Saturday 11 February 2017

Non-Duality Is Not Something That Cannot Be Known

By Armando Rod


Non-duality is something that the mind itself cannot get aware of it, as it can only be known through the state of being in it. Everything that we are looking to know cannot be known by naming it and or knowing it but it can only be understood.

Doing meditation is not a very easy job, after going through a point of time it might become difficult to continue meditating. After being doing meditation for a long time, it shall become difficult to resist the feeling of getting up, however you have to keep your focus and distract yourself from the resistance. Meditation might also make you uncomfortable, but you have to stick to it.

For an instance if you are willing to build something or create something or even start a start-up, it is the mind that acts as a very useful tool and helps you to accomplish it. You must never doubt the increased creativity of the mind when it is quiet, therefore when you are building something and you are successfully able to resist yourself from seeking a separate self. This will definitely help you create a more effective and beautiful creations, compared to the individuals that constantly talk about achieving the separate self, who would likely judge, doubt, criticise and also learn what it think is its own work.

You can also consider writing as examples, creative writers write very often, however what you get to rid is something which is authorless. Individual not fighting to have the separate self, also when they have no ego guiding them in the process of writing, the best work is done, without much effort.

However when you find out the reasons behind the thoughts and when it becomes clear to you, you do find out the real reasons behind the separation, the action of creating yourself to be someone against everything else. This something is what has to be protected, which needs to control everything so that it can survive.

At a certain level if you are able to find a method to surrender this conscious of yours which is separate from the moment, which has brought you in this conflict with this moment, at the end everything that shall be left with you will be the non-duality in the moment. Once you undergo through this feel you are going to become more aware of the situation. When you become a student to non-duality there can be no existence of stress. If you have successfully endeavoured oneness then no conflict can exist.

Another great example for non-duality can be the breathing itself, breathing is something that we can control, like we can hold our breath, inhale faster and deeper and so on. However you don't stop breathing when you don't take control of it, it happens naturally. Similarly, we think that life has to be controlled and to attain non-duality; however the existence itself is non-dual. You must remember that life continues even when you are controlling it or not.

In case you are willing to approach this moment with all the spiritual knowledge that you have and also the judgements that come with that, also if you look for this moment as an individual trying to make something out of this moment, it shall be very difficult for you get to this moment. This will never help you to attain non-duality and oneness. However you can attain true peace when you are willing to give it all for the moment itself. Only then you get the experience of oneness and freedom which comes with it.




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