The relationship between avocado and flesh, or avocado and pit, is an example of non-duality. (What’s less immediately clear but just as true is the non-dual relationship between flesh and pit, because of their shared “avocadoness.”) It doesn’t mean the flesh doesn’t exist or the pit is an illusion — it simply means they don’t exist independent of their “interbeing” with and within avocado.
I don’t see what is so hard or controversial about observing that the telos or purpose of the universe is to grow purpose like a garden grows crops. We won’t find the purpose by digging into the ground, but nothing at all could grow without that ground. It should also be clear that the crops are not separate from the ground — they are extensions of it in a very real sense — and so the garden is not two things, ground and crops, fused into one. It is one thing that is all of a piece.
#1: The body is water; the soul is the wave Thanks to dualistic thought, there is a widespread misconception that the soul is something added to a body, in the words of Wendell Berry, “like a letter into an envelope.” Western religion has done as much to complicate this concept as to clarify it, suggesting […]
SOUL = DUST + BREATH Back to Part One “Nothing can doom man but the belief in doom, for this prevents the movement of return.” Martin Buber Now, let’s take stock of where we are. (Or at least, I will; you are free to do the same in your place and time.) It is the […]
WAVING LAYERS OF SOUL This is something I’ve been wanting to write for a long time, but I wasn’t sure how to present it to the public. Dream interpretation? Statement of faith? Visionary insight? Nugget of truth from the collective subconscious? Jungian symbolism? Wishful thinking fantasy? I suspect it involves a little of all these, […]
Between non-duality and monism, you have two complementary, co-arising options: Any picture that you take is a no-selfie, or a Selfie.
This is a condensed version of an article originally published at Not Two. Faith is not the opposite of doubt. It is the absence of fear. Like “God” and “divine,” faith is one of those pesky words that seems to erode the meaning of any sentence where it is placed rather than contribute to it. […]
Spirituality gets a bum rap because of its association with belief in an invisible supernatural realm, and people suffer as a result, unwilling to even consider the ways that a healthy spiritual life enhances the human experience here and now. Not only is this association with the supernatural unnecessary to spiritual experience, but it is […]
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