Sunday, April 19, 2015

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

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26. Yesterday's post ended with this:

So, do you see the parallel between contaminated computers and humanity's pattern of spreading the Ultimate Sickness and the parallel between what is required in both cases to address the contamination which blocks effective functioning?

That is what this "path" or "journey" is about: if you reach the fourth of seven steps on "the path" and abide as a child that does not yet know anything, then you will have removed the main threat to your "system" (namely, belief in the "not-You's" and the fears and the desires which they generate). Then, completion of even four of the seven steps can make the effort worthwhile, relatively speaking.

Next, consider this from the eBook below dealing with YOUR ORIGINAL NATURE":

An Eight-Year-Old Spends Another Summer with his Tsa-la-gi Grandmother in East Texas, U.S.A.:
"An Early Taste of the Nectar of 'The Original Nature'"

The summative statement of advaita (that is, of the "not-two-ness") only seems to contain two parts when it states, "I AM THAT; I AM." It does not. Similarly, it can only seem that two-ness is involved with (1) a child called "floyd" that spent summers and holidays with a Tsa-la-gi (or "Cherokee") grandmother who lived in a wood cabin in a remote location that was surrounded by an a-do-hi (by a forest) and (2) an adult called "floyd" that revisited the site of that cabin a few years ago, more than sixty years later. The seeming "difference" actually only involved the altered shape of the elemental form or space through which conscious-energy was being cycled.

Similarly, there is no two-ness involved with abiding at one former moment as "Your Original Nature" and abiding at another moment, now, as a child that does not yet know anything.

In the early 1950's, abiding as a child living in a noisy and rough and tough and dangerous section of a southern city, silence for "floyd" was seldom attainable. Only when spending days and weeks and months at a time either seated next to Grandmother or sitting next to a babbling brook in the surrounding a-do-hi could silent observing happen.

Chaos was experienced in the city; peace was enjoyed in the forest; and that duality eventually took its toll as chaos won out until the non-dual understanding led to the place - and eventually to a "place" - where freedom could happen continuously. Finally, "there," fixation in a peaceful state was able to happen continuously. Finally, unconditional happiness came once more.

Those early days of escaping the chaos of the city by retreating to the forest and "winding down" were described in "A First-Hand Account of the Advaita Message as Transmitted by One of the Indigenous People in the U.S." A section from that essay follows:

Background: The Mid-1800's, After the Congress of the U.S. Government Passed "The Indian Removal Act of 1830":

The ancestors of Grandmother were sent away from the land which they had cleared for farming and which they had lived on for generations. The land was eventually confiscated by the U.S. Government and sold for $1.00 per acre to a family from Germany. Her Native American ancestors were "resettled" to areas in Arkansas and Oklahoma as others were marched to the east and "relocated" - along with members of other tribes - to Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, North Carolina and other places as well. (Search "Trail of Tears" for more on that.)

Eventually, one "American Indian" family was "pardoned" and allowed to move back south to a small, remote, heavily-wooded tract of fairly-useless land in what came to be known as "Cherokee County" in East Texas. That family would procreate and it would be in that region where the consciousness happened to manifest in a space that I would someday call "Grandmother."

It was in the presence of that speck of unblocked consciousness that the first taste of the cycles and the first taste of the nectar of "Floyd's Original Nature" came. That will be described tomorrow and will include certain understandings she shared from the indigenous people and will also include certain excerpts from another essay entitled "The Summer of 1955 (Recollections of an Eight-Year-Old from Visits with His Tsa-la-gi Grandmother)."

To be continued.

Please enter the silence of contemplation.

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