Venus Fly Trap

Deep in our hearts we know that there is only the ‘One’, Non-duality. Why do we run from it rather than immerse ourself in it? Duality, why do we seek it and why do we run from it’s trap? Why do we want to fully embrace the non-dual experience but run in fear from it’s awesomeness? Why do we taste the infinite ground of being and then flee as we become entangled in its trap of separateness?

Nirvana is awakening to non-duality. Abiding awakening is to fall into non-duality in a way that allows you to play both sides of self and no-self without interruption, without contradiction. Why can something this simple be this hard to achieve.

Birth becomes the sweet smell of the Venus fly trap. We desire the experience of separateness. It is the sticky nectar of life and death. We plunge into the nectar with reckless abandoned, experiencing and thinking. Experiencing is not the nectar but the desire to hold onto the experience is the conscious stickiness that entraps us. This stickiness becomes even more intense as we lock it in with thought and perception. Perception (entrapped experience) and thought become the jaws of the plant as it slowly closes in an awareness of time (an illusion we desire).

In the endless loop of thoughts and perceptions the jaws slowly close as a separate self moves towards it’s end. The fear of the no-self then becomes the conscious awareness of the illusion of finite. Entrapped in the jaws of separateness we slowly are consumed until death sets us free. Yet freedom is short lived. We start all over again with the desire of experience.

Experience, in itself, is not the trap. It is the nectar of experience and the desire to possess it which becomes the trap. Then the thought/perception loop closes in again and the fear of repetition becomes greater with each turn of the wheel.  We can only set ourselves free through the combination of non-attachment to experience and awareness without thought. Then the jaws of Samsara will never close and non-dual existence is our reward. This is the true nectar.