Sarah, I spent a lot of time in the past questioning about non separation, but what do you mean by that?In that seeing without labeling is there separation?
About the time I started reading the gatecrashers book I realized I could be looking straight at it and not see it for what it was.
So a little info from the past.
It was a beautiful warm fall day and I was at a 7 day retreat. The sun was shining, beautiful white puffy clouds in the sky. The leaves on the trees all a golden red,orange and yellow, making a rustling sounds in the breeze. I was sitting in a Japanese computer chair. The teacher was lecturing when all of a sudden by mind/brain(?) made a funny thunk(?) and I started spreading outwards. It actually felt like the brain changed modes of perception. The I was the “I am”, beingness maybe. I was then the breezes, the rustling sounds, the leaves, everything perceivable “I”was. It actually felt as if the breezes were the breathing of a larger organism. I still realized the i/body was still the center. I then sat there and watched the field start to collapse.
It would be at the wall of the room and kept shrinking until I could see it disappear around me.
I told my teacher and she said it collapsed because I tried to hold on to it. I assume this was “Oneness”.
Is non separation the same idea, or is it so very subtle you need more looking to recognize it? Sometimes the things I see in DE/no label almost glow or jump out at me. I already mentioned the building with the red flowers.
Instead of walking I sat next to a creek running behind the condos where I live. The birds were singing, dogs barking, and bugs visiting often. I was doing DE but it took awhile for the unlabeling/noself to start. Eventually the creek and its banks were seen. It’s really weird to see your own legs that way, they look very strange.Do you see even when you have attention on one thing/object – is seeing still happening elsewhere? Do you take in more than you label? See if the eyes take in everything – but they don’t label everything!
As to your questions, you're not talking about some unified field are you? This is hard to explain, but sometimes at night while sitting, I’ll be listening to the sounds in the condo and I will hear cars driving by and it sounds like everything is being heard in the same place?
Other than that, sure I will be seeing/DE’ing and I still hear birds or whatever.
A lot of times, at night. it seems that when I look out from the balcony at the parking lot and the other buildings, everything is seen in DE/no label. I think that is the effect of the street lights and building lights. etc. They kind of create a bright relief against the darkness.
I tried that today and it didn’t work. After about 15 feet out I couldn’t tell if there was no label or not.
When you ask if the eyes take in more than they label, of course they take in everything. It used to amaze me to look down a long, large street and see the perfect reproduction the eyes were producing.
Is this what you needed to know?
And Sarah, am I writing way too much?
Thank youfor being my guide! -- Larryxxx
