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Wonderful guidance thank you !! Really enjoyed the discovery and new perceptions.
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Why words don't work
I am sure all of us who are on this path have had the experience of trying to put into words our experience and finding we can't. It can be frustrating. This short video explains why we can't really describe our experience with this medicine. It reminds me of the quote from the Tao Te Ching: "The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao" (trans Stephen Mitchell)
1 like • Feb 17
This is great and so timely, thanks !
Belief Is the Last Prison: Why God as an Idea Keeps Fear Alive
"As long as you believe in God, you remain separate, and fear survives.” This is not an attack on the sacred — it is an exposure of illusion. Belief creates distance. The moment God becomes an object of belief, something outside you, separation is born. And where there is separation, fear naturally survives: fear of judgment, fear of punishment, fear of losing grace, fear of being unworthy. Mystics never asked you to believe. They asked you to see. In the silence of true seeing, God is not “there” and you are not “here.” The division collapses. Fear cannot exist without distance. Fear needs a gap — between you and life, you and truth, you and existence. This is why mystics dance, sit in silence, laugh, disappear. Not because they believed — but because belief dissolved. Attributed to the spirit of Rumi, this insight points beyond religion, beyond theology, beyond ideology. It invites you to drop belief and enter intimacy with existence itself. No belief. No fear. Only presence. If this resonates, sit with it — don’t agree, don’t disagree. Let it work in silence. Source Mystical insight inspired by the non-dual tradition and the spirit of Rumi’s teachings on direct experience over belief.
Belief Is the Last Prison: Why God as an Idea Keeps Fear Alive
1 like • Feb 8
I love this ! Thank you - I will sit with it 🙏❣️
5 Non-Dual Everyday Practises.
I've put together five practical ways you can start practicing non-duality today. It's about shifting your attention from the stories in your head to the raw, immediate experience. 1. Melt the Observer and the Observed (Chores as Practice). Think about doing the dishes or folding laundry. Usually, your mind says, "I am doing this boring thing." That's the split: I (the subject/doer) and dishes (the object/done). * The Shift: Try to drop the "I" label. Don't do the dishes; just let the experience of washing happen. Notice the warm water on your hands, the rough texture of the sponge, the squeak of clean glass. The sound, the sensation, the movement—it’s all just one unbroken experience. The washing is what you are right now. * The Payoff: When you really pay attention, the boring chore becomes vivid. You stop resisting the moment, and that’s a direct taste of non-duality. 2. Question Your Reactions (The 'Who is Annoyed?' Inquiry) Life throws curveballs, right? Maybe a driver cuts you off, or a coworker annoys you. The dualistic mind immediately yells, "They are bad, and I am right." * The Shift: When a strong emotion hits, don't follow the story. Just pause and ask, "Where is the center of this anger?" or "Who is feeling this annoyance?" Look for the solid, separate I that is getting upset. * The Payoff: You'll find that the "I" is elusive. It's not a thing you can grab, just a fleeting bundle of thoughts and sensations. The anger or annoyance is simply an event arising in a vast field of awareness, just like the sound of the car horn. See it as an event, not a personal attack. This process of self-inquiry is one of the quickest ways to see through the illusion of the separate self. 3. Drop the Judge (Accepting the Unacceptable) We're all walking, talking critics. We label everything: "This feeling is bad," "This weather is terrible," "That thought is stupid." This is the essence of duality: good/bad, right/wrong, self/other. * The Shift: Practice radical acceptance. Let everything be as it is. When a "bad" feeling like sadness or restlessness appears, don't try to fix it, judge it, or push it away. Just let it be. It's just energy moving.
0 likes • Jan 10
Thank you Miguel ! Exactly what I needed to start post retreat 😊🙏
Presence (or direct awareness) vs. Interoception
When a teacher instructs to "let awareness rest in the body ", the mind may confuse the instruction with interoception. The practitioner is then mislead into shifting cognition from visual or auditory cognition to somatic perception, while the teacher was pointing, not to the idea of the body, or the sensation of it, but something prior to representation: the field of presence that transcends all representations. A better pointer would have been "let the body be the place where awareness forgets itself as a mind."
1 like • Jan 1
@Fathy Akrouf this is great ! Very useful Thank you!
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Stéphanie Ruder Schoof
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Swiss, a self-leadership coach, Somatic Experiencing practitioner and Focusing trainer.

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