Maybe it depends on what is meant by nondual... what is the duality referring to?LastLegend wrote: ↑Thu Apr 15, 2021 1:52 pm I am not sure if I agree with nondual awareness...maybe non conceptual...
What duality means is essentially treating things as separate from one another. The “two” of duality is a separation of space in our minds, maybe to carve out space designated for one thing or another, this person or that, good and bad, etc... This is just my understanding of it. Yesterday I was driving and As I was watching the lines between lanes I felt like I shouldn’t cross the dotted line on the road. It was “bad” to go outside of the boundary. It was sort of boxing me in. Then I thought, maybe if I realized nonduality I wouldn’t have this limitation imposed by my mind.
Anyway, people may mean different thing s when they talk about nonduality. There’s the chapter in Vimalakirti Sutra where Vimalakirti is questioning all of these celestial bodhisattvas on their understanding of nonduality (ie. Emptiness). Each has a different explanation, but Vimalakirti’s was the most profound!
And even different philosophies within Buddhism mean different things by nonduality. For example, in yogacara it might be the nonduality between subject and object, perceived and perceived... somehow feeling like this thing you’re seeing is somehow something separate from you. Then in madhyamaka, nonduality might refer to not falling into ANY extremes. This maybe has to do with projection of intrinsic reality onto the world.