Volume 6 · The Unfinished Syllabus · Essay 173
Non-Dual Thinking
You may not know the name Non-Dual Thinking, but you know the thing. This page only introduces the two of you formally.
Strip it to the floor and you find an old instruction: look carefully, judge slowly, act decently. The new name exists because the old instruction keeps being forgotten.
It is worth keeping in your pocket not because it is always right, but because it is always available. A tool you carry beats a perfect tool you left at home.
Ask any student of classical music. Ten years of scales before the first real improvisation. The shortcut generation finds this offensive; the tanpura is unmoved.
Learning is the one wealth that survives every partition of fortune. Keep the name. Use the pause it gives you. That is the entire homework.