The Quiet Confidence Of Not Being Anyone

This is not a teaching. It offers no method, no practice and no way forward. What appears as these words is simply what appears, without implying knowing or anyone who knows.

What is sometimes called non-duality is often taken to be something to understand, attain or realise. It may seem to promise clarity, peace or freedom for someone, and in that sense it easily becomes another form of seeking, another attempt to obtain what seems to be missing. This book does not support that movement.

It points to the inseparable and inclusive wholeness of what appears. Nothing stands outside what appears, nothing stands behind it, beneath it or prior to it, and nothing stands apart within it. There is no centre to which what appears belongs. What appears is described here as no-thing no-thinging, not as two things, not as layers and not as a process, but as the inseparable and inclusive appearing of everything that appears.

What may seem to be separation, the sense of being someone located in a body and experiencing a world, is not something other than what appears. It is simply what appears described as separation, and no division has ever actually taken place. The apparent search for meaning, fulfilment or resolution may seem to accompany this sense of separation, as though something were missing, yet nothing that appears indicates that anything is missing or needs to be found.

This is not a message about transformation or arrival. Nothing is attained and nothing is resolved. What appears is already whole, inseparable and inclusive, not as a state, not as an experience and not for anyone. This may sometimes be described as unconditional love, not as a feeling, essence or substance, but as the inclusive inseparability of what appears.

This book does not ask to be believed and it does not invite agreement or understanding. It simply appears as it does.