Nonduality: The Wholeness of Experience

Paul Dobson speaks with nonduality author and teacher John Astin. John says that every experience has two fundamental dimensions. There is the description of whatever appears, and then there is the sheer presence or existence of it. The experiences we define as joyful and clear are, without question, distinct from those we describe as sad or confused. And it’s fine and understandable to prefer some states over others and then seek to have more of the ones we prefer. But what we're suggesting is that there’s another dimension of well-being that resides in the sheer presence and existence of things rather than in their descriptions.   https://www.johnastin.com  Our site: http://nisargayoga.com/  Music by Scott Buckley - https://www.scottbuckley.com.au/library/

The Nonduality Podcast with nonduality author and nondual therapist Nic Higham and Paul Dobson.   Nic’s site: http://nisargayoga.com/   Music by Scott Buckley - https://www.scottbuckley.com.au/library/

The Nonduality Podcast with Nic Higham and Colette Davie. What is That that seems to mould itself and shape itself in response to experience and is experience itself? Bliss, ecstasy, pleasure, sadness, grief, loss; they're all made of the same stuff. And it's in this realisation, that the freedom lies. As we loosen our interpretations, even the highest interpretation this nameless, vibrant, moving, creating infinite potentiality starts to bubble. And then you see everything that shows up in experience is this bubbling. All you can say is that it is ‘what is’, and it is everything, which means it must be you. When you come full circle, you realise that there never was a separate self. There was literally never anything separating you from ‘what is’. Nothing had to die. Nothing had to be dissolved. It was simply a set of beliefs that the mind had. It's a full collapse of concepts. You null and void everything you've ever thought you know, including everything you've ever heard on the path. And all that arising and dissolving already takes place in what you are as what you are as this self-liberating fact of awareness. The guiding light in changing experience.   Our site: https://nisargayoga.org  Music by Scott Buckley - https://www.scottbuckley.com.au/library/

Nondual Therapist Nic Higham: https://nisargayoga.org  Music by Scott Buckley - https://www.scottbuckley.com.au/library

Nic Higham and Paul Dobson speak about the natural unity of life beyond the usual assumptions that come with the second-hand dualistic perception.  Nondual Therapist Nic Higham: https://nisargayoga.org/ Music by Scott Buckley - https://www.scottbuckley.com.au/library/

Nic Higham and Colette Davie talk about That beyond ideas of lack and fulfilment.  Nondual Therapist Nic Higham: https://nisargayoga.org Colette Davie: https://www.instagram.com/thatbeyondduality/ Music by Scott Buckley - https://www.scottbuckley.com.au/library

The Nonduality Podcast with author and nondual therapist Nic Higham and Paul Dobson. There's a lot of importance placed on intellectual knowing, on conceptual understanding. And we get a sense of value from believing we know and convincing others that what we know conforms to the general version of reality. From day one, we're provided with many words and times and definitions and praised for recalling these. This naming creates a dualistic perception of reality. We then start to live our lives at face value. We don't look beneath the surface of our existence and we go about our lives, believing that what we think is absolute. We're not really engaging with the world around us. If we really get honest and just be real, we don't know anything. We are living in a storybook as these lives we live out through our thoughts and concepts. None of it's actually happening. What's happening is indescribable in every possible way. It's not what you think it is. It's infinity "infinitying". And we squeeze infinity down into these notions and concepts so we can get a handle on what's going on. Actually, we don't have any handle on what's going on whatsoever. The only thing we can rest on is this is-ness, this happening. Music by Scott Buckley - https://www.scottbuckley.com.au/library/ Footage: videezy

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Nondual therapist Nic Higham speaks with Paul Dobson about the reality of nonduality. Everything begins with imagination. As we perceive life, we instantaneously intellectualise it and therefore distort it. The creative storytelling power of imagination projects colour, shape, form, and meaning on the blank screen that is your primary nature. The moment you have a sense of Aliveness and you say “I exist,” the entire universe is created, including your distinctive self-identity in contrast to other individuals. This means that you don’t exist because the world exists; the world exists because you do! The universe is one creative manifestation of the Self, and the body-mind you call you and yours is another, so, as the Self, you’re not limited to them and they don’t ultimately define you. Each finite expression points to fullness yet each cannot contain fullness, just as a single snowflake cannot capture the vast snow of Antarctica. Existence originates from you, exists in you, and will return to you.    One thing you can be completely sure of, with a little introspection, is your vital I-Am-ness which underlies and illuminates the constructions of imagination. I-Am-ness precedes imagining.    http://nisargayoga.com/  Music by Scott Buckley - https://www.scottbuckley.com.au/library/

Hsin Hsin (Faith in mind) is a poem attributed to the Third Chinese Zen Patriarch Seng-ts'an. Read by Philip Evan Cowlishaw.