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Being Is a Verb is a nice place to sit back, relax, and explore implications of non-dual awareness.

What is Non-dual Awareness?

Non-dual awareness refers to the direct experience of perception minus the belief in a fundamental separation between mind and matter, between subject and object. Separation is indeed real as an appearance in awareness, but the reality of awareness—that in which everything appears—is indivisible. Division and separation are activities of the mind, not of the aware presence which knows the content of the mind.

• Introduction

• Main articles

Topical Guide

The main topics are listed here in alphabetical order for easy reference. Comprehensiveness has been sacrificed for the sake of concision; there are no duplicate articles across different categories.

For a chronological list, see the Table of Contents.

Awareness

• Awareness is the Seer, Mind is the Seen

• Awareness Knowing Awareness as Awareness

• Awareness, Mind, and the Act of Perception

• Aware Presence Simply Is

• I Am Awareness

• “I Am”: The Unqualified Truth

• Consciousness and Dynamism Are Two Aspects of One Reality

• Consciousness Cannot Be Captured

• Consciousness is Not a Feature of Reality but Reality Itself

• Frictionless Flow

• Nondual Awareness: Being In the World

• Recognizing Awareness in John 1:9-14

• Subjectivity is the Source of All Knowing

• The Body-Mind is a Lens for Awareness

• The Great, Unsolvable Mystery

• The Substrate of All Experience

• The Unifying Reality of Awareness

• The World as Modulations of Consciousness

• To Access Stillness

Devotion

• God's Presence as the Wellspring of Being

Dreams

• Ignorance Isn’t The Problem

• In Dreams, Who Controls the Narrative?

• When We Fall Asleep

Duality/Nonduality

• “Atman is Brahman” / “I and the Father are One”

• Dualism Shapes and Divides the World

• One Truth, Many Voices: Wisdom of the Upanishads and the Bible

Ego

Regret Is an Activity of Ego

Free Verse/Sketches

• Coffee Shop Talk

• How Do You Know God?

• Overheard in Devotion

• PSA

• The Same Can Be Said for Consciousness

Free Will

• Consciousness is Free to Choose

• Consciousness Simply Is

• The Locus of Control

• There is a Choice We Make

Good and Evil

• Beyond Good and Evil

God

• Beyond the Personal

• God and Consciousness

• The Light of All Mankind: A Nondual Reading of John 1:1-5

• The Mystery of “I Am”

Grace

• Grace: Gift from Above or the Recognition of Reality?

Happiness

• Happiness

• Two Paths to Joy

Jesus

• Jesus' Canonical Teachings of Nondual Reality (Part 1)

• Jesus' Non-Canonical Teachings of Nondual Reality (Part 2)

• “No Longer I Who Live, but Christ”

Liberation/Freedom

• A Single Recognition

Mind

• Mind Illuminates the World

• Mind is the Framework for Perception

Parables

• Parable for the Body-Mind

Perfection/Imperfection

• An Imperfect Universe?

Philosophers (in chronological order)

• Parmenides' Groundbreaking Argument

• Meister Eckhart’s, “God Cannot Know Itself Without Me”

• Spinoza's Dual-Aspect Monism Compared to the Nondual Perspective

• Schopenhauer, Dual-Aspect Monism and the Nondual Perspective

• Jung's Unified Field: Psyche and Matter as Dual Aspects of Reality

• David Bohm's Implicate Wholeness

• Iain McGilchrist and the Divided Brain

• David Chalmers: Beyond the Hard Problem

Philosophy

• Pantheism vs. Panentheism

• Reconciling Mind and Matter with Dual-Aspect Monism

• Substance Dualism vs. Dual-Aspect Monism

Prayer

• Approaches to Nondual Prayer

• The Manifestation Your Desire

Predeterminism

• Beyond Chance and Predetermination

Presence

• Practicing the Presence

• The Offering of Life

Reality

• All in the Divine

• Base Reality

• Do Thoughts Shape Reality?

• Judgment vs. Discernment

• Missing the Obvious

• Reality Perceives Itself Through You

• The Highest Truth Is a Simple Recognition

• There Can Only Be One Reality

• The Ultimate Reality According to Sacred Texts of the World

Separation

• Becoming an Instrument of the Divine

• The Body of the World

Sin/Salvation

• On Being a Sinner and the Need for Salvation

Synchronicity

• The Role of Meaningful Coincidences in Our Lives

• Where do Hunches Come From?

Time and Space

• Beyond Doubt

• Reality is Here and Now

• The Mind Creates Space and Time from the Infinite

• The Timelessness of Aware Presence

• When We Wake Up

Trinity

• The Christian Trinity: Aspects of “I Am”

• Unity and the Holy Trinity

Will

• The Will of God

Worry

• Eliminating Worry

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