Alberto Martín has spent many years studying and practicing Christianity, Sufism, Buddhism, and Advaita Vedanta (in that sequence) plus, at one time, the religion of the Crows (a native tribe of N. America). “For me, it has been universalism all along ever since I read Plato when I was 15 years old. Lately my attention has been focused on Shankara’s Advaita Vedanta and non-duality.” For this author, Plato and Shankara say practically all that can be said about reality and the way towards its assimilation and exemplification. In this work Martín answers many of the probing questions anyone of us is led to ask along our lives.
Before going further, the following is a quotation from the Introduction to BS Bh by Shankara:“It is on the presupposition of this mutual superimposition of the self and the non-self, called avidya th ........
Only great men (magn+animus), above all others, can be the butt of bitter attacks – be it personal or to their output or works - as was the case with Hujwiri, 6th Buddhist Patriarch, Jesus of Nazareth ........
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We ask that your Blog copy is a minimum of 200 Intuition - 3 kindsIn ‘Articles and Thoughts on Vedanta’, SSSS speaks of three kinds of intuition: 1) sensuous intuition of objects (indriyanubhava, 2) m ........
I have been interested in philosophy since I read Plato's Republic at fifteen. For the past ten years, I have focused on Indian philosophy, particularly Shankara. Plato can be considered a non-dualist ........
Initially or provisionally, two levels of reality are described by Plato: the Intelligible world of Forms, and the Sensible world of external objects, but we have to bear in mind that the lower or phe ........
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