Half 1: Moving into Perpetual Freedom
“Actuality is merely an phantasm, albeit a really persistent one.” ― Albert Einstein, physicist
After I converse of religious freedom I’m talking about being launched from the hypnotic bonds of the present paradigm.
In my work I spend a substantial amount of time supporting individuals to grasp the insidious ways in which we grow to be ensnared within the perceptual sensibilities and limitations of the dominant paradigm.
We’re taught to consider that we reside in actuality when in reality we reside in a really convincing phantasm of actuality. That phantasm is fashioned by conditioned patterns of thought and emotions and the ordinary ways in which we reply to them.
We’ve been educated what to assume and methods to really feel, after which we’re taught to make use of our ideas and emotions to inform us what’s actual.
This round loop creates an phantasm of actuality that’s so convincing that few of us ever suspect that the best way issues actually are is likely to be radically completely different than the best way we predict and really feel they’re.
It is very important emphasize that the liberation I’m talking about will not be meant to be a transitional step designed to take us from one actuality to a different.
It’s a state of perpetual freedom that leaves us at all times open to new potentialities. We always remember that there’s at all times extra attainable it doesn’t matter what might really feel actual to us now and so we’re at all times able to let go uncover one thing new.
Half 2: Discovering the Actuality of Unity and Love
“Consciousness is certainly at all times with us. Everybody is aware of ‘I’m!’ Nobody can deny his personal being.” – Ramana Maharshi, Hindu sage
One of many nice religious awakenings that I work with is the awakening of non-dual consciousness. The time period non-dual is typically translated as oneness, however in a way, it’s not actually oneness in any respect.
Non-duality doesn’t imply only-one. It means not-two. It doesn’t suggest unity as a lot because it implies no separation and inclusivity.
The thought of oneness too simply suggests an undifferentiated uniform mass, and that sort of oneness excludes distinction, variety or uniqueness.
Non-duality can’t be that sort of oneness as a result of something that it excludes turns into a second to itself after which there could be two.
The character of non-duality is radical inclusivity. It’s one with no second. It’s an inside that has no outdoors.
My deepest experiences of what I might solely name non-dual consciousness didn’t depart me with a way of oneness and even wholeness. They left me with an all-encompassing sense of affection and reference to all the pieces in all places.
We exist in a steady discipline of inseparability, in fixed relationship with all the pieces. Within the present paradigm we’ve developed habits of notion that trigger us to really feel separate in a actuality during which no separation really exists.
Half 3: Liberating Ourselves from Separation and Isolation
What we expertise as separation emerges largely out of the expertise of thriller. I expertise you as separate not since you are, however as a result of I don’t, and perhaps can’t, know all the pieces about you.
If we make a slight perceptual adjustment the sense of separation turns into an encounter with thriller.
The existence of thriller offers rise to a sense of loving curiosity that naturally needs to merge with that thriller by realizing it by direct contact. This need to merge with thriller is a religious love that wishes to unify all of life.
The primary religious apply I labored with was meditation within the lineage of the Hindu instructing of Advaita Vedanta and the teachings of Ramana Maharshi.
Meditation in the best way I educate is a apply of consciously merging with the thriller of being.
Even because the language of my work has developed to focus across the language of paradigm shifting I nonetheless discover that non-dual consciousness and the apply of meditation are a central a part of what I educate.
That is partly as a result of meditation as I educate it’s by no means only a solitary apply completed in isolation.
If we predict sitting down and shutting our eyes signifies that we’re alone, then we misunderstand the true scope of what it means to be human. Closing your eyes can’t separate you from the remainder of humanity or anything.
Each thought and feeling you’ve gotten within the seeming privateness of your personal thoughts has been formed in relationship with the ideas and emotions of everybody you’ve ever recognized and everybody they’ve recognized and so forth and so forth.
And we’re influenced by rather more than simply different individuals. Each expertise we’ve ever had of each dwelling and non-living factor has had a shaping affect on us.
And people issues have been formed by the encounters they’ve had. There isn’t a separation.
Nothing is finally separate from anything.
Experiencing the reality of no separation immediately and resting in that recognition is how we rewire our nervous system and tune our sensibilities to the expertise of the continual discipline of being that we reside in.
While you shut our eyes to meditate achieve this realizing that there’s nothing separating you from anything.