What is Non-Duality - The Joy of Life
You can only know your interpretation of what you “observe.” In other words, what you see, hear, taste, smell, feel, or cognate. That last one is, in Buddhism, the sixth sense. Cognation, or defining, is a mind game going on in your head.
Quoted from phoenixcentre.com
Non Duality means non seperateness. You are the same thing with all other things. You’re not seperated though you think that you’re seperated from the cosmos. This is a delusion resulted by your interpretation. When you able to absorb this information, everything changes in your life. Some people call this enlightenment.
There’s a Hindu story called Six Blind Men. I know this story (The Elephant in the Dark - Tales from Masnavi) from my Rumi readings:
A Jain version of the story says that six blind men were asked to determine what an elephant looked like by feeling different parts of the elephant’s body.
The blind man who feels a leg says the elephant is like a pillar;
the one who feels the tail says the elephant is like a rope;
the one who feels the trunk says the elephant is like a tree branch;
the one who feels the ear says the elephant is like a hand fan;
the one who feels the belly says the elephant is like a wall;
and the one who feels the tusk says the elephant is like a solid pipe.
A wise man explains to them:
All of you are right. The reason every one of you is telling it differently is because each one of you touched the different part of the elephant. So, actually the elephant has all the features you mentioned.
This resolves the conflict, and is used to illustrate the principle of living in harmony with people who have different belief systems, and that truth can be stated in different ways (in Jainist beliefs often said to be seven versions). This is known as the Syadvada, Anekantvad, or the theory of Manifold Predictions.
Quoted from wikipedia.org