Business Fit Magazine January 2020 Issue 1 | Page 32

Spirituality
around the corners of city ghettos and the air-
conditioned living rooms of the wealthy. Notice
the wind that has been breathed through
trees, dinosaurs and bears, through myriads of
creatures before you. Notice the breath moving
deep into your lungs, through your heart and
deep into every cell of your body. Notice that
most of you is made up of the gases - hydrogen,
oxygen, nitrogen and carbon dioxide. Notice
how everything is joined up. Notice how this
appearance of boundary your nervous system
has created is really quite artificial, a necessary
construct of evolution and artificial. Now there
are no spiritual stories, there is just experience
of wind, of breath being us. This is the beginning.
Next, we move consciously. Engaging in mindful,
breath rich movement enables us to feel and find
awareness within and as flesh. Aware flesh or
fleshy awareness, the illusion of two things, mind
and matter is fractured. There is only the one
play of fleshy awareness-aware flesh. When we
look up into a starry night sky and see the milky
way. First, we are blessed enough not to be in
a light polluted metropolis, second, we have the
opportunity to look deep into the heart of our
own galaxy. Not that it is ours, and into the black
hole at the centre of it far beyond our vision.
Then we look outwards at our local group of 54
galaxies. Then we allow our minds to just begin
to touch into the vastness of the one hundred
billion galaxies that we estimate this universe
to have. Now we consider the arrogance of the
term universe. What are the of boundaries this?
How many such structures are there? Is it a
multiverse? What came before this ‘universe’?
What might have anteceded this? We have no
idea. We can come up with theories and stories,
but we have no idea. Unknowing is the path.
The way that can be named is never the Way.
Inconceivably vast open space in all directions.
Then we go inwards in meditation. Finding
deep subtle awareness at a cellular level, at a
molecular level, at an atomic level. We dive deep
into the particulate quality of the atoms which
make up our existence and find they are simply
vortexing energy. We go into that energy and find
it scintillating, sparkling into and out of existence.
We find that we are this. We find awareness in the
dimension of space, we find spacious awareness
as aware space. We find the space-time that we
are to be awareness, we find awareness to be
bubbling through and as space-time. We find no
separation anywhere, wherever we look there is
the one manifesting, dancing, scintillating as the
many. The many being none other than the One.
The words duality and nonduality no longer make
sense - there just is. Always and already. There is
no longer any need for spiritual belief, spiritual
stories or not being fully here, fully now. There
is never and never was any separation except in
our minds. There is only interrelationship, inter-
being being We.
What we get to feel is the absolute continuity and
interdependence of all phenomena as well as
the blissful intimacy of the formless pregnancy
of possibility, the energetic scintillation of the
sparkle of this empty-fullness and its appearance
as form, what we call (from the perspective of the
five sense fields) reality. Some people like to call
this experience of unicity - spiritual. Some people
call the methods that dissolve the biological
imperative of the illusion of separation - spiritual
practice. This is fine. It doesn’t matter what we
call it or what we believe, does it? What matters
is that we directly experience and know this
beyond words and concepts. What we do know
is this, the universal arising for people is a greater
understanding of why and how things are as they
are and deeper more empathic, compassionate
visions of being.
The thing about
blame is it is always
wrong
People often find great power, bliss, joy and a
deep core-identity as the super-consciousness
these are facets of. People also often find greater
creativity, a passion for conscious evolution
and Pro-social behaviours, care for this planet,
greater purpose and a greater responsibility for
the interbeing moving as the experience of them,
as aware-flesh, aware-feeling, aware-thinking and
aware-relating. If you choose to call that spiritual
practice, then I say bring it on!
Christopher Gladwell is Founder, director and lead teacher of the
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Engaged Yoga Institute and Yogasara CIC. He is also a Biologist, Wellbeing
Coach, personal transformation and personal excellence expert, certified in
breathwork, psychotherapy, clinical hypnosis, NLP, structural bodywork and
mindfulness. He aims to help people free themselves from the prisons of the
mind that we so often inhabit. www.christophergladwell.com
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