Being Ourself

Beyond Mindfulness, Beyond Oneness

From that site: "This blog is an open discussion about living with the awareness that we are not merely "interconnected" but we are actually all one whole interacting with itself. How do we move beyond mindfulness into a state of action springing from the wholeness of the "now" (as Eckhart Tolle refers to it)? The site's founder is author Ty Clement, whose book Being Ourself (www.beingourself.com) is due for release in Spring 2009 by O-Books (www.o-books.net)and explores similar issues."

Open discussion...ABOUT...living with the awareness. So someone has the awareness and has been living with it, that we are not merely "interconnected" -- we being you and me -- but we are actually all one whole...interacting with itself. The first part of what we're aware of is that we are not merely interconnected. So we set up the thought of interconnection, community, joint-purpose, shared self-interest, while thinking individually, and say that's not it. Then we understand that we are actually one whole interacting with itself, live with the awareness, and openly discuss it. We need to assert and demonstrate that the one wholeness is true and what it does, interacts with itself.

Mindfulness in this case must be the awareness that we accept, then moving beyond mindfulness must be moving beyond the awareness, definitions, assertions, to...a state of action...living it...that springs from the wholeness of the "now." It's not good enough just to state things, but to get to a point where it's the real life now. Which I really agree with. I'm generally sick of the constant definition of things, introductions to more introductions.

It's no good to keep saying "life in more abundance" (John 10:10) without ever getting down to living "life in more abundance." Eventually the word has to give way to life, to the point that the page can be wadded up and forgotten. Why do you need a map once you're there?