Our knowledge doesn’t make us smart. The more things you know doesn’t make you a genius. Even people like Einstein were very specific about that. There is a vast reservoir of human perception, of our brain itself, that is able to see things that have nothing to do with knowledge or facts. Could it be possible that our knowledge shuts off a good proportion of our brain so that we’re then not using the full thing? How do we calm that baby down so that we can let our full perception bloom forth? This is what the techniques of Nonduality are trying to show us: that you are not your thoughts, you are not the things you see, you are the vast seeing itself.
– We are hypnotized by our perceptions –
We are hypnotized by our perceptions, mostly because we’re unwilling to see how shallow they are. What our understanding of deep history does, and what all the other spiritual masters have said, is useful and interesting, but it’s not the full story. It’s never the full story. This is what Nonduality is trying to tell us: that there is a bigger story and there is also the person who is absorbing this story. What Native spirituality tells us is that it’s possible to live within a story of inner connection that is so vast that from the beginning of your life and through the whole life, you know who you are. This is how the two things intersect.