"Everything in the universe is beyond explanation." Non-duality with Richard Sylvester

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Richard has been giving talks on non-duality since 2005 and has written four books about it, including the much-loved little classic ‘I Hope You Die Soon’. His fifth book, ‘Confessions of a Seeker’ is about his many years as a spiritual seeker but it also includes chapters on free will, consciousness and religion. It is sometimes extremely funny (one reader laughed so much she had to stop reading it in public places) and sometimes profoundly serious.
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[@joeyk39]

It’s brilliant!

[@ludochine]

That was a very inspiring speech

[@GodHelpMe369]

But most raindrops, when they get near the ocean, they stop
and they say: ‘Oh no!’, and they try to go back to the cloud.
This is what creates hailstorms.
And they enter hail-realms
of inability to commit to unite with the ocean.
And they would rather tell stories about how close they got to that ocean
but remain in some cloud of unknowing that confuses itself with the Real.
But a time comes when the Ocean of Consciousness can no longer be resisted,
because the gravity of the hailstone has accumulated too much suffering,
too much frozenness in its past traumas, too much fear, too much illusory entity-hood,
too much history, too much sorrow, too much karma to bear.
But no matter how large the hailstone or how small,
or how liquefied the drop,
all dissolve the same,
all are one,
there is no difference.
No matter what happened in that biographical journey of the illusory ego,
all are the same, one, infinite ocean of presence, of intelligence, of bliss.
And the ocean is an infinite ocean of laughter, of joy, at the realization of the illusion.
And there is no mind left that would wish for anything other than this eternal liberation.
And because all these raindrops and hailstones have emerged
from the same ocean in the first place
they carry that ocean within,
they have never been anything BUT that ocean.
We are always that which we are seeking,
or we are fleeing from,
or we are thinking about committing to.
But all of those illusory attitudes toward the Real,
all take place ignorantly WITHIN the Real
because there is nothing BUT the Real.
The ocean may extend itself as fog, as clouds, as storms,
as every possible permutation of form and energy and activity;
it may even take the apparent form of solid ground.
But all of it ultimately is that same oceanic awareness,
that same infinite, formless, intelligent, blissful Self,
regardless of whatever conditions arise within its plane of awareness.
All that arises, all that disappears, constitute the same light, the same mind-nature,
the same infinite intelligence.
And there is no change, there is no multiplicity,
there are no persons, bodies, events, only the immutable Presence
that contains all, but is untouched, unaffected, undisturbed.
And from that perspective of the ocean
we recognize that even the traumatic experiences are gifts.
They are even the greatest gifts,
for they show us our own power of self-overcoming,
our power of awakening, illumination, self-liberation,
the ecstasy of that eternal instant
when you realize that YOU are THAT.
And this internal instant is always now...

[@bette238]

"yeah join the club - one of people's favorite pastimes trying to change what's happening" 😂

[@robbiepeterh]

Me: Richard, what do you like to do in your spare time as a hobby?
Richard: the usual like watching an ant walk over a leaf and going like this with my hand. It’s brilliant.
Me: o yeah I agree: it doesn’t get much better than that. 👀

[@richardsylvester]

👍😄