#non-duality — Public Fediverse posts

What is the self?

In this Zen teaching, Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon explores One Mind, Buddha nature, and the awareness beneath thoughts, emotions, memories, and identity.

Using the image of light passing through a prism, this talk points toward the original awareness illuminating all experience.

Watch here:
https://youtu.be/1EHUHF7h3hk

#Zen #Meditation #Mindfulness #OneMind #BuddhaNature #Nonduality

This is #NonDuality. Fixed categories are often provisional. Human experience is fluid. Identities shift. Desires shift. relationships shift. Bodies shift. Clinging to rigid definitions often produces conflict. #Buddhism asks a simpler question: does this lead to harm or to reduced suffering? That is the practical concern. (40/54)

This #insight connects deeply with #Naturism. In #Mukyōhō #Naturism is not separate from #Buddhism. It can be a lived expression of #NonDuality, #equality, & simplicity. When clothing as #social armour falls away, many artificial distinctions soften. Status symbols disappear. Fashion hierarchies disappear. The #body returns to what it has always been: #natural, varied, ordinary. (17/54)

This is why #NonDuality matters. #NonDuality means not dividing #reality into rigid opposites. We habitually separate: good/bad, sacred/profane, pure/impure, mine/yours, success/failure. These divisions help with language, but they can also create delusion. #Reality is not neatly split. The boundaries are often conceptual. Day becomes night gradually. Childhood becomes adulthood gradually. Life becomes death gradually. Nothing stands isolated. (15/54)

For beginners, #NonDuality can sound abstract, but it is practical. Consider the #body. #Society teaches shame, comparison, hierarchy, & judgement. One #body is praised, another mocked. One age is idealised, another hidden. Yet in direct experience, the #body is simply the #body: breathing, sweating, ageing, healing, moving. #Shame is learned, not inherent. (16/54)

#nonduality

What is the true nature of mind?

In this Zen teaching, Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon explores the One Mind Dharma, Buddha nature, and awareness beyond thought, self, and separation.

With references to Bodhidharma, Mazu, the Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra, koan practice, meditation, light, waves, prisms, and music, this talk points toward the mind before thought.

Watch here:
https://youtu.be/toz2MaX50m4

#Zen #Meditation #Mindfulness #BuddhaNature #Awareness #Nonduality

The “I” That is Seeking Liberation is Unreal: “All Are Appearances in and of Awareness” — Advaita, Gaudapada & the Seeker Who Never Was

A friend messaged “All are appearances in and of awareness” in reply to my poem “Big B” – https://selfrealization.blog/2026/04/13/big-b/.

I responded back as follows:

With such perfect understanding already in place, are you sure I might have anything else to add to that. Really, what you wrote just now is all the knowledge one needs to undertake and finish the spiritual journey with no need for any other prop. The very looking for other props is itself the obstacle to the full manifestation of the understanding that is already there…shit, one knows one has to just “keep quiet” and everything will be accomplished and yet why are we all restless?

“Sitting quietly, doing nothing;
Spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.”

~ Matsuo Basho

This (“All are appearances in and of awareness”) is all that the name-and-form analogy of the clay and pot conveys albeit in different words.

The only problem then for you and I might be that we are failing to grasp that the I that is seeking to understand and attain self-realization is itself an “appearance in and of awareness”.

Which is why Ashtavakra Gita and Gaudapada’s Verse 32 in Chapter 2 of Mandukya Karika (see below) and Sankaracharya’s Nirvana Shatakam say what they say.

Mandukya Karika 2.32 (Vaitathya Prakarana) asserts that from the standpoint of Absolute Truth (Paramartha), there is no creation, destruction, bondage, liberation, or seeker. This famous verse highlights that all dualistic experiences are illusions, and the ultimate reality is non-dual (Advaita), often interpreted as the unborn, unchanging Self. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Sanskrit Verse (2.32):

न निरोधो न चोत्पत्तिर्न बद्धो न च साधकः ।न मुमुक्षुर्न वै मुक्त इत्येषा परमार्थता ॥ ३२ ॥

na nirodho na cotpattirna baddho na ca sādhakaḥ |na mumukṣurna vai mukta ityeṣā paramārthatā || 32 ||

Translation & Key Meanings:

• na nirodho: There is no destruction.
• na ca utpattiḥ: There is no creation or origin.
• na baddhaḥ: There is no one in bondage.
• na ca sādhakaḥ: There is no one practicing spiritual disciplines.
• na mumukṣuḥ: There is no seeker after liberation.
• na vai muktaḥ: There is no one liberated.
• iti eṣā paramārthatā: This is the Absolute Truth. [1, 2]

Significance:

• Non-Dual Reality: This verse by Gaudapada clarifies that the ultimate reality is entirely free from all dualistic concepts, including the processes of spiritual seeking or the state of liberation itself.
• Context: It comes within the context of analyzing the “unreality” (Vaitathya) of the world and the mind, noting that when knowledge of the Self is attained, all mental projections disappear.
• Absolute vs. Relative: While relative existence appears as a world of change, from the ultimate standpoint, no change ever occurred, as explained on VivekaVani and Tom Das. [1, 2, 6]

[1] https://vivekavani.com/m2v32/
[2] https://tomdas.com/2018/02/22/advaita-vedanta-gaudapadas-method-mandukya-upanishad-karika/
[3] https://swamij.com/upanishad-mandukya-karika.htm
[4] https://vedantastudents.com/mandukya-upanishad-with-shankara-bashyam-volume-17/
[5] https://vedantastudents.com/mandukya-upanishad-with-shankara-bashyam-volume-20/
[6] https://vivekavani.com/m3v32/

NON-DUAL AWARENESS
Another Way to Experience Being Alive

There’s a quiet shift that happens when the mind stops chasing every thought.

Less anxiety.
More presence.
Less noise.
More awareness.

This piece reflects on experiencing life without constant internal commentary — not as an escape, but as a deeper form of being.

Article link 👇

https://medium.com/@dianabasieseme_60028/non-dual-awareness-ae0e48be1ea2?sk=b04148c8f4d06b8b19fa42addceb962b

Visual created with AI

#Mindfulness #Consciousness #Presence #NonDuality #Meditation #InnerPeace

Nowadays, the word Tantra carries many meanings.

It is used to describe intimacy, embodiment, emotional expression, relational depth. What's important - none of these are inherently outside the field and scope of practice, yet historically Tantra was not designed as a philosophy of better living. It was designed as a method of seeing, or rather a way of examining how perception is constructed

#tantra #spiritualmaturity #nonduality #innerwork

www.srividyatantram.com

I've been thinking a lot about the idea of non-duality. If we are truly one with Earth, do we simultaneously feel within us the struggles that the planet is enduring right now? Are my feelings of overwhelm and hopelessness a mirror image of what Earth is experiencing? Can this connection birth strategies to help us collectively heal? What are your thoughts?

#ClimateGrief #nonduality #interconnection #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #workthatreconnects #solarpunk

Inquiry: Testing What’s Concept

Use these slowly. Let your body answer before your mind does.

Concept or actual?

Recall a recent stressful moment (argument, email, criticism).
Ask:
What are my added interpretations (why they did it, what it “means” about me)?
Notice:
How much of my suffering sits in the interpretation column, not the facts?

Word versus sensation

Bring to mind a current feeling you label often (e.g. “anxiety”, “shame”, “anger”).
Drop the word completely. Ask:
Where do I feel this in the body, exactly?
What is the texture—tight, hot, heavy, buzzing, empty?
​Stay with the raw sensations for 30–60 seconds.
Does anything shift when it’s “just sensation” instead of “my problem”?

More here:

https://liber8.xyz/2025/12/01/inquiry-testing-whats-concept/

#nonduality #beliefs #ego #buddhism #zen

Duality is a trick of language: subject & object, “self” & other, here & there. But #reality is undivided. You don’t end at your skin. There’s no solid wall between “me” & “you,” between breath & air. Even thought is part of the stream. Let the illusion dissolve. Look without naming. Feel without dividing. #Experience without the filter of identity.

#NonDuality #ZenBuddhism #Truth #Nude #Naked #ClothesFreeLiving #NoClothes #Mukyōhō #HadakaShizenyoku #Naturism