Non Duality
The sage philosopher, Alan Watts, in his book ‘ the joyous cosmology ‘ states ‘ consciousness peers out from a centre which it cannot see - and that is the root of the matter ‘ .
Western cultures, civilisations have evolved in a dualistic way and though we can see limited benefits in this, our history is a long passage of fragmentation and consequential destruction. Given long enough, all our endeavours turn to ashes. The east has its history of non dual perspectives and sees the material world/universe as real but only real as an illusion. (Maya.) And in several traditions gives rise to this ‘ I ‘ consciousness. Personally ( I ) have real empathy for this ‘ I ‘ consciousness, this seer, that peers out from each one of us. It is real to me as ‘ true identity ‘ independent of all thoughts and the workings of the brain. Indeed I have an experiential certainty that this ‘ I ‘ is indistinguishable from the causal spirit of all. Which, of course, includes the brain and all mental processes. Thus what I think I am is and always has been, the workings of my brain, but what I really am is, the causal spirit, the ‘ I ‘ that peers out from my centre, indeed, the cause of the universe and the cause of my untrue self - when I realise my true self. Inside myself I am aware of a vast, dark emptiness, which I intuit and feel is too full to be manifest. It is a biological expression of infinite divine mystery to me and the altar of true spirituality and true faith. This emptiness is conscious and inescapably my identity and yes, Alan Watts is correct- I cannot focus on what I really am, looking out, because I am engrossed with what I am doing, concomitantly with temporary amnesia too. That which I call ‘ me ‘ is undoubtedly a coil of memories, which is the past and which forms ego that like a spinning vortex, will slow down and expire.
So what is ‘it ‘ that wonders what it is, confronted with this ‘ I ‘ consciousness in each one of us, connected and non dual? The answer surely is ‘ nothing ‘ ? And into this mad, mad world of ours we stand back and see it all as a crazy game. - Only one ‘ I ‘ - the self of the world, looking through all of us and causing all and no doubt, as Watts would say,’ having a ball ‘. Why does God make horrible people, asked the children of Watts ? Remember, said Watts, God (The one non duality) is only hurting himself for there is nothing outside him. Helpful to indoctrinated children, perhaps but to adults who have dispensed with the objective ‘ He ‘ God - how do we come to die to our ‘untrue selves’ ? Perhaps its something to do with the two words ‘ true love ‘. By true we would mean no trace of the old self. The ‘ I ‘ does not have true love as an attribute - it is true love. Whether we like it or not our ‘ I ‘ consciousness means non duality- the non dual vision of life. Even the mystic teacher Jesus knew this when he said ‘take up your cross (gibbet) to follow me. We must die to our unreal self to realise our true self. Its quite a discovery to realise when we awaken to this vast reality of what we really are, and how we shrunk ourselves to play and pour out this cosmic dance of joy and pain, good and bad, light and dark as if we were on a sabbatical from blissful eternity?
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