Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2025
Abstract
Nondual awareness has recently gained increased interest in broader psychological research. In meditation contexts, it reflects the dissolution of subject and object, while in Maha_ya_na Buddhism, practitioners aim to develop insight that leads to awareness of nonduality in everyday-life situations. Traditionally, teaching of nondualism employed paradoxes to prompt nonconceptual inquiry into reconciling dualistic contradictions. To offer an approach to communicate nondualism to a modern audience of psychology researchers, the framework of unitlessness is introduced here, which differentiates between linguistic characteristics (units) and experiential phenomena (unity), both within an enveloping ineffability (unitlessness). This type of nondualism is trans-discursive, as it acknowledges the limitations of intellectual discussion in grasping its essence. This work aims to contribute to the clarification of terminology for research on mindfulness and nondual awareness, thereby enhancing the precision and depth of future studies in this area.
Recommended Citation
Krägeloh, Christian U., "Unitlessness: Highlighting the Trans-Discursive Qualities of Nondualism and Implications for Psychological Terminology" (2025). International Journal of Transpersonal Studies Advance Publication Archive. 112.
https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/advance-archive/112
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