What is Non-Duality?

[barkape]

For example a birds wing is directly connected to the sky in which it flies, human legs directly connected to the ground upon which we walk. We are the environment and it is us. There is no self except the larger self that is everything.

[barkape]

...le say it cant be described. That's total bullshit. One can see it just by looking at the human body, or any animal, or anything. Can be easily described and just requires a shift of perception to see it..

[barkape]

I hate when peop

[Taaplari]

Unfortunately I'm so egoic, that what I experience is real enough for me, so sayings like "that car doesn't exist" or "nobody feels headache" are even more unreal then my experience of car or headache. I really believe that (non-existent) Parson is liberated, and those words are true from her perspective, but he is giving pearls to pigs. Anyhow, if those pearls are coming from the right "place", they may have some 'nobodying' influence. Sorry my English.

watch?v=4KXidr0z1RY

[dumbkopf1245]

it happens like when we get hit suddenly by a truck when we cross the road.

[claytonfairn]

The search for the truth of this, is inseparable from the feeling of separation. Any truth you hang on to is exactly what is making you feel like you dont get it yet or that your not free or whatever. just made my first vid check it out! "nonduality and belief"

[rexmundixed]

Non duality is when you shut THE FAWK UP

[HylianSpirit]

There is no Self.

The body is not you, the mind is not you, the perception of these things is not you. There is no You.

The mind is secret and private to nothing, other than itself.

Your body lives itself. The mind thinks itself. You can look for yourself. There is no doing, on do.

Life lives itself.

[Floydfan2250]

Fucking Hippies

[canadajessikanne]

Very powerful, thanks.

[perceptionsevrything]

Non duality is a state of consciousness One can experience at will, but sometimes it appears to be unintentional. It happens when One gives up the Ego, a choice in Ones mind that surrenders measurement, when One realizes it doesn't matter (is of no matter). Forget the labels, forget labeling your life, or labels will be all you make, The idea of non duality is a label. One has the power of "free will" that means to do ANYTHING One desires. WE/ME are changing but the how and why is of no matter.

[IAm010110]

@perceptionsevrything "WE/ME are changing but the how and why is of no matter". Could you please expand on this? I dont understand this part. Thanks.

[perceptionsevrything]

It's a idea WE have been working on for a long time. It's hard to give a name to a non dual theory (having no opposite) but I like Quantum Creation Theory. it's based on my understandings of us being one. I say ME/WE because if you were to put the letters ME in front of a mirror it would read WE. I realized this during Mirror Meditation. WE are One, and WE collectively create our physical world with One's root creative emotion, love/evol=evolve

But this too is of no matter. Thank you/me :) peace

[swingtrade2]

@IAm010110 concept: existence cannot be conceptualized becuase 'it' is prior to thought. therefore 'it is not an object nor subject to time.

what is considered reality is actually the unreal. like a cartoon. flip the pages, characters change positions but nothing actually happens, all spontanious inclucding thought. thinking but no thinker. powerless witnessing.

if no thought, identify the enemy.

[Minan3]

people who do what they do for a reason, can be for someone else, other than for themselves. Hidden intentions are bred when someone doesn't rid the "reason" why they are doing what they do for another. if reason were abolished from behind actions, then duality would cease.

[oxygen88888]

First person : Look at that mountain, it's beautiful.

Second person : Look at that mountain, it's made up of a combination of elements.

Third person : just looking at the "mountain".

[Tengent]

Me thinks of the Daoist's farmer story.

[beeveee]

Shankar the source of Advaita was ordered by Shree Vishnu in the Padma Puranic history of the universe. Lord Vishnu asked that lord Shiva hide His personality and teach that the world is illusion in order to bewilder the materialistic minds. Thus came as a Brahmin Shankar in Kali yuga to teach non-Vedic science of Brahman, completely plagarizing Mahayana Buddhism. However, there is an eternal personal Controller. Surrendering to that One Supreme Person confers grace which reveals the absolute.

[tallismortallic]

@litttlebittt There is no person, there is only non-dual. The person and the duality are both illusion

[tallismortallic]

non-duality always is wether you live dualistically or not. The dual is manifestation of non-duality

[tallismortallic]

Yet at the same time anything said about it is it, as is the person saying it and the person seeking it. duality is nonduality.

[lonedoghowling]

This morning my direction was "Non-duality has no witness." Still I remain. Drunk and despondent.

[StonedOrcs]

Are mind is a thing, and can only understand things. Non-duality is no-thing.

[nowbellhere]

Nonduality is that which contains all experiences, linear time, space, the senses of the body and mind and all thought. However, as the nondual existence there is no time, no space, no sentient experience in it's essence. In nonduality there is only resting as eternal existence. In that place there is only "the peace that passeth all understanding."

[hishorasta12]

one day, feeling furstrated with the whole idea of non duality, I take a walk . As i was walking i kept asking my self what is this? what is going on? who am i ? slowly, everything there including me merged together into one reality. i could no longer see seprate objects; there was one frame. i got so excited, i wanted to rember the way back into this. i wanted to hold to it . soon, there was me there walking on a park trying to understand.

[burmanhands]

What I find useful is to think " I am not a separate object in the universe - everything that happens does so inside me - there is only me." Then see what happens.

Its like dreams, which are only projections of ourselves performing as all the characters in an internal theatre.

Just don't say this to friends or family or you won't like what happens.

[Tackyshot0]

These "interviews" sound like a Gadhafi speech...

[BradBrassman]

Even its exponents cant tell you what it is, because, simply, it doesnt exist. There is only conciousness, and everything else is symptomatic of trying to understand that simple fact. You might as well try and catch smoke.

[superjujujuice]

Who are these folks trying to convince?

[fernandatralala]

Interesting how everybody that talks about non-duality is English... at least as far as I saw here on youtube.... :)

[feriwarlock]

The real question is what is the non-duality of duality and non-duality?

[DinoDoesStuff]

The freudian slip was the word "selling". The quest for some logical truth is big business for the preachers that claim to have the answers. What is so difficult about accepting that we visit this earth once and once only? While here, we have a duty to interact with the rest of humanity in a civilised manner and treat as we would wish to be treated. After that it is an eternity of non-consciousness just like before birth. Your very brief life will be over before making sense of this bullshit!

[swingtrade2]

what exists cannot be conceptuaalized because it is prior to all, including thought. the end

[NondualityAndScience]

nice video

[vajraloka1]

NON DUALITY INCLUDES DUALITY AND PARADOX

[vajraloka1]

NON DUALITY INCLUDES DUALITY AND PARODOX

[BeamSurfer]

Advaita Vedanta is alot like Buddhism, alot like Buddhism

[MrDaleMatthews]

Anyone who knows what non-duality is, is just a person with a story about non-duality. We cannot know this.

[mrcuteblackie]

THis is not true spiritual awakening. Why do these advaita awaken only to the physical, and to the sense of sight? There are many reals, angelic realms, healing, etc, why do they not also perceive this in the oneness? Their own oneness is the dry one with no compassion. Yes, they still have to meditate and work topward compassion, just in the same way as they work and sell books and organize satsangs.

[lestrangemadame]

I've never really found the concept of dualism to be quite accurate. I mean, I believe a better notion would be a something akin to a spectrum, because aside from being happy or sad, you can be nonchalant which resides in between sad and happy. It doesn't have to be viewed black and white, I think there's a grey that's neglected with duality. It's truly a spectrum, but I think most people tend to think simplistically in terms of black and white, and never acknowledge the grey.

[JTmedia01]

Non-duality is ALL THINGS. It is what IS - & what is NOT.All possibility & Impossibility. Both POLES of any thought grasped simultaneously! Beyond judgment. If observing, then it will be seeing all things with & without borders simultaneously. Non-duality can not be experienced yet IS our experience. Even if the human mind catches a glimpse of non-duality, it is then brought back into duality to reflect upon the glimpse. Can an eye open and shut simultaneously? That is non-duality. Gods eye.

[MrDaleMatthews]

@JTmedia01 Hmm I don't think it is what is not. Because what is not is not what is. Unless there is a thought of what is not, then that thought of what is not is.

[adam4810]

@JTmedia01 Yes, I DO love your quote. I believe... if you can call it that.. that you're very correct.

check my videos if yah want.

"Adam", I am that "IS"

[adam4810]

Of any? Of All!

No "Name" is "Truth" of "Any"

[lollolllolllll]

enquiry is spelled "inquiry"

[Forkfoot]

@lollolllolllll It's either/or in this case, actually.

[ravkes]

Well yeah it's indescribable because we don't know anything about it. Ask yourself: What is this life? Who am I? What is going on right now? You will find out that you simply cannot find a definite answer for these questions. Then intuitively you become comfortable with not knowing and start to see things as they are. The chair is the chair, the bed is the bed. Even the thoughts that pop up are just thoughts. They're all just labels for the ineffable; all part and particle of god..

[MrDaleMatthews]

@ravkes I think we should avoid using the word become just because it makes people think "I've got to become this" and put it into the future. When really there is no one to become this, there only is this, and this is not and never will be 'the future'.

[ravkes]

@MrDaleMatthews

yeah man true.. i'd say just meditate and see for yourself?

[shaydemoon]

@ravkes That is what Swamiji also said and many others before him.

[bliss101]

non-duality is not something that just "happens". there can be no "happening" because you already are it. you are awareness which means you are everything. so spiritual seekers stop searching because there was nothing to look for in the first place.

[tobiaslarsgunnar]

tricky here (the mind is very good at it's game of seducing us) 'Advaita' can be used to avoid, deny, separate oneself by saying 'it's all illusion'. The true Advaita - Oneness imo is the full inclusiveness, the way 'God'-Source includes all that is.

[bzel333]

The question "what is non-duality?" is self refuting. If non-duality "is" something, even the color blue of the sky, then it is not something else, like the white clouds in the sky. Therefore there is duality in saying anything about non-duality. You would have been better off by asking the question and then presenting 9 minutes of black silence. But that would be boring.

[Fadedpoetry123]

All activity is from duality. There have to be dualities for any interaction to occur.

[111iAm111]

illusions of duality. its not real in the sense we think it is but i would agree with you

[CommonPurpose1]

its nothing to do with GOD all to do with US we need Duality MAn woman light Dark , Fire Water the barin even works by Swiching we see up side down backwards Brain Encodes it , jsut as left part of barin controls right part of body and so on

[swingtrade2]

ask what am i, and he mind is silent. try it, repeat what am i a few times and pause. no response. why? its because what you are cannot be conceptualized. it cannot be conceptualized because what you are is porior to mind. prior because 'you' experience 'mind.' just like the experience of the 5 senses - you must be prior to have the experience. like a witness to an accidnet must be prior. but you are the witnessing but no witness. you are non object. all verbs are nons. man is an idea.

[AaronMDunn]

nicely put

[mrcuteblackie]

Guys, do not kid yourself with advaita. You were not meant to be a powerless observer. You should ACT.

[Meggool]

But on a level, we do act. anyway. We can't NOT act. Life is action. Right action comes when one moves within the Tao - so to speak. When one is in the flow, right action ariseds from there. for me, that means fighting the good fight - and there are many!

[Ponferrada22]

The question cannot be answered, not that there is a question.

[claudelebel55]

Vedic and not veedic

Ramana Maharshi and not Maharishi

Nisargadatta and not Nisgaradatta

Ramesh Balsekar and not Balseeker

[mrcuteblackie]

Non-duality is the most primitive form of enlightenment. Who wants to be in a state where you just watch and see things go by and you are one with all, but you cannot control anything? No miracles, no material help for the other loved humans? How low!!!. You only talk of THIS, what about the other reals, the ghosts, the daemons, the angels. Do you witnes and watch them also? You only know how to wuitness and watch humans, and the cars, and all that the normal senses can perceive.

[mrcuteblackie]

This nonduality stuff is something being sold. hese people know what sells. If there is this expansion of self and non-duality, why can't they even know what is happening here in London without TV? Not a single miracle from the non-duality community? What a disgrace

[getkat]

Hi there,

You probably meant Yoga instead of Advaita (non duality). Kundalini Yoga is a form of meditation which can give superhuman powers, but since the objective is self realization they do not demonstrate coz the powers mean nothing to them.

There are other forms of yoga which do not give you these powers but you can still attain self realization.

I hope that clears the confusion.

Best wishes,

[mrcuteblackie]

Yeah, you are right. That is what I mean. Why become an observer, when you can do so much for yourself and humanity? And why have a conclusion already about how things are non-dual? Self-inquiry is finding out the truth, whatever the truth is. You cannot find true happiness flowing advaita. It is just a philosophy in which practitioners argue intellectually tp prove their point.

[CelticVoice]

You just dont understand Advaita. Advaita is thousands of years old. It is not a miracle, it is reality.

[mrcuteblackie]

God is reality and God performs miracles. If you devote your life to a philosophy in which you become only a watcher, then what power have you. God has given you all power, to act, to perform miracles, to heal the sick, to become healthy, to get the best woman you want. Here and now. Yes, Advaita is just a philosophy, where they twist every word to mean all is one. Howmany people have truly realized advaita? Their minds are full of concepts,

[Meggool]

Advaita is not a philosophy.

Reality is a miracle.

There is no wanting in the here and now. The here and now is a portal to the infinite reality, infinite presence. Just because few people have transcended duality does not make nonduality unattainable. God is also a concept, miracles are also concepts.

[SelfMinusI]

@Meggool even Here and Now are concepts. With the withdrawl of value projected onto concepts,thoughts, ideas, opinions, judgements, etc, the props of the false 'i' collapse, as does the illusory duality, and ineffable reality shines forth as the Sun when clouds dissolve... meow.

[KarameloKaramelo]

True. Saying to yourself that oh I am awareness is totally paradoxical. There is only 1. No I here, no I there. Agreement is happening here, but there is sort of growth happening after so called 'seeing' or realization and it is seen by no-one. Words are....dual. Poetry is non dual.

[nuttymanyelismate]

God is a concept too. He is only real to the individual if they believe he exists.

If God is reality, Prove it. Where is God?

In the bible God is stated to have said," I am that i am." The one! Meaning not two.

If god is everything then there is no you. You would be god and so would a tree, etc.

Religion is an illusion of the mind, 'like everything else.'

[Zephon9]

nuttymanyelismate. You asked "If God is reality, prove it. Where is God?" So I ask, does reality have a location? Is reality something that can be pointed at? Or is reality both the pointer and the thing being pointed at? You then said "Religion is an illusion of the mind, like everything else." So then I ask, if everything is an illusion, what is it an illusion of? Even if you say that all is illusion, you are implying that there is a fundamental truth behind all illusion.

[Meggool]

But just being is a miracle.

And then there's right action.

[Sueezedtight]

The vibration is the culmination of our intention within the form. Duality allows a field of action for our creativity to establish its potential.

Duality is the existence of the options that are available to us and the motive force behind our conciousness.

Non-duality is the expression of the condensation of our intention.

It is our destiny to repair the rend that the spirit required to allow our descent into the material plane.

Non-Duality is a state of being and not a state of mind.

[souljourney00]

exactly.. it just happens..it's not something 'you' can learn...

[onelove1968]

the bottom line is... don't speak about it. period.

[TomSaunders89]

Who would speak about it?

Wouldn't there just BE speaking about it? And that is allowed?

[Sueezedtight]

The vibratory component of our spoken words contains the complete oscillation of the reality that they subtend. Thus, the duality is entirely contained therein, and only your perceptive awareness limits your ability to conceive of and derive from it's presence.

[jcreamx23]

read nisargadatta maharaj or ramana maharshi if you want to know what non-duality is. the brain doesnt create conciousness, conciousness creates the brain. conciousness is the projector, the mind is the film, and the world is the image. as far as doership and choices, these are all word games, youre instructed to seek out the self with earnest self-enquiry. constant mindful attention on your "i-am-ness".

[hvncb]

this is the "sword" someone said he was bringing: YOU are not...5:53 said it, "no person"

[teamhumanity]

Yes and No

Doesn't so called 'consciousness' choose? One is assuming that the illusory doer has no choice but 'I am' consciousness (or just 'am') and not the illusory ego and therefore I choose...

[taoist77]

re;what is conciousness? Is it not merely accumilated sensory data? Is it not just physical form and nothing else? When you say "I am conciousness", that IS your 'illusory ego!' You have contradicted yourself. Please understand you are the cosmos.

[teamhumanity]

Agreed that the cosmos is expressing itself through the form. One can not be identified with anything as one do not exist. Consciousness exists. Brain exists. Neurons exist. Blood exists. Body exists. You?Consciousness IS. Brain thinks. Consciousness IS. Brain is servant. Consciousness ALWAYS IS no matter what.Consciousness IS. It is not identified with anything. It just IS.

[taoist77]

We draw illusory lines that do not exist, in reality there is no division between 'matter' and 'non-matter.' Reality is one indivisible whole. And there is nothing relative to the whole(nothing exists outside of it). Thus,'Nothing' is infinate.

As for conciousness,as i said it is merely accumilated sensory data(neurophysical activity in the brain). It is conditioned through your 5 senses. your sensory experiences is your conciousness. You looking at this PC screen IS your conciousness.

[teamhumanity]

AGREED

[webley566]

You have no choice but to choose

[Dooality]

I always thought it was understood that consciousness is what is aware of both choice and the one who chooses

[teamhumanity]

Yes and No

Does not the so called 'consciousness' choose? One is assuming the illusory doer as no choice but I am consciousness and not the illusory ego and therefore I choose...

[reflexive9]

Just PLEASE remember that HE DOES THIS FOR THE MONEY!!! He SAYS SO IN HIS OWN BOOK "Invitation To Awaken". He used to be used car salesman. If Tony wasn't paid for his gig we'd see just how quickly his "not two" BULLSHIT falls FLAT ON ITS FACE.

What do you mean that you weren't paid Tony? there is NO doer, therefore NO payer, NO payee

etc.

Secretly, I think that he's jealous of Eckhart Tolle.

Tony doesn't even think that "now" exisits.

[Tino4u]

Hmmm, I see that yoy don´t know him

[SpunkMaster3000]

"Reflexive9"

You've missed the point to such such an extent that i don't even know where to begin.

Tony actually allows people to call him on his house phone (free of charge obviously) to discuss anything you want.

His message isn't people-friendly, surely if he was constructing some sort of philosophy soley with the purpose to make money, this would be the last one he'd choose!

Sounds more like you just don't like the message, so are trying to attack the messenger.

[jkbowman1]

Wouldn't it be wild if we all woke up one day and realized all we'd really been doing all this time was looking in a mirror?

[StingRayAquarium]

dreaming/demon argument, descartes

think of the matrix

[luciditee]

Non-duality is paradox. A Oneness of being and non-being; seemingly displaying dual aspects that are in fact non-dual. Order and chaos are One; more order equals chaos! When we find ourself at one extreme we will simultaneously find ourselves at its 'opposite'! The position we find oursleves as a planet at this very moment in time, with unparalleled levels of order and control yet faced with global environmental chaos, is evidence enough for this! This coin that has only one side!

[luciditee]

There is no doing; doing is an illusion, because there is noone who 'does'... there is only being.

[geodesicks]

these philosophical dumb-fucks make me squirm. non-duality is simply the hypothesis that the material and the spiritual (or objective and subjective experience) are different aspects of the same thing and are convertible. just like the now well-understood non-duality of energy and matter. another way of putting it is: the spiritual emerges from the material, or the material emerges from the spiritual. there is no need for wide-eyed obscurantism to simply state the hypothesis as in this video!

[feenix451]

I can explain nonduality

its simple

it is the one

all emptiness and all form are one, there is no difference

duality is the illusion, thinking that things are separate

be well chris

[Mokkor]

You might change your view about the 'other' after a right hook to the jaw! But the point is, would you BE ABLE to turn the other cheek? I wager neither you nor Parsons would have the "being" to do so, even if you wanted to. Parsons is a flake and non-dualism is quite simply...nonsense.

[charlesdavidhayes]

Oneness to Oneness ... burn seeker burn! I LOVE this expression of Oneness called "tonyparsons."

[nizogar]

I like this way of describing non duality coming from Tony Parsons: "nothing apparently happening"...

[bluelotusdevi]

nonduality is how things are ,it is the nature of reality ..the inseperable union of form and its dynamic nature of interdependent rising or shunyata.. emptiness of inherent existence of self and of phenomena... which have appearance but have no ownbein at the same time

[Mokkor]

If you say "nothing is real", everything becomes permissible, including the worst abuses of the guru market place. In the above paragraph, an unprovable mystification is denying both existential truth - physical experience - and the verifiable results of the scientific method. Where is the empathy for the human condition in this hollow and deadly cold mysticism?

[MaBu888]

Emptiness of inherent existence DOES NOT MEAN nonexistence. Therefore everything IS real. Buddhism is against nihilism because nihilism is not intellectually proven AT ALL. Emptiness, in the sense of what Nagarjuna the Indian philosopher discussed about, is as follows: Things are connected through causes and condicions and therefore their behaviour is predictable. No matter how much anyone misunderstands this, it is still possible to be connected and disconnected with reality.

[MaBu888]

However, in the same way, nirvana and emptiness are ALSO empty of inherent (i.e. supernatural) existence. They are just names for (perhaps hypothetical) phenomena.

[luciditee]

Yes, we can FEEL disconnected; however, even in our 'disconnection', we are One with the whole, and could never be any other way.

[MaBu888]

I agree with that. Thanks for pointing that out.

[niapoetaloca]

who should ask this question dear?

who should ask any question?

aint no questions

just

this.