Daily Nonduality Podcast

2:55

What if inquiry feels robotic?

Daily Nonduality Podcast ·

2026/10/09

What if I’m doing the inquiries and they make sense but it feels robotic and dry instead of opening something up?Well, then why do them? The way I share it, inquiry is not a prescription. It’s not a spiritual practice to do for x minutes every day, not a to-do to put on your list.So actually, this kind of experience with inquiry can be a great reminder to see something. Apparently, I get the idea that I must do something. I must inquire and it must have some meaningful effect. I get these ideas,

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2:59

Noticing the Force

Daily Nonduality Podcast ·

2026/10/08

What is aware of this experience you’re having right now?Notice without trying to find, label, or think. Just notice: What is aware?If you try to figure it out, you lose the direct experience of it. You’re back in the menu and not tasting the meal.Noticing is just like when I hold up a pen and ask you to notice it. There’s a direct recognition without having to label it “pen” or think about it. There’s a direct experience of what we call a pen.In the same way, notice what is aware. Without labelling

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3:25

It’s the me that comes and goes

Daily Nonduality Podcast ·

2026/10/07

You don’t actually have glimpses of awareness. It’s the other way around. In this aware being, there are frequent glimpses of a separate “me.”The unlimited aware being that you really are, contracts down into frequently believed illusory limitation to a separate someone.These are so frequent and so convincingly coherent, that they create the illusion of a continuous separate individual person.But even this very convincing illusion is not that good. It’s not as robust as we’re led to believe. It’s

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3:26

Unthinkable simplicity

Daily Nonduality Podcast ·

2026/10/06

When there is just being, just this without thinking, everything is simple. The mind that makes it complicated is silent — or at least the volume is turned down and it’s easy to ignore.But the ego, the self, the character doesn’t want this simplicity. It needs to feel in charge and in control. It creates the illusion of control by trying to understand, discuss, argue, compare, contrast, make distinctions, question. And that’s all fine. It’s what the character is conditioned to do.But this apparent

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3:45

Meeting excerpt: Seamless

Daily Nonduality Podcast ·

2026/10/05

So start from everything. Start from the totality of this. It’s all here now, right? There’s no chopped off little piece of this that you’re inhabiting. If we just look at this direct experience now, it’s everything all at once. And so all that’s ever going on is that beliefs arise, thoughts arise that are believed, that there is a center, a contracted identity in this, and that that is the limit of what I am.If we just look at this experience now, not naming anything, not chopping it up into

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2:27

More than an understanding

Daily Nonduality Podcast ·

2026/10/02

For about ten years, all I had was a “conceptual understanding” of nonduality. And that’s being generous because I didn’t really understand it on any level, no matter how much I read. But I was obsessed. I wanted to know what this was because I was convinced it could end my psychological pain.All the reading and thinking may have done little but that was apparently my path. I wasn’t the type to go on a retreat because what I heard from those teachers was just more concepts, endless descriptions, not

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2:36

It has its hooks in you

Daily Nonduality Podcast ·

2026/10/01

There is always the naked fact of being. Your presence is the one “thing” you can’t deny. You’d have to be present in order to deny it.This simple fact of existence — knowing that you’re here, present, alive — is what everyone is trying to point to, using all these different words.The words used depend on the body sharing. Many will follow the tradition they’re from or what helped them, so they’ll speak of Awareness, Being, or Consciousness, for example.I can’t tell you how long I was confused about

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2:06

Meeting excerpt: Porridge

Daily Nonduality Podcast ·

2026/09/29

This is what the ego, the self, is made of. It’s self-consciousness. It’s self-reflective. And it becomes self, thinking about the other thought called the self. This is our daily bread. This is what we love. But if for a moment we would stop being interested in that, the whole thing collapses.And if it’s really seen, to be non-essential, literally non-essential, it has no effect on anything, the whole thing collapses and it is seen that it’s just beside the point. And that is freedom. I mean, when

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2:47

A working hypothesis

Daily Nonduality Podcast ·

2026/09/28

All these things you believe need to happen first, let them go. All the concepts you don’t yet understand, forget them. All the insights you haven’t had yet, ignore all that.Here you are. Right here, right now. Don’t follow the thoughts and just be here, as you already are. You’re no different than before. You still don’t understand. You still haven’t realized anything. Fine.Here you are though. You’re already fully present to whatever this is without lifting a finger. You don’t do presence; it

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2:14

How do you know you’re alive?

Daily Nonduality Podcast ·

2026/09/25

How do you know that you’re alive? How do you know that you’re not dead?It’s obvious and certain. You are here, you’re alive, you’re not dead. And of course, you’re always here. Always there is this simple fact of aliveness, any time you care to check. When you “check” that you’re alive, you don’t see or find anything new in your experience to confirm it. There’s no pop-up window that needs to declare you’re alive. There’s no new information coming in. There’s no content to the confirmation. It’s

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1:39

Already, naturally, effortlessly

Daily Nonduality Podcast ·

2026/09/23

Language is actually quite useful to communicate why language doesn’t work in communicating nondual realization. Thought is useful to consider the many arguments as to why thinking can’t argue its way into this recognition. Mind can be a precision tool to help understand why understanding is not possible and the wrong tool for this “job” that involves no understanding.The illusory separate self is a conditioned mental construct that can recognize — as another concept — the possibility of its own

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3:02

No obstacle to inquiry

Daily Nonduality Podcast ·

2026/09/22

There really is no obstacle to inquiry because there is no one making it happen. So however it is happening for the apparent you right now is exactly the way it’s supposed to be happening because that’s how it’s happening. There is no one in control of that. So even though we can say on the relative level things like, yes, you have to fall in love with this and want this more and more and … Who? I mean, it’s lovely if that happens. But really, there’s no control over that either. But the very fact

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1:52

The speaker isn’t making speaking happen

Daily Nonduality Podcast ·

2026/09/21

As the body speaks, there can be the belief that there is an individual making the speaking happen. Or, that belief can be absent.Without the belief that this human is run by a separate personal self, it’s quite obvious that words emerge out of nowhere and the impulses to speak or not speak just arise.Thoughts arise and dissolve without control. The thoughts “I am going to say this” and “I am the one saying this” are thoughts.Without the imagined doer, it’s obvious that all of it comes out of

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1:58

Isn’t ego essential?

Daily Nonduality Podcast ·

2026/09/18

Don’t I need an ego to interact in this world and live a good life?From the perspective of the “me” of course I do! As a self in a world populated with others, developing and nurturing a healthy ego is fundamental. But if I recognize my essential nature, then ego is seen to be a conditioned psychological expression of a particular bodymind. It’s neither essential nor non-essential. It is part of this incredible appearance we call reality.Then ego or self is seen to be a patterning, continually

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2:07

What is the right path?

Daily Nonduality Podcast ·

2026/09/17

So who’s right? The more Buddhist-influenced “all is emptiness and there’s no one here” or the more Advaita-influenced “all is Awareness and you are that”?Which path is correct? A traditional, progressive path, or the rebellious, reject everything there-is-no-path?What practice will get you there? Meditation, retreats, surrender, selfless service, chanting, bodywork, inquiry, or no practice at all?Which teacher is legit? The one with the high-priced retreat, the one offering everything for free, or

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1:48

The only thing that does any good

Daily Nonduality Podcast ·

2026/09/15

What I talk about on here is the most democratic, non-hierarchical, and free-for-all knowing imaginable. Which is why we can’t imagine it.Human identity is the product of cultural conditioning. From within that conditioning, we can’t even conceive of something as one hundred percent equally accessible to all.Surely there are differences between us. Surely some are farther along. Surely we understand different things and have different amounts of experience. Surely that one knows more than this

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2:10

Earning your peace

Daily Nonduality Podcast ·

2026/09/14

Is there anything other than peace here?That question immediately prompts conditioned thinking, which hears the word “peace” and opens a metaphorical drawer of ideas about what peace means and should look like in your life.But put all of that aside for a moment. It’s okay, you’re allowed to ignore thought.And look again: Without thinking, is there anything but peace here?In that second before thought rushes in, peace is known. It is already there, noticed or not.Peace is another word trying to

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1:47

Seeking without a seeker

Daily Nonduality Podcast ·

2026/09/08

Even your seeking: it just happens. It is also entirely without manager or controller.The thoughts “I must get this understanding” or “I must awaken” appear spontaneously.What we’re convinced is “my search” is nothing more than a set of recurring thoughts about an apparent someone seeking something. Nothing changes, whether those thoughts are there or not.Desire to get something appears. A video plays. A sentence read seems to open something up. The urge to meditate returns, then disappears once

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1:38

The other freedom

Daily Nonduality Podcast ·

2026/09/07

The freedom sold to us in Western culture is individual: liberty, free choice, the power to shape and improve our lives, to live according to our values.This is a life-long performance requiring constant effort. Step up and take responsibility because it’s up to you. Know and defend your freedom against constant threats — including your own shadow, temptations, and weaknesses.If we have the will and the guts, happiness is the promised result. See any epic Hollywood movie for examples.But there’s

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1:34

How is this moment a gift?

Daily Nonduality Podcast ·

2026/09/04

By needing something from this moment, I block the noticing of what it already offers.The gift of this moment is here, I’m sitting in it, like a cat in its favorite box. But I can’t see that as long as I believe my ideas about what this moment supposedly owes me.And boy, do I have ideas! It should give me awakening, or at least feeling less unhappy all the time. It should give me what some spiritual text says is possible. It should fix me and my life. Actually, I don’t know but I’ll recognize it

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