rodox_head wrote:@Gazebo4
I'm curious, what is your/do you have a take on the concept of a tulpa?
Sorry it took a while for me to reply. So here is my non-dual perspective on this phenomenon.
So first let's take a look at the meaning of the word 'tulpa'. Just going by Wikipedia it states that it is "an object or being that is created through spiritual or mental powers."
The experience of such a phenomenon is real, as is all experience, but the phenomenon itself, that which is being experienced, is not. I will elaborate on this with an analogy. When we watch a landscape on the television, is the experience of watching the landscape real? I'd say we can agree that the experience itself is very real. But what about the landscape itself that is being played on the screen, the object of our attention? One could say that the only reality to the contents of the screen, is the screen itself upon which it is played. The screen creates the images and then the images will disappear again. And all that ever remains is the screen, which is outside of time and space.
Now let's take this analogy to our 4 dimensional world that we perceive with our senses. Our experience of all our perceptions is real, but that which is being experienced is ultimately an illusion, or dream if you will, temporary expressions of consciousness. Why? Because the only reality to the content of our mind, that which is being experienced, is That which is aware of experience in the first place. A common word for that reality is 'I' or 'consciousness'. It is That which is fundamental to experience, but cannot be understood rationally, only known experientially.
Without being aware/conscious you would not even be able to perceive anything at all. Furthermore, everything that you experience is happening inside this infinite space of consciousness. There is nothing but consciousness as it is the source of everything. There is nothing outside of consciousness. Ask yourself the question 'Have I ever experienced anything outside myself?' It is simply impossible. The mistake most people make is to assume that our experience is made out of something called 'matter' or 'mind', which supposedly exists independently of consciousness. This is the grand delusion that creates all the suffering in the world. Scientists have been searching for the existence of matter for decades, failing of course, but that is a conversation for another topic.
So now let's go back to the phenomenon of a tulpa. It is a seemingly created, imaginary, sentient being. So the experience of a tulpa is real, in the sense that the experience of thoughts and images that seem to make up this phenomenon is real, but the contents of this experience itself are not, meaning that the only reality to a tulpa, is consciousness itself which is aware of it. A tulpa is not a separate entity, because nothing is separate from consciousness, which is one undivided, eternal and infinite knowing of being aware.
So in summary, do not discard or resist your experience, it itself is real. But see the unreality of what is being perceived. This will free you from suffering because there is nothing that stands out from yourself as you are the Source of everything, literally.
If you want to be free from this created (self) image, you can practice self-inquiry to dissect your assumptions and beliefs piece by piece. And step by step clarity will be revealed to you.
I hope this makes any sense at all as in my opinion it is not so easy to explain because it is really a paradigm shift what I'm talking about. I myself have suffered from depression for years and this is what totally changed the way I look at, well basically everything but most importantly it made me realize that I already am what I was looking for, peace.
So even the concepts of good and evil, positive and negative, cease to be because they are seen as One, two sides of the same coin.
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