The End of Seeking: In cultures of accumulation, no peace can exist because the seeking of more is unending, unless Realization happens. The only possible result for persons who are programmed and conditioned to seek more is a guaranteed that they will never be convinced that they have enough. Persons never convinced that they have enough—enough money, enough respect, enough praise, enough “love,” enough things—will never be content with whatever it is that they do have. Seeking produces misery, no matter how much is “gained” in the search. Peace comes via Realization, via the knowing that what one has is enough. In fact, Realization often reveals that--as persons--they already had too much and so de-accumulation begins. Then AS IF living happens. The Italians have a phrase used in a scene from the novel The Board of Directors of Wars (http://floydhenderson.com/boardofdirectors.htm):
Kirk then felt the peace that manifests when one knows “The Sweet Void,” as he called it, when one can truly taste il dolce di fare niente—“the sweetness of doing nothing.” Kirk even gained the level beyond that, experiencing what he called il dolce di Niente—not “the sweetness of doing nothing” but more simply “the sweetness of Nothing,” period.
The Realized “live” between nowhere and nowhere, aware that what They Truly Are is the conscious-energy that is currently but temporarily abiding in the “I-Amness,” devoid of all need.
Kirk then felt the peace that manifests when one knows “The Sweet Void,” as he called it, when one can truly taste il dolce di fare niente—“the sweetness of doing nothing.” Kirk even gained the level beyond that, experiencing what he called il dolce di Niente—not “the sweetness of doing nothing” but more simply “the sweetness of Nothing,” period.
The Realized “live” between nowhere and nowhere, aware that what They Truly Are is the conscious-energy that is currently but temporarily abiding in the “I-Amness,” devoid of all need.
The End of Identity: Via Pure Consciousness, the illusions of ego and personality dissolve. A multiplicity of ego-states are taken by persons to make up their identity. The illusions of ego, ego-states, separation and “separates” end with the awareness that comes when Realization happens. Realization is the purification of the consciousness that was contaminated by enculturation. Realization brings about an end to the assumption of false identities and to the beliefs and ideas that accompany them. As the assumption of false identities ends, those trapped in the level-three personas of “religious person” or “spiritual person” break free of those ego-states as they stop identifying with a super power, take the remaining steps on the "journey" to Full Realization, and live an AS IF life of authenticity as a result of the understanding that comes via pure consciousness. Misery ends and bliss begins.
Pure Consciousness: Unconditioned consciousness; consciousness not yet conditioned via enculturation or consciousness returned to its originally pure state after Realization removes all the contamination that results from enculturation.
Enculturation: The process whereby persons in various cultures contaminate consciousness by teaching knowledge (learned ignorance). A result of enculturation is an illusory “mind”—the conglomeration of the lies, ideas, concepts and beliefs of the persons in any given culture. The “mind,” in turn, blocks conscious contact with Reality which is the source of all misery. Reality (the truth) can never be seen when persons are trapped in their "minds" (all the false believed).
Infinite Potentiality: Prior to this universe was an infinite potentiality that was unmanifested. From that unmanifested potentiality, a field of consciousness became the original manifestation in this universe and from that field all else manifested. Yet any manifestation is fleeting. The manifested consciousness becomes more and more limited when exposed to more and more programming. The limited state ends when the manifest becomes unmanifested or when the purified manifested consciousness comes to know Itself as the manifested consciousness and as the unmanifest, the Absolute, the Reality. Please enter the silence of contemplation. [To be continued]
