"in the beginning was the Tao; 

all things issue from it;

all things return to it.

                       Tao Te Ching, Verse 52

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Have you ever wondered how you grow your hair? How you breathe? Shed your skin? multiply the cells in your body? Have you noticed that it all happens of its' own accord? You don't need to think about it to make it happen, it just does it. Have you ever wondered how a tree grows it's acorns? or a flower blooms into stunning glory from it's beautiful tiny bud? Science has come a long way in exploring these questions, and with research we can discover some of the apparent mechanisms through which all the magnificent natural phenomena happen, but we only ever produce models and theories - patterns of thought. When we take this as actuality we are guided to mistake the map for the terrain, and so through intellectualising 'the world' we feel like we are 'on the outside' of the Self?

 

What drives the spontaneous growth, behaviour, precision, and perfection that exists in the natural world, and in you? Asking this question, and exploring the answer through direct experiencing, feeling, and sensing (rather than through what we think we know) through the space of the heart, is an astoundingly powerful pointer to the Self (True Nature) - that which we are beyond all arising phenomena, the ground of being.  Whatever is happening to make that flower bloom, that bird fly, and the whole of the planet to breathe - this is also happening with you.

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                                                                              How could it not be love? 

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The air that we breathe is in one moment apparently inside our body, and in the next is outside. Indeed, is there an inside and outside at all? That same air is also breathed by the trees, plants, birds, and all other life around. We exist as one big beautiful net, all working simultaneously, in symphony, with a precision that is unfathomable to the thinking mind. Yet the sense of 'I' that we move to the beat of seems to lead us to feeling that we only exist inside our own skin, or indeed - in our own heads, arising from a limited body, in limited time, and limited space.  We have become so identified with our thinking (self concept) that we have grown to miss the reality, the truth, of our existence.  This assumption of separation can make us feel worry, anxiety, and angst, as we move through life feeling the need to compete, achieve, and 'get' from 'the world outside' through a shared model of reality rooted in a belief that we are separate from the whole and need to find happiness and wholeness 'out there' in the world. We experience ourselves rooted in a deep sense of insecurity.  This paints our experience of the world - projects out into our interactions, our relationship with life, including other humans, through a case of mistaken identity. 

 

So what is this sense of 'I Am'? What is it's nature and from where does it arise. What is the true nature of our beingness? And is it separable from all else that is sensed in the wider living world? Exploring the answer to this question, through our own direct experience and seeing with the heart, is the movement of Nondual exploration and the pathless path to recognising the wholeness inherent in our experience of living.

 

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