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Taking nonduality out of your personal experience is the trick or the secret.

We are conditioned to believe that enlightenment, the non-dual state, is an inner experience. We feel that it resides in our head, that something will change in our head when we become enlightened. But that’s not the case. We know (from even the basic teachings about enlightenment) that it’s about being blended with all things.

Therefore, it actually comes from the outside as much as it comes from the inside… to the point that there is no outside and there is no inside. There is just you, alive and participating in the fullest way that you possibly can.

So forget about the mind. You can’t think yourself out of thinking because it’s your thinker that’s thinking! You can’t think yourself into not thinking.

That’s the trick of nonduality. You simply stop.

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.