It's semantics, really.
But when I did dip my toe into the non-dual world, the rubric was the default position aided and abetted by the slightly tactile words ". . . appearing as everything."
Nobody, or nobody I (now) recall ever asked (odd, if you ask me) to go to their actual experience of this thing/no-thing we call life.
Full-blown, full-on life.
And of course, no labels (i.e. our history and machinery of words = the thing) could be prayed in aid by dint of the fact, if nothing else, they don't describe anything. (They are useful to bake a cake or build a plane but that's about it.)
What then?
Well, we might have had some interesting conversations which may or may not have brought us to the other shore but then again I don't suspect that quite had the ring of liberation.
And whilst I'm no preacher or zealot, I do feel that the time is right to revisit this question in open conversation:
What is your actual experience of life absent all that you've been told or apparently learnt along the way?
Blessings.
Love,
Ju