29th May 2003
Hiya J,
Most non-dualists want to throw out duality completely. This they soon find is
impossible.
Non-duality is as much a concept as duality and to be engaged in
throwing out for another is hilarity.
Quite appropriate if it is happening, but hilarious.
Say you have a piece of gold and a piece of copper. On the surface they are very
different, have different values to human beings, etc. A scientist who has seen
both on the sub-atomic level will tell you that both are the same underneath.
However, there is no way he will exchange the gold for the copper.
In the same way, the Reality is non-dual.
That Reality is non-dual, this statement can only be made in
duality.
However this non-dual reality has arranged itself in different patterns to form
many dual items. [Atoms
arranged differently form different elements with entirely different
properties]. If a human has experienced non-duality and knows for certain the
non-dual nature of everything
Non-duality can it be experienced?
Can it be known, either?
With certainty,
Or with uncertainty.
surely you do not expect him to act different from the scientist above?
Even Ramana still had ties with his mother and Nisargadatta with his family. The
way some listers attack all dualistic pointers is as if they have no duality in
themselves! Non-duality and duality are two sides of the same coin.
Non-duality is not, not-Duality.
Non-duality is the absence of duality AND the absence of not-duality.
There is no way you can get rid of one.
Attempting to get rid, whatever be the particular target, is
duality.
In other words I can see the non-dual Reality underneath yet talk in dualistic
ways.
In seeing the non-dual Reality, you are in duality
I can say "God is all" and "I love God" at the same time.
Indeed.
One can say anything at the same time.
Makes
no difference to God.