I don’t think the word non-duality indicates self transcendence and/or self renunciation. There isn’t only a single way to deal with non-duality.
If you have a clear connection with your felt sense that creates a relationship with your body that makes it clearly your own soma in a very phenomenal basic way.
If you go well through naming an emotion and giving it a handle you create a felt shift as you engage with it.
If you spend 4 hours sitting and focused on your breath you don’t engage with any emotions that might come up during the time. You are mindful of them but you don’t connect with them or label them.
I’m not sure whether the following is true for you but it was comes intuitively to me and simply expressing my intuitions might be good for providing more substance to understand my perspective:
I could imagine a rationalist who attempts to do NVC to do it without connecting to any of his emotions and thus end up in a place where he detaches from his self but I would consider that partly cargo-culting NVC.
I don’t think the word non-duality indicates self transcendence and/or self renunciation. There isn’t only a single way to deal with non-duality.
If you have a clear connection with your felt sense that creates a relationship with your body that makes it clearly your own soma in a very phenomenal basic way.
If you go well through naming an emotion and giving it a handle you create a felt shift as you engage with it.
If you spend 4 hours sitting and focused on your breath you don’t engage with any emotions that might come up during the time. You are mindful of them but you don’t connect with them or label them.
I’m not sure whether the following is true for you but it was comes intuitively to me and simply expressing my intuitions might be good for providing more substance to understand my perspective:
I could imagine a rationalist who attempts to do NVC to do it without connecting to any of his emotions and thus end up in a place where he detaches from his self but I would consider that partly cargo-culting NVC.
Agreed. Edit: also that’s kinds a straw rationalist but yes.