by Ben Gilberti, H.W.,M.
 
Chapter 20 ~  Nothingizing the Dual Mode of Perception
 
There is no separate self set apart from the world. There is no separate knower set apart from what is known. There is no separate awareness set apart from what awareness is aware of. There is no "you" set apart from the world. The world is you and you are the world.
 
Your first concern cannot be what you are to DO in the world, but rather how you perceive it. There will no doubt be a change in action, but only because there has first occurred a change in perception.
 
The basic duality is between the illusion you call "self" outside of which, consequently, is the illusion called "non-self" or "your world." You and your world. You and everything that is not you. That is the basic duality. It's not just a "belief" stored in your mind on the basis of which you act. It's not just that. Of far, far more impact than that is that it is, in addition to being a "belief", a way of perceiving, a way of looking at things, a way of feeling your relationship to things. Just changing the belief in duality will do very little. You must change the dual mode of perception. The dual mode of perception is to perceive reality as broken up into two, you and all that is not you. There is no "you" that is separate and apart from the world.
 
When you sit in meditation and contemplate "I" and in effect look for the "real you," the pure "I" that is "God," what do you find? A "pure I" sitting in a chair with a whole world going on outside the house? If you find such a thing, who is it that is aware of this "pure I" sitting in a chair with a whole world outside? Who? You as pure awareness? OK. And who is aware of that? Pure awareness again, you say? Pure awareness aware of pure awareness, you say? OK. And who is aware of that?
 
You cannot any longer find a self to separate as the separate "observer" of something "other" than itself.
 
It's an unnerving experience because we cling for dear life to this "self" we have that is separate from all it experiences, and yet now we cannot find this self, now the act of dual perception is impossible. Pure awareness is always being aware only of itself. Ask who is aware of this as an observer and there isn't any other than itself, pure awareness; there's nothing dual, there is no longer the observer and the observed, the observer and the observed are one.
 
Now, you don't climb down from this summit of enlightenment and re-enter a "real world" wherein you are separate from what you perceive. If you do, it is only because you decide to continue the act of dual perception, saying to yourself, "What I am is the Observer, and this that I observe is other than what I am." With that act of perception you create the dream of duality and all its problems and conflicts and fears.
 
Think for a moment of the universe you are aware of. Start with your city, then the whole of humanity, then all life, then the entire planet, then the galaxy, then the universe of galaxies. Now, for a moment, stop creating the perception all of this exists separately from the awareness that is aware of it. See it all as awareness itself. See it all as you. If you still feel like there is a you apart from it all, go look for that you again, and again when you cannot find it, you will again be left with the only "you" that remains -- the entire universe you are aware of. You and the universe and awareness are all one. Don't just "know" it, see it that way.
 
There are no boundaries outside of which is to be found the "other." I am all. This entire universe is nothing but the sound of my being; the resonance, the reverberation, the music, the symphony of my own being, a symphony of light and sound and rhythms of infinite variety. All of it is my own self being, all of it is the music of my own self being.
 
The universe is not a dream. The dream is the stupor wherein you believe and behave and experience as though the universe were not your own self being. When you awaken from the dream, the Universe and all that it is up to does not change. What changes is your perception of it. Whereas before you perceived it all to be something other than you and outside of you, now you realize that the entirety of it is you and you alone and no one else but you. This entire universe, every last atom and electron, every galaxy, every love, and every dream, all of it without exception, is the sound, the music, the symphony of your being. That's not the dream. That's you being the entire universe. The dream is that you're not the entire universe but an infinitesimal part of it. The dream is that you are not as intimately one with everything as possible -- one with everything because everything IS YOU.
 
When you wake up, the universe stays. When you wake up the universe doesn't turn out to all have been a dream. The universe is NOT the dream. The dream is ONLY that you are not the universe. That's all. Everything else about the dream, or stupor, or hypnotic trance, or mesmerism, or fantasy, or illusion or appearance, is all derivative of the idea that you are not the universe.
 
Contemplate that. You are the universe. You can still go on naming and categorizing and counting and measuring and formulating formulas to reflect that nature of the universe. But the ultimate formula about the nature of the universe is I=uc2. I Equals the Universe times the speed of light squared. Contemplate that. I Equals the Universe times the speed of light squared. Right now you are perceiving the universe as mass, inertia, matter, physical, external. In your mind, convert all that mass into energy. It is only your mind and your mind's belief in duality, your mind's belief in "something other," that makes the energy of the universe appear to be tied up with itself in what appears as mass. But when the tied up energy of mass is untied it releases all that tied up energy in an energy release that is equivalent to 35,000,000 (c2) times the inertia represented by the mass. That's what it feels like within the dream as the dreamer wakes up to the fact that all the so-called mass in the universe is nothing but the music of his own consciousness being. In that moment I=uc2. In that moment you will have nothingized the dual mode of perception.
 
 

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