non dual

There are always two things: one real, and one imaginary.  Which is a complicated way of saying there is only one thing.  But to learn what reality is we must first distinguish what it is not.  Constantly throughout the day we experience imaginary objects and react to them.  I am sitting here enjoying a cup of tea watching the dog chase her tail, when really nothing is going on.

There is a silence that is beyond sound, or a light that is beyond the experience of vision.  Reality is what is known after the complete negation of the physical manifest universe.  It is a void, yet it is beyond the idea of emptiness.  It is a void but this void is self.

It has been contended that there is nothing to learn nor any method to follow in order to gain the knowledge of absolute truth.  But I disagree.  Even though the method of negation must be negated itself, it is a necessary tool for the imaginary individual to realize its true nature of one, all pervasive self.  It is not an intellectual practice, but an experiential process of letting go of anything we think is important or is going to make us happy.