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@Shambles when you are part of the Inchagiri Sampradaya, a lineage of teachers from the Navnath Sampradaya duality thinking becomes absurd.
Owkay let me break it down for you why I think people that are in a "male" body or "female" body yet think they are of the gender of the other sex are a little mad, when you go to sleep or go deep into Samadhi your name, gender, location, amount of money you have, who you voted for, what food you like / dislike goes away & "you" as an Ego vanishes YET upon "waking" the Ego & the way the brain registers "I AM THAT" kicks back in so all projection of yourself as in an Ego is false.
You think YOU are male, post on BL, Live with Sadie up North yet this is all Data registered from LIMITED incoming Data of TRUTH which is based beyond this I AM........ because this is a mere movie being projected & you take it to be Real.
If I smoked a huge dose of Salvia is it REAL & Objective Truth that I may have to live 100,000 years as a Rock? I feel as a Rock, I see everything as a Rock yet when I am finished it's over which is the same thing as thinking I am a Man born in a male body but I am actually a Woman.
Anyone that brings in "Right Wing" & "left Wing" stuff into this debate is so blind to Truth I cannot help you.
People from Nisargadatta Maharaj, Marcus Aurelius, Rama Krishna have all said this same thing but in different ways, you choose to view this movie as Objective while everything is Subjective at the very best & in Truth isn't even that as that's more "time at the Cinema watching the Movie"
It's ALWAYS people who make the most noise on subjects like this that have never been in Samadhi or a None-Dual state.
1) In absolute reality, nothing actually happens. The world and individual identities are merely projections moving across the screen of consciousness.
2) The ego or
"person" is a product of a misunderstanding and
false self-identification with thoughts, memories, and the body.
3) Waking life is a dream.
Just as a dream vanishes upon waking, the objective world and personal identity dissolve when body-consciousness and mental conditioning cease.
4)
To realize reality, one must abandon all cultural conditioning, self-concern, and intellectual concepts, including the idea of being human or a separate gender.
5) Because you OBSERVE the body the body CANNOT BE the observer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!