Non-Duality Home

Description

Non-Duality

Non-Duality

Halina Pytlasinska

If unity is the underlying nature of existence

then there is no such thing as a separate

individual. When self-identity ceases, it is

seen that there is only infinite awareness.

There is only liberation.

"If I exorcise my devils, my angels may leave

too"

Tom Waits

This site also has interviews with other non-dualistic

communicators, such as

Tony Parsons and

Richard

Sylvester

Dualistic language

Language and thinking are an intrinsic part of the dualistic dream of separation. A non-dualistic

perspective is impossible to put into words as language is dualistic by nature. Language can

suggest or describe aspects of life but like eating an orange, the description of the taste and

texture can convey the experience but will never be a substitute for eating the real thing.

As I grew up learning to use language and reason from the left hemisphere of the brain there came

a change from an intuited sense of being into the world of thinking, analysing and labelling. ‘I’

developed and became a spectator and organiser.

There are memories from childhood of confusion with taking up my role in the world. As the sense

of selfhood developed I forgot ‘being’ and moved into doing and controlling the imagined external

world of detached objects. I forgot the unity that is.

The left brain intellect cannot grasp the larger picture of life but it keeps trying to contain life as if it

is information, it’s a bit like trying to squeeze Europe into an egg cup. As an adult I had come to

define the world through thought, as Descartes put it: ‘I think therefore I am.’ Instead of seeing

thoughts arise and fade I imagined there was an owner here of all these thoughts. I had identified

with the imagined ‘newsreader’ in my head. Through ...

Original URL

http://www.nondualityinfo.com/

http://www.nondualityinfo.com/