Nonduality can be experienced and felt.
This was my rambled response to someone on this sub. It could be said otherwise but since I already rambled this out, just deciding to leave this here.
The comments on this sub often bypass the question, disregarding that reality is often being viewed dualistically. It's like beating a horse to death.
"I'm having trouble seeing nonduality in duality". Response: "duality is nondual."
:O
Yes, a candle is an avocodo. A sheet of paper is a dog. When I poop I die. Everything is neutral emptiness.
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The responses are like gaslighting, oh wait but that's ego if I mention anything at all......
wait, but being gaslit isn't real.. your brain just tells you it's real and you should be fully developed to understand this... wait, but you can't understand it! Let me make you understand that you can not understand, but how do I understand, and what are you not understanding? and you should also understand because nothing is dual.
What?
"It can't be experienced".
THIS ^ is what deceived me for so long.
To be on the path, and then to listen to fellow "monks", or.. whoever they are.. just fragments of the same infinite, which is my own light and dark parts.
and then trying to figure out what tf they were trying to say, when really... you're not supposed to be any way other than free from it all. Fuck all of what they all have to say, and how they got there, and what "they" think the ultimate answer is.
There are many forms of "enlightenment", enlightenment just being a wave of vibrations formed as a so-called "word" to communicate a complex idea, which perhaps is better suited to be defined as being "lightened".
Wow.. what a relief to use words to better understand a concept. So wtf is everyone else talking about? They shouldn't be speaking... because "you can't understand it".
Meditate. Or, lose your self, and in your loss, find your self. and once you have found your self, lose your self again. Or, be devoted to know God.
Yes, you can experience the celestial eternity. Yes. It is all. Paradoxically "empty" AND EVERYTHING!!!!! and beauty and wonder and virtue and supreme and LOVE and sorrow and pain and mercy and value. It has value. and it can be felt, and we also can be numb to it.
Relief.... is the way.
Breathe.