NONDUALITY- PARTS ONE AND TWO (AFTER THE ROMANCE, THE DISHES)

NONDUALITY PART ONE- THE ZIP ZANG AND ZAP OF IT ALL 

What a great romance, a topic, as one endeavours to look at the books and speakers, the circuit,- the satsangs and darshans- eastern and western and eastern meets western and so forth. How interesting the intellectual side and understanding, - and how full of wonderful energy and at the same time bountiful vacant essence, - or a Source from which all things stem and blossom and are continually borne. To resonate with this speaker or that, - this text or that. Ah. Great! Nonduality. Something that finally explains that full and complete oneness,-and it is all true, - it is not trying, for the most part, - to sell a seven step program on how to change yourself or the world! One can veritably fall in love with non-duality, in a sense- and that is not a sham either- because it is pointing to the love that is all and everything and nothing and that the mystics, seers, sages, adepts, and even adrenaline junkies and the rest all seek. To live in that! - Awakening after awakening. To be ‘informed’ by this sublime grace. Yes. Yes, yes, and yes.

NONDUALITY- PART TWO- LISTEN TO YOUR MAMA NOT NO ADVAITA VENDANTA 

But what is the rub? Is there a rub? Yes. Like anything, it can become a dogma, a rule of

thumb, a norm. Though subtle, refined, and almost imperceptible, it can become a crutch and a theory, - something that is ‘thought’ or even ‘felt’ and not lived. A true nonduality would forget about nonduality and dive right back into the dualistic world (because that is where we live and find ourselves) - and roll up the old sleeves and help as best we can. We have to give the world ‘the old college try’ as tacky as that may sound. Your mamma and especially your grandmamma, and many others,- didn’t need no fancy words, no teachers talking about ‘nuthin,’ or any of that non-sense.- lol- non-sense/ - No, they just needed to do their best and to do the normal things. That is Zen, that is the eightfold path also- that is before and after and beyond nonduality. Washing the dish…that is enlightenment. 

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