What kind of world might we live in if there were no duality? Or on a more personal level, I start to wonder the ways that I, too, can become dualistic. I’ve heard about Carol Knox for so long that it is wonderful to hear just a snippet of her wisdom. Thanks for compiling her work.
The world we live in requires duality to meet everyday situations. For example, if we are crossing a street and a bus is coming, we wait until the bus passes before proceeding. That’s a dualistic decision. From a non-dualistic perspective, we understand that our true essence does not end when the body dies, so from the non-dualistic viewpoint it makes no difference if we step in front of the bus or not. The challenge becomes living in our physical, dualistic world and maintaining a non-dualistic view of who we really are. (I assume in your question you intended to say “ways that I, too, can become non-dualistic). A practice that helps me become more non-dualistic is to avoid labeling events in my life as either good or bad. When I do that then I respond to the label and often overlook evidence to the contrary. If I can follow Adyashanti’s teaching “I let everything be as it is” then I can more easily accept even painful events and respond to them with a clearer, non-judgmental mind. Does this make sense to you?
Carol constantly talked about duality. I had many very personal discussions with her about duality. We talked about the choices that we make between either this or that. In the
end it is the choices that we make between this or that that determines who we really are. In short we are what we do. Our lives are really about what we do in the moment….and what we do with each moment. The supreme truth is that our happiness is only in the moment. On a path to God ,God is not at the end of the path God is all over the path. God is in the moment. And since all we really have is this moment God is all we really have.
What kind of world might we live in if there were no duality? Or on a more personal level, I start to wonder the ways that I, too, can become dualistic. I’ve heard about Carol Knox for so long that it is wonderful to hear just a snippet of her wisdom. Thanks for compiling her work.
The world we live in requires duality to meet everyday situations. For example, if we are crossing a street and a bus is coming, we wait until the bus passes before proceeding. That’s a dualistic decision. From a non-dualistic perspective, we understand that our true essence does not end when the body dies, so from the non-dualistic viewpoint it makes no difference if we step in front of the bus or not. The challenge becomes living in our physical, dualistic world and maintaining a non-dualistic view of who we really are. (I assume in your question you intended to say “ways that I, too, can become non-dualistic). A practice that helps me become more non-dualistic is to avoid labeling events in my life as either good or bad. When I do that then I respond to the label and often overlook evidence to the contrary. If I can follow Adyashanti’s teaching “I let everything be as it is” then I can more easily accept even painful events and respond to them with a clearer, non-judgmental mind. Does this make sense to you?
Carol constantly talked about duality. I had many very personal discussions with her about duality. We talked about the choices that we make between either this or that. In the
end it is the choices that we make between this or that that determines who we really are. In short we are what we do. Our lives are really about what we do in the moment….and what we do with each moment. The supreme truth is that our happiness is only in the moment. On a path to God ,God is not at the end of the path God is all over the path. God is in the moment. And since all we really have is this moment God is all we really have.
nice. I have looking for something about carol since 1987.