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Old 27-04-2018, 05:52 PM
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Originally Posted by eputkonen
Yes, words are dualistic...because for the word "chair" to have meaning, there has to be things that are not chairs. However, if you take words to be just pointers...fingers pointing at the moon...and not the moon itself...then words perhaps have value. This is also why if you talk about nonduality long enough and to enough people...you will inevitably say things that are contradictory to what was said prior.

The pointer may be pointing right for one person and left for another...depending on their positions and directions they are facing. So to point at nonduality for one person...saying it is nothing may be of more value; but for another person...saying it is everything or Oneness may be of more value. For another, saying it is not everything, nor oneness, nor nothing, nor any combination...may be of more value.

Really, it depends on how attached to words people are. If they are attached to the words, it is a hindrance. When listening to someone talk about nonduality, it is important to try to see past the words...not focusing on the finger and look at the moon.

Yes, it is like when doctors goes into a patients room to discuss the situation the patient is in.

They are not really there to address the patient but to discuss the disease. In the context of nonduality the discussion is duality as the disease, per say.

'About' nonduality is not nonduality which is duality.

It could be argued that much of if not all spiritual discussion, in general, is 'about' nonduality.
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