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The Absolute Inclusivity of Reality in Nondual Therapy: Nonduality includes all duality

A contemplative invitation to meet life as it is


Have you noticed how life is always shifting?

One moment you feel joyful. The next, uneasy. The sound of a bird, the hum of a car, the flicker of a thought, the heaviness in your chest, the memory of a voice - life flows as an unfolding stream of experience,


never fixed,


never the same.


This constant movement - this infinite diversity of what appears - isn’t a mistake. It’s not a distraction from something more real. It is reality expressing itself in all its fullness.


But when this rich diversity is misunderstood - when we take what we see, hear, feel and think to be separate from ourselves - suffering begins.


All expression is life feeling life

Suffering arises when diversity is mistaken for separation


It’s natural to believe we’re “in here” looking out at a world “out there” - a world full of other people, sounds, emotions, and events. From that perspective, life can feel fragmented, overwhelming, or even threatening.


We might find ourselves struggling with inner conflict:

Why do I feel this way?


We might resist what’s showing up:

This emotion shouldn’t be here. This pain isn’t me.


We might grasp at some moments and reject others, caught in constant tension.


But what if the problem isn't what’s appearing, but in the way we’re seeing it?


Nonduality invites a radical shift in perspective: not to get rid of thoughts or feelings, but to see them clearly — not as separate objects, but as intimate expressions of the same seamless reality.


What’s arising right now - whether it's a sound, a sensation, or a thought — is not separate from you. It is you. It’s not yours, like a possession. It’s what’s appearing as you - as this immediate, living presence.


And the more clearly this is seen, the more the imagined boundaries between “me” and “that” begin to soften. Fear dissolves, grasping ceases.


Diversity is the very nature of this moment


Reality, as it is, does not come in a single flavor. It shows up as pleasure and pain, clarity and confusion, silence and sound. It expresses itself as thoughts, emotions, perceptions, and movements. It appears as a infinitely different colors, shapes, textures, and energies.


Diversity is not opposed to unity - it is how unity shines.


Just as sunlight appears as many shades when it hits a prism, awareness expresses itself as countless forms: the tension in the stomach, the smell of rain, the sound of breath, the ache of loss, the warmth of kindness.


What we often call “our experience” is really a symphony of this diversity, appearing and disappearing moment by moment - not as separate pieces, but as a fluid whole. No part stands alone. Nothing is outside of what is.


When this is seen, there’s a natural softening. Instead of tightening around a specific feeling or thought, we begin to let it move. We allow experience to be what it is - alive, dynamic, whole.


Unity expressed through multiplicity


The mind tends to divide experience:


me vs. you,


inside vs. outside,


right vs. wrong.


But take a moment and look closer:


where does one experience truly end and another begin?


Does the sound of a bird have a border?


Can you find the edge of a thought?


Is the feeling in your chest truly separate from the air around you?


What we begin to see is that all these diverse appearances are arising in - and as - the same space of awareness. They come and go like waves in the sea, never apart from the ocean itself.


The peace we long for doesn’t come from managing experience or getting it “right.” It comes from no longer dividing it up - no longer insisting that one part belongs and another doesn’t.


It comes from recognising that everything that arises belongs to this one whole, and therefore, nothing is separate from what you are.


Nothing left out


This realisation can be deeply healing. There’s no longer a need to fix or exclude parts of experience - no emotion that must be eradicated, no thought that needs to be silenced, no state that must be maintained.

Instead, we discover a quiet, inclusive presence - a knowing that everything is already held.

Even suffering itself, when met without resistance, reveals its place in the whole.

This doesn’t mean we become passive. On the contrary, when we no longer fight the moment, we become more intimate with it. And from that intimacy, wise and compassionate action can arise - not from fear or control, but from connection.


Reality embraces infinite diversity.

When this is truly seen, there’s nothing left to push away.

No expression of you is outside this moment.

No expression

of life is other than this.

Everything belongs, and this changes everything.


 
 
 

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