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Q: I’m finding your writing helpful. My question is why do so many people search for so long after having an initial nondual insight?

It’s been six years in my case since I came to see mentally but experience-wise very little has changed. Why doesn’t it translate?

Aug 26, 2026
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A: The short answer is that seeing something mentally is not the same as the dissolution of the structures that organize experience. Insight illuminates the illusion, but it doesn’t instantly dismantle the machinery built around it.

An initial nondual insight often reveals that the self is not what it appeared to be, that subject–object boundaries are le…

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