NON-DUALITY
Always Already:
Always Already
Nonduality
Immediate/Now
Obvious/Clear
Complete/Perfect
Free/Boundless
Fresh/New
What is
Just This| Only This
Just what's Happening| Just What Arises
All there is IS THIS
THAT which is
One Taste
It is that which you see before you - Po
It is Both Unreal and Real
It is and it isn't
Nothing Being Everything
Nonduality
Immediate/Now
Obvious/Clear
Complete/Perfect
Free/Boundless
Fresh/New
What is
Just This| Only This
Just what's Happening| Just What Arises
All there is IS THIS
THAT which is
One Taste
It is that which you see before you - Po
It is Both Unreal and Real
It is and it isn't
Nothing Being Everything
"God is nearer to me than I am to myself; He is just as near to
wood and stone, but they do not know it."
—Meister Eckhart, Christian mystic
"Like the empty sky it has no boundaries,
Yet it is right HERE, ever serene and clear.
When you seek to attain it, you cannot see it.
You cannot take hold of it,
But neither can you lose it."
—Yung-chia, Zen tradition
"Not knowing how near Truth is,
People seek it far away—what a pity!
They are like him who, in the midst of water,
Cries in thirst so imploringly."
—Hakuin, from the Zen tradition in Japan
wood and stone, but they do not know it."
—Meister Eckhart, Christian mystic
"Like the empty sky it has no boundaries,
Yet it is right HERE, ever serene and clear.
When you seek to attain it, you cannot see it.
You cannot take hold of it,
But neither can you lose it."
—Yung-chia, Zen tradition
"Not knowing how near Truth is,
People seek it far away—what a pity!
They are like him who, in the midst of water,
Cries in thirst so imploringly."
—Hakuin, from the Zen tradition in Japan
Saints, sages and mystics were really practicing sophisticated forms of meditation, contemplation or yoga or centering prayer and were aiming at those states of ultimate unity consciousness, divine oneness or absolute consciousness/awareness. It is very real.
Known all over the world as
1) Enlightenment
2) Awakening (Waking Up)
3) Moksha
4) Metaphorphosis
5) Satori
6) The Great Liberation
Buddhism – Satori, Nirvana, Kensho (glimpse), Bodhi
Hinduism – Moksha (liberation) , Mukti (release), Samadhi (Nirvikalpa)- Yoga (Yoking)
Jainism – Kevala Jnana (Perfect Knowledge)
1. Numinous experiences - Monotheism (Jewish, Christian, Vedantic)
2. Nirvanic experiences - Buddhism,"according to which one sees that the self is but a bundle of fleeting states"
3. Kevala experiences - Jainism, "according to which one sees the self as an indestructible subject of experience"[76]
4. Moksha experiences - Hinduism, Brahman "either as a cosmic person, or, quite differently, as qualityless"
5. Nature mystical experience
Enlightenment Waking Up, Awakening, Satori, Moksha, The Great Liberation, Salvation, Release, Transformation, Metamorphosis, Awareness, Consciousness , Nirvana, Self Realization, Illumination, Cosmic Consciousness. Ecstasy
Ground of all being or Ultimate reality is not some anthropomorphic figure or old man in the sky with a grey beard sitting on a throne.
It is simply the condition of all conditions, the nature of all natures.
It is the Isness, Suchness or Thusness of everything that Arises.
And you are ultimately one with that... Or that is to say, you and the ultimate ground are NOT - TWO (non-dual).
**A common metaphor is it is like the ocean and its waves.**
Waves are produced by the ocean, but the ocean and its waves are ultimately Not- two.
There is something they both share. There is a common thusness or suchness.
And that is wetness.
One wave might be larger than another wave, but it is not wetter than another wave.
All of the waves are equally wet. If you discover wetness at the wave you are on, you've discovered it everywhere! You have woken up, you have awakened.
You have become enlightened about the ever present wetness of the ocean and everything in it. You have simply discovered the thusness, the suchness, the isles of all reality.
Which means your own immediate awareness, right here and right now, is itself directly one with, its totally saturated with, this ultimate ground of all being which is non-dual. You do not have to seek this witness or practice to be wet or jump from one wave to another. Any place you are at, you're wet.
But as a common saying has it, "A fish doesn't know it's wet". Because it's constant in that wetness, so it never experiences anything but that.
To really become aware that it is wet, the fish has to have a genuine waking up to that.
It actually has to become enlightened about its ever present condition. Its always already thusness or wetness, the fact that it is drenched with this all encompassing ground of being.
Known all over the world as
1) Enlightenment
2) Awakening (Waking Up)
3) Moksha
4) Metaphorphosis
5) Satori
6) The Great Liberation
Buddhism – Satori, Nirvana, Kensho (glimpse), Bodhi
Hinduism – Moksha (liberation) , Mukti (release), Samadhi (Nirvikalpa)- Yoga (Yoking)
Jainism – Kevala Jnana (Perfect Knowledge)
1. Numinous experiences - Monotheism (Jewish, Christian, Vedantic)
2. Nirvanic experiences - Buddhism,"according to which one sees that the self is but a bundle of fleeting states"
3. Kevala experiences - Jainism, "according to which one sees the self as an indestructible subject of experience"[76]
4. Moksha experiences - Hinduism, Brahman "either as a cosmic person, or, quite differently, as qualityless"
5. Nature mystical experience
Enlightenment Waking Up, Awakening, Satori, Moksha, The Great Liberation, Salvation, Release, Transformation, Metamorphosis, Awareness, Consciousness , Nirvana, Self Realization, Illumination, Cosmic Consciousness. Ecstasy
Ground of all being or Ultimate reality is not some anthropomorphic figure or old man in the sky with a grey beard sitting on a throne.
It is simply the condition of all conditions, the nature of all natures.
It is the Isness, Suchness or Thusness of everything that Arises.
And you are ultimately one with that... Or that is to say, you and the ultimate ground are NOT - TWO (non-dual).
**A common metaphor is it is like the ocean and its waves.**
Waves are produced by the ocean, but the ocean and its waves are ultimately Not- two.
There is something they both share. There is a common thusness or suchness.
And that is wetness.
One wave might be larger than another wave, but it is not wetter than another wave.
All of the waves are equally wet. If you discover wetness at the wave you are on, you've discovered it everywhere! You have woken up, you have awakened.
You have become enlightened about the ever present wetness of the ocean and everything in it. You have simply discovered the thusness, the suchness, the isles of all reality.
Which means your own immediate awareness, right here and right now, is itself directly one with, its totally saturated with, this ultimate ground of all being which is non-dual. You do not have to seek this witness or practice to be wet or jump from one wave to another. Any place you are at, you're wet.
But as a common saying has it, "A fish doesn't know it's wet". Because it's constant in that wetness, so it never experiences anything but that.
To really become aware that it is wet, the fish has to have a genuine waking up to that.
It actually has to become enlightened about its ever present condition. Its always already thusness or wetness, the fact that it is drenched with this all encompassing ground of being.
Just This
Emptiness shines, the bodymind is but a small ripple on the infinitely beautiful sea of Just This. There is only This, vast, open, empty, clear, nakedly luminous. The mind and the sky are one, the sun is rising in the cast space of primordial awareness. All questions dissolve in this Single answer. The answer to life is simply life itself, Just This.
It all arises in the luminous clearing of Emptiness, the radical spaciousness of Godhead, the unqualifiable expanse of All Space, which is not other than one's own awareness, moment to moment. There is Just This. It blinds me into submission, takes my breathe away, forces me to surrender to my own deepest state, where I am totally undone by the beauty of it all!
Nonduality is utter simplicity. With mystical experiences in the subtle and causal, there is often a sense of granduer, of ominous awesomeness, numinous overwhelmingness, of light and bliss and beatitude, of gratefulness and tears of joy. But not with One Taste, which is extraordinarily ordinary (relentless ordinariness, nothing special), and perfectly simple:
Just This!
Sense of humor with non-dual sages: When nothing is sacred everything is taken lightly!
Yasutani Roshi once said, speaking of Satori, that is was the most precious realization in the world, because all the great philosophers had tried to understand ultimate reality but had failed to do so, yet with Satori or Awakening all of your deepest questions are finally answered: It's Just This.
Yasutani continues, "Now look. The whole phenomenal world is entirely Oneself. Therefore the clouds, the mountains, and the flowers; and the sound of a fart and the smell of urine; earthquakes, thunder and fire are all the Original Self [Primordial Awareness]. Reading sutras and holding services, telling a pack of lies, slander and idle talk, ugliness and cuteness, everything altogether is supreme enlightenment. Everything is your Original Self that is perfectly without lack and completely fulfilled in itself. Don't be surprised."
Just This greets me each day; just this its own remark; just this, there is no other; just this, the sound of one hand clapping - the sound, that is, of One Taste. The subtle and the causal can be so overwhelmingly numinous and holy; One Taste so pitifully obvious and simple.
Behind it all, and all along there is Just This.
In the simple feeling of being, you are the world. Look, It's Just This!
Just this, has not changed, will not change, will never change, because it never enters the corrupting stream of time with all its tears and terrors.
You never enter or leave it, you have always known it, and one day, sooner or later, you will admit it, and the Great Search will be undone. And then you will see any states that can be entered is not One Taste. Emptiness through all Eternity, Fullness to all Infinitity. And that is Just This, only This! It cannot be more obvious which is why it usually takes lifetimes to see. To close to be grasped, too effortless to be reached, to present to be attained. The Buddhas never attained This, sentient beings never lost it.
Emptiness shines, the bodymind is but a small ripple on the infinitely beautiful sea of Just This. There is only This, vast, open, empty, clear, nakedly luminous. The mind and the sky are one, the sun is rising in the cast space of primordial awareness. All questions dissolve in this Single answer. The answer to life is simply life itself, Just This.
It all arises in the luminous clearing of Emptiness, the radical spaciousness of Godhead, the unqualifiable expanse of All Space, which is not other than one's own awareness, moment to moment. There is Just This. It blinds me into submission, takes my breathe away, forces me to surrender to my own deepest state, where I am totally undone by the beauty of it all!
Nonduality is utter simplicity. With mystical experiences in the subtle and causal, there is often a sense of granduer, of ominous awesomeness, numinous overwhelmingness, of light and bliss and beatitude, of gratefulness and tears of joy. But not with One Taste, which is extraordinarily ordinary (relentless ordinariness, nothing special), and perfectly simple:
Just This!
Sense of humor with non-dual sages: When nothing is sacred everything is taken lightly!
Yasutani Roshi once said, speaking of Satori, that is was the most precious realization in the world, because all the great philosophers had tried to understand ultimate reality but had failed to do so, yet with Satori or Awakening all of your deepest questions are finally answered: It's Just This.
Yasutani continues, "Now look. The whole phenomenal world is entirely Oneself. Therefore the clouds, the mountains, and the flowers; and the sound of a fart and the smell of urine; earthquakes, thunder and fire are all the Original Self [Primordial Awareness]. Reading sutras and holding services, telling a pack of lies, slander and idle talk, ugliness and cuteness, everything altogether is supreme enlightenment. Everything is your Original Self that is perfectly without lack and completely fulfilled in itself. Don't be surprised."
Just This greets me each day; just this its own remark; just this, there is no other; just this, the sound of one hand clapping - the sound, that is, of One Taste. The subtle and the causal can be so overwhelmingly numinous and holy; One Taste so pitifully obvious and simple.
Behind it all, and all along there is Just This.
In the simple feeling of being, you are the world. Look, It's Just This!
Just this, has not changed, will not change, will never change, because it never enters the corrupting stream of time with all its tears and terrors.
You never enter or leave it, you have always known it, and one day, sooner or later, you will admit it, and the Great Search will be undone. And then you will see any states that can be entered is not One Taste. Emptiness through all Eternity, Fullness to all Infinitity. And that is Just This, only This! It cannot be more obvious which is why it usually takes lifetimes to see. To close to be grasped, too effortless to be reached, to present to be attained. The Buddhas never attained This, sentient beings never lost it.