Non-duality

Devotion to God is devotion to the spirit of life within all. The spirit of reason within a human being is the essential human quality. Living according to God's will is identical to living according to nature. See how all life forms do their job and create harmony. The disturbance in harmony for a human being is identifying with the ego, the illusion of the impermanent individual that is separate from everything else. This feeling of being an impermanent and separate sack of skin looking out into a cold cruel world is not the reality of life.

Selfless service doesn't mean abandoning your needs and being a slave to the world and God. It means instead of experiencing yourself as a little person in conflict with the world, experience yourself as the whole world. As the knower you see the body and the thoughts, memories, and perceptions in the mind. You see this in the same way you see the trees, the grass the sky, and the creatures. The body and the mind are only an instrument to look into this world. All that you experience is the known and it is other than YOU. Try to find where your "I" is, your sense of being. What size, shape, and color is it? You'll find that "YOU" are completely non-physical. You cannot find it because it is you searching. It would be like seeing your eyes or smelling your nose, can't be done. In this way "YOU" are what you experience yet completely unbound by it. "YOU" are the sky, the trees, the grass, and the creatures as much as you are the body and the mind. The only difference being the sensations of the body and the perceptions of the mind.

Consider this- you lose an arm, are you now only part of yourself? What if your entire body goes numb? In the same way suppose your nerves grow out of your body and into your clothes. Would you now consider your clothes to be yourself? Now consider the mind. If the body is just an accumulation of elements then the mind is just an accumulation of perceptions, thoughts, and memories. The nature of your mind is based on the structure of it and the perceptions experienced, your personality is not your essential nature it is just a result of the unique mind that you look through and the perceived experiences you've acquired. Do not be attached to the body and mind as the only means for your existence, just use the body and mind as a tool to experience this world.

In the stillness, the complete silence, "YOU" are still there observing the lack of activity. Like having eyes wide open in a dark room. The beauty is, in complete stillness your discriminating mind is also silent so there is no objection to non-experience. It is blissful. Even in death know this, the field of experience will rise before you again, the dance of creation will continue and "YOU" will be there dancing. Loosen your grip on what you consider to be yourself. See that the self is eternal, conscious, and blissful. See that the whole universe and all activity within it is a dance of energy and "YOU" are the one that sees it, eternally safe. Blessings.