[Updated August 9, 2023] Over 100 nonduality teachers and speakers are on YouTube these days, with more coming online all the time. — Non-Medium subscribers can access this full article here. Nonduality is Not New Emptiness (sunyata) has been a core teaching in Mahayana Buddhism since at least Nagarjuna (~300 CE). The similar Advaita (nondual) Vedanta school of Hinduism has been around since at least Gaudapada’s time (6th c CE). The earliest Zen/Chan Buddhism writings also date…

[Updated March 26, 2023] Everything you need to know now about the spiritual dimensions of our infinite universe. — Non-Medium subscribers can access this full article here. Contents [0] WHAT IS A SPIRITUAL DIMENSION OF REALITY? — [0.1] Basic Definitions — —[0.1.1] 5 Sensory Dimensions — —[0.1.2] Dimensions of Consciousness — —[0.1.3] Lower & Higher Dimensions — —[0.1.4] Limitations of Human Concepts (Disclaimer) — [0.2] Dimensions vs Densities — Confusion…

[Updated April 1, 2023] From an academic to a blogger/author on Medium. — Everything has purpose and value, and every moment is synchronicity — my sankalpa A Brief Self Introduction In mid-2019, I retired from my university after some 40 years as a graduate student and then a professor studying, teaching, researching, and writing about human geography, urban/community planning, and tourism development.

Nothing ever changes, even as everything changes … as these quotes show. — Non-Medium subscribers can access this article paywall free here. Quotes from 1957 The following “quotes from 1957" were posted on a blog by John P. Pratt in 2002. He received them in an email and could not confirm if they were real, though they seem authentic to that period. For a little perspective…

Who “You” are, beyond your story, is invisible and unknowable by “you”. — Non-Medium subscribers can access this full article here. Oneness remains unseen because a “you” grasps and rejects things to prove its existence. Invisible and unknowable by “you”, witnessing is nothing being everything and every-thing being no-thing. — Xin Xin Ming, verse 4 Your entire life, you have been told that…

Our physical and mental landscapes are complete — There are no empty spaces. — Non-Medium subscribers can access this full article here. There is only what is, always full and complete. There is nothing more and nothing less than this. The apparent you, choosing stories of love and hate, veils the truth, and the oneness of this remains unseen. — Xin Xin Ming, verse…

I am enlightened, and I have never been enlightened. — Non-Medium subscribers can access this full poem here. I am enlightened I am never enlightened Both are true I am everything I am nothing Both are true I am this body and mind I am not this body and mind Both are true I am my past and future I am…

We would not exist without our stories, but our true essence is more than that. — Non-Medium subscribers can access this full article here. “Preferences, attachments, and stories happen. If you identify with them, truth becomes as divided as heaven and earth. Truth is not in the attachments, opinions, and stories of the mind. The essential truth lies eternally undisturbed by beliefs of the mind.”

It happens when you and your attachments to your story end. — Non-Medium subscribers can access this full article here. “Pure witnessing, without a witnesser, is effortless when there is no self, no you with preferences and a story. It happens when you and your attachments to the story end. That is how truth reveals itself. Anything other than pure awareness is…