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.

Is Non-Duality The End of Seeking?

What is Non Duality?

Welcome to my new blog: What is Non-Duality?

This is my version of non-duality. Topics I will be writing about include:

Is there a separate self?
Is there anything you can do to get this?
What do I think of other non-duality teachers out there.
Does non-duality make you happy?
What is enlightenment?
How to stop searching
What the heck is non-duality?

So, where to start?

Well, maybe I should say a bit about my journey as a spiritual seeker.

I used to identify myself as a spiritual seeker. I was looking for answers to life, the universe and everything. It took me many years of searching to come to the realisation that it was the very act of searching that was keeeping me from finding what I was searching for! Searching is a movement away from where you are. If you are searching for enlightenment then it is always somewhere in the future, over there, never here.

What I was searching for was always here. The act of searching prevented me from seeing that there was nothing to find. It was as if searching was a black cloth obscuring a light. Remove the black cloth and the light that was always there is seen.

This is a bit tricky as you cannot sit down with yourself and make a decision not to seek. If you are a seeker, then you cannot make up your mind to stop seeking by some wilful act. What is needed is to see right through seeking, to realise that you can never work this thing out by analysing and dissecting.

I remember spending a night trying to work this whole thing out. I wrestled with questions like: