Nonduality and Jesus and Buddha—let’s really go out on a limb here and apply some non-dualistic thinking to our history. Let’s start with Buddha: Who was he, what did he discover, and what did it mean? If we place Buddha within the long timeline of human history, which we’re starting to understand as extending over …
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Deeper Knowing
Actual knowing is way bigger than just the thoughts in your head, than just the verbal thoughts in your head. Our bodies can remember things; our silence can remember things. The words that go through our head, the thing we call thoughts, is really the smallest part of our consciousness. So, nonduality is simply about allowing yourself to expand your awareness way, way, way beyond the thoughts that are in your head.
Nonduality means that if you limit your knowing to verbal thoughts, then everything you know is wrong. This is because verbal thoughts are just a definition of something. Only a fragment of the real thing. We all have a deeper knowing that we can access any time though silence.
Retelling the Human Story: Watching TV
We’re retelling the story of humanity here in this series of videos, sitting around the fire and telling stories. One of the things that I love to do is to watch TV and movies because this is our main storytelling medium today. I’ve noticed over the years that it seems to go through themes, and …
Nonduality Explained: Clearly
Nonduality explained clearly: Basically, nonduality means that there’s you and there’s everything else. That’s the two things: you and everything else, right? Two things. But now we’re saying, “not two.” In one way, it means all those other things are not you. Like, particularly, when talking about your internal experience. There’s you and there’s your …
Nonduality Explained: Suffering
Nonduality explained: suffering. Many non-duality teachings focus on suffering because the experience of stepping beyond your false face, revealing who you actually are, can easily be interpreted as the end of suffering. Our minds cause us so much suffering that simply stepping beyond your addiction to thought is very liberating in that way. Liberation is …
Nonduality Explained: Pretending
Nonduality explained: pretending. That’s really a better way to describe what Nonduality teachers, for hundreds of years, have called the “false face” we walk around with. This false face means we’re just pretending to be something that we’re not. We’re taught that we’re supposed to be all these things that we’re not, and so, in …
The Air is Sacred
The air is sacred, and I don’t mean that in a woo-woo, pretend sort of way. I mean, take a look—just take a deep look. Use your actual deep human intelligence to notice air. I just breathed in a bunch of it. We live within the atmosphere. We know that ancient peoples and Indigenous people …
Who is thinking?
In the nondual world, we can talk forever about what the mind is. It’s so funny because we’re using the mind to talk about what the mind is. I mean, literally, we can define it to be anything we want it to be, right? It’s an open field.
But is that really useful? Is that bringing us to the point where we know who we are?
That’s why so many of our ancient nonduality teachers have the one question: who are you? Who are you?
Don’t worry about what the mind is; it will continue to try to sort itself out into infinity. We’re the ones sorting it.
Who is thinking?
Who is it that’s thinking about nonduality? In a way, it’s the source thinking about the source, and the thinking is what keeps us from it.