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I used to think that non-duality was silly.
What do you mean there is no “me”?
I’m not separate from the world? Of course I am.
But then I started to closely examine my own experience, and I discovered that maybe I had missed something.
Here’s some things to meditate on to
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Please, if you will, pray for healing for my father who is undergoing his first round of chemotherapy today.
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Non-duality really only “unlocked” for me when I started to practice self-enquiry.
Prior to that, I just didn’t get the whole non-duality thing, at least experientially.
Here is how I practiced self-enquiry to discover freedom in life.
First way
Whenever I experienced
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My Dad likely has a large tumour on his bladder which is being removed tomorrow. Can I please ask for prayers for him, the surgeon and my family? Love you all.
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Can I please ask you all to pray for my lovely daughter. She has had the worst ear infection, it has lasted for almost 2 weeks now and the antibiotics don’t seem to be doing anything. She is in a lot of pain and is missing a lot of school.
Thank you all. God bless you.
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Is spirituality about withdrawing from the world?
I used to think so.
But I now think mature spirituality is a celebration of life.
Why?
There are two extremes possible in life.
One is losing oneself in the world - hedonism.
The other is treating the world as something evil
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Find it hard to solve problems?
Struggling with something difficult in your life?
Here’s something to consider.
Stop trying.
Problems are solved between thoughts.
Here’s an exercise to try.
Try to calculate the sum 49+76.
Notice each step.
For me, it goes like follows:
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If you believe you have a problem, ask yourself, who has the problem?
Can you search within and find that person who has a problem?
Or do you just encounter a silence, in which thoughts and feelings rise and fall?
Is that silence a person? No?
Who has a problem then?
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God is Love.
You are one with God, even if you don’t see it.
Slowly strip away the stories you tell yourself, and you will find God shining in your own being.
You have never been separate or alone.
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Thoughts and feelings are always moving quickly through awareness.
Be aware of them.
Then let them move on.
That's what they want to do anyway.
They only hang around if we grab them.
You don't need to suffer from them.
Let go.
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I used to hear non-dual teachers say there was nothing to be done and roll my eyes.
It certainly felt like there was something to be done in the midst of a panic attack.
But, believe it or not, they do have a point.
Let me explain.
The main point to understand is that peace
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Enlightenment is a great forgetting.
You forget the troubles and pleasures of the world.
You forget friends and family.
You forget your self and your body.
You live.
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If you focus carefully on uncomfortable feelings, without any thoughts about them, they tend to become more bearable.
Why?
Because a feeling, in itself, is neutral.
It is information.
It is only when we assign a judgement to them as good or bad that they turn into suffering.
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After my initial non-dual glimpse, I walked around for a few days in a kind of euphoria.
But slowly the old way of living returned.
It was very disheartening.
But now I am peacefully free from suffering.
Here are some pointers to keep in mind during that “in-between” period.
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Is death real?
Clearly the body dies, but is that the end of what I am?
If you think you are simply the body, then yeah, of course.
But what you really are can never die.
Here’s how to see what you really are:
In your life, many things have changed.
- You may have different
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One day I just got fed up with my story.
I told myself I needed to become a great researcher (I was an academic at the time).
Then I would be happy.
I told myself that I needed to find a nice girlfriend.
Then I would be happy.
I told myself that I needed to be earning lots
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We think we can “get it” (awaken) by thinking about it.
But “getting it” is beyond words or thoughts.
Beyond logic and working things out.
It is becoming used to silence. One gets a taste for silence, and uncaused happiness is discovered.
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An exercise to try…
Sit quietly.
Watch the thoughts which arise.
In particular, watch their beginning and ending.
Can you “see” that silence from which they emerge.
And to which they return?
This is your deep Being.
A sanctuary. The Source.
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In my day job I’m an engineer, and I have to solve difficult problems all day every day.
Sometimes the answer comes easily, sometimes not.
But I’ve discovered something of a superpower.
What is it?
There is a seemingly bottomless source of creativity deep within.
How do I
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It makes no sense to call God a loving Father, and at the same time be scared that the slightest infringement will face God’s “wrath” or retribution.
God wants us to be joyful - He is for us, not against us.
He wants to free us from the things which hold us back.
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I have a terrible confession to make.
I live a spiritual life….and I like gaming.
So?
Well, you’d be surprised about how such things are considered “unspiritual” by many.
This is a duality that slips easily into non-dual teachers and thinkers.
It is a misunderstanding of
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I’ve been feeling a bit down and flat the last couple of days.
Here’s what I did to solve that:
Nothing.
It didn’t need to be “solved”.
Feelings come and go.
I’ve had a big week at work and at home.
The body is reacting to that.
It’s completely natural.
Just because there
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It seems to me that some Catholics would condemn the woman caught in adultery, yes, the one whom Jesus refused to condemn.
“Mortal sinner! You are going to hell!” They may shout.
Christ’s mercy is greater than what we can fathom, but the devil tries to convince us otherwise.
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Do we have free will?
It is one of the age-old questions.
I used to believe that we do.
(including believing I could go to hell for making the wrong choices!)
But not any more.
And my life has been much better since coming to that realisation.
Let me explain.
This
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There is nothing to be done, and no one to do it.
There is just awareness of all things coming and going.
Why the stress and worry then?
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To simply be, without being anything in particular.
This is peace, joy, freshness.
It’s ok to exist in the not-knowing.
In fact, it’s better than ok.
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There is no one that is not all that is, for consciousness, though expressed in an infinite series of levels, is not divisional. There is no real separation or gap in consciousness. I AM cannot be divided.
Neville Goddard
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Simply being… there is nothing that is desired for when one simply *is*.
I am, and nothing else besides.
True peace.
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Maybe it’s my lazy disposition…
But one of my favourite things to reflect on is effortlessness.
Effort is an illusion.
It certainly can feel real when you are straining away on some chore.
But it’s not.
Here’s why.
Effort requires the idea of a separate person.
It
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We must work to normalise awakening.
Most of humanity is cut off from a fundamental aspect of their self.
But to awaken to this full or true Self is not just for a select few.
It should the common experience.
There are no barriers to this apart from mistaken beliefs.
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Who are you really? Whatever description you give, appears *in* you, your awareness.
Therefore, whatever you are, transcends your description of, or belief about, yourself.
It’s worthwhile getting to know *that* which knows.
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If your spirituality is not leading to ever growing fruits of the Spirit - joy, peace, love, gentleness, kindness, self-control - then it is a fruitless spirituality that should be dropped.
If you are meditating every day yet belittling people on Twitter, something is wrong.
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There has never been *this* before.
Right Now.
It is brand new.
The world is sparkling in its freshness.
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There is only Self.
Wherever there is awareness, there is the Self.
There is only awareness.
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I used to think that manifestation was hogwash.
The idea that if you wish really hard for something, then some quantum-whatever will happen and you will get what you wished for.
It seemed kind of silly.
But here is why I might have been wrong.
-> This is going to be very
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Any stress or mental effort is a sign that you have grabbed hold of something.
An agenda, a goal, a want or desire.
Let it be.
Life flows - that is its nature.
It is only the mind that wants to hold on.
Be aware as all things come and go.
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If a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on, he must close his eyes and walk in the dark.
St John of the Cross
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Time is crazy strange.
I’ve been spending the last couple of years trying to get a grip on it (through introspection and reflection).
Here is what I have learnt so far (and also how understanding it can help your life).
1. Time only appears with thought
There is only the Now.
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If you wish to encounter the world with newness and freshness, drop your ideas. Let them go past without leaving a trace.
Our concepts are dead things, trying to imprison the fresh, new world.
Be the river flowing, let go of the rocks which block the flow.
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I used to have anxiety.
For anyone who has dealt with this mental illness, you’ll know that it can make life a living hell.
It takes all joy out of life, it makes it heavy and burdensome.
But I found a way out.
How?
First, through the practice of self-enquiry. Asking myself,
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There is no separation of the “seer” and the “seen”.
Focus your vision on an apparently separate object, a flower, say, and after the fact reflect - in the experience itself, was there a seer present? Or was it just seeing?
Just the seeing.
This is true for all experience.
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Awareness is a wide open space, it does not resist anything. It is like the space in a room, which does not resist the moving of the chairs within.
That is your true nature. Resistance only comes from thoughts / ego. Let go, and accept all, and then peace is possible.
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We are God’s story.
An exploration of a potential within the infinite God.
God knowing God, in both the unbounded silence and in a human story.
It may as well be a happy and heroic story 😊
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Even if I have amnesia and forget everything about my human life.
I still know that I am.
I still know my being.
That knowing-being is my core reality.
Prior to all form and mind stories.
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You can never run away from yourself.
Yourself is what *is*.
Thoughts can arise which can pretend to resist what is.
But those thoughts are what *is* also.
God’s will is always achieved.
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Be open to the possibility that you are more the (aware) space in which things appear, than you are those things that appear.
It could change your life.
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Everything I believed was wrong.
That was what I needed to understand before I could make any progress.
I was a typical Christian at the time.
But I didn't see the abundant life that Christ promised.
Or the peace that surpasses understanding.
I knew something was wrong.
I
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I used to be a robot🤖
I see that now.
I was running a set of fixed commands.
If someone slighted me, I would respond with anger.
If something unexpected happened at home or work, I would respond with worry.
That’s not really living.
It’s running the programs installed in
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We should have pity on the mind - it is a finite structure trying to understand the infinite ground of being, which is the Self.
Leave it be. Don’t try to resist thought.
The mind will calm down on its own when we realise the truth - that the mind is a map, not the territory.
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What is the I or Self?
In any experience, there is simply the experience - there is no “I” separate from that which is experienced.
None of us have ever experienced duality.
Even thoughts of duality are just the nondual experience of thinking.
The I is all experience.
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I used to think I had so many problems.
Family issues, work deadlines, personality problems and so on.
But one day I realised that all my problems were due to thoughts.
Consider - prior to thinking, what is there?
Just *isness*.
No good or bad.
No “me” and no “them”.
Just
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@ChrisUKSharp
I appreciate him telling us what he can, but there is a certain arrogance here. This is a human issue, not just a US national security issue.
We deserve to know our place in the cosmos, and to form our lives and beliefs appropriately.
Who are these people to deny this of us?
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Suffering arises due to all events being referred to the ego, a sense of self that feels like it is constantly threatened.
Drop the ego and all its plans, and all just *is* - whatever happens is neither good or bad for a “self” which no longer has any firm grip.
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Any stress or mental effort is a sign that you have grabbed hold of something.
An agenda, a goal, a want or desire.
Let it be.
Life flows - that is its nature.
It is only the mind that wants to hold on.
Be aware as all things come and go.
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It is a joyful thing to feel at one with all the earth and creation / manifestation - the smell of plants, the sound of birds, the sensation of the breeze, the laughter of a child.
All one, no division. Disregard the dividing thoughts.
Peace. Happiness.
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Time and space only arrive with thought.
Try for yourself.
Prior to thinking, there are no objects, and therefore no distance between objects, or no change of objects.
In such a state without thought, there is only Now, eternity.
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We see the world not as it is, but as we are.
Everything is filtered through the commentary of the mind.
There is nothing much to be done apart from being aware of the commentary.
Once you see how silly it is, it will begin to go away on its own.
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“Your surroundings don't matter. God is with you everywhere -- in the market place as well as in seclusion or in the church.
If you look for nothing but God, nothing or no one can disturb you. God is not distracted by a multitude of things.
Nor can we be.”
Meister Eckhart
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In the silence, before thoughts and words, there is no conflict. No inner battles. No within, no without.
All is One in peaceful communion.
It is possible to live in this communion.
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There is no “I” in any experience.
Take a sound.
In the hearing of that sound there is just the knowing of it.
There is no “me” in the hearing.
Thought appears after to say “I heard something” but there was no “I” in the actual experience.
This is true for all experience
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When you say to yourself something like “I am unhappy”, enquire “who is unhappy?”
Can you find that person who is apparently unhappy?
Or do you find instead an aware, empty, space, in which thoughts and feelings arise and all?
Who are you really then?
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Suffering is a kind of an alarm bell signifying that you have bought into the idea of being a limited self.
Any phenomenon that appears in awareness is actually neutral - it is a signal.
It is only when it is interpreted as being bad for “me” that it becomes suffering.
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When you pay attention you’d be surprised at how few thoughts are required to get you through the day.
Most thoughts are repetitive, negative and useless. Very few are creative.
You can’t stop thoughts, but you can learn to let them sail on by.
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Why believe there is a fixed “me” when all of your inner experience is constantly changing?
See how all thoughts, feelings, sights, sounds etc. come and go constantly.
This only takes a few minutes to notice.
Sit quietly and watch.
So where is that stable “me”?
Nowhere.
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The apparent separation between “me” and “the world” is purely mind generated.
In any experience of hearing, seeing, touching - there is no “me” separate from the experience.
There is just the experience.
The mind comes along after the fact and creates an apparent separation.
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Some wish to say that the world is evil, or an illusion…
and that the silent emptiness within is all that is real.
This implies that there is some separation between Self and what is manifested.
It is all You.
It is all Real.
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Suffering is a beacon or warning that you have identified with one part of what you are, to the exclusion of other aspects of Self.
You are the totality of experience - not just your thoughts about yourself.
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“Infinite being is not something that is known objectively. It is what remains when nothing is known. It could be called divine ignorance, the ‘cloud of unknowing’ that is darkness to the mind but light to the heart.”
Rupert Spira
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Effective action occurs when one is both acting and not-acting.
The action flows without being self-conscious - without concern for the supposed “me” who is acting.
This is flow - the creative power of God unimpeded by “me”.
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Some nonduality has the tinge of anti-humanism. We must reject the human aspects of ourselves and plunge into emptiness.
I have probably fallen into that trap at times also.
Mystical Christianity has something to teach here.
God does not reject the human but embraces it, even
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Our spiritual problem is that we see and judge things according to our idea of “me”. Things are good or bad depending on whether they bring “me” pleasure or not.
We have lost the capacity of seeing things as they are, & only see them through a prism of use and manipulation
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There is never the experience of a separate “I”.
There is the experience of a sound.
In that experience, there is no “me” separate from the sound.
There is just the experience. It is only the mind which creates the separate “me” after the experience.
No “me” - no problems.
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It is possible to still have devotion to God on the non-dual path.
Devotion can make something poetic and beautiful out of the finite perspective we inhabit.
However it must be understood that your being and God’s being are one.
You are not a separate little god standing apart
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There is nowhere to go. That which seeks is that which is sought.
That which is sought is what *is*.
The final trouble is building up concepts and plans on how to achieve liberation.
In truth, there is nothing to achieve.
There is no concept that will save you.
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Thoughts appear on their own, as do birds flying across the sky, or the barking of dogs down the street.
There is no need to attach to them.
Let them go, just as you let the birds continue winging across the sky.
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I mistakenly used to see Awareness as a kind of “thing” which was aware of all that appeared within it.
That’s ok as a metaphor - it communicates something of the truth.
But there is no separate subject that stands back from what is experienced.
There is just the experiencing.
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A thought arises - ask, to whom does it appear?
A feeling surges - ask, to whom does it arise?
A sound is heard - ask, to whom does it arrive?
Is anybody ever found?
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My dad was a tradesman with a terrific work ethic.
He provided well for us.
But I inherited a guilt that I was too lazy, compared to him.
That made it difficult for me to relax, or to think I had ever done enough.
Yet now I get to be lazy while being productive.
How?
First,
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There is nothing to be done, and no one to do it.
There is just awareness of all things coming and going.
Why the stress and worry then?
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Love is not quite what we think.
Many of us equate love with romantic feeling.
But, in fact, I think love is something much more fundamental.
I think it is the fabric of all things.
Why?
What is love, in its most genuine form?
Is it just an emotion?
No - I don’t think so.
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To be enlightened is simply to see clearly.
It is to be aware of what is false, and by this awareness the error falls away.
Without any effort.
An error that is seen simply melts away. It happens by itself.
Study your experience like you are a fascinating new species.
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To worry about tomorrow is to imagine that you are in control, and the worrying will actually change the outcome.
Thoughts and actions arise without any limited person or agent in control.
Whatever will happen will happen, and You, Awareness, will be peacefully watching.
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We have been so trained to seek happiness out in the world that we’ve overlooked the joy of our own nature.
The Self, Awareness, is happiness itself. There is no need to go out into the world to try and find it.
Strip away the conditioned seeking to find the inner light shining
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Whose life are you living?
Are you playing out the automatic reactions installed in you by your parents, friends and society?
Unless the light of awareness is shone on your thoughts and behaviours, you are almost certainly playing out a program.
Become aware and break free.
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“Satisfaction of heart is not found in the possession of things, but in being stripped of them all and in poverty of spirit”
St John of the Cross
Happiness is found not in the “having” mode, but in the “being” mode. It is found in the moment, not in the seeking.
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The ego is related to the will. When we mistakenly believe we have control of life, the ego rises up and attempts to impose its vision on the world.
To let go of the idea of the doer is to let go of the ego.
Then one realises that one is the space in which God acts.
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I used to overthink things, badly.
I was always playing out worse case scenarios in my mind.
You can imagine the result of this - anxiety, stress, and unhappiness.
But there is a way out of this via nondual spirituality.
Here are some tips:
First: understand thoughts are
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So much of our energy is bound up in trying to change or escape what *is*.
The moment I first surrendered completely during a stressful situation, it felt like an inner explosion.
Relief. Joy. Peace.
It was overwhelming.
Let go.
You have nothing to lose except your self.
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Ask yourself - where is the separate “I” in this experience?
Can you find a “me” separate from that which is experienced?
Or is there just the knowing, the experiencing?
Give it a try and see if you can find a separate “I” in any experience.
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Without an idea of an inner “me” who is in control, there is just spaciousness.
Responsive to life. No obstruction.
One merges with Life, and becomes completely transparent to what *is*.
Try to find that person you think you are, who controls your life.
Is anybody there?
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What am I going to write!?
I’ve been trying to write about the spiritual life and other topics everyday.
Some days I have no idea what I am going to write about.
Yet something always comes.
I think never-ending creativity depends on a particular belief or understanding.
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There is a delusion of control.
Yet if experience is examined closely, it will be found that there is nobody there in control.
Thoughts and actions appear spontaneously in awareness.
Yet there is the persistent belief that there is an inner doer who chooses these thoughts and
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To judge a certain feeling as unpleasant, there needs to be a mental separation of “me” from the feeling.
Yet that separation doesn’t exist in the moment the feeling is experienced.
It is only a judgement of the mind, after the fact.
Embrace the feeling, bring it close. Watch
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An event will happen which triggers a reaction in us - anger, fear etc.
If we don’t dwell on the I-thoughts which arise around such a reaction, the reaction goes away quite quickly.
Take the time to investigate this limited “I” concept, and the thoughts will lose their power.
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The first step to happiness is to make peace with what *is*.
To embrace life, even when our mind judges it harshly.
Then it is possible to create something better in the world, from the infinite Source of all creativity.
No longer recycling what has come before.
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How do I experience unity with all things and taste liberation?
One of the tenets of nonduality, or deep spiritual teaching, is that there is no fundamental separation between inside and outside, between you and I, between the world and what I fundamentally am.
To see in this
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We are One with God.
There is no separation.
We are One with the World / Mind.
There is no separation.
Where is there any limit? Cast off any limiting belief.
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I thought I was estranged from God.
I’d think that if I made the slightest wrong move, God would judge me.
I saw God as a being separate from me.
And at times it made me miserable.
In retrospect, it is an odd idea.
If God is unlimited, then there can be no other being
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What is love?
It is the union between two apparently separate beings.
But what if there was no separation to begin with?
Then the whole universe would be love.
There has never been any separation.
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The ego (which is a collection of thoughts) is a temporary phenomenon.
When you are engrossed in a movie, you don’t know what you are in those moments.
Yet for some reason we think this temporary ego phenomenon is what we truly are.
We are the awareness in which ego arises.
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