My point was not that it's not something interesting to try. My question is why would would I want to actively try to stay in this state? It's the things that are "not me" that are interesting. If I ever could become truly aware and knowing of all things, what would be left to do?
I don't see the reason why I would want to try to achieve a state where there is NOTHING to do but be aware of things of which I'm already aware. There is nowhere left to grow, and your journey is over. Since the journey, for me at least, IS the destination, the thought of being at the end, the final destination of my path of growth, is... empty.
Speaking of which, though I know it makes me a heretic on this site, I don't actually agree that there is a true state of non-duality. If, at the end of everything, everything is you, then what is you? If you are everything, containing all things, knowledge, possibilities... then you are also nothing. Nothing has meaning without duality. It makes no sense to refer to anything, including knowledge, thought, and even awareness, without duality. If there is such a thing as "awareness", there also has to exist a "not awareness" or there is all just one indistinguishable mass, which is the same as to say there is nothing at all.
Oh, and in reply to infinitethoughts...
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Get rid of your thinking for a sec and you see this.
Tell yourself to just Sit and Listen and Watch whatever you are looking at, and not think.
As your doing this........... ask yourself who and what are you.
What you come up with will be fascinating.
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I assume you mean to ask myself those questions, and then listen to what comes up in the silence. I have done this, and am certain I will do so again in the future. The answer that comes up for me is that I am a PART of everything, but so are other people. I am not all of everything (If I was, why would I bother to reply to myself?), and am not solely responsible for all of creation, but rather a part of it, and responsible for that which I create (I do, in fact, believe that by imparting energy to our beliefs, we can affect reality.) within the whole, which, in general, consists of the sum of the energy placed in the beliefs of all people, while being based around a core that God (Yes, I believe in God.) created for it all to be anchored in a shared experience/reality.
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