Today I heard a comment like, "Separation causes suffering." Many in the room were quite quick to agree and there was much nodding of heads and murmured yeses. Separation is looked at as something to overcome; an undesirable, unrealized state of being. While it is so that "separation causes suffering," it seems that a vital understanding of what separation really "causes" is often overlooked.
What is experienced here, these days, is that separation causes everything. Without separation, nothing would appear to exist. Separation causes all phenomena to appear, so, yes, separation causes suffering; and it also causes joy, happiness, sorrow, me, you, rocks, trees, other, birds, love, hate...all apparent objects, feelings, thoughts, etc. exist, because of the apparently separated "I". In short, separation causes life.
It is because of this idea of separation that "I" experience beautiful sunsets, birds singing, the embrace of another, the sting of rejection, the pain of acid reflux, aging in the body, a solar eclipse, being flipped off by another driver, and on and on and on.
Separation is not a "state of being" to be overcome. It's not a feeling that needs to be conquered. It's what allows It/Me/One to experience Itself/Myself/InfiniteForms.
With separation: life, existence, phenomena. Without separation--the undifferentiated void.
Monday, May 21, 2012
Separation
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Bravo Natalie! The emperor is indeed naked.It's so good to see another person not afraid to say that life is lived in shades of separation, or dare I say it,"duality". Our world is an illusion, we are an illusion, both are but aspects of the Absolute, the only reality. Yet we have no way of experiencing our illusory world except as an illusory person. I think that the non-dual community needs to understand deeply that the relative is contained in, and owes it's existence to the Absolute. Quoting Adi Shankara "The world is an illusion
ReplyDeleteBrahman (The Absolute) alone is real
Brahman is the world".
Understanding this, we can now go out and experience apparent reality without fear. We can experience as you suggest, "beautiful sunsets, birds singing, the embrace of another, the sting of rejection, the pain of acid reflux, aging in the body, a solar eclipse, being flipped off by another driver, and on and on and on".
Let me end here with something I wrote a while back in my blog. "The Absolute is not just the anvil upon which the vessel of the relative is shattered, it is also the potters wheel upon which the experience of life is shaped. To say otherwise is to miss: the wonder and mystery that is Life". Peace be with you Natalie and again Bravo"
Much Love,
Ron
That's beautiful, Ron ("The Absolute is not just the anvil...". So good to hear from you, love. I'm off to read your latest posts!
ReplyDeleteP.S. Lovely readers...please do check out Ron's blog: www.nondualitystatepark.blogspot.com. Ron's writings on nonduality are beautiful, eloquent and timely!
ReplyDeleteSo separation is necessary for reality to exist. Awareness playfully sees this?
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