I'm interested in #nonDualism and am reading The Untethered Soul by Michael A Singer.

I quite like the book and am getting some useful ideas from it. But the Americanisms are like a caricature - this book about liberation from psyche - with exercises like "when you get in your car" and examples like "you see your someone who looks like your girlfriend smiling in a corvette with someone else..." and "while at the lights.."

I know the author is trying to show how his concepts can be applied in "normal" life but it's like he can't see how much his assumptions and context are shaped by being a straight white American cis man.

I'm not saying this because I think I'm better, we're all shaped by our context and cultures, but just because the subject matter should lend itself to awareness of that and this is conspicuous by its absence.

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Important tenets

'You can only give someone so much shit about being who they are and still claim to love them' Friend

'You aren't what you look like' Douglas Harding

'Judge not, lest ye be judged' Jeebs

'Fear can stop you loving; love can stop your fear' Morcheeba

'Hard is not strong, soft is not weak, truth is not wisdom and silence is not justice' ME

Herein, betwixt and between are #nondualist pointers about self, acceptance, relations, identity and development.

#advaita
#vedanta