Radical NonDuality is Stupid?! | NonDuality, Zen, Awakening & Mindful Nonduality
What happens when NonDuality becomes another rigid belief system?
In this video, Frances explores the strange paradox at the heart of Radical NonDuality, awakening, Zen, and direct experience. If all separation is ultimately illusory… does that mean our human experience should be denied? Or can both relative experience and the nondual perspective coexist?
Drawing on ideas from quantum physics, awareness, awakening, and mindful nonduality, this short reflection looks at why “either/or” thinking may itself be the very thing NonDuality points beyond.
✨ Are we separate individuals?
✨ Can both perspectives appear simultaneously?
✨ Is “Radical NonDuality” liberating… or just another conceptual trap?
✨ Are we consciousness itself? Beyond the 'conciousness concept trap' = we are everything & everynothing
This video touches on:
— NonDuality & Radical NonDuality
— Zen & direct awakening
— Awareness and consciousness
— Relative vs absolute truth
— Mindful Nonduality
— Kensho & awakening
— The paradox of self and no-self
— Why dualistic thinking can hide inside “nondual” ideas
Timestamps:
00:00 Radical NonDuality Is Stupid?!
00:03 “No-one there to get offended…”
00:09 Light as wave AND particle
00:17 Apparent self vs everything
00:25 Simultaneously being EVERYTHING
00:30 NonDuality is not either/or
00:38 All duality contained within the nondual
00:44 Nothing needs excluding or including
00:47 What is Mindful NonDuality?
00:55 Absolute truth & relative truths
01:03 Not either/or — but all and everything
01:09 Radical nonduality as a beautiful place to hang out
01:14 Why no person can live there
01:21 The great nondual conundrum
01:23 Big love & playfulness x
“Nonduality is not a case of either/or. That would be a dualistic stance on nonduality.”
If this resonates, I’d genuinely love to hear your perspective in the comments. I read them all when I’m back with technology 😊
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