Nonduality says, “Don’t believe lies, and that anything that comes to us through language and thoughts is a lie.” I’m sitting here, lying to you. Don’t believe a single thing that I say because everything that I say is coming through me, through language. I’m having to take ideas that I know, sift them through my head, put them into sentences, and say them.
You are sitting there, reading these words coming through English. They go into your mind, and your definitions, and they turn into something in your mind—maybe a little bit close to what I’m trying to say, but definitely not the exact thing because it’s had to be translated up from reality into language, translated in your mind into language, and going into your understanding. It’s all lies, trying to describe truth. And if we can just realize that it’s kind of a game, it’s just a game. Language is a game. It’s fun. It’s useful, a way to describe and interact. It’s kind of like math. Math, you say, “We hate math.” Math is fabulous because it makes no bones about the fact that it’s just simply a lie.
If you study math at all, the math that we know is based on the number 10: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Take a one, you add a zero, off you go: 20, 30, 40. But you could just as easily put together an entire math system that’s based on two, and you could create computers out of it. That’s how a computer thinks. You could put together an entire math system that’s based on four and add, subtract, do everything that you want to do with this base of four. So, that’s what’s cool about math. It’s a game. You can put this little idea together with this little idea, and oh, look how that adds into this idea. The exact same thing happens with our language. It’s just a game that we play. It makes it possible for us to interact in very interesting ways, but that’s all it is. It’s nothing more than that.
Nonduality, Eastern mysticism, really any kind of deep spirituality is trying to show us what’s underneath. What is seeing this? Who is adding the numbers? Who is thinking the thoughts? It’s an interconnected nothingness of being.