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...... This concept of non-dualism or oneness is perhaps one of the most inscrutable in Eastern philosophy. After all there is a difference between myself and what I am doing, isnt there? But what am I doing? Just walking down the street I realize that there can be no walking without the street, and further, there can be no me without everything else. So in this sense there can be no separation between myself and my environment. My skin does not separate me from the outside world but joins me to it. Even my brain that is telling me that the lamp on my table and this keyboard and myself are all very separate things, but they are certainly all in my one mind at this moment
One concept which I feel pervades all Eastern Philosophy is ego-lessness, here explained from a Hindu viewpoint:
The jva, or the individual soul, is a particular manifestation of the Brahman. Because of avidy (ignorance), the root of all troubles, the ego-feeling exists. The end is liberation, and that is achieved through a practical realization (not merely a theoretical acceptance) of the oneness of the self with the Absolute. If a person reaches this

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