Retelling the human story is vital today because if we want to start grappling with the way we’re living on the planet and how we’re living with each other, we need to know who we are. We can’t know who we are as individuals if we don’t understand who humanity is because, ultimately, what we …
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Nonduality is Ancient
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.
Nonduality Explained: Finding Yourself
Nonduality Explained: Finding Yourself This is one of the number one teaching in nonduality, and it’s very effective because no matter how much you try to find yourself, you can’t do it. You can’t locate yourself because you are the one who is doing the locating. No matter how much you look to any sort …
Nonduality is Intelligence
Nonduality is intelligence. It’s the intelligence that animates you and me. I’m not talking about knowledge, and I’m not talking about IQ. Think of it this way: imagine you’re a waitress—a really good waitress. You have knowledge and experience in how to do all sorts of things. You know the whole menu of your restaurant, …
Nonduality is Ancient
Nonduality is ancient, and I don’t mean it’s like some secret from some scroll somebody discovered a long time ago. I’m talking way, way before scrolls could even exist or anybody even thought of such a thing. I’m talking about the deep, deep ancient knowledge, the ancient intelligence of humanity itself, going back 100,000 years, …
Nonduality is Expansive
Nonduality is expansive, and it’s not so much like you become expansive because that’s an idea of you being separate, that you were small and you got bigger. Instead, we’re talking about the happening of expansiveness itself—the happening, the reality of open possibilities. The reality of not having to be fixed on things is where …
Nonduality is Still a Lie
Nonduality is still a lie. This is one of my favorite ways to look at it because there’s no way you can define the non-dual state. So anything that you say about it really isn’t the truth. Something that isn’t the truth is a lie. So, no matter how much we try to define it, …
Thinking is Divided
The act of “Thinking” itself is divisive, because it is giving limited terms to everything. So, anything that can be described—the description is not the thing. This has to do with yourself and with the world that we live in.
It’s only our critical mind that likes to divide things. The rest of us just likes to look, participate and enjoy.
Nonduality is showing us how to open up into a bigger part of our intelligence that can live life in a totally new way. This is where we need to all get to in order to grapple with the problems that we have going on here in society right now.