**Nondualism, or non-duality, means "not two" or "one undivided without a second".** **Nondualism primarily refers to a mature state of consciousness, in which the dichotomy of I-other is 'transcended', and awareness is described as 'centerless' and 'without dichotomies '. While the term "nondualism" is derived from [Advaita Vedanta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advaita_Vedanta "Advaita Vedanta"), nondual consciousness can be found within [Hinduism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism "Hinduism"), [Buddhism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism "Buddhism") and western [Christian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian "Christian") and [neo-Platonic traditions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoplatonism "Neoplatonism").** **The idea of nondualism is typically contrasted with dualism, with dualism defined as the view that the universe and the nature of existence consists of two realities, such as the God and the world, or as mind and matter, subject and object etc.** **In Nondualism the multiplicity of the universe is reducible to one essential reality. Non-duality points to the essential oneness (wholeness, completeness, unity) of life, a wholeness which exists here and now, prior to any apparent separation despite the compelling appearance of separation and diversity, there is only one universal essence, one reality. Oneness is all there is – and we are included.** **Consider:** **The negation of dualistic thinking in pairs of opposites.** ***Monism*, the nonplurality of the world. Although the phenomenal world appears as a plurality of "things", in reality they are "of a single cloth".** ***Advaita*, the nondifference of subject and object, or nonduality between subject and object.** ***Advaya*, the identity of phenomena and the Absolute, the "nonduality of duality and nonduality".** **The nonduality of relative and ultimate truth.** **Consider the idea of a 'single cloth' to be like the surface of a pond, that is flat without any structure. Waves on the sur

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