In the world of quantum physics, the most they can say about the existence of any object, is that it has a ‘tendency to exist.’ That’s the same view, funnily enough, that shines in the nondual wisdom.

We can’t really say that this whole solid world exists. It certainly appears to have a very solid and separate existence. But things are not what they appear to be. We don’t exist the way we think we do. Our thoughts and feelings don’t exist the way we think they do. Everything just has a ‘tendency to exist.’

This is the impermanence, the endless flow of life, nothing to hold onto.  No solid reality anywhere to point to, to say, “This is the way it is.”

“Studies show now that’s there’s one thing we human beings are just doing all the time. We’re projecting our meaning and interpretation onto everything and everyone. In fact, even so much of what we see is only because we have the neuropathways and receptors to even see that.

There might be whole universes existing around us within the same field that don’t exist. We just don’t have the receptors to make it an image in our sensory system”.  (Dr. Henry Grayson talks to Tami Simon)

This is good news.  Like strong medicine, the medicine we have been waiting for.  This is where the streams of grace can start to flow. When we just relax into the impermanence, the endless flow, each moment disappears and then here is a new one.

‘Everything that has ever happened to anyone in this universe, is gone in this present moment. We live in a state of Grace.” (Byron Katie)

In The Work of Byron Katie, all of this reveals itself. There is actually no way to avoid it. We started inquiry because we wanted some relief for our suffering. We didn’t know that we were going to lose our whole world. Our house of cards cannot really stand up in the clear light of inquiry.

This chance to work with another human being, a friend in inquiry, is amazing. I feel such a deep love and respect for my friends in inquiry. All over the world we know each other, and practice together.. Such a joy.

These days, I feel it every time I sit down to do The Work with someone. It’s a willingness to see the truth, to speak the truth, to let go of our certainty, and all the ways we protect ourselves with our beliefs. Our memories, our self-images, our stories.

I sit down to do inquiry with you naked. As an act of deep friendship, great love. It’s not always like this at the beginning. But in the community of inquiry, this is what happens, naturally.

I look at you, and I know that you have a deep, abiding interest in letting all of these burdens, these accumulations, fall away, so that you can give yourself the freedom to question anything.. To awaken your natural intelligence. The bright shining clarity that is here when we don’t abandon life- we take it in our arms, the way it is.