Nonduality 101

May 31, 2007 By Tom

serenity now

My spiritual teacher Andrew Cohen’s latest quote of the week:

No Reference Points

Consciousness has no boundaries, no beginning and no end. The cognitive faculties of the human mind cannot grasp its infinite nature, because we habitually relate to the self that is observing only as a fixed, finite entity, and to every object that we give our attention to as being fixed and finite also. But when we discover consciousness, suddenly the observer who appeared to be finite stumbles upon that which is infinite. It’s like stepping off a cliff into empty space. You lose all reference points, because your attention is on something that is not an object, and which ultimately, in the shocking clarity of enlightenment, is revealed to be not separate from the one who is observing. The observer and the observed are one and the same. This is why consciousness is so endlessly compelling and ever-new, even though it never changes. Usually something is compelling because there is some variety in it. No matter how beautiful an object is, over time it will become familiar and lose its captivating quality. But consciousness is not an object; it is always the same, and yet it is infinitely compelling. Why? Because it IS.

Andrew Cohen

For more on Andrew’s teachings of nondual enlightenment, click here.


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