Nonduality is not two. That’s what advaita means—not two. It is a handy little trick to find your unity. And even just in saying that sentence, you can see why the idea of not two is way better than saying find your unity. Because when I say find your unity, I’ve just turned you into …
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Nonduality is Sanity
Nonduality is sanity. It’s really easy to look at this from the other side, and we can totally see that it’s true because living in the dual state is madness. Living in the dual state is insanity, right? As a matter of fact we have writings about various native elders around the world who have …
Nonduality is Life
Nonduality is life. It’s life itself. Feel, right now, how so much life is bubbling up here on this planet that we call Earth. The oceans are full of it, the sky is full of it. It’s just growing and growing all over the Earth, and it’s running around everywhere, and it’s in humans. Every …
Nonduality is Edgeless
Nonduality is edgeless, and by that, I mean there is no place where you end and a separate something or ‘other’ begins. Simply saying, there’s no separation at all, and we can look at this easily just through physical stuff like skin, right? I might think that here’s the end of me right here at …
Nonduality is Transmittable
Nonduality is transmittable. When you think about that for just a second, it’s obvious, right? Otherwise, you and I wouldn’t be here talking about nonduality. Someone experienced a nondual state and worked really hard to explain it to other people. A bunch of other people got it, went on to explain it to other people, …
Nonduality is Essential
Nonduality is essential. When I’m saying that, I am saying the exact opposite of what we usually think of as the spiritual path—particularly in studies of nonduality, which, let’s face it, can be very mental, right? But nonduality is essential not mental. First of all, it is essential as in this is your essential being …
Nonduality is Easy
Nonduality is easy. Thinking about nonduality can be very complicated. Talking about it certainly makes it complicated. Watching videos where everybody’s talking about it certainly can seem complicated, can’t it? But the actual nondual state itself is very easy. It feels complicated to stop being complicated. We can complicate that too, infinitely. Describing the complications …
Nonduality is Not an Attainment
Nonduality is not an attainment. Of all the things I have to teach about nonduality, this is probably the most important one, because this is the number one thing that keeps you from understanding what the nondual state is—what enlightenment is. I always like to say: if you had even the slightest idea of what …