What You Must Know About Non-Duality?

By Alex D White


The world we live in today is what was created by us, the language we speak, the ethics we follow and everything that we know. We know that there are two opposites in the world for everything, if there is up there is down, so is inside and outside, right or wrong and you and me. This simply showcases that our world is a dualistic world, but are you sure if the world that you live in is the real world and the opposites do exists as you know them.

The state of non-duality is something that doesn't follow the line of opposites, which goes beyond the world we know. However, how can one know about non-duality, when the discussion itself is known to be dualistic? Therefore first you need to know what the difference between being dualistic and non-dualistic is.

In the last few years even the scientists has agreed to this that everything has comprises from the same single substance, everything we know about nature and surrounding is probably because of the Big Bang and therefore the sense of being and our consciousness does come from it.

Realizing this is a very essential implication in humanity; being precise each of us is an individual that comes from a single entity, which keeps us connected to each other, after all like the fingers of the same hand.

Non-duality is known to have a lot of meaning that one can think or know of. However, the best definition can be considered as non-duality being the spiritual, scientific and philosophical understanding of not being separated and basics of being one. The followers of non-dualism believe in the thought of all being one. This thought doesn't only as an abstract sense but is considered to be the truth at the deepest level of existence.

Duality is basically an illusion; separation between two different existing individuals is just an illusion, which the saints following Advaita philosophy have long understood. Both the eastern and the western science acknowledge oneness and do understand that the theory behind the illusion. Most probably one can see duality in such different forms, duality in mind and matter, oneself and other, being conscious and unconscious, reality and illusion and so on. Non-duality can simply be explained as the identification of the common dualisms which avoid recognition of the real truth of the reality.

When one starts to follow non-duality, they do believe that they are not a separate person and they also go around telling others that they are one. Everybody continues to live there life as a separate identity but they follow a certain concepts as a whole. They start living a life, which is beyond their regular self.

Non-duality is completely inevitable to the seeker, as a separate person everyone is trying to look for something or seeking to have something, it may be money, success or love. Here the spiritual seeker is looking to attain non-duality, spiritual awakening and enlightenment; the process is all the same.




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