Exploring Meditation 3: Non-Duality and Direct Path

In the traditional Zen literature, we read of the Absolute and the Relative. Here, the Absolute refers to the experience of no separation between ourselves and this moment just as it is, of no separation and therefore no sense of a separate “self” and instead just the oneness of the whole universe. The Relative refers to our ordinary world of disti

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In the Realization Process, nondual realization is experienced as the laying bare of fundamental consciousness. When we uncover it, we experience that our own body and our surroundings are pervaded by and made of this same undivided expanse of consciousness. We recognize it as our primary nature, the fundamental ground of our own being, and at the

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Although my work as a nonduality teacher is aligned with the shentong view, I do not speak of fundamental consciousness as a metaphysical reality. I cannot claim to know what it is. Buddhists often speak of it as the nature of the mind, while many Hindu philosophers have asserted that it is the nature of the universe. Still others claim that we hav

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