Why are we in this state that generates so much suffering? This dualistic state of fear, sadness, hatred and selfishness? It seems almost trite and simplistic to say that this dualistic state itself is an illusion, but perhaps the truth has always been that simple.
Look out of your window and what do you see? Perhaps you are at home and you see a beautiful garden, or maybe a cityscape, or your local neighbourhood. Whatever it is, when you look at it, is there a “me” or “not me” in the sight of it? No, there is just the sight, that is all. It is only afterwards that the mind comes along and structures the sight into separate things.
It is no longer a simple sight, but it is now a “world” which is separate from the “person” who is viewing it. Try to understand that there was never any “world” or “viewer” in the experience itself - this is a later superimposition of the mind.
The mind, which is an expert at splitting seamless reality into parts, has separated you from yourself. It has made of you a viewer, a person enclosed in flesh and brain matter, and has cut off all the beauty and drama of your far ranging perception from your own self. The pure unity of experience, of seamless awareness, is broken and suffering enters the world. You are no longer the moon, the stars, the trees, the people and the birds - you are a ghost in a prison body, always at threat of being extinguished.
So the illusion of separateness is born.
Why is it an “illusion” though? The suffering and separateness seems real enough, doesn’t it? The sensations and thoughts are real experiences; it is rather the referent of these sensations and thoughts which does not exist. If, when I consider “the world” and I see threats against “me”, associated thoughts and feelings may arise. Yet there is no “world” and no “me”. So these thoughts and feelings arise on the behalf of nothing at all.
Yet even to speak of being in a “state” of separateness or delusion is unfounded. For the thoughts and feelings, which seem to indicate the existence of separate self, are in fact also experienced in unity. In the experience of any thought or feeling there isn’t, in the experience itself, a “me” and a “not me”. There is only the thought, only the feeling.
Again, it is only after the fact that the mind arrives on the seen to declare that “I” had a thought, or “I” had a feeling. Yet even when experiencing these deluded thoughts there is no separation!
So you can see that there has never been a time when you were, in fact, in a state of delusion. You have never been in a state of separation. All experience, even experiences of deluded thoughts and feelings, are one - no knower, no feeler, just isness or unlimited awareness. You have only ever been One.
Wake up from the nightmare, and, on waking, realise that you were never dreaming in the first place. In fact, realise that there was never a “you” either!
Peace and love to you all.
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Would like to read more your writing. Any book or website ?