The Shared Being
El Ser Compartido
This meditation explores how our sense of separateness is a deep but mistaken belief, inviting you to notice the connection that was always there.
The Shared Being
Connection and attunement
You'll start to see when there's that connectivity and that attunement,
because you could also communicate it.
And so there's going to be mirroring, some form of understanding that there's an attunement.
What non-duality points to
What non-duality is pointing to is not that there isn't another person.
There are objects,
there are bodies,
there are beings,
there are planets.
But non-duality is pointing to a deeper place where there is no separation.
Your body-mind is not completely separated from the other person.
That is a false belief.
Just like in physics,
up until not that long ago,
society believed that objects are completely separate.
They believed in atoms as fully separate objects.
Only in the last hundred years has the understanding of that very profound non-separation been happening at the level of physics.
But if you think of that,
the body of what you are is not separated from the rest of the universe.
It's also not separated from other people.
Never.
You can discover that that connection is actually a lot more profound.
And so that's where the non-duality, in a sense, is.
Separate point of view, shared being
There's a sense of a shared being,
and the beauty is that it's that combination of
a separate point of view at one level,
a shared being at another level.
The beauty is that the separate point of view creates
the possibility of that experience of loving another.
And in that very deep place, there's a shared being.
A rational pointer
There are ways to approach that through several paths.
One of them can be quite rational,
but it doesn't have to be. It depends on what works for a specific person at a specific time.
One way to point to it in a more rational sense is this:
for my consciousness to communicate with yours,
they have to be connected.
And if they're connected,
they can't be two.
Because my consciousness is my reality and your consciousness is your reality.
But if they're communicating,
they have to be part of a bigger reality that is one.
And that's a logical pointer,
but the truth of what it points to can be discovered
and felt very deeply,
and then seen as something so obvious
that you can't believe how you didn't see it before.
What was never lost
When we were born,
we were that.
So it wasn't lost.
It's just overlooked.
What we long for is to reconnect
with that deep form of being.
It's always what is. It always is reality,
that deep form of being.
The constant struggle to overlook it
is what causes suffering.
It's just a belief,
but it's so deep.
We think it's reality,
just like when humans thought the sun went around the earth.
It seems so obvious.
It was just a belief.
The mind doesn't have to change or stop.
The trick is to notice what we believe.