nondualism means The belief that dualism and dichotomy are illusory phenomena, that things such as mind and body may remain distinct while not actually being separate. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
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NONDUALISM — [Noun] The belief that dualism and dichotomy are illusory phenomena, that things such as mind and body may remain distinct while not actually being separate. From non- ("not") + dualism ("doctrine of duality"), translating the Sanskrit अद्वैत (advaita, "not two"). Unlike "dualism" (which posits a fundamental separation between mind and body) or "monism" (which reduces all existence to a single substance), nondualism acknowledges multiplicity without fracture. It is the shimmering surface of a lake that is neither wholly water nor wholly reflection, the river and its current, the flame and its heat—not collapsed into one, nor cleaved into two, but held in a tension that dissolves the very idea of separation. The world, seen this way, is a shimmering whole that refuses to be split.
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- The belief that dualism and dichotomy are illusory phenomena, that things such as mind and body may remain distinct while not actually being separate.