Duality

 The emotions are produced by a feeling of duality – subject and object – pure awareness and something else – being, and being something else. The ordinary mind caught by this something else believes that something else to be reality.

This believing in something else is not continuous, as there is a flicker of pure awareness present all the time, but it’s hardly noticed. There is a sort of oscillation – now you see it, now you don’t…very fast!

 We cut through this flicker by recognising naked awareness in the gaps. It is not achieved by effort; our true nature is already free, the path and liberation comes from just resting at ease with whatever happens.

We cannot make any contrived effort because that produces a something else. Just know that everything arises from confusion, we reverse that by resting in an uncontrived state. 

Until enlightenment we will have a sense of duality. Gradually, the flickering slows down, so we are not caught and held so much.

 Experience moments of reality
all those moments join up.
Experience moments of meditation
all those moments join up.
Experience moments of happiness
all those moments join up.
Experience moments of compassion
all those moments join up…

…but don’t do anything
as there was no duality in the first place!