The Mind of Christ

Non-Dualistic Thinking

“Going to church every Sunday no more makes

you aChristian,

than standing in a garage makes you a

car.”

GK Chesterton

Dualistic Consciousness

Dual means TWO…

This and not that…that and Not this…

SEPARATE SELF – I AM NOT YOU.

AND YOU ARE NOT ME!

DUALISTIC THINKING

WHAT IT IS… WHAT IT IS NOT…

But there is another way to think!

Mary is a virgin

Jesus is human

Eucharist is bread and wine

God is three

Mary is a mother

Jesus is God

Eucharist is body and blood of Christ

God is one

How Jesus Thought

Stoning of the Adulterous Woman…

Those among you without sin, cast the first stone…

NON-DUALISTIC THINKING

YOU ARE OTHER THAN ME.

BUT WE ARE ALSO NOT OTHER THAN EACH OTHER…

I AM OTHER THAN YOU.

THE MIND OF CHRIST

TRULY I SAY TO YOU THAT WHEN YOU DID IT TO ONE OF THESE BROTHERS OF MINE, EVEN THE LEAST OF THEM, YOU DID IT TO ME.

(MATT. 25: 35-37)

YOU ARE CONNECTED – TO GOD – TO ALL PEOPLE-TO ALL CREATION…

Dualistic Thinking/SEPARATE

SELF

God/Reality

me

SEPARATE SELF

The Identity YOU create for Yourself

The self that CHANGES and DIES

The Branch separate from the VINE

The fragile needy self

The necessary but not sufficient self

True Self

GOD/REALITY

True Self

Not two but not one either…

Separate but not separate

Connected to God and to others and to all creation

The INDWELLING that is in ALL and CONNECTS ALL

Contemplation/Meditation

Teaches us through Silence

Practicing NON-DUALISTIC AWARENESS

Shut down the dualistic brain

Think within the MYSTERY of self as both OTHER THAN and NOT-OTHER THAN

Flashpoints of Non-Duality

Lovers – not two but one, live in their oneness but maintain their twoness…

Our children – they are us, but not us.

Nature – deep connection when contemplating ocean, trees, fire burning, gardening, our love for our pets…

Eucharist/Communion

Ritual to help us REMEMBER…

WE ARE ONE

THOUGH NOT ONE…

Scripture PassagesFear not, for I am with you ALWAYS…

Put on the Mind of Christ…

What you do to the least of these, you do to me…

I and the Father are one…

I will come back again and will take you to Myself, that where I am, you may also be.

And He will give you a Comforter, that He may remain with you forever…

The Spirit of Truth…for He lives with you constantly and will be in you…

RememberSILENT and LISTEN

have the same letters…