Be passionate while being still.
Strive to be on time while as though asleep on the beach.
Attend weddings and funerals with your tears flowing and the impersonal stare of open eyes.
Look forward to things occasionally and in wonder always be.
Archive for August, 2009
Wonder, Weddings, and Passion
August 28, 2009Nonduality is art
August 20, 2009My motivation isn’t spiritual as much as artistic. What I do in nonduality is art. I’ve created nondual adventures such independent nonduality, a wide open list of gurus and realizers, nondual perspectives, the genre of cinema nondualite’, the independent nondual chat space, a daily e-letter, and street nonduality or the bringing of nonduality to the everyday level of life outside the Internet.
I’ve noted that many people like what I do and some don’t.
It is art, “the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance.” I am motivated to do the art, not to save anyone or the world. If anything or anyone is saved, that’s part of the work of art. I am an artist.
-Jerry Katz
Preparing a Talk for the Science and Nonduality Conference
August 11, 2009I’m scheduled to speak at the upcoming Science and Nonduality Conference, October 22-25 in San Rafael (Marin County), California.
The title of my talk is Stumbling into Nonduality. What I want to emphasize is that you stumble into nonduality or truth or a realization of what reality is.
That stumbling takes different forms and occurs more than once for a person, each time revealing a refinement of your realization.
The stumbling isn’t worth much, however, unless its meaningful. Then, if it’s meaningful it has to be valued. If it is valued, it has to be pursued, studied, gone deeply into.
Realization, then, may lead to a life in which nondual expression is obvious in the work you do. In that case, a “nondual perspective” may be identified.
That outlines what I’m going to talk about:
Stumbling into nonduality: fresh examples.
Valuing the stumbling: what does that mean to you?
Pursuing nonduality: new subtleties in the pursuit.
Nondual perspectives: 2 or 3 newly emerging perspectives, depending on time and what I discover up to the last minute.
The Conference is an opportunity to sample tastes from the buffet table of nonduality. I’m offering only one dish. Others will say there is no one to stumble into nonduality. Since that too is the case, the conference will be an opportunity to face and enjoy paradox. Be hungry!
How to Walk Through Walls in Dreams
August 2, 2009The first thing you have to do is become lucid in your dreaming. You need to stop in the middle of a dream and say, “Hey, I’m dreaming.”
Then you need to find a wall, preferable one within the dream that is felt to be imprisoning you.
Then realize in your lucidity that you have to walk through the wall.
Next, realize that there is no wall. It is only a thought and has no existence as a solid wall. Make that realization within the dream.
Then lean against the apparent wall. Lean into the apparent wall. A resistance may be felt, but a certain kind of momentum will be generated to take you through the wall and into another dream space.
Where you go from there and how you apply lucid dreaming to your thoughts and your self-image in the waking world is the stuff of spiritual searches. Good luck!
