Advaita, non-duality, means absolutely no duality. "Then why do I perceive so many separate objects?"
The appearances that are perceived aren't outside but within our aware spaciousness and have no other substance than that emptiness. Hence the Heart Sutra says, "Form is emptiness, emptiness is form". One thought (appearance) that arises in this is: "I am a person and there is a world outside of me". This concept may be believed in, but, actually, all there is, is perception/seeing/knowing and it is one and whole. Seer and seen, knower and known, perceiver and perceived are all artificial divisions imagined in thought. Reality is too simple for thought ever to grasp.
What are the implications of this'? Well, for one—there are no objects. Things can be talked about in functional terms ("The cat threw up on the couch today") but, in reality, only being is real and it appears as everything. The constant appears as the changing, not-a-thing appears as everything.
Morgan Caraway
Blessed Disillusionment
Non-Duality Press
p.83
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