Mónica Cavallé

The Wisdom of Non-duality

Original title:

La sabiduría de la no-dualidad. Una reflexión comparada entre Nisargadatta y Heidegger

About the book:

The Wisdom of Non-duality

A comparative reflection on Nisargadetta and Heidegger

Prologue by Raimon Panikkar

- Author’s website: http://www.monicacavalle.com/

- A book which paves the way to surmounting the current impasse in western philosophy and generating much-needed intercultural dialogue.

This book fills an inexcusable gap in the literature. In the first place, it is a rigorous yet readable initiation into one of the most radical traditions in thought in Indian and the East, the advaita vedanta or vedanta of non-duality – according to one of the most outstanding exponents of the present time, Nisargadatta Maharaj.

Secondly, it is an introduction to one of the leading philosophers of the twentieth century, Martin Heidegger, from a novel and enlightening perspective which shows the advaita intuition to be a crucial key to interpreting his thought.

Thirdly, it is a comparative study of the two thinkers, transcending the East-West divide and establishing common ground between the two approaches.

About the author:

Mónica Cavallé is doctor of Philosophy from the Madrid Universidad Complutense, with a masters degree in Religious Science. She has lectured in Practical Philosophy, and for several years has been coordinator of seminars providing a philosophical introduction to Hinduism and Buddhism.

She has spent research time at the University of Honolulu (Hawaii) and in Puna (India).

She is currently working as consultant philosopher and is honorary president of the Asociación Española para la Práctica y el Asesoramiento Filosóficos (ASEPRAF). She is the author of La Sabiduría recobrada [Wisdom regained] and La Filosofia, maestra de la vida [The Philosophy of Life] as well as editing Psicópolis, published by Kairós.