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Am I in the right place? Any other place you could be. But here and now. Yeah, that's good. Always come back to the bun. Must realise from that you never left it. That's what we talk about. We call it non-duality. That's just a label we've brought in. And it's not something new. Something that's been around forever. And you'll look close enough and see that all the ancient traditions and ancient of one, whatever you like to call it, might be obscured by a lot of other rubbish, but basically the basis of them all. In Hinduism they call it a veda. Veda meaning non-duality. And they try and explain that.
Non-duality they say one without a second. I think repeating that and putting that out because put that one without a second on because even the idea of one implies that there could be other. And put that without a second on, we would cancel that idea out. So everything is that. And we call it that because there's one to be talking about. You can't put any concept on it. It doesn't really fit. So it's not just in the Hindu tradition. You'll find it in Buddhism. In all the scriptures of Buddhism, there are a few in teachers. So it's non-conceptual, ever fresh presence of awareness. Just this, nothing else.
As they say, non-conceptual awareness. And that's quite easy to see because drop your concepts and you stop being aware. There's still that vagueness there or livingness without the concepts. And why say pause the thought? That's all conceptualizing is this thing. Pause the thought. You can drop a thought at the moment. And you don't disappear. You don't fall apart if not to finish it. You're basically there without that concept. And most of the other traditions talking about it. And so it's omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience. Meaning total presence, total power, total intelligence. Not three things. The three aspects of the one again. It is the power, it is the intelligence.
It is the presence, the timelessness. And when they say it's total, even if you grasp that, the idea of about that even, without even, you know, they can say it. If it is total, it doesn't leave room for you or me or anything at all to be outside of that total. Nothing at all could be outside of that total. If there was, it wouldn't be the total. So that idea or concept of omnipresence, omniscience, omniscience would fall apart. It would simply be outside of that. And they've been telling us all along that there is only that. You can see that in all the traditions. See the Mahābhāgī, the great word or the great mantras.
I am that. Thou art that. This is that. And that. They're talking about is that ineffable, indescribable sense of presence. Is there anybody in this room that is not aware of being present right now? Are you somewhere else? There is an awareness of that presence right here. And the presence awareness or the awareness of presence is always and ever right where you are right now. So, that presence awareness as I say, on conceptual level, fresh, self-shining, it shines of itself. It doesn't have to be thought of. It doesn't have to be discovered. It doesn't have to be found. It's always and ever self-shining. Presence awareness.
Another term they use is beingness. Can anybody negate their beingness? Can anybody say I am not? Surely, the man of the word uses concepts. But in saying it, do you fall apart again? Do you disappear without an idea or concept that I am not? So, if that beingness wasn't there, that presence wasn't there, you wouldn't be able to say it. And the omnipresence, total presence, is the timeless factor. We say here, and ask you to have a look and see that time itself is a mental concept. And you see that quite easily. To understand a lot, I'm not trying to tell you anything. I'm not trying to teach you anything.
I'm just pointing you out certain things. And have a look, and ask you to have a look for yourself and see if it's correct or not. If it's not correct, drive it away. But in looking at time, ask yourself this question, is there a past if I don't think about it? And what do you need to do to do that? Well, you need to be out of thought, don't you? And then pause your thought again, even if it's just for the brief as it is. Without a thought, can you say there's a past? Or a future? Or anything at all? Without that thought? Or is there just that naked non-conceptual awareness there?
In all its nakedness? I mean by naked, it's unadorned, it's not dressed up or played in any concepts.