Fact Of Life

Eventually an interest in nonduality will lead to the classic conundrum:

1. Is Beingness merely a product of the human brain?

Or:

2. Does the construct of an entity with a brain arise from Source/Beingness?

If it is in fact the case that Beingness/Reality is the source of any possible appearance, then why should any particular appearance be relied upon to provide an authoritative and definitive explanation of the truth of your being?

Yet already... before, beyond and during the stories that appearances tell us is a SOMETHINGNESS that is never not the case.

This primordial SOMETHINGNESS (which is not a something at all) out of which all things spring is known as the Absolute or the nondual... and is not other than this present Actuality.... wide open, fresh, inescapable reality principle... the very suchness of all activity, events, happenings, forms, thoughts, sensations, perceptions...

...the sheer fact of Life.

Actual-ness

'That' in which these words appear...

'That' which has to be in order for these words to appear.

Beyond subtle, unfindable, unnamable, unfathomable...

Yet... unmissable as this wide open 'Actual-ness'.

Not a thing, not a viewpoint, a perspective or perception...

This 'Actual-ness' can never be found as another appearance...

Not two... not even one... just _______

Beyond Understanding

BEING is beyond understanding.

Trying to make BEING conform to ideas that arise and fall as appearances is about as reliable as studying the test card in order to understand the workings of a television.

The best that might happen is that after a while it might dawn that the test card appears by virtue of the TV being on...

This ON-ness is the 'substance' of all that appears.

Nondual Suchness

It becomes clear that the essence of nonduality cannot be found in the conceptual twists and turns of appearances.

Yet it is already plainly evident right now as the very suchness of appearances.

Just pause and taste the certainty of this... the certainty of THIS.

From here, any lingering doubt or confusion can be instantly recognised to be just more display...

And even seeming directives to 'just pause...' or whatever, cannot violate the utter nondual suchness of this unstoppable free fall. 

Radical Tao

Only Tao

Ever fresh...

Yet not arriving

Never gone and not returning

Only flow

No separate little you standing apart from Tao's mysterious course

Whatever arises - however it appears...

Is already given

Inescapably THIS

Of course...

It is this THIS.

THIS... not a place or set of events...

But the being of whatever IS.

Utterly nondual even as it appears dualistic.

THIS is always the case... before, during and beyond concepts.

Only thought might disagree (and even deny THIS...) yet thought itself is appearance in THIS.

Whatever arises... thought, feeling, sense, nonsense, confusion, doubt, wonder... is already inescapably THIS.

And so the question of who or why or how etc... becomes liberatingly irrelevant.

Always only THIS...

The being of whatever IS.

Lateral Life

LINEAR LIFE is the way that life is perceived and understood conventionally.

Each life is like a line. It stretches back through the past and forwards to the future.

Each line is separate from the next.

LATERAL LIFE is the true nature of things.

All there is, is the present. There is no past or future. No line stretching backwards or forwards... just this... here... now.

An analogy would be to compare life to a screen and its changing scenes.

There are no lines of separation... just the seamless arising of what is.