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title: "Nisargadatta | Non-duality | Thought Archive"
number: "034"
slug: "034-nisargadatta"
author: "Wenzi / 文子"
language: "en"
canonical: "https://tongzai.space/en/thought-archive/034-nisargadatta/"
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# Nisargadatta（Non-duality）



## Common research question

**What does Nisargadatta mean by I Am?**

Nisargadatta's teaching around “I am” explores immediate awareness, identification, and what lies beyond personal labels. Abiding with “I am” is not merely repeating a phrase. Much of the familiar material survives through edited conversations, making context, translation, and the interlocutor important.

## Interpretive boundary

Edited interviews are not author-finalized transcripts; translations must be tracked for exact quotation.

## Archive evidence

- [E-13 ｜ Dialogue 85 (“I am” as the basis of experience)](#E-13)
- [E-11 ｜ Dialogue 79 (person — witness — supreme)](#E-11)