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.

The Secret Essence

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The human brain has evolved to do complicated things. Whenever I see a scientist pictured in front of a blackboard covered with equations, I think to myself how complicated the equations look, and what a brilliant mind the scientist must have to figure it all out.

I’ve just finished a computer program Life Manager Pro that involved hundreds of lines of computer code. My brain managed to sort out all the complex interactions involved to make the program do what it is supposed to do.

The human brain is great at complex stuff like this, but when it comes to non-duality there is a tendency to over complicate what it is all about. If you go to Non Duality Press you will find lots of books written about non-duality. If you read them all there is the danger that you mind will make non-duality into some intellectual puzzle that needs solving.

I was thinking of how to express the essence of my perspective in as few a words as possible. How do I reduce all the ideas and concepts to their essence?

There is no need to ponder about the nature of non-dualism, speculate on oneness or the existence of the separate self. As complex as the brain is, it will never really get this, so don’t bother trying.

The short version of the essence is:

Let it be.

The long version is:

Let everything be as it is.

If you can stop here and get this, then there is no need to read any other of my blog entries or go to non-duality press and order any of their books.

If you want further explanation of what let it be means, then it may help to see what starts to falls away when you let it be:

Seeking
Clinging
Choices
Preferences
Identity
Judgement
Identification
Every thing
No thing

Rest in your own being. Be indifferent to your mind and your ego. They are not your friends neither are they enemies.

There is nowhere to go. Nothing to be. Nothing to do.

Is this non-duality?

When the labels and logos have gone, nothing is left.

Welcome to paradise, or is this hell? At this point you do not care.

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Posted by steve on Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 11:20 am
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One Response to “The Secret Essence”

joe says:

May 6, 2010 at 5:16 pm

Nothing is as it should be. This world in all its good and suffering arises from ignorance. the non-duality you speak of is merely the nature of all things. When viewed from this perspective all things are perfect, but an individual viewing all things perfect because they are personally free are bound by a subtle dualistic appearance. The dualistic nature appears an individual at peace in a world of people that are not. It cannot be true that our essence is just let it be, it must be a force of change in our world to balance our inner peace with outer manifest peace. People do need our help, minds can be ripened by our words and actions, everything the non-dual human does in the world effects the world, just so many do nothing much as they feel they are done.