the majority of us live inside dualism. we assume the world, consciousness, and the experience we call life is made of separate entities. me here, you there. subject and object. self and world.
this is not wrong. it's the lens consciousness wears in order to have an experience at all. without some apparent separation, there's nothing to experience.
it's just not the ultimate. underneath the lens, everything has interdependent origination. nothing arises on its own. everything is one thing looking at itself from a billion angles at once.
the traditions all noticed this and gave it different names.
buddhists called the realization nirvana, the extinguishing of the illusion of a separate self.
christ called it the kingdom of heaven, and said it was within you.
taoists called it returning to the tao, the source you never actually left.
hindus called it moksha, liberation.
sufis called it fana, annihilation in the beloved.
different doors. same room. and the door is always closer than you think 🪷
🦄 ily 👉👈