Nonduality: The Wholeness of Experience

In this episode of The Nonduality Podcast, Paul Dobson speaks with Joan Tollifson. Joan says that what we call non-dual understanding, realization or awakening, is an acceptance of this moment. An acceptance of everything; including our human foibles, our opinions, even our moments of upset and resistance. It's about accepting more and more. Not as something we do, but as a natural outcome of recognizing the uncontrollable nature and the wholeness of it all. It’s recognizing that whatever life moves us to do is a happening of the whole, of the totality. It’s not the doing of an individual little ‘me’, which doesn't even exist. Everything we call good or bad is part of this totality. At a deeper level of magnification, we can't find such concepts. In fact, we can’t pin down any expression of life. And at the same time, we can't ignore or dismiss the dimension of reality which does appear to depend on conceptualization and memory. After all, the human dimension is where we live our everyday lives. The most helpful thing we can do here, is to stop trying to do something. To be with the bare actuality of the feelings themselves, just the raw sensations and energies. There’s no personal entity inside the body, however, who can make that happen. It’s an effortless recognition in awareness that there’s only an ever-unfolding flow of subtleties in this exploration of reality. It’s really important not to fixate on any particular way of conceptualizing and exploring reality. Likewise, there’s not some final landing place or ultimate conclusion to be reached at the end of a spiritual path. It’s more like an open exploration of this immediate and timeless moment in which there are aspects of a seamless, unfolding, ever-present whole. Life doesn't really have any borders or divisions. Similarly, the ocean at surface-level has a lot of different waves and movements, but is one ocean. In a practical and accessible way, when we investigate deeply and tune into the very presence or beingness of whatever is present - whether it seems like pain or pleasure - there is something there that's surprisingly quite wonderful, ecstatic or radiant. We don’t find anything personal, tangible or definable; only a natural aspect of this undivided totality that can't be pinned down. This, says Joan, is true acceptance and inclusivity, a real possibility that can be discovered and explored right now, the only moment there is. Joan Tollifson’s website: https://www.joantollifson.com/ About nondual therapy, mentoring and psychedelic integration: https://nisargayoga.org/ Music by Scott Buckley - https://www.scottbuckley.com.au/library/

22 Sep 202049min

In this episode, Paul Dobson is joined again by John Astin. Episode #39. Paul speaks with John Astin again. We live in a world in which there appears to be great certainty about everything, all the things we've grown accustomed to knowing the meaning of. The presumed objects and events of the world, and the world itself, often have the whiff of incompleteness, and we have a sense of lack. That's one perspective - duality - the perspective of separate phenomena. Yet, if we enter into any phenomena and explore its nature, we never arrive at a final conclusion. There can be a recognition that life is beyond comprehension, and therefore, free of problems. In this episode of The Nonduality Podcast, John Astin reminds us that Reality is nondual and free of definition. There's not some greener grass on the other side. There is only the One Life somehow being here, now, and appearing as this moment. Everything is That, no matter how things look. All is that boundless, seamless, indivisible, infinity of existence. Available on all podcast platforms: https://anchor.fm/nonduality-podcast Music by Scott Buckley - https://www.scottbuckley.com.au/library/

28 Aug 202021min

Paul Dobson and nondual therapist Nic Higham talk about the radical inclusivity of effortless experiencing. There is one infinite, indescribable, inconceivable reality, and we are that. This reality is full of nothing but itself and absolutely in love with itself. Incredibly, through the human perspective, we seem to have condensed ourselves down to tiny little stick figure ideas about ourselves. Our unquestioned beliefs often convince us. Consequently, we feel limited, we suffer, and we seek the end of seeking. As people, we know the reality that we are through the play of opposites, which are never absolute and always relative. Our forgetfulness is like forgetting the sun is present while the moon eclipses it. The truth is, reality is forever appearing and responding to itself through seemingly different, dualistic forms. However, we forget the boundless context within which everything appears. While this is often our experience, it is possible to realise that no appearance can truly limit us, that no one expression is our entirety. Nor are we composites of thoughts, feelings and senses. We can recognise that nothing is out of place, for whatever is here is simply the inevitable actuality of life. As life, we can hold and contain it all, no matter how things may seem on the surface. We are free from the temporary and the relative because they don't define us ultimately. Simultaneously, every appearance is equally permitted to arise since there is nothing but reality. In this exploration of the non-dual nature of life, we're not trying to redefine anything or to reach a philosophical or spiritual conclusion, but seeing if our existing definitions and conclusions are valid through deep inquiry and investigation. For this, we need only look within our direct experience and discern that which is most certain, truthful and dependable. Nic Higham's website: https://nisargayoga.org/ Music by Scott Buckley - https://www.scottbuckley.com.au/library/

18 Aug 202016min

A guided nonduality meditation and inquiry with nondual therapist Nic Higham https://nisargayoga.org/

16 Aug 202016min

Nic Higham takes you through an exploration of present moment awareness https://nisargayoga.org/

12 Aug 202019min

Paul Dobson and nondual therapist Nic Higham talk about Finding Yourself Everywhere And Nowhere.   Consciousness inherits a conceptual framework through which to perceive and interact with itself. The mind seeks to try and resolve the conceptual with more concepts. We’ve taken ourselves to be the mind and its words. We’ve taken the words to be the truth. In spirituality, if we can even call it spirituality, we're not seeking to reconfigure concepts. We’re seeking the actual nature of the conceptual, of the mind, of anything that can be known. Just have a really good look directly. That’s the beginning. Everything that you are experiencing is you. You are the whole experience. It’s all the same source. Whatever is making the planet spin, is making the trees grow and your cells regenerate. It’s an unfolding of just incomprehensible, inconceivable intelligence. It’s now and it always is now. It’s just this. It’s not about upgrading anything or redefining anything. It’s just about this suchness, this isness of this timeless moment in which you are absolutely engaged because you are it. You literally only ever find yourself. Everywhere you go you only ever find yourself.   Nic Higham's website: https://nisargayoga.org/  Music by Scott Buckley - https://www.scottbuckley.com.au/library/

6 Aug 202017min

A Nonduality Meditation and Self-Inquiry with Nic Higham https://nisargayoga.org/

5 Aug 202015min

A nonduality meditation and inquiry with Nic Higham http://nisargayoga.com/

1 Aug 202013min