By James123
in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God,
The only Being is Truth.
Being is prior to all thought, prior to all forms and formlessness, prior to duality and non-duality.
Everything that appears such as God, infinity, the world, the body, the mind arises in the Bring, yet the Being is untouched by all appearances.
Birth and death, coming and going, pleasure and pain, life and dissolution, all appear in It like waves on the ocean; they arise and vanish, but the ocean itself remains unchanged.
Duality and non-duality have no reality apart from the Self. Even solipsism, the imagining that all exists only for the ‘I’, is itself a thought in the Being. The Being neither begins nor ends. It is the substratum in which all phenomena arise and disappear, yet it remains still, whole, complete, and ever-present.
To know this Being, turn inward and seek the source of the ‘I’-thought. When the root of the ‘I’ is discovered, all appearances, all fears, all questions about birth, death, duality, non-duality, God, or infinity dissolve naturally, and the Self alone shines forth, timeless and unchanged.
The Being is not something to gain; it is your own nature and untouched.
It is before the mind divides the world into self and other, before the thought of duality arises.
Duality is the play of the mind, a movement of thoughts in the stillness of Being.
Non duality is not a state to achieve; it is the silence in which the mind’s divisions dissolve naturally.
In truth, there is no duality and no non duality, only the Being shines, aware of all that appears.
The Being is the source of the “I” thought.
The “I” thought seems to be separate, but it is born in Being and returns to Being.
No self is the recognition that the “I” is never apart from the whole, yet the world continues to appear as it does.
Do not cling to the idea of self, no self or reject it , both are waves rising in the ocean of Being.
Love is the natural expression of this recognition.
It is not something to seek, not something to make; it flows spontaneously when the mind rests in the Heart.
To love is to see yourself in all forms, and to rest in the truth that all forms are the Self itself.
Do not strive to separate or to define. Be still. Return to the source of the “I” thought.
There you will know that duality and non duality, self and no self, love and freedom, all are the same unchanging, radiant Being.
Being is without beginning or end. It has no form, yet it shines through all forms.
It does not come and go; only the mind’s attention moves.
When the attention returns to its source, what remains is That.
Call it Allah, Being, God, Self, Truth, these are only names for the same Nameless.
In it, birth and death are dreams; joy and sorrow are passing clouds; the sky remains unaltered.
Do not try to hold Being. To try is to place it outside yourself.
Simply be still and it will reveal that You were never apart from it.