Existence within Non-duality philosophy refers to the totality of reality, encompassing everything. It includes physical objects and living beings and thoughts, emotions, sensations, and all aspects of subjective experience. Non-duality holds that existence is not composed of separate and independent entities but is an interconnected web of relationships and interdependencies. However, existence is qualified by […]

Bhakti Yoga is a spiritual path or practice focused on loving devotion. It is synonymous with an intimate understanding of the Oneness and harmony of the eternal individual and with the Universal being or Divine. Bhakti yoga involves selfless devotion and recognition of the Divine in everything. It is a practice of using the intensity

So, the question is, why are we here, and what is this all about? Although this ‘what is’ is whole and complete and perfect, the experience arises called ‘me.’ An experience that I am the body, an experience that I have a real past that has led to the present, which will carry me to

Before Self-realization, the mind references the body as ‘I am this body,’ the center of the activity surrounding me; I am the controller of my actions and outcome. After Self-realization, the unbounded Self sees through the illusion of body identification that there never was a center; it’s all unbounded consciousness. The realization of the limitless,

This quote from A Course in Miracles expresses the full range of one’s subconscious mind projecting an individual’s reality. Labels and meanings are taught to us through conditioning from childbirth. Superficial learning, we accept without question because culture and society deem it so. We also come into this world unannounced with DNA-encoded genes from our

It occurs that looking, searching for freedom from an apparent localized me, the little mind/body we call self through meaning and purpose, makes it seem missing. This missing aspect is the core experience of separation, and something needs to be done to overcome this feeling. Me, or the apparent experience I have, must become the

The construct of something having to be done, figured out, and gained is illusory. Nothing must be done—it’s already here. The mystery is that there is nothing behind the journey, whether spiritual or worldly, this search that human beings are on. Everything is as it is; there is nothing behind it—nothing to know. Nothing is

The world for the person, self-realized or not, is a reflection, a mirror of the inner mind wherein the deep recesses of the subconscious or unbounded self-consciousness of life’s experiences are held. The world will appear relatively the same for the self-realized person and the limited mind/body person. Some changes occur after self-realization, allowing the

Consciousness is the origin, the substratum, and is primary to all things. When fully awake to itself, it is the silent observer of the objective world of form and phenomena. Everything appearing is valid, and nothing has true meaning or purpose; the life drama is on display, with characters seemingly in charge within a conditioned

What is behind all the content one perceives that you could ever imagine or think about at this moment? Everything, all of it, all content; imagine if it were all gone. What would be left? Would it not be a simple awareness without a sense of anything other than being— or the purpose of existence?