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.

Are You Confused by Words?

A quick shot of some of my bilingual dictionar...

Image via Wikipedia

I went to a meeting with Scott Kiloby this weekend. There was a discussion about words and the difficulty of expressing non-duality in words. Words can only ever be pointers, yet there is so much importance put on words, and so much confusion arises when listening to different teachers expressing their perspective on non duality.

The spiritual teacher J Krishnamurti used to study the English dictionary at length because he wanted to express his teachings in a clear and concise way.Unfortunately there has been a tendency for those studying the large number of words he left in his books and recorded talks, to intellectually analyse his message. They forget that his central message was to observe what is going on in your life: to just see it in a non-verbal way. He often talked of seeing a flower or a tree. Can you see a flower without naming it, without reference to any other flower that you have seen in your life, as if you are seeing a flower for the first time? This experience just is, there are no words or thoughts in that moment of clear seeing.

What all the words point to is a shift in perspective, a direct experience – or more correctly a non-experience as the experiencer is not there. And here I am again, using words to confuse. It is an experience that is not an experience because in wholeness and non-separation there can be no experience and no-experiencer. If there is both an observer and that which is observed then there is duality. How can the experience and the experiencer be one and the same thing?

The intellect can only analyse the non-dual perspective so far. It can never really get beyond a scent of its perfume, a trace that is left. When the words, the thoughts and the feelings are let go of, there is what is present, and what is present is it.

There is no place to go, no place to search. Call off the hounds, let them follow other trails.