Terrence Non-Duality

Send us Fan Mail When thought stops, there is no duality here, mind makes it all up.  Why, because it works dualistically.  The mind interprets the world dualistically.  That is how it creates a me and a you.  Thoughts are just happening, and they dictate who I am.   Excerpt from interview with David Richards.  For more information www.terrencestephens.com or to join Terrence for two weekly Virtua...

Send us Fan Mail We go looking for our true nature, but what does that say about current nature?  It doesn't dawn on us to think that if there is a true self to be had, current self cant be true. This work unravels the idea of a personal self and we come to see that the back story never actually happened.  This is a radical fact finding mission.   Excerpt from interview with David Richards.  ...

Send us Fan Mail There is one electricity and it animates every electrical gadget on the planet and in the same way, there is one life, animating everything.  The evidence is everywhere and we are blind to it.  This process is about becoming more conscious, more awake, more aware and that is just happening.  Relax, this gets you, you don't get it. Excerpt from Virtual Event with Terrence Step...

Send us Fan Mail What is essence, what is beingness, the presence that is being actually pointed to, which cannot be experienced dualistically is prior to senses, prior to seeing hearing tasking touching smelling.  That is one of many things that cannot be understood dualistically, it is something that you come to know.  It is prior to.  It cannot be understood with mind. Excerpt from Virtual Even...

Send us Fan Mail Where are you in relation to speaking, hearing, seeing, tasting, touching, sensations of the body, where are you?  George investigates the sense of I am the body.  Excerpt from Virtual Event with Terrence Stephens. For more information www.terrencestephens.com.au or to join Terrence for three weekly Virtual Events, book at: https://www.terrencestephens.com.au/start-your-journey/ F...

Send us Fan Mail What you are is not dependent on thoughts. We spend most of our time in this group talking about what we are not, what an absurd thing to be talking about. So why?  Because we believe we are something, and that needs to be unravelled.  Why talk about what you are not?  Because its not possible to talk about what you are!  As soon as words are employed, you move away from what you...

Send us Fan Mail This that is here, that is aware of the story, gives the story no meaning.  If there is seeming meaning being given, understand its just thoughts giving meaning.  Just stay here and the story drops.  Try and find a word that stands alone. One word by itself means nothing.    There is nothing to do, nothing to know, nothing to learn, nothing to become, nowhere to go, nothing needs...

Send us Fan Mail This has opened up.   The quieter it gets, the further the thoughts seem when they come, its as if they are not even there.   The being is quiet, a Me only seems to step in when the mind is active. In the absence of thoughts there is no me, there is just this, and its still and beautiful. The Me has never been here so its not like there is one there to be removed,  There ends up b...

Send us Fan Mail The mind, because it is dualistic, divides everything up.  I have a life, you have a life, the dog has a life, the bird has a life, the tree has a life.  Animals don’t know they are animals. They are just expressions of life.  There is only ONE life. There is just ONE, and the gateway to the realisation of that, is the silence of awareness, the silence of consciousness.  We are be...

Send us Fan Mail Can you find the thinker, the creator of thinking?   If so, where is the me residing if its the thought creator?    We are convinced I am the thinker, I am the hearer.  Can you choose not to think, not to hear?   The personal me is fictitious, its a phantom character that gets seemingly experienced as words, thoughts, language.  If that completely stopped, its not like you are goi...

Send us Fan Mail It dawns on you that you are sitting in the cinema, just witnessing, no idea what is coming next zero.  At some point there becomes an absolute disinterest in mind, that you will get up and walk out of the cinema into light.  What we have been taking to be our life is only what has been projected onto the screen.  What gets onto the screen is your internal world that is just happe...

Send us Fan Mail This is about coming to see the False.  The self enquiry is about Who Am I, What Am I, Where Am I. We assume there is a personal person here.  Its an assumption because when we challenge it, it falls to pieces.   If you are the thinker, you should be able to stop thinking!  All we need to see is the process of this seeming duality.  In the seeing of it, it collapses.  Its profound...

Send us Fan Mail The Idea of a me being here, being a thinker, having free will, being a lonely separated self, collapses.  When it fully dawns on you that there is no personal me here, then there is no one else out there either.   The lights are definitely on but there is no one home.  There is aliveness, there is being here. Just stop taking that to be mine, because its not.  What is it that is...

Send us Fan Mail “I feel anxious, depressed, agitated.”. Not True.  The narrator or mind can’t actually experience anything so whatever it is saying is false, it's just a story, it's made up.  It literally can't experience anything.  With the absence of all the ME thoughts, it's peaceful.  Everything is brand new and fresh, all the time.   Life no longer goes through the filter...

Send us Fan Mail It’s just a story playing out.  You are not the author, you are not the producer.  Have you had Enough of the enquiring mind, have you had enough of the questions, have you had enough of trying to understand, trying to get this.  Eventually the mind or thinking becomes redundant and there is an absolute knowing of that fact.  The story is not personal, it might as well be about so...

Send us Fan Mail It all arises as thoughts.  That that you are, can absolutely know what you are not, but that that you are not doesnt have a chance to know what you are.  Why, its not alive, its not conscious, its not being.  It all arises as thoughts.  A thought will say, I am the thinker, if that is so, then stop it!    There is a whole inner world, and everyone is seemingly living in their own...

Send us Fan Mail If it is not conscious, what is it basing your whole back story on.  For experiencing to occur, you have to be conscious.  Is a story, an actual experience?  The only way the dualistic process can work is for the mind to take the story about the experience, to be the experience.  The me is a story too.  The true self is here or the beingness, the consciousness, the awareness, it c...

Send us Fan Mail In the complete absence of mind, duality ceases.  Without mind, would the seeing stop, the tasting, the touching, the smelling?  Would consciousness disappear, would awareness disappear, would beingness stop, if mind stopped?  It helps if you can come to see that you are not the seeker.  You can be aware of the seeking and how that is manifesting, because it is just a thought that...

Send us Fan Mail The Me Arises as Thoughts.  On an intellectual level, we can see the me arises as thoughts.  What we are looking for is this sense of being, but in the absence of the me-ing. The me can’t experience being, it cant experience seeing, hearing, tasting, touching smelling. Its not conscious, its not aware. Then mind steps in and claims to be aware, conscious, seeing, hearing etc.  We...

Send us Fan Mail Only mind says there has to be something here that is experiencing. Only mind says I am this beingness, I am this awareness. Dive into the beingness until duality disappears and the mind will shut down, and you will be resting in your true nature.  As soon as the attention shifts to “what’s this?” the mind just goes.  That that fuels mind is attention.  In the absence of attention...

Send us Fan Mail Its natural inclination is peace, quiet, stillness, non separation, non dualistic and at its core a love to be, or happy to be.  That becomes self evident.  There is no person there that is having the thoughts or being affected by those thoughts. The thoughts are just happening.  Zero.  What is it that believes the me story is the story itself.  The story is believing itself.  The...

Send us Fan Mail Can you observe a personal me?  You can't describe or see what you actually are, your true nature, because you are it.  To see it you would have to be able to separate yourself out from your true nature to be able to look at your true nature.  That, that we are looking for, is already looking.  It has just been taken to be a personal separate isolated lonely little self rowin...

Send us Fan Mail  As a seeming person we believe we are conscious.    But we call this point of consciousness me, and its not.  We are conscious of everything except this seeming point of  consciousness, what’s that?  When we get onto the non dual path, the idea of a me has got to be unraveled, so we come to see its not a me being conscious of, however there is consciousness.  What is this, our wh...

Send us Fan Mail All there is, ultimately, is just this, and this is just happening. No cause, no effect, no reasons why, just is!  Seeing, hearing, tasting, touching and smelling, they do not comment on anything.  They are not dual.  What makes anything dualistic, is the moment the mind steps in.  Duality is a mind construct or concept only. There is no one doing anything, there is nothing to wor...

Send us Fan Mail They fall under the illusion of time, me and other. There’s no such thing as a relationship. This also falls under the category of time. Let go of the story in your mind. The beingness here and the beingness there, it’s the same Beingness.  It’s the mind that sets up a person here and a person over there, so the relationship that is going on, is all in the personal mind. Excerpt f...