Attribution

Important note: All the posts on this blog were written by Bob Harwood (AKA 'zendancer') on the forum spiritualteachers.proboards.com. I have merely reposted a collection of them in blog format for the convenience of seekers. Some very small mods were made on occasion to make posts readable outside of the forum setting they were made in.

Doing the dishes

I would say that primary immersion in isness translates into practical terms to primary immersion in direct perception and action. This means that the individual psychologically disappears into the activities of ordinary life. The "big picture," which is conceptual, dissolves into doing the dishes or eating dinner with friends without reflection about meaning, selfhood, or anything else of an abstract nature.

Non-duality is always the case despite the illusion of separateness. If there is immersion in isness, there is no need to conceive of separateness, and therefore there is no separateness. There is just this, then just this, then just this--a seamless happening. What you see is what you get.

An intellectual will find such effortless simplicity and matter-of-factness superficial, but the opposite is actually the case. Nothing is deeper than doing the dishes when it's time to do the dishes.