Non-Duality Explained in 60 Seconds

Today we discuss Non-Duality. This is a quick guide to those new to the topic, and as such is a major simplification in an attempt to make this a digestible starting point for deeper diving into topics such as Advaita Vedanta, Nonduality and more. Enjoy!
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[@gurudra]

Everything you want to be, you already are. You're simply on the path to discovering it🙏

[@VishuddhaDas]

Truth 🙏

[@taylorsmith4128]

I like your eyes

[@monicaramirez51015]

❤❤❤😊❤❤❤

[@ferrarilaferrari2131]

True

[@hansludwig4732]

Anna Brown explain it very very well and funny

[@marcjacobscontinued9411]

I would go with Nisargadatta on this one (and the freedom of a little adding/misquoting of it, by myself): "Knowing that you're nothing is wisdom, and knowing that you're everything is love. Knowing/realizing/experiencing both simultaneously is the ultimate non-duality".

[@tobik.2849]

Thank you for sharing this resonates so much 🙏🏽🧡

[@andreasrylander]

That's certainly in line with the powerful experience I had in 2012.

[@marcjacobscontinued9411]

@@andreasrylander thanks for sharing

[@pukel95]

The KZbin algorithm brought me here after watching this crazy Taiwanese horrorfilm bout a malevolent deity, “incantation” on netflix, so Im not really into spirituality, although I did click on this video. And while I tried to understand this non-duality concept - I found many aspects of it similar to many insights in modern day epistemology (how we can know the world) and ontology (what exist in this world)- I also frowned a little bit when I heard what he said in the video; and also when I read your comment. Like take the observation that ones self is constructed, fictional, subjective, only is and sees part of the whole and then you say “ that self is fake so actually I am nothing” now comes in mind the famous deliberation of Decartes and we take a look at the “I” in that sentence. The implict statement that there is an “I” which does the thinking and the observation that that “I” is in fact “nothing”, which is a characteristic of this “I”. On itself a paradoxical statement,as all somethings which are nothing are automatically something, namely something that is nothing. Thusly nothing can not exists, for the act or mere existence would make it something. Other way round you could say that this the reason why nothing can exist. It is the only thing that is nothing, for if nothing was something, namely something which is nothing which we all do in fact believe that it is we would have this crazy paradoxical conundrum.😂 damn In one way we could say that the construction, the self or the concept “nothing” are the fictions and everything outside of them is part of reality. Others say that reality is only in our head. The selves and the words, the meanings make up reality. Outside of humans there is nothing in the truest sense.not everything, not even nothing. It is not. There is not even an “it” to begin with. Only from our perspective. Others think differently. XD So to go by your example of this Nisargadatta person. He finds that if there is an I somewhere that thinks it is nothing, that somehow makes him wise? How can an I exist which is nothing, or how can there be an I which is nothing but at the same time wise. And then he goes further by concluding that because this I is a fiction he can be this paradoxical nothing, which erases him from existence, which leaves everything else. Now he says that because there is no I there is only everything. And I am a part of everything, the I that was labeled not existing only a second ago; so consequentlyI am everything; while before he was nothing, now he saying that he is the whole of everything because he is a part of everything. The whole time implicit that there is an I to begin with. It’s so nonsensical. I mean it’s constructed beautifully, of course. Nothing and everything coexisting in the same something. The duality, maybe even trinity in that sentence I mean. someone can be something and nothing at the same time and be part of everything while being nothing, because that nothing is characteristic of everything in the end. And I guess you could call this love, although I would’t. Nothing can’t love; nothing can’t. Nothing not even can’t nothing nothing 🎉 … Nothing = someting But nothing is at the same time the only thing that cant be something everything = nothing Something = nothing = everything But at the same time everything is something because Everything = the totality of somethings that have characteristics and differ from eachother, in human meaning systems I mean. It al contradicts. These struggles with dualistic concepts man. I mean his, Nisargadatta, and your interpretation of his statement are probably way different than mine and there is lots of context flying over my head . But his statement, build in with a dualistic element made me think about the problems that go with duality, so for this I thank you For I now have an headache, Jokes aside I’m in fact now in a different place of thought than then when I started this comment, so I actualy am greatful Maybe this is what a non dualist does? guess I should join u guys. Or maybe I’m way off and just to damn high. Man I don’t now. Go check that movie, bye

[@nastybadger-tn4kl]

Another liar. Its his expectation. Not the truth!

[@willm5814]

I’m glad this type of understanding is becoming available to all 🙏

[@sandeepjayaram9674]

It's brilliant that Ashtavakra conceived of this thousands of years ago. For those interested, do read the Astavakra Gita or Ashtavakra's song..

[@VishuddhaDas]

Absolutely! A magical piece of literature

[@sheepsfoot2]

@@VishuddhaDas Are you Aussie ? and that snake looks like a coastal Taipan !

[@thibautlucas688]

Atempt to sum up non-duality in 5 seconds: - Take the sense of being someone - Remove the 'someone' bit - There you go, that's all there is to everything You're welcome 😀

[@bwackbeedows3629]

And for the sci-fi buffs: We are LCL, before the last five minutes of the movie; all "separate", yet all the same little ripples in the massive orange ocean of existence.

[@nickcarroll8565]

@@bwackbeedows3629id actually describe it in terms of simulation theory. There is only one program, we aren’t really individuals just different programming objects within it, but no distinct from it.

[@bwackbeedows3629]

@@nickcarroll8565 You just said the same thing. We're all from the same set of system resources -- we're just put toward different tasks. Daemons in RHEL, or processes or tasks handled by an OS are just abstractions of the same sets of effort, put toward different goals. The clock cycles used for one service are the same as that for another, just perhaps a bit different in exact performance. Water in a body is no different fundamentally from water in a stream or on the dewy grass of a mountain peak. Some of it has likely been in a human at some point, and anything in us has definitely been in nature, or in another organism at some point in the past. Yet, from... or to... no matter where or who, that water is ultimately all the same.

[@ffolinzeni1060]

There's this movie calleed "LUCY" with Scarlett Johanssen in the lead role that sums the whole thing up. The final resting duality helps us stay "in love" in line with bhakti / devotion for those who can't directly stomach unfamiliar Advaita experience. However, unlike Lucy's initial confusion in the movie, the cosmic Brahman is a state of bliss, rather than the emotionless resignation that Scarlett portrayed. Some of us experience such bliss in fair measure during meditative samaadhi states. For you, me and those who hold on and have trouble letting go. Until Mukti. Until Moksha. Devo. Jai Bhaarat.

[@floralemmens]

I missed your lessons man. So happy you're back 🙏

[@Sj-ps5rx]

❤me too ❤

[@non-ofyo-business3399]

It’s the fact that nature offers us a variety of ways to experience this non-dual experience through (I’ve heard, not experienced myself) deep meditation, psychedelics (which I have experienced myself), near death experiences that makes me believe there is a cosmic mind that wants to communicate with us.

[@kimbirch1202]

I have followed Buddhist meditation practices for many years, and experienced the world as a peaceful dream. I had experiences of being guided by a benevolent spirit, and a deep connection with all life even before any knowledge of any religion, and I was an atheist. A Course In Miracles teaches non - judgment and forgiveness, as well as faith in God. You are right that there are many paths leading to the realisation of non - duality.

[@N72590]

@@kimbirch1202because of this philosophy i got into an existential crisis , and that was horrible,,

[@kimbirch1202]

@@N72590 Everyone is scared of losing their familiar identity, even though it is a false identity.

[@robertjsmith]

@@N72590 hi I would like to hear how you got on ?

[@zachparade2791]

Thanks for this video! I look forward to the future one where you describe the differences in various approaches to non duality. ✌️

[@ferrarilaferrari2131]

We often identify ourself with our body, name, nationality, religion, color but here's the catch....we identify ourself with these things, so it means we are something that is separate and different from these things and once we are free from these physical attributes, what remains is GOD AKA Superconsious and by that time, Our individual identity will be dissolved so we don't even exist (mean to say a person who identify himself with illusions and false images about himself), it is God who is experiencing the life through various different bodies Thank you for this video

[@marcjacobscontinued9411]

Every identification is a limitation.

[@-a-l-t-]

no.

[@-a-l-t-]

@@marcjacobscontinued9411 yes

[@takeuchi5760]

​@@marcjacobscontinued9411 How can something that's not even real be a limitation to the only thing that exists?

[@balachandrank4981]

Do not call it God. It is you. Chant AHAM BRAHMASMI " that which is was will be everything I AM. That is Non duality. When god thing comes we find a line between God and l which is duality.

[@atrayeeroy4501]

Commendable work defining and explaining non-duality. Thank you....🙏

[@OfficialGOD]

Thank you, also you can clear out the horn with audacity open source software, import file > select all > effects menu > noise reduction

[@Molden95]

The example of the rope and the snake really made me understand: you simply look at reality for what it really is

[@patrickhebenstreit3824]

Same here!

[@santhoshgopinath816]

. Namaste Rope / snake is the classic example used in advaita to bring out the error of the appearance of the universe. there are other examples, one that can directly replace rope / snake is 'mother of pearl / silver'. other examples used for explaining other contexts of non duality are - desert / mirage, clay / pot, sea / waves, diamond / washerman, washerman / donkey, the princess of kashi, ....etc... .

[@antonyirvine9338]

And what is it?

[@youarewhatyourelookingfor4496]

@@antonyirvine9338just this ❤

[@georgeshepherd3381]

Everything is one thing.. we construct boundaries

[@georgeshepherd3381]

@Dawson Davis we draw lines on the map... They're not there in real life...

[@tiamelancholyjeoncockity]

Did I just manifested this entire thing? I never knew this was a real thing until now since this video sums up my whole belief and theory in things. Interesting and informative 🤪🙏

[@siamavimbela]

Dropping everything that society says that I am, what a wonderful feeling to meet myself in my 30s I am who I say I am.

[@smiley-qb3nt]

Yeah that's why you have men thinking there women or cats

[@ZCasPlays]

I felt the same way too until right after my 32nd birthday, personality and your personal world is quite the illusion. You are much larger than the idea of yourself people see, so be that and watch the world turn as the observer.

[@siamavimbela]

@@ZCasPlays Love this for you

[@macaroon147]

Is that against the point though? Cause "you aren't "

[@siamavimbela]

@@macaroon147 Everything you want to be, you already are. You're simply on the path to discovering it

[@hussaineh89]

Dear Vishuddha. Your vibrance transcends to me through your aura. Gratitude for blessing my youtube feed today

[@Jesamisus]

Been feeling this deep loneliness lately, a nice reminder that we’re all connected and one.

[@Jesamisus]

@@xn5346 never thought of it that way. Thank you good sir or ma’am

[@allstarxxo]

@@xn5346 or, if we are all connected you are missing a huge part of yourself and when you are united with it you don't feel lonely anymore

[@redpillmatrix3046]

You need to meditation. I suggest transcendental meditation.

[@glennsimonsen8421]

You'll never satisfy loneliness with false teaching such as "non dualism". Get to know Jesus Christ instead!

[@mjohnson5030]

That was a very concise yet comprehensive summary. Thank you very much I enjoyed reading it and hearing it.

[@VishuddhaDas]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@ouisports]

I’ve always defined it with this one simple sentence: You are the only thing that exists in the universe

[@michaelbonanno7476]

Then I’m really messed up lol…

[@my3rs307]

That's more like Solipsism

[@glennsimonsen8421]

Pure Narcissism

[@polygongaming8859]

​@@glennsimonsen8421 It's not Narcissism when it's true.

[@zentex8877]

A thing that exists is living in duality.

[@nathanielallen8993]

I am nothing and everything at the same time , I do and I don’t , and I am and I am not. Trying to define who you are is like trying to bite your own teeth . You are God

[@austin426512]

Atma shatakam of Adi Shankara explains that very well. You can search KZbin on it.

[@dannyboi_663]

Took too many mushrooms once and had this experience. It was an agonizingly slow, repeating loop of everything and nothing for infinity. I would like to erase that memory. Of course that might just be me, but be careful with what you wish for, and stay safe out there.

[@vijayraj-c8j]

well. it took whole his life to learn and teach non duality for Adi Shankaracharya , you explained it in 60 seconds . great .

[@bparcej6233]

I grasp that I’m part of the whole( interconnected nexus of cause and effect), but I clearly recall, as a five year old child, that I am me…a feeling of great discovery. I get that universal human consciousness differs according to individual experiences…and can indeed be clarified to a more original open and receptive state…we can alter our state of being 💫

[@srinip]

Wonderful summary of non-dualism. As you mentioned there are various schools of non-dualism, but in the end, they all have to be one. My one suggestion would be - assuming the intent is to appeal to more than just followers of Vedanta, or even Hinduism in general - is to skip words like "Brahman" or "Maya", or any other Sanskrit technical terms unless there is no translation. Even those words don't exist in the final analysis, so why confuse people who might be new to all this? "Consciousness" and "illusion" are perfectly adequate words, in this example. My own experience has been, in this regard, that the less said the better.

[@marcjacobscontinued9411]

I would go with Nisargadatta on this one (and the freedom of a little adding/misquoting of it, by myself): "Knowing that you're nothing is wisdom, and knowing that you're everything is love. Knowing/realizing/experiencing both simultaneously is the ultimate non-duality".

[@srinip]

@@marcjacobscontinued9411 I see the koan-esque nature of the quote, similar to saying that enlightenment is being awake in deep sleep. It all sounds good, but even so, my own sense is that saying nothing is best.

[@glennsimonsen8421]

Yes, probably better to hide all the words connected to the Hindu caste system as it reveals the awful hierarchy of the birth/death reincarnation cycle. Run as fast as you can away from this!

[@spadeclover7129]

There several non-dual states or attainments in Buddhism like the 8 jhanas, rigpa, the crystal body, neroda etc but I think you’re actually talking about the practice of emptiness.

[@McIntoshYoga]

Dear Follower of the Throat Chakra, This is a very good presentation of non-duality.

[@internationalfortnite9300]

Thank you kindly for your video, I would love to know how you can practice/live in unitary consciousness in day to day life - cheers

[@weareallinthis3668]

“WE” don’t exist but our CONDITION is so real, just remember to breathe y’all … one day at a time

[@mikelisteral7863]

god breathes

[@raakshas5547]

*Please do an interview with Acharya Prashant (a famous advait vedanta and spiritual teacher of india as well as climate change activist). You will get thrilled by his great knowledge*

[@CooSharn]

I find this really scary. How do you guys cope with this kind of thinking? I find it scary because I believe it's true. Does that mean you aren't there? Do we all exist at once or does consciousness only exist in me (or you if you're reading this?)

[@robertjsmith]

It just means YOU are not a separate individual person You are the universe,infinite awareness that you was born with

[@wanderlust72635]

I find myself in continuous conflict with the illusion and reality.. At this point I can't take more, so I have resumed the spiritual journey. Thank you for these ❤

[@mikelisteral7863]

the illusion is your mind

[@rizenlute1452]

Its very much correct ^^ All things are just an image manifested inside a dreams and all living things is just inside a Dream as for Whom the one Dreaming Ask the self? ^^

[@KeturaSaint-Fleurose]

Thank you for this 🙏🏾

[@harmondraws]

I don't understand how you can be so positive about this, it's horrifying to me, I already knew it but it just reinforces it, how can everything be so meaningless and at the same time utter perfection.

[@COFFEEWITHBUDDHA]

I understand exactly what you mean. A nonduality teacher would say that everything is only horrifying and meaningless to your ego. And the ego doesn’t actually exist. A wave is not horrified when it finds out that it’s actually the whole ocean…and the ocean is not meaningless. (Just trying to help here. Love you. ❤️)

[@antimaterialworld2717]

you have good sensibilities mate, its shows you are sane person. Non-duality is just one side of equation. True oneness means simultaneous duality and nonduality. So bassicaly we are eternal individuals and this remains eternaly fact. Even after liberation. Difference is that in perfected state there is love of God. Becouse in love two are like one.

[@marcjacobscontinued9411]

@@antimaterialworld2717 I would go with Nisargadatta on this one (and the freedom of a little adding/misquoting of it, by myself): "Knowing that you're nothing is wisdom, and knowing that you're everything is love. Knowing/realizing/experiencing both simultaneously is the ultimate non-duality".

[@antimaterialworld2717]

@@marcjacobscontinued9411 we are neither nothing nor everything. Practicaly we are small part of whole. If we are disconnected from God then we are like nothing, but if we connect to God we realize our full potential. But that does not mean we become everything. Part never become whole, altouhg if it serve the whole he/she got full advantages.

[@marcjacobscontinued9411]

@@antimaterialworld2717 thanks. ".....we are neither nothing nor everything...." I kindly disagree. YOU know/think/experienced that you're neither nor. I merely quoted Nisargadatta's idea about duality I liked. ".....Practicaly we are small part of whole...." I'm sorry. Don't want to be a wise guy, but that surely sounds to me as something, "..we are small part of...." "......... If we are disconnected from God then we are like nothing, but if we connect to God we realize our full potential...." Kind of what Nisargadatta said to be honest. Our 'full potential' is understanding the connection (between you and nothing and everything). Is our 'full potential' "something" in your opinion? ".......But that does not mean we become everything. Part never become whole, altouhg if it serve the whole he/she got full advantages......" I experienced differently, and I feel Nisargadatta as well. So is "god" whole? I mean, when a "part" (like you) connects to god, does he/she/it becomes more whole or is that connection meaningless. If one keeps serving that "whole" one can never really connect to it in my opinion.

[@837haja]

Brahman. Bliss. Stillness. Eternity. Nucleus. If you go to far into it, you merge with it and don’t come back. That’s as far as I have gone.

[@837haja]

@@aa-io9jq I don’t know the intangible, only the tangible. That oneness was tangible, only because I put one foot in. If I put the other in, I wouldn’t be here, so I wouldn’t know. Maybe there is distance, I don’t believe so, I believe we go our separate ways, each one of us every given moment.

[@837haja]

@@aa-io9jq do you get what I’m saying though? There is movement, that’s what creates life. Or what you probably call an allusion or Maya. It felt like I was moving upwards, but not of the left or right half of myself rather the middle. But my experience is just detail and detail is different for everyone.

[@antonyirvine9338]

If you don't come back then where did you go? Are you not here right now? What is the "I" that goes somewhere?

[@sunnypsyedup2426]

All is one. Love you brother

[@VishuddhaDas]

Much love!

[@phoenix-wc5vx]

Infinite reflections of ONE being 💖

[@mobiustrip1400]

Interesting! I am often amazed by the many strands and threads and the many teachers out there. Some, like Elkhart Tolle, just kind of bore me, but others, such as Alan Watts, blow my mind up.

[@AkasHYadaV-tw3zu]

Only j krishnamurti give straight answer

[@SJ-zo3lz]

@@AkasHYadaV-tw3zu Watch Swami Sarvapriyananda. He is the best.

[@ganeshshukla1284]

Brother how can I listen to Alan Watts

[@Invoker-10000]

@@ganeshshukla1284 search on youtube

[@JustAWatcher73]

Osho is the best teacher.. Peace!

[@salparadise8581]

So if its all maya, then perhaps the snake and the rope are not so different

[@ordermind]

Perhaps the real snakes are the friends we made along the way.

[@antimaterialworld2717]

that analogy has big problem. In order to mistake snake for a rope, there must be real snake. Otherwise how we got mistaken? So that means that there is diversity and individuality also in Brahman and Advaita is just half-truth.

[@JJK]

Has anyone experienced depression after awakening? I awakened 2.5 years ago and have been coping with depression and feelings of meaninglessness of everything. I am now starting to realize that ultimately nothing truly matters in the end, but in this world of form we must have a job that makes enough money, maintain relationships with friends and family, exercise and eat well so our bodies are healthy, etc. Any tips on coping with these feelings of depression?

[@SuperEmilyVictoria]

Sorry to hear. I feel as though being depressed means you perhaps didn't actually awaken. You say you're experiencing meaninglessness - but if life feels heavy you are still attaching meaning and importance to material reality. It is meaningless, a show of light, an illusion- take a light touch and have fun! It can mean whatever you want it to. You are powerful! Look into the Law of Assumption.

[@glennsimonsen8421]

If you're listening to this video you may have adopted a false world view where there is no ultimate truth. Where the goal of eventually stepping off the wheel of samsara brings you to "what remains after the snuffing out of a candle". What could be more depressing? But Jesus Christ IS the Truth! A life in Christ ultimately gives you everlasting Life and unbounded Joy with the Creator of all things in the universe. I implore you not to pass up this most amazing and fantastic offer!

[@andreadybvik]

Thank you for making it short and sweet! ⭐

[@kevido]

My understanding is that nondual or "not-two" does not mean "oneness". The ultimate reality is oneness, yes, but there is also the conventional reality which is also real. It's living within both of these views, not landing in either one, not-two. Form is emptiness, emptiness is form

[@levlevin182]

One is connected to all. Be happy.

[@jewelflanigan135]

This is so much fun! I watched you many years ago and only recently have thought, I wonder where he is and what he now is doing. Here this pops up.

[@pareshprajapati7916]

Two is one One is none None is nothingness everythingness eternal infinite Thank you guruji Jai gurudev Ram Ram ji

[@rebeccahughes8267]

Ram Ram Loved this !! Great 60 seconds

[@beerman204]

There is A truth to non duality, but there is also A truth that I exist as a distinct human being with a history and life all my own...

[@mikelisteral7863]

where are all your memories stored?

[@lancialonginus]

The so-called object (things that exist in parallel to us) is really the subject of our being (the substance of our existence/experience). Hence two are actually one (non-duality).

[@mikelisteral7863]

objects? you mean shapes?

[@playitcool1963]

holy shit im not necessarily new to this stuff haha but you put it in such clean cut terms i love you.

[@tomd1434]

I try and see myself as energy and conscious awareness which uses a body to get from one point to another. I’m starting to think that’s actually what I really am and that everything else is like ornaments on a Xmas tree or something. Who knows lol.

[@aisthpaoitht]

You nailed it. I believe that I = energy = life. When we exist as newborns our experience with matter is zilch, so discovering that we can wiggle a hand is incredible. Now we take that for granted that it is "our" hand, but really it's no more ours than any other piece of matter.

[@glennsimonsen8421]

Babies can wiggle their hands, kick and roll weeks before their birth.@@aisthpaoitht

[@iloveubcuziamu]

I'm glad you're doing this

[@wesleywardrip6366]

But human nature is all about duality. We are born with negative and positive thoughts, reactions and emotions. And at the end of the day, we decide our own fate. Destiny is not real

[@amr8457]

Negative and positive are the same thing. Like hot and cold are as well. Just descriptions of *temporary" conditions at opposite sides of the spectrum. But it's just temperature (hot and cold) for example. It's the "law of one" preached by Hermes. In part at least. It has other applications and interpretations to be realized. Traditional teachings have been compromised by Zionism. So certain organizations have rotted from the inside like the great lions corpse.

[@karimshariff7379]

An excellent and concise summary.

[@donnydread7631]

Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream. Marly, marly, marly, marly your life was just a dream. 🙏🏼

[@zentex8877]

Merrily.

[@rcsmit]

Recorded in India?? :)

[@VishuddhaDas]

Yup! 🙏

[@indipacifician3693]

Dandavat pranam to you

[@jonsmith4669]

The TM technique is an easy simple practical way of knowing the Original nature without having to believe anything..

[@obscureesoteric7213]

Me and a friend had a long conversation about duality and nonduality. I tried explaining that nonduality could exist without duality because it does, but he thinks they coincide almost but not quite like Ying and yang. He acknowledges that nonduality is the entire symbol not just the two sides but said there would be no symbol without the duality meaning nonduality cannot be, and that's where I disagreed. What do yall think?

[@santhoshgopinath816]

. Namaste 'One is everything' is a very good sutra (aphorism). Thank you. 🙏 .

[@kaelan4509]

I'd rlly like a series or some videos covereing basic concepts people learn on Psychadelics

[@darkcylander]

This is why I have trouble getting behind all the "I identify as this" or "I identify as that" that there is so much of these days.

[@wordscapes5690]

You are confusing duality with social convenience. Do not bring personal social aversions or attractions into this, please.

[@nitishness]

Kindly also update the detailed one

[@VishuddhaDas]

Will do 🙏

[@nitishness]

@@VishuddhaDas iam from Chandigarh and want to meet NARAYAN

[@wizardofb9434]

Good explanation. Precise.

[@lollxxd6141]

Thank you

[@ellisdee2013]

Thanks. I saw one of your videos recently talking about non-duality and I wasn't really sure what it meant.

[@Kentavious444]

So basically it is the difference between our experience and the energy that fuels the experience?

[@joelyazell7380]

Even in your direction you speak of duality in the separation of beliefs. Your way is one,in those you speak to is another. So the understanding of self is the only way to one. Your doubt of self,believes they do too.

[@ultimatemeaning]

Ask difficult questions of your teachers, do not accept what is taught merely out of veneration but analyse with the razor of discernment and come to know the truth for yourself.

[@BeALiteU2urself]

Non duality is at the most another belief/philosophy

[@Lori_g70]

Without duality there is no non duality

[@BeALiteU2urself]

@@Lori_g70 agree.eternity is something beyond human intellect

[@richardcarter9107]

What is so funny is when I was about 10 years old I was with my family and it was dark leaving a driveway "in the woods" that had a gate. I would get out and shut the gat and hang the rope around the top of the gate. I had a flashlight but I knew exactly where everything was so I didn't have it on. I reached to grab the rope and I thought it felt different. I stood there feeling it for about 4 or 5 seconds and then I turned on the flashlight and there was a small Garter Snake hanging from the rope. It didn't bite me, and my dad caught it and my sister was holding it and it bit her. Then we let it go. So everytime I hear this classic example of Maya I always laugh, because it is just so funny how things work out. We may see a snake where there's actually a rope...and sometimes it can even be a snake and a rope. Lol.

[@atrayeeroy4501]

What a coincidence! Had fun reading your story. Ifeel like adding that in his book Vivekchoodamani, the famous Shankaracharya says that what we have made of this world in our mind is like a snake, holding on to it and all the attachments make us miserably unhappy....while in Truth it is only a rope. So my friend, we need to stick to Truth to remove our miseries....Be happy. Thanks for sharing your story.🙏☺️👏

[@MusingsFromTheJohn00]

Where are you getting the definition of Dualism from?

[@1422hi]

Woah that edit where ur face turned to cosmos is similar to what I see as us

[@Lucus11-11]

It’s unexplainable without creating duality.

[@Lucus11-11]

@@aa-io9jq exactly, even non dual is an idea.

[@Lucus11-11]

@@aa-io9jq hole as the ultimate reality being firmly in the hear and now everything else is just thoughts or maya that’s how I understand it. Have you see the peaceful warrior?

[@mountainwizecoaching2693]

I disagree that our perception is not fundamentally real. I believe that there is a manifested and non manifested truth. Otherwise why do we exist in the 3rd dimension?

[@ashleysmashley444]

What if I have come out of your body multiple times and merged back into source consciousness, so I am aware that the sense of the separate self, or “the doer” is an illusion. However I have yet to actually embody that in everyday life. Can I just quit trying to make things happen since none of this is real anyway or do I have to keep pretending like I’m real?

[@cagatay8823]

Did I understand it right ? Everything is one in non duality but in dualism everything is seperate? I don't know anything yet my uncle talked about dualism a few weeks ago. Can dualism and non duality exist at the same time? Or is it that one of them must be true?

[@blackandgold676]

I'm curious, Why the nose ring or tattoos? Is that not paying more attention to, or flattering of, that which would increase our sense of duality?

[@glennsimonsen8421]

It's all about the clicks and chicks.

[@andyrevo8081]

The snope was always a rake and Don Nuality is a cool band name.

[@phk2000]

All is ONE - there is not two! But to experience this what do you do? For years I’ve given this lots of thought I’ve listened to speakers, to what they’ve taught. Then something hit me, right in the face, It’s all to do with what we call space! The universe is infinite - goes on forever you see. Hubble and James Watt give us pictures for free. Those photos are magic and pull at the heart Gazing at them is where you should start. There’s planets and stars and galaxies and such But that’s only 5 percent - which isn’t that much. The rest we ignore, which is our big mistake, Because we’re missing 95% of the cake! We all want harmony, oneness and love - The secret’s around us, down here not above! Yes the truth is staring us right in the face To experience ONENESS include the space! So make this your mission - your daily goal And with a permanent smile you’ll truly feel WHOLE! It’s all in the oneness (love’s the same thing) Get it in your heart and it will sing! The truth is staring you right in the face To experience ONENESS include the space!

[@thomasschon]

This is how I imagine it. no pun intended. 😃 Nothing exists, and we are merely an illusion of the dissonance that emerges when something believes itself to be separate from itself, which is nonexistence.

[@traceym4590]

Love that explanation of the snake & rope!

[@antimaterialworld2717]

that analogy has big problem. In order to mistake snake for a rope, there must be real snake. Otherwise how we got mistake? So that means that there is diversity and individuality also in Brahman and Advaita is just half-truth.

[@sijajlum1234]

It's directly from the Upanishads

[@austin426512]

@@antimaterialworld2717 you mean mistake rope for a snake… that is an example and don’t take it literally and dissect it. Just like the example, the Brahman appears to us as this world with as objects with name, shape and characteristics

[@antimaterialworld2717]

@@austin426512 yes like that, sorry. But anyway that analogy is good, but implication is bad. How can Brahman appears with characterstics if it would be originaly without it? WHere would those characteristic comes from if not from Brahman if there is nothing else then Brahman. So that is my point. How we can mistakenly think that something is snake would be non-existent. SO conclusion is that objects which we percieve are transient and illusory, but they are reflections of real objects.

[@DiceDecides]

but isn't it all mind-games, everyone is clearly a seperate entity, i cannot just say i am one and start experiencing life from my brother's mind. Sure i can imagine it but thats more a delusion than direct experience.

[@emterry2519]

That's why you should be more interested in your direct experience than just the idea. In non duality we don't care about beliefs or ideas, we care about actual experience. Good teachers will always tell you to never just take just take their word for it, but to actually discover and experience this truth yourself.

[@groak7395]

If us and every other animal, planet, star, and galaxy all came from the same space dust arranged in different fashions, how different are we really?

[@VishuddhaDas]

The idea of 'clearly' being separate is merely an idea. The same way a 'clearly' happy person can be suffering from depression within. Our eyes and even mind often deceive us, so discernment is key to finding the truth.

[@maxhutchinson6425]

@UClyvBwlcwTwkFM4WcgfpqeA I think it’s best described as a trap of language really, it’s language we use to separate ourselves from the world around us, the same way that it’s only through language that your surrounded by walls and doors and cushions, by applying different terms we create separation, the same way that attributing I and you to us separates us. Obviously, it’s not something that you can actually abandon; definitely not if you plan to take part in society which you definitely should do, but in meditation and clearing the mind occasionally you can remind yourself that the world we describe isn’t actually what is. And that can make everything a lot less stressful and a lot more joyful!

[@DiceDecides]

@@maxhutchinson6425 that makes a lot of sense actually, we can have a wooden floor and a wooden wall but look at them in quite seperate ways because of terms "floor" and "wall". So i suppose since everything we know is composed of atoms we only label things based on certain configurations. In conclusion... we're only as seperate as a lego house is seperate from a lego bridge.

[@snakedogman]

This would be totally incomprehensible to anyone not already familiar with non duality and spiritual concepts, stories and language.

[@PlatinumMan22]

How does one grapple with exsisting, realizing that this may be infinite and may never end. And that everything is happening all at once. Infinity being a point rather than a line. Suffering infinite love infinite, everything that is capable of happening will and has already happened and will continue to do so for all eternity

[@glennsimonsen8421]

Or you can go with science which says there was an absolute beginning to Space and Time around 14 billion years ago.

[@starfish3108]

Good job, Happy Thanksgiving 🙏🏽🙏🏾🙏🏾🇰🇳

[@ash9x9]

Very Concise! One Ques: Who founded this advaita philosophy, any idea? Per my findings, it was about 800 BC. Thanks!

[@Kianquenseda]

There is only one everything

[@Rylie123]

Then what's the point of living as multiple one points if we all live in illusion?

[@Lenny-u3x]

Then who are you talking to? Aren't we souls? Will we find lasting happiness?

[@bjscorpio4041]

If there's non-duality then why do you have to explain it to others? Isn't that a duality between you and the viewer?

[@arushigaur7208]

Because it is non-dual that's why it can be explained and understood. Otherwise it would have been impossible to explain and to understand even.

[@theyoungmind9897]

I have a (hopefully) quick question. Non-duality says One is All. But then even an awareness of a deceptive thought is a direct awareness of the One. To say it is not is to either say there is something (I.e., a thought which is a real experienced phenomena) which is not the One, or to say that even if it is a direct experience of the One, it is not a direct experience in which we are cognitively aware of the Oness (lest we would not have such a deceptive thought). Any clarification would be great ❤

[@joefox9765]

I think therefore I am

[@gismosfinalform2031]

To my understanding the mind is emerging from non-duality and is the basis of all thought and thought-forms, even those of a lesser quality.

[@theyoungmind9897]

@@gismosfinalform2031 exactly. Which would of course imply that our thoughts, even the deceiving ones, are likewise essentially the ‘One’ and thus it would be (at least in principle) possible to come to full awareness of the One by observing even deceiving thoughts. This of course would mean we need not get “outside of thought”. A further question pops up though. If we mean by ‘awareness’ “the knowledge/understanding/recognition of something” then of course we must make use of concepts and thus thought is intrinsic to having an awareness of the One (not outside but necessarily within thought). If, rather, we mean by awareness the pure non-conceptual experience then this is achieved even in having a deceiving thought of the self but is merely not recognized (since this thought is essentially still ‘something’ and thus the One). There would have to be a middle path where there is clear cognitive recognition without the use of concepts but this is not possible (for something to have epistemic status it must be conceptually subsumed. See, e.g., the work of wilfred sellers).

[@sofia.d6987]

@@theyoungmind9897 Btw, awareness is not understanding bc understanding is a thought and thoughts come from the mind,it's more so innerstanding I'd like to say it, it's the Knowing u feel deep within yourself but the mind will question the knowing ofc,for instance you just know you're going to get something u really want today but you can't explain how u know it bc again explanation is also a thought, awareness is also the stillness u can feel it but u can't explain it, if ppl are still trying to understand Beingness or how to Be then you're doing it wrong...just to share what ik tho😊

[@ambiguousgh0243]

@@theyoungmind9897 you're correct, the goal should be to be aware of these thoughts without identifying with them. They are also part of the One as you say

[@kyudieu9870]

Sounds like a psuchedelic exp to me

[@clashtest7570]

Pranam 🙏 Thankyou for the video. Nevertheless I have one question in mind. If there is only Pure Awareness or Brahman, then how could we identify with ignorance. In other words, how come I am in illusion when I am the Brahman or just I am. Brahman does not fall in Ignorance. Who is in ignorance? To whom is this ignorance casted away when light of knowledge dawns on? To whom does the knowledge dawn upon and who is liberated when in Truth there is neither bondage nor liberation? Could you please help me understand it. Thank you

[@morispanchoo9180]

braman veiled himself into a human being to hv different experiences as there is only ONE

[@sijajlum1234]

reflected consciousness or chidchaya gives rise to jeev bhav which is under maya, like moons refection on a bucket filled with water it may look like the moon but it's mainly a reflection

[@Natashaz48]

Sat Chit Ananda 🙌🏼

[@tobik.2849]

Great video! thank you 🙏🏽🧡

[@SlushTV]

But it's not really a philosophy is it? It's more like direct experience

[@normancherry8732]

I have come to see all teachings that are divisive in their nature as being unhelpful to the cause of enlightenment, what I mean is; if one teaching originates in a particular form, is that form true and if so, that it becomes followed by other forms which transpire from it and differentiate from the original form, does that not create further confusion in all of the forms produced? Whereby the "too many cooks spoil the broth" analogy comes into play and leaves everyone to constantly wonder... am I on the right track of the many tracks available or am I on the wrong track and wasting my time, energy and being to discover nothing in the end or at the least to be deluded? But I always wondered about this since the age of seven after being told by the Catholic church that it was the one and only true church with the one and only true teaching (which was obvious really) but at seven years old, what do you know? yet I asked myself the question, "if we were the one and only true church with the one and only true teaching, then why don't all the other church denominations join us and receive the true teaching?" that makes sense doesn't it? well it did to a seven year old. Ofcourse, you don't have answers at such a young age, so it took another 30 years when one day, that old question returned to me, (by this time, I'd long left the Catholic church) and on this occasion I figured out the answer (because my mind by this time was obviously fully developed enough to deal with it) which was that the reason the other Christian church denominations didn't join us to receive the true teaching was because they were teaching their children that they each were themselves the true church with the true teaching, voila! So the anomaly in all of this is that every denomination together was holding back the truth by their divisionalism, the ultimate example given in all religions that they're all in a dualistic cocoon that none of them can break away from due to their stubbornness in remaining in their individualist practices of the same order, so they effectively restrain their own beliefs from being active by their divisive continuity! something a seven year old can understand which they can't, that's a thought isn't it? So what belief system exists today that is not of a non dualistic teaching if they're all being dualistic via their teachings?

[@0Fallacy]

Yeah but I don't know what dual means so how can I know what non-dual means

[@waltershumer4211]

Isn't this just positive nihilism? Doesn't it remove all meaning from life? Who cares if i or any of my family and friends live or die it's all a dream after all? Success and failure? All the same. Isn't this escapism? That said ,I understand that non-dualism is true at least materially and technically speaking. But that doesn't change the fact that it feels empty and meaningless. Thoughts?