Saturday, April 05, 2008

Beyond Beingness and Non-Beingness, Part Four

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FROM A SITE VISITOR: Thursday, you used the terms beyond the beingness and beyond the non-beingness. Can you explain. Thank you.

F.: [Continued from yesterday] Why do so few ever Realize the truth? Because most persons believe they "know." Why would they seek, trapped in the erroneous belief that they have already found (via their ideology or religion or spiritual movement)?

Since most children on the planet are indoctrinated early on into the religion of their fathers and forefathers, seeking is usually preempted. Thus, most will never even hear of “Advaita Vedanta,” and those among the indoctrinated who do will often claim that the Advaita teachings are “an invitation to be out of touch with reality.”

In fact, the teachings are likely the only invitation most will ever hear to be totally in touch with Reality. Among those who do seek, but only seek within their old frameworks, most will be frustrated as they pursue the impossible dream of stability in the relative, the impossible dream of continuity for the body in the relative, and the impossible dream of eternal continuity of the body-mind-personality triad.

Most will be convinced that “their beingness” involves a WHO rather than understanding that no WHO is involved at all, only a WHAT…a THAT. When the few abandon the concept of a WHO and come to know the True Self (and what is beyond the True Self), they understand what Louise from Cape Town was discussing in an e-mail on Wednesday:

There is a growing rest in the inner awareness - even as the gaze is on the phenomena of the external world, the place of connection is this constant, gentle, clear awareness. The paradigm shift out of attachment to the "state" of spiritual bliss and aversion to mundane chaos is experienced with relief, as now anything that shows up "positive" or "negative" is simply what shows up. Recently, there has been a dropping away of desire and fear; the world is shining - like a layer of conceptual muck has been cleared off the lens that sees. "I" looked in the mirror the other day, and actually felt complete surprise that I had once believed the person in the mirror was who I am.

[The only suggestion for further consideration is to focus on the word “connection.” Is it that a connection has manifested? That would be duality, “a” connected to “b.” Isn’t the case actually that Louise is not seen to have connected with the awareness but is, indeed, the awareness? Isn’t the case actually that the sugar is seen not to be sugar at all, and isn’t it the case that the true essence—the sweetness—is now known? Thx for the note.]

As with Louise, the case is also that, before the final THAT or WHAT can be understood, all WHO’s must be rejected as identities. That clears away the “layers of muck” involving “personal identity” and “attributes” as well as beliefs about the beingness and the non-beingness.

The invitation is to visit a mirror and see both the obvious and the not-so-obvious. The obvious is that what is supposedly seen is a reflection, not the real. The not-so-obvious is that what is being reflected is also no more what it appears to be than the reflection in the mirror itself.

Persons, the product of warped programming and distorted conditioning, pass the entire manifestation viewing reflections through the “muck” and thinking that what they perceive involves the beingness and that what they perceive is “being real.”

As a result of that warping and distorting, they will spend the entire manifestation being pushed and pulled about by the illusions of fears and desire. They will never understand that all of their desires are actually rooted in the illusory fears generated by mirages called “ego-states” or “false identities.”

The Advaita understanding has led the few seekers that have truly found to abandon desires regarding the impossible, to abandon their impossible dreams, to find their original nature that is beyond beingness and non-beingness, and to dwell in that natural state now, as forever. Only in that nisarga style of dwelling can the sweetness be tasted (and even then, just for now).

After taking the step that allows for the abandonment of “the final personas” on the “path” (namely, the religious and spiritual personas) can the Child Ignorance stage or the Child Consciousness stage emerge. It is marked by being conscious without “being conscious of this or that.”

Ironically, after that stage, the two witnessing stages can emerge, along with the intuitive awareness of THAT. But how persons seem to love the consciousness—no matter how warped or blocked it becomes—while having not one iota of awareness of the awareness and the truth beyond beingness and non-beingness. Please enter the silence of contemplation. (Tomorrow: The Conclusion)

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