Yesterday we learned that the Loving All Method, or the declaration, “It is what it is,” is the way to undo the illusion of many things. On Day 139, we learned that surrender is the way to “unweave your way out of fantasy.”
Let’s pause for a moment and look at how these two practices work.
At its most basic level, illusion is the appearance of two things, the subject (you) and the object (everything else). You are the “I” that experiences everything else, which is “not I.”
The “not I” or object appears as many things, some that are judged as good or desired and others that are judged as bad or not desired. The Loving All Method undoes the judgment that creates the many things and collapses them into one object, which is consciousness.
Once the apparent many things collapse into one object, consciousness, there is still the feeling of “I,” the consciousness that sees, and “it,” the consciousness that is seen. In other words, the complicated many things collapse into the simplistic two things.
Surrender is the practice that removes the “I”. In NTI Acts, removing the “I” through surrender is called merging. When merging is complete, “I” no longer exists, so there can’t be a feeling of “I” and “it.” There is only consciousness. Without the “I,” non-dual (not two) being is realized.
Today’s reading focuses on the process of merging through surrender in order to collapse the “I.”
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