Total non duality vs idealism and solipsism

[Hanif]

Hey Leo, 

Long time listener for few years now and still grasping the depth of your content, your interview with Curt Jaimungal revealed to me how (when he asks like some of us) a lot of people like myself constantly gets tripped by the notion of Ontology, epistemology and Non Duality. 

I have listened to your deepest episodes many times over the years and revisited the 3 episodes of non duality. However something that I struggle with now is the TOTAL NON DUALITY. 

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“There is no ‘I’ at all. No subject, no object, no inside or outside. Just what is — appearing.”

It completely dissolves the self, while solipsism centres everything around the self. - Or the SELF 

and idealism 

"The world is a dream in consciousness."

Total Non-Duality:
There is no consciousness, no mind, no observer, no experiencer. There’s no substance at all. Just what is, arising without cause, meaning, or subject-object division.

> "Even consciousness is a story. There is no world and no dreamer."

 

My question is how do you explain or make room for Consciousness or GOD here if TOTAL Non duality is taken to its most radical, to me it seems more like nihilism but not the despair of meaning/less as any derivation is dissolved in total non dual state. 

What's Leo's position? Solipsist, idealist, or total non dual? 

Or is the general understanding of total non duality perhaps not explained enough or Leo is it something you're still exploring further. 

Thank you, 

LOVE

 

[Princess Arabia]

Great question.