Responsibility? Kate: Just exactly where does responsibility for ones actions begin and end...if all is illusion... if there is no self, no action, no other? Harsha: Kate, You ask beautiful and profound questions which go to the very heart of the internal/external perception of conflict between different states or ways of seeing and being. If we conceive these conflicts to be inherent in our nature and therefore struggle to eliminate them to "attain" a non-dual state, that conceptualization might hinder True Understanding. Bruce: An understatement. The work-for-reward paradigm implied by "struggle" and "attain" is what falls away in the unitary or non-dual state, which is "being" rather than "becoming." Harsha: What is then the Right Way? I can't say. But the Right Way will Find you. Bruce: Yes, that's how it happens -- many years ago I put this in a song: "If you keep on loving, love will come to you." Harsha: Love and Non-Violence are inherent in the Right Way. So there is no struggle. Perhaps others can make helpful observations and comments. Bruce: My only observation/comment is that "non-violence" exists only in relation to violence and is therefore dualistic. Peace, on the other hand, depends on nothing, it simply arises unbidden -- as Harsha notes, "there is no struggle." To be at one with the truly sacred is to be intrinsically, essentially moral, to embody what is externalized as morality or "divine law." To explore this, one might revisit The Ten Commandments as descriptive of such a rightful embodiment of the living law rather than as a prescription for ones future righteousness. (derived from a post to The Nonduality Salon email list)