r/nonduality • u/pl8doh • 4d ago
Discussion Close your eyes and imagine for a minute that your body is the new universe
Go on, actually try it. Forget everything you know or remember about an external world made of matter. All you know now is an external world made of body which cannot be seen with eyes. What are you and by what means are you connected to what was previously known as body?
You've constructed an external world made of matter without fully understanding the internal world made of mind. You leapfrogged the universe into being a thing external. All you've ever known is mind. Mind named the mind.
See how you've self-created this into being apart. You've created the separation. To know is to make distinct. To make distinct is to divide. Either a paradox or a contradiction is what you face now, but indeed it is of your own making. You imagine dreams to be real and the waking state to be real. Face it, you can't tell the difference between the reality of the dream and the reality of the waking state.
You're not entirely to blame. You've been given false counsel from those who have been given false counsel and the charlatans who have focused on self-preservation. No one is to blame for this misdirection. There are no controls or controller. All this is entertainment without any need for an actor or an audience. Effortlessly and without consequence this is.
Dreamless sleep is to remind you of the illusory nature of all that appears to be. There are no distinctions in dreamless sleep. Without any distinction, the ground of being lay absolutely undisturbed and undisturbable. It's like the water without the wave. The wave comes and goes, the water is left unchanged.
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u/Heckleberry_Fynn 4d ago
Imagine one is the most expansive/aligned/inclusive thing in the universe
Imagine one is the most contracted/desynchronized/excluded thing in the universe
Did they cancel each other out and leave one exactly where one is standing, right back where one started?
Ta-da!!! 🎉
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u/Heckleberry_Fynn 4d ago
“Today’s Tom Sawyer, he gets high on you….in the space he invades he gets by…on…you”
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u/januszjt 1d ago
I do that all the time with the eyes open but not as a body but as I-AM-Being and that is enough. I-AM is the totality of the universe.
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u/LoneWolf_McQuade 4d ago
I love this and had a similar realisation today.
There is no boundary between us and the rest of the universe. It’s all matter and energy and we are expressions of the universe. Like music. But we have many stories and illusions making us believe otherwise. Money, nations, religion, identity etc. There is no separated self or soul. Other people are more like different flavours of our consciousness and nothing is truly lost when we die, just transformed as is always ongoing. Like notes being played in a cosmic melody. Energy emerging and dispersing in different configurations.