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Interview: Gary Merrill in conversation with Tony Parsons
Nobody can become what they already are!
On July 2003, at the request of Amigo, Gary Merrill and Tony Parsons had a conversation in Tony’s garden. The original idea was to come to know a bit more about Tony’s personal life. But of course that curiosity, very soon gave way to the sincere longing to hear about the non-existence of the person. To start the conversation Kees Schreuders, the editor of Amigo, had given four questions to Gary about the how and why of the quest for liberation.
duality
Kees originally wanted to know more about what the personal Tony Parsons was like, but the personal Tony is just the personal Tony, nothing special?
There isn’t anything of any great interest in that subject, its just what arises. But there isn’t an individual called Tony Parsons, there is no individual called Gary, there is no individual called Kees. The whole idea of individuality is just part of the dream. So, there is a character, there are characteristics of this Tony Parsons character, but they are just part of the manifestation, there is no one in here. There is no one anywhere. This is the fundamental difference between dualism and non-dualism.
Yes, it would perhaps be interesting to see that it’s not really a teaching, because it’s an actuality. It’s not really teaching somebody about this, because it’s a truth, it is already there.
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Tamara Al-Om: Self in Sufism, Advaita Vedanta and Psychology
Academic, Advaita Vedanta, Articles, Sufi Hypotheses
Original Source: http://bit.ly/zTeuT
In this paper, I attempt to investigate the irrefutable similarities found between the underlying foundations of many of the world religions, specifically their ontology. In fact, it seems implausible to neglect to also reveal the resemblance these religions have with a significant number of psychologists’ theories. Due to the vastness of this subject, I have paid particular attention to two specific world religions, Hinduism and Islam and again due to the complexity and diversity of each of these religions, I have chosen to examine only one school of thought from each religion, Advaita Vedanta in Hinduism and Sufism in Islam. There are such significant similarities in their ontology that I feel further investigation is fundamental.
The idea that all religions are essentially the same and the debates that surround that idea are briefly discussed, followed by the significant role India and Hinduism have played in the development and spreading of this ideology as well as its role in the nourishment of so many revolutionary philosophies.
In order to get an understanding into the specificity of the subject matter, an outline of both Advaita Vedanta and Sufism are given along with Jung’s concept of the ‘collective unconscious’ that seem to dovetail with Advaita’s and Sufism’s ontology.
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