WHERE DOES THE TROUBLE START?

    Both consciousness and material objective phenomena are ultimately identical in the unified totality of Being. In the relative context of perceptual categorization that we nearly always use at the level of everyday mind, consciousness is subject while phenomena are objects. These are useful terms for describing functional processes but appear dualistic, the awareness that observes over against the object being observed. This dichotomy seems real enough, but is actually only a mental categorization, twin concepts that emerge in the mind because of ignorance of the actuality of integral functional process. Everything is the Eternal Absolute, the One Reality; its pure subjectivity appears as temporal phenomena of objectivity. Through the inherent power of limitation the Absolute appears to Itself as relative multiplicity, an apparent (but not actual) kosmos of separated objects in space appearing and disappearing in time. The generic term usually adopted to describe this is “illusion” or “maya”.  This process is the cause and effect matrix of the generation of phenomenal Becoming within subjective Being; but it is not an actual dualism.  To understand this is the nondual awakening. This awakening occurs when this initial dichotomy of subject vs. object is no longer created by the mind.  This initial dichotomy is the primary cause of all the further fragmentations of perception that culminate in the separative notion of ego, and, this is the point at which a person forgets his kosmic identity and starts to be identified with his body and mind.   The sense of duality is where all the trouble starts.  Dualistic perception and thinking is the primal spiritual schizophrenia.

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