Nonduality and the direct path is about direct seeing into true reality, beyond the thinking mind, beyond concept.  As it is also said in Zen Buddhism, “The word is not the thing,” thoughts are not reality.  At best, words are pointers that can never touch the real.

Nondual means one, not two.  Nonduality recognizes life as an absolute oneness and sees separateness as an unsustainable mental concept.  In truth, life cannot be divided up.  Nonduality asserts that existence is a singularity and that this omnipresence is timeless, eternal, alive and is awareness itself. 

Who we THINK we are is really a mental image.  Look at this yourself and see if your sense of identity is not merely an arising thought or feeling.  In truth you are the indescribable one life that is always present, always aware, though thought can never know this.  It lives as a dim shadow of abstraction alone.  When one identifies as thought, it is like a wave in the ocean ignoring that it is water.      

Thinking is an essential tool, but true life is not a fleeting thought, or a believed series of them.  And as there can be no real past or future, there can be no past thought. So there can be no succession of thoughts or anything  that assembles a definable “me.”  A memory thought will tell you that a past exists and that it forms a continuous identity, but this is just another present thought!  "A past thought is one that has ceased to exist; how then can such a thought come into contact with a new one?”  Atmananda Krishna Menon

It is easy to get stuck in a sense of “me,”  to see oneself as a separate entity meeting a world that is out there.  There is no such separation.  Through the direct path of investigation and inquiry, it can be seen that all subject-object relationship is a false

belief, a misplaced identification and that there are no borders, no subject-object, no past and future, no cause and effect, all of which imply separation and time. 

The truth is that you are not an ocean wave destined to crash.  The mind cannot truly touch the indescribable “now.”  It cannot grasp the infinite, alive awareness beyond what any concept could ever contain or realize.  What is beyond concept, is right here and indestructibly so.

So who are you?  This is where the direct path comes in.  Assumptions about the nature of physical and mental objects, need to

be questioned and investigated so that what is, can be directly seen.  The truth is that you are not an image, you are life itself. You are pure awareness, pure aliveness.  You are the joy of being.  What comes and goes are mental appearances arising in absolute awareness.  True life is indestructible, always present, and you are boundlessly that.