Non-Duality
Non-duality is about experiencing reality as it is, one undivided whole. Duality pertains to the mind while reality transcends the mind. Duality is a way of perceiving, and not the actuality of the whole.
The truth of the whole is neither one nor two. It is simply what it is. non-duality is just a way of negating the common held worldview that is characterized by duality.
Me and you, this and that, him and her, love and hate, etc. Yes of course these interrelated opposites are true in a sense or rather from a certain place of looking, but the deeper and more profound seeing is not concerned with these divisions.
Your nirvanic eye is always one, seeing totality. A formless eye that gives birth and witnesses all things simultaneously.
This is the peak of spiritual understanding, and the following is a collection of quotes that expound the non-dual understanding.
/Daniel Seeker
Number of quotes found: 29
- self
- one
- mind
- love
- alone
- two
- objects
- experience
- knowledge
- object
- nothing
- find
- pure
- seen
- happiness
- free
- truth
- thing
- remains
- always
- abide
- wisdom
- witness
- unity
- good
- consciousness
- apparently
- desire
- many
- says
- space
- everything
- forms
- time
- peace
- the one
- subject
- beyond
- seer
- rise
- life
- infinite
- attention
- give
- beauty
- means
- true
- nature
- awareness
- flow
- words
- cannot
- seeing
- bad
- see
- look
- numeral
- omnipresent
- lies
- fact
I cannot show you God or enable you to see God because God is not an object that can be seen. God is the subject. He is the seer. Don’t concern yourself with objects that can be seen. Find out who the seer is… You alone are God.
All the mind-streams eventually flow into the one ocean beingness, there are many pathways for the mind, there are no paths for the heart, for the heart is infinite and fills everything.
Just as the fire is the direct cause for cooking, so without Knowledge no emancipation can be had. Compared with all other forms of discipline Knowledge of the Self is the one direct means for liberation.
Source: Atma Bodha
The inner silence is self-surrender. And that is living without the sense of ego. Solitude is in the mind of humanity. Silence is ever speaking; it is the perennial flow of “language.” It is interrupted by speaking; for words obstruct this mute language. Silence is permanent and benefits the whole of humanity…. By silence, eloquence is meant. It is the best language. There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.
Give your attention to the experience of seeing rather than to the object seen and you will find yourself everywhere.
I find that somehow, by shifting the focus of attention, I become the very thing I look at, and experience the kind of consciousness it has; I become the inner witness of the thing. I call this capacity of entering other focal points of consciousness, love; you may give it any name you like. Love says “I am everything”. Wisdom says “I am nothing”. Between the two, my life flows. Since at any point of time and space I can be both the subject and the object of experience, I express it by saying that I am both, and neither, and beyond both
Source: I Am That, 1973
As you watch your mind, you discover your self as the watcher. When you stand motionless, only watching, you discover your self as the light behind the watcher. The source of light is dark, unknown is the source of knowledge. That source alone is. Go back to that source and abide there.
Source: I Am That - Chapter 42 - 1973
For the subsidence of mind there is no other means more effective and adequate than Self-enquiry. Even though by other means the mind subsides, that is only apparently so; it will rise again.
Our self – luminous, empty Awareness – knows no resistance and is, therefore, Peace itself; it seeks nothing and is, thus, happiness itself; it is intimately one with all appearances and is, as such, pure love.
Source: The Ashes of Love - 2014
To deal with things knowledge of things is needed. To deal with people, you need insight, sympathy. To deal with yourself, you need nothing. Be what you are, a conscious being and don’t stray away from yourself.
Source: I Am That, 1973
Each thing tends to move towards its own nature. I always desire happiness which is my true nature. My nature is never a burden to me. Happiness is never a burden to me, whilst sorrow is.
Source: Tattva Bodhah
The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.
Source: I Am That, 1973
Love is the experience that others are not others. Beauty is the experience that objects are not objects.
Source: The Way of Beauty - 2013
Can the seer be seen?
Source: Satsang




