Even 'Beyondness' is a point of view.

"That everyone has different experiences and perspectives is not a problem; rather, the problem is that when we interpret an experience outside its own paradigm, context, and stated definitions, that experience becomes lost altogether. It becomes lost because we have redefined the terms according to a totally different paradigm or perspective and thereby made it over into an experience it never was in the first place. When we force an experience into an alien paradigm, that experience becomes subsumed, interpreted away, unrecognizable, confused, or made totally indistinguishable. Thus when we impose alien definitions on the original terms of an experience, that experience becomes lost to the journey, and eventually it becomes lost to the literature as well. To keep this from happening it is necessary to draw clear lines and to make sharp, exacting distinctions. The purpose of doing so is not to criticize other paradigms, but to allow a different paradigm or perspective to stand in its own right, to have its own space in order to contribute what it can to our knowledge of man and his journey to the divine.

 Distinguishing what is true or false, essential or superficial in our experience is not a matter to be taken lightly. We cannot simply define our terms and then sit back and expect perfect agreement across the board. Our spiritual-psychological journey does not work this way. We are not uniform robots with the same experiences, same definitions, same perspectives, or same anything." Bernadette Roberts.

That seems pretty useful to me in the wake of all the endless discussions and endless terminology of levels and personally percieved definitions of that terminology which have spewed out recently (especially with reference to or in reaction against Benthino's latest thing) ...

Ultimately, on a pragamatic level it means that whatever our own experience is and whatever our own interpretation of that experience is, is real for us personally. One almost might say that whatever works for each individual is cool for them.

 After that it is interesting to listen to the other guy and see where he's at and if it looks interesting or better see if we can find something similar in and through ourselves ..

However to constantly be looking at the other guy and criticising him if it doesn't 'measure up' to our own concepts or experience is to deny the possibility of further openings .. and the beauty of the reality that nobody can ever have the full Truth or the Absolute picture .. that is for The Truth or The Absolute itself .. always always beyond .. always always greater than .. and never never communicable in words ..

No human can deny their humanity and the 'point of view' that this implies while alive in a human body ..

Friday, 15th June 2012

08:26:Hrs;

Analysis shows there is no-thing .. nothing .. at the sub-atomic level .. and there was no-thing before the universe at a cosmic level .. Self analysis shows there is no self at a personal level ..

and yet .. Here it all is and here we all are .. How does that happen ?

No-thing being every-thing.

Individually .. subjectively this is experienced as no-thing being some-thing. Us as a subject and other as object.

In the ‘Being’ .. we meet .. we recognise that other people are, in one sense, objects .. i.e. bodies .. but they are animated bodies with characters and personalities .. we recognise the life in them and that that life is similar to our own .. essentially the same ..

The sameness .. the ‘being’ is what we love and long to know and to be and to share ..

the differences .. the ‘thingness’ .. is what separates us .. causes misunderstandings and even wars ..

What I am saying is that in a world of ‘things’ we are alienated .. as a subject surrounded by and percieving objects .. Nobody really knows how it is that apparent objects upon analysis turn out to not exist .. and yet they are there .. This is due to a being (as a verb not a noun) which is not understood and cannot be described because it is no thing and yet it is what all things exist in .. maybe the essence of what all things actually are .. therefore it is living .. alive .. Being .. No thing .. being everything .. experienced as some things ..

To find that Being which is no thing and yet the essence of all things we must look into ourselves .. It is the only way to find that Being and when it is found in and as the real self (not the body and not the mind) .. then it is recognised that one’s real self is the same One that is all other selves and the essential nature of all that exists ..

That I believe is the work that the human being really was designed to do .. the work of self-knowledge .. It is also what religions were ultimately meant to guide to .. self knowledge being knowledge of God or the Divine or The Absolute .. the No-thing .. which is continually Being Every-thing ...

When one knows oneself as no-thing being something then one knows that all things are no-thing being everything ..

It is the living Being which unites all things and all apparently separate beings .. wether human beings or animal-beings or plants-beings or (apparently)inanimate-beings.

We are all one in Being. All is One in Being.

Someone says .. God is Emptiness Emptiness is God .. ..yeah kinda like that ..
Emptiness is so full of God that it overflows into form ! : )
& form is so empty of reality that it flows back into God ..

Either way everything is pregnant with God both form and emptiness .. which are signs of that ..
...
And of course He / It are so much more than that (always) ..

Abandoning the opposites in Unity & then abandoning Unity in Suchness & then abandoning Suchness in Emptiness .. diving into the void .. to find .... that which is beyond finding .. no finder no finding no found .. only that which is ..

& it’s just here .. now .. naked awareness .. and all that is in consciousness .. forms & self .. self and forms co-appearing (interbeing as Tich nat Hahn says) .. in something which is nothing .. Presence .. nothing hiding itself by being everything ..

and expressing itself here now in these words on this lappie .. out to FB and whoever reads it .. ultimately the same one reading it as wrote it .. everywhere God knowing Himself / Itself .. through us .. as us ..
The “meaning” of life ? Just that .. God knowing Himself through His creation which is none other than He ..
Only one thing which is no thing .. everywhere and everywhen at all times and places without time or place ..
The place of the placeless the space of the spaceless .. in the timeless eternal moment of now ..

“Allah was a hidden treasure and He wanted to be known .. so He produced the creation that He might be known.” (hadith qudsi)

But of course all that is knowing and known is none other than He ..
As Ibn Arabi said ...

“Allah was and there was nothing with Him .. and He is now as He was.”

Only the words God and Allah get in the way .. partly because they represent something which is an unknowable Reality and then they get turned into concepts attached to the word .. and more especially because of all the connotations implied by the connection of those concepts with religions and their misapprehensions and consequent contradictory terrible deeds.

Shame about that because I love God .. (none other than He loving Himself as & through me) ..

a hadith in Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti's collection-
which is a Hadith Qudsi which states ...

I was a hidden treasure and I loved that I be known ...
[That is Allah loved that He be known.]
Therefore, I created creation and made by Myself known to them ...
So through Me they knew Me.

(repeat) ..

So through Me they knew Me.

Duality and non-duality, same (but different) ..

It’s about the non-local consciousness as pure non duality .. i.e. that which is beyond words .. no-thing .. nothing .. Emptiness or God .. Brahman .. The Absolute .. whatever one chooses to call it ..

Let’s call it Universal Mind for now .. the brain as reciever .. through that the absolute non-dual consciousness gets filtered into duality ..

Actual Reality is all one thing .. but our filtering brain sees it as two contrasting poles which make up dualistic consciousness .. hence time and space .. past and future .. here and there .. and all other dualities ..

All the methods are in order to ‘trip the switch’ of dualistic perception and get back to a state prior to this .. which is like Universal Mind .. when this is done a third state comes in which the dual is realised as the non-dual .. that all the composites of dual mind are composed of nothing but Universal Mind one might say .. Both poles of any pair of opposites not only have the same source but actually are the same source ..

Therefore the wonderful saying ..

The world is an illusion .. only Brahman is real ..

The world is Brahman.

Which is why I almost feel to ‘correct’ that imperfectly stated thing in a thread which says .. Brahman is the World ..

I see that as different from The world is Brahman .. as in the world is not other than Brahman but Brahman is not defined as being the world

I maybe even still find it hard to see emptiness is form .. but easy to see form is emptiness .. (in other words emptiness is a vast emptiness and there is nothing other than it .. and all form is nothing other than emptiness but emptinesss is not defined by the sum of all form .. and far from that )

In more sufi language .. the world is not other than God .. (because nothing truly exists except God) .. but He is not defined by the world .. as He is its creator and therefore much more than that .. creating unimagined worlds with qualities & beings we cannot possibly imagine ..

So the world is an illusion, Allah alone is Real .. the world is not other than Allah .. would sum that up

and translate as ..

The world is an illusion .. Brahman alone is real .. the world is Brahman, in the sense that the world is not other than Brahman ..

I see the world as an illusion created out of whatever ultimate reality is (call it God or Brahman or maybe even Emptiness) .. and not other than that in essence .. but caused or ‘created’ by or through the filtering mechanism of the mind / the brain / dualistic consciousness .. interpreting universal mind or pure non-dual, non-local consciousness.

Extempore poem on seeking and what is found.

It rumbles and it tumbles ..
It whispers and it mumbles ..
It’s doing it all the time ..                      
It’s what makes this whole thing rhyme ..        
Its not yours and its not mine
Though it belongs to us all
It’s really what we are
And even all that is
It hides itself by being everything
and all is what we are ..
I can’t find it by a trip out in the car ..                                         
At the end of the rainbow, it’s the pot of gold ..                                   
Seven for a secret never to be told.
Be still silly mind with all your silly rhymes                     
And know ..
And Be ..

A green field and you and me
It’s what we are and what we’ll be
The whole wide world and all that’s on it
It’s in a Shakespeare sonnet ..
It’s love and more than that
Buddha nature in a cat ..
A smile .. the eyes of a child ..
A violet growing wild ..
A stormy windy sea ..dark clouds gathering ..
Grey clouds scudding ..
White ones breezing along ..
In a poem in a song ..
Spring or summer winter or fall ..
All & nothing .. nothing and all ..
Success .. failure .. imposters and fakes
The genuine article .. whatever it takes ..
Losing everything .. gaining all ..
“No really maam it’s no trouble at all !”
 A selfless action, an unexpected gift ..
Making peace .. healing a rift ..
A beautiful valley .. a summer sky
A vast forest with trees more than high
A majestic mountain .. a humble mouse ..
A wet park bench .. a mansion house ..
Can’t stop it .. can’t judge it .. it cannot be caught ..
No should or shouldn’t , mustn’t or ought ..
A flotilla .. a villa .. a house by the sea ..
An old brown photo, could be you and me ..

A tiny tiny dinghy on an ocean vast and wide ..
A huge ocean liner in a dock full of pride
An annoying phone call with an Indian voice
These things happen, you’ve got no choice ..
It runs by itself and we’re a tiny part ..
The something that is nothing
That’s the seeker’s art ..

Three steps to conscious living.

1) Initiate intuitive mind interface.

2) Request connection to Universal Mind.

3) Acknowledge connection.

 You are now living consciously & may be intuitively guided.

                                         Observe & act as deemed appropriate.

Today

Monday, 23rd April 2012
05:46:Hrs;

The stuff from Pim van Lommel ..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOeLJCdHojU  (two to four videos plus book) here;
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Consciousness-Beyond-Life-Near-Death-Experience/dp/0061777269/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1335178820&sr=8-2

.. seems to be a useful piece in the puzzle .. the riddle of existence .. and the link between real, non-local consciousness and the difference between it and thought which becomes mistaken for the totality of consciousness and is connected with brain activity .. NDEs prove that consciousness is not only not a product of brain activity but that real consciousness (which informs thought and dualistic consciousness) is also non local and has vision which is not only 360 degrees but also does not use the eyes .. it is a consciousness not restricted by time or space and may go forward or back in time .. (citation for both needed .. especially the forward one) ..
The idea and the suggestion is that this is somehow connected with, or a proof of, real life in the individual, which is experienced when to all intents and purposes what is generally taken to be the ‘person’ is dead. In other words there is life after death or this apparent life and probably therefore, before it also .. or there is a life or consciousness which is non-temporal.
The evidence for this type of consciousness also suggests that it is what really informs everyday temporal consciousness .. and that maybe when dualistic everyday consciousness kicks in during the development of an infant or child and we start to identify with the labelling, thinking, dualistic, judging self, that is when we lose the ‘heart’s eyes’ as Sheikh Nazim would say .. or that consciousness which only advanced and serious practitioners of spiritual paths such as sufism are heir to, but which is actually a natural characteristic of all us and gets somehow lost or covered up by dualistic limited consciousness in infancy .. There is a connection here to the creation story in which Adam and Eve lose their existence in the original ‘God consciousness’, or Paradise, by eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil .. in other words taking on dualistic consciousness.
The serious problem for modern man lies in his over confidence in this dualistic consciousness coupled with science and scientific theory to deliver a version of man restricted to only dualistic consciousness and thus successfully severing him from a context with any real significance or meaning for his life apart from that which may be garnered through aquisitions experiences and pleasures within material existence and the short time span of the existence of his body and brain.
There is thus no eternal or spiritual dimension to modern man’s life .. and so, aided and abetted by science and a virtually atheist education  .. the scramble for accumulation of goods and the highest good being economic success is over-emphasised by this dangerous modern development and seriously hinders development of modern society in a really humanitarian way because we are rapidly becoming less than human without  the peculiarities of individuality and free will within a non spacio-temporal context .. and generally accepting ourselves (if science gets its way) as mere machines controlled by thought which is in turn taken to be a product of the brain.
I’m on the edge of saying something here but can’t quite formulate it .. at the same time I am on the edge of a certain state of consciousness but can’t quite make it because when the dualistic function of the brain starts to shut down sleep is incurred and if not fear kicks in and the connection to the non-dual is not made ..
Letting go of linear dualistic thought while awake is not an easy thing .. but it is helped by the recognition of a higher and greater, superior form of consciousness operating in one all the time, which would seem to be proven by reports of the NDE experience.
This is also connected with the saying of our prophet Muhammad “He who knows himself, knows his Lord.” And the well known adage “Die before you die.” In other words die to the everyday self and consciousness and open up to this greater non-local one which is hidden or buried within you.
It is why Sheikh Nazim advises us not to ask who God is but ask who we are .. It is also the basis for Self Realisation .. Looking for the real self requires leaving the confines of the false limited self defined by dualistic consciousness .. and in this sense the ‘No-selfers’ as I call them are doing something useful in pointing out to people that if they look for their self it will be found to not really exist .. the frustrating and annoying thing with them is that they will not take the next step in recognising that despite having discovered this yet they are still conscious and functioning and therefore the real question is; Where is the seat of that consciousness once you have recognised that it is not you or your accustomed everyday self or in any way connected to the constant stream of thoughts except perhaps as the fount of them .. but not identical with them .. ? There is a real recognition within this group of the first steps of Self realisation or non-dual consciousness .. ‘You are not your body and you are not your mind.’ but it is then left there with no conclusion being drawn or implied which would lead to a deeper meaning being apprehended with respect to the significance of human life on earth.
‘You’ are a constant state which is the observer of the ups and downs of life .. the changes in pleasure and pain .. the observer of the apparently self-organising  self-running familiar entity which is made up of the body with its sensations and the thoughts with their associated emotions.

Identification with the the thoughts and the body and the associated sensations and emotions is where most people live and have their consciousness .. but there is a higher state of consciousness and it implies a connection with all other beings especially human beings but also animals and even inanimate existence or objects .. This is the sensation of ‘unity’ common to all so-called mystical experience.
Both the experience of unity and the existence of non-local consciousness as experienced and reported in NDEs are direct indicators of something .. in the form of a connecting principle ..which traditionally would have been reconised as God in some way or other .. a direct contact with that which has always been assumed or understood to be the cause the First Cause or Creator of this world and all that is in it and on it, especially man and his consciousness, which is higher than that of the animals precisely because it can find the true non-local consciousness (or God) within itself ..
It is said in the sufi tradition that there is no place in the universe which can contain God except for the heart of man. There is also a tradition about God hiding Himself in the one place that man would never think to look .. In his own heart !
Above the entrance to The Oracle at Delphi was written “Man, know thyself !”...
It is also emphasised in the sufi tradition that “Allah is closer to man than his own jugular vein.” ( a saying from the Quran) .. and Ibn Arabi known as Sheikh Al Akbar .. (The Greatest Sheikh) .. had a particular teaching known as Wahdat al Wujud or The Unity of Being .. in which he propounded the knowledge that in reality there is nothing but Allah ..
07:14:Hrs; ..
My typing and coordination are getting so bad that I just managed to hit a combination of keys that deleted the whole of the present document just as I feel I am beginning to express what I have been trying to work on my whole life and I felt it to be like a Divine warning (if not punishment) about the tendency to write about these things without ‘practicing’ them, in the way which is taught as the foundation stone of sufism and Islam, that man is not created for anything but to worship Allah .. according to the Koranic ayat “I did not create man and djinn for anything but to worship Me.” .. and the saying, “ Worship Allah and  He will be your teacher ."
I am in a total state of nerves after that !
My conscience tells me that I should do that .. and that it is man’s responsibility to worship according to the Islamic tradition and that that is the true meaning of life but .. wether through a runaway ego or a runaway mind or rebellion or pride or laziness or incapacity .. or questioning and lack of total faith in Islam / Muhammad because of the aggressive, supposedly defensive, but it would seem aggressive, nature of the Koranic teaching .. or because I am a coward .. I don’t know .. or a combination of all of the above .. I am not sure .. I don't do that and over the years have gradually drifted away from any practice at all and have a very reduced contact or identification with the Islamic sufi community.
I end up questioning wether it is really an untenable path and word view or if the problem is just me and my weaknesses. I just don’t feel fully authentic identifying with the muslim manner of worship .. Arabic language .. arab customs and world view .. I don’t know .. and yet I believe in and feel I am surrounded by evidence for God both in the material world and in myself .. (and the Quran says "And We will show them signs on the horizons and in themselves.").
I am sure that an enlightened state exists and that it has many levels and multiple  facets, extensions and depths .. above and beyond the scope of many true experiences of non-dual consciousness and awareness of the illusion of the false self .. In the sense that someone like Sheikh Nazim would seem to have access to a world of unity which extends far beyond the limited vision of a unique place in space and time .. whereas most of the present day teachers of non-duality give little or no hint of this and even around Ramana Maharshi there is not a wealth of reports of regular access to and life in, a non-spacio-temporal dimension .. which interacts with this narrow and limited space time material one .. though some reports do show this .. in his appearances to people before meetings in the flesh as was the case with  Robert Adams who had seen him at the foot of his bed as a child before meeting him in India as an adult and others who knew him at a distance ..

How to martial this information and these examples into a coherent document .. or even blog entry and especially with reference to the possibility of producing a book is hard to imagine .. I have little or no experience of how to do these things in a coherent and meaningful serious way ..
As with the music (which I probably should forget in light of my recent attempts and experiences with modern technology and old age affecting memory and coordination plus lack of musical and technical ability ) I am beginning to be a little desperate to produce something useful to others (and maybe productive of some income for myself ) as a result of all my investigations, reading, practices and experience.

07:43:Hrs;
Ay Dios ! The nerves !
I go to the loo and read something from “The Assassin’s Cloak.” A collection of entries from famous diarists .. it is from Ilaine de Pougy and speaks of what appears to be the answer to a prayer by a friend of her cook on a visit to Lourdes .. in the form of a sudden and unexpected sale of the family house .. She says that some would call it a coincidence but she prefers to see it as a small miracle .. adding that after all isn’t the existence of each one of us a miracle ?
Reflecting on this I realise that it may be a good idea (and something that I rarely think of ) to pray to God for help in achieving my aim if I want to write a book encouraging people to believe in Him, in whatever way they may be able to accept, and in the light of the coincidence of evidence and reports from all religions and spiritual paths .. Believe in Him or at least other realities and dimensions beyond the measurable material existence limited by space and time ...
Science is seen by many non-scientists and some scientists as well as having an opportunity to bridge the traditional divide between the spiritual and scientific worlds through quantum physics and its implied necessary inclusion of human consciousness as a factor in the understanding of how the material world functions.
Many if not most spiritual teachers speak of the co-relative effect of one’s own actions and even thoughts, upon the holistic reality and quantum physics has been forced to accept that observation is a factor to be taken into account due to the effect that it has upon experiments at deep and subtle levels of investigation into the nature of wave and particle theories of light and energy.
There is also more evidence from investigations into neuro plasticity that thought can effect the material world and change the structure of the brain ..
All of the excitement from the Russians and spoon bending and non-local cognition .. seems to have died down or gone off the everyday radar but there was a great deal of money spent on investigations by the American army when it was thought to be of possible use in reconnaisance.
The familiar idea of separate entities that can be analysed without reference to the whole has to be gradually and carefully laid aside and Bells theorem has shown how twin particles seperated in space react at precisely the same time proving a non spacial or temporal  connection which provably exists within the material world ..
It seems so utterly simple to understand the unity of all things and that even the manifestations of unity are actually none other than that same unity reflected in different forms but not separate or different from it .. until it comes to trying to explain it in physical terms while using labelling, naming, dualistic language.
The One and the many .. is a concept found in all spiritual paths wether theistic or not, from Taoism (as expressed at the beginning of the Tao te Ching) .. through Zen to even western Christianity (one could even cite the Trinity as an example) ..
Multiplicity in unity .. unity in multiplicity .. Multiplicity in appearance and manifestation .. unity in reality and causation ..
It puts one in mind of Ghazzali’s famous “No secondary causes.” .. and this connects neatly with Bell’s theorem as a proof from modern physics. If twin particles separated in space react to a stimulus upon on one of them at exactly the same time with no time lag .. what is the connection ?
It also puts one in mind of telepathic communication and cognisance at a distance which can be evidenced by everything from reports of the Buddah’s knowledge of his students questions and states of mind before their physical arrival to see him or any verbal communication between them, to Rupert Sheldrake’s experiments with cat and dog owners and the animal’s apparent knowledge of their imminent arrival .. (beyond what can be attributed to acute sense of smell etc) ..
My own Sheikh has often evidenced knowledge of people’s states needs and situations at a distance and there have been many cases reported of direct help or apparent intervention in events as a result of ‘meded’ or using a spiritual connection to call for help ..(I have myself had experience of this .. which seemed undeniable in its directness and immediacy as well as flexibility or repeatability .. and was similar to other cases often reported around situations involving difficulties with travel and vehicles.)
How to apply all this and make it useful and pertinent in the here and now ? Is there a way or should I try to use it to solve my present problem with rerspect to income and my apparently useless unproductive existence ? If I am confused I can at least ask or pray to be guided to the right action and activity and attitude ..
I would like the solution to be connected to my chosen or natural activity which is writing and words and it really seems like time to produce or manifest something now which may be of benefit to others and might help my own financial situation vis a vis income and personal self-support.
Over time I have come up with many titles for such a work but cannot particularly remember any of them now .. It seems that for me a title is helpful in creating a vision or goal which would help shape the writing into a coherent whole. Such as .. (embarrassed smile as he invents something ) .. “Non Duality in the light of NDEs, Quantum Physics and Mystical experience.” or “The Unitary Principle in Eastern and Western Philosphy, Spirituality and science.”  the latter of which would give a chance to include Plotinus and the Neo-Platonist principle of The One .. (maybe the soul and the Great Chain of Being) I need a kind of brain storming session on this because it must be catchy and also inclusive without making a list in the title.
The elements floating around today are various:
NDEs .. Quantum Physics .. Plotinus .. Sufism .. Zen .. Taoism .. Telepathy and non-local cognition ... Bell’s Theorem ..
It might be a modern slightly New Agey version of The Perennial Philosophy and could even touch on the relevance of the LoA stuff as well as  sympathetic magic as examples of the interconnectedness of everything.  The 'A-causal Connecting Principle.’ .. of  Jung with respect to the I Ching and the Secret of the Golden Flower .. Taoist thought .. alchemy and the turning of the lead of the ego and space-time-bound materialist consciousness into the gold of spiritual consciousness .. are all subjects which have relevance and can be brought to bear on the theme of unity the One and non-duality.
The least that can be said about a commonality of modern experience of non-dual consciousness is that there is a kind of ‘stepping out of’ the self .. “No one home” as one writer put it .. The common experience is being aware of thought and activity carrying on as normal but a disconnection from the perception of oneself as the author of them or the ‘FSA’ as Wayne Liqorman calls it (the False Sense of Authorship) ..
Man  cannot ‘do’ was an interesting concept for followers of the Gurdjieff school ..
One of the ideas propounded in sufism (and other schools and esoteric paths as well) is that the station of unity, or 'annihilation in God', is the highest form of existence for a human because he becomes a perfect instrument of God .. living in and acting from the conscious reality that man’s sense of being able to do caused by his ego-bound consciousness is not in harmony with the real situation of all actually coming from One source .. even being the One Source .. The person or apparent individual annihilated in God makes no mistakes despite appearances .. ( in the case of certain great Sheikhs famously appearing to break the norms of Islamic shariat law) .. because he is not acting from ego .. but from spiritual consciousness .. God acts through the enlightened Saint .. summed up in the Quranic phrase “It was not you who threw when you threw.” Referring to a moment in battle when the Prophet (pbuh) picked up a handful of dust and threw it at the enemy causing it to blind them and thus turning the outcome of the battle in the Muslim’s favour.
There is emphasis in sufism upon the fact that material means are not the way to either win wars or spread Islam .. All is in God’s hands and only He may do what is really right and necessary (again often despite appearances) .. It is the struggle of those on the spiritual path to accept the ‘slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” in the knowledge that whatever happens, happens in reality by the will of God and should not be opposed or argued with as it has an inherent perfection which may not always be apprehended by human consciousness.
Many non-dualists even those outside of any theistic tradition propound a similar understanding of life as the only way to achieve inner peace and safety from the turbulence of judgemental ego inspired choice .. which can only be the cause of suffering because by nature the ego is never in agreement with  what is happening .. it always wants something else or to be somewhere else anf for things to be different to how they are .. and even then when they are different .. the new situation, person or thing is immediately seen in the same discontented light .. Dissatisfaction with what is is the constant source of suffering.
Pride is the prime mover of this attitude and the salient characteristic of the angel which fell from grace to become the devil due to refusing to bow before the form of Adams in recognition of his special place in creation. Humility the only real antidote .. It was upon this basis that a disciplic chain of succession was established in sufism as well as in the Hindu spiritual tradition .. via the submission of the will of an unenlightened one to the will of an enlightened one, who, acting and speaking on behalf of a higher will and consciousness was capable of inducting the lower dualistic material nature & consciousness into a higher non-dual unitary and spiritual one.