ISism

It strikes me that what seems, from my perspective, the biggest challenge for this self-styled "integral" community in the coming years will be really getting at an authentic expression of the relationship between nonduality and everyday, relative life.  The Two Truths Doctrine seems insufficient to me.  It seems, ironically, overly dualistic.  There is one realm, which is relative and dualistic, where you can make judgements and say things about other things.  There is another realm, which is non-relative and non-dualistic, which you cannot say anything about, including this.  It kind of works as a stop-gap measure because we have no better way of explaining it, but it seems far too binary in nature to actually get at what is going on here.  There's something like... the relationship between causal "energy" and the effect which its "cause" must inevitably produce, in the subtle and less subtle energies of our world(s).  There's something like... the connection between living, being, experiencing and formulating a theory, a map, to make that process more fulfilling, more invigorating, more hopeful, with greater vision and insight.  

While the ability to hold paradox is important for anyone investigating the nondual condition of IS, it seems like we may be using "it's a paradox" as a crutch, a conversation stopper, when discussing the "paradoxical" urge to grow and change and develop and evolve in the face of the Great Perfection which already contains all multitudes of Now.  All that I have read and seen and experienced of this relationship seems to point to the idea that it is precisely the experience of this ISness we (somewhat clumsily) call "nonduality"is the very experience that pushes ALL development to fruition.  Maybe the only reason this does not make sense to us is that we perceive development chronologically, and this may merely be an illusion, rooted in the limits of the human mind/brain.

I came across an interesting perspective, recently, on the relationship between these so-called Two Truths.  Interesting, most of all, because this individual conveys no explicit concept of either "nonduality" or of a relativism rooted in development and growth, but this work is nevertheless a compelling exploration of this precise topic.

http://www.isism.org/