Mystic Dance of Awakening
The bottom line is that studying any sort of spirituality will not do us any good unless it grounds us in the natural world. Unless it sits us firmly into the world the way is not through our illusions. Generations before us would have had the luxury of drifting away in their imaginations and living …
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Non-duality means connection. We so often think that it means, “The death of the false self” and all these things. Well, this false self is the only thing that is making you imagine that you’re separate. Once that’s gone, all that’s left is connection. Think about even the simplest connections, like you and a friend, …
Non-duality and reality… Lots of people are attracted to non-duality these days, and it’s turned into a really heady, you know, stuck in your head sort of thing. It takes so many words to attempt to define nothingness and to find Brahman. It gets really, really complicated. I’ve noticed that it gets very disassociated; it’s …
The illusion of separation – that’s what we’re trying to overcome in non-duality, right? So, if you’re not separate, then what are you connected to?
Paleo non-duality… We’re trying to get back to the paleo diet, right? It seems like it’d be even more important to access that paleo mind, that paleo experience that’s inside of us, even though it’s not a logical experience. Let’s just look at it with a little bit of lite data to start out with. …
We human beings belong here on this planet. We each belong in our place because we are all connected there.
Nonduality is… Skin. You’re like… whaaaaat? Well, just think about it. The last thing in the world you would ever want completely sterile is skin. Yeah, it’s kind of nice to be clean, right? But completely sterilized skin? You’d probably be dead because skin is the interface between us and the entire world. Skin is …
I think that many of us imagine that there’s a point of Enlightenment where all of a sudden you’re perfect. You never feel another emotion in your life; you never have another problem. That’s a myth of Eastern philosophies that’s been used to control people. It’s similar to controlling you with the illusion of riches. …
