Nondual Realization is Directly Available to You in Every Experience | Amoda Maa

Nondual realization is not dependent on any practice or method. It is a direct knowing that is available to you, when there is a shift in perspective that sees beyond subject and object. When you stop grasping experience, stop rejecting experience, stop labeling experience, and instead meet reality from presence and openness, this shift naturally takes place and returns you to true nature of mind and being. (An excerpt from a longer discourse given by Amoda Maa at an online Public Meeting, March 2024).
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Amoda Maa offers a profound invitation to all those who wish to embody the truth of awakened consciousness in the midst of everyday life. Her teachings are free of any ideology and are not affiliated with any lineage or tradition. And yet the luminous truth expressed through these teachings is the same nondual understanding at the core of many spiritual traditions. Amoda Maa’s teachings are expressed in a contemporary language, thereby cutting through millennia of patriarchal structure and making them relevant and accessible to all people from all backgrounds and cultures.
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[@maxspecialwyser9598]

Dear Amoda Maa Thank you so much for this teaching. What you teach us is the profound reality. Eternal Being, nonjudgmental Awareness and loving bliss. This Awareness in the deep reality don‘t need Meditation - it is the state of Meditation. Not separeted from our environment - but connected in consciousness with all beings around us. Thank you so much! You are and you speak wonderful! Max

[@gireeshneroth7127]

Mind's dualistic reality is consciousness' itself.

[@matrazke]

Thank you!

[@bradkrupsaw]

Excellent description of non-dual reality. Good job. Thank you.

[@peterse699]

You are always so kind and gentle! Thank you Amoda!

[@freetibet1000]

Non-duality have become the new buzzword on internet and KZbin. Everybody seems to want to talk about and explain the non-dual reality of our experiences. Does these people know what non-duality really means? The nature of true non-duality is such that there can only be one form of non-duality. In that sense it is the ultimate state. The ultimate reality that cannot be partial or experienced in stages. Non-duality is what remains as the only reality when all other descriptions of reality have been examined and found to be false. At that point even the slightest idea lingering in the mind about the concept of non-duality will also effectively prevent it from being experienced or realized. The idea of non-duality will thus become the toughest obstacle towards the realization of complete enlightenment. Only when notions of both duality and non-duality are abandoned can true realization of enlightenment be approached and accomplished. But Hindu practitioners doesn’t know anything about that since they still cling to an array of concepts concerning more refined types of self. Which utterly defeats any attempts to approach the pure awareness that goes beyond both duality and concepts of non-duality. Hindu practitioners does not accept the Buddhist version of Śūnyatā because they are blocked from abandoning the concepts of Athman or Brahma. For that reason they take much pleasure in talking loudly about non-duality as if it could be categorized into a philosophical view or a topic of particular interest. They do not understand that only through the completion of the abandonment of ALL views, including any form of refined types of self such as Athman or Brahman, can awareness begin to approach a state beyond both concepts of either duality or non-duality. Non-dual experience can only mean an experience that is utterly devoid of any object/subject notions. As long as there’s the slightest awareness of an I, me or existence a non-dual experience is still happening but is not experienced as such, even though we may think we’re having a non-dual experience. Non-duality can only be realized when all efforts and contrivances have been abandoned. It can only reveal itself when true and timeless awareness is present as the joining factor between experiencer and the which is experienced. In that state of awareness neither existence - non-existence, self - non-self, athman- anathman are longer relevant. When ultimate reality is revealed it is not seen as yet another view or newly acquired knowledge. It is called Ultimate because it is primordial. That means it is ever present, never absent, never partial, all accomplishing, beyond notions of duality and non-duality. It is never created yet nothing whatsoever appears outside of it. It defies any descriptions and can never be held or grasped. Enlightenment can only mean one thing, -remaining effortlessly in this awareness. It is free of all movements and the principles of karma are not applicable in the ultimate state of awareness. just as ultimate nature never moves the superfluous principles of cause and effect are transcended when the awareness of ultimate reality arises. For a Buddhist this is the only form of enlightenment worthy of its name!

[@dan-andreivasilescu228]

As always, Amoda, thanks to your vignettes🙏😇, I am drawn to presence immediately, thank you, gentle master!

[@stevedawson6979]

How is she a “master”?

[@alanfisher7157]

wow ☺

[@hilkka_nen]

🙏🏻❤️

[@lostwarriorwandering]

Enjoyed listening and found it helpful. Thanks!!

[@dharmainthenorth]

I enjoyed watching this, thank you. Could I ask: would you see meditation or raja yoga as a preparatory practice in a similar way to how it's understood in advaita vedanta? Also, would you accept that for some meditaiton/ raja yoga could lead to realisation? Thanks 🙏

[@AmodaMaa]

Everything is a portal to realization if there is no attachment to the method. Our direct experience of life is the most direct and potent portal. But all meditations and practices can be a preparation for recognizing that. 🙏

[@looopy2u]

This I has never existed as a separate reality.This you has never existed as a separate reality. Hahaha now is total hahaha reality is continuous hahaha mind separation heart now happening life god mystery attempt surrender success failure YESYESYES🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@denizerbulut6391]

If it doesn’t require meditation then what is meditation for?

[@geertmeertens-sk7lv]

Meditation is not something you do, it is what you ARE. The person you identify with is not who you are, it is something you DO. As in any dream. In each and every dream we identify with the person and regard the rest as other(s). Each time it takes awakening to (be able to) realize our mistake. Awaken into the dream called life: you are consciousness in which everything appears, by which everything is experienced, of which everything consists. Consciousness is all there is, as in every dream.

[@tcoopr2]

In answer to your question - yes and no - if you can see the unified nature of that idea (yes/no). 😊. One can learn to be ”meditative” (one’s true nature) but the practice and discipline of ”meditation” is extremely helpful to expand one’s capacity to enter and stay in unified consciousness. Amoda chooses her words slowly and deliberately. Beautiful. But much of nondual awareness is beyond language, in part because language itself can distract as well as illuminate.

[@gireeshneroth7127]

Meditation not in the usual sense of it by sitting with your eyes closed and focusing.

[@jps8678]

Hi. Are you from Finland? Your name maa is in finnish language and it means earth. I like to do heart opening movements and give love to my heart. Is that non-dual? It feels best I've ever felt when I focus on heart. I am in bliss hole day.

[@AmodaMaa]

No Amoda is not Finish. Kavi (admin)

[@widipermono854]

🙏🙏🙏

[@Buddhishgirl]

3:44 what was that bubble appearing on the screen with a thumb down? 🤔

[@AmodaMaa]

It's a feature of Facetime on macs that is activated by hand gestures, in this case Amoda activated it when she moved her hands. It's actually hard to turn off. It wasn't a thumbs down from a participant! - (Kavi - admin)

[@Buddhishgirl]

@@AmodaMaa 😂 funny