Joseph Maynor
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4 hours ago, Orb said:
Yes...don't be deceived by the pull of thoughts, sensation/feeling is always primary 🙏.
You can do the same to emotions as to thoughts. Those emotions are not yours. You can pull that "I thought" out of emotions.
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It can help to get at what the opposite of thought is which is silence where the mind is just gone.
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"Five Hymns to Arunachala" by Ramana Maharshi
https://www.sriramanamaharshi.org/teachings/hymns/
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Beautiful writing and deep. I really enjoyed both reading and listening to the Upanishads. You're learn a lot about the Self. Highly recommended!
https://www.amazon.com/Upanishads-2nd-Eknath-Easwaran/dp/1586380214
https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Upanishads-Audiobook/B0BQ1YC62Q -
This sounds like a remaster even if it isn't one. I love this album.
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52 minutes ago, Someone here said:
A quick question please..
If There is no doer
There's no thinker either. That one is more profound to catch. It was for me at least. Do doer, no body, no mind, no self, no people. Only the Self exists. All thoughts assume a subject-object duality. No external world or internal world either.
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Where has this been all my life? 'Battery' sounds almost better as an instrumental. I still find "Kill 'Em All" most interesting out of the first three albums when listened to as instrumentals. 'The Thing That Should Not Be" sounds almost better as an instrumental. If the last album "Ride the Lightning" featured dual guitar harmonies, this album features dynamics. I like how guitar is used almost like a string section or horn section in 'Disposable Heroes'. 'Damage Inc.' sounds amazing in C.
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1 hour ago, Robed Mystic said:
It's Infinity.
For advaita vedanta, I prefer to say the Self is the qualityless (nondual) detached witness consciousness. Saying it’s infinity makes it sound like it has qualities which entices the mind to attribute this or that to it. The thought "I Am" is just a pointer and not needed once the Self is realised. The not-Self can only be noticed when the Self is known. I had to actually read Shankara and Maharshi to come to this pointer. Otherwise, the Self and ego get conflated. Solipsism is a good of example of this conflation. Any "ism" is a thought and therefore ego. Nothing wrong with thought if you have a clear realisation of the Self and can bring the "I thought" back into the Self so to speak. When it points out you can turn it around and point it back in. Just make sure you're not mistaking the mind for the Self because the mind is also "in". The Self is not really in because in/out is a duality. -
From and advaita vedanta perspective, thought is exactly what leads you away from resting as the Self.
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Ride the Lightning in C. Wow! It's cool to hear the grooves without the vocals there. Interesting how the riffs, guitar harmonies, and solos can sound entirely different with a change of key. The music on this album is very different than on "Kill 'Em All" when you hear them instrumentally. You can hear the keyboards in 'Fade to Black' cool. I never really paid attention to the keyboards before. I like the guitar harmonies in the chorus of 'Escape', I never paid that much attention to notice those distinctly before. The bass sounds amazing in 'Creeping Death'. 'The Call of Ktulu' sounds better in C in my opinion, darker and more soulful.
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1 hour ago, Robed Mystic said:
Yes when I meant objectivity I meant something prior to language which is dualistic in nature of course. The Absolute, if you will. It is Absolute. Of course I'm only pointing to it with words - the words aren't IT. Now, when back in an egoic state of mind, telling someone else who has experienced God of your experience may have a different experience or description of what it was like then you did. But "your" Experience is Absolutely Unique...of course it is! Of course it is, because you're God!
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I'll give you the advaita vedanta answer. I think realizing that the Self doesn't control ego is key. You have to pull that "I thought" out of what's happening externally (and internally in the mind). Those thoughts and feelings aren't yours. Rest in the Self as your identity. The Self is the detached nondual witness consciousness. The mirror (the Self) doesn't care what's being displayed as its image (Maya/Illusion). Notice when the "I thought" is being applied in a subject-object way, and when it is, bring it back into the Self. The Self is the only I. Let the images on the mirror do what they want and know they can never affect the mirror itself. It's a change in identity -- or more accurately a clarification of identity by removing delusion. Anyway, it's fun to "practice" this. It's a hoot at the very least.
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This is a great remaster. This album needed a good remaster.
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This is funny and good at the same time. Their version of 'Anesthesia' is really cool and I like 'Phantom Lord' too just as standouts for me.
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A thought can either be a meaning or a visualization as in imagination.
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Here's the album in a different key and instrumental. Sounds awesome. C instead of E. Sounds darker and more sinister. I like the way Cliff's bass sounds. It's amazing how changing the key can have such a dramatic effect in the sound - you can really hear it in Kirk's guitar solos which sound very different. 'Metal Militia' sounds amazing! ‘Anesthesia’ sounds better to me in this key wow!
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Phil inspired me to learn about advaita vedanta deeper and to that I credit his influence.
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Released in 1986. This is a good remaster. I can hear things in this version I couldn't hear before. I've always liked and appreciated this album.
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4 hours ago, James123 said:
Definitely not. Ego is too hard to drop. However, when is done, life turns out to be heaven.
Who’s life?
I made a video that goes into the finer points of Advaita.
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If you can quickly dodge the ads, this is quite good.
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I can't say I have a simple answer to your question. I'm not one of those people who think and say confidently that they have found the truth as to these matters. I don't feel that way when I'm really honest with myself. What started the thread to unravel for me is when I first realized I wasn't sure what the self is and secondly when I realized that human being is a construct. I'm not freaked out by it anymore and I can't even say I've definitively found answers to these either and that's ok. I'm ok not knowing too. But I agree it is kinda scary, and we want to know the truth to assuage this feeling of not knowing or not knowing yet. But all answers I've heard on some level don't seem right to me either. It's made me pull back from feeling like I need truth a bit and to wobble the knowing vs./and not knowing duality more gingerly than before. On some level everything is as it always has been for me, so there's nothing to fear. It's just the story now that's at issue, and that doesn't impact my life all the time anyway, only when I'm focused on that. I can shift my focus to other things that then become the central issue for me, like washing my dishes.
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If we're talking about advaita vedanta, The Self doesn't control the ego. This is something that I see a lot of people have a hard time consistently grasping in advaita vedanta. It's so tempting to think that the Self is a doer, but that puts you in mind/ego. There's a presumption that the ego should or should not be a certain way, but that again assumes the ego exists and should be controlled by I guess more ego. Really the practice is to realize that the ego is entirely an illusion -- so practice collapses into knowing and knowing collapses into being the Self.
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You have to be at the center of your own spiritual model. It lives because you bring it to life. The community originates in you because you keep it alive.
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