NONDUALITY AND THE REST OF THE DAYS

If something has apparently happened, or not happened, or whatever, and the whole existence is still there, then the body-mind will have to play out its days and nights, its weeks and months, its years and decades, its life and its death. That’s it. What a drag in a way. If the body mind is prone to be happy and healthy, it will be. If it is prone to be melancholic and suffer this and that malady, it will. Probably. What has changed? The romantic search is over, or has dulled or slowed extremely. Maybe it was all a dream and maybe it was not. Physical laws continue. Drop an object and it goes down due to gravity. Don’t have enough water and the body will suffer. Lack of sleep? The mind and body will get jittery, confused. Nice sleep on a cool windy day, a meal and a good book or company, and the body-mind will be at ease. For a bit. Then the tide will turn. There seems to be no other way. Things are what they are. There is no separation so the good and bad is ours completely, for the better and worse. This is close or just like, in so many ways, ‘hard atheism’. We can’t say what will happen after other that these apparent bodies will be fodder for the earth.