Wednesday, November 26, 2008

THE RETURN TO SIMPLICITY, Part Seven, The Conclusion

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[See the 20 November 2008 post to read the entire e-mail being answered here from a visitor trying to understand how to “keep it simple”]

F.: [Continued from yesterday] Be free of the mirage and You will be free of your personal wars, your personal chaos, your personal complications. Then, “keeping it simple” is not something that You will “do”; instead, it is something that will simply happen and that You will simply observe as it happens.

If you are not ready for this understanding, then do what you think you must do. You may think until your final day that what you are doing is wonderful. So be it. However, you may find at some point that you’ve done what you’ve done so much that you can’t stand to do it for another second. Meanwhile, talk all the insane talk you want to talk, and listen to all the insane talk you want to listen to.

You may continue to the end to hear and repeat all of that insanity—over and over—or you may reach a point where you will do whatever is required to stop listening to the insanity and to stop participating in the insanity. Crazy is not the treatment for crazy, and the claim by persons that they can free you but that they cannot free themselves is…crazy.

If Realized, all memberships end, so the complications of memberships end, including attendance at regular meetings; including donating money to supposedly “earn points” in some celestial accounting system; including donating time; including donating service;

including the seeking of an audience; including the addition of “good roles” to replace “bad roles”; including religious and spiritual workaholism; and including all of the doingness associated with such “mind-reinforcing, mind cluttering” memberships.

Where I live, there are no meetings to attend, no donations solicited, no pontifications to endure, no special messages to hear, no one claiming to hear a voice from another world, and no one purporting to speak for some extraterrestrial “Being.” Even on this site, there is no one speaking or writing.

Where I live, there are no intrusions, no audiences to impress, no “good roles” or “bad roles,” no doingness, no “minds,” no repetition of ancient, fictional myths as if they were true, and no quest for power or Power.

Where I was prior to this manifestation was a natural state, and I live today in that same all-natural environ. It is marked by its simplicity, not by going and doing and zooming and joining and serving and “being good as opposed to being bad” or “being bad as opposed to being good.”

There is no one saying “there are no tithes or offerings or dues” while passing a basket to collect tithes and offerings and dues. There is no dualistic nonsense of a geographic place for “good” people to go to and there is no geographic place for “bad” people to go to. It is all so simple in a nonsense-free zone. To be "where" I live requires nothing. How could it? It is nothing.

Thus, nothing needs to be added or acquired…nothing needs to be learned or earned. Also for you, all that has been accumulated can be unloaded and then a very simple “journey” to the end of the manifestation unfolds. Nothing needs to be feared. Nothing needs to be sought or desired. Then, it’s all so simple.

Contrast (a) the lifestyle of the deer that are eating grass in the front yard as this post is being written with (b) the lifestyle of troubled CEO’s or with persons who are losing a lifetime’s worth of accumulations in the matter of a few weeks.

Why would the simplicity not be sought over accumulation and complication? Why do adults handle their finances with no more discipline than a six-year old that is driven to spend all he/she has? Only because of programming and acculturation…only due to personal fears and personal desires…only due to a belief that something can be “forever.” Do you see the way that belief in the concept of “forever” distorts perception in the “not-forever” relative existence?

“We’ll retire and have this house forever”; “we’ll always have each other”; “we’ll have our income forever”; “the company will always be here for us”; “at least there’s Social Security”; “I’m sure she’ll / he’ll love me forever”; “I know I’ll live forever and be rewarded some day because I’ve always either done the right thing or asked for forgiveness when I did the wrong thing.”

Nothing is permanent except That Which I Truly Am and That Which You Truly Are.

Here where I abide, it is all so simple because there is neither a geographic heaven nor a geographic hell, and neither is there for you. Those only seem to exist in the geography of your “mind.” I am without a city or a state or a country. I do not even have a world. I have no name, no memberships, no affiliations.

There is nothing to seek and nothing to avoid. All is witnessed as it happens from a position of neutrality. How much simpler can it get than that? And it is the same for You. A few understand that but most do not. It remains, however, a fact.

Again, the invitation is to know the void that is infinite, spaceless, timeless, and mindless. Here, there is nothing that is special or different or complicated. If you are really serious about keeping it simple, then abide as the no-concept, non-dual Reality. Please enter the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)
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