Attention, Presence & the Illusion of Opposites

We see in opposites.

Right or wrong. Sacred or secular. Us versus them.
This binary lens helps us navigate everyday life, but when it comes to truth, love, and the mystery of being—it quickly becomes too small.

Non-duality doesn’t deny duality.
It simply sees it from a deeper vantage.
It recognizes that what appears as opposition is often the play of a unified field, expressing itself in different forms.

Non-dual perception arises not from intellect, but from Presence—a quiet attention rooted in the body, in this moment, unhooked from the compulsion to categorize. It’s not a spiritual bypass or a lofty concept. It’s a lived awareness.

As Red Hawk writes, “The Being is Presence and Attention, nothing more nor less.”

To see non-dually is to witness without rushing to fix, name, or judge. It is to feel the tension between opposites and stay. Not to collapse it, but to let something truer be revealed: the connection beneath contrast. The stillness beneath movement. The love beneath conflict.

St. Francis saw it. So did the mystics. So can we.

This is not about pretending pain isn’t real. It’s not about erasing difference.
It’s about awakening to the field in which all difference arises.
It’s about learning to attend—to bring the fullness of our awareness to what is—until the illusion of separation begins to soften.

This is the gift of non-dual seeing:
You no longer need to take a side to live from the center.

Are you willing to rest your attention in what is, rather than what divides?