Basic Nondualism, in Wolinskyspeak

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" Question: There are so many psychological theories--what do I

beleive?

 

Answer: " The map is not the territory. " The major problems is that

modern psychology takes the map for the territory, takes the theory

or explanations for the truth, forgetting that it is a mode. The

question is, Who put the theory there? The theory cannot be the

territory or the truth. If you look for the person, the " I " , the

identity, or the practitioner of a psychological model by turning

your attention around even right now, you'll notice that there is

NOTHING there.

 

Question: But NOTHING is NOTHING, not a solid world.

 

Answer: Physicist John Wheeler said it this way: " Nothingness is the

building block of the universe. "

 

Question: In one workshop I took they said that I create my own

reality and so I can change things around but somehow it doesn't

work. Isn't this the same as what Quantum Psychology says?

 

Answer: No, you do not create your own reality.

 

Question: But can't I, as source, as consciousness, create reality?

 

Answer: This approach is full of distortions. First of all you as

source--or the VOID OF UNDIFFERENTIATED CONSCIOUSNESS --have no

experience of yourself as source or I create this or that because, as

the VOID OF UNDIFFERENTIATED CONSCIOUSNESS, there is NO-I and No

Source. In order to have " you, " " you " must " leave " unity

consciousness and move into " I " or dualistic consciousness, an I am

source or I create my reality. You (as UNDIFFERENTIATED

CONSCIOUSNESS) cannot experience yourself as undifferentiated

consciousness. So the idea that as UNDIFFERENTIAED CONSCIOUSNESS you

create reality is true. But unity unconsciousness does not know

separation and hence, has no experience of a creator-creation

relationship, not to mention an " I " and a not " I " . That's why it

doesn't work. This " I " (creator " actually is not " experienced " as

unity consciousness but as a separate " I " creating this or that.

Hence, this " I " loses awareness of its true identity, as the VOID OF

UNDIFFERENTIATED CONSCIOUSNESS. When it loses awareness of THAT SAME

SUBSTANCE, a delusional I, with its creation and infinite

possibilities, concepts arises.

 

Question: But I do feel separate.

 

Answer: The I AM is. Actually, the first belief after I AM is I am

One. It is a belief because when you are one, there is no I to be

one. I am One is a belief when it describes an experience. The next

belief is am separate. To paraphrase Buddha, it is the root cause of

pain. Boundaries imply separation which are appearances.

 

The observer of the body-mind which imagines the separation is also

made of the same substance. You, at the most basic level, your hand

holding his book, only appear to the eye as separate from the book.

And the book only appears separate from the print, as does your

energy of thought appear different from the energy in your supposedly

separate body. Again, since not only is the body not separate from

the book or the print, your imagined individual consciousness (you as

a reader) is not separate from the observed book's consciousness.

 

Question: But I feel like I have a separate self.

 

Answer: The idea, " I feel like I have a separate self " is an idea and

the idea of a separate self is contained within the thought itself.

What is meant by a " self or self-nature " is a misconception of

psychology that experiences, feelings, events, and you as independent

from the experience. This misconception arises out of the separation

of the observer and the observed. The observer and the observed are

one unit. The oberver is not separate from the observed; therefore

the observer has no separate independent nature unto itself. A " NEW "

SELF ARISES WITH EACH 'NEW' EXPERIENCE. THERE IS NO SEPARATE SELF,

SEPARATE FROM THE EXPERIENCE!!!

 

Generally, people who come to a therapy office complain about the

problem " as if " the problem were with their mind. Modern

psychologists then spend hours or years working with this mind. Since

psychology is the science of the mind, the mind becomes an

object " over there' to be studied, worked with, experimented with and

done therapy with, as a way to take care of or to change THIS MIND.

The I that doesn't like or has a problem with the mind is part of the

mind. Psychology presupposes that the mind is separate from the

experiencer of the mind, it imagines separations which do not exist.

This imagining creates the therapeutic process.

 

Question: Things must have patterns. There must be a connection.

 

Answer: The VOID OF UNDIFFERENTIATED CONSCIOUSNESS is connected to,

and is, everthing. In psychology there is an assumption which is the

associative trance between two events, like I had a problem with mom

in 1959 so I have a problem with women in 1996. Connected

associations are appearances and are an assumption. Meanings are

placed on associations. The observer, through the act of observation,

looks for the meaning in associations which is a trance. For example,

you said yoiu meditated for many years. Isn't it true that while you

sat not looking for a mental pattern, you would first have a thought

about relationship, next instant a vacation, next a pleasant memory,

next some past memory would pop-up. While in therapy, the trained

observer looks for a meaning in this pattern of associations. This

has underlying assumptions or beliefs, first that there is a pattern,

second, there is associations between objects and events, and third.

if you are a good client you'll see them. Actually, things are more

random then you think, though the observer who holds these

assumptions will create associations which mean something, whether

they are true or not. This is why people see these patterns but still

suffer from them. People look for meanings to try to find meaning in

their life. They do this to resist the random chaos of the condensing

and thinning out of the divine VOID OF UNDIFFERENTIATED

CONSCIOUSNESS. But everything is everything else, there isn't any

this and other. Don't assume your associative trance minded observer

actually sees reality with any kind of real awareness. The observer

only observes and sees itself. Eric Marcus, when I first saw him at a

lecture in 1975, said, " We live in a world of mirrors and everyone

thinks they are looking out. " Quantum Psychology would say, " The I AM

has an observer which thinks it is looking out, when it is only

looking, oberving and seeing itself. The observer sees that which

they are trained to see and then it assumes it to be true.

 

Question: Don't things move and change from one thing into another?

 

Answer: There isn't any movement, it's just an appearance of movement

because you identify as a self separate from that movement.

Everything is interconnected with everything else and everything is

everything else. Movement implies a separate self to say it was so.

The idea of a separate self " seeing " or " perceiving " movement is an

idea only. This idea of a separate self is not separate from the idea

of movement itself. "

 

From " The Way of the Human "