THIS is EVERYTHING
Jeffrey Angelson
Is This All There Is? Or Is This Everything?
People ask how to experience non-duality…
how to feel it, reach it, live it.
But maybe we’re looking in the wrong direction.
As Joseph Nguyen points out, we already taste it—
in small, ordinary moments:
Getting lost in a conversation.
Being absorbed in something we love.
Looking into someone’s eyes and, for a second, nothing else exists.
Standing still as a sunset silences the mind.
He calls these micro-moments of “Fana”—
little dissolving of the self.
That’s a beautiful doorway.
But here’s the shift…
Those aren’t moments where we enter something special.
They’re moments where nothing extra is added.
No commentary.
No measuring.
No “me” trying to hold or understand what’s happening.
And what remains?
Just this.
So the question changes.
Not:
How do I experience non-duality?
But:
What is here when I’m not interfering?
And then something even simpler becomes obvious:
Those moments aren’t rare.
They only seem rare
because thought keeps taking center stage
and calling itself the whole experience.
But the silence…
the aliveness…
the simple being of this…
It doesn’t come and go.
Maybe it’s not:
“Is this all there is?”
Maybe it’s:
This is everything… before we divide it into something more.
Or even more simply:
Nothing is missing. Only overlooked.
What if there’s nothing to reach—
only something already here
waiting to be noticed?