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The Eye of Spirit
Ken Wilber
Eye to Eye
Ken Wilber
The Simple Feeling
of Being
Ken Wilber
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ken wilber
the eye of spirit
The Eye of Spirit: an integral vision for a world gone
slightly
mad introduces Ken Wilber's Integral Theory and includes a great non-dual
section in the last chapter. This excerpt contains the first few paragraphs from that chapter.
The Great Search
The realization of the Non-dual
traditions is uncompromising: there is only Spirit, there is only God,
there is only Emptiness in all its radiant wonder. All the good and all
the evil, the very best and the very worst, the upright and the
degenerate -- each and all are radically perfect manifestations of
Spirit precisely as they are. There is nothing but God, nothing but the
Goddess, nothing but Spirit in all directions, and not a grain of sand,
not a speck of dust, is more or less Spirit than any other.
This realization undoes the
Great Search that is the heart of the separate-self sense. The
separate-self is, at bottom, simply a sensation of seeking. When you
feel yourself right now, you will basically feel a tiny interior tension
or contraction -- a sensation of grasping, desiring, wishing, wanting,
avoiding, resisting -- it is a sensation of effort, a sensation of
seeking.
In its highest form, this
sensation of seeking takes on the form of the Great Search for Spirit.
We wish to get from our unenlightened state (of sin or delusion or
duality) to an enlightened or more spiritual state. We wish to get from
where Spirit is not, to where Spirit is.
But there is no place where
Spirit is not. Every single location in the entire Kosmos is equally and
fully Spirit. Seeking of any sort, movement of any sort, attainment of
any sort: all profoundly useless. The Great Search simply reinforces the
mistaken assumption that there is some place that Spirit is not, and
that I need to get from a space that is lacking to a space that is full.
But there is no space lacking, and there is no space more full. There is
only Spirit.
The Great Search for Spirit is
simply that impulse, the final impulse, which prevents the present
realization of Spirit, and it does so for a simple reason: the Great
Search presumes the loss of God. The Great Search reinforces the
mistaken belief that God is not present, and thus totally obscures the
reality of God's ever-present Presence. The Great Search, which pretends
to love God, is in fact the very mechanism of pushing God away; the
mechanism of promising to find tomorrow that which exists only in the
timeless now; the mechanism of watching the future so fervently that the
present always passes it by -- very quickly -- and God's smiling face
with it.
Source:
nondual highlights
Ken Wilber on nondual mysticism:
~ the sense of being any sort of
Seer or Witness or Self vanishes altogether. You
don’t look at the sky, you are the sky. You can
taste the sky. It’s not out there. As Zen would say,
you can drink the Pacific Ocean in a single gulp,
you can swallow the Kosmos whole – precisely because
awareness is no longer split into a seeing subject
in here and a seen object out there. There is just
pure seeing. Consciousness and its display are
not-two.
A Brief History of Everything, by
Ken Wilber (Realms of the Superconscious: Part 2)
Source: Jerry Katz's
nonduality blog
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