Revealing Nonduality

Nic Higham and Colette Davie talk about That beyond ideas of lack and fulfilment. 

Nondual Therapist Nic Higham: https://nisargayoga.org

Colette Davie: https://www.instagram.com/thatbeyondduality/

Music by Scott Buckley - https://www.scottbuckley.com.au/library

The Nonduality Podcast with author and nondual therapist Nic Higham and Paul Dobson.

There's a lot of importance placed on intellectual knowing, on conceptual understanding. And we get a sense of value from believing we know and convincing others that what we know conforms to the general version of reality. From day one, we're provided with many words and times and definitions and praised for recalling these.

This naming creates a dualistic perception of reality. We then start to live our lives at face value. We don't look beneath the surface of our existence and we go about our lives, believing that what we think is absolute. We're not really engaging with the world around us. If we really get honest and just be real, we don't know anything.

We are living in a storybook as these lives we live out through our thoughts and concepts. None of it's actually happening. What's happening is indescribable in every possible way. It's not what you think it is. It's infinity "infinitying". And we squeeze infinity down into these notions and concepts so we can get a handle on what's going on. Actually, we don't have any handle on what's going on whatsoever. The only thing we can rest on is this is-ness, this happening.

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Clips from the appendix and chapters 8 to 14. 

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Nondual therapist Nic Higham speaks with Paul Dobson about the reality of nonduality. Everything begins with imagination. As we perceive life, we instantaneously intellectualise it and therefore distort it. The creative storytelling power of imagination projects colour, shape, form, and meaning on the blank screen that is your primary nature. The moment you have a sense of Aliveness and you say “I exist,” the entire universe is created, including your distinctive self-identity in contrast to other individuals. This means that you don’t exist because the world exists; the world exists because you do! The universe is one creative manifestation of the Self, and the body-mind you call you and yours is another, so, as the Self, you’re not limited to them and they don’t ultimately define you. Each finite expression points to fullness yet each cannot contain fullness, just as a single snowflake cannot capture the vast snow of Antarctica. Existence originates from you, exists in you, and will return to you.  

 One thing you can be completely sure of, with a little introspection, is your vital I-Am-ness which underlies and illuminates the constructions of imagination. I-Am-ness precedes imagining.   

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Hsin Hsin (Faith in mind) is a poem attributed to the Third Chinese Zen Patriarch Seng-ts'an. Read by Philip Evan Cowlishaw. 

Randall Friend's website: http://avastu0.blogspot.com/ 

The Nonduality Podcast with nonduality author and nondual therapist Nic Higham and Paul Dobson.

In a sense, desire was the principal “big bang.” It’s a mystery why or how such a powerful explosion of passionate desire developed out of unspeakable completeness! One can only wonder: “Life desired, therefore I am.” Thus, in partnership with imagination, it created your personal world along with your hopes and fears and everything in between.

Life often seems random and chaotic, and sometimes misaligned with our desires or needs. The ego thinks it is supreme and that everything should comply with its viewpoint and purpose; it can never be peaceful and harmonious because it’s the opposite of peace and harmony. Part of its nature is an unwillingness to be one with life and a refusal to live in alignment with the inevitable. If it saw that it was one with life, it would instantly perish because its pseudo-existence is based on separateness and it likes it that way. Thankfully, the ego isn’t a permanent entity and its insubstantial nature offers openings to a greater order.

When we say “greater order,” we’re not describing a higher purpose removed from the human paradigm; we’re pointing to life’s unavoidable “isness” or intimate actuality. Events are inevitable, though they’re not preordained by an egocentric, aloof god. This greater order is not something mysterious or nebulous; it’s this here, right now—this flawlessly emerging moment we’re married to. We can feel it, see it, smell it, taste it, and hear it in everything, wherever we are. We can realise that we are always in alignment with it because we are it. Such a realisation transforms our expectations to work with reality, and teaches us that although events may not unfold as we expect, there’s a certain equanimity in honouring the inevitable. When we allow this insight in a natural and unforced way, a pro- found peacefulness amidst the imagined duality communicates itself to us as our unshakable Aliveness. A changeless tranquility, an unqualified gladness become evident amidst the mind’s habitual judging. It’s all-pervading perfection that dawns when life is seen through the lens of Being instead of through the intellect. This insight, this clear seeing is the only real way to make peace and uncover genuine connectivity with the One Life.

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We are aware. We are experiencing. This reality is obvious and irrefutable, yet we habitually overlook or bypass this basic fact and instead focus on fleeting facets of experience. Our unlimited experiencing is the constant, unshakable background; we are never not conscious no matter the quality of our experiences. Simultaneously, this awareness is the ever-shifting foreground. Our present experience, despite its flavour, colour or mood, is nothing but experiencing itself. You are not simply ‘aware of’ things; there are no things separate from nondual awareness. All you ever find is the perpetual process of awareness or experiencing, as seeing, feeling, smelling, tasting, and so on. These modes seem to be separate but are actually expressions, or modes, of a singular sentience. You never find something divided from this fundamental and omnipresent fact, only this dynamic aliveness appearing as all. There is, therefore, both an ‘awareness of’ and an ‘awareness as’, and you are these boundless capacities. You are at once every thing and no thing. You are the eternal nondual celebration of ephemeral duality.   Our site: https://nisargayoga.org/Music by Scott Buckley - https://www.scottbuckley.com.au/library/

Randall Friend shares the message of nonduality in this recording of a Second Life meeting. Nonduality is not hidden, it’s not a mystery. It doesn't require effort. The reality you seek is already here as this seamless, unlimited, timeless moment of experiencing. So this message is only about the peeling back of the concepts that have been built that seem to obscure our appreciation of life as it is. Nothing is needed. Nothing needs to change. What really is enlightenment or awakening? Reality is simply no longer taken to be made up of separate parts. We no longer imagine a world outside ourselves. There is only the wholeness of what is.

Randall Friend: http://avastu0.blogspot.com

Our site: https://nisargayoga.org