Oneness – a term which is often used interchangeably with “non-duality” or “non-dual awareness – has traditionally been considered a state in which a person experiences consciousness in its true form as utterly devoid of subject–object distinctions.

Consciousness, at its simplest, is sentience or awareness of internal and external existence. Despite millennia of analyses, definitions, explanations and debates by philosophers and scientists, consciousness remains puzzling and controversial, being “at once the most familiar and also the most mysterious aspect of our lives.

It is a living energy that knows how to act. It obeys its own laws, rising upward against the force of gravity, like fire. And like fire, it purifies, consumes, and cleanses our imperfections. In fact, when you feel the heat in your hands during meditation, you are feeling all that is negative leaving your body.

Buddhists believe that human life is a cycle of suffering and rebirth, but that if one achieves a state of enlightenment (nirvana), it is possible to escape this cycle forever. Siddhartha Gautama was the first person to reach this state of enlightenment and was, and is still today, known as the Buddha.

Bliss can be experienced only when we are living in the spiritual state of awareness and consciousness. Then we understand that our state of happiness, joy, and bliss is not subjected to conditions. In life, there is a constant rhythmic movement towards bliss always as long as we are breathing.