Yes and it is this incessant, confounded “questioning” of ALL beliefs that will eventually lead to the ultimate question of bodily existence and, thusly, conceptualizations of “non-dualistic” perspectives (does that make sense?). That’s when the party really gets started.

As an aside, I visited your wife’s website and I would say, with all due respect, she is a ravishing beauty!

I’ll bet you tend to thank ‘dualism’ for that aspect of ‘reality’!?

My best regards to the both of you,

Thanks,
mike S

You’ve highlighted a great point. Usually when we question beliefs, we’re questioning very superficial ones. Getting in touch with the belief process itself, so that we recognize when we’re engaged in it (on any level), opens some amazing doors.

If I’m reading your comment correctly, the next part is equally important. As we explore non-dualism we quickly begin to form concepts of ‘what non-dualism is’. If we can see when we are applying concept to our quest for non-dualism, and question every non-dual model we create, then eventually we’re left with nothing to cling to, and that is, indeed, when the party really begins.

Thanks as always for your words, and I’ll pass on the compliments to Rebecca =)

Sweetwater,

Kenton

All the same, great way to illustrate how we can examine our made-up rules and standards and realise the irrelevance of our desperate clinging to them. As we increasingly view our realities in a non-dual way, we find that our natural behaviour needs no regulation after all. That is true freedom, indeed.

To Rebecca, you are one gorgeous lady. I can tell how Kenton and you are so very proud of one another. And rightly so.

I love what you added to this. Freedom is an intensely interesting subject — one of those things we so often feel we understand, when in truth many of us have never asked ourselves what we mean when we use the word.

Rebecca thanks you graciously, by the way.

Hugs,
Kenton

Sweetwater,

Kenton

Great example. The level to which we are capable of burying our feelings and our realizations is amazing. Suppress, suppress, suppress, until we’ve created a core of frustration and feelings of desperation.

‘Letting go’ is a fine way to describe the cessation of our tolerance for burying things. And what freedom there is in it!

Thanks for sharing =)

Kenton

So would you say that we happen to live in a world of relativity, where not even morals are absolute?

Welcome! You’ve posed a fun question. Claiming that the world is relative tends to create just as many problems as claiming the opposite — which is a clue that the answer doesn’t lie at either extreme — indeed, it doesn’t lie within any model we can create of the world. We’re so engrossed in our models that we often assume that they MUST be actual descriptions of the way the world is — instead of rather feeble attempts to capture the organic nature of the world in the cage of our symbols. So I’d say that morals are definitely not absolute, but nor are they relative. Indeed, I’d call us to question what exactly we mean by the idea of ‘morals’, and to examine the assumption that they are ‘real’ or ‘necessary’. This sort of examination reveals some pretty interesting observations regarding our vision of who we are as individuals and as a species.

I’m very excited to explore your site, by the way. It looks very, very interesting! =)

Hugs,
Kenton