One Mind: One Space

It is possible to experience a world bereft of the illusion that "I" am here and "you," (and the world), are there.  When the mind becomes free of its constant activity, when we begin to experience a quality of meditation that is effortlessly silent and still, we may arrive at the heart of who we truly are as human beings.

What really allows a human being to be who she is?  What causes us to know ourselves as a distinct self?  


It's all kind of a matter of space.  What's near and what is far.


Our thoughts and sensations are very near.  They are intimate. 


Our perceptions of the world, of its persons, its trees and leaves and things generally, are less intimate.  The interior where our thoughts occur and the exterior where the beings of the world are seen seem to be two different places.


So what happens when the proximity between what we experience as inside and outside of our minds and bodies appears to equalize and eventually, begins to altogether disappear?  What happens when we begin to perceive that the substance of our thoughts and feelings and emotions are not so different from the substance of clouds and rocks and sidewalks and houses?


Here is a promise: eliminate your mind's addiction to its constant need for self-identification through compulsive and repetitive mental and emotional activity and the boundary between what's in your head and what's beyond will begin to fade.  If you are faithful and diligent, all distinction between an inside and an outside will disappear.


You will begin to identify not with mental content as the source of your identity, but rather with that pure and perfect experience of silent stillness as the ground of your being.  You may begin to perceive that this silent stillness is actually a kind of light that illumines everything that is possible to experience.  

One day it may simply occur to you that the light that allows everything in your mind to stand forth and be recognized as anything at all is the same light that reveals the world that is supposedly apart from the sovereign interiority of your mind and body.  A Light that allows all beings of every kind to stand forth and be recognized as Belonging. 

A world exists because everything in and of that world 'belongs' to that world.  A tree knows that it is a tree and behaves accordingly.  The tree can only know itself at all because it recognizes itself as belonging to the world in which it lives.  A world of atmosphere and sunlight, of ground and gravity.


Self-recognition is possible because a single Light allows all things to recognize themselves as belonging to the whole.  Thus the fact of our nonduality is responsible for our duality.  We find ourselves apparently separate from other beings only because we belong to a whole that is illumined by a single Light that allows for all things to reveal themselves, to stand forth and be present.  To be 'present' means to belong.  There is truly no such entity as an 'alien' insofar as any being is capable of being perceived.  If we can see it, it belongs to us, to our world, to our single, unified Self.