What is is Oneness.

[Bring4th_Austin]

Austin, all I am going to say that is if one convicts themselves to the path "there is work to do" in every step of the path to the ends of the universe, you're going to have a very wounded soul.

What I'm trying to point out to you is that you are essentially saying this same thing, that there is work to do.

You say, "I am not saying there is work to do. I am saying there is everything to embrace." "Just a choice to embrace this in every moment, will cease suffering, not in tangible quality but how it is interpreted." This implies that someone who does not experience unity is not embracing everything, and that there is more to embrace. That our acceptance and ability to embrace the moment must be expanded. That they exist in one state (of lack of embracing) and must move another (of full embracing). This is telling someone they must change the state they are in, in order to experience unity.

You say, "Letting go is all that is needed." This implies that for someone who is holding on, and not in a state of "letting go," they must do something, they must let go, in order to experience this unity. They must shift from a state of holding on to a state of letting go. And what then should they do if they have the desire to let go and the understanding that letting go is the answer, yet still find themselves not able to let go?

Changing, moving from one state to another, is what I consider work. The realization of unity is the potential, and moving from "not realizing unity" to "realizing unity" is the kinetic. If you do not consider it work, we are not disagreeing, we are simply at a semantic impasse.


Though I don't think the disagreement is purely semantic. You are claiming that your understanding derives from the experience of unity itself within every moment, which I'm not saying isn't true. What I am saying is that I have also experienced unity, and do so in many moments. But in other moments, I do not. The work I refer to is to understand these moments in which I do not realize unity. I understand it is there, but I do not experience it. I can then work with these moments, feel the emotions within them, embrace them, whether positive or negative. I can make the choice to explore, to nurture an acceptance, to point my will towards the desire to embrace it, and use whatever tools I have available to me to balance it. And once this is done, I do realize the unity within the moment. Typically a similar circumstance will arise in which I previously did not realize unity, and when I experience it again, I maintain my awareness of unity.

It does not happen all at once. Each moment is different and changing, and I have many biases and distortions which pull my awareness away from unity. Perhaps you do not. Most people do. And those people may work, and that work, if done properly, can yield this awareness.