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Is Non-Duality the Same as Oneness (or Monism)?
You are what you are looking for. (This article is in response to a question). Introduction Non-duality—which roughly means “not two”—is a practical way to point students toward an experience, or rather (and this is important), a reality that cannot be pointed to directly. Oneness, however, is a concept, and, while it may certainly be…
Read MoreNon-Dual Awakening and Language
Language is a time-based processing, a squeezing down and reduction of inherent wholeness to a tiny object. It can feel quite limiting at times. For instance, you’ve just has a wonderful, deep meditation, and felt a liberation from the bounds of time, like you are floating among the stars with a big smiles on your…
Read MoreWhat is Our Responsibility to The World as “Spiritual” People?
What is Our Responsibility to the world as “spiritual” human beings? Should we be helping to improve the world? Does Consciousness Evolve? Yesterday a friend asked an interesting question (via text): D: By the way, while I was eating a quick meal, I just watched this video, I don’t know if this is a synopsis…
Read MoreA Question Concerning Pain and Acceptance
A friend from India asked: Q: How does the unconditioned awareness look at this pain from an objective point of view? A: It is indeed a good “yoga”, so to speak – the harder the path to the seeing, the more it reveals, sometimes… Why should pain be any different from any other of the…
Read MoreDialogue: Two Ways to Dissolve Anxiety
Q: How can I get rid of anxiety? A: There are two fundamental ways to treat anxiety, as I see it, and both are rooted in recognizing the illusory nature of it… the phenomen, the experience. And, anxiety could be said to often be at the root of some other unwanted or unnecessary experiences, like…
Read MoreTime to Talk About Time
Open Time … Like an opening out, like the shape of a delta but in 3D, and seeing it from the outside. Open, limitless, freedom, choice, adventure; there is creativity… (separation never existed). A friend in India (javi Upi) sent this, serendipitously: Jiva: Mother, what was there in the beginning? Devi: Only the…
Read MoreThe Three Mysteries: A Dialogue
Or it could be titled, “Is the world a dangerous place – do you really know that?” T = Teacher S = Student S: You said something the other day about “Is the world really a dangerous place,” something like that. Can we go into that, look at that please? T: Yes. S: Because sometimes…
Read MoreIs Your Robot Conscious? A Dialogue
A dialogue on a contemporary issue concerning wetware and wireware. T = Teacher S = Student S: I have a question. T: OK. S: In one of our earlier dialogues we talked about the brain, but didn’t really go into it much. Because it seems to me there is some role of the brain…
Read MoreIs The World Real? A Dialogue
A common notion is examined. ~ * ~ T = Teacher S = Student S: I have a question. T: OK. S: I often hear this from spiritual teachers or read in teachings, that the world isn’t real, or is a dream. But when I hit my shin on the coffee table, it feels pretty…
Read MorePondering the Universality of Truth
Let’s look at the hierarchy – the true hierarchy, not the ones derived from social structures: religion derives from the spiritual, in its historical genesis, and its core of “mystical” truth; spiritual truth springs from the non-dual. So at the top, the absolute top, is what non-duality points to. In the East, they call it Atman.…
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