Nonduality explained clearly: Basically, nonduality means that there’s you and there’s everything else. That’s the two things: you and everything else, right? Two things. But now we’re saying, “not two.” In one way, it means all those other things are not you. Like, particularly, when talking about your internal experience. There’s you and there’s your …
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Nonduality Explained: Suffering
Nonduality explained: suffering. Many non-duality teachings focus on suffering because the experience of stepping beyond your false face, revealing who you actually are, can easily be interpreted as the end of suffering. Our minds cause us so much suffering that simply stepping beyond your addiction to thought is very liberating in that way. Liberation is …
Nonduality Explained: Pretending
Nonduality explained: pretending. That’s really a better way to describe what Nonduality teachers, for hundreds of years, have called the “false face” we walk around with. This false face means we’re just pretending to be something that we’re not. We’re taught that we’re supposed to be all these things that we’re not, and so, in …
Nonduality Explained: Experience
Nonduality explained: is it an experience? This is a very interesting thing to explore because the answer is yes and no. One of my favorite spiritual teachers is Sam Lewis, and he always said you have to actually have the experience of spirituality or Unity or Oneness. You can’t get it from a book; you …
Nonduality Explained: Obscure
Is it obscure? It certainly sounds like it when you hear people talking about it! Tip of the day: Here’s the number one most important thing to understand about nonduality, nonduality teachers, and nonduality teachings: There is the actual nonduality experience, And then there are all the explanations about it. The explanations are NOT the …
Nonduality Explained: The Mind
Nonduality teachings are about trying to go beyond the mind. But it’s more effective to think of it as coming from underneath the mind. In awakening your true self rises up through the mind and embodies your full being. We let our minds capture us in ways that aren’t necessarily healthy. It’s not good to …
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 …