All Is That

There seems to no longer be a sense of separateness or oneness. There is no thing that could be separate or one. It is all just That. No labeling, no comparison, no judgment, no nothing. Just pure existence itself.

Oneness and Separateness are not two. They’re not even one. They are both That. Enlightenment is Unenlightenment. Separateness and Oneness coexist simultaneously as really the same thing, yet totally not.

Heaven is Hell. Heaven is not Hell. All is valid for All Is That. That Is All. All That Is is That.

You are That. I am That. This moment is That. You want the Truth? This is it. This moment. This is That. Since God is omnipresent, what people call God is simply another word for All That Is. All That Is is That. It Is All That.

How can you not see the Truth when it is all That? It’s as clear as seeing what’s right in front of you, without labeling it as this as opposed to that.

Since everything is already the Supreme Buddha Nature, where are you going to find it?

-Adyashanti

The search for God seems silly when everything is God. Every idea, every object, every person, every non-thing. Nothing is God. Everything is God. There’s no duality between the two.

Truth vs. Falsehood

People want to say that this is true and that is false. This is “The Truth” while that is not. Let’s seek out “The Truth!” and with this, the philosophical debates and spiritual journey can begin.

Commenter Ismaelia recently asked an awesome question about the Tony Robbins relationship videos. Basically the question was whether or not we’re supposed to drop all our stories to get to enlightenment.

To “get there,” you basically stop buying into any stories as if they were literally the truth. This is part of letting go of thought as if it was the source of Truth, as if this thought or this opinion has any more validity than that thought or that opinion. What happens then when thought itself is no longer seen to be a valid source of Absolute Truth in any way whatsoever, the mind kind of collapses in on itself. Implosion of self.

What stands revealed is what is commonly referred to as the Self. The Self then recognizes itself in everything. All stories are the Self. Thought is the Self. Everything is the Self. The Self is That. There is no longer any separation and thus “this” can not be the truth as opposed to “that.” They are not two.

So as to the question, “Are our stories made up and thus false or are they true?”

That’s a bit like asking, “Is a blank canvas true or is the colorful painting true?”

What a strange question. Both!

Everything is That. Thoughts then come into the picture and color what is, giving us an experience of this, as opposed to that, yet it is all That.

Through thought, you create an experience of something from nothing. You are literally creating an experience with your thought and making that experience true for yourself, and what a masterful Creator you are! Your thoughts are your paint. Are your colors beautiful or ugly? Choose! It’s all That anyways and so it’s impossible to make an invalid choice, for all choices are God. Different colors and different thoughts have different experiences, sure, yet all experiences are That and equally blessed!

All is acceptable because all is That and so there is the freedom to play with any and all aspects of All That Is for All Is That.

Are All Behaviors Acceptable?

From the perspective of That, YES!

Everything is God. Everything is That. All behaviors and all decisions and all energies and all actions are God. No part of God is any better or worse than any other part of God.

What we conventionally call “bad behaviors” arise when people forget who they are. Stealing, for example, is only possible from the perspective of a limited self and separation. ie. “He steals this object from her.”

When everything is intuitively recognized as That, what on earth would stealing accomplish? That steals That from That? How could stealing even exist? It would be silly, an absurd idea. That is everything. In what way would it lack and thus need to obtain anything outside itself, when there is nothing outside itself because it is the infinite and everything is That?

So the sharing and flow of That, the experience of giving and receiving That openly and without limitation, this would naturally arise from the realization that all is That.

There is no longer a sense of needing anything or wanting to acquire or get anything, for you already are everything. There is simply the appreciation and enjoyment of what you are witnessing in the moment and the experience of already being totally complete, for you already are everything. There’s nothing more than needs to be gained or acquired to feel safe, loved, or enough. That’s true freedom! That’s liberation!

In this way, Love is always chosen.

If everything is God and everything is That, how could anything not be part of God and therefore be untrue, any less worthy than any other part of God? Is your arm any less worthy or less true than your leg? They are all That. They are separate and they are one. Paradox. Separation and Oneness, it’s both AND neither. It is ALL.

Everything just is That.

What is That?

“That” only points to something, without actually saying what it is, for what That points to has no name. It can not be conceptualized or imagined. Instead of giving the mind an object to try to conceptualize, such as “God,” the word That simply points to anything and everything. That simply is.

The Way that can be told of is not an Unvarying Way;
The names that can be named are not unvarying names.
It was from the Nameless that Heaven and Earth sprang;
The named is but the mother that rears the ten thousand creatures, each after its kind.

-Tao Te Ching, Chapter 1, as translated by Arthur Waley

This is suddenly crystal clear. That which people call Source, the Unmanifest, or the unborn uncreated nothingness, that is it. From nothingness, everything arises, yet it is all That.

All manifestations in the physical world are all That, yet when we give it all a unique name, it is no longer recognized as That, yet it is still That. It’s like calling a bunch of molecules a rock, and then losing the understanding that it’s still just a bunch of molecules.

“Where do I find the molecules? Where’d they go? I only see the rock!”

“It’s right there, right in front of you!”

God is omnipresent and there is nowhere where God is not. It’s as obvious as seeing what is right in front of you, without mentally trying to label, categorize, or figure out what it is. Just drop the mentation and look. Be. Be still and know.

Then God will be realized, directly and experientially, not just as some nice sounding spiritual theory (yet even the spiritual theory is That and thus not any less valuable than anything else). With the dropping of mental labeling, the essence of Self/God/All That Is will stand revealed as All. All is That.

All is acceptable and lovable for All Is That. Even hate is Love. and it is Not. A thing and its opposite are not two. Sameness is That. Opposites are That. All is That.