[EXCERPTS from the soon-to-be-released book FROM THE ABSOLUTE TO THE NOTHINGNESS. The pointers in this book are only for the most advanced seekers. The reading of this book should follow a reading and an understanding of the pointers in FROM THE I TO THE ABSOLUTE and CONSCIOUSNESS/AWARENESS.]
FROM A SITE VISITOR: No identity at all? Everybody is SOMETHING, and whatever that SOMETHING is, is our identity.
[NOTE: It should now be possible to read, with an expanded view and an even deeper interpretation and understanding, certain pointers. If you review some of the pointers from yesterday’s post as well as pointers offered by other Advaitin Teachers, you can likely apply the considerations in this book and thereby uncover realizations beyond any you’ve imagined so far]:
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FROM A SITE VISITOR: No identity at all? Everybody is SOMETHING, and whatever that SOMETHING is, is our identity.
[NOTE: It should now be possible to read, with an expanded view and an even deeper interpretation and understanding, certain pointers. If you review some of the pointers from yesterday’s post as well as pointers offered by other Advaitin Teachers, you can likely apply the considerations in this book and thereby uncover realizations beyond any you’ve imagined so far]:
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F. Since neither energy nor matter can be created nor destroyed, and since both can simply “appear” in a vacuum, then all universes began as chance happenings where, in a vacuum of nothingness, “something” spontaneously appeared.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj: "Prior to taking this form, you were formless; spontaneously the form came, and when the form came there was a natural longing to return to the formless state. When you want to return to the formless, desireless state, then only you come here.”
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F.: Just understand that what has always been prior to something has been…nothing. If you were to trace your “roots” (or the “original identity” that now concerns you), the search would lead to…nothing.
Maharaj: “If they come face-to-face with that root, they will be stunned into silence.”
F.: It is stunning to realize that you may have understood the root for years but now find "the root of all roots."
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F.: Earlier, the statement was offered that “Not only do I not believe in something, I don’t even believe in nothing…no person, no concept, no form, no nothing. ‘Something’ is temporary and ‘nothing’ is also temporary—all fleeting aspects of an ever-changing universe that wasn’t at first and that later suddenly was.”
Maharaj: “You are so used to the support of concepts that when your concepts leave you, although it is your true state, you get frightened and try to cling to them again.”
F.: In that “true state,” there are neither concepts about “SOMETHING” nor even concepts about nothing. The consciousness-manifested condition can become the bliss-manifested condition when belief in any and every concept ends.
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F.: Those trapped in their limited “minds” will not understand how all possibilities are indeed possible. They will not be able to grasp the fact that, when there is nothing to prevent organizing and disorganizing (and there isn’t), that anything can happen.
Maharaj: "From the Absolute no-knowing state, spontaneously, this consciousness ‘I am’ has appeared—there is no reason, no cause."
F.: And from the no-thing state, the Absolute manifested. In the case of all universes that have ever “formed,” the nothingness has always been antecedent to all. Next, if you understand that "a total absence of concern" can only happen in that no-knowing state, why not enter that state now and forget about knowing self, Self, and all other concepts as well?
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F.: Now, some Advaitin sages (and some other philosophers as well) will remind protégés at this point that all possibilities are possible because they are being seen as functionings and happenings in a self-defining reality and in a Self-defining Reality.
Dennis Waite: "Advaita defines 'real' as being that which exists in or transcends all three periods of time (i.e. past, present and future)...."
F.: Yes, there is that which was even prior to “the past.” In the space called “this universe,” prior to Consciousness there was Awareness. Prior to Awareness there was…a vacuum…nothingness…emptiness. If you seek “your roots” or your “origin” or some “true identity,” reach the space. Know the nothingness. If you would be totally free and independent (and thereby happy) throughout the remainder of the manifestation, then be the emptiness now that you were even before there was “a past”...before there was beingness...before there was non-beingness...before there was "a before."
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F.: Your effort to find the noble or lofty "SOMETHING" that you are is an exercise being conducted within both a self-defining reality and a Self-defining Reality.
Maharaj: "There is no question of elevating to a higher level. Here it is only a question of understanding" and “Whatever you have tried to understand during your spiritual search will prove false.”
F.: Persons at the third of seven steps to Reality fixate in their religious or spiritual roles, sure that they understand all. Those who complete all seven steps fixate in "Reality," sure that they have reached the final understanding. Those who understand Consciousness/Awareness are sure that they have reached "the height" of understanding and purity.
Now, they are told here that all three assumptions regarding spirituality, Reality, and Awareness are false. They are told that their most cherished understandings are no longer valid. They are told that their spirituality is a fraud. They are told that anything and everything that they think they have found on their "search" should now been seen as a fraud.
That is why persons either reject the “most advanced” teachings outright or are stunned into silence. Realization happened. An awakening occurred. Liberation manifested. It all seemed so joyously “final.” Now this! Just when they were so sure of their “identity,” now this! Just when they thought they were really “SOMETHING,” some space called “maharaj” or some space called “floyd” informs them that they are really nothing:
Maharaj: “From my angle, you are nothing. You have no identity.”
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F.: Now it is known that from the nothingness, “something” can manifest. Yet what is pervasive in "this universe"? Not the “something.” Only the nothing. The nothingness precedes all. It is the emptiness that is most pervasive.
[NOTE: How pervasive is the emptiness? If you were to divide the emptiness of the universe into cubes measuring twenty-seven inches on each side, the average density of the universe would be one atom per cube of nothingness. If one argues that he is "x" number of atoms, then he will be told that he is more accurately hundreds of cubic units of nothingness times "x"; of course, no is-ness or Is-ness can be accurately defined at all in a space wherein all is in flux...seemingly "appearing" and then seemingly "disappearing" as manifestations of specks of consciousness try to define self and Self...as they try to "fix" that which is in flux...as they try to guarantee continuity for that which is without continuity.]
Dennis Waite: "Worldly pursuits cannot bring lasting happiness. They are limited while our true nature is unlimited."
My true nature is emptiness…not fullness. I Am not atoms. I AM nothing, yet even that is not fixed. Ignoring the nonsense in your cultures of accumulation, including the accumulation of titles and labels and identities and personas, can you admit that you are nothing to the degree that... (continued in the book)
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Please enter the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)
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