Thursday, February 16, 2006

CONSCIOUSNESS IS ALL THERE IS—Part Three

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Excerpt from a site visitor: “…We are limiting the Absolute or God to only what we can understand—right?”

F.: Where to begin with this part of your e-mail? “We” Are the Absolute, temporarily manifested as consciousness that is either corrupted (as with persons) or pure (as with the Realized). Persons limit “themselves” by accepting false identities (false selves) rather than knowing that They Are That limitless, boundless, infinite Absolute. As explained in previous posts, the Absolute is “infinite, complete, unconditional, unqualified, unlimited, unadulterated, and unambiguous,” so how would one go about “limiting” That Which Is limitless? Further, the Absolute is formless, so how could the Absolute be equated with “God” since the billions of followers who adhere to the dogma of the three religions of Abraham now claim their God has the form of a male? That is a “conditional” state (“having the appendages that determine male-ness, not having the body parts that determine female-ness, and being gender-specific”) while the Absolute is unconditional and unconditioned. Are you not aware of the truth that no God made a man in his image but that men made gods (and then one god) in their image? All “God” references are to an entity that is “qualified,” so it cannot be the Absolute. Some “purists” will use all sorts of words or terms to point to something that also has a “Self-ness” to it or a “Supreme Self-ness” to it. So it is. The fact is, you should be beyond the “wet charcoal” or “dry charcoal” stage where any of those concepts appeal to you. Such references to “God” are references to an entity that is “adulterated,” capable (according to followers) of suffering anger and offense and emotional intoxication of a degree that inspires infanticide—the killing of “his children.” To be so co-dependent as to allow one’s children to determine mood and to provoke anger is evidence of “adulteration.” Yes, the early teachers made the comparison that you’ve also made for the sake of their “wet charcoal-type” protégés, but your understanding should be advanced far beyond that level by now.

“…We are limiting the Absolute or God to only what we can understand—right?” If the Understanding of the Functioning of the Totality happens, it is understood that the Absolute cannot be limited and is not limited. What “we”—the consciousness—can know is that We Are and that We Are THAT. And the full understanding makes clear that those are advaita, that is, “not two.”

From whence come all these concepts about “limitation” and a “physical God” and “the eternal existence of bodies and minds”? The concepts come from persons suffering from corrupted, adulterated, limited, and conditioned consciousness. They come from persons wanting a superpower at their beck and call and believing that, if they are “close to that power” and if they are “good,” that superpower will give them power which they can use to control people, places and things. It also comes from the desires and fears and imaginings of persons who have accepted a limited identification with a body and who want that body to have eternal continuity. The unique trait about the bastardization of consciousness is that it can only happen in the space known as “humans” or “persons” (or in those unfortunate birds or animals that have been conditioned by persons and thus prevented from being natural). But the one trait of consciousness that need be of interest to you is that it can be re-purified. Fools suffer. You, and all persons, can escape the darkness of programming and conditioning and enculturation and can stop being fooled by those who are repeating ancient lies that have evolved out of myths and superstitions that were dreamed up by ignorant men some 5000 years ago in an effort to explain what they did not understand when their egos stripped them of the ability to say, “I do not know.” How to stop being fooled and thus stop suffering? Begin by declaring, “Maybe I do not know.” Or, “Maybe what I think I know is all a lie.” Or, “Maybe the truth is that I do know and need but seek within to uncover and thus remember what is known that has been forgotten.” Please enter the silence of contemplation. [To be continued]
TOMORROW: 14 billion years of awareness in this universe; a billion or so years of plants; 4.5 million years+ of consciousness manifesting via plants in human-like mammals; and only 200,000 years of consciousness manifesting via plants in “humans” (homo sapiens).

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