Half 1: Moving into Perpetual Freedom
“Actuality is merely an phantasm, albeit a really persistent one.” ― Albert Einstein, physicist
After I communicate of religious freedom I’m talking about being launched from the hypnotic bonds of the present paradigm.
In my work I spend a substantial amount of time supporting individuals to know the insidious ways in which we grow to be ensnared within the perceptual sensibilities and limitations of the dominant paradigm.
We’re taught to imagine that we reside in actuality when the truth is we reside in a really convincing phantasm of actuality. That phantasm is shaped by conditioned patterns of thought and emotions and the ordinary ways in which we reply to them.
We’ve been skilled what to suppose and easy methods to really feel, after which we’re taught to make use of our ideas and emotions to inform us what’s actual.
This round loop creates an phantasm of actuality that’s so convincing that few of us ever suspect that the best way issues actually are is perhaps radically completely different than the best way we predict and really feel they’re.
It is very important emphasize that the liberation I’m talking about will not be meant to be a transitional step designed to take us from one actuality to a different.
It’s a state of perpetual freedom that leaves us at all times open to new potentialities. We always remember that there may be at all times extra doable it doesn’t matter what might really feel actual to us now and so we’re at all times able to let go uncover one thing new.
Half 2: Discovering the Actuality of Unity and Love
“Consciousness is certainly at all times with us. Everybody is aware of ‘I’m!’ Nobody can deny his personal being.” – Ramana Maharshi, Hindu sage
One of many nice religious awakenings that I work with is the awakening of non-dual consciousness. The time period non-dual is usually translated as oneness, however in a way, it’s not actually oneness in any respect.
Non-duality doesn’t imply only-one. It means not-two. It doesn’t suggest unity as a lot because it implies no separation and inclusivity.
The concept of oneness too simply suggests an undifferentiated uniform mass, and that sort of oneness excludes distinction, variety or uniqueness.
Non-duality can’t be that sort of oneness as a result of something that it excludes turns into a second to itself after which there could be two.
The character of non-duality is radical inclusivity. It’s one and not using a second. It’s an inside that has no outdoors.
My deepest experiences of what I may solely name non-dual consciousness didn’t go away me with a way of oneness and even wholeness. They left me with an all-encompassing sense of affection and reference to every part all over the place.
We exist in a steady subject of inseparability, in fixed relationship with every part. Within the present paradigm we’ve developed habits of notion that trigger us to really feel separate in a actuality through which no separation really exists.
Half 3: Liberating Ourselves from Separation and Isolation
What we expertise as separation emerges largely out of the expertise of thriller. I expertise you as separate not since you are, however as a result of I don’t, and perhaps can’t, know every part about you.
If we make a slight perceptual adjustment the sense of separation turns into an encounter with thriller.
The existence of thriller provides rise to a sense of loving curiosity that naturally needs to merge with that thriller by realizing it via direct contact. This want to merge with thriller is a religious love that desires to unify all of life.
The primary religious observe I labored with was meditation within the lineage of the Hindu educating of Advaita Vedanta and the teachings of Ramana Maharshi.
Meditation in the best way I educate is a observe of consciously merging with the thriller of being.
Even because the language of my work has developed to focus across the language of paradigm shifting I nonetheless discover that non-dual consciousness and the observe of meditation are a central a part of what I educate.
That is partly as a result of meditation as I educate it’s by no means only a solitary observe accomplished in isolation.
If we predict sitting down and shutting our eyes signifies that we’re alone, then we misunderstand the true scope of what it means to be human. Closing your eyes can’t separate you from the remainder of humanity or the rest.
Each thought and feeling you will have within the seeming privateness of your personal thoughts has been formed in relationship with the ideas and emotions of everybody you’ve ever identified and everybody they’ve identified and so forth and so forth.
And we’re influenced by far more than simply different individuals. Each expertise we’ve ever had of each residing and non-living factor has had a shaping affect on us.
And people issues have been formed by the encounters they’ve had. There isn’t a separation.
Nothing is in the end separate from the rest.
Experiencing the reality of no separation instantly and resting in that recognition is how we rewire our nervous system and tune our sensibilities to the expertise of the continual subject of being that we reside in.
Once you shut our eyes to meditate achieve this realizing that there’s nothing separating you from the rest.
