TODAY'S CONSIDERATIONS
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So, what's it all about? That is, what is the non-dual understanding about and why should anyone consider the possibility of attaining that understanding?
5. Being free of instability and chaos is dual-mindedness. When Yeshu'a ("Jesus") was offering non-duality pointers during the final years of that manifestation, he said: "A dual-minded person is unstable in all ways."
See, neither dual-mindedness nor the instability and chaos it generates can be compartmentalized. If one is, say, unstable and chaotic in traffic, one will also be unstable in all of one's relationships, at work, while shopping, etc. All occasions and events will becomes sources of impatience and annoyance and irritation and frustration and exasperation and anger.
What else is it about?
6. Being able to reduce arrogance and egotism and eliminating the false belief in "different-from-ment" and "better-than-ment" and then understanding that one is neither "special" nor "Special" nor "different" nor "better" and that what is called "a human" or "person" is actually nothing more than a "composite unity."
A site visitor sent this back in 2011:
Understanding your teachings about the composite unity is at least for now providing some real relief. Thanx.
The reply:
Well, the composite unity is not "my teachings." It is a part of "the teachings." Many have sent comments like yours, though, with a few inquiries about that understanding, so further discussion will follow.
First, understand that the "journey" begins not with finding out who you are (or Who / What You Are) but with finding out all that you are not. The identity triad of body-mind-personality must be discarded during the early steps along the "path," well before any final clarity comes about a non-phenomenal identity (or even no identity).
Thus, in the interim along the way, being able to answer questions about "the identity of the Am-ness" can lead to an early level of freedom if the body-mind-personality triad is replaced with an understanding of the triad of elements-air-energy (a.k.a., "the composite unity").
Consider:
What is a tree but a collection of elements that have come together temporarily to form (1) a space in which the consciousness has manifested temporarily and (2) a space that circulates oxygen? As always, the pointer here is that there is no difference in any "things" on the planet except for the rate at which the energy within vibrates.
Thus, a "human" is also a collection of elements with a temporary manifestation of a quantity of conscious-energy and with oxygen circulating into and out of the space. Is there any difference in what is called "a tree" and "a human"? No. Consider also:
A plant / tree uses carbon dioxide and water to make sugar. Oxygen is left over after that process. The plant or tree will use part of the supply of oxygen itself for respiration, but there is more than enough left over which is unwanted and unneeded by the tree.
The surplus, therefore, is released into the atmosphere and provides oxygen for humans and other forms as well. So the tree, as is the case with humans, is composed of a combination of elements; the tree, as is the case with humans, circulates oxygen; and the tree, as is the case with humans, provides a space in which conscious-energy can temporarily manifest.
Yet how many persons are totally free of the influence of ego-state assumption and its accompanying egotism and therefore able to admit that they are no more "special" or "different" or "unique" than the ugliest, most deformed tree on the planet?
How many persons on the planet can never be offended, as is the case with the one that can ask, "WHO - what part of this temporarily manifested unity - can be offended? The oxygen part? The energy part? The element part? Of course, the answer is 'no part.'
"There is no WHO because there is no WHONESS associated with any of the three parts of the composite unity; therefore, there is no part of those three that can be offended, so there is no part of the triad that can be robbed of total freedom and total peace."
To understand the composite unity is to be free of false beliefs about identities, about personality identifications.
To be free of personality identifications is to be free of being driven by the hidden, subconscious agendas of personas and to be free of allowing their desires and fears to determine every thought that is thought, every word that is spoken, and every action that is taken.
And to be free of allowing personas to determine subconsciously every thought that is thought, every word that is spoken, and every action that is taken is to be able, for the first time ever, to make conscious choices which are based in wisdom rather than in emotional intoxication and unconsciousness and distortion.
To be continued.
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