Wednesday, January 25, 2006

“DIE” NOW TO LIVE NOW, Part Three

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F.: Yesterday’s post covered the "pure consciousness" and the "unconsciousness" that you asked about. Now, to the Absolute. First to be discussed is the disparity in the way that the Absolute is seen even among recognized Advaita teachers. If one studies the words of a teacher over a period of time, it can be seen that (among some) the understanding “evolved” or "crystallized." In his “early” sharing, the Advaita teacher Jesus Christ taught from the Torah, repeated the teaching of organized religion that he’d been taught, and talked of heaven as a geographic place. After his “Lost Years” when he explored Gnosticism and the teachings of the Nazarene sect and finally the Advaita Teachings, then in his “later” sharings he said that “heaven and earth would fade away,” he spoke of the "I AM," and he said that “no one will ever see heaven—it’s within.” Yet he adjusted his sharings even then, depending on whether he was speaking to wet charcoal, dry charcoal, or gunpowder. [Note: You may go to the top of this site and search this blog for keyword "gunpowder" for an explanation of those terms.] More to the point, if no geographic place for a punishing-rewarding god to reside in exists, or for humans to go to for judgment, then there can be no judgment or punishment. Unfortunately, in the “minds” of persons who are identified with their body, that also means no continuity for the body and no eternal reward for that body to experience. The payoff? Full enjoyment in the NOW, knowing that NOW is the only “time” in which anything can be known or enjoyed.

As a second example, during the “early” sharings of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, he sang the bhajans, talked of Brahman as a creator, and spoke of Iswara and Bhagavan as a God or Lord. In his “later” sharings, he showed how even the idea of “God” was just another man-made concept: “You have invented a God, then you worship such a God and do bhajan, and you pray to that God for something good to happen to you.” He realized that it was all just concepts, all inventions of the contaminated consciousness of persons whose conditioning and programming had lulled them into a state of being susceptible to adopting the beliefs and myths and superstitions of the magically-thinking persons of ancient days as well as adopting the interpretations offered by those now among them.

So, too, in “early” sharings, the space called “Floyd” spoke of a male God located in a geographic place. While those sharings were nothing more than pre-realization parrotings that were believed because of programming, these postings are the “later” pointers that are happening spontaneously. On 12 August 2005 [click “2005-08-07” to the right for the full entry] the following was offered regarding the Absolute in an excerpt for the book From the I to the Absolute (A Seven-Step Journey to Reality)
http://floydhenderson.com/iamabsolute.htm ):

Let me read some definitions of ‘absolute’ that point toward the Absolute for us. ‘Complete’ or ‘uncontaminated’ or ‘unconditional.’ Could we say ‘unconditioned?’ Also, ‘not relative,’ ‘unqualified,’ ‘unlimited,’ ‘supreme,’ ‘certain,’ ‘sure,’ ‘entire,’ ‘whole,’ ‘unadulterated,’ or ‘unambiguous.’ And know that ‘supreme’ is just one of ten or more words used to define 'absolute' and should not be taken to have more significance than any of the other words on the list. Nothing about the Absolute should taken to be ‘supreme’ in the sense of being the 'greatest,' the 'loftiest,' the 'best,' the 'ultimate,' the 'sovereign,' the 'ruler,' the 'creator,' or the 'highest.'

To know that when the body “dies” (a) the breath is released and merges with the universal air and (b) the consciousness merges into the universal pool of consciousness is to know that nothing “supreme” or “sovereign” awaits and that no “ruler” or “creator” awaits. More freeing is to know that no punishment awaits, no eternal burning awaits, no magic veil (that a man must pull his wives through) awaits, and no life as a cow awaits. Less welcome to some males would be the fact that no orgy awaits and no harem of virgins, wives and prostitutes awaits. What does await is what can be called "perfect peace" if you know—from the example in yesterday’s post—that a preview of what that peace is like is experienced by any human who enters into the delta level of deep sleep: there is no awareness but conscious-energy remains. Which would be more enjoyable in the manifestation? The rest of deep sleep or trying to rest peacefully with the noise of the constant shouting and the endless singing of praises to a male? True peace—perfect rest—is only found via the former. Only personas want constant praise and the noise of applause for their greatness. Only personas would create a god in man's image. When the pure consciousness merges into the Absolute via Realization, then the perfect peace can happen NOW (even as the consciousness is still manifested) mirroring the perfect peace of the Absolute when the consciousness is no longer manifested. Don’t wait to “die” to be at peace. It would be useless to wait because once the consciousness unmanifests, you’ll not know that the peace exists. “Die” now to live now…to live the AS IF existence that allows feelings to be witnessed as they rise and fall rather than to buy into the emotional intoxication and chaos that false identities generate. Please enter the silence of contemplation. [To be continued]

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