The gate of Oneness

The Gate of Oneness

Oneness inside the dimension of duality is not real Oneness. Lets start of with that. Real Oneness is found 'back home' in the spheres. With God, Source, Universe, the Creator of how you would like to call it.

I could, like many other people do, contemplate this and write about what Oneness back home feels like. But it would be only possibilities, and no one could ever be really sure. So I will leave that one open for your own contemplation.

Oneness in daily life

I can, however, contemplate what we call the experience of oneness in this dimension of duality. I see this field of experience as "the gate to Oneness/God". This gate feels like, and points to real Oneness. It points to God. The closer you get to the gate, and dwell there, the more likely you will be able to enter through the gate and merge with Source. But it takes an intense journey to get there.

No matter what you would call your life on earth; an illusion, a hologram, a dream, the matrix, another dimension, etc, I think we agree that it is not the whole truth of our existence. It is possibly false, and surely incomplete. In each case, a lot of it is a real Mystery. And we are all on a mission to solve the Mystery an find our way back to God.

We can do this walking a lot of different paths. Mine is the path of my soul and my heart, of engaging in direct experience. Being conscious of constantly aligning my head (wisdom), heart (love) and belly (life-forces) and allowing the experiences of life to flow right through me to learn and grow.

I dedicate my life to eat, breathe and 'digest' the life that is presented to me in daily life, with such fullness and engagement, that I feel blessed with so much grace about the miracle that life is. Again and again I am shown that my personal mind or ego could never ever excel or replace Divine Will. Not even if I was given the absolute maximum power of personal will.

Dynamics of dualistic polarity

Personal mind or ego will always build a life on the dualistic dynamics of polarity with its limits and impermanence. Our world of duality is a childlike playground were we can experience how it is to be our own King ruling our own Kingdom. A playground however, that is undeniably also part of the Divine Creation, but terribly limited. Who wants to play King in their own fairytale forever, when it leaves us grieving the constant loss, feeling isolated and filled with fear?

Every fairytale also tells about the breaking of the magic spell. Wake up from the sleep of illusion and see the Truth! Fairytales always end with: "and they lived happily ever after." This is pointing to infinity of pure Consciousness. Can you see the parallel of our souls journey with these fairytale stories?

The dream of duality(ego) – waking up – see the Truth – Infinity as Consciousness (God)

What we call daily life (the world of duality) can, by design, never offer you Oneness. But what it can do, is lead you to the gate. This is the closest you can come to experiencing oneness in duality. But how to get there? I'll share my view on this. It is what I have experienced an embody myself, and see happening in my sessions with clients on a daily basis.

The gate

When you have consciously opened up for what daily life has to offer you for healing and growth, you will accept what is offered without resisting 'negative' offerings and without clinging to 'positive ones. Stop thinking "I want this or that" for a while, and please forget manifesting for a while, because they consist of all kinds of preferences.

Surrender to life's offerings, and trust them. Take the opportunity to receive life, eat it, chew on it, swallow it, digest it, and let it go (you offer it back to life itself). This is what I mean by 'living it'. It will transform your wisdom, your love and your life-forces. And it will lead you to your Higher Self at the gate of Oneness.

"This journey invites you to know, live, and transcend the pushing and pulling dynamics of dualistic polarities and find equanimity in the neutral middle. Keep doing this and keep offering your life to the gate of Oneness."

That means you need to truly live both sides (poles) of all your current life-themes as extreme opposites. And please do not forget about the themes of your spiritual ego! They are a bit 'sneaky'.

Get familiar with all aspects of each theme. Go into the extremes if it pulls you in. Trust the pull. Consume and embody the extremes. Only to come to the realization that however extremes are opposites, seen from a higher perspective they are all equally worthy and valuable to your proces.

This is what will lead to transcending the pulls and pushes of the dynamics of this dualistic play of polarity. After surrendering yourself being pulled into or pushed away from all kinds of polarities, you will come to the point where you no longer feel any pull of push towards anything. You no longer feel the urge to interact.

Now you can see them for what polarities in your life are truly about: a play of dynamics for learning and healing. There is no 'good' pole and no 'wrong' pole. The dynamics no longer affect you or triggers your old stuff. You have overcome the urges to get entangled with them. Not by mental force or will (so no spiritual bypass!), but by engaging with the energy they contained.

Make no mistake, the polarities have not disappeared, because that is not possible in this reality. This IS the world of duality, and polarities like pain and pleasure will always be a part of that. That is how it is programmed and designed. But it is not a flawed reality. It is perfect for healing and transformation and Divine in its own nature. Can you see the beauty of it all?

The challenge is to be freed from the pull and push of the polarities. They exist both, but you feel no more attraction or resistance to any of them. They have become neutral for you. This is crucial. You can stay in the middle. The eye of the hurricane. Just stillness and equanimity. No desire, no preference, and no resistance. No likes or dislikes. Regarding and experiencing all aspects of dualistic life as equal.

The All is the One

Nothing will be lost. Oneness does not mean there will be only 'one thing'. On the contrary, everything possible will still exist. Oneness means that all there is in Source is made of the same. It is all equal. Equal of source, of essence and of worth. And is therefore equally part of the journey back home to God. It is all divine, all sacred, all holy.

To truly understand and embody that wisdom, you must truly engage in the cosmic play of Creation; the play of Leela. This is not to be done mentally. Live! Let yourself be consciously pulled into polarities that your daily life is urging you to experience. In your life(s) you will be attracted to some beings and things more than others and this is why. They are on your 'list' to directly experience and transcend.

Only when you have experienced and embraced them all, you will be able to be conscious of all of them together sitting as friends around the fireplace. Without pushing any of them out of the room or clinging to others. See them all for what they are: vehicles for knowing the truth of ALL. They are all Divine. In fact when we talk about the ONE, we talk about the Oneness of the ALL.

"Oneness is consciousness of all things equally, everywhere, anytime at once."

Transcendence

When you can truly see and feel the value of polarities equally, then you can go beyond the dynamics of them. Beyond the pushing and the pulling. This is what transcendence means. You go beyond the dynamics of the polarities, but without discarding any of them! Without denying, rejecting, or devaluating them. Transcending the polarities of dualism means you know and embody the essence of them, you have consumed and digested all their energy, and with that you have unlocked their divine 'assignment' and gave it all back to life itself. Now they no longer have any grip on you. But they stay 'in the room' with you, and you can sit with all of them with complete and total equanimity in your mind and in your heart. You leave not even one behind. You now embody the infinite potency of them all. This is alchemy. It is the true power of the Divine. That is what I call dwelling in the field before the gate of Oneness.

When you have transcended polarities, you are no longer under the influence of the laws of duality. You acknowledge and feel everything that is 'in the room', and you are no longer pulling for or pushing against anything. You are simply living the experience and let yourself be lived by it to.

Then, and only then you will be the experiencer and the experience itself at once.

This is as close as you can come to oneness in the world of duality.

No aspects of daily life will magically 'fall away'. It is only the preferences and the resistance that will dissolve. And that is exactly what ancient teachings have been telling us:

"The Great way is easy for those who have no preferences." ~Third Chinese Patriach of Zen

Only the one who can sit consciously and totally open amidst of all the aspects of daily life, and is no longer pushed by or pulled towards any one of them, will know true and unconditional Peace, Love and Joy. As I mentioned earlier, you will no longer fall under the influences of the laws of duality, but instead you will bring to this reality of duality the Laws of Divinity. You literally bring "Heaven on Earth"

Embodied wisdom

This must be mentally understood, but surely also embodied. The embodyment is exactly what is missing in most spiritual seekers of truth. They do not truly dare to live the mentally seen and understood dynamics of polarity of their own life-themes. They withhold surrendering themselves into full blown experiencing. Still wanting to keep some kind of control over the experience. Afraid they will get stuck in it, or vanish, or die.

I compassionately understand that. It is frightening. It truly is a death of some kind...of the familiar old. Not knowing what will unfold for you next. Our ego minds come up with the most terrifying scenario's. It is definitely not easy to step into the fire. You will need a lot of courage.

To tell the truth, it is ultimately inescapable. There will come a time for all of us to jump right into the fire. Just know and deeply trust this: you could never be outside of the Divine, nothing is ever truly lost. And life will always offer you new beginnings, which for me have always been much closer to my souls desire than I could imagine.

How you receive this writing of mine, is unsure. I used to believe I could 'help' you get there. But now I know nothing or no one can 'make' you get there. Only Divine timing and sequence can make it happen. Not my will or yours. So what to do with these writings?

Let them go. Don't resist, don't hold on. Live your life, walk the path, trust your intuition and the process, and you will be exactly were you need to be exactly in time.

I wish you literally everything on your path to the gate of God. And then what happens next?

Remember........that is the Mystery. But I will see you when we get there ;)

"We are all just walking eachother home." ~Ram Dass

With Love,

Maria Helena