It can be so helpful in practice to recognize the way in which all things are interconnected.
You do this,
I experience this.
This happens over there,
It impacts this over here.
To allow ourselves to feel connected with others and the world through recognizing this interconnection can be deeply supportive.
For the purposes of this meditation,
Let's allow this notion of interconnection,
This truth of interconnection to be a doorway of sorts.
To say I am interconnected with X can still leave a subtle sense of separateness in place.
To imply I connect with you,
For example,
Can bring about a felt sense that we are other,
That I am the subject of experience and that you are the object.
From this perspective,
I try to connect with you.
Maybe I fail.
From this perspective,
I like you,
Don't like you,
Want you,
Don't want you.
This activity,
This process isn't based in reality,
It's based in the conditioned mind.
So certainly to recognize that we are interconnected is a very important step.
If I haven't seen myself as part of things,
If I've perceived myself to be cut off or isolated,
But what's it like now to drop even that framing?
Consider for a moment how much you perhaps love the experience of being in love.
Wouldn't you say that part of what's happening is that this small sense of you disappears in that experience?
In love,
It's not even that you love X.
It's that you and X disappear and all that's left is love.
Allowing the subject and the object to dissolve isn't a complicated process.
If a hologram is being illuminated by a particular light source,
It's as simple as turning off the light.
In this approach,
We're not getting rid of something fixed,
Real,
Concrete.
We're seeing through a hologram,
The hologram of other.
So it's not that you are interconnected with all that is.
It's that you are all that is.
You may wish to choose one place in your life that you recognize you habitually feel other than.
Perhaps it's a specific relationship.
You very much identify with I'm over here,
You're over there.
Perhaps I've even been able to see,
Yes,
We're interconnected.
Things you say impact me,
Things I do affect you.
Now lean into this dissolving approach.
Again,
We're not dissolving the other person.
We're dissolving the distortion,
The hologram of separation.
We're allowing shared being to come to the forefront of our experience.
The shared being that often is in the shadows,
As we're running our stories and narratives about I versus you,
Or I in relationship with you.
In this approach,
We're allowing the relationship to dissolve.
What's left?
Shared being.
What's left?
Love.
I invite you to rest here as long as you wish.
Nothing that you are being present to or of in that way that reinforces I am aware of.
Subject,
Object.
Instead,
Just presence.
Again,
Instead,
Just love.
