IFS Nondual Meditation 47 - What is experience?

This week, we explore the nature of experience. Can experience be captured, paused, or started at will? It's elusive, like divine Teflon-it simply unfolds on its own, without any effort from us. Experience is like the waves of the ocean, endlessly rolling in and out. No part of it can be grasped; it slips through our fingers. The finite mind, with its sticky velcro-like quality, tries to control and categorize experience. It compares one moment to another, assigning value judgments about what constitutes happiness and what does not.
Many of us turn to meditation, spirituality, or nondual teachings in search of happiness and fulfilment. But can this really be achieved? Nondual presence doesn’t recognize a concept like happiness. The ego has its own idea of happiness, often believing it will be fulfilled upon 'awakening'. However, this version of happiness is usually constrained and distorted. More often than not, when awakening occurs, people find themselves in a state that is vastly different from what the ego imagined-something that doesn’t fit its definition of 'happiness.' It is simply a state of presence. The end of seeking does not mark the beginning of the ego's version of happiness.
The Self in this meditation refers to the Self in IFS, which is a non-pathologizing therapeutic modality that aligns well with non-dual teachings. Similar to quantum physics where light can be both wave and particle, IFS proposes that the Self can be both wave and particle. This Self is the same Self that Ramana Maharshi points to, the Christ Consciousness that ACIM speaks of, the Buddha-nature (particle Self) or the no-self 'anatta' in Buddhism (wave Self).
Dr Laura Patryas, PhD.
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[@melissa48]

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