The evidence of your unenlightment is always in the past. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 🧘 Mindfulness.
Try not naming things. Also in: 📍 Experience, 🌘 Nondual.
Favour epistemological humility over certainty. Find profound freedom in not knowing and not needing to know. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 🙆 Acceptance, 📍 Experience.
The witness is just a thought too. Also in: ☸️ Buddhism, 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self.
The self is just one of our many constructed models of reality. Also in: ☸️ Buddhism, 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self.
Not 'get rid of the self', but transcend and include it. Also in: ☸️ Buddhism, 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self.
No me, no problem. Just this! Also in: 🙆 Acceptance, ☸️ Buddhism, 🌘 Nondual.
Seer, seeing, and seen are just three words for the same happening. Also in: 🌘 Nondual.
It is difficult to find awareness because it is too close, too accessible, too present, and too simple. Also in: ☸️ Buddhism, 🌘 Nondual.
Being is always bright, whatever the contents of consciousness. Also in: ☸️ Buddhism, 🌘 Nondual, 📍 Experience.
Mental agitation drops away when it drops away, and it returns when it returns. All of it is really nothing personal. Also in: 🌘 Nondual.
Everything is real, but nothing is true. Also in: 🌘 Nondual.
There's no need to be so antagonistic towards the costume you're wearing. Also in: ☸️ Buddhism, 🌘 Nondual, ⏰ Waking-up.
Feeling the underlying oneness by noticing that being is the fundamental nature of everything. Stop at the "I am" or the "It is". Also in: 🌘 Nondual.
The darkness behind your closed eyes arises in the transparency, the emptiness, of consciousness. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, ☸️ Buddhism.
Completeness can be accessed more easily through incompleteness. Also in: ☸️ Buddhism, 🌘 Nondual.
Our deepest nature is the unity that includes diversity. Also in: ☸️ Buddhism, 🌘 Nondual.
The illusion of duality is the primary source of human suffering. Also in: ☸️ Buddhism, 🌘 Nondual.
Nonduality reduces self-related thoughts, leaving more room for everything else. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 👤 Human.
The harmony that includes our differences is deeper and more durable than the one that doesn’t. Also in: ☸️ Buddhism, 🌘 Nondual.
When we're stressed, we tend to think in binaries. Also in: 🌘 Nondual.
Notice how the boundaries move when you to try to fix them, grasp them. Also in: 🌘 Nondual.
Nonduality is an experiential truth, not an intellectual one. Also in: 🌘 Nondual.
Say "no thanks" (to the self). And mean it! Also in: ☸️ Buddhism, 🌘 Nondual.
Who will be the knower once the self is know? The knower must be the self. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self.
We should say "it thinks" like we say "it rains". Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self.
Understand yourself as a facet of the whole. Identify with all the other facets. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self.
There's only one reality, but it can be experienced in different ways. Also in: 🌘 Nondual.
The subject appears later and lays claim to the action. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self.
The mind creates the fiction of duality by superimposing interpretations on perceptions. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self.
The knower is consciousness delimited by the mind; the known is consciousness delimited by the objective form. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self.
The conceptual mind is surmounted by exhausting it, negating all conceptual possiblities. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self.
Something can't arise from nothing. Either there is still nothing or there was always something. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self.
Pushing againt yourself creates a division. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self.
Intentionality is the hinge between dual and nondual action. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self.
Expand who you consider yourself to be. Also in: 🌘 Nondual.
Each thought is nondual. We obscure this by linking thoughts in a chain. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self.
Craving is how we divide up the world through language. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self.
The wholeness of life is all there is. Also in: ☸️ Buddhism, ⏰ Waking-up, 🌘 Nondual.
Life is something we are, not something we're trying to negotiate. Also in: ☸️ Buddhism, 🌘 Nondual, ⏰ Waking-up.
If you believe that you are in control of your thoughts, that you create them: trying stopping thinking! Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self, ⏰ Waking-up.
Play in nonduality: enjoying the activity for its own sake. Also in: Zen, 🌘 Nondual.
Our true nature is deep, still, harmonious without the polarities of opinion and belief. Also in: ☸️ Buddhism, 🙋 Self, 🌘 Nondual.
Empty as in absence, the possibility of appearance. Also in: ☸️ Buddhism, 📍 Experience, 🌘 Nondual.
Effortless action as in: no sense of self taking action Also in: ☯️ Daoism, 🌘 Nondual, ☸️ Buddhism.
By holding fast to our likes and dislikes, we continually recreate the sense of self. Also in: 🙋 Self, ☸️ Buddhism, 🌘 Nondual.
It's only when you think about it that it hurts. Also in: 👤 Human, 🧘 Mindfulness, 🌘 Nondual.
Zen uses contradiction and paradox to loosen our grip on concepts. Also in: ☸️ Buddhism, 🌘 Nondual, 📍 Experience.
Totally embrace all ordinary opposites in harmony. Also in: ☸️ Buddhism, 🌘 Nondual.
The separation of subject and object is only conceptual. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, ☸️ Buddhism, 📍 Experience.
Labels divide and isolate. Also in: ☸️ Buddhism, 📍 Experience, 🌘 Nondual.
Things that seems separate are manifestations of the underlying unity. Also in: 🌘 Nondual.
Reality is fundamentally interconnected, interdependent, inseparable. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, ↔️ Opposites.
By focusing attention on a concept we create its opposite. Also in: ☯️ Daoism, 🌘 Nondual, ↔️ Opposites.
All things and events can only be truly understood as integrated parts of the whole. Also in: 🌘 Nondual.
Craving something makes it feel farther away. Also in: ☸️ Buddhism, 🌘 Nondual, ↔️ Opposites.
Your identity is a narrow slice of your potential. Also in: ☸️ Buddhism, 🌘 Nondual.
"The Tao is like muddy water" is a precise description of things as they are. Also in: ☯️ Daoism, 📍 Experience, 🌘 Nondual.
Look more closely and resist the urge to summarise. Also in: 👤 Human, 📍 Experience, 🌘 Nondual.
Grasping and aversion both reinforce things. Also in: ☸️ Buddhism, 🌘 Nondual.
No separation between you and the circumstances of your life. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, ☸️ Buddhism, 👤 Human.
Union is only possible between two things. If there is only one there can be neither union nor separation. Also in: 🌘 Nondual.
There is no difference between the sender, that which is sent and the one to whom it is sent. Also in: 🌘 Nondual.
The knower is the attribute and the known is the essence, and they are one. Also in: 🌘 Nondual.
The sense of self is inferred from things arising, on their own. Also in: 🌘 Nondual.
Don't let the content of awareness veil your true nature of happiness and peace. Also in: ☸️ Buddhism, 🌘 Nondual.
Look for your head. Also in: 🙋 Self, 📍 Experience, 🌘 Nondual.
The mind is awareness in motion, an activity of awareness. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self, 📍 Experience.
Happiness can't be acquired, only revealed. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self.
Manifestation, performance, function, but no centre. Also in: 🙋 Self, ☸️ Buddhism, 🌘 Nondual.
An empty signifier with no fixed referent. Also in: 🙋 Self, ☸️ Buddhism, 🌘 Nondual.
The space in which reality reveals itself. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self.
The self is a public event and a private experience. Also in: 🙋 Self, 🌘 Nondual.
The self is a modality of action, not the seat of our identity. Also in: 🙋 Self, 🌘 Nondual.
The more true the identity is, the less defined, until it finally drops away. Also in: 🙋 Self, 🌘 Nondual.
Sense the indefinite, flexible, indeterminate boundaries. Also in: 🙋 Self, 🌘 Nondual.
Not a heroic quest, but a silent attunement. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self, 🙆 Acceptance.
Knowledge is intrinsically relational. We can't access reality independent of the observer. Also in: 🌘 Nondual.
"I don't know." Remind yourself of the fact, not try to make it know. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 🐌 Slowness.
"ego-reframe" more than "ego death": revealing the interconnected relationships of self and reality, rather than a process of erasure and reconstruction. Also in: 🙋 Self, 🌘 Nondual.
All of reality has interdeterminacy, granularity, relativity. Also in: 🌘 Nondual.
"We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains." Also in: 🙋 Self, 🌘 Nondual.
Absolute control of our environment is not a desirable or possible goal. We are in, of, and acted on by, the world. Also in: ⭕️ Tmwt, 🌘 Nondual.
Everything that exists is contingent. Also in: ☸️ Buddhism, 🌘 Nondual.
Consciousness is already at ease. No effort, no push or pull. No doer, no one. Also in: ⏰ Waking-up, 🌘 Nondual.
The witness and the object are two sides of the same experience. Also in: 🙋 Self, 📍 Experience, 🌘 Nondual.
The sense of self is just another thought. Also in: 🙋 Self, ☸️ Buddhism, 🌘 Nondual.
Reality is not given to you twice. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self, 📍 Experience.
Look for the dividing line between contents and context. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self, ⏰ Waking-up.
Knowledge can be articulated, but understanding is inhabiting in nondual space with the question. Also in: ⭕️ Tmwt, 🌘 Nondual.
A mirror only gives not-mirror. But it also only gives it in the mirror! Also in: 🌘 Nondual, ⏰ Waking-up, 🙋 Self.
Binaries are an essential quality of reality. Also in: ↔️ Opposites, 🌘 Nondual.
The knowing and the object arise as a pair, distinct but not separate. Also in: ☸️ Buddhism, 🌘 Nondual, 📍 Experience.
The experience of choice: we hear the question; we choose; we think "I chose". Also in: 📍 Experience, 🌘 Nondual.
Making yourself an attractive object doesn't help you be happy as a subject. Also in: ☸️ Buddhism, 👤 Human, 🌘 Nondual.
Emptiness means not independent, not separate, not unchanging. Also in: ☸️ Buddhism, 🌘 Nondual.
Choice is just an interpretation of an experience. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 📍 Experience.
We are in and of the world, not separate from it. Also in: 👤 Human, 🌘 Nondual.
When we're absorbed, time and embodiment are backgrounded. Also in: 👤 Human, 📍 Experience, 🌘 Nondual.
You are not anything you can think about yourself. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self.
The first instant is before before classification, measuring, labelling. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 📍 Experience.
Sense fields: What shape is it? What size it? Where are the edges? Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 📍 Experience.
Orient towards unity, wholeness, the peace therein. Also in: 👤 Human, 💪 Resilience, 🌘 Nondual.
No approaching, no becoming. Just let everything fall away. Also in: 🙋 Self, 📍 Experience, 🌘 Nondual.
Any given duality or division is conceptual only. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 📍 Experience, ↔️ Opposites.
When you think "I've found it!", that's not it. "It" is before thought. Also in: 🌘 Nondual.
The "I am" before adding anything, before looking backwards or forwards. Also in: 🙋 Self, 🌘 Nondual, 📍 Experience.
Not an injunction to do, but an invitation to rest. Also in: 🙋 Self, 🌘 Nondual.
Distraction from discomfort is the separate self expressing itself. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self.
Challenge your assumptions using your direct experience. Also in: 📍 Experience, 🌘 Nondual.
Big insights have to be available now, not just as impermanent, peak, states. Also in: 🙋 Self, 🌘 Nondual.
Anything that can be named or located can't be you: it's an object in awareness. Also in: 🙋 Self, 🌘 Nondual, 📍 Experience.
The effort to meditate creates the meditator, separateness, duality. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 🙋 Self, ☸️ Buddhism.
Nondual practice is nondoing, relaxing. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, 📍 Experience.
Nature shows us concrete versions of impermanence and interdependence. Also in: 🧘 Mindfulness, 🌘 Nondual, 📍 Experience.
When you notice someone looking your way: what are they looking at? Also in: 🙋 Self, 🌘 Nondual.
Have no preference. Change the cognitive frame. Also in: 🙋 Self, 🌘 Nondual.
Feel the profound relief of recognising no-self. Also in: 🙋 Self, ☸️ Buddhism, 🌘 Nondual.
Being seen creates the “I”, we become self-conscious. Also in: 🙋 Self, 🌘 Nondual.
Life is the dancer, you are the dance. Notice that you can’t tell the dancer from the dance. Also in: ☯️ Daoism, 🌘 Nondual.
The smaller the dismembered part, the less it comprehends itself, the whole. Also in: ⭕️ Tmwt, 🌘 Nondual.
The all-time of the whole becomes the no-time of the center. Also in: ⭕️ Tmwt, 🌘 Nondual.
Notice and orient towards the underlying unity and wholeness. Also in: 📍 Experience, 🌘 Nondual.
Experiencing before understanding, defining, or remembering. Also in: 📍 Experience, 🌘 Nondual.
Recognize, once again, that life is bigger than we are. Also in: 📍 Experience, 🌘 Nondual.
What things are depends on the range of the observer. Also in: 🌘 Nondual.
We're not, and have never been, separate from our experience. Also in: 📍 Experience, 🙋 Self, 🌘 Nondual.
And not-this: notice how sounds happen in silence. Also in: 📍 Experience, 🌘 Nondual, 🧘 Mindfulness.
Adapt the nothing therein to the purpose at hand. Also in: ☯️ Daoism, 🌘 Nondual.
Polarities have rewards of focusing and risks of neglecting either pole. Also in: 👤 Human, ☯️ Daoism, 🌘 Nondual.
Pay attention to interior and exterior, individual and collective. Also in: 👤 Human, ☯️ Daoism, 🌘 Nondual.
No things are truly independently existing. Also in: 📍 Experience, ☸️ Buddhism, 🌘 Nondual.
Polarities create friction when they feel like opposites, contradictions. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, ☯️ Daoism, ↔️ Opposites.
Notice, harmonise, and integrate patterns in polarities. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, ☯️ Daoism, ↔️ Opposites.
We can't think our way out of thinking, only observe it, from outside it. Also in: ☸️ Buddhism, 🌘 Nondual.
We can't think in a nondual way, only notice when we're not doing it. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, ☸️ Buddhism.
Practice is about moving from experiences to experiencing. Also in: ☸️ Buddhism, 🌊 Motion, 🌘 Nondual.
Non-forgiveness comes from feeling separate, being self-centered. Also in: ☸️ Buddhism, 👤 Human, 🌘 Nondual.
Imbalance is purely perceptual. Also in: ↔️ Opposites, 🌘 Nondual.
But/and. Continuation and negation. The turn, The twist. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, ↔️ Opposites.
And/or. We need both. Also in: 🌘 Nondual, ↔️ Opposites, ⭕️ Tmwt.
The person appears in awareness, not the other way around. Also in: 🌘 Nondual.
It's only when "I" arises that "You", "They", arise. Also in: 🙋 Self, 🌘 Nondual.