Non-duality Is (Miraculously) Boring
Why boredom is a gateway to an extraordinary life. Maybe.
Plenty has been said about non-duality, and without a doubt — as some of us obsessively persist in trying to name the unnamable — plenty more will be said, written, attempted to be explained. Don’t get me wrong; this effort to expand our understanding of functional reality by conceptually reducing it to its most basic expression definitely holds value, and this intellectual challenge can even represent powerful part of one’s spiritual development. But from more of an emotional or embodied standpoint, how would one describe the non-dual mind state? If I for one was asked to qualify the experience of so-called base reality with only one term, without hesitation, I’d call it… boring!
I wouldn’t always have chosen that word though. In fact, it’s almost as if my life was split in periods related to how I was personally dealing with my relationship with what I could call the numinous Void. Indeed, as I felt compelled to venture deeper in the primordial paradox, my mind grew to recognize its own ungraspable nature, which in turn brought a slew of emotional states, as varied as they were consuming.
And so, if asked to provide a single word description for the non-dual mind state as I was closer in time to certain transcendental experiences —…
