The Essence of Oneness

I've just returned from a ten day road trip with our little RV to visit family and friends across the province. On the second day at noon, halfway between Chiliwack (where my brother lives) and Hope (where I lived for ten years), the bolts that hold the back passenger tire onto the axle sheered off from vibration and the axle fell to the ground while I was travelling about ninety kilometres an hour. After a succesful wrestling match with the steering wheel to pull the vehicle over to the side of the highway, a magical sequence of people and events unfolded to assist the reassembling of my plan to travel. The RV was road worthy by five o'clock the same day thanks to Ron and his Aunt Anne who stopped on the highway and made the cell phone calls for me when I was too rattled to operate a cell phone, and my old friend Dwayne who introduced me to Murray the mechanic at the Shell station on the Old Hope Princeton highway in Hope. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

During the return trip I reflected on the conversations and events that had unfolded since setting out. I found myself struggling with the old habit of judging others actions and choices as better or right and other actions or choices wrong and not good. I noticed anxiety building within as I indulged in judgement and criticism and I realized anxiety is how separation from Oneness with all of life feels. I remembered that "it's all me" and the dance between polarities shifted to encompassing the polarities.

I share the above by way of introducing this piece written by Max, a contributor to reconnections@yahoogroups.com. Max has captured exquisitely in words the feelings that washed over me as I re-membered myself. Thanks Max.



The Oneness of God. There is nothing less. All suffering and joy, is equally a part of God. In oneness there is the infinite power of One. One life, One essence. In oneness there is no separation. Only One; no divisions, no barriers, classifications or conundrums. In Oneness, there was the introduction of the first idea, the first concept. The first dividing line. The big bang started with this first line. Once a division was wrought, with a great burst of force and speed, line upon line lay upon and criss-crossed each other, and Form was brought forth from Oneness. Always in the final measurement, Oneness still exists. Even in division and separation Oneness exists.

The sum of all total activity of Form, when added together is always One. For any polarised system that is unbalanced in one direction, there is one balanced in the opposite direction. Of all the balanced and unbalanced systems in existence, they are all together equal to One. Oneness loves neither joy nor suffering more or less than the other. There is not less than oneness simply because anger fear and horror exist. Nor is there more than Oneness when happiness joy and light abound. Oneness is All; together and undivided.

The pure essence of Oneness is that which is left over when the lines of Form dissolve and reveal their impermanence Oneness essence exists in the heart of all matter and form. It is never not so. The Oneness essence pervades, animates and inhabits all form, even in the darkest extremes of polarity.

The essence of Oneness is called “Consciousness”. Consciousness always celebrates the existence of Form. This is evident in a mothers protection of a child, the survival instinct, love of people for each other, the way a crystal imbues itself into the energy it reflects back at you. These are all energetic relationships that are inherent to the world of Form. In Oneness there is YOU, in Form there are many YOUs. The existence of Form is also celebrated in the desire to survive by one who is afeared for their life, the desire of a thief or glutton to satiate themselves despite the harm to self or others, a gamblers struggle to recover their winnings. All these things involve the love of and Awe of Form. Oneness, the All, is in love with Form. It is not in love more with the things of one polarity than those of another. Oneness loves all things equally. None is lesser than another in the eyes of Oneness. Oneness is none other than Form Undivided.

Form’s polarity is Destruction. Destruction is a return to Oneness. Form is an independence of Oneness. Form is the child of Oneness conceived by Consciousness. Consciousness, I AM, fertilises the womb of Oneness; and the never ending infinite variety of Form is born.