Today's Column

That Which Is

That which is cannot be personal, if personal means separate, different from me, or from you. That which is has no boundaries. There are no actions, no events, no time. All is now. Nothing has "happened." All is happening -- or, if you wish, is still happening -- now. Nothing Ever Stops.

The effort of the ego to change "the past" is inevitable: it is separation. And it is what THAT is doing. It only ends when THAT (re)opens completely to itself, which is what enlightenment is. This could be described as the process whereby THAT journeys "backward in time" to the point in personal memory where it dis-integrated, and re-integrates itself. Once this process gains momentum, then "you" are no longer going to sleep but "awakening."

You are that which moves the worlds – but not by volition. There is no "volition." There is only nature, ever changing, moving the worlds. Thou Art That. Your "thoughts" are the tracks of a process, not the beginning. They are the results of action, not the initiator. We cannot discern how thoughts produce actions because they don't: they trail behind. Action is beginningless. It is the nature of things. There is no "mover," only movement, which David Bohm called "the holomovement."

It dances. Shiva Nam Hridayam.

I am the Ancient
One,
divided,
I seek Myself.