The Unbinding Way
TO CLARITY AND FULFILLMENT
What does it mean to unbind?
Contemplating what was needed to be said here, everything seemed too prepared and thought-based. Involuntarily, there was a sigh and shrug of the shoulders, a small movement, but enough to shift attention from thought to presence. A smile arose from somewhere and then thought dropped away. This is the simplicity of unbinding.
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What if a slight shrug of the shoulders shifted your current way of seeing reality and changed the moment, and the next? Sounds far-fetched, but it's that simple. Not necessarily a physical shrug, but a thought shrug. A belief shrug. An identity shrug. Unbinding is a moment by moment release of contracted energies, long-held beliefs, and thought identification. It's an opportunity to tell the truth, to really tell the truth about who we are and opening to that fully.
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If you look directly at what you're experiencing, you will notice that there is resistance. A lot of Not this, Not that, This is just too painful and even a blanket of foggy numbness. But the thing is, it's already here in awareness. Resistance, then, resists something that's already in experience. Doesn't make sense, does it. Resistance is only doing its job, protecting from feeling fear and other emotional flavours. These flavours are like the monster under the bed. Unbinding is the bend to look under the bed to see if the monster is really there. Each individual is unique and therefore, how we look under the bed together is unique, too.
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Presence ... it's just this all the time. You can't move from there; you can't lose it; you can't lose track of it, really, because it's just this all the time. Always here. Always the case. It is the mechanism of unbinding, always. An unbinding from perceptual filters and illusions, and as such, it is the crucible of transformation ... of letting go ... of dissolving false identity structure's; of dissolving all that is false.
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​Angelo Dilulo MD
After 27 years of Buddhist meditation practice, a handful of years seeking within the Non-Dual realm and therapy, suffering was still present, and resistance to suffering was creating more suffering.
I tried diligently to meditate away unwanted emotions; fear, helplessness, unworthiness, loneliness and fear of loss. Chronic health concerns and PTSD in the system shadowed every aspect of life. Rather than opening to these energetic orphans calling out for attention, I ran from them ...