nondual community -what's that?

[Guest guest]

Ok folks, undaunted, I proceed to the next bit of foolishness.

What's here is a transcript of a group meeting with Lex Hixon and

people identified only as voices, about twenty, loosely on the topic

of what a nondual community might be like and do...perhaps relevant

to email lists even? Considering it was a live, spontaneous

conversation... well, bear with the intro, once they get going and

into the heart of exploring it, I think you may find it quite

interesting. ~Glo

http://www.mightycompanions.org/page4.html

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LEX: I would suggest that you're not used to non-dual communication

and understanding. Most of us are not used to the atmosphere of

non-duality. Most of us have the strong dualistic habit of

immediately making a connection, immediately checking out what it is.

We give ourselves five seconds or five minutes. Is it soul? Is it

intellect? Whatever it is, we've got the definition almost instantly.

This is the habit that we have to slowly erase.

I said earlier that I would try to operate as the principle of

non-duality, which is always erasing distinctions and definitions. If

you feel in a slightly erased state, that's all right, right now.

VOICE TWELVE: But the way you're speaking doesn't lead me to want to achieve this state.

LEX: That's good. Why should I attempt to attract you? Why should

non-duality become another achievement? This is going to disappoint

Suzanne, but we're not going to have a large movement here, with

people flocking to the door to be part of a non-dual celebration.

[Laughter]

We need the courage to present basic truth, which is not holding out

some glamorous promise, "Get to this man, no matter what he charges.

This is going to be the highest you've ever been." We're not

enchanting or compelling anybody by eloquence or by miracles.

I suggest that you look at the experience you're having in a positive

rather than a negative light. The fact that you're not feeling any

strong attraction is good. The spiritual trips are all setting up

romantic attractions. How about a teaching that is plain and

profound, that doesn't create some tremendous dualistic pull? "We've

got it over here. We've got the real treasure which doesn't exist

where you are. We're at the end of the rainbow. Come on over."

VOICE THIRTEEN: One thing that keeps coming back to me, and I think I

heard it correctly, is that you started out by saying that

non-duality is a process.

LEX: It is revealed by a process but is not itself a process. There is

a dialectical, dynamic, spontaneous clearing away of the notions of

duality, as they arise.