The High Indifference
La Alta Indiferencia
A reflection on how genuine non-dual realization frees one to fully inhabit the relative world, and why clinging to unity as something special becomes its own subtle trap.
The High Indifference
A reflection on how genuine non-dual realization frees one to fully inhabit the relative world, and why clinging to unity as something special becomes its own subtle trap.
There is a concept called "the high indifference." Based on my experience and my reading, what is being referred to is this: there is an entering of non-duality. And then there is a different kind of duality, one that has to do with the denial of relative duality.
Beyond the need to abide in non-duality
The high indifference arises because, since non-duality is the nature of everything, I no longer need to abide in it. I can abandon it completely and be completely indifferent to it, because it is everything, everywhere. And so now I am free to live only and fully in the relative. To me, that is where the love we are talking about starts to truly manifest.
It sounds as though this is all beyond the mind. The first step is a recognition beyond the mind, but then you have to keep going beyond the mind, because you can return to the mind and try to understand, to take the unity you have seen and reduce it to the level of thought. This is when duality hides in subtle thoughts. This is very common. There are many people who have a real awakening and then get stuck in a subtle duality.
Rejection of the relative as a sign of stuckness
You will see it if there is a rejection of the relative. If there is an emphatic rejection of everything that belongs to the relative (by "relative" I mean the apparent multiplicity), that is a sign of this subtle trap. When the apparent multiplicity is celebrated, that is true freedom. That is the one that is three.
When unity can be forgotten
The oneness, the unity, can be completely forgotten. It is no longer important or relevant, because it is everything. It is everywhere. It no longer needs to be highlighted, considered, or thought of. It can be spoken about when there is a relationship where some clarifying is invited, but otherwise it can simply be forgotten. It can literally become something that is no longer special.