Nondual Being: Unity

Abstract

Our reports show that the phenomenology of "pure being" can either be the sole defining characteristic of a full-absorption episode or coexist with other forms of experiential content.Next, you will find nine examples of the phenomenal quality that I am trying to isolate here.Note that some of the descriptors explored in earlier chapters-like "body dissolution," "peace," "silence," "weightlessness," "ineffability," "simplicity," "nonduality," "timelessness," and the "invisible smile"-recur frequently in this new context: 80 [. ..]Perhaps one can best describe it as "simply being," and metaphorically as "peaceful and weightless."521 In meditation I sometimes experience simply "being" without additional modalities, pure being in itself; I cannot say much more about this, because there is nothing to say about it in descriptions.To a certain extent, the perception of one's own existence without the observer role and without mental activity, perhaps one could say-as if the pause between the thoughts grows very long, but without waiting.1316 [. ..]Deep silence, the feeling of simply being Pure Being [Reines Sein], completely beyond any individuality.[. ..] sometimes the perception that existence[Sein] is completely flat, without the slightest additional perception, sometimes also the experience of dynamism in the silence.[. ..] 1378 [. ..]The flow of thoughts came almost to a standstill, so that only a quiet awareness of one's own being was left.Then a feeling of silence stabilized, complete presence and agreement with what is, a feeling of the perfection of the moment and of emotional balance.Then the space opened up to an infinity in which a pure existence was pos si ble.[. ..]1424 [. ..]It is a realm of complete silence.Simplicity.There is nothing there that needs to be expressed, communicated, or evaluated.The simplest pos sible being.1625 [. ..]All of a sudden the feeling changed and I plunged into something that I would call complete being.I as a subject no longer existed, all I felt was the great, all-encompassing being of which I was a part.There was neither an outside nor an inside, but only the boundless whole.Time no longer played a role either and it seemed to be an eternal state.[. ..] 1795 In pure awareness I always experience a lightness.[. ..]I am simply there, exist and know that I exist.Nothing more.Observing this conjures up a soft smile at the corners of my mouth.[. ..]1898 My experience was the pure happiness brought to me by simply being.There was no me, no pain, no need.