I have been let off the hook
Posted by lune on October 15, 2009
Something strange has happened – I have been let off the hook, it is no longer to do with me, no longer to do with an individual ‘I’ at the centre of things, deciding on what is appropriate at any one given time. No, of course, it has nothing to do with that.
Even though nothing could possibly mean anything to me anymore, passion, commitment, belief and revelry still dance out by the light of the full moon, hand in hand, tempting fate; tempting anything which comes their way, in fact. It all feels like one huge and exquisite game, staged between the closest of friends, played with no idea of accomplishment, no teams, no tactics, no sides, no mistakes, no goals, no winners and no losers, yet within the to-ing and fro-ing of the competition, there is still everything to play for.
It is as if the whole world has fallen away leaving the whole world remaining, exactly in place as it always was.
Why give all this away? Why score an own goal? Why be silent, why be humble, why be weak-minded? Why not fight? Why not rebel? Why not laugh about it all? Why not make the same mistakes over and over again? I have been let off the hook, ha! I cannot be found anywhere, look for me, look for me, where am I? Everything has gone, but what has changed? What has changed? Nothing, absolutely nothing. All is just as perfect and dangerous as before, still with absolutely no consequence for anyone who ever believed they existed separately from it.
Let’s go! If nothing really, I mean really, really matters and if there is absolutely no possibility of ever making a single mistake, ever, then what the hell are we doing here? Even if we think we don’t want to let ourselves off the hook, even if we think we need to be weak-minded, zen-like, silent – so what? What could it ever do to all-this-that-is-here-until-it-isn’t, regardless of what we believe ourselves to be? Stop ruminating over what it could mean! Let’s dance! Throw caution to the wind! If at the end of all of this, the only thing you discover is that you have been let off the hook, then why wait till then to be liberated? Come on! The moon is on the wane and there may never be another one like it. It is time to dance.
lisa said
“if nothing really, I mean really matters”—hmmm, i think things definitely matter.
does this matter?: my 13 yr old godson just told me he started smoking weed and drinking beer. he got both from a 19 year old friend of a friend. he has done this 3 times so far.
Does this matter?
not really when considering the whole existence of planet earth.
not really when this day has to come in a teenagers life anyway–but is 13 too young? does that age create judgement and thus start to matter? can i allow it to not matter and say to this kid, ‘it’s ok, nothing matters anyway”
does it matter for his own little soul to receive some guidance so he avoids making ‘mistakes’ as he grows up?
would this matter to his mother whom he refuses to tell and who is my good friend and whom i feel compelled to tell but wont cause i promised him i would not.
would this matter to you if you found out your daughter who just turned 13 started to smoke pot and drink beer?
it surely would matter to me if this were my own son, and essentially he is like my own son, so yes, it defintitely matters to me.
but to any other stranger reading it, no it doesn’t matter.
ultimtately, nothing matters. we live, we die, earth keeps spinning. but the irony the paradox and the point of why we are here, is exactly the opposite: everything matters..every choice, every thought every idea–it all creates the reality-the collectve and the individual reality–so it all actually does matter. it all actually becomes matter.
first thought-then energy-then matter.
i cant type or say or hear the word matter anymore!
xxoo
lune said
I this is such a difficult one – I hesitate to even wrote a reply to this, i have no clue, I guess only you as the individual will find out how this must be played out, but for what it is worth……
Yes, as you say, things mattering or not mattering, a smattering of mattering in fact, it is all just appearance, a story happening to players who believe they are here and one day will not be, whatever, but………
I started out writing this post thinking, great ! I have been let off the hook, anything goes! No consequences to my actions, nothing to worry about, yeay. But actually, things started to write themselves exactly in the opposite direction and I uncovered the fact that despite all this letting go, this fobbing off, this saying “Hey, not me! Who cares?” to me, personally, wherever the attention is placed, it matters deeply, intimately, passionately, I am this intimate matter, without exception – there is no way it cannot be!
We get caught up in the story and no matter what appears in that story, it is us. The fact that these things matter to you, doesn’t matter….as involved or uninvolved as you find yourself to be – all is it. To the next ‘person’ – even your godson, another set of values appear and so it is ever-changing, all absolutely present and correct. Who is the ultimate judge here? Is there one?
Or is it a question of ‘life’ playing itself out the only way it knows how?
lune said
There is this thing going on with parenting, which causes ‘us’ to continually question what we think matters for ‘our’ children isn’t there? At one end of the scale we have a laissez-faire attitude to a child’s behaviour, at the extreme other end, child cruelty.
How can there be a judgment over what is correct? And can there ever be something that is ‘correct’? Would it be more appropriate to say all is correct or more appropriate to say nothing at all?
msayers said
Interesting conundrum, n’est pas?
“So close, no matter how far
Couldn’t be much more from the heart
Forever trust in who we are
Nothing else matters” – Metallica!
When viewed from an end perspective, nothing AND everything mattered. Nothing mattered because things happened exactly the way they should have – an ABSOLUTE truth. Why? Because IT DID! Everything mattered for EXACTLY the same reason! There is absolutely no choice in any of this. Can you prove otherwise?
13 and smoking dope and drinking beer, or 16 and having an abortion, or 92 and losing your mind, slowly dying. All precisely the way it has to be. Struggle, don’t struggle, eat, sleep, dream, smoke, get married, hang yourself, whatever. No other way it can be. What the hell? Where did that come from?
I went back to where all of this search began… quantum mechanics, if you can believe that. I have a better conceptual understanding now. There is a base, the soup or ocean of existence that provides the background for all of this. This consciousness, this awareness exist everywhere in everything. We are because of it, and nothing is out of place in it. We are expressions of that and as important as smoking weed and drinking beer for a 13 year old seems, it can be no other way. Your decision to tell this boy’s mother, or not, whatever happens, will happen, and is happening exactly as it should. It has to, there’s no choice in the matter.
I’ve gotta stop, I’m scaring myself.
lune said
You sure you are not enlightened, man???
Just reading your comment and this is playing very loud in my ear:
“Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide-
No escape from reality-
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see-
Im just a poor boy, I need no sympathy-
Because I’m easy come, easy go,
A little high, little low,
Anyway the wind blows,
doesn’t really matter to me,
To me.”
Spooky.
it’s all here Mike, all here x
msayers said
I LOVE that song! My wife and I always stop whatever we’re doing to sing along with it. Got my daughter hooked, too! Oh, and yes, of course I’m enlightened! I just haven’t realized it yet. Haaaaaaa!
lisa said
yes i get all of this and agree with most. it all IS how it is and that IS perfect.. but there is a part of me that feels this way of viewing LIFE relinquishes responsibility. and i also feel there is a robotic quality about it—where the actual humanness is lacking a bit.
extreme example: Lune, if one of your daughters took a knife and slashed the throat of your other daughter–i wonder how easily you could apply y0ur comments regarding judgement, appearances, a story with players , the perfection of it all, nothing ultimatey matters as its just life unfolding exactly as it should etc. Yes, they would be applicable because those views are always applicable. thats their weakness. Almost like a scapegoat view. They are blanket statements that eventually LOSE power [ at least for me] because they are blanket statements. It’s just stating the obvious. It’s just one facet of the diamond.
sometimes all this rhetoric means nothing to me—it contains no humanness—just an intellectual excercise which can be fun and satisfactory on one level. but meaningless on another– empty, boring, trite and staid.
these concepts sometimes sound like a place where a person can go in their mind TO ESCAPE reality rather than getting the fullest, deepest understanding of reality.
its sounds so smug to say these things sitting in our privileged lives–i do not beieive the whole evolution of human existence has led us to these understandings and that’s it—enlightenment. No. No way. Too easy. This isn’t enlightnment. this is privileged people having fun with words and concepts in cyberspace. thats it.
for me personally–life is way more fun than this–its about magic. about the power of choice–real or illusive–it doesnt matter. its is about emotional entanglement and pure feeling.
ok, my 2 cents for what they are worth.
Suzanne said
The human-ness that Lisa feels is lacking is all right here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YDwj-BRKwc
By golly, this is the Reason for Existence.
Suzanne said
Lisa, there is suffering amongst the privileged, and joy within deprivation. Whatever the reaction to whatever horrific circumstance that occurs is the perfect reaction to it. It needn’t be planned; it needn’t be any certain thing, no matter how extreme the occurrence. We are human, whether robotic or judgemental or dry and arid or hotly passionate. It is all here; it is all available; there is room for it all.
Rob said
If there wasn’t the appearance of things mattering, the motivation to do the most simple things would not arise.
The roof starts to leak – a call to a builder is made. A child has toothache – a visit to the dentist is planned. The light turns to red at the crossroads – the breaks are applied.. and so on.
I think that the main point in the nonduality story is that however the appearance appears, it is the perfect expression of Oneness. But within the relativity of appearances there many instances of seeming imperfections. Cas is not a perfect spelling of ‘cat’ for instance.
lisa said
more thoughts:
the overall vibe i pick upon regarding these views: a lack of empathy. if everything is spread out to the common denominator that everything is perfect just as it is—nothing matters—and That is perfect—what is there to CARE about.? If it is perfect that the tigers are dying and are nearly extiinct, why care about them?
going from the point of view of Msayer: the tigers are slowly becoming extinct because they have too. its perfect and there is no choice in it as it is exactly how it has to be.
if it is perfect that the pacific ocean has the great paciific garbage patch the size of texas floating on its surface, why bother to clean it? Its perfect.
what if everyone on earth had this same views as expressed on this blog? what kind of world would we be living in?
what does this view toward life contribute to society? to the welfare of society? to the world? to the universe? what does it ACTUALLY contribute?
how are one’s ACTIONS influenced by these views?
there is something amiss here. i cannot name it. i cannot point to it. It is my intuitive reaction…. it all sounds good— easy to comprehend, simple, true, readily available as a concept, but something about all this isnt right. I do not know why or what. but it just aint right.
I just feel that this is not the direction humans should be heading—it lacks empathy. thats all i can say. it lacks caring.
ok another 2 cents. i am increasing my worth.
Rob said
Although ‘everything is perfect / there are no mistakes’ may be ultimately true, such a statement is not applicable in relation to apparent things which are clearly mistakes WITHIN A GIVEN CONTEXT.
For instance, if you went to the hospital for treatment for an ulcer… and they removed your left leg, it would obviously be muddled to be told that ‘there are no mistakes’. In this context – there clearly was a mistake.
If a child was ingesting rat poison, the situation couldn’t be regarded as perfect IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CHILD’S WELL-BEING.
It’s true to say that mistakes and imperfections are also the perfect expression of Oneness.
But we deal with an apparent imperfection within the framework of its context – if our child falls in the river, we jump in to rescue them. We don’t flip to the ‘ultimate’ context and say ‘ah, my daughter is drowning, how perfect’!!
As to your wider point about nonduality; remember, nonduality is not a prescription for a type of behaviour or attitude – it’s a description of whatever is already the case HOWEVER that appears. That may well include saving the planet and the tigers and what have you.
Suzanne said
To contribute to society, or not, is not chosen, despite apparent choice. Everything and anything apparently chosen chooses oneness in some other guise. Great, burning caring may arise, or overwhelming apathy; one is no “better” than another, except, as Rob points out, within certain contexts of certain stories with certain systems of belief.
The more letting go, the more “positive” energy seems to flow, however. But there is no guarantee.
I care. I take action. Or more pedantically, caring happens, actions ensue.
Julian said
Words are just academic. That is the problem. In the experience of the oneness of things a natural love arises, and, as we recognise that we are not doing any of this – life is just arising – often appropriate action arises too. Solutions arise out of this infinite love that we live in. But this personal, anxious, ‘wanting to do what is right’ self is less likely to do the right thing, in terms of helping the boy, when it cannot accept things as they are, when it wants to play God, to have all the answers (and how can any of us do that for Lisa, if that is what she wants). I have been working as a priest for 16 years and have been advising people on right living for most of that time. i am not sure I ever remember anyone taking my advise, but still a lot of what we might call ‘good’ came from bad situations in the end…of its own accord.
I try not to ‘do’ anything now (which has emptied the pews a bit -people leaving in disgust), yet I keep finding myself ‘being in the right place at the right time’ and often seeming to ‘help’ – it is miraculous really.
When people talk about their problems they usuallydon’t want an answerm but just to be heard. we make connections by listening. But, in the end, we have to tell it as it is, because otherwise we are just reinforcing the ‘false self’ that we think we are and which does so much harm in the world by supplying conditioned answers to lifes hidden problems – Like the NHS we are virtually always supplying the wrong medicine…so we keep quiet,maybe hold a hand or two…because it feels natural and good.
Love, Julian
lune said
That’s why I have taken to writing poetry, it is even more obscure.
Doing something, not doing anything, as you say, whatever, it all fits.
Julian said
Poetry is a wonderful vessal. It often opens doors that prose cannot. Its magical really.
lune said
Poetry opens up a doorway that never needs be walked through, it makes the mundane magical, the magical mundane, even things like husbands and wives arguing about pasta sauce ;)
liberatedself said
hmm… It seems as if something is missing, like you said Lisa, you see something amiss.. and this could very well be the case.. But there are certain things in which logical cannot grasp and therefore logic cannot discern it.
“You will be misunderstood.” When the brain tries to decipher something with reason, it is bound to go on missing, because how can you possibly know what the apparent individual is acting or reacting to, when your (not yours specifically but in general) apparent individual bias is in the way. It is like looking into a mirror with all kinds of dust on there… There is no problem with the mirror but there just happens to be dust on it therefore it does not preform to your expectation.
Empathy… mmm.. i think what is not seen in the picture is awareness, scenarios that are being placed are events that happen within unawareness, that it all happens. If awareness were there, there would be in no way such and act happens. But also like Lune has said it, that both unawareness and awareness are perfect in the way they respond to each other.
“But we deal with an apparent imperfection within the framework of its context – if our child falls in the river, we jump in to rescue them. We don’t flip to the ‘ultimate’ context and say ‘ah, my daughter is drowning, how perfect’!!” -Rob
In a case like this there will be something in which maybe someone will jump in to save her.
But yes, “You will be misunderstood” seems fit for something along these lines, it is not that empathy is lacking, it is there, but it does not seem to be because it is not a problem to begin with. IT is not a question, awareness brings about great empathy and compassion.
Suzanne said
Hi Lune, the comments section of this post has a life of its own! Apologies for any blog-hogging.
peaceinfreedom said
This particular discussion is happening in the poorest parts of the world as much as (if not more)as through the Internet. There is something afoot. The message “the kingdom of heaven is within you”.. not in the stars not behind the moon..but within you appears to now to be heard more than it ever was and discussed a lot more than it ever was.
Alot of people who are down this road of advaita would appear to have suffered alot. I always laugh to myself at any of these meetings about Non Duality at all the people including ME that are there. Things most be bad if there are in a room with someone who is telling them “Well there is no YOU there”. Things must be pretty shit if they are willing to listen to that message.. Their suffering had driven them to the ultimate discussion of “what is this life and who I am? This is neither good or bad or better or worse. It is what is happening. this is all that is happening.
To imagine for a moment that someone high up in an office building far far remomved from the world is happier than someone all the way down in the gutters scratching for food is probably not fair hence the rate of suicide in the western wealthier parts of the world..At the moment because of financial crisis the rate of suicide is alarming..In this instance someone found this world to be great with loads of money and not great without money. It is definitely relative. Joy seems to be perfectly balanced with heart ache.
To be clear this discussion is as useful as a discussion about movie (:-)). Sometimes a longing to know what the hell is this craziness arises?. What is this life that is filled with so much heartache agony pain joy and love….And then that path leads you further down to a place called “who is it that is asking”..or “who am I”? To know yourself perhaps is the best place to start in creating that better world..Somebody somewhere said something about getting the speck out of your own eye first so that you can see better. OR maybe it isn’t. I haven’t a clue. Though i cannot do anything else but look at this for now.
Does this discussion help anyone. Will it create a better world. One sure thing is that it forces you to look deeply into the person that you take yourself to be. Now if everyone did this would it create a better world… Who knows? Does it truly matter
In the end who knows anything. Thats the one certainty. Perhaps there is a serious lack of empathy in this discussion about life or perhaps all there is is a discsussion about life. It is neither good or bad. Better or worse. All it is is a discussion about life or the unknowable… It is what is happening.
but i haven’t a clue.
Suzanne said
I don’t understand it either.
lune said
I was ill in bed all day yesterday, bummer eh?
It was my 40th birthday.
Some people would have thought that unbearable,
some would have not cared less.
Who is the ‘better’ person then, the person who couldn’t stand it or the person who thought, well, c’est la vie? Or is each side of the coin just a different concept held in the mind of ‘people’ judging ‘one another’? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so they say.
What would the world be like if their was a realization that nothing, yet everything exists in a non-dual state? A REAL living and breathing realization, not just theory being bandied around ‘cos it sounds cool. What do you think would happen?
Do you think that it would be seen that all this could never be any other way?
It doesn’t mean to say that everyone will walk around not caring about anything, it also does not mean to say that everyone will go around loving everything either. In order for the world to appear in the way it does out of nothing, there must be complete duality – a play of opposites, in total balance, in absolute harmony. Death cannot exist without life, hate without love, passion without apathy, empathy without cruelty, rich without poor. None of this would appear at all unless each and every concept had an opposite -ask any quantum mechanic.
It could not be any other way could it? Or do you have an intuitive feeling that there is something missing from that-which-is? Please someone, comment here if they think there is something that could possibly be missing from what is here right now, exactly the way it is?
Seriously, I would like to talk about it……..
;)
Anyway the youtube clip cheered me up, thank you Suzanne, great birthday present.
And I love blog-hogging, would have done it myself if I had been around.
lisa said
Luna–just want to thank you for stretching my mind further. wider. this silent dialogue in cyberspace has shown me what is true for myself and what i do not choose to believe in. i do not resonate with non-duality.
i realize i put my space time continuum–my souland spirit- efforts and perspective and oceans of love into duality. i love to love. i do not love to think about hate. but i am happy it is there. so i can choose love over and over and over again. i do take a side. i see that now.
thank you for this realization. i am thanking your ego too. i believe we all have them and cannot live without them and i personally would never want to. it is there to protect me if i choose to cal on it. when i am in a bar with a drunk idiot pressing his gross body into me, i love to have my ego there. i never could never would never let my ego go ON PURPOSE. I am 6 foot one for gods sake. i would be dead y now without my ego.
we all have them for a reason and I am glad for that! do you ever feel that too? when i have been reading how people want to rid themselves of there ego–or even feel it just falling away–i am in disbelief.
i believe an egoless persn is just ….? p ossibly in denial? rather old and dying? a baby just born maybe. or autistic/menatlly handicapped in another medical manner. other than those humans listed there, the egoless person doesnt exist in my reality. or as i wrote, if they claim to not have an ego, they are in denial. just that statement alone shows that it exists and is firmly entangled into our DNA as modern day humans in 2009.
i realized–i could never be so neutral, so accepting, so peaceful? as to focus my life on nonduality. Scorpionic nature must take a side. and within that lives duality.
The Libra seeks balance. is that nonduality?
i realize how my scale tips toward love and caring
love and caring
love and caring
over and over again. I am so wildly partial, biased, and magnetized to love and caring. that to give hate and evil the same balance of power-and accept them as the necessary opposite in all the glory that love and caring contribute—–it feels just plain weird.
wrong even.
this is what i couldnt name in my previous comments for the last 3 weeks or so—
i , personally, and maybe all alone in my world?–make hate and evil tiny in my mind. it doesnt weigh as much as love and caring and never could…..i personally cannot use my energy to that ultimate end perspective.–as i have come to realize from Msayer. I stop about midway in my existence and settle down right there. i do not go to the end perspective on a daily basis in my mind or life. and happliy neevr want to.
an interesting thing to learn about! grateful to Msayer for that!
I now have read as proof right here—that there are people who are doing that!! They have landed on nonduality. complete neutrality. seemingly perfect balance. or imbalance —- whatever—-and accepting that too in the same wave as balance. while all the not needing ego. leaving the I behind.
this is what i have gathered from the words. the runes printed here. the spells as david wolfe calls letters and words ad sounds–spells. i like that.
sometimes, reading about this nonduality– reading these concepts..these is like hearing the sound of a coke can pop open.
its something i just choose not to adapt about in my life. its feels like anethema. it’s not in my reality save for this blog.
Lune–i know you from last year and the year before on your earlier blogs—-
about the intense love of eating amazing food.
brushing our teeth with clay.
about home schooling and steiner.
about your love of fairies and deer.
about snow and water and crystals.
i miss writing to you on your blog about the powers of natural magic. Cause THAT is also a common demominator that we all share and all are and all were born with—all of us humans just fucking around in cyberspace. the oneness of raising our consciousness together.
i miss your old blogs!!
Yet, this probes me in a new way–indeed—and its fascinating and has taken a temporary rest in my private mind—when out with the kids or friends–i am thinking of nonduality versus duality. and i keep loving love. i keep tipping my own scale and almost laugh at myself if i try otherwise.
when i remind myself to straighten and balance it all out like the folks are doing on Lune’s blog–with giving everything the same matter!! which is no matter. or every matter–again—words and runes and spells. …. and suddenly–.i see the hate. i see the ugliness. i see the depression. the despair. the shattered lives. the repulsion. the sadness. the suffering. the destruction. and i have to laugh aloud. i quickly find something disdainful enough where i dont want to look anymore. i want to jump right back into duality. where i belong. It puts me back to myeslf —the truer self that i know—and i make hate and despair tiny again. and I find myslef again.
focused on love and natural magic.
I fully appreciate the time you take with this blog. even though i dont know you and never will. big hug to the grand expression of life ~ this world wide web.
liberatedself said
Thanks Lisa for the delightful response, its very refreshing to see, another side to it. You have also opened up some things that have been seen within, some defense kicking in through reading what you have to say and i appreciate you allowing me to see that.
I might of wanted to react to it at first… but I inquired into scales, which you explained, that ultimate balance… I don’t know whether I have scales or not… I only see what is inside of the body I’m experiencing.
In terms of love and compassion… although I do not know how deep they go, I can’t possibly conceive their depth but what I have seen is that you cannot love in total unless you first start with yourself. Knowing who you are is a big step in being able to love others totally. Because how can you love others if you do not even know how to love yourself in total (this means the what is referred to as the bad and the good… the dark side and the light side).
Whatever your path is Lisa, is your path, no one should ever have the right to tell you, that which, the path you are taking is wrong, because all paths are equally important and they lead to the same destination, the Center, and if you find your center where you are, then that is all that is needed. The whole of existence would miss you if you were not where you were right now.
So again I thank you Lisa and everyone who has contributed to this post. :)
lisa said
forgot to write happy 40th!!!!—the best is yet to come!
lune said
Lisa, thank you for your time spent questioning, symphathizing, loving and being in tune with everything I have done over the past years. You have certainly pushed me to think about things I never thought I needed to think about, never thought I would have expressed without you.
This is the culmination of it all and although it looks as if I have lost myself and all those things have disappeared, they actually have deepened and become more passionate now.
I love duality, I love the person I am and I am here right here right now being it all, all the stuff you say!!! It is a magnificent story, thought up by the story itself, and every single moment has become alive, ecstatic and essential, even amid depression and terror – and I see it now the way it really is, and that is just the way it is. Except that sometimes there is no person to see it, there just is it, I am it, in its entirety, its perfection.
I wonder if you would have seen things differently had you been following the ’story’ all along? Seen how the line of questioning and self inquiry progressed, how, whilst the self was dropping away, life was still living itself exactly the way it knew how to live itself.
I still spend time with my children in the woods, searching for spirits in the trees,
Most days, in fact.
I am still learning to let go,
I still connect with the moon and the owls and the stars,
Still live with animal totems all around.
Still I am passionate about things I see and hear in the stillness,
Still am a deep thinker, a writer, a poet,
a Bohemian lover, a slow-living mountain girl.
I still live like a sensitive and tragic Pre-Raphaelite,
floating downstream with flowers in her hair.
I am still an artist, a teacher, am passionate about the things ‘twixt night and day,
still I love drinking raw milk, would never, ever stop drinking raw milk.
I still brush my teeth with clay,
still I watch the death of every snowflake outside my window,
When winter returns.
Still I sing and dance and drum and dream of wolves,
None of that has changed.
Only now, when I look at the image of me in the mirror,
Everything makes sense, everything,
Apart from the one and only thing that can never make sense…..
and that is all that remains, when everything has been taken away.
But it is beautiful nevertheless.
And I live and die in every moment, endlessly.
thank you x x x
Suzanne said
Happy 40th Lune, sorry you were in bed and not partying it up in some really French way with lots of wine and appreciation of the finer things.
It’s lovely that Lisa has a firm idea of her purpose. Everything, absolutely everything that happens is as it must be – including Lisa’s rejection of nonduality, which is just a bunch of concepts, really.
The idea that nonduality (or whatever) is a neutral thing isn’t really it. It’s everything, living with great intensity and no filters! Misery is miserable – bliss is unbelievably joyful. Or anyway, that’s how it seems to “me”.
It’s a big ask, for the conditioned mind/body, to accept that everything is love, Hitler et al inclusive. Nor is it somehow desirable that everyone accept that. Duality is duality – there will always be differing opinions, and that’s what keeps it lively!
The story of natural magic isn’t so different from seeing oneness, or whatever. My cup of coffee seems jumping with life and loveliness. The screen in front of me – a miracle. The mere presence of another – spectacular. The energy of it all – complete, whole and sweet.
Love to all, which is easy, as love is all.
su said
Hi Lune,
A question that caught my eye earlier was how would you react if one of your daughters knifed your other daughter.
Well firstly I don’t think we can ever know what we will do in a situation until the situation arises.
I might think I would do something and yet might well surprise myself.
I think I would sceam and rant and rave and wail and lament but who knows.
A few years ago, a 6 year old belted his 4 year old brother again. A daily performance.
Before hand I would fly off the handle. Verbal violence against physical violence – good parenting hey? – anyone on this particular day the perpetrator looked up and saw me there and his face fell.
The words that came out of my mouth were very Rameshish and I told him not to worry that it was obviously Cian’s destiny to get smacked at that moment in time by him.
Well blow me down half an hour later he clobbered Cian again – I gave Tao a single smack on his thigh – he looked up at me in horror and said but you said it was his destiny and I said yes and this is yours.
And thus the first lesson of consequences was born.
Nice happening upon your sight.
lune said
I would be horrified and desolate, my darling lights of my life, if anything happened to my girls. But I think that something would be there to ease the pain, not knowing what it is. I feel that more and more about my own death everyday – there is just this, with all its comings and goings. I am it, it is me, there is pain and heartache and despair, and I am it.
Julian said
Sometimes I just wander round and round the same streets. Without a map I find myself in the same place time after time,and I think I have already been here; and then I think, thats fine, its just fine, perfect and I wander off again, to end up in the same place – wherever it is it has the same rapturous beauty.
lune said
There seemed to be a heck of a lot of wandering done here too and always back to the same place exactly. Sometimes there is a map, sometimes not, no matter, some people need maps, others don’t and some people realise that they are the map itself.
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Kenyatta Renzo said
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