What is "nondual"

Usage examples of "nondual".

What the Descenders lacked was the other half of the equation, the nondual view: both good and evil can be transcended.

The Nondual traditions make a series of very fine distinctions here, which at least should be briefly mentioned.

Virtually all present-day ecophilosophers, precisely because they are not nondual in their approach, are forced to argue the continuity thesis, which earns for them the charge from critics of being eco-fascists, which bewilders the ecophilosophers, who imagine that a flatland holism is actually a liberating notion.

The former emphasizes the created world of manyness, the latter the uncreated source or origin and both, taken in and by themselves, are dualistic through and through, no matter how much they might call themselves monistic, nondual, all-encompassing, holistic, and whatnot.

Nondual schools would, in various ways, relax the purity of this intense via negativa and, also in various ways, would look for phenomenal metaphors for Emptiness.

Nondual traditions would appeartraditions uniting and integrating the Ascending and Descending paths, in the East and in the Westwe find a similar set of themes expressed so constantly as to border on mathematical precision.

Thus, for both Schelling and Hegel, Spirit goes out of itself to produce objective Nature, awakens to itself in subjective Mind, and then recovers itself in pure Nondual perception, where subject and object are one pure act of Nondual awareness that unifies both Nature and Mind in realized Spirit.

There is, of course, the perilous Ascent straight to the formless Godhead, and a perfect Descent to a loving embrace of the entire world of the Manythe standard message of all Nondual schools: transcend absolutely every single thing in the Kosmos, embrace absolutely every single thing in the Kosmoswith choiceless compassion or love.

Nagarjuna, the deconstruction of relative truths leaves not nihilism but Emptiness: it clears away the conceptual rubble in the mind's eye and thus allows the space of nondual intuition to disclose itself, and thus it follows to the limit the whole point of the IOU game: if you don't want to be a complete self-contradiction, then you must come to rest in infinite Emptiness, which alone redeems all IOUs, and which alone sets the soul free on the ocean of infinite Mystery.

Mystical experiences (of a psychic, subtle, causal, or nondual nature) are so common to humankind, and share at least a broad similarity wherever they occur (despite the inevitable cultural colorings given to them)and when they do occur, virtually all of them carry the overwhelming conviction that one is not stumbling onto something sui generis, made up, constructed at the moment, or fabricated by the individual human mind.

All of this radical nonanthropocentrism came, as we saw, precisely because of the radically decentered nature of Nondual mysticism.

He acknowledges that a few shamans very likely transcended their own path and disclosed causal and nondual occasions, but the central and most defining characteristics of shamanism seem to be quite clearly subtle-level phenomena.

But not only the extraordinary flowering of Mahayana and Vajrayana rests on Nagarjuna's shoulders: his dialectic was a major influence on Shankara, Vedanta's greatest philosopher-sage (Ramana Maharshi being one of Shankara's many descendants), and Shankara's Nondual (Advaita) Vedanta revolutionized all of subsequent Indian philosophy/religion (so similar was it in many respects to Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka that Buddhism simply died out in India, being almost, as it were, reabsorbed in essentials back into Hinduism).

One then moves to Vajrayana, or the final dissolution of exclusively monological apprehension and dialogical exchange, and rests in the nondual luminous Emptiness that playfully manifests all worlds (translogical).

Both Tillich and I are referring to the mythic components of Christianity, not to its psychic and subtle-level direct realizations, many of which approached a pure nondual understanding (as we saw with Teresa and Eckhart).