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The mind is designed to think in either/or ways. Duality. The mind thinks that it’s this OR that, not this AND that.
Is someone right or wrong? How ’bout both? And neither?
We’re either separate or connected or one. Which one is True?
There is a here and a there, or there is only a here. Is there here?
Could fear be a form of love?
Could the Devil actually be God?
Something can be something, or nothing, or everything, but not all simultaneously.
Is there really Truth separate from something called falsehood?
It seems as though awakening makes the mind have to face some impossible realities that are obviously and undeniably happening right before your eyes.
You are the space of nothingness that is full of everything, and they are not separate. Nothing and Everything are unified as One.
Individuality does not imply separation. A wave is not in any way separate from the ocean, but is the ocean itself, expressing itself as a wave.
There is no separation, and yet there is simultaneously oneness AND the infinite. Non-duality is NOT limited to just Oneness. That’s why they don’t call non-duality oneness. Non-duality means not-two, or not-separate.
It seems like the mind can get “stuck” in oneness, yet the One expresses itself in an infinite number of ways. In this, there is no loss of individuality. Everything is the One.
Any realization or understanding you must be willing to let go of, including Oneness. You must be willing to not understand or know a single thing. To have no idea what the Truth is. To be that simple and unattached to knowing.
You are the indescribable, and you are all descriptions. There is nothing that you are not, and you are that which you are not, except that you aren’t.
How would you describe or visualize beingness? It has no qualities to describe. It just is. Is/am/are/were.. all forms of the word be. To be, you just are. Nothing else. No thing to describe. Just beingness being without any mental image to wrap around beingness.
Free of identity beyond simple existence.
You look at a plant and you see how Creation creates itself and recreates itself infinitely fast over and over, yet taking no time to do it. How is this possible?
Every thing is the unmanifest no thingness expressing itself repeatedly in a series of blips of time that doesn’t even exist.
God is All That Is. You are God. You are All That Is. Illusion and the dream state is God. Non-God is God.
Your thoughts are not what you really are. Yet thoughts are another manifestation of All That Is. Thoughts are All That Is. Everything is All That Is. Everything you look at IS the infinite. Thoughts are your true Self, the totality of what you are, as is everything else in All That Is. There are no “parts” of God. There is simply the unified totality even though there is the individual which is not the totality.
A is not B. Yet there is ultimately only one presence, both of which A and B are. Thus A is B, just different manifest expressions of the same One presence.
Your body is your mind which is your false self which is your true self which is the sun which is the stars which is your deepest passion… it’s all the same, even though it’s different. They are not two.
You can experience the unreal by making it real in your own imagination and thus experiencing it. Have you ever seen someone completely misinterpret a situation and experience something that never actually happened except in their own imagination? This is the experience of the dream state people call real life. It’s all just a play of mind which is consciousness pretending to be mind, which is lila, the play of the Divine.
Because of this creative and imaginative ability, we can somehow experience separation up to a certain point, even though it doesn’t actually exist! Through the mind, we can create the impossible and make it manifest. “Anything is possible.” This is what the mind does. It makes up stories and descriptions to describe that which just is and has no description. The mind is a creative and imaginative story-teller.
The you you think you are is just another story.
Paradoxically we can go through separation to realize oneness. All separation eventually does reintegrate back into Unity.
We can experience who we are not in order to realize who we really are. This is the summation of the human experience.
There is NOTHING wrong OR right with any experience, real or illusory. It just is what it is, all part of a larger scheme to bring us back to who we are, unless it does not.
When the wave falls back into the ocean and realizes its immense depth, nothing is lost. Awareness expands consciously to become more conscious of what it is, and always “was” and always “will be.” It just is.
The wave does not cease to exist when the ocean is realized. It simply realizes its own depth. The wave continues to happen, but it feels so superficial compared to the immensity of the infinite Self, yet the wave IS the infinite Self.
You are the impossible, happening, and you are not.
The mind… can it even grasp Truth?
What if we just gave up trying to understand all this?
What happens when we finally get it that we can’t get it…
What if we let go of trying to understand, know, or realize anything…
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