Same dish, different sauce

Telling us to be more present, listen more deeply, love more, elevate our consciousness, awaken, or whatever it is … how is this any different from telling us to be more ambitious, productive, or successful?

How are spiritual improvement goals any better than ego-improvement goals?

It's the same dish in a different sauce.

The dish is always the improvement of a self.

Sometimes there’s so much loving-kindness sauce that the dish is unrecognizable as the same dish.

But it IS the same. And this dish does not satisfy — ever.

It can’t, because it’s always about working on or improving an illusory identity.

Any form of self-improvement, even the most subtle or noble, is not nonduality.

It’s self-improvement.

Even if you say “I’m just trying to notice what already is,” there is a separate “I” right there in that statement believing it’s a separate entity that does the noticing.

This is not a problem. It plays out the way it does.

But nonduality has nothing to do with anything concerning a so-called self because there is no one.

This can be realized although there’s no one to do so.

THIS is always already happening without anyone witnessing it, noticing it, or being aware of it.

There is no one separate from THIS.