No duality in the now !!?

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In duality you have opposites. For example light and dark, happiness and

suffering. But you need memory to think dualistically. Something is lighter

than or darker than something else in memory.

 

If, however, you live only in the now [in this moment]. There can be no

duality! Which also means every perception is non-dualistic. It only

becomes dualistic when the comparison with something in memory takes place.

 

It follows that when you live only in the now [non-dualistically] where

there is no comparison, no judgment, no acceptance or rejection, no past

and no future ... think about it. It logically follows that in the now

there can be no suffering [nor happiness]!

 

In the now the ego which differentiates, which has likes and dislikes, etc.

does not exist! You cannot be angry, hate or love someone, be jealous, be

conceited, be greedy if there is no memory! You can only be a 'me' and have

'mine' when there is a past and a future, where there is me-mory! In the

now, 'I' do not exist!

 

The fleeting moment of perception is non-dualistic. However instantly that

perception is analyzed by the mind and presented to us colored with our

memory of it, it becomes unreal, a figment of our mind, its reality changed

into what our mind can understand, confined to time and space. In other

words the world we see is an invention of our mind and is restricted to

time and space.

 

What can we conclude from the above paragraph? Get rid of the mind. Still

the mind. Let whatever that is in us that has the capacity to see beyond

the four dimensions of time and space, see the reality?

 

Your 'home' is in the now. In the now you cannot be homesick, lonely, lost,

miserable, sad, depressed, have a feeling of not belonging, etc. All these

moods, mind states, are based on me-mory.

 

In the now there is just being, no doing.

In the now there is total acceptance of 'what is'.

Enlightenment is simply being in the now moment before the brain takes over

and constricts and restricts everything into the limitations of time and space

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Just 'be', in the 'now'!

Jan Sultan

SufiMystic

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[Guest guest]

Hi Jan,

 

Wow! I haven't looked at it this way before. Without time/memory, no

comparisons can be made. And without comparisons, we can't comprehend

opposites and create duality. So simple. So profound.

 

<<Your 'home' is in the now. In the now you cannot be homesick, lonely,

lost,

miserable, sad, depressed, have a feeling of not belonging, etc. All these

moods, mind states, are based on me-mory.>>

 

The more deeply I explore my emotions, the more clearly I see their birth in

the "story" of my life. However, even with feet planted firmly in now,

emotions spontaneously arise out of the sea of mystery, and then, just as

inexplicably, tumble back in. Still, the witness that is aware of these

emotions, that sees the flash of anger, that feels the sweet kiss of

tenderness, remains unaffected.

 

The experience of being is paradoxical. As the opposite (or absence) of the

story of individuality, it doesn't give rise to emotional reactions, and

yet, it embraces all emotions without judgment.

 

The danger of being is that individuality will turn it into a practice (in a

misguided attempt to ensure its presence), rather than commit to silencing

the mind--cleaning the mirror--so that the ever-present radiance of being

stands revealed.

 

Namaste,

Julie