Nonduality is permanent. That’s an odd thing to think about if you haven’t experienced it yourself. Because if you’re living in a dual state, everything is temporary; everything constantly changes. There’s no constant to your experience. And this is one of the things that keeps us so stressed out; the fact that, you know, you …
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Nonduality is honorable
Nonduality is honorable. One of the things about living in truth, being in truth, is that you are not fooled by the lies anymore, by the illusions. And so, if you’re living in truth, isn’t that really the very definition of honor, of being an honorable person? Isn’t accepting yourself as you are the most …
Nondualiy is not magical
Nonduality is not magical. The nondual state is right here, right now, the most real thing that you can imagine. Well, of course, you can’t imagine a real thing. Right there is a very good definition of nonduality: you can’t imagine a real thing. It’s not magical; it’s real and dynamic, and who you’ve always …
Nonduality is not a Definition
Nonduality is not a definition. This is why it’s called nonduality; we’re saying what it’s not, not what it is. It’s not dual, it’s not two, and you could spend your whole life going through everything that it’s not, but you could never ever say what it actually is because it’s the absence of all …
Nonduality is not a concept
Nonduality is not a concept. Now, I understand that the concept of a concept can kind of feel like this nebulous thing. What exactly is a concept? One good way to look at it is a concept is a thing that you name. You can put various things that you name together into a sentence …
Nonduality is not an understanding
Nonduality is not an understanding. It is not something that happens in your brain. It’s not something that can be written down or explained with any sort of words, because it uses the bigger part of our consciousness that sees and knows things as they are happening. Like when you know the answer to something, …
The Awakened State is not an Experience
Nonduality is not an experience. Experiences can come and go; you can remembrer them, forget about them, have them, or anticipate them in the future. For instance, something happened to you in the past, or you anticipate an experience like graduating from college on a specific day in the future. Those are experiences. But nonduality …
Nonduality is Interconnected
Nonduality is interconnected. When you step out of duality, you don’t end up floating around in some sort of nebulous field of nothingness, overwhelmed by goodness and happiness. No, you become, well… who you are. And who you are is part of the vast, full, interconnected world we live in. It’s part of the interconnected …