Everything and Everywhere, All at Once

Why true non-duality is not the nihilism of "no self" but something far more intimate and profound

“I’ve been a student of Neo-Advaita for over a decade and I’ve heard the non-dual teachers say ‘there is no one here’ so many times that it’s become another mantra. But if I am to be honest, every time I look, all I find is me. If there’s no self, why does it feel like my self never goes away?”

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Every time I look - all I see is me…

Begin right there.

Forget all the non-dual mumbo jumbo about no-self, no-doer, no-one-here - it’s all semantics…

Go instead to the heart of your own direct experience.

Be ruthlessly honest!

Ask yourself what is most true in your experience. It doesn’t matter what someone else says is true of their experience. I don’t care if Buddha, Jesus and Lao Tzu all showed up at your house to tell you what is true. Throw them all out and come back to the only experience you can trust - your own.

“Every time I look - all I see is me.”

Wonderful.

Take that as the foundation and begin your exploration.

This ‘me’ that is ever present, every time you look - what is its nature? What are its features? Where are its boundaries? Where are its depths? What is its root?

You’ve spent the past ten years attempting to negate this self to no avail. You have failed miserably, monumentally, spectacularly. So, take a hint.

What if your path isn’t one of negation but of affirmation?

Instead of gaslighting yourself into believing the self is unreal. What if you were to instead assert it to be the only thing you can ever truly know to be real?