Non Duality Is Too Simple For Most Minds
What returns us to the peaceful home of our being is the effortless understanding that we are this aware reality that is always present and never changing, which we do not know is limited.
This not-knowing results from a thorough, rational inquiry into the nature of this aware reality we are, which reveals that we cannot know it is dependent on the mortal body.
This understanding of not knowing quietens the mind from its tendency to define what we are based on its belief that we are a mortal object dependent on the body, and we realise the illusory nature of this false identification.
This effortless understanding leads us to the peace of being this no-thing reality, which is everything taking the appearance of being something.
Our sense of what is real becomes this reality that is everything, and as it does, there is peace, for we are complete as we are.
Here, all that is perceived, including all living bodies, is understood and felt to be the aware reality we are, and we are this self-illuminating reality just flowing by itself.
Therefore, effortless understanding leads to a glimpse of our true nature.
Here, there is the great fullness and indestructible wholeness of our being. We are liberated from mortal insecurity, and the mind that seeks can rest in its source.
The mind may call this the natural state, but it is not a mental or bodily state. It is an effortless understanding of what is real.
Therefore, it becomes clear that understanding is beyond the mind, and the mind is just a thinking machine.
The mind always thinks that happiness requires effort, so it has a deep tendency to want to make achieving this an effort or practice.
If understanding does not come from the mind, where does it come from? It can only come from the aware reality we are directly.
Even though we effortlessly understand we are this aware reality and experience the peace of being this, through the force of habit of seeking happiness, our mind may start, without us realising, personifying and objectifying our existence again.
At first, we may not notice this, and it may even seem innocuous and pleasurable as we think again of other people as separate and the world as materially separate, but very quickly, we find we have lost our innate peace.
No matter if this occurs, we should not berate ourselves for falling from grace and compound the illusion of our personalness.
Having spotted this, we can return to the peaceful home of our being through the effortless understanding of it.
Over time, the habit of the efforting mind to seek self-improvement or turn happiness into practice will diminish as the futility of this is realised.
Eventually, our mind learns that what returns us to the peaceful home of our being is this effortless understanding and not its efforting.
In this way, we become the masters of our minds and do not let our minds master us.
Love
Freyja
