NONDUALITY: WHAT NO NONDUALITY TEACHER WILL EVER SAY: NONDUALITY AND RELIGION ARE IN THE END THE SAME THING - Brian Barbeito

Nonduality is the same as a Christian believer sitting in a pew. Here is how: The Christian believer or religious person usually believes in a little soul inside, let’s say, the heart, which goes to heaven upon death (or hell), and then, in some religions (non-Christianity,) - can even come back again. What does nonduality at first glance say about ‘dat!? It says that such a thing is part (in the nonduality nomenclature), of what is called ‘story,’ and is just an idea in the brain. That the concept of self dies, and what is left is ‘reality’ or ‘life’ and this, though it can’t perhaps be induced through practice, - constitutes ‘awakening,’ or ‘enlightenment.’ Then this condition takes a few years to settle. The seeker is gone because the ‘person’ is gone, and life is just life. 

 

End of ‘story.’

Then, when death occurs, physical death, - it’s ‘not a prob’ because the person has already

basically died. There is then, according to all this- the infinite as the infinite instead of the infinite as the infinite accompanied by a body-mind that is used as a tool,- that was created by the universe because there is no separation- so how could it be otherwise?

But is it really the end of the story?

See, if you look closely into it, - the whole universe can somehow, through infinity, - make another body- astral or physical or otherwise- and do it again. Remember, - you were not you, - but the universe looking out through an apparent you. So, - the universe can look out through an apparent you once more.

Therefore, - the result is that the apparent you has died, and lives again. So why call it the apparent you? Even the body itself is just cells, light, consciousness. We don’t call it all those things, - we just say body. We don’t say what the car is made up of. We get it that it’s a car and just jump in and go.

So, you can come again. The universe can look through another body. Therefore, what is the difference in the result, - of you continuing, of being born again?

In a weird sort of way, - nonduality is a waste of time and effort. If all things can happen like that- and infinity can play a game of sending itself here again through a body-mind, - then infinity can do anything- it is, afterall, infinite. It can have a Christ, a church, a pew, a prayer, love, after-death existence, - and reincarnation and life forever.

So there is no need to leave your town, church, and pew. There really is not. The apparently provincial beliefs are not so provincial. They are quite valid even in extreme non-duality.

So why go to satsang and darsharn and the rest to find out that: THERE IS NO YOU AND WHEN THE APPARENT YOU DISAPPEARS THERE IS JUST LIFE AND IT IS ETERNAL. BUT ETERNITIY CAN DO IT AGAIN, CREATE AGAIN (IN FACT IN A WAY HAS TO BECAUSE THERE IS ONLY ONE REALITY SO NOWHERE TO REALLY GO OR DISAPPEAR TO)

When, you can go to church and find out that: THERE IS LIFE EVERLASTING AND YOU CAN PRAY FOR NOT YOUR WILL BUT THE WILL OF GOD TO BE DONE, WHICH MEANS NOT YOU BUT THE WHOLE(READ 'THY WILL BE DONE' IS WHAT IS BETTER. AND YET THE WHOLE CAN USE YOUR SMALL SOUL(READ HERE 'APPARENT BODY-MIND) TO DO GOOD WORKS, TO FOLLOW THE GOLDEN RULE- TREAT OTHERS AS YOURSELF BECAUSE (THE TWO INTERSECT HERE- THERE IS NO SELF AND ONLY ONE OR ‘YOU’ ARE EVERYTHING). 

What is trying to be said? 

This: When you die, if you go up to heaven that is religion.

And when you die, if the self dissolves into everything but everything creates another self to experience itself, that is nonduality, or, to coin a phrase, metaphysical nonduality.

But the result is the same; - the descriptions of how the motors work are just different.

So if you are raised in faith, you may as well keep it as there is probably nothing wrong with it at its core. 

Nonduality just seems romantic to the seeker. And it’s great fun and great trials perhaps. But,

if someone is honest,- or, to use nonduality ‘speak,’ if there is honesty arising, then what could be more romantic than Christianity and saints and visions, than angels and candles and the Holy Trinity and the great canon of literature that goes with it? Sutras and so on are fine, - but the Proverbs and Psalms and lives of the saints, such as the St. Theresa’s, for example, are even more mystical.  

So you don’t have to go anywhere. You can stay at home and long for home rather than go away and long for ‘home.’ If you are born in the West anyhow.