Four smart spiritual dudes sitting around talking about It.
Non Duality Roundtable – Adyashanti, Rupert Spira & John Prendergast
About halfway through, a viewer wants to know: all well and good, but does this help with climate change (or genocide)?
The consensus: Probably Nope.
And this dichotomy (in spite of the fact that we’re talking Non-Duality) feels to me instructive.
Sometimes enlightened monks burn themselves to death in protest for the very best reasons.
Sometimes they issue virulent overtly anti-Semitic screeds.
All of that (and evolution and Civilization too) is taking place on the very surface of the water.
Down by the geothermal vents, the greater Consciousness abides unchanged.
All of this remains theoretical. All of this remains the theory that the I who doesn’t exist feels warmest by.
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At the end, here are three pointers offered that I’ll be dipping into.
Sermons, by Meister Eckhardt (in particular, ‘Sermon 22’)