Nonduality is sanity. It’s really easy to look at this from the other side, and we can totally see that it’s true because living in the dual state is madness. Living in the dual state is insanity, right?
As a matter of fact we have writings about various native elders around the world who have been interviewed, and they’ll come out and say that we are nuts. I think it was down in the Navajo Nation or Pueblo—there was an elder interviewed, and they said, “So, what do you think about white people?” And all they could say was, “They’re insane.”
Way up in the north, there are some indigenous tribes, and the elders up there call us the upside-down people because our consciousness is not based on unity.
Our consciousness is based on division, and so we live upside down, which is, of course, why we’re destroying our environment so rapidly—because we’re nuts. We’re insane.
This is why nonduality is such a fabulous thing to study and work with because you’re looking to become sane—completely sane. The human brain was designed to work within a field of aware unity. Within a field of aware unity—ad aware of it. Not living unconsciously in a unified world, but living consciously in a unified world. Knowing that we’re there, speaking to each other about it, being taught this from a very young age, learning how to express it through our own lives.
The true human being lives as if everything we do matters. Don’t take too much. Don’t destroy things. Live within this field of unity as a sane person. Avoid the feeling of better than, which is true insanity. The attempt to become better than other people comes from a deep feeling of not good enough.
When you’re in complete unity, there’s no possibility of not good enough. There’s also no possibility of better than.
My teacher was Osho, and he was always talking about the simplicity of the enlightened state and how you become completely ordinary. So think of the completely ordinary person who is not hankering to be extraordinary, who is just enjoying their deep ordinariness as a human being. Think how sane they are.
That is a place of complete sanity. This relaxed, irreversible, unchangeable ordinariness that we all are.
And then, all of a sudden, within this sanity we’re able to be in a field with other human beings and all the other beings as well—the tree beings, the animal beings, the air beings, the rock beings, and the water beings—because we’re this ordinary flow of a human living a human life.
Sanity.