Nonduality explained: is it an experience? This is a very interesting thing to explore because the answer is yes and no. One of my favorite spiritual teachers is Sam Lewis, and he always said you have to actually have the experience of spirituality or Unity or Oneness. You can’t get it from a book; you …
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Nonduality Explained: Obscure
Is it obscure? It certainly sounds like it when you hear people talking about it! Tip of the day: Here’s the number one most important thing to understand about nonduality, nonduality teachers, and nonduality teachings: There is the actual nonduality experience, And then there are all the explanations about it. The explanations are NOT the …
Nonduality Explained: The Mind
Nonduality teachings are about trying to go beyond the mind. But it’s more effective to think of it as coming from underneath the mind. In awakening your true self rises up through the mind and embodies your full being. We let our minds capture us in ways that aren’t necessarily healthy. It’s not good to …
Retelling the Human Story
Retelling the human story is vital today because if we want to start grappling with the way we’re living on the planet and how we’re living with each other, we need to know who we are. We can’t know who we are as individuals if we don’t understand who humanity is because, ultimately, what we …
Nonduality is Ancient
Nonduality is very, very ancient, and I don’t mean ancient as in some old civilization that hid some scrolls somewhere. I mean ancient, ancient, ancient, as in before civilization of any kind. It is so ancient that it is not a philosophy, it is not a system of thought, but the way people used to live.
It just makes sense when you think about that because, in order to be able to live within the landscape, finding all your food, creating community within your landscape, you would have to be in an undivided state. You would be part of the landscape.
Locate yourself as that deeply related to everything.
In both Eastern and Western spiritual philosophies and traditions, we see the ideas of nonduality as very inner, in our head, even like it’s an experience that we’re trying to make happen. But if we can look broader to the entire human experience, around the whole earth and back through deep, deep time, which is still with us, we’ll see that it’s actually a blending of ourselves into everything that we’re related to. So, it’s not an inner experience. This is one of the ways you can tell if you’re starting to get closer: if the experience seems less important and your located being seems more available.
Nonduality Explained: Finding Yourself
Nonduality Explained: Finding Yourself This is one of the number one teaching in nonduality, and it’s very effective because no matter how much you try to find yourself, you can’t do it. You can’t locate yourself because you are the one who is doing the locating. No matter how much you look to any sort …
Nonduality is Intelligence
Nonduality is intelligence. It’s the intelligence that animates you and me. I’m not talking about knowledge, and I’m not talking about IQ. Think of it this way: imagine you’re a waitress—a really good waitress. You have knowledge and experience in how to do all sorts of things. You know the whole menu of your restaurant, …
Nonduality is Ancient
Nonduality is ancient, and I don’t mean it’s like some secret from some scroll somebody discovered a long time ago. I’m talking way, way before scrolls could even exist or anybody even thought of such a thing. I’m talking about the deep, deep ancient knowledge, the ancient intelligence of humanity itself, going back 100,000 years, …