An interesting position

In life, we find ourselves in an interesting position, that is: we are the infinite, mistaking itself for the limited and, therefore, seeking the infinite. The light of awareness gives rise to all manner of sensations, thoughts and feelings. Certain of these perceptions are sometimes mistakenly translated, in thought, into a separate self. After this limited self is taken to be real, there is the attempt to escape the feeling of limitation and to be re-integrated with all that is. The ironic part of this search is that one was never apart to begin with.

It's kind of like this: A person who was born free becomes an actor and starts playing the role of a slave. They play the part so well and for so long that they actually forget who they really are and totally identify with the role. One day, a friend might recognize them or they might naturally grow tired of living "in bondage", ending the masquerade, throwing aside their stage prop styrofoam chains, and they realize the natural freedom that has been theirs all along. There's no need to struggle against chains that aren't real. Bondage never existed, except as an idea and, therefore, liberation doesn't exist either. All of the drama of individuality and isolation has only been the boundless movement of the light of God. There is nothing apart from that.

This is the experience of love

This, whatever is being experienced in this moment, here, there or anywhere, is nothing other than the manifestation of love/oneness. Thoughts might arise that interpret it as "good" or "bad", desirable or undesirable but, here it is, this is it. When we no longer judge experience against what we think it should be, then there is peace. This peaceful sentience is the natural ground of everything. When the self idea (ego) isn't at war with life, there is effortless being. This is always in all ways the case, just overlooked sometimes in favor of the "surface ripples" of thoughts, which can imagine conflict and discord. All is one, one is all. That's all.

The birth of the seeker

In some lives, at a certain point, there arises the idea: "This is not the way things should be." and, the seeker is "born". After this, one usually has some idea of what would make things better, perhaps a change in personality or maybe something being "fixed" in "the world". This is seen as being the key to an imagined future state of happiness. The future state never arrives, though, and we find ourselves stuck with a "flawed" universe and suffering.

The very resistance to life and the concept that it is imperfect is what creates suffering. This resistance is nothing more than the ego idea in action. When it is seen that the ego is nothing more than a passing thought then struggle and psychic pain end because, whatever arises is nothing less than the appearance of the absolute, even the things we consider "imperfect".

This is not to say then that one merrily accepts all of the questionable things that appear like war, child exploitation and destruction of the environment. When one is confronted with these happenings and reacts with disgust, THAT is also an appearance of the divine energy. Whatever arises is watched without any concept of personal involvement or preference and it is found that life is functioning effortlessly and without any individual input. This happens silently and without commentary and it is not disturbed when thoughts inevitably arise. Preferences, even the preference to not have preferences, are illusory manifestations of the ego idea. Attachment, even to non-attachment, would only be another symptom of this.

God is perfectly realized in life, as life and the knowing presence that all arises in. The  dream of form and matter don't change who you are one bit. It has never been divided. Wholeness reigns supreme. The infinite has never been broken. Our personal experience bears this out, unless we mistake the spontaneously arising thought commentary for truth, then there can be confusion over the matter.

The end of suffering

The end of suffering is the realization that there is no one who suffers. Without the belief in an individual who is capable of suffering, without something it is supposedly in reference to, it ceases. In the clear field of being, psychic pain has nothing to plant its roots in--it can't take hold. Emptiness is incapable of suffering as an object or a person as such things are only an abstraction of that which is unbroken and whole. This aware emptiness is what we are, right now! This is not merely a philosophical idea. If we look at our own experience, without getting lost in mentation, we find that there is a knowing presence in which thoughts and sensations of body and universe appear. This presence usually isn't conscious of itself as it isn't an object of knowledge, but it's obvious that it is here. It is everywhere that is anywhere for, without it, nowhere or no one would appear!

If one felt the need for scientific proof of non duality, they only need to look to modern physics. It is pointed out that matter is really energy. Though we think we perceive a world of "solid", "separate" objects, apart from us, we find that the world of form is only a movement of energy and, without consciousness, it wouldn't appear at all! In the absence of conceptual thought, peace and wholeness reign, without even being known as such. Without the unreal fragmentation imagined in thought, suffering can't arise. Thoughts will come and go but, without being mistaken for reality, they aren't problematic. 

Truth

Truth is not in the heart (feelings).
Truth is not in the mind (thoughts).
Truth is not in the soul (individuality).
Truth is the very fact of being,
It needs no proof--IT IS.
Who can deny this? The very denial is an affirmation.

Bliss

Bliss is not a sensory experience. Many seekers have the idea that bliss is a state that one can reach where they will be happy and feel good all of the time. When, after many years of various spiritual and devotional techniques, they still haven't achieved this permanent state, they may wonder why. The reason is that no thought, feeling or perception is eternal.

Bliss is that which underlies and is aware of the objects of experience. It is the ever present field of being. Every thing is only an appearance of this backdrop--everything. While the images and thought forms are fixated on, there is a tendency to get lost in the dramas and conflicts that appear but, when it is seen that all arises within undivided consciousness, then ideas of struggle cease and only naked presence remains. This presence shines all of the events of life into manifestation with equanimity. No sensation or experience is favored above any other. Even in the "bad" or painful happenings, what we really are remains at peace. This is bliss.

Thought can't create oneness

Thought conceptually dissects life and then tries to put it all back together again. The catch is that things were never apart to begin with! Thought imagines disintegration and then tries to reintegrate the illusory multiplicity, which it is incapable of. It's much easier to realize that oneness was never broken in the first place. When the projections of the intellect are no longer mistaken for reality then there is a natural sense of peace and unity. This is what is sometimes referred to as "the natural state" though it really isn't a state at all--it is the ever present background on which the universe appears.