What's the experience of non-duality actually like?

[Martin]

I hear a lot about non-duality, but I'm not at all clear what it means, practically speaking.

So what's it's like being in non-dual mode? Practical examples would be appreciated.

 

[The Hammer]

I hear a lot about non-duality, but I'm not at all clear what it means, practically speaking.

So what's it's like being in non-dual mode? Practical examples would be appreciated.

To me it's a reminder that things aren't Black and White, This or That. So that you look at everything from a sort of detachment, from right and wrong, that allows one to question and perceive from multiple perspectives.

Edit: @SalixIncendium might have a better answer then myself.

 

[sun rise]

I hear a lot about non-duality, but I'm not at all clear what it means, practically speaking.

So what's it's like being in non-dual mode? Practical examples would be appreciated.

Practical? I don't understand what you're looking for. But as far as what it means, I'm working my way through a book of interviews by Nisargadatta Maharaj currently. Nisargadatta Maharaj - Advaita Fellowship introduces him.

“Love says 'I am everything.' Wisdom says 'I am nothing.' Between the two, my life flows.”

(and)

“I am’ itself is God. The seeking itself is God. In seeking you discover that you are neither the body nor mind, and the love of the self in you is for the self in all. The two are one. The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.”

― Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That

 

[Orbit]

As far as I know, non-duality means you are not separate from Brahman.

 

[The Crimson Universe]

I hear a lot about non-duality, but I'm not at all clear what it means, practically speaking.

So what's it's like being in non-dual mode? Practical examples would be appreciated.

I'll try to explain this in my own simple words. And i'm sure most of what i'm about to write here, you're already familiar with that. :=)

When the Advaitins use the term "Non-Duality" they simply mean the absolute reality (the totality of what really exists) is just one single infinite field of cosmic spirit / cosmic consiousness called Brahman.
And this ultimate reality doesn't have anything or anyone else besides the one infinite spirit named Brahman.

It means there are no two or multiple entities in this total existence. It is that one entity Brahman that appears or manifests as many.

Advaita says you ARE (in reality) that infinite cosmic spirit Brahman.
From the Superior, Limitless, Unmanifested state YOU have become the inferior, limited, manifested human being, just so that you can experience the creation/drama.

From whatever little I've known in the past couple of years, when a man attains the highest stage of meditation, he enters a trance like state (samadhi), where the mind, ego, individuality, separateness vanishes for a short period of time.
In this state, your lower false self (Martin), disappears.
Disappears where?
In your ORIGINAL HIGHER SELF.

Here you realize you aren't the sheaths but the drop (Atman) which is part of the infinite ocean (Brahman).

The drop (atman) and the ocean (brahman) are one and the same.

The air inside the jar (atman) and the air outside it (brahman) are one and the same.

Our goal is to break the jar (to drop all the 5 sheaths) ... so that the infinite spirit within (atman) can become one with the same infinite spirit that's outside (brahman).

Anyway, after coming out of samadhi/trance (as an enlightened being) your false self Martin again appears in your daily working life, along with all its worldly desires, attachments etc. but since you're enlightened now, you remain unaffected to those wordly cravings.

Also after being enlightened, you are tuned into the Non-Dual mode. It means, you then get to see the true picture of reality. That there's unity in all multiplicity.
...
It means that with your divine enlightened eye, you get to see there's nothing but oneness amidst the false multiplicity ... i.e. all insentient sheaths, rocks, mountains, sky, planets, stars etc. are not separate things but they are Brahman's manifestations that have appeared within the infinite field/body of Brahman and have been pervaded by Brahman.

As an enlightened being you'll then see with your divine eye that Brahman the infinite spirit, is the fundamental reality underlying all names and forms.


:=)