#72 - Ego Death is the Natural Release of False Beliefs | Nonduality Podcast

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

Paul Dobson speaks with nonduality author and teacher Joan Tollifson. The stories that the mind tells are just stories or thoughts. They’re never really true. We have a certain view, but we don’t really know anything. When we go into the sensory reality of anything, there is nothing solid there at all in the space of awareness. When you actually tune into the actuality of the body, it's not solid at all nor separate from its environment. The whole spiritual path is really just about seeing through delusion. The more we recognise the fluidity of everything and the insubstantiality of our ideas, the more we’re able to be at ease with things being exactly the way they are, which doesn't mean we might not do something to change things. One moment there is transcendence, and the next there is the personal story. Neither need be dismissed. But there can be a noticing that there is one whole appearing in this aware space. https://www.joantollifson.com/ Nonduality author and nondual therapist Nic Higham's website: https://nisargayoga.org/ Music by Scott Buckley - https://www.scottbuckley.com.au/library/ Video footage: Pexels

29 Juli 202022min