Sunday, February 26, 2006

THE SPECIFIC STEPS TO REALIZATION, Part Four

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From a site visitor:
“Does the mind need to understand or pass through certain gates of logic to proceed?”
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“If there is no ‘me,’ then who is the person thinking, doing, feeling, etc?”

F.: The “journey” is a “journey” to reality…to being free of insanity and then being fixed in sanity. It takes seven specific steps for human influence to impact pure, manifested consciousness and corrupt it to the point that persons are so removed from sanity—so removed from being in touch with reality—that they don’t even know who they are. How insane is that? Both the Realized and persons can dream, but the Realized dream, then awaken, then know they were dreaming, and realize that it was all a dream. Persons, on the other hand, dream, come to, spend their days in a dream world, and actually believe that all their dreams are real. That's how insane it is to be a person...to mistake personas and dreams and images and mirages as real.
The “journey” to reality proceeds when the belief is abandoned that “the mind” is the proper tool to use to be restored to sanity and to realize. “The mind” is the seat of insanity. "The mind" is a mirage that takes all mirages to be real. It can never be “fixed”—meaning “repaired” or “fixed in a position to where it is not in constant, peace-stealing motion.” It is shifting and variable by its very nature, perpetually in motion for the entire period that its contents are given undeserved credibility. Its very nature—after programming and conditioning—is to be moving and restless as it generates misery and distraction with its incessant chatter of a thousand monkeys. It is the repository of all the lies. More accurately, it is all the lies, the concepts, the ideas, the dogma, and the beliefs that generate emotional intoxication, a false belief in separation, and detachment from reality. "The mind" is that which separates persons from the truth, so it can never be that which unites them with the truth. And when the consciousness has been most bastardized, it is “the mind” that supports the belief that you are your body, that the false “I” or the “me” is real. The first specific step on the journey, then, is to see the lie about the body and the roles it plays. Now, reconsider another of your questions which can be used to help understand the teachings around step one of the "journey" (namely, being free of the limiting identification with the physical body):

If there is no "me," then who is the person thinking, doing, feeling, etc?

After the pure consciousness manifests, a stage exists in which It begins to sense Its presence. The child does not know it is “a child,” but it does know at some point it is. It will jump when startled by a loud noise, already naturally "wired" to preserve the “beingness” that it already senses. Similarly, the bird that flies away if startled also knows it is and flees to prolong that beingness, though it does not think or believe for even a moment that “I am a bird.” In the case of the bird, that speck of consciousness has not been contaminated with false labels, yet the bird (consciousness) still knows it is. Only later, after the child is told that it is “a child”—and then is sometimes told that it is a “good child” and at other times is told it is a “bad child”—does the child (a) begin to lose consciousness of just being, (b) begins to believe the lie that “It is this” or “It is that,” (c) begins to accept such dualities as “good vs. bad” as being truth and (d) loses all ability to see how relative and arbitrary and subjective those, and all, dualistic labels really are. [The Realized know all dualities are false, but persons mistake dualities such as "good-bad," "right-wrong," or "moral-immoral" as absolutes. If lies are taken to be The Absolute, how can persons ever know the only real Absolute?] But prior to "the child" being taught roles, prior to being given false identities, prior to being taught lies, and prior to becoming a “person” (persona), who or what sensed that presence? Who or what was aware of that beingness? Who or what knew, “I Am”? Who or what was aware that it was before it was told that it was...this or was...that? The child sensed “I am” before it was taught “I am…a child,” so that which sensed the presence, that which knew “I Am,” preceded the acceptance of a false identity which (as a result of the bastardization of the previously-pure consciousness) lost touch with the "I Am" as it came to believe “I am...this” or “I am...that.” Who or what was at peace before a "mind" was created that would eliminate that propensity for just being and would inspire one more person to join the masses and to embark on a futile, frustrating, life-long quest, no longer just being but always working at being good in the eyes of all and always preoccupied with never being bad in the opinion of others? How did the assumption of ego-states as identities then accelerate the drive to the next level where being good is not good enough but being the best is all that is acceptable? Who or what is that which knew itSelf prior to being corrupted, prior to the assignment of false labels, prior to influence of ego, and prior to believing that an existence of doingness and busyness and thinking (to use some of Ben's words) is natural and that beingness is unnatural? Please enter the silence of contemplation. [To be continued]

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