Nonduality is free, and I mean this in two different ways. One, free: actually stepping into the nondual state doesn’t cost any money. Being on a spiritual search can be very expensive, but actually stepping into the nondual state itself is free. But what it does is it frees you. It frees what we would call your spirit. It frees your being. It frees your possibilities because you’ve stopped limiting yourself, just as simple as that.
We’re taught from the moment we’re born to constantly limit ourselves to definitions and thoughts and expectations and just a vast variety of crazy things that we have to limit ourselves to. We can free our spirit by realizing who we are. Kind of the secret to that is right this very second, take a little personal inventory. What are you? You’re probably really not all that great, are you? You have fears, you have problems, you forget things, you make mistakes.
You can free yourself from being encumbered by that. So you’re free when you’re not trying to avoid yourself anymore. None of us are all that great. Mistakes—there’s always another mistake ready to happen. There is no way you can protect yourself from the next mistake. You can learn quite a bit from the last ones you made, but that next one is coming right down the bend, and there is nothing you can do really to run away fast enough to get away from it. Our imperfections—they’re there.
So, you’re free when you’re in a state of allowing yourself to be. And paradoxically, once you’re free of all these expectations of yourself, you actually can do more about it. It’s way easier to be a good human being when you’re the master of yourself because then, at least, it’s you making the choices that come out wrong. It’s you learning from the mistakes. So the nondual state in itself is freedom.