It took me many years to learn that there is no separation or ownership except in my mind. Separation and ownership are a way of perceiving and dealing with all that is. We pretend that we are separate and own. I've come to know that we are each different, but not separate. Infinite Being differentiates into a zillion expressions, and yet we are part of and belong to One/Unity. From what I read, I gather that science is discovering that the cosmos is one living being, with all the different parts interrelated and interdependent. As Thich Nhat Hanh says, interbeing in interisness. I belong, we belong, to this oneness. I do experience a tension between my individuality which I often think of and experience as separate resulting in my comparing and competing, even though I know at a deeper place that I am not separate but together with all which I experience as being part of and belonging. I know I am both, individual and belonging. I think of me as 'not one, not two, and one and two, not one and two' -- I don't understand it and I know it and accept it as part of the incomprehensible mystery that I live in and lives in me. To me, the fact is we are joined and we are free, though we often don't think or behave that way. It helps me to realize and remind myself that it is only in my mistaken thinking and perception that I/we are not joined and are not free.
On Sep 20, 2013 david doane wrote :
It took me many years to learn that there is no separation or ownership except in my mind. Separation and ownership are a way of perceiving and dealing with all that is. We pretend that we are separate and own. I've come to know that we are each different, but not separate. Infinite Being differentiates into a zillion expressions, and yet we are part of and belong to One/Unity. From what I read, I gather that science is discovering that the cosmos is one living being, with all the different parts interrelated and interdependent. As Thich Nhat Hanh says, interbeing in interisness. I belong, we belong, to this oneness. I do experience a tension between my individuality which I often think of and experience as separate resulting in my comparing and competing, even though I know at a deeper place that I am not separate but together with all which I experience as being part of and belonging. I know I am both, individual and belonging. I think of me as 'not one, not two, and one and two, not one and two' -- I don't understand it and I know it and accept it as part of the incomprehensible mystery that I live in and lives in me. To me, the fact is we are joined and we are free, though we often don't think or behave that way. It helps me to realize and remind myself that it is only in my mistaken thinking and perception that I/we are not joined and are not free.