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  • Shankara’s monistic or “oneness with Brahman” view is called advaita, or nondistinctivism, because he proposed that the many atmas enter into Brahman and blend with it, no longer expressing their individuality or having forms.

    Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010

  • Shankara’s monistic or “oneness with Brahman” view is called advaita, or nondistinctivism, because he proposed that the many atmas enter into Brahman and blend with it, no longer expressing their individuality or having forms.

    Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010

  • Shankara’s monistic or “oneness with Brahman” view is called advaita, or nondistinctivism, because he proposed that the many atmas enter into Brahman and blend with it, no longer expressing their individuality or having forms.

    Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010

  • In the first place, deepening speculation on Brahman tended to the notion of advaita being taken in a more and more strict sense, as implying not only the exclusion of any second principle external to Brahman, but also the absence of any elements of duality or plurality in the nature of the one universal being itself; a tendency agreeing with the spirit of a certain set of texts from the Upanishads.

    The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 George Thibaut 1881

  • There are certain forms of meditation such as Zen shinkantaza, Krishanmurti's choiceness awareness, and various advaita non-techniques that are essentially just sitting there without doing anything on purpose.

    Michael Taft: Downtime for the Stone Age Brain Michael Taft 2011

  • There are certain forms of meditation such as Zen shinkantaza, Krishanmurti's choiceness awareness, and various advaita non-techniques that are essentially just sitting there without doing anything on purpose.

    Michael Taft: Downtime for the Stone Age Brain Michael Taft 2011

  • Merrell-Wolff (in my booklist above) used the advaita Vedanta philosophy of Shankara.

    Matthew Yglesias » Influential Books 2010

  • There are certain forms of meditation such as Zen shinkantaza, Krishanmurti's choiceness awareness, and various advaita non-techniques that are essentially just sitting there without doing anything on purpose.

    Michael Taft: Downtime for the Stone Age Brain Michael Taft 2011

  • Gandhi, the great proponent of nonviolent social activism, saw no distinction between non-duality and social action: I believe in advaita.

    John Stanley: A Buddhist Ecology Of Self John Stanley 2012

  • There are certain forms of meditation such as Zen shinkantaza, Krishanmurti's choiceness awareness, and various advaita non-techniques that are essentially just sitting there without doing anything on purpose.

    Michael Taft: Downtime for the Stone Age Brain Michael Taft 2011

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