Can you see that?
It is very easy to sit quietly and experience mind in its subtle, unbounded nature, and see the reality around us. We have to go from being awake and lightly focused, to simply being, and reflecting and see- ing within ourselves the awake- ness.
We identify consciousness with our egos, because it's shining within us— but it is also beyond self at the same time. Look into the eyes of those around you. See they are awake. And even though they're differ- ent, the consciousness itself is the same - the awake mind-stuff within them is one: We are all one in Spirit.
That whereby they are conscious is the same awake-ness whereby you're awake. Their individualities are different, their intellects are different, their bodies are different, but the awake-ness itself is a singularity. And so we are all one and we have always been one. And we have never been separate.
And if you acknowledge and experience this unity, then you can be one with anyone else, and you can be one with the animals and the trees and the stars and the extraterrestrials, and those within the covert government and the White House and everywhere.
No place is barred from you. No being is a stranger and no place is strange.
The entire cosmos is your home.
And this is not an intellectual realization alone. It is experienced. And all those worlds that we were traveling through, and all those inner states, to each and every one of them you will no doubt attain. Our individualities are windows through which infinity is expressing
itself. At some point, we learn at will to take this drop and let it go back into the ocean, and then, at will, reconstitute the drop and be individual again.
This is what we learn to do through the course of our spiritual journey. 'Be as nothing, and then walk upon the water.'
So the drop of our individuality can become one with the ocean, and then we are the ocean. At the same instant we can realize that we are still that individual drop— in a state of unity consciousness.
We can perceive this not only within ourselves, but we see that all things and all beings and the earth beneath our feet is all awake, infinite Being.
We realize it is all sacred— the entirety of creation is sacred and every being is sacred, because spirit, the awake Being, is the very fabric of all that there is. And it is always perfectly one, even if it's playing and dis- playing upon itself as if it is different.
The challenge is to see the oneness within the difference, and also enjoy the difference.
We have been in places all over the world that have just the most horrible weather, and we will sit and do this meditation and prayer, and within minutes, the whole sky will clear-- it is an opening that happens above this state of consciousness. And this has happened hundreds of times -- almost inexplicably, no matter how bad or stormy the weather.
The question is: Is there interplay between oneness and duality? They co-exist.
They are not mutually exclusive. In other words, the relative and the changing, time and space and matter and the infinite silent absolute are the same. There's no separation, and therefore there's no duality.
Now, that which is relative has differentiation. We have individual bodies, there is male and there is female, there are different energies, there are different elements. But at the same time, there is this perfect divine unity and awake-ness that co-exists with it, suffuses all of it, and permeates all of it.
There is a balance in being able to see the differentiation and the duality of things, and at the same time see the oneness that is permeating all the duality.
So it isn't an either-or question.
Everything is established and emanating from unbounded, absolute, undifferentiated, pure Mind. But it is perceived as one or the other. Our task is to evolve to a point where we see it not as either-or, but all as one, even while we see the distinctions.
Even experiments that have been done with mechanical systems or devices, such as those done by Dr. Robert Jahn of Princeton, show that mind is connected to matter.
How does that happen? It is because the material object itself is mind, is
awake-ness — phasing, resonating as that thing.
It takes practice, but the perception of Oneness begins to come back and forth, back and forth, back and forth— until you see that there is no back and forth. It is all one. The drop and the ocean are one, even when the drop can be distinguished.
It is useful sometimes to simply look and sit quietly and be with other people, and then become aware of the fact that they're awake and you're awake.
Now, subtract all the differences and be left with the awake-ness itself, and go into that state of being awake within yourself, and then see that you are freed from self and individuality so that you can connect to the awake-ness of others, and be one.
And in this sense, we are all one being. We are truly all one in spirit, and therefore we can relate to and find within ourselves genuine com- passion.
Expanding that idea, consider the fact that every person on earth, every sentient being in the cosmos, whether angelic or astral or deceased humans, or extraterrestrial people with bodies and material existences on other planets -- all of those awake beings are capable of being aware of awareness, and therefore can enter into a state of oneness -- intentional oneness that is transcendental and perfect.
Now, that state is beyond the peace of a political peace, which has been called at times, "the lesser peace."
What I am describing now is the most great peace— the perfect peace that is inner and spiritual. Because in that state you see indeed that we are all one in Spirit.
Thus, any source of conflict ceases to exist, because instead of being centered in difference, people will be centered in oneness -- and not just as an intellectualiza- tion or philosophical perspective, but a genuine experience in enlightenment, and that is an enlightened state of being.
Oh, my God, it is beautiful.
All that you need has been given to you. It is all within you. All I am doing is trying to unfold an understanding and then you can do it your- self.
At the same time there is oneness, there is relativity. We are sitting here. We do have distinct bodies. There is space and time and stars and distance. Those coexist. They are not mutually exclusive concepts at all -- in fact, they are perfectly integrated.
And so, understanding the nuance between the absolute and the relative is really
important, because that is the journey our souls are travers- ing. And becoming proficient in that understanding and experience enables you to manifest from this state of infinite awareness into this existence.
Without the fundamental experience and understanding of silent infinite awareness and how that absolute Unbounded-ness becomes manifest into the relative, you cannot reach your fulfillment as a being.
Wherever there is form within it is astral light. And there is the pure idea form and awareness, that is the causal -- the level of the cosmology that is in that idea seed-form. The infinite Awareness manifests this seed idea. It's the idea form and thought vibration of lets say an apple -- without the form and shape of an apple. Can you consider an apple with- out its form- just its thought essence?
It is rather abstract, I agree. But then from that idea thought vibration, see emerging the light and form and shape and color of an apple. See that astral template becoming more and more differentiated and more manifest, emerging into the subtle sub-electro-magnetic energies
-- zero point energies, magnetic forces and other forces that then recruit and form the atoms and the molecules etcetera of the apple.