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#4225 -
The Nonduality
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Wake up and try to work
from the nondual state.
You have to go beyond
knowledge. It's more like living it.
-Chani
Partial transcription
of selected portions from the interview:
It's so easy to live in
the state of duality. We think we are a separate entity which
doesn't affect the other person. There is inter-coordination with
every single thing and anything we do in the world, and any kind
of decision we make is going to affect the other person.
...
We get confused and we
start protecting our ideas, our beliefs. Anybody tells us any
kind of story, we truly believe it and start defending it. We
forget the basic truth. The basic truth is the fundamental
knowledge of every religion, which does not mean reciting it as
though some doctor gives us a prescription, we come home and
start reciting it, reading it, protecting our books, worshipping
it, bowing to it, and forget what's written in it, what it really
means, how to apply it in our life. ... Nonduality is the
essence of all religions.
...
I will not recommend
anybody read one book and stick with it. That will put you in a
box. Then you start defending that book and you get caught up in
that. You have to be open to everything. Whatever shows you the
way, you go for it.
...
Who is closest to us than
ourselves? If we don't have a knowledge of ourself, which we
don't, most of us, then how can we have knowledge of the other
person and pass judgment on other people?
Listen to the interview:
http://nonduality.com/nondualitystreet_chani.mp3