Nonduality is not an experience. Experiences can come and go; you can remembrer them, forget about them, have them, or anticipate them in the future. For instance, something happened to you in the past, or you anticipate an experience like graduating from college on a specific day in the future. Those are experiences. But nonduality …
Living in a dynamic, interconnected way
Published: Sun, 04/21/24
Living in a Dynamic, Interconnected Way
It's one of the strange paradoxes of life is that the more aware we are the more we want to hide! You know what I'm talking about, right? When we can see the pain and suffering we don't want to look. When we see the possibility of a horrible future before us we start looking for a bed to crawl under. It can suck the joy right out of us.
Unfortunately, having the dynamic joy sucked out of us is the thing that then leads to that horrible future. So let's hold each other up with encouragement. We're all needed as the dynamic, interconnected beings we are. Now, more than ever, life needs us.
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Nonduality is Interconnected
Nonduality is interconnected. When you step out of duality, you don’t end up floating around in some sort of nebulous field of nothingness, overwhelmed by goodness and happiness. No, you become, well… who you are. And who you are is part of the vast, full, interconnected world we live in. It’s part of the interconnected …
Nondualy is Dynamic
Nonduality is dynamic. One of the consequences of the heavy conditionings that we’re all subjected to our whole lives is that it dampens our spirit; it holds us down because then we’re so much more easily controlled. Awakening out of that reveals a dynamic being who is fully involved in life with each other. This …
Nonduality is Responsible
Nonduality is responsible. We don’t want to think about things like that, do we? We want nonduality to give us freedom from all bounds, right? But what is your actual normal, authentic self like? The true, normal, unconditioned person is responsible because we’re part of life. You don’t get out of duality by becoming separate …
Nonduality is Relaxing
Nonduality is relaxing, and this is the most useful way to think about it. You can’t force yourself to relax, right? If you sit there thinking, “I’ve got 10 minutes to relax,” you’re going to be all tense through the whole 10 minutes. Relaxation comes over us naturally when tension is gone, so it’s more …
Nonduality is Normal
Nonduality is normal. It’s really the most normal state and experience that you can possibly hope to be in. It is that place of total relaxation where all the cravings of the mind are gone. A better word is grasping. All the grasping is gone. When you relax into that normal state, that is who …
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