NONDUALITY: YOU CAN'T HAVE YOUR NONDUALITY CAKE AND EAT IT TOO (TWO BIG PARTS OF NONDUALITY: THE ILLUSION OF FREE WILL AND ALSO OF CAUSE AND EFFECT)

NONDUALITY, ASTROLOGY, THE ILLUSION OF FREE WILL, AND WHERE OSHO WAS WRONG

 

Osho said that after awakening he told a relative that if they really wanted they could call the astrologer, but that astrology would not work on him any longer, because the old set pattern of any sort is broken. This sounds completely right to anyone that even believes in astrology or enlightenment, but I believe it is false and in my own experience it is false. Not a deception or anything, I don’t think, but some kind of mistake along the way.

If the seeker is ‘gone,’ then the body mind just plays out whatever is left. Who could possibly be the person for whom ‘astrology would not work?’ Since there is nobody there anymore, far from having free will or freedom to choose, all choices, even when they appear like personal choices, are really made by ‘The Whole.’ 

The Whole, Source, the Greater Picture, - is what is in motion now, - all of existence is making the decision through the apparent person. So, when it comes to this I have no idea what Osho was talking about. There wasn’t even free will before awakening for a said person, so there is for sure not afterwards. The feeling of it is there, sure, - even in both cases, - but it is not actually there. Why? Simple. Because each body-mind and the ALL and NOTHING that it is, comes from everything and nothing, not a part. So there is no free will because there is nobody to have a free will. BTW- not only would 99 or more percent of humanity disagree with that, - but it looks like enlightened masters, and incredibly intelligent ones, - don’t believe in that, but believe the opposite. 

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NONDUALITY AND THE ILLUSION OF CAUSE AND EFFECT

There is no cause and effect. Not ultimately. This is not theory but basic science. If everything is made of the same things,- atoms, molecules, electrons, whatever they are all called, sped up, slowed down, turning, whatever- then there is only one thing, however different ‘things’ appear to be,- for instance an apple and a flower and a person. Now put the three together. A person throws an apple (hopefully an apple core), into a flower bed. This looks like it has everything:

1) Different things- person, objects, world.

2) Free will- the person threw the apple.

3) Cause and effect- the flowers got moved over a bit as the apple collided with them on the way to the flower bed.

But, all three statements are actually false in the largest picture. There are no separate things, - all things are one thing. There can be an intellectual agreement or disagreement of that. But there can also be a feeling, a Gnostic or another way of knowing, feeling, - experiencing of it- not for an experience, but just the being of it. You are the person, the flower, the apple, the movement. They are all the same. It is all the same.

It’s a strange feeling indeed, but it seems there is not another way. How could things be separate anyways in a physical reality, or in any reality? It seems odd in a way that anybody could think of anything as separate. Just look at ‘nature.’ 

Then step back. There is nothing that is not nature. Everything is One Thing. That is basic Nonduality. ‘Not Two.’ So there is no cause and effect or free will.

 You can’t have your nonduality cake and eat it too!

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