A Word From David Simon
According to Ayurveda, the 5000-year-old healing wisdom tradition of India, the primary cause of all suffering in life is known as Pragnaparadha. This Sanskrit word is most often translated as the primary mistake of the intellect. What is the mistake? It is engaging in the delusion that there is a separation between the knower (rishi), the process of knowing (devata), and that which is known (chandas.) When the veil of division is parted and the memory of wholeness returns, the unitive value of life is reestablished, and the cause of all suffering evaporates.
As soon as the concept of "I" dawns, there is the simultaneous arising of the concept of "other." The undifferentiated field of unity consciousness becomes divided. We then engage in the melodrama of separation, which is accompanied by feelings of inadequacy, temporarily punctuated by feelings of self-importance. The emptiness that you feel is the direct consequence of accepting that your separation is real. Fullness becomes your everyday reality when you accept that you are the sacred looking at itself from a unique point of view.
The human experience is a cosmic game of hide and seek in which pure consciousness disguises itself as individual points of perspective in order to recognize itself as unified spirit. A wave of individuality rises from the unbounded ocean, and for a time, forgets that it is the ocean in disguise. When the wave begins looking inside, the memory of wholeness is rekindled, and the wave again knows itself as unbounded, infinite and eternal. The memory of one makes the experience of the many much more enjoyable.
Practice seeing through the masks of individuality. A wave that knows itself as the ocean is not confused by the disguises worn by other waves. Look through their eyes into the soul of the sentient beings in your life and see the reflection of your self. As you recognize the one in the many, you’ll see yourself smiling at yourself wherever you look.
Love,
David
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