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That which is, or the mystery itself, is consciousness. Consciousness is the emptiness that is nowhere, the eternal field of infinite possibility. It is totality. There is no other. There is nothing less. There is nothing more. Nothing can be added. Nothing taken away. It is reality. It is whole, complete, perfect, and eternal. It cannot be named or described. Trying to do so is a waste of words.
If consciousness is totality; if it is wholeness, or even oneness, why do you perceive separation? Consciousness is reality. It is eternal wholeness. Your world is not. It is an illusion. Separation is a thought in consciousness that cannot be made real. There is no real separation in consciousness, only its illusion. It is a thought in consciousness like unicorns are a possibility in a child’s mind. Unicorns exist but are not real. Your world exists but is not real. Existence is transitory. Reality is eternal. You can awaken from the dream. You cannot leave reality.
Consciousness is beyond comprehension. You call it oneness. Oneness comes with separation. Separation cannot be conceived in consciousness without the thought of oneness arising with it. They come into being together, like wet comes with dry. Dryness is an illusion in water. Without dryness, water has no wetness. Water is not wet unless you know dry. Consciousness is not oneness unless you know separation. Without dryness, water is just water. Without separation, consciousness is consciousness. Oneness and separation require each other like wetness and dryness. This is the duality of existence.
Oneness and separation act in concert as the illusion of existence. Like yin and yang, they are simultaneously opposing and complementary powers. They are the duality that is your world. Your worldly existence is illusion because it is not eternal, nor does it appear to you as whole. It is transitory duality. Your existence is an illusion of separation contrasted with oneness. This is the transitory world of opposing forces that you experience as the me of the body.