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The chooser, always alive and kicking (sometimes screaming!) believing that "I" live life, in this field of choicelessness, where life, instead perhaps, lives you. A rollicking ride in the push-pull. It has been suggested in non-dual teachings, that we have no choice, that there is no chooser, and yet we feel as though we are choosing, in every moment. That idea of choice, free will, also has been suggested to us, much earlier on. Alan Watts spoke about the turning of a wheel, noticing how there is pushing with one hand, while the other is pulling. What a deliciously gnarly dilemma we have: choosing to believe that we are one or the other. Isn't it grand?!
All love, all day long, Analisa
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The invitation is to leave it alone. To let life be. To know yourself as being lived. That is what is happening here. Life is alive as you, through your breath, through your being. Don't look for it elsewhere. It does you and undoes you, over and over again. You are not the doer. Stop claiming that you are, and your relentless despair of knowing you are not, will dissolve. The belief in the doer, in the future, in something rich and magical beyond this place, is what deadens you, and crushes your heart. The belief in something greater than this has held you captive, left you for dead. And yet you fear death. The only death you will ever know is this lifeless longing. Question these beliefs, awaken from them, and live it out loud. Then you will know yourself as boundless life, as freedom, and your body will age and die fully alive, without regret, endlessly beautiful.
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CategoriesAnalisa Domenica is a naturalist minister and mentor, in private practice as a Doula for living and dying. She offers private mentoring sessions, end-of-life preparation & transition support, bereavement, home death, funeral, and natural burial guidance, and laying-on-of-hands for comfort care and pain release. Analisa joyfully celebrates weddings and memorials, according to your faith or secular tradition. She is available to private clients, small groups, and for public education. Find out more about her by clicking here.
'Li' lives and works in Mill Spring, NC, a stone or two's throw from Asheville, NC and Greenville/Spartanburg, SC. She also works globally via phone and zoom. You may reach her by phone at 828.429.0096 or write to her by clicking here. |
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