Non-duality is all about simplicity. Unfortunately this message and pointer is not realized by many a seeker and hence the seeking. This is because the seeker, himself a concept, wishes to conceptualize whatever is pointed to. As the seeker reads more and more, hears more and more, visits several "Gurus", reads more Blogs, the more he moves away from the Reality that is being pointed to (although once the True Nature of one's own identity is realized, it becomes obvious that there is no question of anyone moving away or towards Reality!). The seeker is seeking something in the mind. Some 'thing', that the mind can comprehend as a concept. The mind can create infinite concepts and therefore the confusion and frustration keeps on increasing for the seeker. Words are a form of expression and communication. Therefore, words are necessary, yet paradoxically are also an impediment for the seeker. That is the reason why Ramana Maharishi used silence (mouna) as a form of teaching. In silence, one just IS. That is all?!! Unfortunately, many "Gurus", books or websites, and now Blogs, use abstract words like "Bliss", "Spaciousness", "Bliss of Being", "Peace of Being", "Silence" etc., and they are not wrong in using these words, except that the seeker gets more and more entangled in concepts with each word that is used to describe the Reality. Reality is simply WHAT IS!! No word or concept can describe It or get It. Knowing that the seeker, the "me", is itself a concept, a concept with no substance or independent nature, is the end of seeking. One has to stop chasing Reality. One has to STOP RIGHT HERE AND RIGHT NOW AND QUESTION "WHO IS CHASING"? That is it.
In stopping and looking at the conceptual "me" who is chasing Reality, one literally stops in his tracks, so to speak. Then the process of going backwards begins. Backwards to where the thoughts arise from. Where do thoughts come from? Where did this very thought "I" come from? Can there be a "me" without thinking? If there are no thoughts, do I still exist? (the answer to this last question is obviously, yes). If I exist in the absence of thoughts, am I not this Existence itself?
Put these questions to yourself, right here and right now. Stop what you are doing including reading this material. Just STOP and BE! Let the One which is All, merge the "me"(which is but a thought), into Itself. Remain as THAT ONE.
