...I am pointing to living life free of imagined separation and free of the mind. The mind (intellect) remains useful, but it is not dominant, and thoughts are not attached to. I go about my business without imagining that there is a "me" going about "my" business. When the body/mind looks around, it sees and interacts with "what is" rather than a world of things and events occurring in space and time.
The body/mind has had experiences of wholeness/oneness and realizations that all separateness is imagined, so there is an intellectual understanding that the universe is non-local. This intellectual understanding is less important than a life lived in ordinariness without reflection.
The Bible says, "Be still and know that I am God." Anyone who follows that admonition, and realizes what it is pointing to, will be astonished. A mystical Christian might say that during experiences of cosmic-consciousness, in which selfhood is absent, one becomes one-with God, but most peeps on this forum see the issue somewhat more holistically. From our POV there is no one who can become one-with God because there was never anyone separate from the Vastness/Source/Oneness/God to begin with. Thus, there is simply the ordinary living of everyday life free from ideation. We only use words like "oneness" to point to everyday life lived free of the mind. There is just the drinking of coffee, talking with friends, going to work, and all of the other ordinary activities of everyday life without imagining any kind of separateness or specialness.
The realization of oneness, which is NOT the realization of oneness, can be attained, which is NOT an attainment, in this lifetime, which is NOT a lifetime. After such a realization, life is lived without knowing. There are no beliefs, no tenets, no teachings, no basis, no ideas that intellectually underlie this kind of life. If you look where these words are pointing, which is NOT a pointing, you will understand why I can summarize everything written here by saying, "The coffee I am sipping at McDonalds this morning is very tasty, and I hope you have a wonderful day." Take care.
The body/mind has had experiences of wholeness/oneness and realizations that all separateness is imagined, so there is an intellectual understanding that the universe is non-local. This intellectual understanding is less important than a life lived in ordinariness without reflection.
The Bible says, "Be still and know that I am God." Anyone who follows that admonition, and realizes what it is pointing to, will be astonished. A mystical Christian might say that during experiences of cosmic-consciousness, in which selfhood is absent, one becomes one-with God, but most peeps on this forum see the issue somewhat more holistically. From our POV there is no one who can become one-with God because there was never anyone separate from the Vastness/Source/Oneness/God to begin with. Thus, there is simply the ordinary living of everyday life free from ideation. We only use words like "oneness" to point to everyday life lived free of the mind. There is just the drinking of coffee, talking with friends, going to work, and all of the other ordinary activities of everyday life without imagining any kind of separateness or specialness.
The realization of oneness, which is NOT the realization of oneness, can be attained, which is NOT an attainment, in this lifetime, which is NOT a lifetime. After such a realization, life is lived without knowing. There are no beliefs, no tenets, no teachings, no basis, no ideas that intellectually underlie this kind of life. If you look where these words are pointing, which is NOT a pointing, you will understand why I can summarize everything written here by saying, "The coffee I am sipping at McDonalds this morning is very tasty, and I hope you have a wonderful day." Take care.
