On a recent telecall I responded to a question asked by Barbara, from Argentina, about nondual practice and the ‘Living Inquiry, Endless Surrender’ online course. She asked me to write down for her what I said in response to her question. Here it is:

Nondual awareness is the unconditioned presence that is right here, not separate from anything. This is the foundation for all of our work in this course. You might have heard that in the space of nondual awareness, the nature of what we call ‘I’ is radically different, or that it doesn’t really exist. When we hear these things, it can feel very confusing or abstract.

So here is a simple way to approach this. Just feel your own being in this moment, and then ask, “Who am I, if I don’t look to a thought or a feeling to find out?” “Who am I, when I don’t try to define myself in any way?” “What is this openness, this spaciousness that remains, when I feel myself directly, in this very simple way?”

This is what we are going to be doing together in this course: exploring how it is to be fully human, and to be connected at the same time, to this open space of presence. Investigating our authentic being, our natural state, which is fully alive, even when we don’t know who we are.