For the simple reason that, in its pure essence, it offers nothing to seekers. Most "spiritual" or religious systems suggest actions that you can take to "get closer to perfection": meditation, prayer, devotion, fasting, contemplation, submitting to authority, etc. There is the idea that: "Now I am imperfect but, if I take the right steps, in the future I will be closer to truth." Non duality doesn't even allow for a future apart from the past, and, without a conceptual future, seeking goes right out the window. That which is being pointed to must be present in this very moment.
Do you see that you see? Do you know that you know? Of course. Most of the confusion lies around who sees. We think that we are a separate material body with a brain in it that is the seat of consciousness and perceives that which is outside of it, but, looking now, aren't the body and mind (thoughts) just more sensations/perceptions, as "the world" is? All of these experiences would be impossible without the witnessing presence that is the kernel of everything. There is no division in the process of knowing. The knower and the known are merely conceptual phantoms that dissolve into natural, effortless unity when thought is silent. Thought will make a jumble of this because it's too easy; it is absolutely already the case.
Once it's seen that we aren't the chaotic and confused self-image but the seeing itself, seeking is done. It's a blessed realization.
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