Eastern mysticism focuses on the stable, unchanging aspect of the Divine Life: the vast expanse of awareness that underlies and undergirds all things. It therefore tends to view change as illusory. On the other hand, Western Mysticism generally focuses on the growth-and-process aspect of the Divine Life which flows toward ever higher - or deeper - states of consciousness. Western culture tends therefore to drift away from an awareness of the underlying changelessness, a state that is accessed - par excellence - through sitting meditation. For me, BOTH of these understandings are necessary to give a complete picture of spiritual Reality. Accordingly, nondual awareness does not involve either of these states collapsing into the other, but resides instead in the place IN BETWEEN the two. In my view, THAT is the highest state of consciousness :)
Photos: (Top) Wild Rose and cascades on the North St. Vrain River;
(Middle) Yellow Pondlily growing on a pond near Ouzel Lake (July 13,
2015); (Bottom) Snow Buttercups arising out of a snowbank filled
with watermelon snow. The first two photos are from Rocky Mountain
National Park, CO. The third was taken in Grand Teton National Park, WY
on July 5, 2015
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