Thursday, April 02, 2009

THE “VOCABULARY OF REALIZATION,” Part Eight

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[Continued from yesterday in response to “I am saying that she is better off at this moment in time because she stopped worrying.”]

F.: The seeker of the no-concept, non-dual Reality that moves far enough along “the path” notices that the use of words and phrases such as “better off” or “worse off” or “good” or “bad” automatically vanishes. Such words and terms are non-existent in the Vocabulary of Realization, so there is never even the slightest tendency to apply one label or the other to any happening. I Am and whatever is…it just is. That is all.

With that understanding, wherefore any needs, much less a need to have some "power" that one can theoretically "turn unwanted things over to"? Believe that anything "here" can be turned over to something "there," and believe that god is everywhere and is everything, and you might as well worship the tree in the back yard. It also qualifies as "god" under your definition.

So go talk to the bark and tell it that you are turning over your worries to it. Tell it you want it to fix such relative issues as the loss of employment and the fear of losing your home and the anger and fear over the loss of your 401k retirement funds. Or consider an alternative:

When asked if happenings happen here that provide food, clothing, shelter, etc., the answer is "Of course." Is there ever any ego-state involved…an involvement or attachment that can trigger fear or desire or worry or anxiety or dread? Absolutely not. The issue is not about whether turning over one’s worries and fears and anxieties to a god can work or not.

The issue is not about whether relief comes or not and is not about how long such relief lasts if it seems to come. The issue is, WHO thinks she/he is exposed, vulnerable, or threatened in a way that makes the "mind" believe that “relief” is needed, that worry and dread and anxiety must be turned over to some fictional power in some other world that is manipulating events in what is erroneously taken to be “this world”?

The task is not to seek some power to help solve relative “problems.” Those perceived problems are merely the weeds, and the proper approach for handling the issue of weeds is not to trim them occasionally but to cut them out at the root. How are you to be done with the heaviness and reach that point of lightness unless all that is generating dread and worry is cut out at the root?

Rather than the perceived heaviness, there can be as a result of Realization an incredible lightness. That manifests after reaching the original state that is even beyond the “path,” beyond an understanding of the Absolute and the beingness, beyond Realization of Self. Louise in South Africa described in the following way what has happened since reaching an understanding of the nothingness that is even beyond Realization of Self:

On Tuesday, walking on the Green Belt, there was this brief exhilarating disappearance of "louise" - the lightness and freedom - the vastness of this view - like that feeling in the tummy when a lift (elevator) drops too fast - falling through space. Too absolutely funny that all the anxieties were about a "louise" who does not exist - an attempt to find an already existing freedom.

The “experience” during this happening was of instantly being outside of the body – being vast and undefined – no boundaries and watching the “scene” from this vast perspective.

What can possibly touch a speck of consciousness which is that free? What worry or anxiety or dread could possibly attach to a quantity of energy that is so light and free and vast and undefined? What could possibly bind the boundless? What could possibly attach to the Witness that is so far removed from the relative happening that all events are merely being watched objectively from a distance?

Wherefore any need for talk of—much less belief in—some “power” that you can turn something over to? It would be no different for you to take the spoiled meat that was left out and that is creating a horrible stench inside your home and putting it in the trash bin in the pantry rather than being rid of it once and for all.

You can turn it over to the trash bin and the stench continues or you can turn it over to the collectors who will take the mess away to a landfill. And the garbage collectors are far more efficient that the god you and your sister-in-law turn your garbage over to. Why?

They make sure that it does not ever come back. Your “god” does not perform so well. Here is a dreamed up entity that you and she have taken to be real yet you do not see that “He” is being out-performed by a trash collector. My, oh, my. What a distortion to tote about in your "delusion carrier" called "the mind."

As with Louise, having moved some distance for all this relative “stuff” and seeing it as "the much-ado-about-nothing" that it is, I too am nowhere near these relative things that you and your sister-in-law and all persons think are causing them to be worried and anxious and dreadful.

In fact, abiding “in” (as) My natural state, I am nowhere near the relative things that generate discomfort among the non-Realized. When I say, “No one not Realized has the slightest clue about where I live and that “The non-Realized could never possibly find Me,” is it any clearer at all why that is fact?

I am not individuated, so there are no individual problems; furthermore, I tell You that You Are not individuated and that You have no individual problems, either. I am not personal, so there are no personal concerns; furthermore, I tell You that You Are not personal and that You have no personal problems, either. It is only that storehouse of fiction called your "mind" that convinces you to believe otherwise.

Understand that pointer and you will not be looking for a fictionalized entity to which you can "turn things over." Such talk will stop. Listening to such nonsense will stop, too. And agreeing as you did with her when she used the vocabulary of mind-language to utter her nonsense by the use of mind-speak will stop as well.

I Am without form, beyond beingness and non-beingness, so any Is-ness issues are irrelevant to Me; furthermore, I tell You that You are beyond beingness and non-beingness and that Is-ness issues can also be irrelevant to You, if You but allow the third eye to see beyond the misperceptions that seem to be seen by the two faulty eyes that you are currently using.

I have no mind, so I deal not with the “head-centered problems” that the non-Realized experience, including the chatter of a thousand monkeys in their heads and including the nonsensical beliefs that drive nonsensical talk and nonsensical behavior. If You have not discarded the “mind,” the same cannot be said of You.
Please enter the silence of contemplation. (The sharing of the transcript of the dialogue will continue tomorrow)

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