NONDUALITY AND THE SACROSANCT BLUE SKY

Nonduality is just a word. But coffee is a thing!- a liquid thing that lights up the system and gets the brain to pop and dance a bit. One can really, in the end, keep or forget about a word like nonduality, and just have a coffee. We are just in the world, no? So:

 

The wonderful things of the world- we can just enjoy them- the coffee, the Christmas Card, the plaid shirt and the workpants,- the walks and the autumnal sweaters,- the whitecaps of the ocean climbing briefly up. And can we enjoy memory? Of course! So:

A person can think of the Atlantic Ocean, some light breeze that comes steady for a while anyhow,- in the mornings,- and still there is a sense of humidity. The whole scene can be sensed- the white stucco, the aluminum railings, the sounds of the tides or the quietude of the middle afternoon in the sun by where bits of shade play on the parapet for the palm leaves that sway.

And as cliché as it may be, so be it!-…one amoung a thousand other things:

The blue sky. So blue, so textured, deep, instantly and well wrought,- so full and bright yet almost dark in its fullness at the same time,- painted by God, Source, Existence, The Tao, and more and nothing at all-

Painted by itself.

That startling sub-tropical roof!

 The sacrosanct blue sky. 



------------------------------------------------------

NONDUALITY AND THE ANGEL OF THE MORNING SUN

Can there be an angel that rises with the sun? Beside the sun? In front of the sun? Above the sun? Can the Holy Spirit whisper in a person’s ear? Can choirs of angels sing in the ear? And if so or if not, what has this to do with nonduality? These things can appear inside of the Oneness. There is nothing inside or outside but it’s a figure of speech. There is the sun. See it rise. That is all most people shall see. But maybe sometimes someone will see an angel beside the sun. Benevolent. And maybe the angel will give a message and maybe not. The angel itself is the message, a message, in any event. She is a contextual angel and her love is her presence. Like a Marian vision. So the answer is yes, - there can be an angel that appears with the morning sun. There can be a guardian that descends from treetops in the autumnal fog at dusk and afterwards. There can be a Pleiadian by the railway tracks, - watching, communicating somehow. There can be all things within the Oneness. Is there Romance, in terms of the Romantic Poets, - that can go along with nonduality? At first it would seem not. Romance is part of stories. Nonduality is the end of the personal story, is it not? But, - life goes on. And who is to say what shall come or go? And that can really be taken seriously now- that statement- ‘Who is to say…’ Because there is no ‘who.’ So there is nobody to say. Anything can appear. What could be more romantic than the notion of the angel rising beside the morning sun? In fact, it’s so alluring, that we can throw away nonduality and take the angel. 
 

I would. 

NONDUALITY AND THE INITIAL REVERSAL OF FORTUNE OR YOU GOTTA BREAK A FEW EGGS TO MAKE AN OMELETTE

But not the way you think. Perhaps we shall lose everything. Perhaps at the moment of apparent physical death, or before- what works through the body, even as the body- will cease to be. But, because it is a single reality, scientifically, the thing that is working (and this is hard to perceive for who would perceive it), - the thing that is working, under the mind, which is nothing less than everything- is what remains. It’s non-linear, so in fact it can’t be perceived. So, you are dead, physically, and there is no soul in this case, - but ‘you’ since there were no you, just an idea created by the physical brain, - are now nothing less that everything and nothing. The fortune is that you lost yourself, and gained infinity. This is the highest reversal of fortune existentially and cosmically possible. But the rub is that you did not get to perceive gaining it. It is just what is. And isn’t. But for conversation’s sake we shall say what ‘is’. 
 

Here it is in a micro example. This is something many people have experienced. The above statement is trying to say in essence: You are fukced, because you die, so you won’t get to continue, - not the ‘you’ you know, but you will continue on as worm food, or part of the air, - of everything, because it is scientifically impossible to be apart from the universe. That is not metaphysics, - that is simple reality. Okay. So it’s obviously not great news to the ego. The micro example? - Here is it: You are at a party, but you are new, and there is nobody you know. Things are not clicking in; - there is not flow, or a connective feeling. You would rather be at home. But for some reason, personal or professional, you are obliged to attend longer. There is a person you spot, and this person you do know, or have been acquainted with anyhow. You definitely did not have chemistry with them, an affinity, of any sort. In fact you found something abrasive in them, and made the old ‘mental note’ to politely avoid them. But now you are in a jam. You are not ‘using’ them, for you have nothing outwardly to gain. But they approach you and you are brought down to actual reality moreso. 

Why?

Because you were living in your head previously. Or, everything is relative in a way. That can be said also. You learn that. The ‘you’ in time is happy to see the person, and tries harder, and does, connect on some level. You were not in the present previously. 

Then you see the person is just a human, completely the same as yourself- maybe they didn’t like you either! So there is, amid there somewhere, because the context was present, a unitive or connective moment, - if even for a split second. You were out of your head, - in a good way!

You were seeing though new eyes, - and it wasn’t you. It was the all and nothing seeing through the eyes. Something like that. There was just seeing.

Previously, you were in your head.

And even so, - you did not have eyes.

Someone asks Jesus, - What is the Kingdom of Heaven like?

Jesus says, - The Kingdom of Heaven is spread out upon the earth but you do not have eyes to see.

The point is that you were at the party but identified as yourself. So you had a dualistic view- You and Other. But then you got desperate, and were pushed by circumstance into the present, and somehow saw, not intellectually or emotionally, but existentially, the other as you- you lost yourself. 

The self comes back as a tool to navigate and negotiate reality. You have to be home by a decent hour. You have to do normal things. You can’t be all of reality all the time. Until it integrates, and becomes seamless. 

Which is always happening anyhow.

This is the reversal of fortune. You lost the worldly world and gained the Kingdom. The Kingdom is really only the world, not its riches, just reality, though riches can appear. That the Kingdom is simply the world, reality, existence, would appear highly comical to someone not interested in this. But to anyone who knows, well, they know, or as the nondualists’ nomenclature would put it- there is knowing,- or rather an intimate ‘not knowing’. A gnostic knowing, and a factual not knowing.



-------------------------------------------

NONDUALITY IS A HINDRANCE TO NONDUALITY

Did we need the words when we were it and it was all there was? No, of course not. Did we need the words when IT found us again? No, of course not. Did we have anything to do, though we tried very much to attain to it, with IT attaining to us? Probably not, but it’s impossible to know either way. Should we talk about it? Who knows? Some say energy can be passed back and forth or one way. Maybe. How could such a thing be measured? Speaking of it is probably a hindrance to it. Yet, it’s okay if everything is it. Still, it seems sometimes like speaking of it could be a hindrance to it. But isn’t the speaking all inside of it if everything is it? Still again, it seems like we are looking for something. Or found something. Or are something. Better to go for a walk than speak of it, and maybe, though it’s not known how it works, IT will find us again even though it never left us.

NONDUALITY IS THE MISE EN SCENE

A film term for everything behind the camera. Everything in this sense means everything. That would be one thing. It’s just one thing. Everything is one thing. Existence becomes the mise en scene. Simple. But the term implies the visual. What about the hearing, the tasting, the touching, the mind? All is included. And here is the funny part. What about the sense of ‘I’. Is that part of this new mise en scene? Yes. If there is nothing that is not it, then there is nothing that is not it.