Part 1

Non-duality has nothing to do with "being one with" someone, something or some supernatural mystical invisible deity.  ONE includes these things called things as ideas.  When a "thing" is personalized it is known as "someone", or one-among-many; Oh how we MUST make room for humanity!  Deity IS the ONE-Omnipresent-Being besides which there is no other being BEING "to be one with".

Non-duality, by its own self-evident definition, cannot be "one with" another --- that's two!  Oh how we MUST make room for humanity!

Non-duality leaves no second, lesser presence that can even or ever "become one with" THAT-WHICH-ALONE-IS.  Non-duality also negates the possiblity that any two or more things/bodies/ideas are "one" or are "one with each other" or can become "one", by which is commonly meant "united".  Ideas do not merge for that would require a self-generated action, the function of which no idea is in possession.  In other words, ideas of themselves, cannot walk, talk, see, hear, think, know or be.  Then how could they "do" anything?  In yet other words, the "human being" (which is not) cannot "become one with" God (Life, Spirit, Soul), is not now "one with" God, and "they" (the human beings) are not "one with" each other nor with any other idea/thing.  Ideas are individual, unique, distinct.

To identify with and as this thing (human-body/form-collection of beliefs) seemingly running around within the Sole Awareness that is Aware is insanity -- otherwise known as "human-hood".  Mis-identification IS a hood, a covering that is seemingly worn out of ignorance, seemingly covering up the fact of ONE's sole Identity; revealed (seemingly un-covered) in revelation.  Awareness IS the only Identity as there is not another Awareness to identify.  Awareness is THE IDENTIFIER.  It is SELF-identified.

Part 2

Non-duality leaves no room for a "me" and a "thee".  There is no such a thing as "annihilation of the self".  There seems to be annihilation of a false sense of self (a false identity), but TO BE CLEAR, that which is the Sole and Only self, even Now, cannot be destroyed, has never been added to, altered, nor diminished in any way.  It is not in need of a clearing, a cleaning, or re-construction and cannot be re-constituted for it is not co-mingled with nor within the belief that it is not Itself.  It is not in need of recognition in order to be the ONLY Self that is Being Itself -- being Itself ONLY -- right NOW.

"One with God is a majority" -- NO -- ONE is the ALONE POWER, wiping out all minorities AND the majority.  Is it not plain to see that the majority is a power over the minority -- two powers: duality, not non-duality.  Though "non-dualists" often prattle that they are "one with God" revealing (woefully not to the "non-dualist") the total ignorance of the actual fact of the TRUE Non-dual state -- the ONLY State.

Non-duality -- ONE ALONE POWER -- is the only mode of Being.  It is the solidly changeless state that seems to include other states.  This is totally a seeming.  The confusion of the seeming with reality is the "origin of humanity".  That is why it is said that humanity has no source; that it is NOT.  Its origin is a seeming.

Staunch unwavering Clarity is the Light of Awareness that deflates the rumors of another power: rumors of war, inflation, pestilence, malady, dis-ease of any sort.  The presence of un-ease in the seeming is a signal of the presence of distraction, of expectation -- of having others.  An immediate return to Reality will reveal that Reality has not turned away from Its steadfast Identity -- so who has?  Here, there is ONE ALONE UNCORRUPTED POWER, no other to deal with and no other from whom a debilitating blow has been nor may be dealt.


Part 3

Claims of being "one with" another is really an excuse to have unrestrained license to riot in the streets of ignorance.  It's a feel-good phrase of occult metaphysics whose goal is to allow one to be able to get away with following the mandates of the false sense of self and then to suffer no consequences.  The following are examples of affirmations spoken by the cult of "one with" [followed by what is really being said/meant in brackets]:

"Oh , I'm one with God, so my actions are always right and guided by God" [and I can do what I want]. 

"I have full justification in my actions, God is using me to do this" [thing that I want to do because it will benefit my situation].

"I do what I love" [because its what I want to do, it makes me feel good].

"I am a Divine Idea" [and you are a mere ignorant human], "here, let me help you".

"I know the Truth" [so why did this happen to me?].

The list goes on and on and is peppered with a personal self-proclaimed human God, with duality; one that is greater; one that is lesser; one that is "divine"; one that is not.  Where is Non-duality in all of this nonsense?  Does the ONE ALONE PRESENCE have to affirm such to Itself to be Itself or in the face of danger to ward off or combat danger?

Non-duality is Non-duality.  Truth is Truth.  Any watered down or adulterated "version of" is NOT.  ONLY Truth is True.  In the Light of TRUE Non-duality, any myth or pagan polytheistic (look this word up, it's eye-opening) religion that makes room for "one" to be "one with" a god or one that worships a god is NOT; has no basis in Reality (see christianity, metaphysics, hinduism, buddhism, judaism, etc.)

Who or what is "one with" the Sole and ONLY ONE?

Non-duality is not a religion (in todays organized sense of the word) -- it is Fact.  Fact stands true.  To say that Fact stands true in the face of falsity is unnecessary and untrue.  Why affirm that "what is not" is NOT?  What IS is never confronted with what is not.  In other words, ONE POWER is forever busy being the Sole-and-Only Power the Sole-and-Only Identity that IS and is reveling in and as Itself.  It is the ONLY Omnipresent Identity and NEVER denies or gives attention to that-which-is-not (which is an affirmation of what-is-not), so why should the Awareness reading these words right now?

Part 4

One may ask, how is this practical in "daily doings".  Non-duality means ONE -- without a second.  There are not two worlds, as dualism states.  Heaven and Earth are one and the same.  The Master said "as above, so below".  "When you make the inner as the outer as the inner, then you shall enter the kingdom".  Perhaps better stated, when you realize that the outer IS the inner and the inner IS the outer (not TWO separate "places") then you will see the ONE Kingdom here where I AM.  There is not a True Kingdom AND a false kingdom.  There is not a Kingdom AND some god somewhere.  There is ONE Non-dual Life, appearing as Itself in all of its glory.  To a skewed mis-identified sense, this is not seen.  Who cares?  Correctly identified, One cannot find One that is mis-identified, nor an illusory world -- it may SEEM as though there are those mis-identified, but a seeming is a seeming, a fiction is a fiction.  If the seeming holds some validity, brings about some impetus to act in defense, then deeper inquiry into the nature of Reality may seem necessary.

The "illusory" world is the mind-created distortion (referred to in Genesis as the mist that spread across the land).  It has no Reality (self-generating Life) as its "light" is borrowed.  Does one need to and can one wipe out the appearance of an imaginary tiger in the corner when he is hypnotized that it is there?  Does an onlooker see the tiger?  He may see the hypnotized one cower in fear, but does the onlooker feel fear?  What would one do, heal the belief that there is really a tiger in the corner? NO.  Wake the hypnotized one up!

When One is faced with a claim of nonsense ("There's a tiger in the corner!"), ONE does not try to make sense of nonsense!  ONE does not take an error and try to mentalize it into rightness.  One acknowledges that it seems like error, seems to be contrary, knowing that ONLY Truth is True and is valid.  One can then dismiss it as hear-say, rumor, the lie that it is.  To refute a lie is not necessary.  The habit is to try to prove that a lie is a lie.  Knowing that a lie is a lie, there is no need to disprove it -- Truth by being Itself is proof that ONLY TRUTH IS TRUE.

This, then leaves One to do what seems necessary in the seeming.  After all, "Before 'enlightenment', chopping wood and carrying water; after 'enlightenment' chopping wood and carrying water".  The wood does not chop itself and the water does not carry itself.

The Beingness of BEING, that which Being IS, is the function of Goodness in action.  Knowing this, AS the ONE KNOWING that is Knowing, is all that is necessary and reveals that there are no obstacles to Being.  So, that which may be deemed by some human sense to be an obstacle is actually nothing -- nothing that needs to be refuted, healed, nor righted.  Seeing THIS is Present Wholeness and the Self-recognition thereof.  Seeing this, reveals that there are no obstacles TO ONESELF.  If an obstacle seems to be present, be self-assured that it is SELF-IMPOSED.

Part 5

What is the obstacle?  Indulgence of a belief.

From the standpoint of the human mind, the senses, there is no such thing as nonduality, but the scriptures refer to the human mind as the devil, don't they?  We are aware of the human mind are we not?  Not THROUGH the human mind.  Awareness is not partitioned.  All that is included within this awareness are not separate functioning entities... they are ideas within the one awareness.  This awareness includes.  There is not awareness AND things/ideas.

We must stick with changeless fact to ever have clarity.  Diddleing with things, the human so-called mind, opinions and beliefs -- multiplicity-- will not reveal the truth.  Who or what is the one aware of things, thoughts, the sun, planets, your mother, your car, your very body (your favorite one and others)?

Is not that awareness ever-present and whole right now?  Do you honestly know of a time when there is no awareness?  If, you say that there is no awareness when you slept or when one passes out.... how do you know there was sleep or passing out?  Is not the one aware constantly aware?  And what of the one claiming an apparent absence?
Must not that one be present in order to claim absense?

Valuing the senses and sense information is simply a habit that we must come out from and be separate.  We are aware of the senses, not through them!  Give a moment or two to this and consider it... finally not just reading over words and one can find that the kingdom of heaven is at hand... just previously seemingly unnoticed.  That which you have labeled your self is a false self--you are the "labeler".  It appears to function as a self, but what of appearances?  What of a mirage in the desert?  Upon investigation, one will find no such personal one who changes with the prevailing opinion of the day.

Do you believe, agree with, every single thought that comes blipping across your screen?   Do you take hearsay to be fact and fact to be hearsay?  That receiving set you have between your ears cannot tell you who you are.  It can only report what it hears and it can't even really do that, but, seemingly functioning on borrowed light, we put stock in its flailing and floundering around and say that it is has power.

No false world has ever gotten started and now needs to be eradicated.  Seeing the REAL world through a false sense (human thinking mind) does not suddenly create two worlds.  Does it?  NO.  Just where do we locate this false world (for that which is a "not" cannot be found, can it?) and, having found it we can then eradicate it?  These are serious questions.  The honest answers to which will reveal that the Sole and ONLY world (the world of non-duality) is the One that exists right here, right now.

All Love,
Don