AEN is from Non dualism school, a english buddhism sect, have
you ever read anything in chinese sutra emphasizing on non dual?
不二法门，i don't remember i have read something emphasizing on this
There is no 'non dualism school' in Buddhism -- non-duality is
not a specific sect but is the nature of reality. Insight into
non-duality is found in every single Buddhist sect, from Theravada
to Mahayana to Vajrayana. Anyone who has not realised non-duality
is not enlightened. But the term 'non-duality' can mean a lot of
things -- most of what are unrelated to real enlightenment.
A lot of people misunderstood what non-duality mean. They think
it is no absolute right and wrong, or no absolute polarities. All
these are not the non-duality I am talking about. As Longchen wrote
before:
http://www.dreamdatum.com/nondual-misinfo.html
...The most common
understanding of Non duality is related to the issue of Polarity
such as light and dark. In this semantic, non-duality is explained
as the non-biasness towards any side of a pole. This is about the
concept of there being no absolute good or evil. In another word,
it is about being non-judgemental. Many spiritual materials
believed that this concept of non-duality is equivalent to
enlightenment. This is not entirely correct.
Non-duality as a
concept for no polarity is not wrong. However, it should not be
mistaken for non-duality as the state of enlightenment. The term
non-duality that is being used to describe Enlightenment is
actually describing a state whereby there is no
subject-object division. This is an experience that is
difference from the concept of no absolute polarity...
Also other religions also talk about 'non-duality' but they may
have slightly different meanings. So as you can see the term
'non-duality' is very diverse and though many people talk about it,
it might not mean the same thing.
The non-duality I am talking about is the nature of reality as
no subject and object division. This is related to the insight into
Anatta (no-self), that there is no separate, distinct, permament
agent or Self that is the doer, thinker, observer/feeler of things.
As such when you are hearing a sound, there is no hearer apart from
the sound. There is just sound, without subject/object division.
This is the sort of insight one must come to to awaken.
All schools of Buddhism will talk about this, though the way
they describe it might be slightly different. They might not use
the same words but the essence is exactly the same.
