Does Non-Duality Conflict with Religion?

A man asks about the compatibility of non-duality and the Abrahamic religions – Judaism, Christianity and Islam – insofar as those traditions call us to address the causes of unnecessary suffering in the world.

Rupert says: ‘Not only is this understanding reconcilable with the essence of these religions, it is the prerequisite for our ability to help the world. The ultimate cause of suffering and conflict is the failure to recognise the one in the many. The only way we can help the world is to bring to it the understanding of the one behind the many.

‘That is the ultimate response and the only effective one for healing. It is really the only ethical guidance we need – to recognise the prior unity of all people, animals and things, and act in accordance with that understanding. It is why St. Augustine, when asked how to behave in the world, said: “Love, and do what you want.”’

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Timestamps:

0:00 Does Non-Duality Conflict with Religion?
1:31 The Ultimate Cause of Suffering
3:00 The Ultimate Healing
4:37 In Service of Truth
5:54 Love, and Do What You Want
6:31 The Only Ethical Guidance We Need

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[BaritoneUkeBeastLife]

Non-Duality is what is left after you peel away the layers of dogma, nonsense and illusion that were created by later generations of religious leaders who didn't understand their own religions. Non-Duality was the original understanding and epiphany of the first Hebrew. They had a flash of enlightenment which led them to the knowing that there is only the one. They had the very same awakening that Buddha, Lao Tzu, and later Jesus had. Non-Duality is the heart and soul of all religions and it teaches that all is one. Non-duality unites, religions divide.

[NoOneAtAll-bzzb]

It is quintessentially what all religions and spiritual traditions teach...we are all God. Hinduism, Buddhism, Esoteric Judaism, Gnostic Christianity, Taoism; not to mention the entirety of all Esoteric, Occult and Magical traditions; Hermeticism, Alchemy, Esoteric Freemasonry...they all teach that we are the Deity incarnate, we are one. As Above, so Below, As Within, So Without...only One, and the One is All.

[quakequake]

It's lovely to see Rupert changing people like Klaus Schwab. God bless him.

[Chingfordassociates]

Iain McGilchrist has a very good take on all this. I'd like to see him on this channel to see not only the points of agreeement but also the points of divergence, I think it would make a very good discussion.

[hoykoya]

Yes. Once you are aware, everything is automatic. You do not need much effort to pull yourself away from the egoic patterns, you will be pulled away by the truth.

[irmabronder]

Religions are all pathways to the Truth. The truth is beyond religion. They all tell the same Truth just in a different way. Aslong as the ego is still alive you won't see that. Non-duality is in every religion. ❤

[dhuhaal]

:( And among His signs is that He created for you spouses from among yourselves, so that you may find tranquility in them; and He planted between you love and compassion. In this are signs for people who think ). Qur’an - Ar-Rum verse 21 . Anas narrated that the Prophet Mohammad ( s.a.w) said:"None of you believes until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself ) .

[youssefalaoui]

Just realize that thinking thoughts is like talking words. They are both activities, not entities.

[jarcauco]

There's no real need to keep engaging in harming and exploiting animals 🍀

[MaartendeJager]

Who wants peace, has to be peace.
And we are, only think we aren't.

[rupertmoon]

The substratum of the one, many and all consciousness. Sovereign and Integral. I am and We are.

[malabuha]

What string theory is to physics, non duality is to religions. Both, compatible yet so incompatible, depending on one's understanding

[ganapati]

I suppose that the answer is no, if the religion in question claims that is the only "true" religion and dismiss the "other". Not only the legitimacy of other religions but the legitimacy of the existance of the other itself and its right to self determinance.
That is what we are facing in front of our eyes in the Gaza massacre.

[simka]

Isn’t that Paul Knitter, the author of “Without the Buddha I Could not be a Christian”?

[sidneysantos]

Amar a Deus sobre todas as coisas e ao próximo como a ti mesmo: quintessência de que somos todos "o mesmo"!

[tedgrant]

We are so lucky to have the god of Israel
Without him, we would have no explanation for the origin of the universe

[tzkwalji]

Wonderful discussion. It's the same discussion been going on for eternity.

[Ishwayana]

When human beings look into the Elohim and the depiction of the religions, it will unfold something quite deceiving. Because honestly, there is nothing but the self discovery of who you are. And within most of the Abrahamic religious belief magnetism they have been translated and edited, quite harshly for the depiction that you as awareness is a separate entity other than yourself whatever is outside of yourself, and then it becomes that most of these religions are simply a reflective cycle. In my opinion. Of course, within the spiritualities and religions, there can be ceremonial and ritualistic attributes, and in the essence of this there can be felt spontaneous powers of this experience. But the vibration of consciousness in the depiction of these elements of vibrations of words that this realm of consciousness hooks into this identity, magnetism of belief, and then it becomes a cycle of hundreds and thousands of years. But the galactic sun is here and cosmologically and intuitionally, and within the dimensions that we are, this whole atmosphere of consciousness is awakening. In the sense that in the cyclic patterns of tens of thousands of years consciousness in the wave links and the frequencies of itself go through these astrological cosmological patterns because we are energy and vibration essentially. And it seems a natural arising of consciousness and its magical cognitive abilities to acknowledge itself within the recognition that it is a self discovery of a self created design that flows. With and as the flow is also that which is the space and you seeing.

[gireeshneroth]

Nonduality deals with the matter of fact state of existence.

[IAMLiamwalker]

Do unto other expressions of your Self as you would have done to this expression❤