Everything is as it is and there is nowhere to go?
Hey Everyone!
I just wanted to share quick post about a book that found me at Chapters in Charlottetown, PEI. I was getting ready to leave the store when I stumbled across a book that was on sale (I got it for dirt cheap actually!). The title of the book is "THIS IS IT... The Nature of Oneness" by Jan Kersschot. The book caught my eye and it has been very interesting to read the past week or so. I always kinda considered myself a bit of a "spiritual" person. This book has me thinking about a lot of things (I won't go into too details here or it could be a very long post). This book really dives into non-duality and how some of us can struggle through our lives searching for "enlightenment" or that one big event to change our lives and bring us constant and eternal bliss. Nondualism is a very new concept to me and I still find it a little confusing, but from what I can see it is about peeling back the way we are conditioned and just start "Being" and all about "Beingness" (that's a lot of being's). It also states that we are all "One" and part of "Oneness"... a few metaphors used in the book are we are all sand castles made with the same sand or that we are all waves in the ocean. This may be a touchy subject for some, but I am just now opening up to these ideas and that maybe everything is appropriate and just as it should be? Maybe there are no higher powers that we are separate from and enlightenment is in our everyday, "ordinary" daily lives....?
A great quote that really hit home with me is from authors interviewed in the book named Tony Parsons when he states - "Everything is as it is. There is nowhere to go". I find it very difficult to speak or put these ideas into words around Non-Duality (hopefully this post helps me!), but I feel that is part of the mystery behind just "Being". Hopefully this may have shed some light on the topic and if anyone has any other thoughts on the topic, I would love to hear them below. Thank you!
-- AdrianP.S - Of course I respect everyone's views on this and am not trying to say this is right or the proper way. As they say in the book, it's everyones choice on how they feel about this and that is exactly appropriate, as it should be :-)
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