Business Fit Magazine November 2018 Issue 1 | Page 36

Spirituality
It is often used to
define the elusive
stuff that joins
everything together
witness pole of uninvolved pure awareness. We
do this by paying attention to the key quality
of seamlessness in our living experience,
the life-breath. As we watch the breath,
bringing consciousness to the process, we
cultivate the observer position and we start to
kinaesthetically experience the seamlessness
of our body as an impermanent flow, gas as
air, air as gas, as breath, as tissues. We feel this
breath as the breath of all of life. We also pay
attention to our other living process and find
ourselves as water, as rivers and rain, warmth
that derives from sunlight through the process
of photosynthesis and above all the seamless
web of space-time.
Since we sense all of this we are also not it.
Not being the systemic flow alone, we find
ourselves as awareness in all of this systemic
process. As we go deeper we find our original
nature as awareness, inseparable from
that which weaves as appearances. We find
ourselves as no-self, as the totality, shunyata-
rupa, avyakta-vyakta, or as David Bohm calls it
implicate-explicate.
So let’s, just for now, consider the word
spiritual to be an old school label to cover
the terrain of all this whole, the one as the
many and the many as the one, brahman. The
realms of formlessness and its movements, its
tremor into energy and its manifestation as
the appearances as form.
Imagine one word to cover this terrain of
totality. The word spiritual is an old-fashioned
word that can be repurposed to cover this
terrain. The Sanskrit word for this is Advaita.
Advaita simply means ‘never two’.
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Why is it called practice?
It is not that advaita can be practiced, it just is,
as it is. It is the doer, doing, the done and the
done to all together and all at once. It is pure
and total beingness.
We can’t practice being this, we are it.
However, our evolutionary biology stops us
perceiving this, so the methods that suspend
the ‘hallucination’ of the five senses enable us
to perceive more fully how things really are.
Practices that do this are traditionally called
yogas, dogmas that promote this are religions
and spiritual can be used to define the non-
dogmatic explorations of the unified field -
unicity. What we practice are methods that
help us to remember and know this unicity.
As a result of these practices we may
experience peak moments where the
dissolution of the robust experience of being
solid, real, defined and permanent as form,
dissolve. These moments then have to be
integrated into daily life. The real practice is
integrating the experience of vastness into
daily life.
How does this integration most
fully occur?
When we find the peak experience within
the weave of mundane, daily life. When we
understand ourselves as the unified field,
it manifests as kindness, as compassionate
behaviour in our lives. Of course you don’t
have to believe this, we don’t need more belief,
the aim is to directly experience this in your
life. Direct experience is what ‘spiritual’ practice
is about.
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