Separation of Duality

A view of duality causes separation because it creates a you and a me. Whenever this is the way life is viewed there has to be separation because there’s a self that’s doing the perceiving...

An awakening is a shift from being caught up in a dual self world, to seeing what’s really going on beyond the distractions of duality. The phrase higher self is often used to explain what being awake is, but attachment to self causes duality anyway it’s looked at. You must go beyond any thought of self to truly awaken because any thought of self whether higher or lower is a distraction that keeps you locked in a duality distraction. Any thought of self creates this duality; oneness is the only true state of being. I’m old enough to have seen the old cartoons where an angel and devil would pop up on someone’s shoulders when they were about to make a decision. To me regardless of which self won out it was still a decision made by self. A belief of a higher self as opposed to a lower one makes for a nice story, but it just creates more separation.

This form that has manifested for humans to experience life only does what it does because of the conditioning in place. If there is less of this conditioning to not be controlled by self, count your blessings because most people (form) will die consumed in self. It makes no difference whether it’s labeled higher or lower, self is self and until self is truly let go of, duality and not oneness will be the controlling energy. This duality causes separation because it creates a you and a me. Whenever this is the way life is viewed there has to be separation because there’s a self that’s doing the perceiving…