Kiserian - No secret of life...

 

 There is no secret of life for you to find. It makes me smile when you talk of finding your true nature or losing your ego or seeing that you are not separate. That you have no self or know you never had a self. I always want to ask who is it that knows what they are not? All your focus is on what does not exist. And then you say this is it, or talk of what is, or you talk of consciousness or awareness. Does it not seem funny that you tell me you no longer believe in concepts and then use a flood of concepts to tell me that? You are like a river saying it is finished with water.

You trade one set of concepts for another. All because you get a little peek into what we always saw, felt and lived. Not knowledge. Not ideas. Simply life. It needs no name. There is no concept that your little mind can invent to express everything that goes far beyond our human experience. You are like people who love playing word games. You can always beat me at a word game. You are the masters of using words to get what you want. Even when you say that what you want is beyond words. If it was really beyond words, how could you speak of it?

I am not here to say you are wrong. I am not playing the game with you. I watch you play a tug of war with words over who is saying it the best, badmouthing others and then you say you do not judge! I am only pointing out that when you have the need to assert what you believe, even if you never call it a belief, you are still not seeing what I am talking about. For it is not seen, not even felt in the way we think of feelings.

You are trying to use words to say what you perceive. But the words you use take anyone listening away from life. You can never get outside of life to look at life. To say nothing is real creates an imaginary line between real and false. And denying what is felt and experienced is what Western philosophers have always done. Do you not see yourself falling into the very same trap?

When you say it is all love, that may be as close as you can get. I only wonder why that is never enough for you? 

A comment by Miranda Warren :

 Kiserian only spoke briefly to people outside of her native Kenya, but her reflections on the way her community intuitively understood the world of no separation compared to the modern nondual perspective are always fascinating. I deeply appreciate her grounded sensibility, and her pointing out some basic assumptions of Advaita and Nonduality speakers that seem to suggest their worldview is the only one that could possibly be correct. Her insights on the nature of thought and perception are always clear and provocative and presented in beautiful language, and she always delves deeply into the heart of what is without turning it into an intellectual exercise.