Nonduality is sanity. The opposite of that, the divided mind is what’s so crazy. You can see that at any moment in your life. Where do all your fears come from? Where do all your worries come from? It’s because you feel like you are separate, battling with the world, trying to get what you …
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What if People were Free?
What would happen if people were truly free of their conditionings?
We’ve been taught that freedom is basically licentiousness, just doing whatever the heck you want. As if freedom were total narcissism. If that’s the case, if everyone was free, it’d be a nightmare, right?
But if there is a human nature that’s good and honest and true and has a moral center, then everyone being free would actually become more trustworthy.
It’s my opinion that that is the case—that the actual human nature is to be free. We’ve been free for millions of years, since we are small in the forests. So, obviously, we’re all set up to run things that way.
And… what if nonduality was easier than you think, which is the definition of nonduality anyway? “It’s saying “Not Two” which means that you are not about your thinking; it’s about your human beingness.
What if, instead of going forward into enlightenment, we were simply removing a crust and turning into the natural human beings that all people are born to be? Then we wouldn’t be attaining anything. We would be coming into a place of unity, natural unity with each other, with the natural world, and with everything. We would come into this place of unity simply by dissolving our imagination that we’re separate.
Nonduality is Unity
Nonduality is unity. Once the separate self drops, all that’s left is the relationship of everything to everything else. All that’s left is the way that we interrelate. All that’s left is unity. In nonduality, we tend to avoid saying things like “Oneness” and “unity” because our habit is to turn unity into a goal …
Nonduality is Infinite
Nonduality is infinite because there is not a place where I end and everything else begins. There’s not a place where everything else ends and I begin. This makes understanding where it is that we’re trying to get to in our spiritual search a dynamic, living thing because we’re erasing the edges between us and …
Nonduality is Undefinable
Nonduality is undefinable. I mean, if it was definable, somebody would have done it already, right? But here’s the trick: you are the one who is trying to define it. A definition is always limited, and we’re looking for this unlimited place of being. The “you” that is you is unlimited because you’re connected to …
Nonduality is Irreversible
Nonduality is irreversible because it’s the place of total reality. It’s the place of who you are, who you’ve always been. It’s so obvious that you can never unsee it once you see it, once you be it. Because you are awake. You’re realizing that you are the person seeing it. You are who is …
Nonduality is Life
Nonduality is dynamic. As the crust of separation falls away, all that’s left is the life, the enormous life, of you—a human being awake and aware right here in this place, in this time. It’s a dynamic, moving, interchangeable interaction with all of reality. All of reality is interacting with me because I’m not a …
Nonduality is Possible
Nonduality is possible. It’s really funny to look at the irony of that statement because we’re taught that it’s almost impossible to achieve this non-dual state, and yet we know absolutely that it’s possible. If it wasn’t possible, there wouldn’t be a single person who’d ever done this. We’re also taught, “There’s something really special …