Winnipeg Non-Duality Study Group Meeting

Why we picked it

*"I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness."* Max Planck, physicist **What is non-duality?** The understanding that the Reality of the world and the Reality of the body and mind are the same, experientially: consciousness. And while we can be certain that this consciousness exists, there is nothing else we can say about it. This consciousness carries our deepest, most intimate understanding of what we are, it is what we call "I," our Self. It is what understands, loves, thinks, knows, and acts. We do not know that the consciousness which is reading this text right now is an emergent product of the brain, that it is finite and limited, that it was born and that it will die one day. The suffering we experience in this life is simply a result of our misunderstanding of this fact. We believe that consciousness is