Talking About Nonduality Using a Dualistic Tool

Dear Ariel,

You said that the mind have has absolutely zero capacity to know absolute truth.

Is that an absolute truth?

The law of non-contradiction is the foundation of all truth. Any statement that contradicts itself (such as yours here) is obviously not truth.

MS.

Hey MS,

You have found the fundamental flaw of using a dualistic tool such as language to attempt to verbalize a nondualistic Truth such as God has no opposite. There is no opposite to Truth.

How would you describe color to a blind person? You could try to describe it, but no matter what you say, your descriptions and explanations will always come up short. The best thing to do would be to show the blind person how to see, to experience the colors for themselves. Then no explanation would be needed.

The original statement I made above is an attempt at verbalizing the direct experience of Oneness, an experience which is utterly beyond description. It is truly an experience out of this world.

When one experiences this, it becomes stunningly apparent how REAL Allness/Nothingness is and how unreal this whole world of form is. This world may feel real, but it’s like a dulled out bland dream compared to ultimate reality. I promise you.

I can not convince you of what I say, nor is my desire to convince you that I am “right.” Why? Because even if you DID believe me with all your heart, it would still just be another belief, another layer of the egoic onion, and beliefs are a poor substitute for knowingness and experience.

In order to understand absolute Truth, one must rise above the level of consciousness that allows for duality in the first place, the level where we can have two opposing beliefs such as good vs. evil, right vs. wrong, religion vs. science, and experience higher levels of consciousness in which nonduality, the level beyond opposites and the only True Reality, is one’s complete and total experience. It is only from this place that one can stand and look back at the world and fully recognize illusion as illusion.

In order to do this, one must completely transcend their own ego and see through the lie that says the mind is a valid tool to discern ultimate Truth. Truth can never be understood by attempting to going through the mind. The mind, plain and simple, CAN NOT KNOW TRUTH.

Thanks for your question.

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