There are many who think that Advaita and engaging in nonduality is simply using the no-self perspective as an escape from dealing with one’s problems, and misguided questions like these show why.
Non-duality, whether as an intellectual philosophy or as a ‘direct experience,’ is not an appliance to help anyone deal with their very dual self-image problems. It’s just a fact. There is only (one) Being, nothing ever arose, and every dual or multiple thing that seems to have arisen is just an illusory impression in Consciousness. You either ‘get that’ or you don’t. Truth doesn’t care either way.
It’s like air. It’s just (seemingly) there. It doesn’t help anyone with their life situations or self-image experiences.
It’s like a large bowl holding 30 pieces of fruit. Some of the fruit is brightly colored and tasty, Some look & taste less appealing. If let uneaten in the bowl, all 30 pieces will eventually rot.
Bowl don’t care
And bowl can’t stop any of that from happening.
If one of the fruits adopts non-duality - “I know there’s only One Bowl”- it still loses it’s color and rots. :-)
Sadly, many people do use non-duality as a way to escape problems and emotions held in the ‘individual self,’ or at least, they try to, and wind up more of an emotional mess than ever, or terribly disappointed, or living in an airy-fairy dream-world of denial.
All human issues - low self-worth, insufficient love or money, poor health, not enough ‘enlightenment,’ birth, troubled childhoods, and death - all exist in the Dream.
Non-duality has nothing to do with this dream and will not help you wake up or avoid whatever “you” have to go through.
It’s just What Is, and What Is can never be used by “you, although It may use “you.”
“You” never know :-)
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