Knowledge is Action

By Rudolph Bauer, Ph.D., Diplomate in Clinical Psychology, A.B.P.P.

Rudolph Bauer, Ph.D. Author, Mimi Malfitano, Editor

• It is true that non-duality can be experienced within duality and duality within non- duality. The reality of non-duality actually is completed within duality and the reality of non-duality is completed within duality.Duality is the manifestation of nonduality  within non duality.

• When there is a foreclosure in experiencing  duality within non duality  then non-duality is actually absent from the world and this increases the absence of non-duality within duality and so duality alone exist.

• Such absence is destructive to the experience of  non-duality. When non-duality is conceived as absolutely separate from within dualistic  experience then non-duality becomes a lack and the experience of impotence or powerlessness can arise.

• When there is the thought or framing that one is non-dual and others are not, even experientially, then this invokes omnipotence and unhappiness. The further the absolute thought or framing that one is non-dual and others are not, the more the thought or framing becomes a fantasy and an illusion. The further one is from experience the experience is more transcendent, then the further immanence disappears. What is left is illusion.

• The  unhappy illusion  that reality of this world dimension is not  actual and this foreclosure  creates vast powerlessness and distortions within human  experience. There is an easy  translucidity  that arises within the experience of  non-duality within duality and duality within non duality. When this intrinsic relatedness of inseparability is foreclosed , this very foreclosure creates lack and invokes the illusion of desire for what is not.

• Compassion is not merely sentimental and neither is it the internalization of others affective  states. Compassion arises out of oneness and equalness within  all experience.  Through the clarity of awareness action arises naturally and situationally; Gnosis is compassion and compassion is gnosis. Because of perception of oneness one can perceive nature and its inhabitants. And so to dissolve  horrible experience within duality the power of non-duality can be used to dissolve such negation.