Are you having good days, bad days or both?  Recently I was conscious enough to hear “me” reporting, “I’m having a bad day.”  Other times it reports, “Today was a good day!”  I had an “ah-ha” while on the website of Ramesh Balsekar, a non-duality teacher. I read, “All action is a divine happening through a human object – it is not something done by someone.”  I realized that simply by removing judgments from my vocabulary, I could end good days and bad days.

Here is my analysis of Ramesh Balsekar’s statement: All action is a divine happening through a human object – it is not something done by someone.

“All action” is everything that happens we call good and everything that happens we call bad.

“… is a divine happening”, at the deepest level of understanding, is out of the control of a human “me”.  “What is is,” says Byron Katie, also an enlightened being.

“…human object”  takes on the form of a human individual with a name, a body and a life. From the nondualistic perspective, all forms are objects being moved here and there by consciousness, energy, light, life, love, spirit, Self, God, whatever name you choose to call it.

 “…not something done by someone” expresses the projected illusion that there are individuals causing actions.  I love Adyashanti words,“You are not a human being, you are being appearing as human.”  from emptiness dancing, 2006

I think of the wind scooping up a fallen leaf from the ground and moving it along until it settles somewhere far away.  It comes to rest now and then but the wind keeps it moving. It may become brittle and get stepped on and split into many smaller pieces. After a while, it returns to the invisible from whence it came. The leaf doesn’t dictate where it ends up or any of the stops along the way. If it is a self-realized leaf, it relaxes and enjoys the journey.  Until then, it makes judgments about every action. “I liked what happened today so I had a good day. I didn’t like what happened today so I had a bad day.”  Thus is the dilemma of the “me”, the human object who claims to be an individual (a subject) separate from all other human objects.  From Adyashanti’s book, emptiness dancing, “Most people are familiar with the sense of a me living this life. But when this is seen through the experience is that what really runs and operates this life is love… and this love is in everybody all the time.”  

So all the actions that take place in a day are neither good nor bad; they are simply divine happenings. The “me” thinks it can control actions, but from the nondualistic perspective, we are not the doer. Byron Katie, says, “We are being lived. We’re not doing it.”   When I ponder that, all my judgments drop away. I stop labeling. It is the end of “good” days and “bad” days. I relax in the understanding that as a human object, through which consciousness moves, there is no “me”.  From Adyashanti’s book, The End of Your World, “That force, that energy that moves us, is at the same time the very substance of our own being, our own self.”  There is just light moving, spontaneously, unpredictable, fluidly, like a leaf floating on the current of the wind landing here then there. Why not relax and enjoy the journey!

Until you return, drop your judgments and fill your days with GIGGLES, JOY, and APPRECIATION!

SylviaSilk, D.D. Director of the Institute For Balanced Living, Los Angeles,CA, USA
DoctorofDivinity, SpiritualCoach, ReconnectiveHealingPractitioner, Writer