Spiritual Paradox – 100% Form, 100% Spirit

What do we mean by unity or oneness?

Does unity really exist?   Is oneness only as an abstract idea as diversity and duality seem so tangible, convincing, solid and real?
I want to look at this together and see if something is missed here because of the conditioning rooted in duality.

We really are taught from such a young age the labels for objects and we become conditioned to believe that the world we see on the outside of our physical eyes is the only reality there is.  Most people live all their lives only seeing from this dualistic perspective.  It is fine, it is what we are used to and it is what is generally thought to be real.  The universe is divided, within this paradigm of thinking, into separate autonomous objects and that is so called ‘reality’.  We ourselves as human beings are also seen as an object and we begin to see that one day this object we call our person will become sick or even die.   We think that as this body and mind – we will pass.   We will die.  But is this really true on a deeper level?

Here, and even in the world of science – is it possible perhaps to look deeper and to include but transcend this very particular, and perhaps limited dualistic way of seeing?

It seems there is a threshold to cross somehow that awakens the inner eye.  This inner perception is in harmony with the more subtle realm of spirit – unity and oneness.

Mooji often gives the example of looking at a picture of a vase to illustrate this

A switch of perception is needed to somehow see these two very different interpretations of this black and white picture.  Take a look – what do you see?

Is it just a white vase?

Can you see two faces looking at each other?  There is a change of perception that is needed to witness both it seems,

It is a little similar with seeing with the physical eyes the world of phenomenality.  These eyes only seem to see objects and understand and even project an appearance of solid separate objects.  But is there a more subtle reality that it is possible to witness?  Perhaps we can call this true seeing?

The inner perception of non phenomenal existence.  The inner awareness of a more subtle realm, of consciousness, of spirit.  Although of course these are only words that point to this ineffable and unfathomable ‘isness’.

We are a spiritual paradox!
We are 100% diversity or ‘form’
AND at the same time paradoxically we are also 100% unity or ‘spirit’

Our thinking mind cannot accept or fathom spiritual paradox because how can these both be true?

A paradox means:

A paradox, also known as an antinomy, is a logically self-contradictory statement or a statement that runs contrary to one’s expectation. It is a statement that, despite apparently valid reasoning from true premises, leads to a seemingly self-contradictory or a logically unacceptable conclusion. A paradox usually involves contradictory-yet-interrelated elements—that exist simultaneously and persist over time  (Wikipedia)

Ken Wilbur speaks of this spiritual paradox beautifully here.  

One has to transcend the logical mind in order to sense and perceive life in this way but it opens up a whole new creation.  It reveals a much more subtle, harmonious and beautiful realm.  Words like safety, bliss, light, joy, surrender and love arise to describe this but in truth this is not a state and it cannot be described.  It is intangible, unknowable and inexpressible in words and yet totally natural and free and present here and now.  Unchanging and deathless.

Creation, the manifest ‘world’ appears as diversity and change, there are so many beings and expressions of the divine and all are appearing as so unique and different from each other.  It seems perhaps that there cannot be love flowing between beings UNLESS we are actually separate and distinct.  It appears like love cannot flow unless there is relationship between two or more ‘people’.  In others words division and duality is needed in order for love to exist and flow.  Is this really true?  I feel this is a misconception in truth.

Why do I feel this is a misconception?  We are only separate and unique and distinct on the bodily level.  One in spirit.  The physical flesh and bones of the ‘body’, so science says, is mostly space, mostly water, mostly elemental and certainly changing all the time.  Distinct separate forms are perceived it seems within the realm of duality (‘the division of something conceptually into two opposed or contrasted aspects, or the state of being so divided’.)  Eg matter and spirit, good and evil, light and dark, us and them, me and the world (separation).  This dualistic way of seeing is a very limited realm as I have described, mainly because these opposites are merely conceptual – ie comprised of thought essentially.   Of course relationship between people can be beautiful and loving – but the actual LOVE we experience  – here in our hearts, we could say IS oneness, is unity, is the God Self that permeates everything.  The spirit of God loves the spirit of God in all!

All physical forms are perishable and will pass, but something here is eternal and ever lasting and full of love.  The changeful world that appears before our physical eyes is what the Hindu Scriptures call ‘Maya’  – the grand illusion of phenomenal existence, the play that appears out of no thing, out of sacred emptiness and then falls back into it’s source.  But all the time, even beyond time itself, life simply IS.

Jesus speaks of this also in the Book of Yeshua. taken from the Christ Sutras:  The complete sayings of Jesus from All Sources Arranged as Sermons.

‘The great difference exists between the imperishable and those who will perish.  Everything that comes from the perishable will perish, for it comes from the perishable.  But whatever comes from the imperishable does not perish, but itself becomes imperishable.’

‘What falls away, flesh or spirit?  Flesh falls away’

He also says ‘To enter the kingdom becomes like an infant.  For when you make the two, one, and make the inside like the outside, and make the outside like the inside, and make the above like the below, and when you make the male and the female one and the same, so that the male not be male, not the female be female.’  (42.105 Christ Sutras)

Yes – we are flesh and bones, personality and conditioning on a superficial level with all our idiosyncrasies but essentially our deeper nature is spirit, is the presence of God, is the beingness, is consciousness, beyond any concepts of what these words point to.  THIS is beyond time and space.

We tend to think that what is constant about us is our personality and our personal self because we are so addicted to our story, our ego, our own ‘self’ but in actuality WHAT IS CONSTANT ABOUT US IS THE ONE INDIVISIBLE SELF – the same one that lies at the heart of every thing.  The God Self – the True Self, what simply IS and always has been and always will be.  The I AM.

Life identified with form alone is finite, limited and bound.  Of course it is also quite extraordinary and enjoyable also but life identified with spirit opens up a whole new realm  – it is infinite limitless and free, beyond the concepts of such things.

Life as form and spirit is whole we could say.  Some would call this Christ consciousness – but there are many names for this energy, for this vibrational field of unconditional love and light.

Life in it’s fullness through form, as spirit – is enlightening but indescribable – where the pure light of God emanates.  This light illuminates this earth with His grace and boundless love.  Jesus points also to this light….

‘For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. The eye is the lamp of the body.  If your vision is clear your whole body will be full of light.  But if your vision is poor, your whole body will be full of darkness.’  Matthew 6:22 

A life like this has the capacity to be the ‘narrow gateway’ through which many beings can return home to God – those who love God will come home through this gateway – through the fire of True Self discovery.  However the individual ego self does not and cannot survive this home coming.  True freedom, as Mooji says is not for the ego – but from the ego!  There is only ‘what is’.

The fire that burns everything that is not pure, everything that is not in service to truth.  Burning every thing, until no thing remains

– only YOU

as the pure unstained non phenomenal radiant light of God.