Dana:

The observer truly is the observed, as Krishnamurti liked to repeat. But: if the observer is the observed, then this means that the observed is likewise the observer. In other words, if the observer really is the observed, there can be no entity remaining which can be designated as either an observer or the observed.

This is the nondual realization. This matter (what is relative and what is Absolute) has been at the bottom of a great deal of confusion. Both observer and observed are the Absolute.

I think you will be careful to watch for such subtleties, when you work on expanding your book. It seems to me to be important, in such works, to assist the novice reader in clarifying, in his mind, the essential difference between that which is relative (every thing) and that which is not (the Absolute)—which is no-thing.

It is because the scholars have not seen through the mystics’ eyes, that they are not seeing equally what the mystic sees. Therefore, the mystics’ viewpoint must be presented in an unequivocal way.

[from audio recording #259.]