Oneness

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<strong>Oneness</strong> image life itself? Are the words that describe a maple tree anything close to an actual maple tree? What about the words themselves: “maple tree?” Clearly this is a label for something, something we have all agreed to call by the name “maple tree,” but is there such a thing? Looking at what we call a “maple tree,” we see that it is made up of many other things that we have labels for— ”leaves,” “branches,” “roots,” “soil,” etc. Are these each their own individual objects, or are they all a part of the same thing, being divided only by our mind-made labels? If we label something as a “tree,” does that mean that everything else is not a tree? Does that mean the tree has an existence of its own? To us it may seem that way, but is this the truth? A tree is not separate from the Earth of which it grows, nor is the Earth separate from the sky or the Universe in which it exists. The entire cosmos is connected to this thing we have labeled a “tree,” showing that there really is no such thing as a “tree” in the sense that it is an object with an existence of its own. In reality, the tree is just as much a part of anything we think not to be a tree, including your own body. The only reason we feel that a tree, a rock, a body, or anything for that matter, has an existence of its own, is because we have associated these things with our mental labels and images of them, rather than as they really are. From the moment of birth, we have been conditioned to label objects, “table,” “couch,” “chair,” “tree,” “bird,” “mom,” “dad,” etc.—but the labels do not explain the totality of the objects themselves. Failing to realize this, we go through life labeling our experiences, trying to categorize them with our minds, unaware that our attempt to label an experience is ultimately useless, as no label is ever capable of describing that which it attempts to define. We do this so often, that instead of just experiencing life, we separate ourselves from life with our thoughts, and instead experience our own mental images of life, rather than life itself. Nothing in nature is separate; all things exist 11
Joseph P. Kauffman together, as one. Only thoughts are capable of separating nature, but this separation exists only in our minds, and not in reality. Living our lives in such a way has caused us to form a unique mental image and perception for nearly everything that we experience. This has gotten so out of hand that we have even formed mental images of who we are, and we then use this image of ourselves as a sense of identity, constantly worrying about its survival and its approval from others. Though our image of ourselves is not who really are, it is just an illusion that our minds have created. 12
Page 2 and 3: Oneness Awakening From The Illusion
Page 4 and 5: Dedication I dedicate this book to
Page 6 and 7: Contents Dedication................
Page 8 and 9: Introduction As you read these word
Page 10 and 11: Oneness things from a new perspecti
Page 12 and 13: 1 You What better way to start this
Page 14 and 15: Oneness traumatizing in their past,
Page 16 and 17: 2 The Body From a very young age we
Page 18 and 19: Oneness that form your being are co
Page 20 and 21: 3 The Mind We may inhabit the form
Page 24 and 25: 4 The Ego The ego is an imagined en
Page 26 and 27: Oneness deflate, or how they delive
Page 28 and 29: Oneness the ego makes us suffer by
Page 30 and 31: Oneness Can you acknowledge the ima
Page 32 and 33: 5 Consciousness We live in a univer
Page 34 and 35: Oneness Who would be there to exper
Page 36 and 37: 6 Illusion and Truth The concept of
Page 38 and 39: Oneness look into the roles they id
Page 40 and 41: Oneness You are not “I,” or “
Page 42 and 43: Oneness such a powerful momentum of
Page 44 and 45: 7 Observing Your Own Mind It’s ea
Page 46 and 47: Oneness not who you are, and thus y
Page 48 and 49: Oneness brief moment. Before you kn
Page 50 and 51: Oneness You are not miserable becau
Page 52 and 53: 8 Life The same awareness that exis
Page 54 and 55: Oneness We have been taught to view
Page 56 and 57: 9 Love If the entire Universe is co
Page 58 and 59: Oneness The Universe, The Earth, ou
Page 60 and 61: Oneness Fear and our idea of separa
Page 62 and 63: 10 Mindfulness Society is lacking i
Page 64 and 65: Oneness To heal the past in you, yo
Page 66 and 67: Oneness see if you can hear or feel
Page 68 and 69: Oneness formed by the ego and its v
Page 70 and 71: Oneness 11 Living in Harmony with N
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Oneness for organic food, or risk g
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12 Peace on Earth Peace on Earth is
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Oneness “What we now want is clos
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Oneness About the Author Joseph P.
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