David Hall's Non-Duality Blog
My name's David Hall. I'm the creator of this web site and its content. I live in Wales in the UK.
I developed the Celtic design software KnotWorker, I create electronic music as Goldcup7, and I've written books on spirituality and non duality.
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- Written by David Hall
- Category: The Universe
Nothing ever stops and nothing ever starts. What we perceive as starting and stopping is illusory.- Written by David Hall
- Category: The Human Experience
Why are Love, Peace and Harmony such important qualities to humanity? Because they are the nature of Reality. Let's explore and understand that better.
These super important qualities are simply the nature of Oneness. Humans experience a spectrum of love, ranging from selfless love and compassion, through to love of another. It's a spectrum or continuum of Oneness, feeling close to or separate from the Oneness of all that is. The far end of this spectrum strays from love to its opposite, hate. We can visualise this spectrum as spanning from compassion for all, through love of some, love of another, to liking someone or something, through ambivalence, to dislike and then hate. It is a range from Oneness or Wholeness to separation and division.
Similarly, the peace that we know of can range from good positive relations, through some disagreements, to conflict and war. This again is a spectrum of Oneness. Peace itself is the nature of Oneness. Further from this nature, the peace diminishes and turns to its opposite, war.
We understand harmony as a balance or lack of imbalance. Harmony can range from great balance and cohesion, through increasing imbalance, to chaos. This also is a spectrum of Oneness. The One, the perfect Singularity, has no opposites. We can consider the One as more than separation in unity. It is beyond unity, beyond any sense of separation. It is perfect Harmony. There are no seams in Oneness.
So Love, Peace and Harmony are different understandings of the nature of Oneness. They are expressed and experienced in the human world as less than Oneness. So the love, peace and harmony we experience from a human perspective is less than true Love, Peace and Harmony. What is experienced in the human world is temporary love, peace and harmony. The love we experience comes and goes. Sometimes there is relative peace, sometimes there is conflict. The harmony we experience is not perfect; there is still some separation and imbalance. What appears as the human world is itself imbalance. The apparently separate world that appears is itself an expression of separation fallen out of Perfect Balance.
The Reality of Oneness cannot be experienced. If all we could see was light then we wouldn't see anything. If all we could see was darkness then we wouldn't see anything. The contrast of opposites is needed for Oneness to be perceived. The world, then, appears as imbalance, the opposite of the true nature of Reality, which is perfect seamless Harmony.
To summarise, Love, Peace and Harmony are the nature of the Reality of Oneness, and within this Oneness the opposites of Oneness, Love, Peace, and Harmony, are utilised to express the true unseen nature of Oneness. It is then that Love, Peace and Harmony seem to be the high standards for humanity. Really they are the natural qualities of All That Is. They are always, timelessly, present. The nature of Oneness remains throughout the appearance of separation.
The spectrum of Oneness is never truly divided. All That Is remains as All That Is, no matter what appears to happen. There is never less or more in the universe. It is always Whole, always One. There are no others to love or hate. There is no conflict between these and those. There is no disharmony between one and another. There is only ever Oneness allowing the false appearance of its opposite and the play of separation and division. Reality is always Love, Peace and Harmony.
How do we find and feel this sacred Reality? We can't really find it or feel it, as it is always present. What we can do, or rather, what the mind can do, is drop its notions of separation. Drop the beliefs that I am a separate being in a separate world, and let this flow through all that is experienced. Effectively, drop the beliefs of limitation and set yourself free.
- Written by David Hall
- Category: Spiritual Symbols and Patterns
I've mentioned elsewhere about The Hollow. It is a pattern found throughout the universe. Here are a few examples: the unfertilised egg, the hollow lungs that fill and empty, the stems of plants, the hollow bones of birds, whirlpools and eddies, wind instruments like flutes and trumpets, also drums and acoustic guitars that use the hollow of the guitar body for resonance and projecting the sound. The hollow is found in the ear canal, in the moo of a cow and the howl of the wolf, in carved out caves, twisters and hurricanes, and the 'black hole' of a singularity.- Written by David Hall
- Category: Non-duality
Reality is impersonal. Reality has no limits to divide this from that. There is only an appearance of limits. We may assume or believe that there are limits. But these limits are never truly and accurately defined. Consider a wave on the ocean. It has no limits, no beginning or end definition. It is really just the ocean appearing to have the form of peaks and troughs. There isn't one wave separate from another, yet we assume that 'a wave' really is something.
Similarly with the branches of a tree. There aren't really branches. It is just the tree. We may look at the tree and say, "Here's a branch. Here's another branch. There are many branches." But it is just the tree. The human mind has labelled 'a branch' without really accurately defining where 'a branch' begins and ends. It has no beginning or ending. Just as with the wave.
These labels are useful, yes. But are they wholly accurate? No.
So, back to the person and the Impersonal. We may consider that we are a person and we know other persons. It's useful to have that understanding, but it's not wholly accurate. Truly there is no divide between persons. We might say, "My body is separate from their body, so we must be different separate people." But there is no clear definition where this 'body' begins and ends. The body is a flowing, interactive formation within the planet. It's not separate from the planet, from the solids, liquids and gases that flow through it. Although it may seem that 'air' separates 'this body' from 'that body', again this is just the human mind labelling things that are not clearly defined. We can vaguely accept it, and that's fine. But is it true? No.
If we really want to find truth we need to recognise that the words we use to define things are never accurate, because there are not truly many things. There is only This. Reality is a complete undivided whole. It may appear as many, but that is a play of division and separation. Reality is always Whole.
So if we are not this person, then who are we? We are the Whole. We are This.
Why does it seem that there are many separate life forms? Because This can only appear through a play of separation and reflection. The limited person is the reflection of the Impersonal Infinite Reality. The individual is the opposite of the Whole. The Whole can only be expressed by use of opposites, so what appears within the Whole is a reflection of the Whole. What appears seems to be incomplete, stretched out from here to there, fallen out of balance, drifting far from Here, conflicting and clashing. What appears seems to be far from Oneness, Wholeness and Completeness. But Reality is One, Whole and Complete. It never can fall out of harmony.
There only ever seems to be many. There only seem to be multiple persons. The Truth is right Here, not over there. Reality remains complete and content. We are This.