| Nonduality What
is Nonduality - Nondualism - Advaita?
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The Rotten Root
by Drew Hempel
It is now, only under the severe crisis of postmodern
late-capitalist globalization, that access to
experiential nondualistic knowledge is finally beginning
to be recognized by the globalized West.
Introduction: The Root Problem
This investigation is based on the assumption that there
is a severe global crisis of injustice and ecological
damage that primarily stems from the elite-controlled
institutional policies of western culture. Working from
that premise the issue at hand is how to overcome the
root of the problem that drives the interlocking
oppressions symptomatic of westernization. Since the root
problem has been analyzed at length in the past, I
provide simply a brief presentation and then focus on the
facets of implementing the solution ã the subject of my
experiential applied research and what I contend to be
dialectically transcending nondualism. In terms of
format, because of the very broad and untraditional
nature of my project, the introduction references are
contained in my thesis and the sources for my applied
research are listed at the end of the text.
Whether it's the Dalai Lama or, Hanne Strong, one of the
organizers of the UN Conference on Environment and
Development (the Earth Summit) or, Charles Mills, author
of The Racial Contract -- there can be found a focus on
one common underlying problem for all levels of
oppression. For theorists it is described as an
inaccurate "naturalized" hierarchy: There is a
repression of the self, a projection of that repression
on to others -- call it an externality or a prejudice --
and then the denial of others' rights as justified
through that projection. In the history of the West, this
Self/Other oppressive dynamic has been traced back to
Plato and Aristotle by their concept of dualistic,
materialistic and rationalistic "natural law."
Thus as people were labeled subhumans, natural slaves,
and savages, they, along with the Muses, were devalued
(i.e. destructively controlled and killed through
indoctrination, slavery, disease, starvation, and
organized slaughter)
and an elite linear, imperial "utopia" was
envisioned -- this is the beginning, the root concept, of
western culture. From that primary definitive vision of
the West, this root crisis has become globally
encompassing today: The Great Chain of Being, the
witchhunts, the enclosure acts, the papal decree of
"territorius nullius," Manifest Destiny, the
"natural" efficiency of the homo economicus,
corporate personhood, and the World Trade Organization.
Just before the beginning of the West there was an
ecologically and socially just culture of nondualism
(definition below) that taught integration and balance of
knowledge through self-discipline, concentration and
wisdom. The recent Oxford graduate, Dr. Peter Kingsley,
documents that this Pythagorean culture was stripped down
and driven out as the definitive years study in Egypt,
combined with many excursions into eastern areas, the
knowledge of Pythagoras became very fertile fodder for
the materialistic elite. A great imbalance of power was
thereby established. Pythagoras taught orally and his
knowledge was integrated via experiential theory -- as
compared to the reified and closed, dualistic and linear,
symbolic knowledge system of "the West."
Ironically the latest in scientific findings describe the
universe as one great multidimensional, yet connected
harmonic string of energy-knowledge (nondualism) --
literally the same scientific principles as Pythagoras.
Unfortunately current western scientific
"progress" continues to be based on externally
forcing nature (and those cultures living close to
nature) to reveal internal truths, thereby creating the
great global sufferings via the same root of limited and
inaccurate unbalanced methodology.
As Kingsley and others have documented Pythagoras was a
powerful healer who knew of his past lives, and had the
power to experience life after death. Not only was he a
spiritual leader, similar to Jesus Christ, but he taught
a system for realizing this knowledge -- the same
essential system as the laws and practices of the Buddha,
those contained in the ancient Vedas of Hinduism or those
found in the hundreds of endangered indigenous shaman
practices found worldwide. Through extensive research and
my broad background in music theory, philosophy, and
global development policy, I have reconstructed the
scientific harmonic principles of the teachings of
Pythagoras (as described in my masters thesis). These
principles are the basis for understanding transcendent
dialectical mind-body dynamics, group social power
dynamics, and the transcendent dialectical means for
analyzing and organizing technology and social
institutions. Nondualist principles have been intuitively
grasped in piecemeal by previous western cultural
producers and were subsequently systematically
rediscovered during the western social upheaval in the
1960s, developing into the potential of New Paradigm
Science (again as described in my masters thesis). It is
now, only under the severe crisis of postmodern
late-capitalist globalization, that access to
experiential nondualistic knowledge is finally beginning
to be recognized by the globalized West. A truly
transcending global dialectic is being visualized -- one
that addresses the root of the mass global suffering and
goes beyond the traditional dualistic schisms systematic
to western power relations threatening the future of the
planet and humanity.
The Systematic Principles of Nondualistic Direct
Knowledge or Immediate Awareness
The scholar David Loy, in his Yale University publication
Nondualism: A comparative philosophy, analyzes the
nonwestern systems of thought and documents their
successful universal application. The systems that Loy
investigates reveal a transcendent means of knowledge
derived from principles of organization that are
accessible to all of humanity. But intellectually
describing these systems is one thing, as I did with
Pythagorean thought in my thesis -- actually realizing
the power of nondualism is another ã a process that I
will describe in this investigation. Once that power is
established or stabilized it is much easier to truly pass
that direct knowledge or immediate awareness on to
others. To realize or actualize the power of nondualism,
great self-discipline, concentration, and wisdom is
required. The common principles found in all systems of
nondualism (whether it's from the Vedas, Buddhism,
Taoism, shamanism, or Pythagoreanism) are the following:
1) The whole universe comes from the void or absolute
nothingness that is the original form of universal
energy. Total Emptiness equals Total Energy this is
ONENESS/NOTHINGNESS (nondualism).
2) This Universal Energy (nondualism) divides into
connected harmonic principles of organization.
Complimentary opposites, through their mutually excluding
logical extremes, reveal their common underlying
transcendent ONENESS/NOTHINGNESS and evolve into (and
evolve via) this third transcendent truth-state.
3) From this Third transcendent state All Myriad Things
of the Universe are further formed (i.e. modeled by the
synthesis or the third stage of the complimentary
opposites). All these myriad things/processes or forces
are derived from the first FIVE SYNTHETIC SETS OF
HARMONIC COMPLEMENTARY OPPOSITES (These five sets or
categories are grouped by matching elements, directions,
color, frequency, animal, planet, etc. and all five are
direct manifestations of ONENESS/NOTHINGNESS).
4) DIRECT KNOWLEDGE OR IMMEDIATE AWARENESS OF THE
UNIVERSE -- NONDUALISM (beyond the first five perceptible
senses and the first four perceptible dimensions) IS
POSSIBLE BY MEANS OF HARMONIZING OR RESONATING WITH THE
SYSTEM OF CONNECTED BASIC COMPLIMENTARY OPPOSITES. THIS
KNOWLEDGE -- ENERGY IS POTENTIALLY OMNIPOTENT, OMNISCIENT
and at the least is required for understanding how to
achieve PERSONAL HEALTH and HAPPINESS and POSITIVE
PERSONAL RELATIONS.
These principles of nondualism need to be further applied
in detail (as will be done below) for them to be utilized
and more accessible as a means of achievement. Although
westerners are intellectually taught the golden rule
(treat others as you would treat yourself) this ethical
basis for developing western knowledge and science is,
because of the limitations of dualistic materialism,
replaced by actions of "the end justifies the
means" or literally "he who has the gold
rules." But it is exactly this principle of humanity
-- the pervasive and recognized existence of suffering,
the knowledge of delusion, or the limit of ignorance --
that provides such an excellent motivation for achieving
the harmonic means of transcendent dialectical
problem-solving.
Because of the recent unique position of China as a
location of ancient nonwestern civilization and rapid
industrialization after the institution of scientific
materialism, there have been hundreds of scientific
studies documenting the details of achieving nondualism
and the applications of nondualism. These applications
have become known as qi gong or "energy work"
but come from ancient Taoism. Their usage has been
documented to be over 7,000 years old. Although it has
been integrated with Buddhism and Confucianism, the
nondualism of China or the Tao is considered the most
ancient true way of organizing society.
The thirteenth-century taoist adept Chang-chun, the
Master of Eternal Spring and originator of the Dragon
Gate branch of Complete Reality Taoism, was of such power
that Genghis Khan requested he be the personal advisor on
preserving the ancient civilization of China. By the
abilities and wisdom of Chang-chun, millions of lives
were saved in China. He is known as a spiritual immortal
by Taoist tradition and until just a few years ago his
lineage and skills were passed down, in secret, through a
process of intensive, exclusive training, generation
after generation. The Harvard Ph.D. in East Asian studies
and translator of numerous ancient texts, Thomas Cleary,
recently published Opening the Dragon Gate: The Making of
a Modern Taoist Wizard by Chen Kaiguo and Zheng Shunchao.
Opening the Dragon Gate is the authorized biography of
Master Wang Liping and Master Wang is an
eighteenth-generation Transmitter of the Dragon Gate
branch of Complete Reality Taoism.
Just like the Kogi, who for hundreds of years have kept
secret an ancient civilized system in the unattainable
wilderness of the Andes, the Dragon Gate Transmission of
Complete Reality Taoism has now come public with its
powerful esoteric knowledge. This dramatic change of
approach was due to the modern spiritual revolution of
"energetics" or qi gong in China that started
in the early 1980s. Everyday in China qi gong is now
practiced by the equivalent of the whole population of
the United States. Master Wang explains that powerful
Taoist nondualist energy-knowledge is also now being
presented because of the current westernized crisis of
the planet and humanity.
Opening the Dragon Gate distinguishes three types of
government for humanity. The first is by law, the second
is by principle and the third is "Government by the
Tao, or the Way".... As the book states:
Government by the Tao, or the Way, is on an even higher
level, nurturing the people by means of the Way,
returning to naturalness and going back to reality,
assimilating humanity to heaven and earth, taking no
artificial law as law, but being orderly without being
managed. Lao-tzu said, 'The sage says, ‘Since I
contrive nothing, the people are spontaneously civilized.
Since I like calm, the people are spontaneously upright.
Since I have no interests, the people spontaneously
prosper. Since I have no desires, the people are
spontaneously innocent. Government without artificiality
is government by the Way. This is the highest level of
social development, and the highest attainment of
government.
Described in detail in Opening the Dragon Gate, the
training and accomplishments of Master Wang Liping are
extraordinary to say the least and since he has come
public he is conducting extensive training and healing in
China.
As the concise and powerful Taoist teaching, considered
to be authored by an all-powerful immortal Taoist adept,
The Secret of the Golden Flower, states, "When you
keep presence of mind, only then do you have autonomy.
When you have autonomy, only then can you manage
affairs.... However, presence of mind is easily
interrupted. Practice it for a long time, though, and it
will naturally become unbroken.... Ordinarily, once
people let their eyes and ears pursue things, they get
stirred up, only to stop when things are gone. This
activity and rest are all subjects, but the sovereign
ruler becomes their slave. This is 'always living with
ghosts.'"
"The conscious mind is like a violent general of a
strong fiefdom controlling things from a distance, until
the sword is turned around…. Now steadily keep to
the chamber of origin, turning the light around to look
back, and this is like having a heroic leader on top with
great ministers helping. Once the inner government is
orderly, the strong and violent naturally become
tame."
For an example of another powerful Master of the Way (of
nondualism), one can attend the upcoming free public
information sessions conducted by Master Chunyi Lin, a
taoist teacher who lives in the Twin Cities and teaches
through Anoka Ramsey Community College. His motto is
"A Healer in Every Family, A World without
Pain."
Master Lin continues to heal many people of severe cancer
(lymphoma, breast, lung, etc.) and of Parkinson's Disease
and many other severe health conditions. He is doing
research at the University of Minnesota Medical School
and has been contacted by several other interested
research hospitals that have become familiar with his
success. He treats people from all over the world by
sending energy focused via the telephone and other high
technology. Master Lin, by drawing in universal energy,
treats twenty to thirty people a day, has a four month
waiting list for appointments and he only needs to sleep
three to four hours a night. He meditates four to five
hours a day and teaches almost every night. Master Lin
recently brought the Coon Rapids City Council to China
for a sister city educational exchange program that
focuses on qi gong.
For endorsements and testimonials (i.e. a doctor from the
Mayo Clinic) see http://www.potentools.com/body/qigong/endorsements.htm
http://www.potentools.com/body/qigong/testimonials.htm
The Development of Nondualistic Direct Knowledge or
Immediate Awareness
Just in the past ten years there has finally been
translated many of the ancient meditation texts of Taoist
Yoga and Taoist meditation has been the subject of much
academic research. The principles of nondualism are
achieved through various techniques found throughout the
world: Mantras can be repeated in order to focus in the
mind and create energy resonance that purifies the
person. Another approach is to use self-enquiry ã a
question that turns the attention of the mind back onto
itself. For instance "Who Am I?" -- repeating
this question with true doubt, while meditating, will
cause the investigator to contact the living nondualist
energy that is the source of their thoughts. Taoist Yoga
focuses on a more accessible approach. In qi gong people
are taught basic, very simple active exercises that use
posture, breath and mental focus to open up the energy
channels of the body. By using certain breath, hand and
foot movements based on the knowledge of complimentary
opposite energies of the mind/body, a person can enter a
stage of deep relaxation and focus that will cause the
living energy-knowledge -- nondualism, to be activated.
Once activated the
energy is further developed through still meditation.
Taoism teaches that when a person is conceived great
universal energy/knowledge is focused. Not only is the
genetic energy passed on from the parents but the energy
of Heaven and Earth is passed on as well. While the baby
is being developed as a fetus in the womb, this energy is
balanced ã it enters through the umbilical cord and
circles up the back and down the front of the body. The
baby naturally holds its tongue up to the roof of its
mouth and this acts as the switch that connects the front
and back energy channels of the person. After birth the
energy of the person slowly begins to separate, settle
and become unbalanced: The lower half of the body is
associated with Earth energy and the upper half is
associated with Heaven energy. As the person undergoes
puberty and further development the energy of the body is
continuously dissipated through emotional stress,
pollution and environmental stress, unbalanced nutrition,
and normal hormonal and reproductive processes.
Taoist yoga teaches a person how to perform
"needleless acupuncture,” whereby the
practitioner consciously recognizes and activates the
subtle energy of the mind/body, balances that energy, and
then uses resonance to take in more energy and
consciously connect with higher energy levels. This is
the process of going back to the root of a person's
existence, of mind-body awareness ã of understanding the
power dynamics of not only the self, but also the
interactions of the self with the outside environment.
Under nondualism it is known that humans represent a
microcosm, a holograph, of the universe and that the
universe is a hologram with each part containing the
energy of the whole -- another way of describing
nondualism.
In the beginning of the practice a person will feel great
heat being generated in the energy centers (the Earth
center, the Heaven Center and their combined Center in
the Heart-Mind). As the practice develops the energy will
surge, like high-pressured water through a hose, up the
back and down the front of the body. The person will
experience different internal organs of the body become
very hot ã the kidneys, the thyroid. This is the subtle
energy resonating and opening up the subtle energy
channels of those organs. Many hormones will be
stimulated during this process and there will be a
feeling of great energy, serenity, bliss, and lucidity.
As the practice develops the energy will be experienced
as electrical and magnetic fields that actually move the
body. Ailments of the body will be healed. The person
will have the ability to send out energy to heal others
and the person will need less sleep, less food, and will
not have normal cravings.
As the body energy channels continue to resonate, higher
levels of energy will be activated eventually leading to
the opening of the Heaven center or the Third Eye of the
person. This is beginning of spiritual cultivation and
the beginning of samadhi in yoga. At this point all the
energy channels of the body will be open. When meditating
the person will not feel their body at all ã it will
become one with its surroundings. The mind's thoughts
will stop on one point of focus. The breathing of the
person will slow down to such an extent that for all
purposes it comes to a stop. The person will experience a
bright light when the eyes are closed and when they are
open as well. The person will develop psychic abilities
and will process the thoughts and emotions of others as
direct energy vibrations. The person will
experience their aura, their subtle energy field,
extending out around them and interacting with/processing
the conditions of those around them.
This experience is the development of direct knowledge or
immediate awareness. Unfortunately it is very common to
develop "over-exuberant heroics," meaning that
a person becomes very excited about their new exalted
state, they become attached to the powers and lose focus
of the nondualist principles that the powers are derived
from. At this stage the person wants to tell everyone
about their "awakening" experience and wants to
act out on their powers when instead this is the time of
the greatest need for continuing to focus on the
nondualism source, to focus on the macrocosm within. Also
at this stage, beside the problem of getting too excited
and out of balance from attachment to the powers, it is
also very easy to become scared. To literally not feel
your body, or too literally feel your pituitary gland in
the middle of your brain become heated up and charged
full of energy is a bizarre experience to say the least.
To literally experience psychic powers as the norm of
processing reality, to experience one’s aura
extending out -- a field of energy vibrations rippling
and processing the thoughts and emotions of others before
those thoughts or emotions are communicated through words
or body language ã these can be intimidating
experiences. Also to literally not need to eat food or
drink water because one can rely directly on the subtle
energy as a means to create protein or to have one's
thoughts stop and one's breath stop all this can be
startling to say the least.
As a practitioner of Spring Forest Qigong, taught at
Anorak Ramose Community College, I practiced for four
hours a day over a three month period and I began to
experience some of these symptoms of the beginning of
samadhi or what is called "the emptiness" in qi
gong. I didn't see the bright light and I didn’t
have my body disappear or my breathing stop. I did
develop psychic powers, have my aura extend, have no need
for food, need less sleep, and feel my pituitary gland
become charged up. I did conduct very successful external
energy treatments (no touch) of others whereby they had
their symptoms disappear after feeling heaviness leave
their bodies, intense heat, electrical shocks, internal
movement. Although I fell back into the other extreme of
normal reality, I experienced enough to get a taste of
"the otherside" -- the nondualistic source.
The Otherside or the Nondualistic Source
In Taoist Yoga, once "the emptiness" is
obtained and stabilized then a person's power of healing
and power of wisdom is greatly increased. Because Taoism
focuses on balancing the mind and body with all other
levels of energy, longevity or immortality is also
obtainable and explainable in Taoist Yoga. Not only is
there an ability to project the energy of the person
across space-time dimensions but as the energy is
continued to be developed then the power of physical
replication and transformation is also possible. In the
final stages a person is able to literally dematerialize
the body and to finally exist in a cosmic form that is
"at-one" with the universe. This person is
considered a "celestial immortal" by Taoist
standards, meaning they can exist outside the space-time
continuum and have achieved the Tao -- nondualism.
To the "normal" westerner this all seems
ludicrous but the academic book published by SUNY, Taoist
Meditation, actually gives the explanations of how this
state is achieved in methodology. The principles are the
same as the nondualist principles stated above -- it is
just a matter of deepening the practice. After the
initial levels of samadhi or emptiness, direct knowledge
or immediate awareness can not be captured by the normal
means of communication and is essentially impossible to
explain except through direct experience. The ultimate
nondualist state is beyond any form, any concept, any
sensation, any limitation of time and space, any source
of mind and matter.
Of direct consequence for modern western culture are
solutions to psychoanalysis, to social and economic
conflict, to health issues, and to realizing the effects
and potential of technology. Without this basic knowledge
of nondualism power relations can not be understood very
well, an accurate model of reality can not be maintained
and a sense of unfulfilled desire will lead to an
unbalance of power. Many elite societies of leaders in
the West have attempted, as a means of maintaining an
unhealthy, imbalance of material power, to keep secret
and utilize this nondualist knowledge that Pythagoras
once taught. This extreme of Western control, since it
relies on maintaining ignorance of nondualism and
utilizing it for limited, inaccurate development, can not
last. The motivation to externally control the
environment and people around you through destructive
superficial means simply does not last when one can truly
stabilize direct knowledge or wisdom through nondualist
means.
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