NON-DUALITY
Ultimately, because you are ALREADY Whole and Non-Dual, there is not much you can really do, BUT there are practices that can perhaps give you a glimpse and crack open the door.
1) Using a butterfly net to catch air - seeker grasping (4 inexpressibles)
2) Dream Bus (Free will and choice)
3) Nail in the sky, invisible staircase (4 inexpressibles) -Nail in sky - can’t be pinned down
4) A prison with no bars (Always already)
5) Boxing Story Roger (practice - exhaust seeker)
6) Musk Deer (Always already/Immediacy) - right under our nose - Ramana
Guru Vachaka Kovai, verse 1028: The mush deer carries a fragrant musk within itself. Not knowing this fact, and believing that the fragrance comes from a source outside itself, it wanders everywhere, searching for it. In the same way, only those who are not able to realize that their own Self is bliss will be bewildered, seeking sense objects, imagining that they [sense objects] are the source of their happiness. But those who are able to realize their Self will abide in their own state, without pursuing the world.
Happiness is Within – The Himalayan Musk Deer
By Paramhansa Yogananda
Musk is a kind of valuable, extremely fragrant salve found in the navel of the musk deer, a habitant of the highest Himalayan Hills of India. At a certain age, the ravishing odor of musk secretly oozes out of the navel of the musk deer. The deer becomes excited at the attractive odor of musk and frisks about, sniffing under trees, and searching everywhere for many weeks to find the source of the fragrance. Finally he grows angry and very restless when he is unable to find the source of the musk perfume, and jumps from the high cliffs into the valley, trying to reach the source of the rare fragrance, and thus plunges to death. It is then that the hunters get hold of him and tear out the pouch of musk.
Don’t you think that most people act like the musk deer? As they grow, they seek the ever-fragrant happiness everywhere outside of themselves – in play, temptation, human love, and on the slippery path of wealth, until finally they jump from the cliff of high hope onto the rocks of disillusionment when they cannot find the real happiness which lies hidden within the secret recesses of their own Souls.
If only you would turn your mind inward, in deep daily meditation, you would find the source of all true, lasting happiness existing right within the innermost silence of your own Soul. Don’t be like the musk deer and perish seeking false happiness in the wrong place. Beloved seekers of happiness awake and try to find your happiness within the cave of deep contemplation.
7) Image contracted energy uncoiling (Liberation)
8) Splinter in the mind - The term describes that feeling you get when something is nagging away at you and won't let go. (Glimpse
9) Fog of knowing - Cloud clears up and seen as unreal as whisp of smoke
10) Gateless Gate
11) Centerless - watching a river on a riverbank - no center
12) Make me one with everything - Always already why we use Non-duality
Problem of oneness spoken in negative terms (non-duality, neti neti) because it cannot be conceived or reached. Conversely, oneness can be objectified, reified, conceived and thought of as something lacking the seeker needs to attain. Make me not-2 with nothing and everything. Try to imagine that.
13) Railway time tables and maps - Map not the territory, cannot claim to know truth by knowng a map. Problem even worse in nonduality as there is no map and no timetables
14) Hidden Presidents Game... Metaphor for Dzogchen or Nondual pointing out instructions. Spirit, Tao, Brahman, Godhead is always everywhere, just have to recognize it. Cannot be attained, or realized or known, only recognition of what is always. Thought the REAL game is seeing God everywhere, so it is like this game in reverse, nothing is separate, ONLY GOD!
15) Caterpillar/Ego and Leaves/thoughts
“The ego in its purity is experienced in intervals between two states or two thoughts. Ego is like that caterpillar which leaves its hold only after catching another. Its true nature can be found when it is out of contact with objects or thoughts.”
16) Illustration idea - RIchard Feymann nobody can understand quantum mechanics ....
17) Cypher and Key of the Secrets of the Universe(QM is the cypher of the universe and nonduality is the key)
18) Pockets full of treasure right now!
19) Enlightenment - Are we there yet...lol
20) Brain/Eye is the Universe
21) Make me One with Everything (already have!)
22) Bob Seal Nonduality Cartoons
23) Nothing Cartoon
24) Ego deflating balloon - Push a balloon underwater when fully inflated it keeps popping up.. Inquiry deflates the balloon.
25) Voxelated Block of Marble, Pixelated Surface
The "Nothing" or Mahashunya is like an infinite block of pristine marble in which all forms are possible.
“In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it.” - Michelangelo
26) Bull and Grass
27) QM - Walking under streetlights at night (and disappearing - Potentia/Collapse)
28) Rope and Snake
29) KeyStone - Aham Vritti, holds all other thoughts together!
30) Ladder made of spirit climbing to spirit:To say nonduality is just another state or experience is like saying the alphabet is just another letter. Not just another rung/level of evolution but the entire ladder or sweep of it.
1) Using a butterfly net to catch air - seeker grasping (4 inexpressibles)
2) Dream Bus (Free will and choice)
3) Nail in the sky, invisible staircase (4 inexpressibles) -Nail in sky - can’t be pinned down
4) A prison with no bars (Always already)
5) Boxing Story Roger (practice - exhaust seeker)
6) Musk Deer (Always already/Immediacy) - right under our nose - Ramana
Guru Vachaka Kovai, verse 1028: The mush deer carries a fragrant musk within itself. Not knowing this fact, and believing that the fragrance comes from a source outside itself, it wanders everywhere, searching for it. In the same way, only those who are not able to realize that their own Self is bliss will be bewildered, seeking sense objects, imagining that they [sense objects] are the source of their happiness. But those who are able to realize their Self will abide in their own state, without pursuing the world.
Happiness is Within – The Himalayan Musk Deer
By Paramhansa Yogananda
Musk is a kind of valuable, extremely fragrant salve found in the navel of the musk deer, a habitant of the highest Himalayan Hills of India. At a certain age, the ravishing odor of musk secretly oozes out of the navel of the musk deer. The deer becomes excited at the attractive odor of musk and frisks about, sniffing under trees, and searching everywhere for many weeks to find the source of the fragrance. Finally he grows angry and very restless when he is unable to find the source of the musk perfume, and jumps from the high cliffs into the valley, trying to reach the source of the rare fragrance, and thus plunges to death. It is then that the hunters get hold of him and tear out the pouch of musk.
Don’t you think that most people act like the musk deer? As they grow, they seek the ever-fragrant happiness everywhere outside of themselves – in play, temptation, human love, and on the slippery path of wealth, until finally they jump from the cliff of high hope onto the rocks of disillusionment when they cannot find the real happiness which lies hidden within the secret recesses of their own Souls.
If only you would turn your mind inward, in deep daily meditation, you would find the source of all true, lasting happiness existing right within the innermost silence of your own Soul. Don’t be like the musk deer and perish seeking false happiness in the wrong place. Beloved seekers of happiness awake and try to find your happiness within the cave of deep contemplation.
7) Image contracted energy uncoiling (Liberation)
8) Splinter in the mind - The term describes that feeling you get when something is nagging away at you and won't let go. (Glimpse
9) Fog of knowing - Cloud clears up and seen as unreal as whisp of smoke
10) Gateless Gate
11) Centerless - watching a river on a riverbank - no center
12) Make me one with everything - Always already why we use Non-duality
Problem of oneness spoken in negative terms (non-duality, neti neti) because it cannot be conceived or reached. Conversely, oneness can be objectified, reified, conceived and thought of as something lacking the seeker needs to attain. Make me not-2 with nothing and everything. Try to imagine that.
13) Railway time tables and maps - Map not the territory, cannot claim to know truth by knowng a map. Problem even worse in nonduality as there is no map and no timetables
14) Hidden Presidents Game... Metaphor for Dzogchen or Nondual pointing out instructions. Spirit, Tao, Brahman, Godhead is always everywhere, just have to recognize it. Cannot be attained, or realized or known, only recognition of what is always. Thought the REAL game is seeing God everywhere, so it is like this game in reverse, nothing is separate, ONLY GOD!
15) Caterpillar/Ego and Leaves/thoughts
“The ego in its purity is experienced in intervals between two states or two thoughts. Ego is like that caterpillar which leaves its hold only after catching another. Its true nature can be found when it is out of contact with objects or thoughts.”
16) Illustration idea - RIchard Feymann nobody can understand quantum mechanics ....
17) Cypher and Key of the Secrets of the Universe(QM is the cypher of the universe and nonduality is the key)
18) Pockets full of treasure right now!
19) Enlightenment - Are we there yet...lol
20) Brain/Eye is the Universe
21) Make me One with Everything (already have!)
22) Bob Seal Nonduality Cartoons
23) Nothing Cartoon
24) Ego deflating balloon - Push a balloon underwater when fully inflated it keeps popping up.. Inquiry deflates the balloon.
25) Voxelated Block of Marble, Pixelated Surface
The "Nothing" or Mahashunya is like an infinite block of pristine marble in which all forms are possible.
“In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it.” - Michelangelo
26) Bull and Grass
27) QM - Walking under streetlights at night (and disappearing - Potentia/Collapse)
28) Rope and Snake
29) KeyStone - Aham Vritti, holds all other thoughts together!
30) Ladder made of spirit climbing to spirit:To say nonduality is just another state or experience is like saying the alphabet is just another letter. Not just another rung/level of evolution but the entire ladder or sweep of it.