Meditation, and spirituality easily evolves into nonsense. The more people talk about it, the nutzier it gets. Our current ideas about meditation are a good example of this. When I hear people talk about meditation it sounds like they are trying to get something with their meditation. Like, if I do this practice, I will …
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Nonduality Explained: Step Out of Yourself
Nonduality explained: Step out of yourself. Seems kind of backwards, and it is. We’re so fixated on our experience and our thoughts that we’ve turned our perceptions of the external world into a real world in our imagination. We’re like sleepwalkers, walking around through life fixated on this illusion that we’re calling ourselves. You need …
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Nonduality Explained: The Self
This one gets so crazy in nonduality discussions. What is the self? Who is the self? Many teachings say that there is a big self and a little self. Unfortunately, the second we get stuck in trying to define what the self is, we have removed ourselves so far from the self that we become …
Nonduality Explained: Language
Language is a loop: I can only say that language doesn’t describe anything by using language to say that it doesn’t describe anything. That’s a perpetual loop. Language can give vague ideas about things and that’s all. Try to use it for truth and you’re caught in a loop. And yet… language works. What’s cool …
Nonduality Explained: A Word is Not True
If it’s a word, it’s not true. Nonduality is trying to get us in touch with the fact that our thoughts constantly cause us to be separate from reality, to be separate from ourselves. Our thoughts feel like they’re very, very loud inside our heads, and we get hypnotized by them; put to sleep by …
Thought is Only a Piece
Thought is only a piece. It’s only a piece of the vast wholeness that is me, of the vast wholeness that is you. It’s only a piece of the vast wholeness where we’re interconnected together, where we are participants in the full Earth, in the entire cosmos, in our societies, in our countries. We are …
Nonduality Explained: Thinking is Good
Nonduality explained: thinking is good. I am trying to explain nonduality even though nonduality cannot be explained; it can only be experienced. But thinking is good. It has to be… thinking exists, right? God don’t create no junk. Because of the fact that we’re able to do it, and because of the fact that we …
Nonduality Explained: It’s Not What You Think
Nonduality explained: nothing is what you think because everything you think is limited. By thinking, I’m talking about when you’re putting words to it. For you and me, that’s English. So when you have these thoughts, this language going through your head, there is no way that it can be absolutely complete in its definition. …
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