Open City London Documentary Festival: NON-DUALITY - LIFE AS IT IS

If you get a copy of the newly released documentary, Non-Duality, Life As It Is, written by Dr. Shankar, and watch it several times, the possibility is there for you to be transformed. The documentary goes into why, since there is no time, man cannot be the thinker, speaker or doer, that man does not make his life happen- life happens to him, that life is spontaneous, uncontrollable and unpredictable, that life is a singular flow - it will become clear to you that your mind/thoughts do not control your life and your actions. This understanding, once it takes place (and you cannot bring it about since you are not the doer), transforms the ego into the witness and life becomes effortless. None of this means that you walk slightly off the ground, have a smile on your face always and have beatific spiritual visions. You come to understand that you are being lived by existence and trust happens along with patience. The need to have things be the way you want gives way to celebrating life as it unfolds in its intelligent, mysterious manner, which it was doing all along only now you understand that and so you find yourself steady in life, watching in awe the play of light and sound, as it is.
Dive deep into the body of work that life is gifting to us at this moment in the living form of Dr. Shankar. This is by no means a comparison but if you were struck by the living words of other recent sages such as J. Krishnamurti, Ramana Maharshi, Nisargadatta Maharaj, etc., then you don’t want to miss out on Dr. Shankar. With the appearance of each sage, the message deepens as life evolves and the mind sophisticates. Illusory does not mean it does not exist, so understanding the illusory is paramount and Dr. Shankar’s deep understanding and sharing of the nature of the illusory, the mind, the ego and the real will change you to some degree, which will be determined by existence and not you. His statement that life is an optical illusion of light and an auditory illusion of sound can be explored in several books and cd’s.

Take someone dear to you….why the hell!? I will take my old man!

Not that me and him were any where intimate or something, but me mummy loved him a fucking lot!

We lost him , in an accident when I was 19. Man, not a right time to lose a dad(not that there is one) but , you know , my mums a iron lady!

We got news on the phone , that there was an accident and he was no more. She simply started calling all our relatives asked them to come ….not a tear then!

You know in my culture when someone dies , we burn his body and there are some rites to be performed. If a brother of that person is alive , it is his god damn right to do it! I mean to say people take it very very seriously! Its been so for ages, for ages!

My Fathers brothers were alive…But My Mother , simply refused like Hell! “NO” she said , my husband raised a god damn son and it will be him who will do it! “No one dare”!! she simply said. I mean to say she was a tigress! People never heard of such a thing!
On that day I lit the funeral pyre..

But that’s why I question, whom did we lose that day? Who died that day!? What or who or what thing was my dad? Or my Dad was what?

It is impossible to understand by questioning as the above? Why?

Because whatever analysis you make , ( of Dad being something ) you always end up with what we wrongly understand as “just a thought”! I mean to say an “image” of my Dad, or say like “memories “ of my dad etc etc but not and never any God damn actual( this is the counter part of just a thought- what we call wrongly -“actual”) thing! I don’t know how I can put it but I will try again…let us start with a saying…

There is a saying in India….

“If you think of water , will it be enough to quench your thirst?””

That’s what I think happens when I fucking question what the hell was my Dad.

And that’s what I think happens when we question what Am I or What is?

if one can somehow drop that questioning ( when that questioning is taking place, when , say like , someone is “chopping fucking wood….with the question in backgrpund……keep chopping , drop the question , its over…” ) and just fuck simply be!......

Bang , in that instant one is not like only thinking about the fucking water, he is fucking actually drinking it! The thirst is quenched!

I hope I am getting to you man , I hope I am getting to you.. whoever.s reading this!

especially because of the line…..

That’s what “I think” happens when I fucking question>>….but continue…

Any way …in that instant of simply being…. “Chopping wood”, “drinking tea”, carrying water….”washing dishes:……when one is simply is …….it is realized…

Man…woman has absolutely no fucking fear, as to what is or what was or what will be……he/she is a carefree freak! I m telling you!

Simply “is “! theres nothing more to it..because theres nothing more brilliant that can be to it!

Go back , go back into your simple being, into you as you know yourself to be , and not to watch some ridiculous non duality film and waste your precious time!

Go back into you , without fear , because that is what you are!

The moment you are, simply are, without any fear….you will then realise the beauty of what ever that has happened to you so far!

A “moment” gets perfectly measured, the eye sees the eye…

You will then realise “ the documentary is on DVD from June” is not ridiculous…

I mean to say..is there such a fucking thing as a “documentary on the DVD”???.mmmm????//

One can question! All that there is only 0s and 1 a minute pulse and a stronger pulse(voltage)!

So one can ridicule it, just as one can ridicule time or call it an illusion etc etc etc

But when you simply are, simply are without fear…the beauty of a moment gets to you!

The beauty of saying “ there is a documentary on he DVD” gets to you! You are then rendered speechless, the beauty of life , the beauty of the mind, how graceful it is!

That is what life as it is….

What I lost then was simply my “DAD”!! it is simply simply that!.. no need to complicate it! No need to run away from it at the same time no need to embrace it!

Don’t go to watch that stupid documentary! You don’t need to buy that vulgar DVD or any DVD either! Just live your GOD damn Life, which comes to you so fucking easily , that you oversee it!

Don’t run Don’t run…it is ridiculous! Hold your ground! O brave one O light don’t run…know thyself to be without any fear!

regards

Ok A.I. ... on cue, enter stage left (or is it right?) ... roll camera ... Action!

(The suspense is killing 'me' ... probably a good thing!)