Non-duality says there’s not two, and that’s about you. That doesn’t mean that there’s not two people. I mean, obviously, there’s me and there’s you. There’s that guy over there, and there are some other people over there. Obviously, there are trees and there are rocks, and there’s all sorts of multitude of things. But …
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Nonduality means everything exists
Nonduality means everything exists. It doesn’t mean that everything’s an illusion, just that you see illusion, but everything exists.
Wisdom comes through the hands
Based on no data at all, no empirical studies, no long speeches by ancient philosophers, I believe that our hands are the conduit of wisdom. Wisdom comes through us as much through our hands as through our ears and our eyes and things like that. We do know from scientists that brain cells aren’t just …
Simplifying Complexity
Simplifying complexity. So, click on the links below, and you will go to a page with some recommended books by indigenous philosophers who are coming up with brilliant ways to speak to us in our language, English, about the wisdom that has been passed down through generations of people living a natural life. One of …
Death of the ego
The death of the ego sounds pretty dramatic, doesn’t it? It’s not actually a real, accurate description of waking up because what actually dies is just your obsession with the ego – the connection to it, the infatuation with it, the weakness of not being in control of it, of letting this really nasty part …
Newsletter: Nonduality in the Natural World
The bottom line is that studying any sort of spirituality will not do us any good unless it grounds us in the natural world. Unless it sits us firmly into the world the way is not through our illusions. Generations before us would have had the luxury of drifting away in their imaginations and living …
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Nonduality means connection
Non-duality means connection. We so often think that it means, “The death of the false self” and all these things. Well, this false self is the only thing that is making you imagine that you’re separate. Once that’s gone, all that’s left is connection. Think about even the simplest connections, like you and a friend, …
Nonduality and Reality
Non-duality and reality… Lots of people are attracted to non-duality these days, and it’s turned into a really heady, you know, stuck in your head sort of thing. It takes so many words to attempt to define nothingness and to find Brahman. It gets really, really complicated. I’ve noticed that it gets very disassociated; it’s …