In my last essay, I detailed five variants of nonduality. Here, I wish to crystallise these five variants into five pithy statements that draw out their distinctive features. They are termed "vajra" statements by virtue of their indestructible nature, being verbal expressions of none other than the timeless, stainless, unborn, and undying nature of reality itself.
Here are the five vajra statements:
Unitive nonduality - "I am God."
Cessative nonduality - "No I, No God."
Manifestive nonduality - "All is God."
Active nonduality: "Every action is God."
Devotional nonduality: "Loving into God."
Meditate on these. No, better still, don't meditate on these. Rather, use them as pointers to the innate freedom of your own being. Meditate through them, not on them.
Let not concepts obscure your view. Let not words construct your "experience" for this does not qualify as direct immediate experience. For that is merely second-hand pseudo-experience. This is precisely the problem with forms of meditation that depend on narratives and a bunch of concepts, whether scriptural or theological. What one famous theologian calls "indoctrinated imagination" is really thought confusion, a conflation of constructed dogma with the reality of direct experience.
Be mindful of that. And use these five vajra statements as fingers pointing to the moon, not as the moon itself.
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