How Can One Attain Oneness And Non-Duality?

By Armando Rod


Non-duality is something that the mind itself cannot get aware of it, as it can only be known through the state of being in it. Everything that we are looking to know cannot be known by naming it and or knowing it but it can only be understood.

Doing meditation is not a very easy job, after going through a point of time it might become difficult to continue meditating. After being doing meditation for a long time, it shall become difficult to resist the feeling of getting up, however you have to keep your focus and distract yourself from the resistance. Meditation might also make you uncomfortable, but you have to stick to it.

However just because we latch ourselves with the definitions and do not look for the belief of what is in there, we fail to experience the non-duality or the oneness. As your individual identity is being described through your thinking, the only thing visible to you is separation. When you want to be free of stress, confusions and conflicts, this can be the right method.

This is not because you are not resistant enough to continue meditation, but it is a natural process that everyone goes through. Our existence enough is the resistance to this moment. So the challenge while doing meditation and when you find yourself in resistance, are you able to find a method in you, which can help you to surrender yourself completely to this moment itself.

However when you find out the reasons behind the thoughts and when it becomes clear to you, you do find out the real reasons behind the separation, the action of creating yourself to be someone against everything else. This something is what has to be protected, which needs to control everything so that it can survive.

You trying to achieve enlightenment is enlightenment itself, similarly you trying to become an individual of a non-dual nature is achieving non-duality itself. Enlightenment is something, which lets you know that you are not separate from the reality and you yourself are the reality.

Another great example for non-duality can be the breathing itself, breathing is something that we can control, like we can hold our breath, inhale faster and deeper and so on. However you don't stop breathing when you don't take control of it, it happens naturally. Similarly, we think that life has to be controlled and to attain non-duality; however the existence itself is non-dual. You must remember that life continues even when you are controlling it or not.

Everything that happens in a human's life, every problem or situation, you must know that the being is as new as ever. When you attain Oneness or Non-Duality, whether it is the depth off depressions, confusions, wrath of despairs or in great pain and loss, you as a being still remain clear, as silent as possible and pristine. The individual that we are now is renewed and the likely you are to appear through the time, which looks things as they happen, you get the experience and expression of this newness or the Oneness and Non-duality and become indestructible.




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