Do Nondualists Really Believe That The World Is A Dream?
Not exactly. They don’t believe it’s a dream; they see that it’s a dream. Nonduality is not about belief; it’s about discovery. It’s about discovering what’s real and what’s not real and distinguishing between them. One fundamental discovery is that the world is not real, because it is transitory (i.e., it constantly changes), and that only Being is real, because it doesn’t change and remains ever-present. Another way of saying this is: That which witnesses the transitory nature of the world is real, but that which can be witnessed is not real. A corollary to this is that the Witness, by nature, is unable to observe itself and is therefore unknowable and indescribable. In other words, the Witness does not know itself directly; it can know itself only through its creation. Another corollary: you are the Witness; all you ever know is your own creation. Some Nondualists may actually have a transitory experience of seeing the world as transparent, while many others might not. But all event
