Be here now. You’ve heard of that statement before, right? This is the perfect example of how we take something that’s really profound and beautiful and turn it into concepts that confuse us. The biggest problem with this statement is “be here now.” We focus on the “now.” You cannot have a “now” without a …
Category Archives: Non-Duality
The Problem with Nonduality
The problem with non-duality is that, despite everybody’s best intentions, it always turns into a head trip. It just turns into concepts and concepts and defining words, even though the actual definition of it is that concepts are the problem. You can’t cure concepts with concepts. That’s just simple logic; it just makes sense. So …
What Does Nonduality Mean?
So, what does nonduality mean? Strangely enough, we usually think it means whatever definition we last heard about it, or maybe whatever definition we can remember about it. Very often, when people are saying what Nonduality means, it looks like they Googled it and then copied in something that somebody said about it. But none …
Any spiritual teaching can be nondual
Any spiritual teaching can be non-dual if it makes us see the connection between things, because that’s the ultimate point: to be able to really see the connection between things. Even the idea about God—very often, the idea about God is that there’s me here and there’s God over there. But you can also take …
Nonduality makes people go into their heads
Non-duality really makes people go into their heads, which is weird because the purpose of it, obviously, is to do the exact opposite. So it’s interesting to think… why is that? Maybe it’s the kind of person that’s drawn to non-duality. Maybe it’s the sources of Non-duality teachings which—let’s be honest—are obscure sounding, and weird …
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If we can admit we don’t know
If we can admit that we don’t know, as far as spirituality is concerned, as far as non-duality is concerned, if we can admit that we don’t know, then everything is a mystery. Everything is miraculous. Isn’t that a way better way to be a human being? Living in this constant state of miraculous, instead …
Nonduality means I don’t know
Nonduality means, “I don’t know.” Advaita. It’s translated as “not two.” It means that whatever your brain comes up with, any sort of object that you see outside of yourself, is not actually separate from you. It doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist. It means that the division between you and ‘that’ doesn’t exist. Particularly, …
Nonduality means don’t lie
Nonduality means, “Don’t lie.” Advaita. It’s translated as ‘not two.’ What it means is that everything that we think we turn into an object because we’ve tagged it with a word. The word about is thing is not reality. Thinking can never describe this truth. It cannot describe who is seeing the truth. So just …