*For the Easter presentation for this year, you are invited to the presentation on March 31, 2015. Thanks.
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In that day you shall know that I am in my Father, you in me, and I in you.
*Jesus (Gospel of John 14.20)
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When we refer to Oneness, or Unity, we do not refer to a feeling. Today, I saw a man driving by, as I returned home fatigued by a stressful day, and noticed I did not only not feel One with him - or anyone moving around me -, but did not feel positive about him at all. Rather, there was a feeling of irritability. I reflected that is the world: it seems our usual feeling is separation, while sometimes we feel communion, and rarely do we sense Union with others. - I speak here in generalities, of course. - This is partly true, for the body is limited in capacity to sustain states beyond felt-separation at this point in our evolution. This is a reason Oneness cannot be merely a feeling. Oneness is, indeed, not an attempt to feel One with anyone or even to have faith that we are One. The immediate point for Oneness is intimacy with this moment, this now, this here. Oneness is already, always, for it precedes here and now. Coming here, now, there is Oneness already. Oneness is not about Oneness with others, anyway, but with Life - "others" implies separation, otherness, duality. And if you try to feel One with other persons, you will be disappointed constantly, or possibly mistake Oneness for an illusory union that you conjure up but, really, cannot sustain. Oneness, instead, integrates and accepts the feeling of separation and remains intimate with Life-as-Presence present, not merely a bodily sensation of closeness. This cannot be put into words, and one can easily read this from the aspect of body-mind and totally miss that I am referring to something that is not about the body-mind. Yet, the body-mind is to share in this as the ground of Spirit. From the body we say "Yes" to this moment, with all its mystery and, sometimes, a marked sense of separation, possibly even isolation. I sense that persons most in Connection with Life, living in Oneness, have lives where Oneness Itself leaves them oft feeling alone, oft feeling isolated even amid others who seem to live content with surface, sensate "communions." Possibly, the Hindu "alone with the Alone" speaks to this. I think so. One can feel very lonely at times in a world saturated with sharing at the level of temporary satisfactions, egoic pursuits, even egoic pursuits to love and be loved. Love is the answer to our pursuit of Connection, for Love is the Connection. I remain in love with Jesus, for I fell in Love with Him as a child. I realize other persons may connect with Love through another means. Love is Love, always. That is Oneness.
