[Moondance]

The realisation of no-separation is not something obscure or difficult - in fact it is naively simple - the issue is the mind’s innate resistance to it.

At any given moment there is simply the happening or be-ing of ‘what is’. No matter what I (as in the body-mind-personality) do or how I do it - it is always, already the happening of ‘what is’.

‘What is’ in this usage refers to this which is inescapably the case - existence, reality, life, be-ing, creation, source, oneness, tao. Some refer to it as awareness or consciousness. Those who are the most cautious simply point to THIS or thus-ness…

Whatever we call it, this realisation gives rise to the sense of a greater ordering of things beyond the confined sense of a separate self. In the moment of this insight, the sense of ‘I’ points straight through the body-mind to that which gives rise to it - the radiance of reality itself.

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So where does this leave the notion of an individuated free will? It doesn’t. An inherently existing free will is only of relevance in relation to a separate, independent, inherently existing self… and there isn’t one. Without the notion of separation the issue dissolves.

From this sensibility (THIS sensibility) it’s seen that there is nothing to perfect, nothing to attain, no enlightened state to strain for… there is only THIS… presenting moment by moment. If you are in the dentist chair it is already the happening of what is, if you are meditating for ten hours in a cave it is the happening of what is. It (IT) is always ALREADY the case.

The impulse is to lean forwards, straining towards a future resolution when the truth is found when there is a (kind of) easing back in perception to allow for the elusive obviousness to reveal itself.