In the nondual world, we can talk forever about what the mind is. It’s so funny because we’re using the mind to talk about what the mind is. I mean, literally, we can define it to be anything we want it to be, right? It’s an open field.
But is that really useful? Is that bringing us to the point where we know who we are?
That’s why so many of our ancient nonduality teachers have the one question: who are you? Who are you?
Don’t worry about what the mind is; it will continue to try to sort itself out into infinity. We’re the ones sorting it.
Who is thinking?
Who is it that’s thinking about nonduality? In a way, it’s the source thinking about the source, and the thinking is what keeps us from it.
Nonduality explained: is it an experience? This is a very interesting thing to explore because the answer is yes and no. One of my favorite spiritual teachers is Sam Lewis, and he always said you have to actually have the experience of spirituality or Unity or Oneness. You can't get it from a book; you can't read about it. As a matter of fact, you can't get it from a teacher, no matter how fabulous that teacher is, until you actually have the experience. So yes, there is an
experience.
Is it obscure? It certainly sounds like it when you hear people talking about it! Tip of the day: Here’s the number one most important thing to understand about nonduality, nonduality teachers, and nonduality teachings: There is the actual nonduality experience, And then there are all the explanations about it. The explanations are NOT the …
Nonduality teachings are about trying to go beyond the mind. But it’s more effective to think of it as coming from underneath the mind. In awakening your true self rises up through the mind and embodies your full being. We let our minds capture us in ways that aren’t necessarily healthy. It’s not good to …
Retelling the human story is vital today because if we want to start grappling with the way we’re living on the planet and how we’re living with each other, we need to know who we are. We can’t know who we are as individuals if we don’t understand who humanity is because, ultimately, what we …
