NON-DUALITY
Duality and the Dream of Me (Spacelike) - [Dream Reality part 1]
1. There is an apparent Dream, Illusion, Veil that creates an apparent Individual, Me, I, or Separate Self. The separate or dreamt reality - sense of having an identity. Seems to arise at an early age, but it is deeper at Causal level. Has no beginning (because unreal), but can have an apparent end.
2. ***Contracted Energy/ I-Thought/ EGO [in Space]** This dream of ME is a result of a contracted energy, granthi, knot or energetic tension, not a mere belief. It seems to be hardwired into us by our biology combined with societal upbringing. Contracted Energy is a Psychosomatic misunderstanding, not a concept or belief.
Sensation of Effort of agitating ourselves in and out of It.
+ [run towards] Desire, grasping, owning, seeking, knowning, wishing, wanting
-[run away] Avoidance, resisting, fearing, loathing, hating,
0 [neutality] Rest in Pure Presence, whatever happens is THAT, is ok, surrender
Suddenly another, than a contracted energy. Sense that something in here is separate. This idea, contraction grows and apparent person and meets others.
Experience of here and there is a tension of holding that structure up.
Intrinsically that tension is a result of looking or seeking the release of that tension or structure holding that up.
Here is a safety blanket with a tail because now that it’s here , there is a constant need to control , know and feel safe and to search for what it thinks is missing.
When the individual arise in the body as a contracted energy , it arises in everthing energy around .. profound experience of things as solid and real arises with me here
3. **HERE** vs THERE - With the energy contraction emerges a sense of HERE, or a CENTER for the "I AM" to stake its Individuality. "Here" creates a Solidity and Realness "Out There".
What’s happening has a solidity or platform for most people. But there is nothing substantial, just the appearance, just things happening for no one. No subject object duality.
4. Concurrently a Subject / Object Duality apparently arises again because of our biology and upbringing and we see ourselves as separate individuals and hence the stage is set and the game of the seeker is afoot!
1. There is an apparent Dream, Illusion, Veil that creates an apparent Individual, Me, I, or Separate Self. The separate or dreamt reality - sense of having an identity. Seems to arise at an early age, but it is deeper at Causal level. Has no beginning (because unreal), but can have an apparent end.
2. ***Contracted Energy/ I-Thought/ EGO [in Space]** This dream of ME is a result of a contracted energy, granthi, knot or energetic tension, not a mere belief. It seems to be hardwired into us by our biology combined with societal upbringing. Contracted Energy is a Psychosomatic misunderstanding, not a concept or belief.
Sensation of Effort of agitating ourselves in and out of It.
+ [run towards] Desire, grasping, owning, seeking, knowning, wishing, wanting
-[run away] Avoidance, resisting, fearing, loathing, hating,
0 [neutality] Rest in Pure Presence, whatever happens is THAT, is ok, surrender
Suddenly another, than a contracted energy. Sense that something in here is separate. This idea, contraction grows and apparent person and meets others.
Experience of here and there is a tension of holding that structure up.
Intrinsically that tension is a result of looking or seeking the release of that tension or structure holding that up.
Here is a safety blanket with a tail because now that it’s here , there is a constant need to control , know and feel safe and to search for what it thinks is missing.
When the individual arise in the body as a contracted energy , it arises in everthing energy around .. profound experience of things as solid and real arises with me here
3. **HERE** vs THERE - With the energy contraction emerges a sense of HERE, or a CENTER for the "I AM" to stake its Individuality. "Here" creates a Solidity and Realness "Out There".
What’s happening has a solidity or platform for most people. But there is nothing substantial, just the appearance, just things happening for no one. No subject object duality.
4. Concurrently a Subject / Object Duality apparently arises again because of our biology and upbringing and we see ourselves as separate individuals and hence the stage is set and the game of the seeker is afoot!
III. There is a Seeker Born Every Minute - The Great Search (Timelike) [Dreamt Reality Part 2]
1. **Seeking Things and Knowledge [Contracted Energy In Time]**
Separate self it’s always a process
The Great Search and the Separate Self are on and the same. There is a tangible sensation to seeking (contracted energy or interior tension). This is the sensation of grasping, desiring, wishing, wanting, avoiding, resisting... Its the sensation of effort, or seeking! Though sustained by effort and seeking, this contracted energy happened at an early age.
Tension starts with 'here' which is a position. Then looks for confirmation 'Here' is real, like a comfort blanket. As soon as there is a position, everything happens to me, and it matters what happens because I make it real.
The illusion of Here and There creates a space between them, between Subject and Object, Observer and Observed. This SPACE is the stage for the Seeker, the Dream of Me, in which Time unfolds in the Story of My Life. This "Space" is the "Space" of Knowledge and Experience, when the space collapses into nonduality, Experiencing and Knowing Collapse with it.
The Story of Me is a search for meaning and purpose
Now that I am a limited individual, it appears that there is a lot of things OUT THERE, I can attain, wealth, love, sex, happiness, fancy cars and nice houses, and when that doesn't satisfy me.... Enlightenment!!
2. **Journey and Story of Me
I am a real person, there are other real people. I am on a journey in time, I am real, my journey is real. I can influence the story. Difficulty of me is it lives in a separate reality and it things it is real. Everything it sees seems to be real, objects arising, happening to me. I am in here, my thoughts and feelings are mine. Most people are sure they are real and their story. This is a dream world. The separate reality of Me being real is a dream.
Whatever the me does prolongs the realization that nothing needs to be done.
Experience of the individual is the only experience there is.
Tries to overcome experience with more experience
Me is the biggest addiction in the world .. more more more
3. **illusion of free will and choice**. If I do this, it causes that. I can walk a path, become a seeker, engage in a process to get or add something I think I am missing.
Arcade example and free will ... Think I was playing ms Pac-Man
4. **Meaning and Purpose**
If there were purpose there would be a journey to a future tomorrow
Therapy makes the prison cell more comfortable
Search and need for meaning and purpose
If me knew what it was searching for it would be really disappointed
Me says this is not it, this is not it , but it is just this … any energy or effort individual makes is a denial of this already
Meaningless because no meaning or definition. There is nowhere to go , only this. All movements and apparent decisions , beliefs etc is just the mystery appearing as that
Real implies that it matters in both senses of the word … that’s is solid and real and has meaning and purpose. It’s both real and unreal: There’s nowhere to put a nail in it, undefinable. Empty Isness
True hopelessness is the unconditional freedom of everything, because true hopeless is the end of the experience that anything is real.
5. The apparent law of cause and effect gives the illusion of real sequence of events in time which I can control, and the ME have a HERE location with things out THERE gives the illusion of Space.
6. I make the story real by adding an illusory SOLIDITY to things by knowing and owning them. This realness allows me to create a Story of Me called My Life that I can possess and carry around (including thoughts, beliefs and emotions).
Knowing and possessing comes from solidity.
7.**Dissatification from being Separate**
Sense that arises that is something dissatisifying about living in a separate reality. I am in here and everything else is out there.
Most people live in this sense of lack, and everything they do is a way of coping with this separate identity.
People that are a bit more sensitive, want to find out why they feel a lack and are dissatisfied, so they go to therapy, or a teacher that teaches enlightenment.
The individual is convinced it has to do it. Conviction that I have to learn to become fulfilled, and one day I , the self will be fulfilled. That is all an illusion.
Me comes from the position that it’s real and something needs to happen for this to be what it is … and that can’t possibly be true because it’s already this.
Hope is a horrible thing , it’s never this it’s always something else.
End of hope , not hopelessness or despair
6. 2 Me's - higher and lower self:
Me - 2 levels, higher self and lower self. Lower self, pleasuring itself, higher self, something better, new job, or riches, or being a loving, a good person, roles that are attractive to the me.
Me in a strange dream it can find a Higher calling. Many teachers in the world appeal to this.
Teaching confirms something in the psyche has, unworthiness... it has lost something, cast out and grows up feeling unworthy.
7. *Me takes on many roles* - parent, child, profession, lover, gender, diet, religion, politics, etc (wilber) - Think of Bryant's I AM _____
6. ALL This creates a cloud of Knowing, which is a thick fog of illusion that adds another layer to the veil of duality and further clouds my perception of What IS.
Knowing seems to be a collection of experience and ideas. Experience is the tension in space between subject and object.
7. **What the seeker really longs for has never been lost**
What the seeker really longs for is constantly all there is, it never went away.
And the seeker is rushing around in a circle for everything that is already all there is which is a mystery.
What’s wanted is what’s happening because it is the fulfillment of everything. Me wants it a particular way over the reality that this is the mystery of unknowing
Whatever the separate self does prolongs the realization that nothing needed to be done
You reject the Beloved by trying to own and know the Beloved. The beloved is unconditional love , that’s all there is (but it’s not warm and cuddly).
The great illusion of duality and separateness. (that never really happens)
1. **Seeking Things and Knowledge [Contracted Energy In Time]**
Separate self it’s always a process
The Great Search and the Separate Self are on and the same. There is a tangible sensation to seeking (contracted energy or interior tension). This is the sensation of grasping, desiring, wishing, wanting, avoiding, resisting... Its the sensation of effort, or seeking! Though sustained by effort and seeking, this contracted energy happened at an early age.
Tension starts with 'here' which is a position. Then looks for confirmation 'Here' is real, like a comfort blanket. As soon as there is a position, everything happens to me, and it matters what happens because I make it real.
The illusion of Here and There creates a space between them, between Subject and Object, Observer and Observed. This SPACE is the stage for the Seeker, the Dream of Me, in which Time unfolds in the Story of My Life. This "Space" is the "Space" of Knowledge and Experience, when the space collapses into nonduality, Experiencing and Knowing Collapse with it.
The Story of Me is a search for meaning and purpose
Now that I am a limited individual, it appears that there is a lot of things OUT THERE, I can attain, wealth, love, sex, happiness, fancy cars and nice houses, and when that doesn't satisfy me.... Enlightenment!!
2. **Journey and Story of Me
I am a real person, there are other real people. I am on a journey in time, I am real, my journey is real. I can influence the story. Difficulty of me is it lives in a separate reality and it things it is real. Everything it sees seems to be real, objects arising, happening to me. I am in here, my thoughts and feelings are mine. Most people are sure they are real and their story. This is a dream world. The separate reality of Me being real is a dream.
Whatever the me does prolongs the realization that nothing needs to be done.
Experience of the individual is the only experience there is.
Tries to overcome experience with more experience
Me is the biggest addiction in the world .. more more more
3. **illusion of free will and choice**. If I do this, it causes that. I can walk a path, become a seeker, engage in a process to get or add something I think I am missing.
Arcade example and free will ... Think I was playing ms Pac-Man
4. **Meaning and Purpose**
If there were purpose there would be a journey to a future tomorrow
Therapy makes the prison cell more comfortable
Search and need for meaning and purpose
If me knew what it was searching for it would be really disappointed
Me says this is not it, this is not it , but it is just this … any energy or effort individual makes is a denial of this already
Meaningless because no meaning or definition. There is nowhere to go , only this. All movements and apparent decisions , beliefs etc is just the mystery appearing as that
Real implies that it matters in both senses of the word … that’s is solid and real and has meaning and purpose. It’s both real and unreal: There’s nowhere to put a nail in it, undefinable. Empty Isness
True hopelessness is the unconditional freedom of everything, because true hopeless is the end of the experience that anything is real.
5. The apparent law of cause and effect gives the illusion of real sequence of events in time which I can control, and the ME have a HERE location with things out THERE gives the illusion of Space.
6. I make the story real by adding an illusory SOLIDITY to things by knowing and owning them. This realness allows me to create a Story of Me called My Life that I can possess and carry around (including thoughts, beliefs and emotions).
Knowing and possessing comes from solidity.
7.**Dissatification from being Separate**
Sense that arises that is something dissatisifying about living in a separate reality. I am in here and everything else is out there.
Most people live in this sense of lack, and everything they do is a way of coping with this separate identity.
People that are a bit more sensitive, want to find out why they feel a lack and are dissatisfied, so they go to therapy, or a teacher that teaches enlightenment.
The individual is convinced it has to do it. Conviction that I have to learn to become fulfilled, and one day I , the self will be fulfilled. That is all an illusion.
Me comes from the position that it’s real and something needs to happen for this to be what it is … and that can’t possibly be true because it’s already this.
Hope is a horrible thing , it’s never this it’s always something else.
End of hope , not hopelessness or despair
6. 2 Me's - higher and lower self:
Me - 2 levels, higher self and lower self. Lower self, pleasuring itself, higher self, something better, new job, or riches, or being a loving, a good person, roles that are attractive to the me.
Me in a strange dream it can find a Higher calling. Many teachers in the world appeal to this.
Teaching confirms something in the psyche has, unworthiness... it has lost something, cast out and grows up feeling unworthy.
7. *Me takes on many roles* - parent, child, profession, lover, gender, diet, religion, politics, etc (wilber) - Think of Bryant's I AM _____
6. ALL This creates a cloud of Knowing, which is a thick fog of illusion that adds another layer to the veil of duality and further clouds my perception of What IS.
Knowing seems to be a collection of experience and ideas. Experience is the tension in space between subject and object.
7. **What the seeker really longs for has never been lost**
What the seeker really longs for is constantly all there is, it never went away.
And the seeker is rushing around in a circle for everything that is already all there is which is a mystery.
What’s wanted is what’s happening because it is the fulfillment of everything. Me wants it a particular way over the reality that this is the mystery of unknowing
Whatever the separate self does prolongs the realization that nothing needed to be done
You reject the Beloved by trying to own and know the Beloved. The beloved is unconditional love , that’s all there is (but it’s not warm and cuddly).
The great illusion of duality and separateness. (that never really happens)
The Origin of delusion, The "I-thought"/Ego/Me/Jiva comes from seeking/craving/desiring
The first cause - Universe arises with "I"
The second Noble Truth of the Buddha is that all suffering stems from desire or craving or seeking.
Q: Why does the mind seek?
A: It is trying to fix itself, to find a secure home, because it experiences its own formlessness, its own emptiness as uncomfortable.
Because of this contraction from our Universal and Formless Self, the Ego-self experiences this limited existence as a lack, a bottomless hole which try as we may, cannot be filled.
The frustration of our lives is there is always something that needs to be done to get or attain that which we think will make us happy.
We seek or desire a happiness outside of ourselves, which is always and already within.
The Ego-self is that which is deferred - hence unreal.
The Ego-self thus finds itself in this constant thrust into the future anticipating an endless series of desires that we think will bring us fulfillment, happiness, wholeness, etc.
Sadly death is the end of the road for this deferral.
Spiritual Path
Spiritual practice: take all the desires and roll them into one. and evaporation of that One puts our seeking to rest.
Paradox of the Spiritual Journey: When we want something, normally we know what needs to be done to get it (cause - effect).
But what if the "object" I desire is not an object. but the Nondual Self (which is prior to the subject - object split.
Here is the 2-fold conundrum:
1) If I make no effort to do anything, than nothing results and no progress is made towards the desired goal
2) But also to the extent that exert myself to attain it, I don't, for in this case all effort seems to be self defeating.
The problem stems from expecting a nondual experience to happen which is itself dualistic (Cause/effect - Practice/Enlightenment).
2 Perspectives on Practice
1) Phenomenal view: The view that we move from delusion to enligtenment, from samsara to nirvana.
2) Essential view: The view that there is no dualism b/w delusion and enlightenment (Samsara = Nirvana)
2 Forms of Essential Practice (The only 2 ways to reconcile the dualism)
1) Practice <- Enlightenment (Zen/Dogen: Practice IS enlightenment - DOING)
2) Practice -> Enlightenment (Shankaracharya/Advaita: No Practice, we are already Enlightened - BEING)
Realization vs Attainment
The difference between attainment and Realization (for something must be clearly Realized), is that ONLY NOW can I Realize IAM that which I seek.
Since it is ALWAYS NOW, the possibility is ALWAYS THERE,
Enlightenment becomes Realized only when Causal time-bound, goal-oriented ways of thinking, speaking and acting evaporate to expose what I have always been: a formless, qualityless mind that is immutable because it is Self/Sunya, that is Free because it is not going anywhere, and that does not need to go anywhere because it does not lack anything!
The first cause - Universe arises with "I"
The second Noble Truth of the Buddha is that all suffering stems from desire or craving or seeking.
Q: Why does the mind seek?
A: It is trying to fix itself, to find a secure home, because it experiences its own formlessness, its own emptiness as uncomfortable.
Because of this contraction from our Universal and Formless Self, the Ego-self experiences this limited existence as a lack, a bottomless hole which try as we may, cannot be filled.
The frustration of our lives is there is always something that needs to be done to get or attain that which we think will make us happy.
We seek or desire a happiness outside of ourselves, which is always and already within.
The Ego-self is that which is deferred - hence unreal.
The Ego-self thus finds itself in this constant thrust into the future anticipating an endless series of desires that we think will bring us fulfillment, happiness, wholeness, etc.
Sadly death is the end of the road for this deferral.
Spiritual Path
Spiritual practice: take all the desires and roll them into one. and evaporation of that One puts our seeking to rest.
Paradox of the Spiritual Journey: When we want something, normally we know what needs to be done to get it (cause - effect).
But what if the "object" I desire is not an object. but the Nondual Self (which is prior to the subject - object split.
Here is the 2-fold conundrum:
1) If I make no effort to do anything, than nothing results and no progress is made towards the desired goal
2) But also to the extent that exert myself to attain it, I don't, for in this case all effort seems to be self defeating.
The problem stems from expecting a nondual experience to happen which is itself dualistic (Cause/effect - Practice/Enlightenment).
2 Perspectives on Practice
1) Phenomenal view: The view that we move from delusion to enligtenment, from samsara to nirvana.
2) Essential view: The view that there is no dualism b/w delusion and enlightenment (Samsara = Nirvana)
2 Forms of Essential Practice (The only 2 ways to reconcile the dualism)
1) Practice <- Enlightenment (Zen/Dogen: Practice IS enlightenment - DOING)
2) Practice -> Enlightenment (Shankaracharya/Advaita: No Practice, we are already Enlightened - BEING)
Realization vs Attainment
The difference between attainment and Realization (for something must be clearly Realized), is that ONLY NOW can I Realize IAM that which I seek.
Since it is ALWAYS NOW, the possibility is ALWAYS THERE,
Enlightenment becomes Realized only when Causal time-bound, goal-oriented ways of thinking, speaking and acting evaporate to expose what I have always been: a formless, qualityless mind that is immutable because it is Self/Sunya, that is Free because it is not going anywhere, and that does not need to go anywhere because it does not lack anything!
**The Great Search**
BUT We should not give up the search until we have given up the searcher. So long as we exist as a finite entity.. Everyone is searching for happiness in one way or another. We are all seekers and seeking is our very nature, it is actually what the "I-thought" is. Until we attain the infinite happiness that we really are, we cannot actually give up seeking.
But which
BUT We should not give up the search until we have given up the searcher. So long as we exist as a finite entity.. Everyone is searching for happiness in one way or another. We are all seekers and seeking is our very nature, it is actually what the "I-thought" is. Until we attain the infinite happiness that we really are, we cannot actually give up seeking.
But which
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Dream Bus , the Bus of the seeker.
The me lives in a reality where it can only go on doing things.
It is on a bus, a dream bus,
And every stop, it never stops at a bus stop because the bus
Stop says "what's next". The me can only exist in a world where it.
Always in anticipation of what's next instead of seeing What Is.
Is moving on trying to learn more and more. It lives in a world
Of trying to know more and more, because it cannot know infinity
And infinity cannot be known. It is constantly going on looking
For infinity. The energy of me is constantly apparently doing something.
It is endless.
Sudden collapse of that energy.
There is nowhere to go , only this. All movements and apparent decisions , beliefs etc is just the mystery appearing as that. In reality the dream bus is spinning its wheels and going now here in What Is.
TO KEEP SEEKING IS TO KEEP MISSING!
*Stain nonduality - there is Someone or something that needs to happen.
The me lives in a reality where it can only go on doing things.
It is on a bus, a dream bus,
And every stop, it never stops at a bus stop because the bus
Stop says "what's next". The me can only exist in a world where it.
Always in anticipation of what's next instead of seeing What Is.
Is moving on trying to learn more and more. It lives in a world
Of trying to know more and more, because it cannot know infinity
And infinity cannot be known. It is constantly going on looking
For infinity. The energy of me is constantly apparently doing something.
It is endless.
Sudden collapse of that energy.
There is nowhere to go , only this. All movements and apparent decisions , beliefs etc is just the mystery appearing as that. In reality the dream bus is spinning its wheels and going now here in What Is.
TO KEEP SEEKING IS TO KEEP MISSING!
*Stain nonduality - there is Someone or something that needs to happen.
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Omega Point
Many people in the spiritual community think that humanity is heading towards some ultimate Omega point, a final point in manifest time and evolution where spirit realizes itself as spirit and we all go up in light.
It is true that, in individuals, spirit can awaken as spirit (traditional enlightenment). And it is true that this is in some ways an evolutionary process. That is, evolution and certain developmental processes clear the way for this timeless realization: both humans and the dirt of the earth are equally made of spirit, but only humans can consciously realize that fact, and between the dirt of the earth and the birth of human beings lies evolution.
Many people in the spiritual community think that humanity is heading towards some ultimate Omega point, a final point in manifest time and evolution where spirit realizes itself as spirit and we all go up in light.
It is true that, in individuals, spirit can awaken as spirit (traditional enlightenment). And it is true that this is in some ways an evolutionary process. That is, evolution and certain developmental processes clear the way for this timeless realization: both humans and the dirt of the earth are equally made of spirit, but only humans can consciously realize that fact, and between the dirt of the earth and the birth of human beings lies evolution.
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There is a Buddhist prayer and a similar prayer echoed in Hinduism, "for this precious human body" - for only in a human body can enlightenment be attained. Not gods, not animals, not demons, not angels; only with this human body can I awaken to the Ultimate reality of spirit that is equally present in all other sentient beings. And the human body is among other things a product of evolution (and perhaps an extraterrestrial "quickening).
The realization of the great Non-dual traditions is uncompromising
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The Great Search
The Great Search is at the heart of the separate-self sense. The separate-self is at its core simply a sensation of seeking. Take a moment and feel yourself right now. If you really pay attention you will basically feel a tiny interior tension or contraction in the bodymind - a sensation of grasping, desiring, wishing, wanting, avoiding, resisting - it is a sensation of effort, a sensation of seeking. In its highest form this sensation of seeking takes on the form of the Great Search for God or Spirit or Allah or Brahman, etc. We wish to get from our "un-enlightened state (of sin or delusion or duality) to an enlightened or more spiritual state. We wish to get from where Spirit is not, to where Spirit is.
But here is the rub, there is NO PLACE spirit is not. Every single location in space and time in the ENTIRE Universe, is equally and Fully Spirit. Seeking of any kind, movement of any kind, attainment of any kind is profoundly useless. This Great search simply reinforces the mistaken assumption that there is some place that spirit is not wholly manifest and that I need to get from that space that is lacking to a space that is Full and Whole. But there is no space lacking, and there is no space more full. There is only God, Only Spirit.
The Great Search presumes a loss or separation from God and reinforces the mistaken belief that God is not present, which obscures the reality of God's ever present presence. The Great Search which pretends to love God, is in fact the very mechanism of pushing God away; the mechanism of promising to find tomorrow that which exists only in the Timeless Now; the mechanism of watching the future so fervently that the present always passes by - very quickly - and God's smiling face with it. The greatest and gravest example is waiting for some future heaven that is always already right here and now.
The Great Search is the loveless contraction hidden in the heart of the separate-self sense, a contraction that drives the intense yearning for a tomorrow in which salvation will finally arrive, but during which time, thank God, I can continue to be. The greater the Great Search the more I can deny God. The greater the Great Search, the more I can feel my own sensation of seeking, which defines the contours of my smaller self. The Great Search is the enemy of What Is.
Should we than cease the Great Search? Definitely, if we could. But the effort to stop the Great Search is itself more OF the Great Search. The very first step presumes and reinforces the seeking sensation. There is actually nothing the self-contraction can do to stop the Great Search, because the self contraction and the Great Search are two names for the same thing.
If Spirit cannot be found as a future product of the Great Search, then there is only one alternative: Spirit must be fully, totally, completely present RIGHT NOW - AND you must be totally, completely aware of it right now. It will not do to say that Spirit is present, but I don't realize it. That would require the Great Search; that would demand that I seek a tomorrow in which I could realize that spirit is fully present, but that seeking misses the present in the very first step. To keep seeking would be to keep missing! No, the realization itself, the awareness is: this, too, must somehow be fully and completely present right now. If it is not, all we have left is the Great Search. Conversely if we don't have the Great Search than all there is is God.
So there must be something about our PRESENT awareness that contains the entire truth. Somehow, no matter what your state or degree of evolution, you are immersed FULLY in everything you need for perfect enlightenment. You are somehow looking right at the answer. 100% of spirit is in your perception right now. Not 20%, not 50%, not 99%, but literally 100% of Spirit is in your awareness right now - and the trick, as it were, is to recognize this ever present state of affairs, and not to engineer a future state in which Spirit will announce itself.
And this Simple Recognition, This Primal Glance of an already present Spirit, is the task, as it were, of the great Non-dual traditions.
The Great Search is at the heart of the separate-self sense. The separate-self is at its core simply a sensation of seeking. Take a moment and feel yourself right now. If you really pay attention you will basically feel a tiny interior tension or contraction in the bodymind - a sensation of grasping, desiring, wishing, wanting, avoiding, resisting - it is a sensation of effort, a sensation of seeking. In its highest form this sensation of seeking takes on the form of the Great Search for God or Spirit or Allah or Brahman, etc. We wish to get from our "un-enlightened state (of sin or delusion or duality) to an enlightened or more spiritual state. We wish to get from where Spirit is not, to where Spirit is.
But here is the rub, there is NO PLACE spirit is not. Every single location in space and time in the ENTIRE Universe, is equally and Fully Spirit. Seeking of any kind, movement of any kind, attainment of any kind is profoundly useless. This Great search simply reinforces the mistaken assumption that there is some place that spirit is not wholly manifest and that I need to get from that space that is lacking to a space that is Full and Whole. But there is no space lacking, and there is no space more full. There is only God, Only Spirit.
The Great Search presumes a loss or separation from God and reinforces the mistaken belief that God is not present, which obscures the reality of God's ever present presence. The Great Search which pretends to love God, is in fact the very mechanism of pushing God away; the mechanism of promising to find tomorrow that which exists only in the Timeless Now; the mechanism of watching the future so fervently that the present always passes by - very quickly - and God's smiling face with it. The greatest and gravest example is waiting for some future heaven that is always already right here and now.
The Great Search is the loveless contraction hidden in the heart of the separate-self sense, a contraction that drives the intense yearning for a tomorrow in which salvation will finally arrive, but during which time, thank God, I can continue to be. The greater the Great Search the more I can deny God. The greater the Great Search, the more I can feel my own sensation of seeking, which defines the contours of my smaller self. The Great Search is the enemy of What Is.
Should we than cease the Great Search? Definitely, if we could. But the effort to stop the Great Search is itself more OF the Great Search. The very first step presumes and reinforces the seeking sensation. There is actually nothing the self-contraction can do to stop the Great Search, because the self contraction and the Great Search are two names for the same thing.
If Spirit cannot be found as a future product of the Great Search, then there is only one alternative: Spirit must be fully, totally, completely present RIGHT NOW - AND you must be totally, completely aware of it right now. It will not do to say that Spirit is present, but I don't realize it. That would require the Great Search; that would demand that I seek a tomorrow in which I could realize that spirit is fully present, but that seeking misses the present in the very first step. To keep seeking would be to keep missing! No, the realization itself, the awareness is: this, too, must somehow be fully and completely present right now. If it is not, all we have left is the Great Search. Conversely if we don't have the Great Search than all there is is God.
So there must be something about our PRESENT awareness that contains the entire truth. Somehow, no matter what your state or degree of evolution, you are immersed FULLY in everything you need for perfect enlightenment. You are somehow looking right at the answer. 100% of spirit is in your perception right now. Not 20%, not 50%, not 99%, but literally 100% of Spirit is in your awareness right now - and the trick, as it were, is to recognize this ever present state of affairs, and not to engineer a future state in which Spirit will announce itself.
And this Simple Recognition, This Primal Glance of an already present Spirit, is the task, as it were, of the great Non-dual traditions.
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The me is trying to fill a basket with a hole in the bottom.
It doesn't matter what it does, how hard it tries, everything that
Goes into that basket, just falls out of it again.
It doesn't matter what it does, how hard it tries, everything that
Goes into that basket, just falls out of it again.
The Veil - Maya, Samsara
It is important to realize that creation itself is NOT the illusion. Ultimate reality is not some gigantic void and the dream of creation is all a big illusion. Creation itself is both real and unreal, the DREAM, the ILLUSION, or veil is the apparent manifestation of DUALITY. That is, the Dream is seeing ourselves separate and objects as solid and real existing OUTSIDE of us.
It is important to realize that creation itself is NOT the illusion. Ultimate reality is not some gigantic void and the dream of creation is all a big illusion. Creation itself is both real and unreal, the DREAM, the ILLUSION, or veil is the apparent manifestation of DUALITY. That is, the Dream is seeing ourselves separate and objects as solid and real existing OUTSIDE of us.
- There is no Subject and no Object. (psychological duality)
- There is no Inside and Outside. (spacial duality)
- There is no "In here" vs "Out there" - and no centerpoint (spacial duality)
- There is no Beginning and no End (temporal duality)
- There is no Path and no Goal at the End - No Cause and Effect (temporal duality)
So the Dream or Illusion is all about the dream of duality and the Veil of Separation NOT about creation itself.
So how is it we experience duality in the first place?
1) Biologically hardwired into us.
2) Emotionally and Energetically wired into us
3) Psychologically and Culturally wired into us through our development and education in the world
4) Spiritually wired into us at the Causal Level - Individuated Soul and dualistic spiritual teachings and beliefs
But it fundamentally is NOT just beliefs, it is an energetic contracted energy.
So how is it we experience duality in the first place?
1) Biologically hardwired into us.
2) Emotionally and Energetically wired into us
3) Psychologically and Culturally wired into us through our development and education in the world
4) Spiritually wired into us at the Causal Level - Individuated Soul and dualistic spiritual teachings and beliefs
But it fundamentally is NOT just beliefs, it is an energetic contracted energy.
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Granthis (Psychic Knots) - Contracted Energy
1) Brahma Granthi - Muladhara/Tamas: Attachment to physical pleasure thru the senses, material objects and selfishness; negativity ignorance (Physical)
2) Vishnu Granthi - Anahata/Rajas: Bondages of emotional attachments; passion, assertiveness (Energetic, Emotional, Lower mind)
3) Rudra Granthi - Ajna/Sattva: Attachment to siddhis, ego. (Higher Mind, Soul, Spirit)
1) Brahma Granthi - Muladhara/Tamas: Attachment to physical pleasure thru the senses, material objects and selfishness; negativity ignorance (Physical)
2) Vishnu Granthi - Anahata/Rajas: Bondages of emotional attachments; passion, assertiveness (Energetic, Emotional, Lower mind)
3) Rudra Granthi - Ajna/Sattva: Attachment to siddhis, ego. (Higher Mind, Soul, Spirit)
The Separate Self and Self Contraction
"Is not the desire to get rid of the Ego itself a manifestation of the ego?" ~Chuang Tzo
The separate self simply arises just like everything else. If you pay attention you can actually FEEL the contraction, just like you can feel your foot is asleep. This feeling of a contracted energy is an interior tension localized in the areas of three granthis but especially behind the eyes AND a subtle muscle tension throughout your bodymind. Simply notice the tension (don't try to get rid of it, or judge it in any way). This actually LOCKS it more in place! In non-duality EVERYTHING is ultimate reality, a pure manifestation of spirit, including the self contracted ego and its knots of contracted energy. We INCORRECTLY assume the contracted energy hides, veils or obstructs spirit, but it is simply a radiant manifestation of spirit like everything else in the Kosmos.
This tension or contracted energy is the dream of a separate Me. When this dream disappears, as we'll see, the contracted energy relaxes, uncoils and the need to grasp or seek is no more.
So the contracted energy or separate self is a subtle effort, a seeking or avoiding of contraction in the face of the world. And you cannot use effort to get rid of effort - you then end up with TWO efforts instead of one. The sense of separation is not a thing, as much as it is an effort of desiring/seeking/grasping, etc.
The best you can do is simply NOTICE IT, WATCH IT, without becoming Identified with it. You can use witnessing which can be developed through meditation to get CLOSER to non-duality.
So just witness and feel the self contraction, and let it be, just as you let all other sensations be. Just relax in the spacious freedom of witnessing (more on this in the Meditation/Witnessing Section. This is sometimes called a capping exercise because non-duality, being always ever present, cannot be reached through an practice. Meditation practices are STILL important to help us become more aware so we increase the odds of noticing the always already Nondual ultimate reality, meaning at some point you may notice a feeling of freedom that has no inside and outside, no time, and no duality of any kind. That is the final goal, but it has never left you. It is the illusion of separation that creates an apparent duality that is not there (and never has been).
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Once you are able to be in a Witnessing state of awareness, impartially witnessing all that arises. You will notice that the separate self or ego simply arises in consciousness like everything else. You can actually feel the self contraction, just like you can feel your hands and feet, a person, table or chair, etc. The self contraction is a feeling of interior tension often localized behind the eyes, and anchored in a slight muscle tension throughout the body.
NOTICE - Simply notice this tension.
Moving from Witness to Nonduality
Once people have become comfortable resting as the Empty Witness, and once they notice the tension that is self contraction, they imagine that to finally move from the Witness to One Taste, they have to get rid of the self contraction. (or get rid of the ego). But that actually locks the self contraction more firmly into place. (same goes with stored traumas).
We assume that self contraction hides or obstructs Spirit, whereas in fact it is simply a radiant manifestation of Spirit itself, like absolutely every other form in the Universe. All forms are nothing but emptiness including the form of the ego. Spirit loves everything that arises just as it is! The Witness loves everything that arises, just as it is. The Witness loves the ego because the Witness is the impartial mirror mind that equally reflects and perfectly embraces everything that arises.
But the ego decides to play the game of getting rid of itself - simply because as long as it is playing the game, it obviously continues to exist (who else is playing the game?).
"Is not the desire to get rid of the Ego itself a manifestation of the ego?" ~Chuang Tzo
The Ego is not a thing but a subtle effort, and you cannot use effort to get rid of effort - you end up with two efforts instead of one. The ego is itself a perfect manifestation of the divine.
So the practice:
When you rest in the empty Witness, simply notice the self contraction. Rest in the Witness and feel the self contraction. When you feel the self contraction you are already free of it - you are already looking at it instead of identifying with it. You are looking at it from the position of the Witness, which is always already free of all objects in any case.
You are not trying to get rid of self contraction, but simply feeling it - and while you are there resting as the Great Witness or Emptiness that you are - One Taste or Nonduality might more easily flash forth.
THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO TO BRING ABOUT OR CAUSE ONE TASTE - IT is always already fully present, it is not the result of some temporal action, practice or technique, because it has never been lost.
"Is not the desire to get rid of the Ego itself a manifestation of the ego?" ~Chuang Tzo
The separate self simply arises just like everything else. If you pay attention you can actually FEEL the contraction, just like you can feel your foot is asleep. This feeling of a contracted energy is an interior tension localized in the areas of three granthis but especially behind the eyes AND a subtle muscle tension throughout your bodymind. Simply notice the tension (don't try to get rid of it, or judge it in any way). This actually LOCKS it more in place! In non-duality EVERYTHING is ultimate reality, a pure manifestation of spirit, including the self contracted ego and its knots of contracted energy. We INCORRECTLY assume the contracted energy hides, veils or obstructs spirit, but it is simply a radiant manifestation of spirit like everything else in the Kosmos.
This tension or contracted energy is the dream of a separate Me. When this dream disappears, as we'll see, the contracted energy relaxes, uncoils and the need to grasp or seek is no more.
So the contracted energy or separate self is a subtle effort, a seeking or avoiding of contraction in the face of the world. And you cannot use effort to get rid of effort - you then end up with TWO efforts instead of one. The sense of separation is not a thing, as much as it is an effort of desiring/seeking/grasping, etc.
The best you can do is simply NOTICE IT, WATCH IT, without becoming Identified with it. You can use witnessing which can be developed through meditation to get CLOSER to non-duality.
So just witness and feel the self contraction, and let it be, just as you let all other sensations be. Just relax in the spacious freedom of witnessing (more on this in the Meditation/Witnessing Section. This is sometimes called a capping exercise because non-duality, being always ever present, cannot be reached through an practice. Meditation practices are STILL important to help us become more aware so we increase the odds of noticing the always already Nondual ultimate reality, meaning at some point you may notice a feeling of freedom that has no inside and outside, no time, and no duality of any kind. That is the final goal, but it has never left you. It is the illusion of separation that creates an apparent duality that is not there (and never has been).
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Once you are able to be in a Witnessing state of awareness, impartially witnessing all that arises. You will notice that the separate self or ego simply arises in consciousness like everything else. You can actually feel the self contraction, just like you can feel your hands and feet, a person, table or chair, etc. The self contraction is a feeling of interior tension often localized behind the eyes, and anchored in a slight muscle tension throughout the body.
NOTICE - Simply notice this tension.
Moving from Witness to Nonduality
Once people have become comfortable resting as the Empty Witness, and once they notice the tension that is self contraction, they imagine that to finally move from the Witness to One Taste, they have to get rid of the self contraction. (or get rid of the ego). But that actually locks the self contraction more firmly into place. (same goes with stored traumas).
We assume that self contraction hides or obstructs Spirit, whereas in fact it is simply a radiant manifestation of Spirit itself, like absolutely every other form in the Universe. All forms are nothing but emptiness including the form of the ego. Spirit loves everything that arises just as it is! The Witness loves everything that arises, just as it is. The Witness loves the ego because the Witness is the impartial mirror mind that equally reflects and perfectly embraces everything that arises.
But the ego decides to play the game of getting rid of itself - simply because as long as it is playing the game, it obviously continues to exist (who else is playing the game?).
"Is not the desire to get rid of the Ego itself a manifestation of the ego?" ~Chuang Tzo
The Ego is not a thing but a subtle effort, and you cannot use effort to get rid of effort - you end up with two efforts instead of one. The ego is itself a perfect manifestation of the divine.
So the practice:
When you rest in the empty Witness, simply notice the self contraction. Rest in the Witness and feel the self contraction. When you feel the self contraction you are already free of it - you are already looking at it instead of identifying with it. You are looking at it from the position of the Witness, which is always already free of all objects in any case.
You are not trying to get rid of self contraction, but simply feeling it - and while you are there resting as the Great Witness or Emptiness that you are - One Taste or Nonduality might more easily flash forth.
THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO TO BRING ABOUT OR CAUSE ONE TASTE - IT is always already fully present, it is not the result of some temporal action, practice or technique, because it has never been lost.
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Breathing and Duality
The sense of separateness is the root cause of all human misery, because it is founded on the illusion of duality.
Human and animal life depends on breathing, which is a sign of disturbance in the universal equilibrium. The entire creation is characterized by this disturbance. The process of breathing implies a dual movement, inward and outward, and a periodic rest between the two. The state of harmony can be reaching by getting rid of this urge for movement, by attaining peace and calm which is possible through deep devotion/meditation. When there is a state of perfect poise, there is no longer a need to breathe. The currents of downward flow (Ida) and upward flow (pingala) balance each other into oneness in the spine. Duality is negated through yoga!
Also the twin currents of lifeforce (or prana) to the TWO eyes give a very convincing reality that appears outside of us. But there electrical currents via meditation can be merged into a single current leading to the pineal gland and the more subtle spiritual omnipresent eye.
While that is a fairly advanced state see the spiritual eye, to stop the breath, we can practice. The breathe can be harmonized through meditation practice, heart centered prayer, biofeedback techniques, etc, can soften the veil and make a nondual recognition more likely. But there is ultimately no formula or practice to take you to what is already, just THIS! Such is the paradox. Practice is both needed and not needed.
The sense of separateness is the root cause of all human misery, because it is founded on the illusion of duality.
Human and animal life depends on breathing, which is a sign of disturbance in the universal equilibrium. The entire creation is characterized by this disturbance. The process of breathing implies a dual movement, inward and outward, and a periodic rest between the two. The state of harmony can be reaching by getting rid of this urge for movement, by attaining peace and calm which is possible through deep devotion/meditation. When there is a state of perfect poise, there is no longer a need to breathe. The currents of downward flow (Ida) and upward flow (pingala) balance each other into oneness in the spine. Duality is negated through yoga!
Also the twin currents of lifeforce (or prana) to the TWO eyes give a very convincing reality that appears outside of us. But there electrical currents via meditation can be merged into a single current leading to the pineal gland and the more subtle spiritual omnipresent eye.
While that is a fairly advanced state see the spiritual eye, to stop the breath, we can practice. The breathe can be harmonized through meditation practice, heart centered prayer, biofeedback techniques, etc, can soften the veil and make a nondual recognition more likely. But there is ultimately no formula or practice to take you to what is already, just THIS! Such is the paradox. Practice is both needed and not needed.
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The Great Search is the Folly of the Fool... I fool we all are or have been at some time.
IV. Liberation/Enlightenment/Moksha/Satori - Primal Glance - One Taste -
Rigpa/ Yeshe / Prajna / Jnana {Subject-like} = Brahman/UR/Tao/God/Spirit {Object-like}
[Natural Reality Recognized to be always already: Knowing it = Being it]
1. This is the death of Me, Death of the I while the body is still alive.
Only in our absence are we truly present
When "me" dies there is only unknowing.
Completely unexpected, it's obvious its always been this way, how could it be any other way?
Recognized that the Me never was, so it is an unhappening (Gateless Gate).
To seek the infinite in the finite through a process called enlightenment is wonderfully futile … more effort = bigger me. The seeker of enlightenment as fundamentally dualistic viewpoint.
It’s possible another perception can happen .. liberation is the end of the energy of seeking. All that’s left is unknowable , cannot be described. It is What is already
2. The contracted energy uncoils, the knots are undone, the bodymind relaxes and all that is left is just what arises, just what is happening. No more Subject and Object, inside and out and is recognized there never was, it was all a dream.
Recognized Contraction and Tension & Neurosis throughout body, releases energy and invigorates the body - one of the best things for your health! Energy Medicine!
Contracted Energies and Tensions relax back into wholeness.
End of experience of something inside that ends at the skin and what’s perceived outside .. and there’s a subtle tension in that whole setup.
But there is no here and there and when that collapses there is no need to seek that anymore.
What is ultimately lost is position and what's left is everything which just what's apparently happening.
Liberation is not clarity or understanding, it’s an energetic shift from a contracted energy into boundlessness. And it’s the end of something that was never happening.
When the tension in the body drops away , it’s surprising and shocking how much tension was in the body , how pervasive it was and how integral to the experience of being separate. Tension in body feedback loops ..
neurosis loosens , no one really cares about what’s thinking or emotions.
3. Recognition of THIS being radical wholeness, everything is in everything and there is nothing to seek. How can you seek anything when you have everything? What better hiding place than being everywhere.
So simple and obvious. Everyone has got it because it is recognized there is nothing else.
Nothing gained or attained
No practices or techniques can get you to what you are already
Recognition, spontaneous realization, resonance, Buddhahood without meditation (Dzogchen phrase)
Final Realization is 'not other' to anything that is presently arising.
No answer to Life, for Life is its own answer.
4. It is the Immediacy of Just What is, Just This, Just what is happening which is Everything and Nothing, Absolute Freedom (no causality)
You are already completely enveloped in what you long for. And what you long for is constantly singing a song to you , but you can’t hear it because you’re seeking and trying to find it. It’s this already. By trying to find it you make it something.
4. Insubstantial - It’s not that it disappears. It’s more like the innards of everything drops out or falls away.
It’s more surprising that the experience of the individual is as solid as it seems to be.
4. Can happen spontaneously for no reason, through resonance or pointing out instructions from a non-dual teacher.
Eventually the mind sees its limitations and gives itself up.
Something might stop happening that never happened. Individual thinks it needs to add something to itself for this appearance to be whole but there’s nothing to add to yourself , there’s nothing missing.
GLIMPSES - Meing and Being can happen. Struggle and paradox is the Glimpses are in the past and 'what is' is always the Glimpse. Glimpses are a loss of something. Liberation is a Loss, not an attainment.
It’s This , and you have no idea what that glimpse was , because the memory of it is not it. It’s this right now. There is only unknowing appearing as an individual that’s thinks it knows
Jim quickly gave up any effort to try to understand what was being said, because it was so obviously unimaginably unknowable but at the same time there was something being touched. Found home. Something was completely in love with what it didn’t understand.
Can’t describe what is , if you could it would be known. Very ordinary AND magnificent! It's like a veil lifted ..
5. This Game, the Great Search is undone in that Primal Glance, and all that remains is Emptiness itself, perfectly obvious in the singing of a Robin on a bright Spring Dawn.
Rigpa/ Yeshe / Prajna / Jnana {Subject-like} = Brahman/UR/Tao/God/Spirit {Object-like}
[Natural Reality Recognized to be always already: Knowing it = Being it]
1. This is the death of Me, Death of the I while the body is still alive.
Only in our absence are we truly present
When "me" dies there is only unknowing.
Completely unexpected, it's obvious its always been this way, how could it be any other way?
Recognized that the Me never was, so it is an unhappening (Gateless Gate).
To seek the infinite in the finite through a process called enlightenment is wonderfully futile … more effort = bigger me. The seeker of enlightenment as fundamentally dualistic viewpoint.
It’s possible another perception can happen .. liberation is the end of the energy of seeking. All that’s left is unknowable , cannot be described. It is What is already
2. The contracted energy uncoils, the knots are undone, the bodymind relaxes and all that is left is just what arises, just what is happening. No more Subject and Object, inside and out and is recognized there never was, it was all a dream.
Recognized Contraction and Tension & Neurosis throughout body, releases energy and invigorates the body - one of the best things for your health! Energy Medicine!
Contracted Energies and Tensions relax back into wholeness.
End of experience of something inside that ends at the skin and what’s perceived outside .. and there’s a subtle tension in that whole setup.
But there is no here and there and when that collapses there is no need to seek that anymore.
What is ultimately lost is position and what's left is everything which just what's apparently happening.
Liberation is not clarity or understanding, it’s an energetic shift from a contracted energy into boundlessness. And it’s the end of something that was never happening.
When the tension in the body drops away , it’s surprising and shocking how much tension was in the body , how pervasive it was and how integral to the experience of being separate. Tension in body feedback loops ..
neurosis loosens , no one really cares about what’s thinking or emotions.
3. Recognition of THIS being radical wholeness, everything is in everything and there is nothing to seek. How can you seek anything when you have everything? What better hiding place than being everywhere.
So simple and obvious. Everyone has got it because it is recognized there is nothing else.
Nothing gained or attained
No practices or techniques can get you to what you are already
Recognition, spontaneous realization, resonance, Buddhahood without meditation (Dzogchen phrase)
Final Realization is 'not other' to anything that is presently arising.
No answer to Life, for Life is its own answer.
4. It is the Immediacy of Just What is, Just This, Just what is happening which is Everything and Nothing, Absolute Freedom (no causality)
You are already completely enveloped in what you long for. And what you long for is constantly singing a song to you , but you can’t hear it because you’re seeking and trying to find it. It’s this already. By trying to find it you make it something.
4. Insubstantial - It’s not that it disappears. It’s more like the innards of everything drops out or falls away.
It’s more surprising that the experience of the individual is as solid as it seems to be.
4. Can happen spontaneously for no reason, through resonance or pointing out instructions from a non-dual teacher.
Eventually the mind sees its limitations and gives itself up.
Something might stop happening that never happened. Individual thinks it needs to add something to itself for this appearance to be whole but there’s nothing to add to yourself , there’s nothing missing.
GLIMPSES - Meing and Being can happen. Struggle and paradox is the Glimpses are in the past and 'what is' is always the Glimpse. Glimpses are a loss of something. Liberation is a Loss, not an attainment.
It’s This , and you have no idea what that glimpse was , because the memory of it is not it. It’s this right now. There is only unknowing appearing as an individual that’s thinks it knows
Jim quickly gave up any effort to try to understand what was being said, because it was so obviously unimaginably unknowable but at the same time there was something being touched. Found home. Something was completely in love with what it didn’t understand.
Can’t describe what is , if you could it would be known. Very ordinary AND magnificent! It's like a veil lifted ..
5. This Game, the Great Search is undone in that Primal Glance, and all that remains is Emptiness itself, perfectly obvious in the singing of a Robin on a bright Spring Dawn.
III. There is a Seeker Born Every Minute - The Great Search
1. Now that I am a limited individual, it appears that there is a lot of things OUT THERE, I can attain, wealth, love, sex, happiness, fancy cars and nice houses, and when that doesn't satisfy me.... Enlightenment!! --- Seeking Happiness!
1b. Objects / Forms of desire. We name and objectify by naming. namarupa. Vikalpa (thought construction) and Prapanca (crystallize into solid object/form). Naming the object allows us to think about it even when it is not present. If an object of desire or fear, we anticipate a future fulfillment or avoidance. We reify forms by naming them. Source of contracted energy is craving/grasping/desiring/seeking-pleasure OR fearing/loathing/avoiding-pain
2. The illusion of free will and choice. If I do this, it causes that. I can walk a path, become a seeker, engage in a process to get or add something I think I am missing.
3. The apparent law of cause and effect gives the illusion of real sequence of events in time which I can control, and the ME have a HERE location with things out THERE gives the illusion of Space.
4. I make the story real by adding an illusory SOLIDITY to things by knowing and owning them. This realness allows me to create a Story of Me called My Life that I can possess and carry around (including thoughts, beliefs and emotions).
5. The Great Search and the Separate Self are on and the same. There is a tangible sensation to seeking (contracted energy or interior tension). This is the sensation of grasping, desiring, wishing, wanting, avoiding, resisting... Its the senastion of effort, or seeking!
6. ALL This creates a cloud of Knowing, which is a thick fog of illusion that adds another layer to the veil of duality and further clouds my perception of What IS.
7. What ME doesn't realize ALL ALONG, is that the it, the seeker is looking for that which it already is.
IV. Liberation/Enlightenment/Moksha/Satori - Primal Glance - One Taste
1. This is the death of Me, Death of the I while the body is still alive.
2. The contracted energy uncoils, the knots are undone, the bodymind relaxes and all that is left is just what arises, just what is happening. No more Subject and Object, inside and out and is recognized there never was, it was all a dream.
3. Recognition of THIS being radical wholeness, everything is in everything and there is nothing to seek. How can you seek anything when you have everything? What better hiding place than being everywhere.
4. It is the Immediacy of Just What is, Just This, Just what is happening which is Everything and Nothing, Absolute Freedom (no causality)
4. Can happen spontaneously for no reason, through resonance or pointing out instructions from a non-dual teacher.
5. This Game, the Great Search is undone in that Primal Glance, and all that remains is Emptiness itself, perfectly obvious in the singing of a Robin on a bright Spring Dawn.
Pointing out (faces in the landscape puzzle) ==> Original Face (Zen)/ Supreme Identity (Sufi)/Christ Consciousness (Christians)/True Self/ Primordial Awareness/Being