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 som...

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...

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 reca...

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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...

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

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The Nonduality Podcast with nonduality author and nondual therapist Nic Higham and Paul Dobson. In a sense, desire was the principal “big bang.” It’s a mystery why or how such a powerful explosion of passionate desire developed out of unspeakable completeness! One can only wonder: “Life desired, therefore I am.” Thus, in partnership with imagination, it created your personal world along with your...

We are aware. We are experiencing. This reality is obvious and irrefutable, yet we habitually overlook or bypass this basic fact and instead focus on fleeting facets of experience. Our unlimited experiencing is the constant, unshakable background; we are never not conscious no matter the quality of our experiences. Simultaneously, this awareness is the ever-shifting foreground. Our present experie...

Randall Friend shares the message of nonduality in this recording of a Second Life meeting. Nonduality is not hidden, it’s not a mystery. It doesn't require effort. The reality you seek is already here as this seamless, unlimited, timeless moment of experiencing. So this message is only about the peeling back of the concepts that have been built that seem to obscure our appreciation of life as it...

A talk by Randall Friend on the essential qualities for the pathless path of self-realisation and discerning the nondual nature of reality.  http://avastu0.blogspot.com

Paul Dobson and nondual therapist explore the truth of infinite non-separation once again in this episode of the nonduality podcast. We typically think of ourselves as people aware of other people and things: “I am a finite individual in a world of other individuals experiencing separate finite phenomena, none of which are me.” Said simply, “I am aware.” With an enlightening shift of appreciation,...

We feel that our unquestioned and inherited beliefs are evidence. The question is, what is evidential? What is factual? What is actual? Dive into those beliefs. And actually, you'll find nothing but the absolute. We're coming back to a very simple way of looking at phenomena, asking ‘What is the nature or anything?’, going on direct investigation. We're not throwing out our assumptions, we're simp...

Paul Dobson and Nic Higham talk about the nondual realisation that we are timeless infinity knowing ourselves through the temporary imagined play of duality. We assume we are subjects in relationship with other limited subjects and objects. But upon close investigation, we find that all we know is unlimited knowing, experiencing or awareness itself. I don’t know of an object, but only knowing. I d...

Randall Friend speaks about Vedanta, a "nondual" tradition of self-inquiry from Hinduism. Randall’s site is: http://avastu0.blogspot.com/ Randall describes Vedanta as: similar in many ways to other nondual traditions like Zen or Dzogchen Buddhism, Taoism, Christian Mysticism (Gnosticism) and Sufism from Islam.  Advaita is a "sect" or branch of Vedanta which says that there is a singularity of...

Nondual therapist speaks with co-host Paul Dobson in this episode of The Nonduality Podcast. You seek that which you believe is not already present. You fight that which you believe shouldn't be present. In this cycle of grasping and aversion, you are trying to get out of this moment because it seems unacceptable. Despite appearances, what is this moment, really, but the one reality you seek? When...

This is just a really quick message to say there's no podcast this week. But we've collated a load of highlights from this year's episodes into an hour and 20-minute long documentary, and that's over on YouTube. Enjoy and we'll be back next week.  Here's the link: https://youtu.be/xt7V8Vb7uC0 Thanks to Scott Buckley as ever for the awesome music: scottbuckley.com.au/library

Nonduality can seem decidedly obscure, abstract and complicated, but the truth to which the word points is absolutely simple and accessible. Experientially, Nonduality is about returning to the absolute simplicity of 'what is' before the mind starts breaking up the present moment and complicating it. The truth is that the mind has added dividing lines where there aren’t any, and this is relatively...

Paul Dobson speaks with nonduality author John Astin. This is part 2. There's a certainty of something being here; the presence is quite certain. What it is, however, is entirely uncertain. What we're looking for is here. Presence is already here before we ever start to look for it. Before we ever do some practice to get ourselves into it, reality is here, inexplicably. It’s this explosion of life...

Paul Dobson speaks with nonduality author John Astin.  We have language and concepts to describe the myriad things we experience, including ourselves. But the inquiry in the exploration of nonduality is: let's start with present experience. What is life experientially? What is the actual experience of this moment? That's all we can actually investigate - what's actually here. After all, it ca...

Paul Dobson and nondual therapist Nic Higham talk more about nonduality.  You are the light of experiencing or awareness. Are you not experiencing or aware? You are conscious and your consciousness enlightens each expression of itself. It illuminates the known; this seamless display of experience, expressions of the same light that you are. Everything is enlightened and enlivened by your expe...