Challenges of Living the Truth in a World of Duality: Navigating Everyday Life with Deeper Awareness

Even though one understands and continues to know more and more about the nature of non-duality, it seems tricky to implement it into everyday life. How do you suggest living the truth on a daily basis, especially in such a world of duality, with love and gratitude?

Yeah, it's tricky, eh? Because once you begin to go deeper and deeper into this, you're then living and working in a very separate society that has no language for this. If you lived in the East, there would be a language for this. Everyone would have a language for this, and it’s so prevalent in those societies. Well, not everyone – I say these extremes sometimes, you know? I mean, a lot of people, yeah.

Whereas here, you know, it's now becoming a bit more well-known, with things like mindfulness or the idea of positive thinking. But the truth of this subject is so hidden. So, you know, there's going to be a movement away from this society. There's more than likely going to be some form of withdrawal from it.

Because, you know, going out and socializing with people who are totally identified with their dream is crazy-making. You're like, "This isn't real. How can I relate to this person who's completely lost in their dream of themselves?" There are many stages, you know, where you try to gaslight yourself or talk yourself into it because there's attachment to that old world, to society, and to people. But there's going to be – like there is a breaking away from yourself – a breaking away from others, and a movement into complete aloneness, which is very scary from the personal perspective. But from the absolute, it's home.

And when that happens more and more, you're still going to have to maneuver in society. But there will be more detachment from it, and you'll learn more tricks on how to deal with it and how to maneuver around it. But it's not easy. I had this shift 12 years ago, and before that, I had lots of awakenings. And still, there is working out how to live in this society. Yeah, it's very identified, you know.

Some teachers, they would say a beautiful practice to do is seeing God in everything. So, you go to a supermarket, and there are lots of suffering people around you, lost in illusion. And there's the practice of seeing that every movement they make, every bit of anger and gesture, is God – is the divine
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Even though one understands and continues to know more and more about the nature of non-duality, it seems tricky to implement it into everyday life. How do you suggest living the truth on a daily basis, especially in such a world of duality, with love and gratitude?

Yeah, it's tricky, eh? Because once you begin to go deeper and deeper into this, you're then living and working in a very separate society that has no language for this. If you lived in the East, there would be a language for this. Everyone would have a language for this, and it’s so prevalent in those societies. Well, not everyone – I say these extremes sometimes, you know? I mean, a lot of people, yeah.

Whereas here, you know, it's now becoming a bit more well-known, with things like mindfulness or the idea of positive thinking. But the truth of this subject is so hidden. So, you know, there's going to be a movement away from this society. There's more than likely going to be some form of withdrawal from it.

Because, you know, going out and socializing with people who are totally identified with their dream is crazy-making. You're like, "This isn't real. How can I relate to this person who's completely lost in their dream of themselves?" There are many stages, you know, where you try to gaslight yourself or talk yourself into it because there's attachment to that old world, to society, and to people. But there's going to be – like there is a breaking away from yourself – a breaking away from others, and a movement into complete aloneness, which is very scary from the personal perspective. But from the absolute, it's home.

And when that happens more and more, you're still going to have to maneuver in society. But there will be more detachment from it, and you'll learn more tricks on how to deal with it and how to maneuver around it. But it's not easy. I had this shift 12 years ago, and before that, I had lots of awakenings. And still, there is working out how to live in this society. Yeah, it's very identified, you know.

Some teachers, they would say a beautiful practice to do is seeing God in everything. So, you go to a supermarket, and there are lots of suffering people around you, lost in illusion. And there's the practice of seeing that every movement they make, every bit of anger and gesture, is God – is the divine