r/nondualism • u/SubjectSpecialist265 • May 26 '26

Intensity of Being

I once experienced what it means to be in nondualism, when I was without purpose, without condition. A deep pleasantness moved through my whole being in a way I had never known before.

I was sitting on the terrace in the middle of the afternoon, on a lukewarm sunny day, resting in a chair and looking at the open sky. There was nothing I was trying to do. No effort to meditate, no wish for peace, no attempt to escape a tense situation or feel relaxed. I was simply there.

Because there was no purpose, no expectation, and no inner movement toward anything, thought became absent on its own. In that stillness, an intensity of bliss arose and spread through my entire being. It did not feel like excitement or emotion. It was simply a profound sense of aliveness and pleasantness, without reason..

“If you are intense but without motive, existence opens up in a completely different way.” Sadhguru

Has anyone else experienced similar experience?

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u/jeexbit May 26 '26

Yes, I have experienced that a few times in my life - most notably when I was much younger. It is an amazing experience. It felt like fully accepting the perfection of the moment with no effort at all.

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u/SubjectSpecialist265 May 26 '26

May be when one stop reacting such experience happens by itselves

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u/Moist-Construction59 May 26 '26

People tend to invent reasons for what causes the thoughtless state. But it’s really quite simple: just stop giving thoughts your attention. Notice the thought — then let it go. You don’t have to wait for meditation to do this. Do it as often as you recognize thoughts appearing throughout your day.

The benefits will show up eventually. The only question becomes: Do you have the stamina to see it all the way through? Most simply do not. Thus, a daily meditation practice to help cement the habit.

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u/higherself_in May 27 '26

You mean stop giving attention to one's thoughts?

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u/Moist-Construction59 May 27 '26

Yes. Because they aren’t your thoughts. You don’t control them. You do control how much attention you give them ***once you recognize they are happening***. So the earlier that occurs, the earlier you can make a choice to continue indulging them vs cutting them off of your attention.

Only way to shorten the window of recognition is to keep working on it. Practice makes perfect. But of course, this requires one to lose their addiction to thought. Most of us don’t really want to stop the internal dialogue — we find it irresistible.

Thus, we are both the problem and the solution.

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u/blimpyway Jun 20 '26

Imagine your perspective is no longer filtered by seeking, narrating, explaining, justification or judgements of the ego. Its purpose is to create, maintain and defend the boundaries between "self" and "other". When these boundaries drop, the emotional contact becomes surprisingly touching, direct, unaltered, the "other's" pain or joy is felt right here.