What Is Non-Duality?

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The Term Non-duality is becoming a commonly used term. But what, specifically, does it refer to? What IS Non-Duality?? In this video we touch on the more common usage of the term as a description of a teaching style (Neo-Advaita), and then get very specific about what the term refers to in the realm of awakening and deepening realization. As Always, I do some direct pointing to give you an experiential "taste" of the flavor of non-dual. In future videos I will go into much more detail about the insight and specific approaches to clarify it.

[jamesthomas]

Recently, deeply listening to sounds coming from my bedroom window became like an endless pool of cool-warm sound or energy embracing, enveloping and dissolving me. There was only this indescribable and intimate beauty of liquid flow (words can't describe). Funny thing is, is that it this was not the sounds of Mozart, a babbling brook, birds singing, or the song of wind dancing with leaves; it was near and far cars, trucks and motorcycles.
When I was young I really liked the band Traffic. Has a whole new meaning now ;-)
Thanks for your pointing, Angelo. Really appreciate it.

[branimir]

It's so true, what you have just shared. The glimpses of emptiness were there before the awakening. It took a few months to become a direct, undivided "experience". At first, it felt a bit odd, but now all good and peaceful. Thanks for sharing this, great videos and pointing:).

[TrineWilhelmineRnnevig]

I love your videos! I love listening to you! Even if I find some of this difficult to grasp I want more!

[LeftTheMatrix]

Your answer to Dr. Muhammad- “you reappear as the entire environment “ - yes- this is “my” experience. Heart overflowing w all the beauty of being moved to action but w/o a “doer”. Signed up for a local silent retreat to sink into this lived experience
w/o a lot of mind distractions. Besides the sense gate practices, any suggestion Angelo on how to make best use of such a rare block of time for practice? 🙏

[SuperManorcat]

Nice to be so succinct and clear and direct in just a few minutes. Bravo!
So, when there is a clear visual, audial, sensorial and energetic sense of subject object losing their discreteness, but not a full out "merge with the world" in pure oneness happening, what would you encourage for a potential next step?

[davidhughes]

Great stuff mate. It's more obvious than any object in front of your face. Yes it is. I am happy to have found you on youtube. There is a dearth of non-duality teachers. Its great to have another teacher, another way of explaining no-self, emptiness, non-duality. I look forward to watching every one of your videos. I awakened to my true self (consciousness) about a year ago. My sense of self as the person vs as the I AM comes and goes over time since this enlightenment event as does the nirvana or bliss which is associated with it. I am working on keeping up my perspective as everything and no-thing not falling back into believing i am a seperate person. Thank you for this video xoxoxox

[brshek]

For now, the undivided reality can get interrupted with "Oh, there is stuff arising and I need my identity to cope with what's coming" (even if analytically it is clear that every single word in that sentence is a fabrication). Or I fall asleep and wake up to a thought storm. And what feels "unfair" is that nonduality is so tolerant and allowing of duality - while duality does not reciprocate :-) :-)

[DanielleM-yrdi]

Is it normal for our minds to wander a lot when being exposed to these topics. I can’t pinpoint what it is, but I have trouble focusing and have to watch half a dozen times. Probably because I’m trying to intellectualize it and get hung up and then latch on to another thought. Also the sound quality on this video is great! See u in Monterey over Halloween 🎃💜

[naeemchak]

Thanks for explaining it. Your interpretation of non-duality seems very similar to a very popular idea in sufism. This is called wahdat-ul-wajood, which means that the whole reality/existence/being is one. In 9th century, a very popular mystic was sentenced to gruesome death after he publicly claimed that "I am the Truth". I am wondering if your interpretation and this idea of wahdat-ul-wajood are the same things. Is it something like, since I am a drop of water in the ocean, but in a certain sense, even though I am a drop, and claim that I am the ocean.

[MrCas-fqkt]

Non duality is a duality concept, because you believe that there is both, duality on the one side and non duality on the other side...

[rulamazigi]

It sounds like non-duality is the realization of no self, yes? So if I stop and attend to what’s in front of me it’s clear there’s no distance and no division. But even then there’s a subtle feeling of a subject. That feeling of being a subject in a world comes back fully the moment attention is distracted again. In your language this is not non-duality or no self right?

[dazzlingchick]

I know this but…yikes not the way in explaining or is it? As an Ivy League educationed receiving person which means Nothing!!! I Am Nothing but I Am Everything.♥️

[MsCankersore]

Undivided reality you say?? Is there a video or can you make one where you give reasons why this is. You mention that it’s all a construct like the sound of your voice being emitted through is something that’s created by my mind but don’t actually go into the why?

[wagfinpis]

I think I was starting to understand the term nonduality until 1:30 and he started puking out a bunch of gobblie-guck out on me.