Compromising and Uncompromising..

 

Sent to a friend..

Thought processes are necessary, it seems, as an entry to nonduality,

but the question arises: What is a thought?  A thought is an object, 

more subtle than a chair..but still a thought.  Thoughts get settled 

as beliefs, and beliefs settle as identities and addictions. Spiritual 

traditions and religions have recognized this for a long time, so names 

are brought into use, such as God, Consciousness, Awareness, 

plus others, which point to that beyond thoughts and objects.  However,

as you can see, there remains a split, a duality, in these usages.

 Nonduality recognizes this dilemma, the difficulty of using language, 

yet the need to use language!  There are "teachers" who have approaches 

which start with a seeker's strong association with duality, and by gentle 

steps attempt to coax out the nondual understanding. (Rupert Spira appears 

as one of these.).  Another approach is uncompromising, immediately 

dismissing the personal "me," attempting to show how a person's 

thinking, and questions, all involve an assumption of separation. This 

is the Direct Path.  (Tony Parsons is the example.). The Direct Path boils 

down to: "Nothing (No-thing) appearing as everything."  That's it!  

Or..Nothing being everything (being, not becoming).  The simplicity 

tends to mask what already is. Some say that a "shift" occurs. But, 

the main thing is the realization of the illusory nature of separation 

as an independent reality.  

Progressive paths..(Tony Parsons)

 

Finding what is lost..

Separation is the deceiver

Who seems innocent because

After all..things seem different

And bounded and special..

A suggestion otherwise seems

To mug common sense..but that

Nagging lack seems to

Hang on..and we overturn 

Those separate things for relief..

The deceiver is elated and celebrates

Each of these new leases on life..

And the search continues in many

Villages..large and small..for that

Which has never been lost...

“Doctrines, processes and progressive paths, which seek enlightenment, only exacerbate the problem they address by reinforcing the idea that "the apparent self" can find something it presumes it has lost. It is that very effort...that investment in self-identity, that continuously recreates the illusion of separation from oneness. This is the veil which we believe exists. It is the dream of individuality.”

~ Tony Parsons ~

Polarity in play..

 

Polarity in play..

No-thing appears as polarities..

Appearances are invitations

To play..allowing the polarities to

Dance..and carry on in  freedom

In any way they wish..this gift of

Nothing..is the breaking of the 

Links by which polarities have 

Never been chained...

 

Real and Fake..?? (Miranda Warren)

Nonduality

Seems to be at a fork in the road..

Whether to be a late blooming religion..or not..

As a religion there is the claim..stated in many forms

Of an offering for the progress of the dedicated one

Toward enlightenment..awarding eventual freedom..

Without this religious containment..the other fork

Recognizes that both forks appear as the balm

To all seeking..liberation...

Miranda Warren

As more people listen to and speak of nonduality, it seems to happen that people with a sense of a separate self will adopt nonduality as a new belief system for the “me.” As Kenneth says, “it’s mostly taken on as another paradigm, another concept, and people say then 'I’m no longer a me.'” It’s easy for anyone to sound as if there has been a loss of separation. I receive messages every week asking how one can tell who is truly speaking from the perspective of separation and who has seen through it.

But this can only matter if there is something specific being offered, a path to somewhere and someone to get it. When this is seen, there is no one who has anything that someone else does not, as there is only what is always here. Whether nonduality is taken on as a belief or not, whether there is speaking from a perspective of no-self or a self deciding it is not a “me,” there is simply what is happening.

This is unknowable, and it is not in any one appearance more than any other. The distinctions between a true message and a false message, between “real” nonduality and “fake nonduality” disappear when separation disappears, and ultimately become as meaningful as asking which cloud in the sky is truly embodying “cloudness” and which one is simply pretending to be a cloud. 

Already are..(Tony Parsons)

 

Already..

This word is found sometimes as a startling announcement..

Stop looking it says..what you are looking for is here now and

Has never not been already anywhere you really looked..

It is the disappearance of what you thought you were looking for..

And an amazement that the fleeting something for which you looked

Could not be reached and grasped and soon eluded even your looking..

Already it was an appearance of That for which you were really looking...

"You can’t do anything because you can’t do what you already are. You are the light, which allows creation to be. Look, it is happening right here, right now, in everything that’s taking place for you. Simply let it be there…no questions, no judgments, no wish to change anything or make it better.

Fall in love with this. Fall in love with it intimately, and everything else will “emerge". And don’t stay fixed with one thing. Let whatever arises come to the forefront and fall away back into emptiness.”

Tony Parsons -

Spontaneity..

 

Spontaneity..

The wind paddles

Rotating in a gentle wind

Seem as time wheel until

We recognize: There is 

Spontaneity on display in the

Paddle and wind and sunshine..

Spontaneity introduces 

No-thing as that which

Appears in this small

Episode out of time... 

Unicity..(Nancy Neithercut)

"Once the recognition of unicity hits it's like a freight train

Flattens ya

Erases all ideas of effort and achievement or any doing at all

Or next or better or other

This undeniable clear pure centerless light of equalness and evenness subsumes all and everything

It was always on merely not noticed

It is beyond conception

Or imagination or belief

It is intuited

It is an all consuming sky like brilliance"

~~Nancy Neithercut