We have this notion that there is some central comprehender, some liner processor of all of that stuff out there, and yet all of the stuff out there already processed itself it as it arose, as that arising was the processing, and what the seeming central processor does is to make some additional secondary impression (that is also just more sensations that are aware where they are and of themselves)
let me quote myself
Also in this state it is obvious that actions are took by no-self and self is just an trailing sensation that interpret what happens so that it would appear as doing of a self but with that trailing it is actually influencing decisions. Not making them but influencing nevertheless.
only fishy part about this is that it fails to be 'fire once and forget' thing, I still can get affective feelings though I can shut them with dis-identification(by doing the same thing, same procedure to what identify and rest of no-self experiential reality and then anger become just sensation sitting next to other sensations and without fuel from identification die off pretty quickly and it seems whatever was angry become happy
if it was constant thing without any exception and cycling (from time to time I get short DN like periods 2-3 days tops) thing I would already consider myself Arahat but because it is not then I miss something important here. Or it just have to sink in and bad kamma have to burn out... time will tell and for now I have to know myself better, gain more control and try to stay on the zen bull all the time.
When reality seems filtered through this odd secondary central processing habit, it appears that some middleman, some potentially overburdened one-at-a-time system, is perceiving them, when actually it is just making poor copies one at a time of something that is vast and rich and already comprehended itself and never really actually needed any poor copies made to already be known.
imho you oversimplify things but I won't go into much details now and oversimplify this too =) There are layers of perception and those relate to chakras and self is on third layer. Self by itself is not bad and its input is very valuable but for it to be that way it have to be transparent and just add skillful contribution and not just junk. There is nothing wrong with feeling its opinion that I am in control of my body as long as it is done in skillful way so I do not identify with that image and see it as just one of many interpretations of what really happened. Others include 'Brahman did it' and while I am atheist I am in not position to handle myself skillfully without this view. Kinda paradox but it is how it apparently have to be if I want to experience my full potential. 'It just happened' is Muladhara explanation, and pretty valid too, don't you think?

I, for one, see no reason not to enjoy the state you are able to get into, as, done well, most such things get boring after a time, no matter how amazing, and eventually familiarity with it will, if you are lucky and when the thrill and novelty wear off, lead to better and more clear senate comprehension, which is the first basis of insight.
yeah, like one could get bored with dis-identification... only way to do that (get bored) would be to do unskillful act of identify and we have mindfulness to detect and correct this misbehavior, don't we?
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John Wildewhether a customised form of Advaita practice could possibly lead to the same/similar results as hardcore dharma
doh, obviously it will lead to the same realization
it was only delusional Buddha who thought otherwise
on the other hand who would have listened to him if he said that he know how to crack the same nut but from slightly different angle? Probably no one

Next, discover that objects of awareness can't truly be distinguished from awareness itself. No such distinction is ever actually experienced. Objects, in that sense, "are" awareness.
have to disagree on you there
objects are object and are 'there' as possibility even if they are not experienced by awareness impulse
and awareness can but don't have to be triggered by actions of those objects. Objects have predictable input onto experience.
Awareness can be triggered by itself! So it can be studied in more detail and it seems it too have predicable input.
Knowing that one could categorize and mentally separate awareness from its objects. Like when you have picture drawn on CRT monitor you can say picture is the same as drawing process and can't be truly distinguished from it. But studying how this contraption work one will know exactly how picture is drawn and be not confused about that mechanism and that input signal commencted to such monitor is the same thing as picture drawn on monitor. Awareness is such impulse driven monitor intended not only to displaying but to viewing that and sending back signals onto objects it is connected to.
if awareness can be triggered by itself then it can be studied in more depth and enable adept to be able to dis-identify with it and in result it will deepen his/her dis-identification with incoming sensations. Obviously one can try to disidentify with sensation not going into much detail into what awareness is but I have hunch it is less skillful approach and would take much more time to get good results out of it. It is always better to open up things and study them from inside to know how they work
This leads to the discovery that nonduality is not a special experience, it's actually inescapable. All experience is already undivided
right but problem is identifying with parts of experience and that create separation, painful pull and push that create stress/dukkha so even if on some deeper level we still experience non-dually it doesn't change fact that with dukkha this experience is crappy