Bedrock

Bedrock

There is a perception which, once realized, gives lasting peace of mind. This perception is that all phenomena in the universe are the manifestation of an “energy” which is not—nor has ever been or will ever be—in any way divided. There is a universal energy which is completeness in constant change. It is not, and cannot be, contained; its movement is not limited by time or space. Because it is unlimited, it is without beginning or ending. It is completely and constantly whole: this energy is everything which is.

It is present in every place, this very moment—and this present moment is the only actual time there is. It is the “movement” of this energy which makes the moment endless, which makes it the endlessly changing moment that it is.

There is nothing which shares this energy; all things are this energy. The energy is indivisible. Because everything is this energy, there is not anything which is separate, apart, from all else. “You” have never been—and never will be— severed from this energy; nor have you ever been, or will you ever be, isolated from all else that is. You are not presently a “part” of anything, because there is not anything that you have ever been disjoined from. Since you have never been apart from all else that is, there is no “self” which can actually have been formed as a separate part. The self does not exist, except in the human imagination; there is no “part” of the universe which can, in reality, be distinguishable from the remainder of the universe. You are this energy, and this energy is boundless

and in constant transition…uncontainable within such a fixed confine as man’s conception of the “self.” Man is the “unhappy” animal. And the self is a fiction of man’s mind; it is the creation of conceptual thought. The viewing of things which are different as being somehow divided from all other things is a quirk of our imagination— whether what is considered as different is “me,” “you” or “it”; whether it is defined as special, foreign or merely unusual; and whether it is thought to be a concrete reality or an ephemeral event. Division, like the self, is solely a concept, a notion. Where there is no such notion as division, there is not such a notion as the self.

When your perception of this is complete, contention will be replaced by tranquility. This is something which will not be taken away from you. It is the bedrock.