What's the Big Deal?

The teaching of non-duality states that only thoughts in the Mind of God are Real. In more common language, the only Reality is Absolute Truth.

And this does NOT correspond in any way with our experience as human beings seeming to live in a temporal world of relative truth.

So why is this teaching helpful? Why should I even care?

Here's why:  Knowing (or even suspecting) that this worldly experience is not your true reality opens your mind to other choices you can make.

This cosmic feeling of unease, of not really belonging here, is actually a good thing! Of course, you may label it something else. Boredom? Monotony? Illness? Loneliness? Depression? Anger? Fear? Ego is VERY good at coming up with multitudes of labels to distract us from one simple, central concept: that this world is not our home.


And yet, you woke up this morning and now here you are reading this blog, just like I woke up this morning, and here I am writing in this blog. We still believe (want to believe!) that this is real, or at least partly real. Why? Because that means that our individual self is real. We desperately want to believe that we exist, separate and apart from Oneness.

So, here's another good practical application for these ideas. This one is great for all those times when I feel afraid, depressed, tired, lonely. . . and best of all, for those times when I feel like I'm just playing mind games and getting lost in intellect.

It is simply this: If Reality only exists in Oneness, but I'm perceiving something other than that, then what I'm perceiving isn't meaningful. At no time is there ANYTHING MEANINGFUL going on in the world. So my practice is to not make such a big deal about everything. I pull back some of my emotional investment in all the external events and circumstances.

Because none of it matters.

Not really.

Think how things that really seemed so important to you as a child shifted when you became a teen. And then think about the things you valued as a teen. . . see what I mean? The passage of time seems to connect to our changing perceptions.

So what I'm getting at is that we don't have to wait for time to pass. We can state something like the following:    "I seem to be very invested in ____________. But that's not Oneness. I know I will feel differently about it in the future, and it won't be so important to me. So why should I make such a big deal about it now? Is there another way to see this situation?"

Yes, it still comes down to ASKing. Always does. This universe came about because of us asking an insane question and taking the answer too seriously. The universe will be undone by our ASKing a sane question and accepting the Answer of Truth.