Four Steps to Non Duality

You've read all the Non-Duality books and have been going to non-duality speakers for years. You still have not got this.

Can Awakening be Lost?

Awakening is knowing who I am - which is oneness and non duality. And this knowing cannot be unknown, cannot be lost.

Can Words Express Non-Duality?

There is a problem that all non-duality teachers come against. How can you express what is essentially indescribable?

Who Chooses What You Think?

Who chooses the images that appear in your mind when there is no conscious recognition of choosing? Who chooses what you think?

Is There a God Spot in the Brain?

Is there a God Spot in the brain and will this cause you to get non-duality?

Is There a Separate Self?

There is is a sense of aseparte self, an appearance of a separate self, and this is what we need in order to function in this world.

Is Awakening The End of Attachment?

The mind is sometimes like the fire - it can rage and burn. Allow it to be, observe its games. None of this is happening to you.

Lessons From Krishnamurti Standing Alone

Now, having come to the end of seeking, I understand what seeing Krishnamurti standing alone means.

What Goes On In Your Brain Mind?

You live in a world that you call reality. It certainly looks real, but this world is in fact constructed by you.

Who Owns Your Life?

"No," I replied, I'm going to the cinema to see a film starring Jimi Hendrix." My fellow devotee looked shocked

Do You Need To Go to the Extreme?

When the Self disappears, so does doubt and with it the fears and anxieties that inhibit the human potential, both physical and mental.

What Happens When You’ve Gone?

I saw this interview with a lady who claimed to have had a spiritual awakening. During her awakening Princes Diana came to her as an ambassador of the dead to reveal that we survive after death. One inescapable truths is that everything is impermanent.

Lights, Camera, Action!

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Yesterday I watched the movie Slumdog Millionaire. the main character in the story lived in the slums of Mumbai – a harsh life where survival is difficult. After may adventures and set backs, the story had a happy ending with the main character overcoming all obstacles. When it was over I ejected the DVD from the player. It had not really happened. It was a film with the main character an actor pretending to be someone else.

Your life is similar to a movie with you taking the lead part. Unlike a movie you probably take the story of your life very seriously. It is full or drama, tragedy, triumph, suffering, joy – and you get caught up in it all.

A DVD is a digital device, which means that all it contains are a lot of numbers. The DVD player then translates these numbers into sound and vision. In the same way your senses take in energy – light energy and sound energy which your brain translates into the things that you see and hear. Electrical activity takes place in your brain and you experience this activity as thoughts and feelings. The way you experience all this you call ‘reality’. But, is your reality any more real than the images and sound from a DVD?

Why do you take you life so seriously? Why do things matter that much? If you awaken to the non-dual perspective then non of this so called reality is…well… real. None of this is who you are. The world of your thoughts, feelings and senses, is a vehicle that enables you to function in this world. You are not the vehicle.

You are the actor playing the part of you. What happens if you stop playing the role? What happens if you step back from the story that you call your life and see through the dream that you are in?

It is such a relief to stop taking things so seriously, to allow your thoughts and feeling to come and go, to witness the story, to let life flow in its own natural way.