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  1. aewbarnes

    Why did we become separated?

    I would say that your struggle is healthy and is perhaps an important part of our journey towards moksha/nibbana. It is in the very nature of Brahman to be unknowable until we reach enlightenment and this need for differentiation is one of many questions that I, for one, have yet to understand...
  2. aewbarnes

    Why did we become separated?

    Brahman requires duality in order to express itself as for something to be expressed, there has to be witness to that expression. so there needs to be differentiation. This and that. An awareness of sorts of this differentiation is a necessary part of survival, on all levels of being. The...
  3. aewbarnes

    Is Brahman and Nirvana the same?? Is the goal the same??

    In answer to the basic question in the OP, I offer that Nirvana and Brahman are different as for me nirvana is a state of emersion in Brahman. Brahman is everything and in order to have overcome all false perception to fully achieve awareness of Brahman is to be in Nirvana. Whilst not spatial...
  4. aewbarnes

    Buddhism (Dharmic): Are all religions different paths to the same goal?

    I think that Buddha refers to the specific goal of ultimately reaching Nibbana, for which, holding onto the 'bond' of any belief itself would be a hindrence. He does in many other places, teach according to the capacity of the listener to understand. Even the desire to reach nibbana itself is an...
  5. aewbarnes

    What do you believe you are?

    I have been travelling in the other direction Jainarayan. I have been following the Buddhist dhamma for some years but am now finding much in Vedanta, particularly Advaita Vedanta. I was quite surprised that you seem to have jumped over this philosophically to go straight to Buddhism. Why is...
  6. aewbarnes

    I am practically indistinguishable from god.

    As a student of Vedanta, I regard everything as an expression and part of Brahman, including Atman or self. Therefore, yes, we are in 'the image' of 'God' but this image is only a partial and altered representation of the whole. Consider light passing through a red filter. The red light we see...
  7. aewbarnes

    Searching

    Vedanta is the study of the Upanishads which are the latter part of the Vedas, the ancient texts of Hinduism (although they far outdate 'Hinduism' as this is a term that was applied by Europeans. The Indians (also an applied name) identified by whichever school of thought or devotion they...
  8. aewbarnes

    What have you found so far?

    That pretty much sums up, in a very simplified way, the conclusion I have come to draw after 30 years of searching and examination. My search has taken me from Protestant Christianity to Agnostic and back, then through New Age movements of various hues to Taoism, Buddhism and more recently...
  9. aewbarnes

    Searching

    You've just describe Buddhism and/or Advaita Vedanta, a non-dualist form of hinduism.
  10. aewbarnes

    Desire for Belief

    I believe all creatures have an instinctual connection to a greater energy of the cosmos and since they don't reason or question, this connection just is and remains un-tarnished. I only need think of our old family dog. I had moved away a couple of years previously yet when I came back to...
  11. aewbarnes

    Which religion is most similar to my views? Input is appreciated!

    I would definitely agree that there is a good deal of hinduism in there, more Vaishivism rather than Vedanta but then I did get a feeling that you were veering towards Vedanta and it's very close cousin Buddhism. In the West, this is best classified as monism. I say you were veering towards it...
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