Guest guest Posted May 26, 2006 Report Share Posted May 26, 2006 P: Nonduality is not a feeling of identity with concepts. It doesn't matter how grandiose a concept is, such as: God. It's still a concept. Nonduality is, when concepts are not. The moment the thought appears: " I am that " then duality is back. And that is OK! Liberation means accepting, and that includes, duality. Nothing is excluded by liberation. Perhaps the notion of concept here can be pushed deeper. When, in silent tranquility, there is a poignant stillness... awareness alive and vibrant, yet all poised in a distilled, empty radiance... is that not the " ordering of the brain " but as settled into an open simplicity? and is not the appearance of self-referential thought such as, " I am _____ " also an ordering of the brain? the latter being less simple, less distilled... but what is common is an ordering of the brain? in other words can we not look at this more fundamentally not in terms of concepts, but in terms of ordering of the brain? and that ordering comes to drop away unnecessary baggage becoming simpler and simpler... until just a distilled simplicity... the projection of an apparent " efforter " in the brain's representation of experience having fallen away as no longer needed, relevant, significant... and the natural process being one of progressive simplicity... more and more simple. And that is the wisdom of the great mystical traditions... simpler is more " true " ... that the natural " direction " in the evolution of consciousness/awareness (spiritual Darwinism is toward less and less and less. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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