Synonyms: TAO, YIN-YANG, COMPLETE, WHOLE, UNITY, ONE, BOTH, REALITY, ENLIGTHENMENT, HOLISTIC, HEAL, INTERDEPENDENT,
Antonyms: DUAL, SEPARATE, SPLIT, ILLUSION, SIN, SICK
In reality, however, there is no duality. There is only an all-pervasive Oneness. There is no day and night, since the sun never sets. There is no beginning and no end, no birth and no death. The child's mind, however, is in a non-dual state. The child's personality is as yet whole - the split is eventually imposed by the adults around the child and the society in which the child lives. Ultimately when he grows up, he is not the real one or the real self. In order to get back one's real self one has to go inward where there is no past, no future, but there is only the present. In this state of meditation, one may get in touch with our inner being, the non-dual state. Once this insight is gained, one is awakened. This is nirvana or enlightenment, where there in no duality; there is only completeness. The attainment of nirvana does not mean that the person will not grow old, fall sick or die or that he is above pain. What nirvana does promise is an inner heaven which enables one to live with pain and to take possession of it, and experience a profound peace of mind in the midst of suffering. (http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/Peace_of_Mind/id/219781)
The wave is the sea, but then again it is not the sea. (p14) God and man are simultaneously one and different - they are not-two. Hence this Ultimate Reality is not a Being that exists in separation from everything else. Man is a form of God. We are a part in which the whole realizes itself. This is the return to God - redemption (t) or mystical union, enlightenment, etc. (p42-3) (Meaning)
The Spirit is dependent upon the world and upon human beings for its fulfillment. God is not separate from mundane reality, but inextricably bound up with humanity, as two halves of a single truth which are mutually interdependent and involved in the same process of self-realization. The Spirit empties itself to become immanent and incarnate in the world. (History of God, p352-3)