Challenge yourself today to focus solely on the sip (task, step, etc.) you’re actually taking.
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FROM MEING TO BE ING X FROM THEN ING TO NOW ING
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A couple of years ago, I read a story. Here it goes!
Two monks were returning to the monastery in the evening. It had rained and there were puddles of water on the roadsides. At one place a beautiful young woman was standing unable to walk across because of a puddle of water. The elder of the two monks went up to her lifted her and left her on the other side of the road, and continued his way to the monastery.
In the evening the younger monk came to the elder monk and said, “Sir, as monks, we cannot touch a woman.”
The elder monk answered, “yes, brother”.
Then the younger monk asks again, “but then Sir, how is that you lifted that woman on the roadside ?”
The elder monk smiled at him and told him ” I left her on the other side of the road, but you are still carrying her.”
Almost always, we hold things, memories, past events, people, and then we cringe.
‘Why me?’
If you ask me to define life in 2 words, it would be ‘LET GO’.
‘Let go’ of frustration with your life.
‘Let go’ of things which cause stress.
‘Let go’ of Anger and bitterness.
‘Let go’ of painful relationships and memories.
LGO - FABS- PRAM
Because life is ‘NOW’.
“If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace.” ~Ajahn Chah
Story source: Two Monks and a Woman - a Zen Lesson
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Obviously, it is impossible to ‘directly experience nonduality,’ because that would require an ‘experiencer’ (subject) and this object (nonduality) he/she was experiencing. Instant duality!:-)
Ya’ can’t have nonduality both ways! 🤣🤣
Nonduality is a descriptive word, and as such, just one more concept. “The Tao that can be spoken is not the true Tao” - Lao Tze.
Human minds are very good at ‘conceptualizing’ in the only way they can - subject/object. So the illusory “me” can surely talk about, describe, analyze and hold forth about nonduality.
At some non-point in ‘non-time’ the illusion of a separate “me” may suddenly, stunningly and unexpectedly be burnt to a crisp (through no cause, action or ‘practices’ by that illusion,) and the ashes scattered to the wind. Or at least, that may appear to have happened. To a “someone.” It actually non-happened, to no-one. Since there was only One, never a ‘separate one’ in the first place.
With the illusion of the ‘separate human’ gone, there is just What Is, Life Itself. One. The ‘person’ will not be ‘directly experiencing nonduality,’ because there is no ‘person’ there, and never was.
Yet, if “they” appear to still be alive in a body, “others” may come up to them and ask “What happened/is happening to “you?” Most will be silent, because there is no-one left and no words to say. However, if pressed, “they” may try to describe it a bit, and thus demean the ‘actuality’ of nonduality back into concepts. Totally, hopelessly inadequate concepts.
Pressed more, “they” may try to explain further, and even lay out a ‘path,’ whereby the “others’ pressing them may also ‘directly experience nondualty.” 😂
Thus will be born Buddha & Buddhism, VedaVyasa & the Vedas, Adi Shankara & Advaita Vedanta, Patanjali & YogaSutras and all other sorts of ‘methods,’ manuals and meaningless ‘means’ to Oneness (haha, there already is only Oneness) and ‘enlightenment.’ Perpetuating and amplifying the illusion of ‘teachers’ and ‘seekers’ who desperately believe “they,’ too, can eventually ‘directly experience nonduality.’ 🤣
All ‘at play in the nondual fields of the One.’
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It does happen, but I don't want it to sound too mystical.
If you are really interested try meditating at 4–4.30 AM for 48 days, and then just give up.
Now, for the next ten days, make sure you sleep in that 4–4.30 AM. You will notice that meditation or a certain tuning happens during those 30 minutes.
It is not as mystical as it sounds.
If you do Math all the time, you will get them in your dreams. If you think of your lover all the time, you will get him/her or love dreams.
If you are meditative during the day, you cannot be a different and disconnected person while sleeping.
These things are to be experimented than simply reading and discussing :)
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