

Should we go to WAR, Dalai Lama?

WAR is not solution | Dalai Lama on WAR. | Question/Answer session with the 14th Dalai Lama

(NKusa.org) At the UN on Nakba 77 Orthodox Jewish Rabbi challenges fake Zionist narratives

Martin Shaw: Israel's genocide in Gaza is backed by Israeli society and Western powers, all of whom are complicit in these atrocities. It is a good thing these actions will not come back upon Jews, Judaism, or secular Jewish people.

Tibetan ecstatic meditation: Mahamudra

The deepest meditation I’ve ever found (and I’ve tried 112)

(SoulArtist) May 14, 2025: After exploring over 100 different meditation techniques across the past seven years — from silent sitting to active movement, from vipassana (insight) to breathwork (pranayama) — I recently discovered a meditation so powerful, it went deeper than anything I’ve ever tried before: the OSHO Mahamudra Meditation™.

Might the Tibetan version be better than Osho's?

In this video, I share my honest experience with this practice, what makes it so different, and why I believe it may be one of the most transformative meditations available today. This is not a technique for the mind; it’s a surrender into something far greater.

The most powerful meditation I’ve found (FULL instructions)

🔗 Learn the technique (official instructions): 👉 osho.com/de/meditation/os... 🎵 Meditation Music (OSHO Mahamudra by Deuter): 👉 shop.osho.com/de/musik-fuer-o... 👉 Or listen on Spotify: "Osho Mahamudra Meditation – Deuter"

🧘‍♂️ What is OSHO Mahamudra Meditation™? “This meditation is a meeting between you and the cosmos, between you and the whole of existence. It helps you to merge, melt, and let-go on the deepest level possible.”

– Osho, from “Tantra: The Supreme Understanding, #6”

The meditation has two stages (approx. 50 minutes) and is supported by specific music that mirrors and deepens the energetic flow of the practice. Instructions (from osho.com):

• First Stage – 30 minutes: Stand with eyes closed and let the body move naturally. Allow spontaneous movements to arise — no control, just witnessing. This is Latihan. The body becomes an expression of pure energy.
• Second Stage – 20 minutes: Kneel, raise both hands to the sky. Feel like a hollow bamboo. Let energy pour into you from above — then bow down and release it into the earth. Repeat at least 7 times.

“If you do this every day, soon, somewhere within three months, one day you will feel you are not there. Just the energy is pulsating with the universe – nobody is there, the ego is completely lost, the doer is not. The universe is there, and you are there, the wave pulsating with the ocean – that is Mahamudra. That is the final orgasm, the most blissful state of consciousness that is possible.”

– Osho

• More info on osho.com

If you’ve tried many meditations but still feel like something’s missing, this might be the one. ✨ Subscribe for more honest insights on presence, awareness, and embodied spiritual practice. #mahamudra  #osho  #meditation  #powerfulmeditation

Saraha, Mahāsiddhas (British Museum)

Mahāmudrā (Sanskrit महामुद्रा, Tibetan ཕྱག་ཆེན་, phyag chen, chag-chen, contraction of Tibetan ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ་, phyag rgya chen po, chag-gya chen-po) literally means "great seal" or "great imprint."

It refers to the fact that "all phenomena inevitably are stamped by the fact [that] wisdom and emptiness [are] inseparable" [1]. (That is to say, the "perfection of wisdom" or prajnaparamita is that all things are ultimately impersonal).

Mahāmudrā is a multivalent term of great importance in later Indian Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism, which "also occurs occasionally in Hindu and East Asian Buddhist esotericism" [2].

The name also refers to a body of teachings representing the culmination of all the practices of the New Translation schools of Tibetan Buddhism that believe it to be the quintessential message of all of their sacred texts.

The practice of Mahāmudrā is also known as the teaching called "Sahaja Yoga" or "Co-emergence Yoga" [3].

In Tibetan Buddhism, particularly the Kagyu school, Sahaja Mahāmudrā is sometimes seen as a different Buddhist vehicle (yana), the "Sahajayana" (Tibetan lhen chig kye pa), also known as the vehicle of self-liberation [4].

Jamgon Kongtrul, a Tibetan nonsectarian (ri-mé) scholar, characterizes mahāmudrā as the path to realizing the "mind as it is" (sems nyid), which also stands at the core of all Kagyu paths. He states, "In general, Mahāmudrā and everything below it are the ‘mind path’" (sems lam).

Mahāmudrā traditionally refers to the quintessence of mind itself and the practice of meditation in relation to a true understanding of it [5].

History

The usage and meaning of the term mahāmudrā evolved over the course of hundreds of years of Indian and Tibetan history and, as a result, the term may refer variously to "a ritual hand-gesture, one of a sequence of 'seals' in Tantric practice, the nature of [ultimate] reality as emptiness [impersonal], a meditation procedure focusing on the nature of Mind, an innate blissful gnosis [knowing] cognizing emptiness nondually, or the supreme attainment of buddhahood at the culmination of the Tantric path" [2].

According to Jamgon Kongtrul, the Indian theoretical sources of the mahāmudrā tradition are Yogacara and tathagatagarbha ("buddha-nature") texts such as the Saṃdhinirmocana Sūtra and the Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra [6].

The actual practice and lineage of mahāmudrā can be traced back to wandering maha-siddhas ("great adepts") during the Indian Pala Dynasty (760-1142), beginning with the 8th century siddha Saraha [7].

Saraha's dohas ("songs" or "poems in rhyming couplets") are the earliest extant mahāmudrā literature and promote some of the unique features of mahāmudrā such as the importance of:

• pointing-out instruction by a guru,
• the non-dual nature of mind, and
• the negation of the conventional means of achieving enlightenment such as calm-and-insight (samatha-vipasyana) meditation, monasticism, rituals, tantric practices, and doctrinal study in favor of more the direct methods of mahāmudrā "non-meditation" and "non-action" [8].

These teachings also became the wellspring for the body of instructions eventually known as the mind teachings of Tibet associated with mahāmudrā of the Kagyu lineages [9].

Later Indian and Tibetan masters such as Padmavajra, Tilopa, and Gampopa incorporated mahāmudrā into tantric, monastic, and traditional meditative frameworks [10]. More: Mahamudra

Osho's Mahamudra Meditation. How to practice. A Tibetan Vajrayana meditation

(The Rebirthing Journey) Feb. 20, 2022: Osho says of this meditation: “If you do this every day, soon, somewhere within three months, one day you will feel you are not there. Just the energy is pulsating with the universe – nobody is there, the ego is completely lost, the doer is not. The universe is there, and you are there, the wave pulsating with the ocean – that is Mahamudra. That is the final orgasm, the most blissful state of consciousness that is possible.” #osho #mahamudra #meditation

• Ashley Wells, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation) (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit

What about the next Dalai Lama, sir?

14th Dalai Lama speaks about the 15th Dalai Lama's rebirth

(Religion for Breakfast) The battle to control the next Dalai Lama

(ReligionForBreakfast) June 19, 2025:  As the 14th Dalai Lama turns 90, a global power struggle looms. Who gets to choose his [rebirth] successor? This video explores the battle over reincarnation, politics, Chinese rule, and the future of Tibetan Vajrayana/Bon Buddhism.

• Check out earlier video explaining the Dalai Lama: The Dalai Lama Explained: The Last Lama? (now that YouTube has restricted Last Week Tonight with John Oliver's interview)

Who in the world are the Han Chinese?

What do modern genetics say about the ancient Han Chinese, the dominant group in modern China?

• Millet farming over rice farming among Han Chinese?

Compare news coverage. Spot media bias. Avoid algorithms. Try Ground News today and get 40% off subscription by going to ground.news/religionforbreakfast.

Did the Buddha teach 'We are all One'?

Of course, there are ways in which we ARE all one, all the same, all connected, and that is almost certainly what most people mean most of the time when saying, "We are all one." To say we are separate is obvious. You're over there, I'm over here, and we are in no way connected whatsoever -- except that we're breathing the same air, exchanging the same ions, sharing the same environment, eating the same sustenance, digesting it in the same way, culturally validating one another by contrast and comparison, using nearly identical bodies in roughly the same ways, appearing as twins or clones of one another to anyone standing at a sufficient distance, and so on and so forth.

Is it useful to tell Jews harming Palestinians, "We are all One"? Yes, for if they knew the similarities, they would not harm themselves (by trying to harm the other). Is it useful to tell scientists look at a single blob under a microscope, "It is all one"? No because under a microscope one is looking for distinctions and differences to compartmentalize and categorize. Can we see similarities? Yes. Can we see differences? Yes. What are we looking at? Could the Buddha? Yes. What was he looking at?

So except for all of those ways in which we are all one, and too many more to mention, we are not all one. We're in the same boat, searching for the same things, going about it in similar ways, thinking each other's thoughts, having each other's ideas, feeling each other's feelings (like suffering, joy, empathy), mirroring one another, and so on. So the question is, Is there any value in seeing ourselves as separate? (There certainly is value in seeing ourselves as One, as part of the same whole, as interconnected and interdependent).

Of course, it's useful to see the distinctions and rather than relying on this Hindu saying "We are all One," it's useful to see the Path the Buddha taught to awakening here and now in this very life. Waking up to what? Waking up to the true nature of reality. It is not what we expect, and it may just take a shock like this to push us out of our comfort zone to investigate and penetrate for ourselves what is ultimately true.

• There are two truths, the conventional (the way we speak using everyday terms) and the ultimate (the technical details which often up-end the conventional ways of viewing things).

The Buddha never taught: We are all One

Ego Podcast (Buddhism) Dec. 20, 2024: Did the historical Buddha (Siddhartha "Shakyamuni" Gautama) teach that "We are all One"?

This video explores the misattributed idea of universal Oneness (a more Hindu idea of nonduality or advaita) in Buddhism. Drawing from the Buddha’s Teachings, the Dhamma, let's discuss why the concept of Oneness is considered an extreme view and how it contradicts the path to awakening.

With references to key suttas (discourses), we reveal why seeing all things as separate — not One — is essential for clear knowledge and bringing about the end of suffering.

Discover the true wisdom behind the Buddha’s Teachings and why they go beyond simplistic notions of Oneness.

#Buddhism #BuddhaTeachings #Oneness #Awakening #Nonduality #Individuality #Dhamma #truth

COMMENTS

• (@russellmason5095) Thank you so much for producing this video. It helped me to reconsider some points of ignorance about Oneness and Gautama Buddha's original teaching. Good luck on your path! Thank you for your efforts to bring an end to suffering.
• (@IamMae72) This channel explains things in such a precise and clear way.
• (@annieyip2176) (edited) Not easy to understand Dependent Origination [Dependent Co-Arising] correctly but I applaud your attempt to discern Oneness from interconnectedness
• (@SwissWalker) thank you
• (@WisdomLife9) What a great and useful video! Thanks. I will follow your channel for more interesting videos, stories!
• (@avinashjagdeo) This perspective is so much centered on the physical, which is a very narrow band of existence that some are passing through. If we are experiencing eating, then that is to know eating and to know being eaten. There is no evidence that all things at all levels have to eat or that we will always have to operate that particular way. There appears to be constant transformation which can include merging and diverging of consciousness. The word 'oneness' is just a concession of a finite mind to talk about a something that is beyond conceptualization. It could just as easily be called the 'all' or the 'totality' or 'infinite being'.
• (@priyadarshanachandrasena2062) 🙏🙏🙏🌼🌼🌼
• (@collinsharrelson6887) (edited) I do have a feeling we’re all one in the sense that we share in our conscious awareness with all other conscious beings. I mean just think about it. We’re all experiencing a base level conscious awareness so in an intrinsic way we are related. Furthermore, we all suffer the same fate (i.e., Old Age, Sickness, and Death), which means we all share in the same suffering and are all deserving of one another’s compassion because of that fact.
• (@noself-onlykarma) (edited) When you realize the Absolute Truth the Buddha was pointing to, you see why he used the word "Middle Way" vs. "Advaita" (non-duality). Too many people conceptualize, analyze, and interpret the Buddha's teachings intellectually. The teaching of Anatta/Anatman [the impersonal nature of all things] is meant to dissolve any types of identification since there's no inherent independent entity/identity (self). The entirety of everything depends on the entirety itself, so everything is interdependent. However, if you "identify" the entirety as "one" then you've fallen into relative conceptualization. How can you have "one" when there's no "two"? That's why we use the word "is-ness" or "thus-ness" to describe the reality. The Absolute Reality is already Here and Now. We just have to realize it through directly seeing that all that can be claimed is the witness itself (only awareness functioning). [There is n]othing to claim as subject therefore, no object. Then you see there's nothing we can [identify with or] be identified with. Even Buddha-Nature is a conceptual description, just a word to the many who only think in a linear way and see everything as existing independently. The reason we can't find our "mind" is because it is not a "thing," not even a subject. It's wrong to say it exists; it is wrong to say it doesn't exist. Neither both nor "one" is correct since they're all conceptual. Start with moral/ethical discipline and compassion for all sentient beings. Then discipline your mind to be focused (still/concentrated) so you can rest the thinking-mind. Then the wisdom (absolute reality) that has always been radiating is (infinite) Here and (eternal) Now.
• (@tanned06) Perhaps contrary to the early teachings preserved in the Pali canon suttas and Chinese Āgamas, the later development of Buddhist philosophy in Mahayana and Vajrayana [being so heavily influenced by Vedantic Hinduism] does recognize an ontological/metaphysical conception of allness/oneness as in realization of the pure consciousness/awareness or the hidden away Tathagathagarbha or the potent Buddha Nature/dhatu or the cleansed Alayaviñāna that's said to form the source of ultimate and peaceful ground of all [being and/or] 'beings.'
• (@thekaizer666) (edited) thank you for this. thanks for confirming all of these which i had contemplated, even before discovering Theravada. thank you. PS: In Mahayana/ Vajrayana, one of the central concepts is that of "we are all one," such that a wave is part of the ocean. And it just felt so very...full of friction. Like many, I started off with Mahayana/Vajrayana but steadily got disillusioned with so many of their doctrines. :(
• (@kib3571) When view is no view, only then you can see what everything is happening. 😅
• (@duanpienaar9755) We are one consciousness not one karmic body. The Buddha taught that the consciousness that realizes Buddha Nature is one.
• (@ElmerTan-ut4qn) The Buddha told us that people's relationship in the world is only for a very short period of time. A person dies. Each has its own path. And the majority of people are dragged away by their karmas. Even if they ever meet again, they would not be able to recognize each other. Once reborn in the Six Realms, the soul [??] will take on a new form. For example, we are now human, but the next life we may be in the lower three realms as animals, ghosts, or suffering beings in hell[s]. Those who cultivate kindness and compassion, they will have a beautiful appearance in their next life as a human. Those who are full of ignorance, they will have the appearance of an animal that is worse than human. Those who are full of greed, hatred, and delusion, their appearance will be like a ghost, which is worse than the animals. The Six Realms is the cycle of vengeance and revenge. Nobody can help you. [Many can help, not that they will. The Buddha helped countless beings.] Each has to bear its own karma [but not alone but rather in the company of others]. This is the true reality of life in the Six Realms of reincarnation [rebirth]. Why is one reborn again and again in the Six Realms? It is because we love this world too much and create a strong clinging. If we have no clinging for this world, we won't be reborn again into this world. If one chooses Western Pure Land for one's next life, then we have to chant Amitabha Buddha, that is, if one really wants to migrate there. No one can bring you to the Land of Ultimate Bliss except Amitabha Buddha himself [but remember nobody can help you, oh, except Amitabha Buddha and your family and friends and strangers who are kind, and bodhisattvas, and people and devas from long ago past connections with you in the Six Realms, but other than those, no one can help you because you are all alone and by yourself]. 🙏🙏🙏 Amitabha Buddha
• (@saddha1) Excellent analysis!
• (@Lifeisbrutal.) If there is interconnectedness, there is no oneness in a literal sense More