Nondual Clarity

In some spiritual disciplines, an effort is made to control or restrict the normal workings of the mind. As this poem's author reiterates, where nonduality is not thoroughly comprehended, a person will seek to apprehend ultimate Reality outside oneself as some remote state eventually to be encountered. We already, nondual scripture tells us—by its presence in and around all that is—accord with ultimate Reality. It is imminently inescapable. Whether we are aware of it or not. As the Vedic scriptures profess, Tat tvam asi: “That [omnipresent Reality] thou art.” Not “will someday be,” but are now.

---Robert Wolfe, in his commentary on the Hsin-Hsin Ming: One Essence---