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non duality advaita liberation the website of richard sylvester non duality advaita liberation home meetings blog videos and interviews audios and links books and extracts confessions of a seeker one to one sessions and quotes donate the website of richard sylvester home richard s next meeting will be held in tunbridge wells on sunday 30th august this meeting must be booked in advance for more details click here richard has been giving talks on non duality since 2005 in england and other countries he has written five books including the much loved little classic i hope you die soon available here his other books include confessions of a seeker to find out more click here or to view the book on amazon click here and non duality questions non duality answers order here or read extracts here one to one sessions richard offers one to one sessions on non duality by whatsapp facetime or phone or in person one hour by train from london for more information including fee click here or email richard at richardsylvester hotmail co uk video series what is non duality for all episodes and for other videos you can subscribe to richard s youtube channel meetup group to join richard s meetup group click here an introduction to non duality seeing non duality means seeing that our most basic assumption about our life that we are separate is only an appearance we seem to be the subject of our life moving through a world of objects including those sometimes difficult objects known as other people but actually there is no separation there is no subject and object there is only seamless oneness recognising this is sometimes called liberation although there are no rules seeing liberation has a tendency to re configure our psyche liberation may be seen suddenly or it may be seen gradually and as nisargadatta said the quick is not better than the slow however if liberation comes about quickly the changes in the psyche tend to be more noticeable precisely because they are sudden there is no advantage to this it just makes them easier to describe there are no necessary implications in liberation and so any possibility can happen if it couldn t it wouldn t be liberation it would be imprisonment however this re configuration of the psyche often brings about a radically changed view of reality we can sum up this changed view in three sentences firstly it is seen that this is it it is recognised that this whatever is arising is the entirety this is nothing becoming everything time and space are seen through past and future and here and there are seen through neurotic thoughts and feelings about the past and future such as guilt regret nostalgia and anxiety diminish or disappear with the neurotic energy that attaches to the separated person reduced or gone it is also seen that this is enough the neurotic personality usually sees this as not enough because there is so little engagement with whatever is actually happening when it is seen through the veil of separation in separation our attention is focussed so much on the past the future our own concerns and our own projections that of course whatever is actually arising seems to be too thin and insubstantial to be satisfying most of the time we are engaging not with life but with our own spectral imaginings the result is often boredom or depression and a restless searching for something more exciting to happen but with separation gone the complete aliveness of every moment is seen and so this becomes sufficient the desire for something more exciting to happen diminishes or dies away and joy is taken in the simplicity of whatever is the aroma of coffee the sound of the wind in the trees the texture of a cat s fur because we no longer have a need for excitement and drama to ward off boredom a more simple and a quieter life is often led the third change in the way the psyche views reality in liberation can be summed up in the words it is seen that this is what it is and it isn t anything else in separation the psyche often adds meaning and purpose to what is precisely because what is in it s simplicity is not experienced as fulfilling enough we want what is with a cherry on top so we invent endless stories about what this is about for instance a fall in the street may be turned into a punishment from god a win on the lottery may be turned into the fruits of good karma or the grace of the guru we live as the star of our own movie in a story moving meaningfully towards some kind of purposeful resolution meaning and purpose are seen as justifying our existence but just as a flower needs no meaning to be a perfect flower and a cat needs no meaning to be a perfect cat we need no meaning to be a perfect jim or mary or bill or annie we are already oneness expressing itself as whoever we are how could that possibly be improved upon when this is seen everything is simply what it is and it isn t anything else in liberation the dramas of meaning and purpose that the separated mind thrives on die away or at least they are seen for what they really are as stories such as we might tell to entertain a bored child on a rainy afternoon our need to save the planet or please god or perform seva for our guru to cleanse our karma disappears so does our fascination with purifying our chakras balancing our aura and having therapy for our past and maybe future lives and it is also seen that if any of these stories continue that s o k too that is also liberation doing it s thing and what about love now we come to the deepest mystery what most radically re configures the psyche in liberation is the recognition of unconditional love it is realised that unconditional love cannot be understood by the personal mind and is like everything else to do with liberation impersonal in other words unconditional love has nothing to do with me or with you unconditional love simply is it excludes nothing if it did it would not be unconditional the mind is baffled by this the mind can only live in conditionality dividing up experience into what it likes and what it dislikes but there is no need for the mind to torture itself with its inevitable failure to love unconditionally because in liberation it is seen that unconditional love is simply the case regardless of what you and i might be thinking and feeling always unconditionally there is love when this is seen even the most ordinary moment becomes vividly alive in liberation it is seen that the person that we think we are is simply an appearance at our heart and at the heart of everything is undifferentiated being from which all differences appear there is no self there is no person the most common misconception about liberation is that it is something a person can gain but liberation is a loss the loss of the sense that there ever was a separate person who could choose to do something to bring about liberation when it is seen that there is no separation the sense of vulnerability and fear that attaches to the person falls away and what is left is the wonder of life just happening instead of meaning there is a squirrel motionless on a grey tree trunk legs splayed head up looking straight at you instead of purpose there is the incredible way an ant crawls over a twig when the sensation that i am in control of my life and must make it happen ends then life is simply lived and relaxation takes place there is a sense of ease with whatever is the case and an end to grasping for what might be many teachers of non duality suggest that there is someone who can do something to heal their sense of separation in other words that there is a person who is able to discover that they are not a person the absurdity of this idea is often camouflaged by highly complex and subtle thinking teachings about non duality frequently present the seductive idea that liberation can be realised through an evolutionary spiritual path this has no actual connection with non duality but it can offer us a convincing although meaningless story about it a way of searching may lead to a person being more comfortable that is fine but it is all that you get a person who is more comfortable in their prison if you are in prison it is better to be comfortable but that doesn t get the person out of the prison they perceive themselves to be in nothing will get the person out of their prison because the person is the prison when the person drops away it is seen that there never was a prison in the first place then it is seen that i and you are the light in which everything arises tony parsons on richard s book drink tea eat cake it is rare to find a work that is devoid of any agenda to satisfy the seeker s need to be given a path or a purpose to follow however richard s latest book is just such a rarity every response to a rich variety of questions points unwaveringly towards the non dual perspective the reader is carried along and inspired by an expression that comes out of a deep and rich experience of life with all of its complexity and humour here is a book to savour to chuckle with and to keep and refer to as a rare work of undiluted non dualism richard lives in england on the border of west kent and east sussex if you would like to contact richard please go to the foot of meetings page for details richard s books i hope you die soon non duality questions non duality answers drink tea eat cake the book of no one confessions of a seeker adventures in spirituality therapy and belief available from amazon co uk share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook blog at wordpress com privacy non duality advaita liberation sign up log in copy shortlink report this content manage subscriptions loading comments you must be logged in to post a comment