Nonduality is untethered. In life that there are so many things that try to tie us down. One of the biggest things is our definitions of who we should be and how we should be. We’re constantly told that we’re not good enough. Just the very definitions we have of what a human being should …
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Nonduality is Unbroken
Nonduality is unbroken, and by that I mean that no matter what has happened to you in your life, there is a part of you that is unbroken. This part is dynamic and alive, and is actually the part that wants to be animating your life. On the other hand, duality—all of our conditionings, all …
Nonduality is Related
Nonduality is related. Everything is related with everything else, just as my hand is related to my arm. It’s attached to my head and my legs. I am related to my environment. I’m related to the air. Take it a little step further out: I’m related to all the animals on the Earth. Native teachings …
Nonduality is Sanity
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 …
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 …