Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Oneness, you, and the rest of the world

You are seeking oneness. You have realised that your limited, separate sense of self will always be that - limited and separate, and in search of something more.

You think that some process or understanding is going to lead you to connection with your “higher self” or some loftier state of consciousness.

You may have doubts about whether or not this will really happen for you (at least “in this lifetime“), but there is no doubt about your problem and its associated sense of yearning.

But you are looking in the wrong direction, ”you“ will never find the answer you seek.

You have fallen for an illusion.

There is only oneness now. There has only ever been oneness.

Everything is happening in one space of knowing. ”You“ and the ”Rest of the World“ have always been united in this effortless and direct knowing, this constant seeing in which all people, places, objects, thoughts, perceptions, sensations, and times appear and disappear.

Drop your problem and your story and recognise that there is NOTHING APART FROM THIS SEEING.

This is always the case, whether or not ”someone“ recognises it.

There is the appearance of a separate person hers, which seems to be further supported by a story extending into the past and future, but this is only an appearance in THIS ONENESS, THIS AWARENESS.

The appearance is always changing and nothing within it can be grasped or held on to.

Persistence is also only an idea appearing presently.

Separation is only an appearance based upon a thought, a concept of one who is separate.

The concept, the thought, the appearance are only happenings in THIS ONENESS SEEING THIS NOW and they are powerless to affect THIS ONENESS.

Once you have assumed your separation to be real, you cannot possibly find the oneness. But your being lost and your suffering are only apparent happenings IN THE ONENESS AND ARE NOT SEPARATE FROM IT.

This Oneness is not separate from anything that appears in it. Anything that appears (”anywhere“ and to ”anyone“) IS THIS ONENESS.

There may be a seeing that there is no distinction between You, the Rest of the World, and THIS ONENESS. But no matter what appears to be happening, IT CAN ONLY BE THE ONENESS.

The you that feels separate IS THE ONENESS, it is a passing appearance with no independent existence.

NO ONE AND NO THING EXISTS APART FROM THIS ONENESS.

You cannot find the oneness, but it can be seen that it is ALL THAT EXISTS, and there is NO ONE APART TO FIND IT.

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