Separation is Suffering
“Separation is suffering.” -Michele Enos
Our conditioning, which we naturally accept as a child but seldom question as an adult, is the source of most difficulty.
From birth, we are conditioned by our parents, teachers, and culture to believe that we are not the wholeness of life itself, but an individual.
Once the idea of being an individual becomes firmly established, life becomes a struggle to preserve the sense of identity.
Nobody, aka The Bad Kitten, silently transmitting a secret to Michele.
Step out of your conditioning. What if what we truly are is not individual in essence:
“Stillness is your essential nature. What is stillness? The inner space or awareness in which the words on this page are being perceived and become thoughts. Without that awareness, there would be no perception, no thoughts, no world. You are that awareness, disguised as a person.” -Eckhart Tolle
The more I know I am aware, day after day, the happier I naturally am.
When responding to life as awareness: knowing what is happening, living is infinitely easier and a lot more fun.
The thinking mind divides the wholeness of life into a perceiver and a perceived:
“The knower and the known are ‘added’ by the mind.”
-Nisargadatta Marahaj
Sit quietly for a few minutes. Your eyes are open but not focused on anything; you are silently aware of everything, including your body. Now, know you are silent. Be aware of the sense of knowing that is in the silence. It’s not the knowing of anything specifically; it is the knowing of pure being, in which there are no problems.
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