All is “is-ness”

Piaget and other research psychologists have informed us that we as humans come into this world with an undifferentiated self.  By this they mean that as newborns we experience the world as a singularity.  Within the newborn’s consciousness there is no distinction between himself or herself and everything else within his or her sphere of awareness.  All there is consists of one thing with no differentiation of I and other.  There is only “is-ness” in its most basic form.

This “is-ness” is an undifferentiated wholeness and is complete unto itself. Just imagine this state of being.  Within it there is no struggle, there is no creativity nor is there any action or reaction.  In this state there is no comparison or judgement, nor is there any pleasure or pain.  There is literally no reference point to adhere to and thus no separate existence.

Yet, of course, there is action as you can well see in every new born babe seeking his/her mother’s breast.  Again, there is pain seen so readily in that same newborn’s cry and pleasure seen in a baby’s smile.  Yet I say that these things do not exist in this newborn’s state of being.  Pain may be there, but there is no I to give it that term or any term.  Pleasure is there, but again there is no I to give it that term or to be able to compare it with any other state of is-ness.

Let me say it another way.  All there is is energy, and the form that the energy exists in does not supersede the energy itself.  Without a reference point to judge the energy’s expression everything is experienced as one thing - simply energy - simply is-ness.

We as mature human beings know however that pain, pleasure , creativity, not knowing, knowing and so on and so forth ad infinitum exists because we have a well-defined reference point that we call I to perceive these thousand and one things by.  From this point of reference it is nearly impossible to imagine this infant’s supposed state of being even though we have experienced it ourselves at the beginning of our present life.  Just to imagine the existence of this undifferentiated state of being is a paradox to us.

For the newborn, however, there is no paradox - there is simply is-ness.  Is-ness is crying, and is-ness is smiling.  Is-ness is being hungry, and is-ness is being full.  Is-ness is sleeping, and is-ness is being awake.  All is is-ness. All is only one thing.  In this is-ness all is complete unto itself.