We ought not say “Buddhism says this”; or, “Advaita Vedanta says this.”

We like to modernize Advaita Vedanta as well by playing games with its meaning; by trying to negate the Vedanta side. Some will say that Vedanta is the “end of knowledge” that is not accurately put! It is not the end of knowledge, it is the end knowledge of the last book of the holy Vedas: The Upanishads.

We ought to discriminate between who says what; and, make it a point to say what school makes such statements.

Thats why a teacher can be of supreme value in this buisness of interpretations of the Dharma and such things.

theory says that we are all one substance but, for the seeker, or for the relative, is that true?

No!

If it were true, then, once the Buddha, or, Maharaj became enlightened, then, we all would be?!

I also contend to say that if all is one substance, then, there ought not be so many books out there that tell us that. Books are written, tapes are made, much money is profited, because people believe that there is more than one substance.

In fact there are many mind streams, and, as we see certain seekers lose there identity and tell “their story” we see that to be the case.

There will always be dependent origination, even for the so called solid Absolute; even for the so called Nulled Nothingness.

Out of Nothing … a particle manifested. Well … we know of the particle beCAUSE of the void; we know the void beCAUSE of the particle.

We know the Absolute as Absolute (only) because of the relative; we know the relative as the relative (only) because of the Absolute. They are similiar but not the same. There is nothing that exists on its own without causes and conditions!

I hope this is somewhat useful to the new seekers as I am as well a new seeker, (but I’m not stupid.)

Love,
Gerard