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The Paradox of Practice in Non-Dual Traditions

The problem of practice is one of the most enduring paradoxes in non-dual spirituality. If the Absolute is already here—if Brahman is one’s very Self, if the Unborn Mind is the ever-present reality—then why should practice be necessary at all? Any effort to “reach” the goal seems already to betray ignorance, for it implies that the seeker is separate from the sought. Yet traditions across the world insist on the indispensability of practice: discipline, meditation, inquiry, devotion, or mindfulness. How can this contradiction be reconciled? read more