This same process is underway in the conversation between Buddhists and Christians. If Christianity can represent, in this relationship, the position that God exists, while Buddhism negates this view or is silent about the existence of God, then the honest, open, patient, and generous dialogue about these issues will lead to a breakthrough in spiritual understanding and a higher level of awareness. The implications for the human family are far-reaching. Yet this scenario is not unrealistic when we consider that religions are not static systems, but living social organisms capable of unlimited growth. Buddhism speaks of non-dual awareness as the truth, and this is the ultimate level of reality.
Christian mystics refer to that same level of consciousness beyond duality.
Meister Eckhart, for instance, tells us of the soul's return to the Godhead, the God beyond God in the usual sense. The Divine Reality, the Ultimate, the Absolute, God, Godhead, Nirvana, the Wakan Taku of the Dakotas, is a vast, or infinite awareness, a boundless consciousness. All reality, life, being, and cosmos exists within this vast awareness. For centuries in the Western world we have labored under the conception of dualism, that somehow we were separate and distinct from what we perceived and observed. With the advent of quantum physics and relativity theory this dualistic approach has broken down.