Wholeness

Wholeness is undivided, immeasurable, and includes all. In wholeness, all are included in love’s embrace, from the smallest particle to the entire cosmos, in an immaculate flow and interconnectivity of differentiation. Every plant, animal, river, stream, mountain, valley, forest, and desert thread together in an immeasurable wholeness. Even the stars, dark matter, and galaxies flow together, and everything in between lies within wholeness. And wholeness is beyond even the cosmos.

Stopping to see one thing, I see wholeness. Stopping and entering presence, I see wholeness flow through all. Even the entire cosmos universe flows within wholeness and wholeness. There lies no good or bad, right or wrong here. Even if one doesn’t see wholeness, one is still whole.

In love, all manifestations disappear like clouds into one undivided stillness. Love lies in the stillness of presence, the unknowable source, the immeasurable essence of wholeness. Truth and love arise when the personal ego is not.

All is wholeness, and the expression of that wholeness is nothing but love. In wholeness lies no divisions nor delusions. Wholeness is complete, perfect, flowing through all things. There are no “things,” which implies a separation between things. You can see this directly in any ecosystem. Everything is interconnected. For example, a frog isn’t isolated by itself. It needs water, food (other species), air, earth, and sunlight and connects to the other species that try and consume it. A frog is just one example. Essentially, one could do this with anything, as we live in a vast cosmic web of interrelatedness.

Wholeness is presence and is truth, for it is unmovable, unchangeable, is and transcends all. There is no arrival here or progress.

Wholeness is and has always been and will always be you. In wholeness is oneself. There is only now. A presence beyond time and space for time and space is just a way of measuring.

In wholeness, the mind is quiet.

Enculturated thought is measurement and is built from past knowledge and experience developed out of the conditioning of our cultural belief system. It looks into the past and imagines itself in the future. Our enculturated thought is fragmented and divisive, creating conflict within oneself and projecting dysfunction upon the world. Thought can never be present. Thinking can only point to something but is never the actuality. Only in the quiet, without the noise of thought, can wholeness be lived. The irony is that wholeness is always present, everywhere and nowhere. Our conditioned thinking imagines us away from being in wholeness.

Suffering comes from believing one is separate from what is. Suffering developed when we, as children, were slowly taught to suppress our wonder and awe, our curiosity and creativity, and to follow authority’s structure and curriculum. We are conditioned to fight against a perceived other and taught to believe that we are separate independent beings. Suffering comes when we construct a culture based on hierarchy and power instead of interconnectivity and community.

Yet, the beautiful thing is that at any moment, if one can stop and let go of thought and the mind quiets, one can discover the true nature of themselves, wholeness, and be free of our dysfunctional cultural conditioning. Of course, this may seem impossible, for we have become so conditioned to becoming stuck in identity, attachment, belief, and enculturated thought. And it is easier than one may think. Just stop holding onto thoughts. Listen and when a thought comes in, don’t hold onto it and keep coming back to listening. Look to see if anything stands alone. Instead of reacting, which is just a programmed response, be in what is and sense what is going on within oneself without labeling it. Keep coming back to the “I am.” Not I am this, or I am that, for that is not it. The I am that is beyond the words I am. By letting go of all thought identifications, wholeness will is seen. Not by trying to see it but by letting go of everything that blocks one from seeing wholeness.

In wholeness, one sees that one is already whole and that there is no such thing as becoming somebody. We are truly nobody. No-body. We are not the body nor the mind. Both of these are impermanent and will pass away. One is beyond any form, identity, or idea. Everything flows in wholeness. One can’t escape wholeness, for how can one escape the true nature of oneself?

Wholeness can’t be described or contained in language, science, or mathematics. It is beyond time and space, beyond all explanations. It has nothing to do with personal growth or being better or worse. It has nothing to do with spiritual development. All those ideologies are illusions. Positive “self” thinking takes you away from wholeness just as much as negative “self” thinking does.

In complete presence, one dives into wholeness. In this space, all are included, one is all, and all is one. There is no fear nor ideas of power or conquering, for there is no separation. All species, including humans, are seen not in hierarchy but in an interwoven, interdependent co-arising flow. Instead of fear and competition being my program, I am free, move with the flow, and love is — not forced or even tried. Here, one can’t help but love, for love flows in isness. And here in that flow, life is seen fully, and suffering falls away like mist.

i sit and listen and I see that wholeness is

even if one doesn’t see it

one is whole

here a quiet

melts into quiet

and I am alone with it all

yet nothing exists

and senses and forms

dance in an interdependent

co-arising that flows

wholeness is there

and yet beyond it

fragmentation happens

when we think we are separate

yet

one can never separate from presence

separation is an illusion

“The Tao is that from which one cannot deviate; that from which one can deviate is not the Tao.” Chung Yung

Paradoxes within paradoxes..