Integrate

Our notions of separation are false. All you have to do is look deeply into any situation where you perceive separation and ask how it is possible. The authors Alan Watts and Adyashanti have excellent books that discuss this topic.

I have made posts about the notion of Human Adulthood and I am sensing even more deeply that everyone is already in the state of Human Adulthood. I am defining this state as one where the perception of separation no longer exists. This isn't a state where you have to learn and practice and become. You simply look and see what is true. Any belief that you hold has the potential to create the unnecessary perception of separateness. It is this sense of separateness that engenders all kinds of needless suffering in an individual life. Want to see this? Look at a problem that you think you have. How are you separating a "you" from an external world in that situation?

Recently I have been recognizing that this state of Human Adulthood is something that we actively opt out of, but it is available to everyone. In fact, you work a lot harder, expend much more energy to keep out of this state. The way this happens is by perceiving wrongness in any situation. The universe isn't a chaotic and scary place unless you artificially assume yourself to be a separate entity. What are you that could exist separately?

Beliefs are the artificial bubbles that we create to sustain a notion of separation.  For instance, the notion of worrying. We may say that to worry about a situation is human. But is it? Look closely at the situation that you are worried about. Recognize that part of you that is trying to control the situation. Is control even possible? Worry wouldn't exist if there wasn't some part of you that sensed a power to control. If we look deeply at the notion of any power to control we find that there is none. And worry is dropped like the hot coal that it is.

What are the beliefs that don't work for you? Could you simply look at the foundation of that belief? Could you detect that constant pull towards a sense of separation and let that go? If you are suffering there is simply no need to identify that situation as wrong. Of course you are not happy to be in the state of suffering, but if you allow it to be rather than trying to run from it you will find yourself recognizing that the reason you suffered was because you tried to escape it so vehemently. Allow it to be. Integrate. Recognize a feeling of separation as an opportunity to look closer.