"Many spiritual paths ask us to leave the ego, our personal sense of self, behind.
The problem is not the ego, but that the ego doesn't see how beautiful it truly is!"
The problem is not the ego, but that the ego doesn't see how beautiful it truly is!"
Friends,
We desperately need a new spiritual framework, a new alternative to either/or self and world-negating nonduality, one that celebrates our humanity and individuality rather than destroying it. One that inspires all dimensions of our humanity to flourish, and revels in the both/and paradox of being both separate and one where we are unified as individuals. One that compels us to commune with one another as unividuals, and enthusiastically participate in the profound mystery of this bittersweet, miraculously real world!
One in which the aim is not to get back to our "true nature" as changeless, formless Being, but to explore how our experience transforms when the stunning mystery of reality is the evolutionary process of Being becoming, when we create meaning by delighting in and choosing how to participate, how to contribute to its' blossoming towards greater compassion, interconnection, and reverence for the preciousness of existence. Where we open our apertures to behold the greater context of what we are a part of, and by placing our collective human existence within it, this wider more transcendent view reveals more significance (and what is most significant to us) in the particulars, rather than trivializing them! Where instead of reacting to impermanence with detachment and hardened disaffectedness, we choose to savor the fleeting more fully, letting our hearts break open so we can be more deeply touched and enlivened by the poignance of what is ephemeral. Where the goal is not so much "liberation" from suffering, but freedom to feel fully human and alive.
One in which we need not make a false binary choice between seeming opposites like spirit and matter, the personal and universal, to experience profound mystery because we know we are both, always. Where we don’t have to disappear and lose ourselves for oneness, but know ourselves as a part of it, evolving and healing our egos rather than eroding our minds and discarding our personhood. This is a new philosophy and experience that has at its' heart the both/and of uniduality, and the evolutionary process of Being becoming, and everyone is invited to play a part in its' unfolding.
While I bring my own unique perspective to this framework, it has been inspired by a few precious individuals who also experienced the tragic pitfalls of self-abandoning and world-denying nonduality, who helped me deconstruct that de-realizing paradigm, and re-build myself/the world without reifying the unreal, instead re-realizing what had always been real, in a new way, shining with more poignant splendor than ever. I hope to compel others to explore this humanistic, optimistic and awe-inspiring both/and perspective with myself and others!
One in which the aim is not to get back to our "true nature" as changeless, formless Being, but to explore how our experience transforms when the stunning mystery of reality is the evolutionary process of Being becoming, when we create meaning by delighting in and choosing how to participate, how to contribute to its' blossoming towards greater compassion, interconnection, and reverence for the preciousness of existence. Where we open our apertures to behold the greater context of what we are a part of, and by placing our collective human existence within it, this wider more transcendent view reveals more significance (and what is most significant to us) in the particulars, rather than trivializing them! Where instead of reacting to impermanence with detachment and hardened disaffectedness, we choose to savor the fleeting more fully, letting our hearts break open so we can be more deeply touched and enlivened by the poignance of what is ephemeral. Where the goal is not so much "liberation" from suffering, but freedom to feel fully human and alive.
One in which we need not make a false binary choice between seeming opposites like spirit and matter, the personal and universal, to experience profound mystery because we know we are both, always. Where we don’t have to disappear and lose ourselves for oneness, but know ourselves as a part of it, evolving and healing our egos rather than eroding our minds and discarding our personhood. This is a new philosophy and experience that has at its' heart the both/and of uniduality, and the evolutionary process of Being becoming, and everyone is invited to play a part in its' unfolding.
While I bring my own unique perspective to this framework, it has been inspired by a few precious individuals who also experienced the tragic pitfalls of self-abandoning and world-denying nonduality, who helped me deconstruct that de-realizing paradigm, and re-build myself/the world without reifying the unreal, instead re-realizing what had always been real, in a new way, shining with more poignant splendor than ever. I hope to compel others to explore this humanistic, optimistic and awe-inspiring both/and perspective with myself and others!
"You don't get to oneness by erasing yourself, that would be oneness with a hole in it!"