Sunday, March 29, 2015

Part "G": ADDITIONAL UNDERSTANDINGS VIA THE FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT

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6. Recall from Michael's account that he said "the gaze [from Maharaj] quieted the mind so much i couldn't really think" and later, "Again, the mind stopped."

Such is the case when the wisdom offered by the unblocked consciousness speaks and offers an invitation to tap into the inner guru or the inner resource (that is, when the unblocked consciousness leads one to bypass the corruptions stored in the mind and to tap into the only source which can actually allow one to connect with the eternal truths which preceded humanity's presenting of lies as truth and fiction as fact).

Here, it became clear by the age of six that I was being taught BS by all of the adults around me - at home, in church, in school. By the mid-60's, it was perfectly and totally clear that the problem with humanity really centers in the mind. After years of detours from the non-dual path, trying during those years to use any and every method and tool available to escape and avoid the effects of constant exposure to the ignorance and insanity of humankind, it became clear again that the problem with humanity is the mind and, being a part of humanity, there was only one mind that needed my attention, namely, my own (which was not really my own but was "theirs" - a storehouse filled not with my concepts and ideas and perceptions - a.k.a., "beliefs" - but with "theirs"). 

In 1989, the detouring was set aside and the focus once more returned to the 1965 awareness that the problems of humanity, as well as all of "my" problems, have forever centered in the mind. Still, the path here was made far too long and far too arduous because of a far-too-strong attachment to the roles assumed at the third of seven steps on the seven-step path taught here (those being the religious and or spiritual roles).

The earlier talks by Maharaj did nothing but reinforce those roles. Then came a vision which laid out the seven steps. Eventually, the later talks of Maharaj were found and reinforced the wisdom of having abandoned the playing of those roles. Between "The Vision" (available in eBook format below without charge) and those later talks, the final mental chains were broken, never to be worn again.

So back to the point raised earlier: for over twenty-six years, the point offered here has been the point that the problem centers in the mind and that the mind must, therefore, end. And for twenty-six years, most seekers who heard that protested that "The mind is required!" and "It is my mind that I use in my search for Realization." No. The mind is not required for Realization. It is the mind which has led to the condition which begs for Realization, and it is the mind which blocks all efforts to Realize.

What is needed is the silence of contemplation (wherein the processing and considering of pointers is undertaken not by the use of the mind but by no-mindedly tapping into the inner (but blocked) wisdom which can only be accessed via the inner resource . . . the inner guru. And that wisdom has nothing in common with anything that has ever been stored in a mind.

If, and only if, that inner resource method is used, then only can there be a redirection away from what is erroneously taken to be "conscious contact" with what is real (and Real) and a redirection away from all of the BS stored in the mind. If that happens, then true conscious contact with Truth will manifest. 

It is ignorance and insanity which renders persons unable to differentiate the true from the false. The ability to differentiate between fact and fiction comes only when conscious contact is established via the inner resource, that is, via the inner-guru-accessed pool of wisdom which has been blocked from awareness by way of bogus and nonsensical programming, conditioning, etc.

As Maharaj finally came to see, the problems of humanity have nothing to do with a shortage of religious beliefs and have nothing to do with a shortage of spiritual beliefs. Both have manifested for thousands of years in excess, not in shortage. Maharaj came to see instead that the problems of humanity are rooted solely in the mind.

And since a sick mind cannot heal a sick mind, then the mind has nothing to do with the processes of "Realization" and "Awakening" and "Enlightenment" and "Liberation" which are all about being freed from the mind, not about "purifying the mind." One may as well try to purify one's garbage that has accumulated in the house and that is stinking up the place completely rather than setting the garbage out for a crew to haul away.

Indeed, the intent of offering wisdom-based pointers is as Michael indicated: "to quiet the mind so much i couldn't really think" and "to stop the mind" completely (rather than for fifteen minutes a day).

To be continued.

Please enter into the silence of contemplation.

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