Quote from Nothing to Grasp (New Book)

Nothing to Grasp

by Joan Tollifson

Non-Duality Press, Salisbury, United Kingdom  © 2012   186 pp.  

"When nondual teachings speak of not taking the events of our life personally (not "taking delivery," as Nisargadatta used to say), or when these teachings say that 'the person' is a kind of mirage, this isn't meant to deny the apparent persona in every sense or to suggest that 'enlightened people' turn into amorphous blobs of indistinguishable nothingness without feelings or personalities.  It doesn't mean you have to drop your name and go around insisting you are nobody, nor does it mean that if your wife dies, the goal is to be untouched and not 'take it personally.'

What is being pointed to is not detachment or insensitivity, but rather, total intimacy, unfiltered sensitivity, the absence of separation -- nonduality.  Nothing exists independently of everything else, and everything is nothing but ceaseless change."  (p. 48)


Thank you Katherine for gifting this book to the Center's library in celebration of Isabella and Charlotte's birthday.