Exploring Meditation 3: Non-Duality and Direct Path

Widely celebrated neo-advaita teacher Rupert Spira has a great YouTube channel full of talks, pointing out instructions, and guided practices. Spira integrates many teachers and traditions into his work, but his main teacher, Fancis Lucille, also has a great YouTube channel. One of my personal favourite channels is Simply Always Awake by Angelo Dil

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One of the most widely respected non-dual teachers today is Adyashanti, who originally studied Zen formally but began to teach more direct path style after his awakening. Adyashanti recommends trying out the inquiry “what am I?”, which I found to land better than Ramana’s “who am I?”. The word “who” can tend to evoke dimensions of identity, which c

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My sense, based on personal experience and observing others, is that you taking to the practice depends on your ability to catch a glimpse of non-duality. Try it out, and if you don’t experience an opening in any way after some exploration, I advise to return to a “bottom up” approach, with my usual recommendation being Vipassana practice as it’s s

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Can you really separate the two? Where do you draw the line? Have you ever had a sensory experience without awareness? Have you ever experienced awareness without a sensory experience? There is no line, no way that we can separate sensory experience from awareness. We must therefore conclude that awareness and sensory experience are in fact the sam

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