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Highly recommend the book The Transparency of Things: Contemplating the Nature of Experience by Rupert Spira. His deductions are clear, sharp, and simple. It really helped to fill in gaps in my understanding! Most importantly, it clarified to me what nonduality even IS. It is not a pretty metaphor. It is the unavoidable conclusion to the inquiry into consciousness that Spira guides us through. And it is so astoundingly simple it's absurd to think we overlook it.
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Believing that the Love of God is our one and only true need recontextualizes so many desires...
"I want a billion dollars" No, you want Love
"I want to be in control" No, you want Love
"I want to stand above" No, you want Love
"I want the world to explode" No, you want Love
"I want to die" No, you want Love
"I want safety" Yes, you want Love
"I want freedom" Yes, you want Love
"I want understanding" Yes, you want Love
"I want rest" Yes, you want Love
Anything other than God's Love is just an attempted substitute that will not satisfy.
The trouble with deifying people like Gautama Buddha and Jesus is that it makes followers believe they have to accomplish something larger-than-life in order to be like them, or that the Buddha and Jesus were inherently more special than everyone else and it's impossible to achieve what they did. Why would they bother to teach if following in their path is unreachable? Their examples were demonstrating that it's possible for anyone to achieve enlightenment: one was born a prince, the other a tradesman. Their temporal incarnate differences had no bearing. They had to overcome the same inner obstacles we do. The path is not blocked for anyone.
Likewise, believing they're special attracts the ego, which would pursue enlightenment in order to "be more special than everyone else," its secret goal. The ego gets disappointed with how mundane and unquixotic the actual path is.
The ego resists change because it knows ultimate truth is constant, and therefore anything subject to change isn't ultimately real, and if the ego isn't ultimately real that means it has no power over you, the part of you that IS real and unchanging.
This is why the ego resists letting go of the past, because the ego is constructed entirely of the past -- your memories, your conditioning, your grievances, your desires -- everything that is specific to your past, which you alone experienced (and is therefore not ultimate truth because ultimate truth is universal to everyone and everything). Letting go of the past means the dissolution of the ego, and as long as you identify with the ego, it feels like YOUR death, too. But it isn't: once all falsehoods are gone, only truth remains, and your existence does not depend on illusions. Illusions don't sustain you; they trap you, until they're recognized as unreal.
Think of all the ways we try to pin our identities to something both constant and unique (because the ego desires to be separate and special because its survival depends on it). But something can't be both constant AND unique, because its uniqueness is defined and shaped by everything around it; the principle of being "dependently arisen," which encompasses the entire temporal, physical universe. The constant cannot change and therefore cannot be set apart, otherwise it wouldn't be universal anymore, and therefore wouldn't be ultimate truth.
The ego tries to attach a constant identity to features like the body (race, ability, gender, health, etc), intelligence, achievements, associations, and especially pernicious; past mistakes, failures, "sins," and shortcomings. But all these things are both temporary and particular, and therefore not ultimately true. They are temporary because they did not exist since the beginning of time, and they will all disappear with bodily death. Anything that is beholden to time is temporal by definition, inconstant, and therefore unreal. They are particular because nobody sees "you" the same way, and your opinion of yourself is not more credible than anyone else's (Whom do we have more misperceptions about besides ourselves? All concepts about ourselves and others are just beliefs, and we carry the most concepts about ourselves, therefore we carry the most untruths about ourselves).
So to survive, the ego carries forward everything past and tries to make it a permanent part of our identity: "I failed once" becomes "I will always fail, I am a failure." It doesn't matter if you failed 10,000 times in the past. It has no bearing on the present or future if you choose to not identify with past failure. The tree bears no resemblance to the seed, right?
This is the justification for universal forgiveness. Because in trying to punish past "sins" to prevent them from recurring in the future, we treat something temporal as if it's real and therefore constant, so our "crimes" forever make us criminals, never to be fully clean again, which doesn't make any sense. All "sins" stem from fear and self-hatred, which needs healing, not further punishment that will only exacerbate the pain. To forgive is to heal because it is letting go of the past & illusions and refusing to acknowledge them as real.
"There are no levels of difficulty to miracles," some past mistakes are not harder to let go of than others, because everything temporal is equally ephemeral. Nightmares and happy dreams are gone just as instantly when we wake up. Believing the nightmare is real is what gives it power over you. Everything here is a dream, and we're guaranteed to wake up eventually. Our identity does not rest on this planet.
The problems of the mind cannot be solved on the level of the mind. Once you have understood the basic dysfunction, there isnât really much else that you need to learn or understand. Studying the complexities of the mind may make you a good psychologist, but doing so wonât take you beyond the mind, just as the study of madness isnât enough to create sanity.
The egoâs needs are endless. It feels vulnerable and threatened and so lives in a state of fear and want. Once you know how the basic dysfunction operates, there is no need to explore all its countless manifestations, no need to make it into a complex personal problem.
Here is the key: End the delusion of time. Time and mind are inseparable. Remove time from the mind and it stops â unless you choose to use it. To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.
Why is [the Present] the most precious thing? Firstly, because it is the only thing. Itâs all there is. The eternal present is the space within which your whole life unfolds, the one factor that remains constant. Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be. Secondly, the Now is the only point that can take you beyond the limited confines of the mind. It is your only point of access into the timeless and formless realm of Being.
Eckhart Tolle
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A Course in Miracles
It doesn't actually matter whether there really exists an objective "outside" world beyond your senses, because how you interact with everyone and everything, imaginary or not, reflects directly upon how you see yourself and what you believe you deserve. If you believe you're worthy of God, everyone else will appear so, too.
The OBSESSION with identity is so crazy like the view that when you do something it immediately becomes part of your identity and all the parts of you have to click together to become âperson who wakes up earlyâ or âperson who readsâ no you can literally just do something without restructuring your whole performance of personhood around it. I donât know what to tell you except that you will never be able to have an entirely unfractured view of yourself or that you will be able to rationalize all the complex parts of yourself into the phrase âperson who xâ like you should just be doing things without performing them. Or aestheticizing them. Just try different things on and keep what works for you. Otherwise you will never learn and grow!
ok, maybe you didn't say the thing I accused you of saying - but you heavily implied it by speaking to me, someone who wants to be mad at you
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âDo not cling to any one thing. Nothing is it, so do not judge and criticize. No intellectual concepts are valid, so do not presume.â
âShabkar in Flight of the Garuda
This quote from the renowned 19th-century Tibetan yogi Shabkar Tsokdruk RangdrĂśl (1781â1850) is a quintessential instruction for the Dzogchen practice of TrekchĂś (Cutting Through). It guides the practitioner to let go of dualistic fixation and intellectual grasping, pointing directly to the primordially pure nature of the mind.
The quote dismantles the mental habits that obscure our inherent wakefulness:
"Do not cling to any one thing."Liberation begins when we stop grasping at concrete phenomena, thoughts, or emotions as inherently real or permanent.
"Nothing is it, so do not judge and criticize."All phenomena are ultimately empty of inherent existence. When you stop categorizing experiences as "good" or "bad," you remove the mental friction of judgment.
"No intellectual concepts are valid, so do not presume."The ultimate nature of reality (or Dharmakaya) is beyond the reach of the conceptual mind. You cannot figure out or theorize your way into enlightenment.
By resting in this state of "non-meditation," Shabkar teaches that thoughts arise and self-liberate without you needing to correct, suppress, or modify them.
a little reminder! by annalaura_art
There's not someone behind awareness
doing the aware-ing.
Awareness is aware of itself.
~ Adyashanti
being kind and full of love is the whole point btw
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one of the greatest discoveries i made in my journey for me was realizing that the 3d isnât something separate from me. my 3d isnât âout thereâ. my 3d doesnât need to be changed.
iâm literally within myself. think of your 3d as your mind. youâre IN this 3d world. that means youâre INSIDE your own mind. youâre within yourself lol.Â
your mind isnât in your body, your body is in your mind.Â
jesus said he is in father and father is in him(john 14:10). william blake said god is in us and we in him.
this is why there is nothing to change but self because self is the only thing there is. youâre within yourself. the world is truly your own simulation. youâre within the mind of god. youâre inside your own self.Â
think of a blue butterfly. you donât even have to âmanifestâ it. just think of it. whenever it comes to your mind, just think of a blue butterfly. youâll somehow end up seeing a blue butterfly in the 3d even though you didnât âmanifestâ it.Â
why? because youâre literally within yourself. this is why itâs absurd to want to change the 3d or seek results from in the 3d.Â
youâre literally inside yourselfâŚâŚâŚ
i hope you get what iâm trying to get across here because i want you to know that youâre NOT changing the 3d, youâre changing yourself, your consciousness. your 3d exists WITHIN you.Â
âyour mind isnât in your body, your body is in your mind. â i love this so much, this whole post is a gem âĄ
"And now a message from the Night Vale Philosophical Society.
Attachment to the world is your problem. You think that your value is the value of your possessions. You think your car means something about you as a person. You think that what is in your wallet is related in any way to the substance of your soul.Â
We want to help you with that. So we have decided to speak your language.
Break yourself free from the cycle of desire, and there is a crisp one hundred dollar bill in it for you. Thatâs right. Realize that we are all one with the universe and that material things are no more valuable than soil, and we will smack that one hundo right in your hand. Make big bucks by seeing past the trap of wealth.Â
The choice is yours. Stay tied to the heavy burden of everything you own. Or realize that the only difference between you and the sun is an arrangement of atoms, and that you never needed anything at all, and baby this Benjamin is yours.Â
All is eternal and all is nothing, and if you can realize that, youâll be one hundred big ones richer.
This has been a message from the Night Vale Philosophical Society."
- Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor, from Welcome to Night Vale, ep. 287.
