Belief vs Experience…
What is this shift that ends suffering?
“Truth is simple, but the seeker is complex.”
This website is not about regurgitating dead words;
I just would love to unlearn old complicated ways and invite fresh, alive ways to debunk unhappiness.
The following table is just a playful draft, an invitation to explore and dis-cover.
Instead of being just a passive consumer, please make it alive by gifting us your comments:
Materialistic (belief/mind-stuff) | Non-dual (direct/aware) |
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I am this body-mind. | Body-mind is an object in my experience. |
I am an autonomous entity surviving in a world of 8,000,000,000 “others”. | I live as though I am this action-figure, free of lack. |
I am in charge of what I think, feel and do. | ”Thoughts happen, deeds are done, but there is no personal doer thereof.” |
Thoughts and feelings are “me”. | I am aware of thoughts and feelings coming and going, but I – Awareness – never come nor go. |
My happiness is in circumstances/objects. | I am this quiet joy. Being, effortlessly. Knowing myself as I am (non-objective) is fulfillment. |
Pain and suffering can diminish what I am. | Pleasure and pain are circumstantial (not in my control), suffering is attitudinal. |
“Only what can be measured is real.” | Beyond doubt, I am; but I don’t know (phenomenally) what I am. |
“An idle mind is the devil’s workshop.” | Mind is a tool, not a place to live in. “A tight muscle is a slow muscle.” |
“Bigger is better” | “Less is more.” |
Money rules the world. | What do I really want? When is enough enough? |
Let’s do it! | “Be the change you want to see.” |
Future happiness. | Quiet joy, always present, here and now. |
The person becomes enlightened. | The psychological-me dissolves. I am That, living as this; not-two. |
Prescriptions (for a personal-doer) | Descriptions (to relax/understand/abandon the nervous system. To tune into the harmony of what IS.) |
What can I get from you! | How may I serve you? |
Belief in “me” = a sense of lack | Presence of “I” = fullness |
All I know about myself is what mind tells “me”. I am a thing in time and space. | Time and space are concepts of mind. I am the one aware of everything coming and going; I am not limited by names and forms. |
I am right, you are wrong. | Being myself is unburdened by opinions. In the world of ideas every concept has an opposite. |
I want to be careful to not interfere with God’s plan. | “Love and do what you will.” |
We create and subdue nature. | We only discover what already is. |
I am this person. | What is perceiving cannot be perceived. |
Idle moments in a conversation feel awkward. | The natural mind is an empty mind. |
Mind is a story-making machine. | Awareness is freedom itself. |
“Now” is sandwiched between past and future. | “Now” is not in time. It is pristine, open and unbound. |
I made up my mind, I know who I am, what I need and want. | I am being lived and loved by Life. |
Suffering is unavoidable, have fun while you can. | Suffering is man-made and can be debunked with a little bravery and understanding. |
“I don’t know” is embarrassing, unacceptable. | “I don’t know” is the Source: Life, love, inspiration, flow. |
Life is a problem that needs to be fixed. | Life is a mystery to be lived. |
Enlightenment is only for a few special people; it takes a lot of time. | Happiness is our birthright, but we tend to overlook it due to faulty thinking and muscle-memory. |
Life is personal | Universal love, individualized |
I make life happen | Life is a happening |
Sorry, in case this table gets a little messy, I am just learning by doing.
Not to open a can of worms, but/however:
What is missing?
What is more important?
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