Die before you die is a Sufi teaching that has more to do with life than it does with death. The teaching “Die before you die,” is more about how to live than it is about actually physically dying. This is a teaching that is also present in Buddhism, and if you do some research, you’ll find that there’s a lot of Christian commentary on this as well. …
Die Before You Die
Published: Sat, 01/27/24
When we look at how nonduality and Native spirituality fit together, it’s the mystical that ties it together. Everything in existence is this vast unity. The human brain, the human mind, has an enormous capacity to see and be the mystical. We’ve been doing it since we became human.
The mystical is where all Traditions meet. When we talk about how they’re all teaching the same thing, it’s this connection that’s being taught.
6 Ways to Non Dual: Mystical
Number six is the mystical. We are accidentally raised with the idea that our thinking brain is us, and that’s just simply not true. The thinking brain is a small part of our perception. By the thinking brain, I’m talking about the language that goes through your head, the stories that go through your head, …
If you know you can’t be fixed you’re free
If you know that you can’t be fixed, then you’re free. This is what nonduality is about. Just think about your inner self – the ‘you’ that is completely dissolved in the ocean of being, the you that is part of the Earth, part of all reality, the great nothingness, the great everythingness. That ‘you’ …
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Unselfish Motivation
Most important in the process of finding out who you are: do it with the most unselfish motivation possible. You’re trying to find how you blend in with all of reality, and all the rest of us really do exist. You really do exist. Know that this is not just about you. This is about everything and everyone else.
— What you do matters —
A funny little detail about nonduality, the nondual search, is that you are the one who is searching and you’re searching for yourself. So, if this is the case, we need to do this within a field of togetherness with all humanity. We need to have a basic unselfish motivation in order to do this; otherwise, it turns into a nightmare of narcissistic thought.
6 Ways to Non Dual: Unselfish
This is part of a series I’m doing on the intersection of nonduality and Native wisdom. This is also available as a book on Amazon.
It’s important to know who you are
It’s important to know who you are. Because if you know who you are, you can’t get fooled into thinking you can be fixed. This is the essential problem of everyone. We have been taught from a young age that there’s something wrong with us that needs to be fixed. So much of our insanity …
Total Unity
It’s also possible to find out who you are using the idea of total unity. Everything exists. That exists, you are that. A tree? You’re not really separate from it. Your thoughts? You are not separate from that. Your emotions? They happen within you, with you. You are everything. You’re the sky, you’re the Earth, you’re all the other people, you’re your anger, you’re your love. All these things, eventually, it all melds into one vast complex of unity that is you.
— Nonduality Leads to Unity —
Nonduality practices, teachings do eventually lead us to a place of unity, to a place of oneness. This is a point that many, many people overlook because they get stuck on the ‘not two,’ on the subtracting everything from the world. But once you’re down to realizing that nothing exists separate from you… then you know you actually exist, the world exists, everything out in the world exists. That is the point where you start bringing everything in: ‘Oh, I am this, I am that.’
6 Ways to Non Dual: Adding
Today, we’re talking about adding. This is actually very advanced non-dual studies. If you went into a monastery and lived there for years and years, at first, you would start with the regular non-dual exercises. The “Not Two” exercises we talked about in the last video. Not two is a process where you’re erasing all …
