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In spirituality, nondualism, also called nonduality and interconnectedness; and nondual awareness, is a fuzzy concept for which many definitions can be found, including: a rejection of dualistic thinking originating in Indian philosophy; the nondifference of subject and object; the common identity of metaphysical phenomena and the Absolute; the "nonduality of duality and nonduality"; the unity of God and man; or simply monism, the nonplurality of the world, or double-aspect theory. The term is derived from the Sanskrit "advaita" (अद्वैत), "not-two" or "one without a second". While "advaita" is primarily related to the Hindu philosophy of Advaita Vedanta & Kashmir Shaivism, nondualism refers to several, related strands of thought, and there is no single definition for the English word "nonduality". According to David Loy it is best to speak of various "nondualities" or theories of nonduality.Nondual awareness, also called pure awareness or pure consciousness and the "non-difference of subject and object," is primordial consciousness or witness-consciousness, a "primordial, natural awareness" which is described as the essence of being, 'centerless' and without dichotomies. Indian ideas of nondual awareness developed as proto-Samkhya speculations in ascetic milieus in the 1st millennium BCE, with the notion of Purusha, the witness-conscious or 'pure consciousness'. In Indian traditions, the realisation of this primordial consciousness, witnessing but disengaged from the entanglements of the ordinary mind and samsara, is considered moksha or vimutti, release from suffering and samsara. This is accomplished by self-restraint and bodhi, discriminative discernment or "enlightenment".(Proto-)Samkya thoroughly influenced both Hindu-traditions such as Yoga, Advaita Vedanta, and Kashmir Shaivism, Veerashaivism, as well as Buddhism, which all emerged in close interaction. All those traditions developed philosophical systems to describe the relation between this essence and mundane reality and its pains, and the means to escape from this entanglement and pain. Descriptions of nondual consciousness can be found in both Hinduism (Purusha, Turiya, sahaja) and Buddhism (luminous mind, Nirvana, emptiness, pariniṣpanna, nature of mind, rigpa).

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