Friday, March 07, 2008

THE FICTION REGARDING BODY AND MIND MUST BE UNDERSTOOD BEFORE DISCUSSING PERSONALITY, Part Nine, The Conclusion

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FROM A SITE VISITOR: Just “found” Advaita and just found your site. Been reading some recent entries. Have dealt with the fallacy of the body idea. All these years, looking for peace of mind—never considered there’s no such thing, as you say. Makes sense now. Problems with personality though I don’t get yet. Can you give me in a nutshell something that would help me understand that and the Nisarga yoga you mention? Thx. Frank.

F.: (Continued from yesterday) The posting below from a 2005 entry on this site noted that the Direct Path Method of the Advaita Teachings, specifically when offering the nisarga approach as a system of yoga,

requires no leader, no holy book (so no book studies), no candles, no bells, no special land, no special buildings, no gold-plated accessories, no dogma, no rules, no regulations, no songs or creeds to memorize, no smoke, no collection of money, no special water, no special crystals, no special robes, no chanting in unison, no boards, no directors, no officers, no far-away god or gods micro-managing events in this world, no prayers and petitions, no anything. Meetings with an Advaita teacher take a matter of days, not a lifetime. Yet less, rather than more, has little appeal after the enculturation process results in rigid persons who desire more.

During the twenty-five-month “forest dweller” stage, deer were seen most mornings as they grazed peacefully. When disturbed by a noise, they merely moved to the next clearing, looked about cautiously, and then returned to their peaceful mode of functioning.

Not once did they have to perform some ritual in order to return to the peaceful state or in order to dwell in that (their natural) state. It has been noted previously that nisarga yoga offers pointers that…

…point toward the Absolute Reality and are adumbrations of the Original Understanding. That Original Understanding preceded “minds,” so it obviously preceded "thoughts." It also preceded words and bells and holy smoke. It happened prior to belief in any religious concepts and before the use of spiritual accoutrements. The Original Understanding was prior to roles and, thus, prior to assumption of roles as identities.

The Original Understanding was the intuitive, no-thought, pre-“mind,” no-awareness-that-anything-is-understood means by which functioning happened spontaneously and by which all plant-food-bodies-cum-consciousness dwelled in the natural, mindless state.

Advaita teachers of the Direct Path method and the nisarga yoga system offer pointers that are intended to guide seekers back to an understanding of their original nature.

To dwell in that natural state, however, it must be understood that you are not the body and you are not anything dreamed up by the "mind" nor anything dreamed up by anyone else’s mind.

It must be understood that all personality identification is fictional but, in the relative existence of persons, will nevertheless control unconsciously all of their thoughts and words and deeds.

The journey to total freedom begins with freedom from identification with body, with “mind,” and with personality. Please enter the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)

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