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.
