Nonduality means there are not two things in existence. Nonduality is a lot like Bitcoin. They're both decentralized, take pleasure in paradox, and invite a search for the true nature of reality.

What Is Nonduality?

Nonduality literally means "not two". Francis Lucille, a spiritual teacher living in Temecula, California, explains: "The definition for nonduality would be that there is one single reality."

Here's a secret from the Australian ‘Sailor’ Bob Adamson. Bob's two words, if contemplated, can initiate you into the experience of nonduality: "Non-conceptual awareness”.

Decentralization

How can there ever be a center? When there are not two things, when there is one single reality, when there are no fixed points of view, where could there be a center?

Nonduality is ultimate decentralization.

Sure, you can drive to the center of town, be the center of attention, and even center yourself with meditation. Relative centers happen within a universe that has no center.

Decentralization can be relative. Bitcoin is defined as a decentralized digital currency.

Andreas Antonopoulos elaborates: "There is no center to the [Bitcoin] network, no central authority, no concentration of power, and no actor in whom complete trust must be vested."

Living the Paradox

The paradox is that, while reality has no center, we live as though there are centers everywhere. That's fine because that's functional. You don't want to be trapped and limited within a world of concepts and centers, unwilling to look beyond.

However, who's comfortable questioning the reality of their beliefs and concepts? Very few, notes Adyashanti: "So few seem to be interested in the greater implication contained within profound spiritual experiences because it is the contemplation of these implications which quickly brings to awareness the inner divisions existing within most seekers."

The implication is that our centers, our concepts and beliefs, do not equal our true nature. When we realize that, our world falls apart. When it comes back together, we recognize the nature of our true self as nondual and decentralized.

We carry on with a new perspective, keeping one foot in the mystery of reality without a center while functioning as always. You could call that "living the paradox."

A Search for Truth

Bitcoin culture invites and welcomes contemplation of decentralization and what arises out of that, namely living the paradox.

Hodlonaut, in conversation with John Vallis on John's Bitcoin Rapid-Fire YouTube channel, revealed; "Truth, to me, is always a paradox. I'm very fascinated by Taoism, which [says] that truth is found in paradox. If you try too hard to rein [truth] in and single it out, it will slip between the cracks."

The paradox is that you can realize or recognize truth, but you can't grasp it and drop it on someone's doorstep like a package. Truth has no handle, no center.

John and Hodlonaut touched on profound spiritual teachings, talking about love, unity, novel forms of self-inquiry, being on the side of truth, the multiplicity of doorways to coming to truth, and the nature of reality as paradox as expressed in the Tao Te Ching.

It appears that bitcoin is serving as a center of power around which people gather and crystallize a community founded in truth. How paradoxical is that? A center of power revealing its nature, and the nature of reality itself, as having no center.

Summing-up

Nonduality and bitcoin are both characterized by decentralization, paradox, and a search for truth.

When you go down the bitcoin rabbit hole, you find centers of knowledge and insight that are functional. You use those centers—that experience, those understandings—to help yourself and others live most effectively. Yet, in some way, the rabbit hole itself disappears like a concept that never was. What choice do you have but to enjoy that paradox?