Hello... and questions!

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Hello everyone. I hope you can help my understanding of Advaita

and it's teachings.

 

I wonder whether it is necessary to practise formal sitting

meditation in Advaita? I get the impression by what Nisargadatta

wrote that, this finding the 'I am' by finding out what it is not,

indicates a meditation wherever you find yourself; at all times and

in all situations. I assume that there is a 'practice' within

Advaita if only to show that practice is unnecessary? I would still

assume that there IS a practice!

 

More questions! I am having a real problem getting my head around

this 'the mind is not in the body, the body is in the mind'

situation. I know you will probably think that this is a waste of

time but, if I can KNOW that this is the case, I feel that another

illusion will be dismantled and I will be a little closer to the

Truth. I cannot help feeling this is another 'chicken and the egg'

dilemma. As for myself, whilst the statement and recognition that 'I

am sitting in front of a Computer screen' is a thought that passes as

content in my mind, I am also aware that without said computer and me

sitting in front of it, that thought would not arise. Hmmm... I

find this confusing but is there a solution? Or, should I just stick

to finding Who I am not?

 

I have other questions but, I will ask them at some other time or

when I remember them... Hope you can help.

 

David