Nonduality is not a concept

Nonduality is not a concept. Now, I understand that the concept of a concept can kind of feel like this nebulous thing. What exactly is a concept? One good way to look at it is a concept is a thing that you name. You can put various things that you name together into a sentence or into an understanding. But anything that you name, the concept itself is not the thing. Like you have a cat, you love your cat, pet your cat. You can name your cat, this is Fluffy. You can use the word “cat,” all these things are concepts. But no matter how you try to describe the cat, the description is not the cat itself. No matter how much you try to describe you, you are not what you’re describing. So, it’s just this fun paradox of nonduality, is that it’s the you that is having these concepts that is the awake being, not the concept itself. And we have been, it’s been so drilled into us to understand things and to have concepts and name things, and we like to divide reality up into tiny little pieces and then try to analyze them, thinking that if we can understand all the little pieces, then we’ll understand the whole. And a lot of that is really valid because we can figure out things like electricity and velocity and things like that. But it’s really the full picture, sure, that everything’s always in. Every little concept, every little piece is part of this huge wholeness. And so long as we understand that a concept is a concept, then our consciousness wakes up and our intelligence can bloom to the point where we become this full dynamic human being that we’ve always been meant to be. You are the fullness, too full, too interconnected, too enormous, too tiny to ever be described by a concept.

Published by Zareen

Wholeness and oneness isn't what you "think"!