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, millions of years.
Take us way, way back—even to the primordial ooze, right? There’s this intelligence that permeates the universe. Particularly for human beings, there is a way to use our evolved brains that makes sense, is useful, and expansive. There’s a way to use the entire humanness of each of us that brings forth the most intricate balance.
This intelligence is from before words. It’s certainly from before English, which is the language that I’m speaking in, so there are no words in our language to describe this. And it doesn’t need words. You can feel it inside of you—that ancient, ancient intelligence and life that animates us all.
That’s what nonduality is, and that’s why we call it nonduality. Because the second that you disengage your intelligence from your talking mind—boom—you’re there. That’s why enlightened masters say it always was there, it always will be there. Once you see it, you know it forever because it’s that deep, it’s that ancient, it’s that real.
It’s also why we say relaxing helps us access it. But I think also just knowing deep in your gut that this does exist, this is what the human being is meant for. This is why we are created the way that we’re created. We created ourselves through the process of evolution, right? The universe created us as well, the Earth created us. We are intricately involved in everything that happened to get us to this point, in everything right now, and in how we bring this vast ancient intelligence forward to create new lives for ourselves and for each other.