Nondualism ( also non-duality ) is a term and concept found in mysticism, metaphysics, psychology and philosophy.

Nondualism also refers to a theological doctrine derived from the Upanisads which posits that the original essence of the human soul is indistinguishable from and thus identical with the Absolute or Godhead, Brahman.

) Nondualism ultimately suggests that the referent of " I " is in fact an artificial construct ( merely the border separating " inner " from " outer ," in a sense ), the transcendence of which constitutes enlightenment.

Nondualism is akin to " neutral monism ".

is included in the collection One: Essential Teachings on Nondualism.

" Nondualism ", " nonduality " and " nondual " are terms that have entered the English language from literal English renderings of " advaita " ( Sanskrit: not-dual ) subsequent to the first wave of English translations of the Upanishads commencing with the work of Müller ( 1823 – 1900 ), in the monumental Sacred Books of the East ( 1879 ), who rendered " advaita " as " Monism " under influence of the then prevailing discourse of English translations of the Classical Tradition of the Ancient Greeks such as Thales ( 624 BCE – c. 546 BCE ) and Heraclitus ( c. 535 BCE – c. 475 BCE ).

* Madhva's Dualistic view, along with Shankara's Advaita ( Nondualism ) and Ramanuja's Vishishtadvaita ( Attributive Nondualism ), form some of the core Indian beliefs on the nature of reality.

* Evens, T. M. S., " Anthropology As Ethics: Nondualism and the Conduct of Sacrifice ", Berghahn Books ( 2009 ), ISBN 1845456297

* Evens, T. M. S., " Anthropology As Ethics: Nondualism and the Conduct of Sacrifice ", Berghahn Books ( 2009 ), ISBN 1845456297

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj ( April 17, 1897 – September 8, 1981 ), born Maruti Shivrampant Kambli, was an Indian spiritual teacher and philosopher of Advaita ( Nondualism ), and a Guru, belonging to the Inchgiri branch of the Navnath Sampradaya.

Nondualism superficially resembles solipsism, but from a nondual perspective solipsism mistakenly fails to consider subjectivity itself.

He thought of the jungles below him, and of the wild, strange, untracked beauty there and he promised himself that someday he would return, on foot perhaps, to hunt in this last corner of the world where man is sometimes himself the hunted, and animals the lords.

Isfahan became more of a legend than a place, and now it is for many people simply a name to which they attach their notions of old Persia and sometimes of the East.

If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.

In a bold, sometimes careless, form there is nothing academic ; ;

In the incessant struggle with recalcitrant political fact he learns to focus the essence of a problem in the significant detail, and to articulate the distinctions which clarify the detail as significant, with what is sometimes astounding rapidity.

This text from Dr. Huxley is sometimes used by enthusiasts to indicate that they have the permission of the scientists to press the case for a wonderful unfoldment of psychic powers in human beings.

The problem is rather to find out what is actually happening, and this is especially difficult for the reason that `` we are busily being defended from a knowledge of the present, sometimes by the very agencies -- our educational system, our mass media, our statesmen -- on which we have had to rely most heavily for understanding of ourselves ''.

It is true that this distinction between style and idea often approaches the arbitrary since in the end we must admit that style and content frequently influence or interpenetrate one another and sometimes appear as expressions of the same insight.

On the other hand, the bright vision of the future has been directly stated in science fiction concerned with projecting ideal societies -- science fiction, of course, is related, if sometimes distantly, to that utopian literature optimistic about science, literature whose period of greatest vigor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and H. G. Wells's A Modern Utopia.

One is that there sometimes are real although inadequate compensations in growing old.

So far as I am concerned, the child is unmistakably father to the man, despite the obvious fact that child and father differ greatly -- sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse.

It was responsible and sometimes dangerous work because the thieving is awful in the port of New York.

He could no longer build anything, whether a private residence in his Pennsylvania county or a church in Brazil, without it being obvious that he had done it, and while here and there he was taken to task for again developing the same airy technique, they were such fanciful and sometimes even playful buildings that the public felt assured by its sense of recognition after a time, a quality of authentic uniqueness about them, which, once established by an artist as his private vision, is no longer disputable as to its other values.

For he knows that the first and sometimes most difficult job is to know what the question is -- that when it is accurately identified it sometimes answers itself, and that the way in which it is posed frequently shapes the answer.

Displacement is sometimes referred to as `` swept volume ''.

) While Rotokas has a small alphabet because it has few phonemes to represent ( just eleven ), Book Pahlavi was small because many letters had been conflated — that is, the graphic distinctions had been lost over time, and diacritics were not developed to compensate for this as they were in Arabic, another script that lost many of its distinct letter shapes.

This Aeolus is most frequently conflated with Aeolus, the son of Poseidon, god of the sea.

Amdahl's law is often conflated with the law of diminishing returns, whereas only a special case of applying Amdahl's law demonstrates ' law of diminishing returns '.

So in the second case cited above, it is likely that two different versions are being conflated: one version with an embassy of three people, another with just two people.

In view of the durability of meteoric iron, metal came to be associated with the aether, which is sometimes conflated with Stoic pneuma, as both terms originally referred to air ( the former being higher, brighter, more fiery or celestial and the latter being merely warmer, and thus vital or biogenetic ).

It has often been conflated with mythology, and vice versa, because it has been assumed that any figurative story that does not pertain to the dominant beliefs of the time is not of the same status as those dominant beliefs.

Finally, there is an argument that Frigg and Freyja are similar goddesses from different pantheons who were first conflated into each other and then later seen as separate goddesses again ( see also Frige ).

The term is also conflated with the 34 areas currently used to demarcate areas of local government in the Republic of Ireland at the level of LAU 1.

Although natural law is often conflated with common law, the two are distinct in that natural law is a view that certain rights or values are inherent in or universally cognizable by virtue of human reason or human nature, while common law is the legal tradition whereby certain rights or values are legally cognizable by virtue of judicial recognition or articulation.

The unstable organization achieved at the Oedipal period regresses to an earlier stage involving fixation on the oral mother, whose vagina is conflated with the infant ‘ s own cannibalistic mouth, transmuting it into the vagina dentata.

While these two facets of simplicity are frequently conflated, it is important to treat them as distinct.

f. " While these two facets of simplicity are frequently conflated, it is important to treat them as distinct.

The rescue and execution of Gasim is based on two separate incidents, which were conflated together for dramatic reasons.

It is likely that two stories were conflated, and Swedish sources suggest that the Elizabeth Moritz story is probably incorrect.

Although often conflated, biodegradable is distinct in meaning from compostable.

In social thought, metaphysical essentialism is often conflated with biological reductionism.

In 1889, Sir William Fraser conflated this uncorroborated remark with the one attributed to him by Count Charles de Montalembert's “ C ' est ici qu ' a été gagné la bataille de Waterloo ” (“ It is here that the Battle of Waterloo was won.

The conflated version is born from the presumption that Shakespeare wrote only one original manuscript, now unfortunately lost, and that the Quarto and Folio versions are distortions of that original.

The New Cambridge Shakespeare has published separate editions of Q and F ; the most recent Pelican Shakespeare edition contains both the 1608 Quarto and the 1623 Folio text as well as a conflated version ; the New Arden edition edited by R. A. Foakes is not the only recent edition to offer the traditional conflated text.

There is however no evidence for the conflated Romulus-Quirinus before the first century BC.

It is possible that during and after the christianisation of Finland, the figure of Ukko became conflated with that of the Christian deity.