Thank you!

Agreed. And a lovely man too.

Thank you Dan

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Swami Sarvapriyananda is also another great teacher. But Rupert Spira and Eckhart Tolle are my best teachers. By listening to them you become more spacious, light and equinamous and enjoy life more.

Eckhart Tolle and Rupert Spira

Literally everywhere on youtube if you just search....

evidence? What evidence? Ultimately it is YOUR experience that counts alone. What you see in the outer world is not evidence of anything. They die, and you see their bodies decaying, but then what about the dying person? What do you know about their experience? You know nothing about it. I'm not saying there's something after death or that existence goes on. I just cannot know. I'm saying I can only know when my time comes. And so do you. That's the only plausible evidence. Indeed there may be nothing, and eventually existence ceases upon death as you mentioned. That's a possibility, and it's real. But no, the evidence doesn't point to that at all, if you take the evidence as your experience alone, which is in fact the only real thing you can ever know. Let's stick to the facts. What you see happening with others is just an observation. You have no means to know what they experience. All you can know is your own experience, here an now.

That is still true. In fact, this is even more true with Nonduality. Nonduality doesn't change anything and it's still spontaneous and completely demolishes the "me" or "I" now (no need to wait for physical death of the body). There is still no purpose. I agree with your view for instance but how can direct experience be denied? But your "fear", where is it coming from? In some ways, they are both extremely uncomfortable to mind. But it doesn't matter either way. Even if it is a feel good story mind tells itself, so be it. At least with Nonduality, there's within "this reality" no more deference to egos/thoughts. And misidentification of egos has created a lot of dissonance in this impelled world.

@@RamSamudrala I'm not convinced non duality has any merit, we exist within a finite universe we are all seperate finite beings that make our own decisions, and our lives come to an end at some point, the proof of this is evident with dimentia and other brain problems, if conciousness was paramount as non duality suggests, then you would not loose your mind as a result of trauma to the brain, our minds (conciousness) cannot exist without a fully functioning physical body, which indicates the physical universe theory or materialism is correct, just look at the number of events and elements of the world that as a human being you have absolutely no power over and thats fine, and you can still have purpose in your life its just that you have to accept that it's a temporary purpose. It's still very scary to me as my whole life I believed in a higher power and in wrongs one day being righted by said higher power, one that understands what we all go through in our lives, but I no longer believe that, materialism is the only theory that fits our experience.

Spirituality doesn't claim there is a 'purpose' but simply that there is an underlying source to experience that is immortal. The human dies.

I had an epiphany a few years ago that consciousness definitely doesn’t die with the body but continues on. Then I got really depressed at the thought of having to reincarnate over and over again forever, that not even death would put an end to this absurd material existence. Soon after I became interested in “spirituality,” specifically Eastern Yoga and meditation because it offers the possibility of ending the cycle by attuning consciousness to subtler, “higher” planes of existence, possibly all the way back to God/source/ultimate or whatever you prefer to call it.