Today's Considerations
33. [To continue with pointers from yesterday, excerpted from the eBook "Your Original Nature]
This point was offered yesterday:
"If you would come to Me, you must come to Me as a child."
This point was offered yesterday:
"If you would come to Me, you must come to Me as a child."
In that regard,
Maharaj offered this: "An infant knows its body, but not body-based
distinctions." [Concern with body-based
distinctions which inspire such comments as "his or her body looks like that but my body only looks like this, dammit" is a thought which can only come after a child has been acculturated and conditioned.]
By contrast, a pre-programming, pre-conditioning, pre-domesticating, pre-acculturating, pre-brainwashing, pre-indoctrinating child - if fed and dry and healthy - is (Maharaj said) only "conscious and happy."
[Recall the little girl yesterday and see that she was "conscious and happy" while enjoying something totally natural.]
Maharaj: "After all, that was the 'purpose' for which it was born. The pleasure to be is the simplest form of self-love, which later grows into Love of the Self" [until even that Love is abandoned].
Then, because Real Love is "knowing that I am everything," then the Love of "This Self" support Love of "That Self," that is, of All. That, in turn, fosters an awareness of "All Selves" and "All Things" and "All Happenings" (that is, all that is happening in one's surroundings, in "others'" surroundings, all over the planet, etc., a.k.a., "being in tune with and aware of the Oneness"). The noisy woman mentioned yesterday, having no clue at all about the Oneness, sees no one except her self, her selves, and is totally absorbed in what those selves want (what any "others" might enjoy be damned).
Maharaj described what abidance as the Child No-Knowing State can look like throughout a post-Realization manifestation when he suggested: "Be like an infant with nothing standing between the body and the Self. [Then], the constant noise of the psychic life is absent. In deep silence, the Self contemplates the body. It is like the white paper on which nothing is written yet. Be like that infant, instead of trying to be 'this' or 'that'; be happy to be. [Then], You will be a fully-awakened witness of the field of consciousness."
This consideration was also offered yesterday:
How about you? How are you "coming"? As a child? As an adult modeling for a child an appreciation of things natural, for a child that is yet capable of experiencing wonderment and joy? As an adult inviting persons to return to that earlier state as a child when there was the capacity to experience wonderment and joy? Or as a bastardized speck of consciousness, manifested in a loud, noisy, silence-loathing, silence-wrecking adult-body-cum-consciousness.
A trait of the ego is that it must talk and must be loud and noisy, attached as it is to "the constant noise of the psychic life" (or, to use a truly nonsensical term, to one's "thought life"). Whereas seekers that come this way are seeking relief from the endless chatter of a thousand monkeys that is going on in their "minds," those trapped in egotism-supported-ego-states love self and love self-generated noise.
The more noise that their ego-filled "minds" can make, the more their egos are reassured that they are real (and the more they are also able to convince other sleepwalkers that the talkers' assumed egos are real).
All of the ego-defense mechanisms that are triggered after the assignment or adoption of an ego-state as an identity can function silently as thoughts that reassure the ego it is real or as thoughts that take the negative facts about the persona - relatively speaking - and "spin" those negatives into positives; then, those ego-defense mechanisms will verbalized their belief that their egos are real; thus, ego-states and ego-defense mechanisms will always operate in the realm of duality and will insure . . .
(a) that persons will move through the relative existence while being totally asleep but convinced that they are totally awake;
(b) that persons will therefore be occupied and preoccupied with self only, eliminating any possibility for them to experience the "primordial
cooperation" that marked Our Original Nature and which, in turn, generated
the original sense of collaboration along with compassion, empathy, caring, and
respect for the silence and respect for another's environment; and
(c) that persons, driven by the properties of their egos /
personalities, will prefer talking and making noise, will abhor the silence,
and will have no respect for anyone's right to enjoy the quiet and the silence.
Thus, those are the circumstances of the woman yesterday who was not awake, was not aware, and was not conscious of anything other than her self and who was only able to focus on herself (her self) and her child (which she takes as an extension of her self); and
who was driven to make noise and to talk loudly, and who was rendered so sightless, so blind, that she could not see at all another child that was standing within a few feet of her.
So asleep was she - that is, so absorbed in that dream world which she alone inhabits - that . . .
. . . she cannot see that a quiet event is being enjoyed; that . . .
. . . she cannot respect the silence and the quietness; that . . .
. . . she cannot care about anyone else in her surroundings; and that . . .
. . . she cannot know the original, primordial cooperation which originally inspired a sense
of collaboration along with compassion, empathy, caring, respect for the
silence, and respect for the environments of all "others."
Consider this pointer shared earlier regarding noise and talk:
When intelligence agencies or law enforcement officers who are trying to “break down” resistant prisoners, they often
expose them to (that is, torture them with) loud noises and sounds; yet how
many persons realize that noise and sound are the bars that keep them
imprisoned?
In the prison of personality, belief in the illusion of personas cannot exist without the
use of words and noise to generate a role and to try to maintain a role and to
try to convince others to believe that a role is real. (Of course roles never
manifest singularly—they always come by the dozens or in scores.)
If persons are not free of the love of talking, then they are prisoners; if
persons cannot tolerate the silence because of the racket between their ears,
they are prisoners; and if persons have not been freed of their culture’s
penchant for words, words, and more words, then they are prisoners. And
prisoners in the realm of the non-Realized also imprison all among the non-Realized masses whom they come
into contact with throughout their relative existence.
To be continued.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
