As you sit there reading this, where is the past? Is it next to you? Is it in the other room? Maybe it’s in your backyard or on the moon. Where is the future? Is it hiding behind the bed? Is it in Texas? As you sit here right now, can you touch the past or future, except through thought? Do you see that past and future are nothing more than presently arising thoughts? Do you see that your entire sense of self is based on what happened to you in the past and that the past is nothing more than thought arising now? Do you see that you are looking for the future to fulfill you but that future is only thought arising now? Stated another way, do you see that you have reduced the totality of who you are to nothing more than a set of thoughts? If you see this, and you are wondering whether there is something deeper, something more real and loving beyond this set of images you call “you,” keep reading. If you do not see what is being pointed to in this first paragraph, you may find this whole web site meaningless.
This site is about what is really here beyond the story of time racing through your mind.
What is realized here is that suffering and searching arise from an illusory story of "me," which is nothing but a false idea that there is a self somehow separate from the rest of life and who can somehow find life. This self is nothing more than a set of thoughts. When the absurdity of that is revealed, a shift in consciousness happens. The illusory sense of being a separate self falls away and Oneness is revealed. This site is about that shift. That seeing. It is available right now. That seeing is who you are in this timelessness. No time is needed to see it. You are this timeless clear space of seeing. You are not any object that is seen including the idea of a "me." You are the seeing itself.
This site is about love of what is. I call this seeing "love." Some will argue with that label. But when the illusory boundaries between separate things are seen through, what is left? Oneness. A simple, nonattached love for all that is.
This site is about something so simple that it is often missed completely. It is an invitation to see that your true nature is timelessness. What does that mean? It means that this present experience of life, as ordinary or extraordinary as it appears to be, is all there is and it is perfectly enough. Call that Oneness or enlightenment. Call it awareness or love. Call it goblygook. Naming it does not change it. One cannot know it through naming it. It already is what it is. There is only ever Oneness. Clear, empty, loving spaciousness. That is who you are. Some call it spirit. It is not something to grasp intellectually. It is what already is. The self is a dream of separation, of resistance to the utterly natural and effortless spirit that is your true nature in this moment. The whole notion of seeking enlightenment or Oneness is based on a misperception, which is that a person believing himself to be separate from life can somehow sneak up on this moment or Oneness. All there is, is Oneness. No one can sneak up on what already is.
Enlightenment (sometimes called non-duality) is an inexpressible realization. Non-duality or enlightenment is not a philosophy, idea, concept, religion, belief system, teaching, expression, or some notion of how everything is connected. It is a very simple love. It is an energy shift in the body and mind in which there is no longer the sense of a "me" separate from the rest of life. It is life living itself and the seeing that there is no thought-based self doing it. When that person is seen to be a ghost, unconditional love is realized. Separation is seen to be an illusion.
Many spiritual teachings these days seem to be lost in fancy conceptual loops repeating themselves over and over, promising this or that state or experience. No promises here, only a pointing to the beauty and simplicity of what already is. When it is realized that all concepts are ignorance including the idea of Oneness, enlightenment, and non-duality, what is left is life happening in whatever way it is happening right now. It is that simple. It is life playing itself out through the sound of keys typing, concepts arising and falling, the furnace kicking on and then off, a bird sitting on a wire, the wind pushing a piece of cardboard through the air, a building deteriorating, a flower stretching itself out to the sun, legs walking to the bathroom, the kiss from a loved one, and the space and quietness in which all of that is happening. It is the realization that only thought places boundary lines onto this reality. It is only thought that says "this is a bird," "that is space," "this is love," "that is God." When that dream of thought is seen to be a dream, the conceptual mind still functions the same as always, yet a sense of wonder, love and innocence arises for that which cannot be known through concepts but which is absolutely all there is and perfectly enough. It's called by many names. God. Oneness. Non-duality. Enlightenment. Love. Beingness. Aliveness. Awareness. Reality. On this site, you will often hear it referred to simply as 'This.'
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