Non-Dual Enlightenment

In a remarkable and mysterious passage of the Gospel of Thomas, where Yeshua instructs his students on how to answer inquiries about their origins in the Source of Light (Logion 50), he concludes with these words:

If you are questioned, "But what is the sign of the Source within you?" say, "It is movement and it is rest."

This integration of opposites (movement and rest), which is to be a clear sign of the Source manifesting itself in a human being, expresses a deep underlying metaphysical truth.

The Divine itself must be understood to be a non-dual unity of opposites--a living paradox which can come also to be expressed through a human person who is integrated with that Source who is Light. In monotheistic terms (within the Abrahamic traditions) it is easy to think of God as a monochromatic unity. Christianity has always resisted such a description through the doctrine of the Trinity. Yeshua is saying something similar here without using strictly trinitarian terms. The Divine is a unity (without contradiction) of the formless and form, emptiness and fullness, apophasis and cataphasis, being and becoming, a super-Essential Reality without qualification and the Essence who is the source of all qualities.

To be a realized human being (which is the apotheosis of The Luminous Gospels), therefore, is to actualize the same living intregration of these forces which exist in God as dynamic reality, but now expressed in human reality. More simply put, non-dual enlightenment for a human being is to realize action (movement) and contemplation (rest) as the yin-yang of an integral marriage of the human and the divine. This full expression (or manifestation) of divine-human reality united in non-dual form is what Yeshua himself knows and is teaching.

So to realize these (to express them as real in oneself) is therefore to transcend the egoic limits of human form through self-transcendence in order to experience the authentic human Self that is at the heart of these Gospels. This theanthropic move, where authentic action along the horizontal axis is integrated with contemplative rest along the vertical axis, is the human equivalent of the experience of the Source in its own Ultimate Reality. This is also Enlightened Non-Duality in a human being where opposite energies live and inform each other making possible the emergence of a new whole, which will later be called theosis (divinization). The sign of the Source within a human person is this living, light-filled, non-dual integration which is Non-Dual Enlightenment in the tradition of Yeshua.