Advaita

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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. ❋ 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. ❋ 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 (2011)

Merrell-Wolff (in my booklist above) used the advaita Vedanta philosophy of Shankara. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Gandhi, the great proponent of nonviolent social activism, saw no distinction between non-duality and social action: I believe in advaita. ❋ John Stanley (2012)

Therefore, where Shankara taught advaita Vedanta, these other Masters taught various versions of dvaita Vedanta. ❋ Jeffrey Armstrong (2010)

And with Almaas it is sufism, buddhism, advaita, developmental psychology and object relation psychology, among others. ❋ Tusar N Mohapatra (2009)

One could probably extract just such a conception from the works of Abhivanagupta, who speaks of the Shaiva Kaula dharma as "transcending and including" all other traditions, including classical advaita vedanta, just as the elephant's footprint obliterates the tracks of all other animals. ❋ Tusar N Mohapatra (2009)

One need only consider the ancient Indian tradition of advaita Vedanta, which views ultimate reality as "not-two" and suffuses various permutations of both Hinduism and Buddhism. ❋ Unknown (2007)

This is because they are, from the mystical perspective, advaita or not-two. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Even today when I write or talk about intention or creating worldly results, the non-dual advaita people come out in droves as though I'd just peed on their holy book. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There is a much broader vista from Bhartṛhari's śabda-advaita speech monistic ontology to Heidegger's "Language is the house of Being." ❋ Tusar N Mohapatra (2009)

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