THERE IS NO PATH. “THIS” IS HOME. FOR NO ONE.
This website & Jim Newmans NON-DUALITY meetings share a mystery, a paradox. The paradox is that THIS, this appearance, isn’t what it appears to be. It is and it isn’t. It’s no-thing being something. It’s emptiness appearing as everything. It’s unified appearing as divided or separated.
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Within this apparent paradox arises an experience. That experience is, that this appearance is happening to ‘me’. That experience is not paradoxical; it feels very real. There’s no space, no room, no possibility for the reality, that ‘this’ isn’t happening to ‚me’. That experience of duality is dissatisfying. It’s uncomfortable. Out of that experience arises the need to bring about a wholeness, to cover up the feeling that what is, isn’t complete, to make the feeling that it’s not okay – okay. Out of that arises the need for good and bad and right and wrong. So this appearance then turns into ‚my life‘, and my life is the need to make ‘this’ better, ‘this’ good, to find out or to solve the problem of why I don’t feel like it’s okay, why I feel like something’s wrong, why I feel like I need to seek, to find something else.

Here and in the meetings, there will be an uncovering, revealing, pointing to the reality, that that experience of separation, that experience that I’m real, that there’s something wrong and that I need to do something about it, is illusory. In reality, THIS is whole, this is complete. There’s nothing missing, there’s no real lack, there’s no real need for anything to happen.

This sharing has no authority. So this up here is not telling anyone anything. There’s nothing that needs to be said. This is a response to the apparent question of the experience, that something needs to happen. The answer is: “No, there’s nothing that needs to happen.”

The solution or the end of the seeking isn’t a finding. That need to find something is never satisfied; it never happens. If it does, it’s very temporary. I find something and I’m afraid of losing it; I find something and I’m trying to hold onto it; I’m trying something and I’m trying to maintain it. It’s never satisfied. The end of the seeking is the end of the seeker, is the end of the experience, that ‘this’ is real.

What’s left is what’s already obviously everything: THIS. This doesn’t need anything else, this is already all there is. Whatever is happening—whatever feelings, thoughts, experiences are happening—that is the wholeness that is looked for. It’s not the wholeness the individual’s looking for. It’s not the wholeness that the “I am” is looking for. It will always be dissatisfied with this. It’s a wholeness that’s beyond the personal seeking, beyond the personal need for something more or something else.