How Neo-Advaita is Harmful

Your ego is your sense of self-importance (not your personality) OR how neo-advaita is harmful.

Neo-advaita (that is, the modern philosophy espoused on social media which has not been earned through direct experience) had gotten us all weirdly twisted, trying to figure out extremely subtle concepts with a mind that is not yet subtle enough to perceive what is being said.

We think we have to dissolve our sense of self, as though that were the practice in and of itself.

But the all-terrible EGO is not the personality... it is just your sense of self importance.

The boundary of rigidity that claims its right to feel separate from everything.

Being righteously offended is ego.

Being embarrassed is ego.

Inferiority and superiority is ego.

As spiritual realization and non-dual awareness dawn, we are still ourselves, the product of our lives and environments which created us, our family and our incarnational fields with all the preferences thereof...

But as Realization permeates our beingness... the injury of not getting our preferences becomes less and less until we are swimming in the soft okayness of everything, and from here we are actually free to take care of ourselves according to what's really happening.

Neo-adviata would have us doing mental somersaults, believing that we are the source of all trouble, all difficulty, all abuse... that is a reflection of us or a product of our minds... and because all is One, we shouldn't remove ourselves from bad situations.

But this is a gross literal misunderstanding. It is another sheath of resistance to what-is. Non-duality asks us to dissolve all the barriers we hold against realizing ourselves as pure love. Love doesn't stay in abuse, love protects and honors the instincts of our animal bodies.

It is a very regrettable misunderstanding of the teachings and of course begs more discussion than an instagram post can afford.

I'd love to know if these misinterpreted teachings have affected you and where you are now.

Much love.