PAUL HEDDERMAN, SCRIPT OF 1/2/19 TALK

Snippet from Paul Hedderman's 1/2/19 Youtube video (Zen BitchSlap) -- Posted by Carolyn Duca Bowen: The Principle of nonduality = you're not that. A principle of negation.

Paul Hedderman:

" I think we’ve done a really good job here, attempting to show
the simple .. like, ‘rotation possibility’ and that
the rotation isn’t gonna be a daily f*ing chore, every day

All you need is a few (instances of seeing it)
and then the mind will leap into the PRINCIPLE of it all, hopefully….

Yes?

See, a principle, in a sense, if you see one here,
let’s say, the principle of “I’m in good hands”, alright?,
“I’m taken care of”…

Principles are principles because they OVERRIDE circumstances and situations,
they’re not affected by varying conditions, and changes….
yah,
There’re principles, yah: They rise above.

So being based here (gestures above), it’s a very good vehicle to travel through
the comings and goings of the this-and-that, here, yah? (gestures here)

(It’s like the North Star.
It’s quite helpful.)

So, the principle in non-duality is simply that:

“You’re not that.”

It’s not, “You ARE that”,
It’s “You’re NOT that,”

(Really, It is.
I would say it’s ‘in that direction’
It’s a principle of negation.)

Because what we ARE is in the act of being identified as what it’s not…

So the correction would be, NOT to AFFIRM what we are,
because we’d be affirming it and
it would be claimed by what we’re not,
yah,
What we’re not would be saying, would be doing, all the affirming.
It would be the personal presence remembering the impersonal presence all day, yah,

So, WE’RE NOT DOING THAT.

What we’re doing is SEEING what we’re NOT from what we ARE.
Yah,

So,
And, in seeing what we’re not from what we are,
And seeing that you can KNOW what you’re not, but,
the beautiful thing is…
You can’t know what you are.

So, there’s a correction in misapplying the ways we try to have knowledge
Because you can have knowledge about everything you’re not,
But you can’t really have knowledge of what you are…
You can only BE it, yah?,
that’s the only possibility.

So, to get weaned off of the constant application of,
“I wanna understand this!”
“I wanna get this!”
“I want to know it!”
“I want to experience it!” and
“I want it to stabilize!”

You see through it, after awhile.

You see, that, No, that, no, that’s not going to work…
yah, you put that f’ing big chunk aside….yah?"