Dream Of Separation

Stop for a moment and do nothing. Very soon the momentum of existence will reveal itself - this event of Life simply happening. It is mysterious to human cognition - not because there is anything supernatural about it but because its deepest nature is beyond the limitations of human comprehension.

It presents as an ineffable power, creativity and intelligence - effortlessly generating black holes, repairing cells and DNA, converting light into sugar, creating the orbital energy of the electron and the poetry of Rumi.

Nothing stands apart from it - yet it arises as endless variation, individuation, uniqueness and complexity. It is conceiving you/creating you, sustaining you, directing you, determining you, realising you… and yet the mind identifies as a separate, enduring and inherently existing form within this event of Life. Waking up to no-separation is waking up from this habitual dream of separation to the simplicity of just THIS - as it is.

And although the body-mind-matrix is the apparent locus of experience (after all, experience happens here) and we conventionally ascribe sovereign functionality to it, it is not other than a movement and expression of this radiant principle which knows no separation.

abide as a verb

go for a walk

become present with what is going on

anchor yourself in the unfolding current of life

this vast and ungraspable dance

abide as a verb and you abide as the whole

the great event of existence

which knows no separation

The Sun Never Sets

About twenty years ago I lived in a rural location where at certain times of the year I would climb to the top of a hill from where I could sit and watch the sun set. But of course the sun never did set. I came to clearly experience the 'sunset' as the Earth slowly tipping backwards until it obscured the sun. This is a weird and slightly thrilling feeling.

Now imagine not having prior knowledge about the rotation of the Earth and just spontaneously having that felt-sense insight. Well a kind of parallel to that happened to me about eighteen years ago when I tried meditation as a form of relaxation. I wasn't a seeker (in fact I was a skeptic about anything spiritual.) I had a spontaneous shift in perspective. Everything stayed exactly the same (as with the Earths rotation) but was seen in a new light (so to speak.)

There can be the felt-sense that there is no separate entity moving about in Life… Instead Life, THIS (the whole thing - or the whole no-thing if you prefer) is the movement. It's as if there is a switch from the focus being on this fragment (me) to the sense of the whole event that is. It's not that there is no you or no individuated perspective, it's the seeing that this too is a movement/play of Life.

Of course when anyone asks me about this I say try meditation (simply being open to what is) or spend some time in nature. To me this seems obvious and natural. But I realise that this is my bias - this is part of my interpretation of this core realisation. Someone who has come to this by questioning existence might suggest doing that… and so on. The core realisation is universal but the descriptions, elaborations and stories of shifts and awakenings, pointers and paths are subject to biases and conditioning.