In the nondual understanding, consciousness is not something you have—it's what you are. It's not produced by the brain or located in the body. It's the very fabric of reality, the ground in which all experience appears.
The Screen and the Movie
Just as a movie screen remains unchanged by the images projected upon it, consciousness remains unaffected by the experiences that appear within it. The screen doesn't become the movie—yet without the screen, no movie could appear.
Every thought, sensation, emotion, and perception is made of the same fundamental "stuff"—consciousness knowing itself as the multiplicity of experience.
The sound of a bird, the feeling of breath, the sight of these words, the arising of understanding—all of these are consciousness appearing as different forms, like waves arising from and dissolving back into the ocean.
Notice that you don't have to "get" awareness—you already are awareness. You don't have to find consciousness—it's already fully present as your very being.
Right now, simply rest as the awareness that you are. Notice that this awareness is not separate from whatever appears within it.
This isn't something you achieve through practice—it's something you recognize as already and always the case. You can't become what you already are.
How does life change when you recognize that you are not separate from the totality of existence?
What happens to fear, anxiety, and the sense of being a isolated fragment when this unity is clearly seen?
The recognition of nonduality doesn't eliminate the play of experience. Forms still arise and dissolve, preferences exist, actions are taken. But there's no longer the sense of a separate someone to whom all of this is happening.
There's just the spontaneous flowering of life, expressing itself as infinite diversity within fundamental unity.
The End of Seeking
When nonduality is clearly recognized, the spiritual search comes to an end. Not because you've found something, but because you've recognized that what you were seeking was never absent.
This is the ultimate joke—you spend years or lifetimes seeking what you already are, trying to find what was never lost, attempting to become what you've always been.
"You are not a drop in the ocean, but the entire ocean in each drop."
In this recognition, all questions are resolved, all seeking ends, and what remains is the simple, obvious, ever-present reality of what you are—pure, aware being, appearing as the magnificent display of existence.
This is not a state to be attained or maintained. It's the very nature of what you are, always already present, never absent, requiring nothing but recognition.