Dancing Paradox Jim Newman | Radical Non-Dualism, The End Of Seeking And Unlimited Freedom
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Mar 17, 2022 
Jim Newman, a radical non-dualist teacher who presents a valueless, direct message about the end of the separate self and innate freedom. He explores the illusion of seeking and how the sense of a separate 'I' arises. Conversations cover paradoxical reality prior to concepts, why practices cannot produce the end of seeking, and how freedom remains neutral amid all appearances.
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No One Exists And Everything Just Is
- There is no one and what is, is everything and nothing at the same time.
- Jim Newman frames reality as an undivided immediacy where the sense of a separate owner is an illusion that can fall away.
Seeking Comes From The Illusion Of Ownership
- Seeking arises from the felt experience of separation where an apparent owner tries to make things happen.
- Jim says the separate experience 'owns' thoughts and feelings, so it inevitably seeks freedom though that seeking is itself part of the illusion.
There Is No Process To Realisation
- The process exists only for the apparent individual; the end of that process is the revelation that all there is is what is.
- Jim emphasises the revelation is not a process but the recognition that freedom is already present.