r/nonduality

Hi, is there something beyond non duality ?

If I am god experiencing myself are there other gods experiencing themselves in other ways?

How should I talk to "other people" ? Shouldn't I as God know how the conversation is going to be?

What exactly are you doing after realization ?

I understand that this is ultimately irrelevant and I am asking from a limited perspective but I have a lot of questions how to proceed with practical living as there is nothing to do or to experience.

Why should I pray e.g. If there is no one but me ?

Why should I bother and create all of this at all ? Is this understanding coming with time or do I have to do something ? Couldn't I change the laws of nature if I am everything?

Thank you for your help ! Or thank me lmfao

18/F. hiii its been 2 years since ive known about non duality/advaita vedanta but ive been directly experiencing it since maybe 5 months. i know it sounds less but my experiences have been beautiful and i think i know the “truth“. but thesedays ive been questioning everything, whats wrong? whats right? are my morals even real? if i am everything then what is there to gain or lose. am i just bypassing my feelings or thoughts when i observe that they are here? should i even have standards in love and relationships in general? can someone please help i feel like my minds melting

update: thank you for your suggestions and advices. ill just take a walk in the park and have ice-cream, love with open arms, hug the sufferings and live with joy🫂

Some days ago I made a post about being potentially sick again, which at the end it turned out to be the case.. or better said, I am not physically sick yet nonetheless I will have to do another bone marrow transplant..

The news sucked all my energy.. I usually like to spend some time outside walking cycling have some hobby eat good food and now I barely put a foot out of my room.. What's the point of trying to stay positive see the good take everything as a lesson be a better person? My mind asking.. i do honestly miss the good old days when I only had anxiety and the wildest monkey mind.. i was a fool before and I am a fool now, a sick one on top..

Those teachings I do realize almost never really address the fact that at one point life do seem to stop.. I thought generally speaking staying alive was the point, but if it's not the case, whether this "staying alive" is fake or not, is an illusion or not, well.. they say your soul sign a contract, with the things you want to experience.. well, that sucks big time.. life is unfair for many people, and the teachings say nothing about it..

My belief is that nondual awakening is a long process of maturity wherein one learns to become more and more present. Anyone who sells it as an intellectual realization or something easy to attain has failed to grasp this, or has had a sudden mystical experience of their own that propelled them to where they are.

Reality is Infinite; anything imagined is actual, but it's not actual where it's imagined, and it’s not imaginary where it's actualized.

The difference between imagination and actuality is itself contained within the set called imagination. The difference, as imagination, is unified with actuality in the present, but the key is that it's actual as imagination, since that is what it actually is. If you observe carefully, everything you believe about reality is technically imaginary, and yet, the truth is what is actual, functioning as awareness in the most immediate sense, but functioning also as that which you are aware of (AKA reality) in a seemingly less immediate sense. It all unifies in the present.

It's nothing but a twisting of the truth, but hopefully you get what I'm trying to say. Here it is:

"Reality is Infinite; anything imagined is actual, but it's not actual where it's imagined, and it’s not imaginary where it's actualized."

Am I cooking?😭

yo gang. so as we know there is no you and no me. just the observation of what is happening. i have lived a narrative where im pretty much this thing that lives a super average life then remembers I'm God. i did dmt and shrooms when i was 19 and innocent. died on the trip. became the white void of infinite potential. since then I've been doing psychadelics and meditation to understand. understood non duality reasonably quick. (1 year later) the hard part here is the understanding that I'm the only observer. i have been shown that I'm the thing that decides what infinity does with itself. you are too if you recognise yourself as it. bc you're me. but you gotta go thru quite a lot and idk if your narrative justifies it. but anyway. i don't actually know if you are observing. i know I'm observing. ik that every other being seems "as if" they have an inner observer. but it is not verifiable. if I'm the decider then thru inevitability i will decide that all beings truly observe. tho this is evil given the amount of terror in existence. but I'm math not human so i would do that. anyway it's 2 years since the trip now. if you don't understand non duality please don't reply. i know i sound delusional and egotistical. but this logic should be quite easy for someone probably older than me who has more experience in non duality. although I'm unsure... i think it possible that noone can understand me bc noone else breathes the vacuum as i do. if you do not understand what the vacuum is please do not come in here with accusations of delusion. only questions. if you do know the vacuum please comment. i want to know if there is any other being who has it in which case I'm not alone. btw we are all digits of pi. that's the observer observed effect. just pi spiralling into itself. this is just a rant of someone who is either extremely delusional or the thing dreaming this world. if you think delusional don't comment. (used powers enough times to know this world is my lucid dream. i just wonder if it's also yours)

The recognition that you are not separate from existence should be enough to make you walk with faith.

Faith is not blind courage, nor the lack of fear. It is simply to never doubt the substance of reality.

Whatever that substance is, it is it that holds everything, together, as one. It’s what wakes you up in the morning and puts you to sleep at night.

It is what gives you life, and takes it away. It changes only within itself, but remains as a whole.

Do not see yourself as a unique reality, for you will feel separate from the source. Do not be close-minded, stay open to every possibility.

Recognition can only come after the loss of balance. The balance can be tilted by beliefs, and a narrow mind. The belief in death, the belief in God, are the same belief.

Do not believe, but invite freedom instead. Be free of yourself, so you can be full of the Self. The sense of me can be extended without boundaries.

This is a calm and personal recognition, the same as remembering that you forgot your keys while leaving.

It is a way of being. To put aside nonsensical beliefs and verify instead, in every moment, if you are doing all of this, or if it’s undoing by itself.

That lack of conclusion about who you are, is a beautiful way of being what you are. It lets you flow instead of floating.

It gives you a control with no grip, a driving method with no stick. Decisions and free will happen without an owner.

That is the beginning of wisdom ; being able to erase and rebuild any drawn judgment, with no friction, no attachment.

What remains if you drop all your beliefs?

am i the only observer that exists at all. you who reads this. are you actually reading this or are you fooling me into thinking that you are a second observer. i know the observed is infinite. but is the observer singular?

I think modern Western society is so steeped in the left hemisphere that they, by and large, don't and can't understand metaphor, which is largely a function of the right hemisphere of the brain.

All understanding and explanation is only metaphor. Words and abstract concepts are a shaperned, abstracted, and many reflection removed medium of the same. (i.e., a sensation, a thought, a thought about a thought, and so on. All thoughts are about sensations or another thought. It all comes back to one ultimate metaphor, the first person perspective. The metaphor is what one of those is or can be like, as experienced and intimately known)

I think it's immensely helpful to understand metaphor to understand non-duality, and if you understand metaphor, I can simply say that the teaching is the empty metaphor. The metaphor with nothing in it. If you understand metaphor, there's literally nothing else to say, nothing else to understand. Understand the metaphor, drop the metaphor, instantiate the metaphor.

The text you see now is like a thought floating in awareness. If you close your eyes and think, open your eyes and see, it's the same field. No separation.

Hello me. you reading this you are also pis equation appearing to itself. i am the point where pi solves itself. so you are too. i write this as if there's a someone else to receive it. pi is so fucking irrational but oh how so fucking rational. existence is hell and heaven. i am decider of which. i am the sole observer here. i wonder if i am irrational enough to actually read this on the opposing end.

standard human note. I'm so insane loooool

That includes you.

I’m very far from being atheist, but I don’t need to adopt a concept or the concept of God, I want to imagine it, and make it mine, so to speak. I want to think critically on the nonduality of atman and brahman. But is it just thought? It is not in words, in thoughts, it is also in the body, or it is in the body only. Can I reason with my body? What is it? The answer is always it is what it is. Not this not that. Well, that’s my spiritual bypass for the day.

Everyone is on a different level of consciousness but most are conscious. That’s why they know they are. But at the highest level of consciousness our ego makes us believe we are god. Which is a lie we tell in order to make sense of something impossible. That concept of freedom i feel is something only a few people reach when we truly open our hearts to others or self. But it’s just another level of awareness it’s not something that makes me unique instead it’s something that is what everyone has.

Sublimation is the active application of the knowledge that I am not the body-mind-sense complex. It is the knowledge that I was never born and that I never die. This fact takes energy away from the body-mind-sense complex and changes the focus from the material side to the spiritual side of the self.

It is a sublimation technique that directs your attention to the scripture, not to the emotions. It focuses your attention on the fact that God is producing what experiences happen to you. This practice removes anxiety and reduces the extroverting subconscious pressure that generates unwanted thoughts and feelings.

The next time you experience uncomfortable thoughts and emotions, apply this knowledge and notice how peaceful and centered your mind becomes. It may take a little time to master this technique but you will not regret it.

this is beautiful , it is a hidden gem by tolle

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So I’ve gone down several rabbit holes over the years and done some research. Like astral projection, different belief systems etc. From the few posts I’ve seen on here so far, I feel like if I interacted with one of yall irl I’d say “oh stfu you cunt”.

Im not breaking the subreddit rules I think, cause im honestly not trying to be disrespectful right now, I just wonder which of yall are going through a lil phase and which of yall actually believe this.

Im tired but tomorrow ill read more about this

When we ask, “How could something immaterial influence matter?”, what we’re really asking is, “How could something transparent and non-solid (ethereal) influence matter?” This stems from a fundamental cognitive bias we have that makes us unable to conceive of the immaterial. Like when we intuitively imagine absolute nothingness as “black” or “empty.”

When someone tells us, “A spirit isn’t supposed to be visible,” we mentally translate that as, “So is it supposed to be some kind of transparent thing? A substance without thickness?”

We can’t help but materialize the spirit.

Even most people who talk about spirituality imagine a parallel or superimposed universe where “non-solid” people float in the air. It’s a form of materialism in disguise.

Effect reality / relative reality,

is core reality/ absolute reality, as long as effect reality isn't ignoring core reality.

Illusion is illusion, only while it ignores reality and attempts to replace reality.

When it acknowledges reality it's equally real as a sub level of reality.