If you know that you can’t be fixed, then you’re free. This is what nonduality is about.
Just think about your inner self – the ‘you’ that is completely dissolved in the ocean of being, the you that is part of the Earth, part of all reality, the great nothingness, the great everythingness. That ‘you’ doesn’t need to be fixed; you know that’s the case. Matter of fact, pro tip – jump ahead. That’s you. Admitting that this simple thing is you, is enlightenment.
But there is another part of us all. It’s what so many spiritual traditions called the ego. It’s this divided self, this broken self, your confusion. Literally, you cannot fix your confusion without becoming unconfused.
The only way you can become unconfused is to completely drop the confusion and become who you are. Your confusion can’t get fixed.
Your ego is this broken part of yourself that tries to run things, but doesn’t even want to be in charge. You can’t fix it; it’s unfixable. Every bit of fixing that you possibly do to it quickly unravels. Life keeps ahead of you and keeps messing you up more and more.
Ever experienced that? It’s like, “I’m going to get this done,” and then, boom, ten other things have happened. Meanwhile the broken bit just grows. That thing can’t get fixed; it’s unfixable.
You stop believing that this broken thing is you the second you admit who you actually are.
If you absolutely know that you can’t be fixed, then you’re free. Then you’re completely free of it.
This is what nonduality is about. Keep doing your meditation exercises, keep doing your nondual exercises where you’re constantly asking, “Who am I?” Keep looking at all the not-two things in the whole world. “I’m not my ego, I’m not my mind, I’m not my thoughts, I’m not this, I’m not that,” down, down, down to the zero where you exist.
That’s total freedom.