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...