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HOW TO (AND WHAT TO) REALIZE
So what else is to be realized? The Oneness and the Noneness, that is, the Unicity and the Nothingness
CC. THE ONENESS AND THE NONENESS
Consider the lifestyle of a child during the Child No-Knowing State (which can be revisited if one reaches the fourth step on “the path”).
The child identifies with its mother and feels “at one” with the mother during the early months. The sense of oneness, of the unicity, is literally experienced.
In the typical course of human events, that sense or awareness will be short-lived as the child begins discovering its own body and identifying with its own body’s desires and fears and as its culture’s duality-based messages begin to preempt the sense of the unicity, of the oneness.
However, the child in that early state knows no concepts and has no learned beliefs / learned ignorance, so it is "concerned with" / conscious of the basics only:
being dry and chafe-free
having a full stomach
being in a comfortable ambient temperature
having adequate rest
and
being healthy / feeling good overall.
If a child is fussy, it is usually because one or more of the above conditions are not being met, not because someone is refusing to believe what it believes and not because someone is refusing to think the way it will think and not because someone is refusing to talk in what it considers “the right way.”
The Child No-Knowing State has been called more widely The Child Ignorance Stage but could as easily be called The Child No-Beliefs Stage.
There are no mental, emotional, religious, spiritual, ideological, philosophical, or political beliefs which the child holds dear and which can lead to the child being upset because persons do not agree with the child’s belief systems about the above-listed variety of phenomenal "stuff." Such dis-ease will only come later, after the child is exposed to ignorant and insane programming, conditioning, etc.
If the basic physical needs - the basic instinctive drives around thirst, hunger, shelter, and health care are addressed - then the child will be content if not downright happy without any other conditions being met.
Hells bells, even the federal prison at Alcatraz greeted inmates for decades with this sign:
So, under normal, caring circumstances when a child's basic needs are met, it can experience, at least for a while, the sense of oneness and contentment and otherwise-unconditional happiness.
That is also the case for any adults that complete the four-step “journey” and return to that earlier zero-concepts, no-belief state when the sense of oneness was present and is also the case for any adults that complete the four-step “journey” and return to an otherwise noneness condition of zero-concepts and no-beliefs.
What else is to be realized?
DD. THE UNICITY AND THE NOTHINGNESS
Adult-age seekers are invited to see what an understanding of the unicity reveals, namely, that a pile of ashes, a pile of dust, you, a dog, a tree, a piano, and a plant are no different. All of those “seemingly different things” are one thing. Supposed differences perceived by the human eye and misunderstood as a result of warped “minds” are the result of varying vibrational frequencies only.
Regular visitors here have seen the point offered by Dennis Waite that there is no such thing as a “wooden table.” What actually is, he says, is “tably wood” – wood which has been worked into the shape of what persons call “a table.” The elements of which the wood is composed are real, but the term "table" is simply a not-real label dreamed up by humans.
Similarly, a baseball player can make use of “batty wood,” a home builder can use “housy wood,” and bakers over the years have used “rolling-piny wood.”
It differs not at all from the non-dual teaching tool of the pot which is really “potty clay” or from the non-dual teaching tool used here regarding H2O:
An ice cube is really just H2O. If it melts outside on a hot day, it can become vapor, ascend into a cloud, blend with the cloud, become a raindrop and fall back to earth. In each case, it might have a different form: solid, liquid, vapor, etc. But it is still just H2O, though to observers it’s thought to be all these different things we dreamed up and gave labels to. We are lying to ourselves. H2O is H2O, not water, fog, steam, vapor, raindrops, oceans, streams, pools, puddles, etc. Now we cannot destroy the H2O though we can affect the visible form, proving my point that what you see with the naked eye is never the real.
Humanity’s post-programming propensity for misperceiving everything makes persons believe that differences are real rather than grasping the truth of the unity beyond the wrongly-perceived multiplicity.
Abidance as the consciousness guarantees that duality will never be forfeited completely. Only the Awareness is “One” without any “one.”
Consciousness can know the "not two." Awareness is the absolute "not two."
If you stay alert to the reality of "not two-ness," then for the sake of discussion you might take consciousness to be the essence of beingness, the re-purified consciousness to be the essence of non-beingness, and awareness to be the essence of the Reality beyond both beingness and non-beingness.
So the invitation is to realized that . . .
EE. In the no-concept, non-dual “Reality,” there is no "one thing as opposed to some other things”; therefore, the “realized” understand that "I AM THAT; I AM" can be stated and understood without any sense of duality at all. So can "Consciousness / Awareness."
FF. Understand that everything which you take to be “spiritual” and “noumenal” is really nothing more than an accumulation of relative and phenomenal concepts.
GG. According to the earliest teachings shared among the Indigenous Peoples, that which is “true” is only the space between exhalation and inhalation. Close enough.
HH. “True Self” is not “God,” though many who have morphed this philosophy into a religion will adopt and defend that Self-God, false-self concept as well. Any sense of self-ness or Self-ness is false.
II. Ultimately, to try to support any “identity” alongside “the no-concept, non-dual Reality” is itself contradictory.
JJ. At the “highest level” of understanding, any “identity” is seen to be conceptual.
KK. “Bliss” is merely an undisturbed, unconcerned vibration.
LL. The ultimate Advaita understanding is that there need not be any understanding. So relax.
MM.When a “state” of zero concepts is reached, it is understood that there is no “identity” at all. Nothing from nothing leaves . . . nothing, not “SOMETHING.”
NN. “Absolute,” “THAT,” “Brahman,” “God,” “energy,” “energy-matter,” “Consciousness,” “Awareness,” and “SOMETHING” are still man-made labels generated by persons.
OO. Ultimately, to find out “who or what you are” is useless since there is no "who" to benefit, no user to use; on the other hand, finding out “who you are not” could eliminate unnatural and supernatural living and allow natural, AS IF living to happen throughout the remainder of the manifestation. That would also allow freedom to happen, and only if free can bliss happen.
PP. Only when the addiction to the sound and the fury ends can the joy and bliss of the silence begin.
QQ. To look to the universe and to focus on the concept of “SOMETHING” prevents seeing “The Reality of the Emptiness,” “The Reality of the Void,” “The Reality of the Nothingness.”
RR. Ego always wants more; freedom from the bondage of ego results in giving value to less.
SS. Ego is about going and doing and zooming in order to collect more; freedom from the love of more allows the non-doingness (the beingness only) to manifest, at least temporarily.
TT. Persons search for “the divine” and for an understanding of all that is “supernatural” when, in fact, there is nothing that is supernatural at all.
UU. The result of their having been fooled is an endless stream of desires and fears among persons. Those create a constant sense of longing, and longing generates a constant sense of dis-ease.
The "non-realized" never come to the understanding that it is only from a condition of emptiness (empty of concepts, of identities, of a “mind”) that a sense of fulfillment can happen during the manifestation.
VV. The realized can taste what the Italians call il dolce di fare niente - “the sweetness of doing nothing.” The fully realized will shift even beyond that and will understand something even simpler than “the sweetness of doing nothing,” namely, il dolce di Niente - “the sweetness of Nothing,” period. Trace your roots and find that.
WW. Go beyond self and Self, beyond Consciousness, beyond Awareness, and even beyond the Absolute to the seminal Nothingness. Abide as such.
XX. All identities are limiting. Limitations restrict freedom. Restrictions of freedom prevent the manifestation of happiness during the relative existence. Preoccupation with finding identities and assigning labels has the same effect.
YY. If you would be free, align with the nothingness. Reach the space.
ZZ. If you would be unconcerned, then all of your knowledge must go into liquidation. Has that happened? Have you reached . . . the space?
AAA. “The supreme Absolute . . . is only a name for communication purposes.” (Maharaj)
BBB. “This is all a big hoax, a big fraud, created out of nothingness.” (Maharaj)
CCC. Ultimately, even “nothing” as a concept is abandoned.
DDD. Advaita (at the purest and most advanced level of the Teachings) endorses zero concepts. All of the mutated versions of Advaita, especially those which have been morphed into a religion by humans with hidden agendas, are bastardizations . . . fabricated via the warped consciousness, accepted as truth by other specks of warped consciousness, and passed along now by such specks to other such specks.
EEE. There is a process whereby, from the nothingness, a particle can manifest. This entire universe began with the instantaneous manifestation of an atom within a vacuum.
FFF. It is from the nothingness that all manifestation happens spontaneously. After some groupings and ungroupings happen, the Nothingness will again prevail.
GGG. Prior to “this universe,” prior to Awareness, prior to Consciousness, and prior to manifestation, there was a “time” when only a vacuum was. Your “ultimate root” is even prior to time.
HHH. If you’re interested in oneness, understand that everything in this universe began as one, single atom that manifested within the emptiness of a vacuum.
III. Purged of all identities, ideas, beliefs, and concepts, the consciousness can function as an empty vacuum. Originally, the empty vacuum was undisturbed, unconcerned . . . without burden, without activity, without any doings. The relative existence is miserable for those who are “full of it.” If you would be undisturbed, unconcerned, without burden, without activity, without any doingness, be the emptiness. Reach the space and abide as such.
JJJ. Fear not . . . nothing is coming. No judgment . . . no endless punishment. Desire not . . . nothing is coming. No endless celestial caroling . . . no celestial brothels and no heavenly, extraterrestrial orgies . . . no endless rewards . . . no endless punishments . . . no reincarnation . . . no rebirths.
So what does await "you," post-manifestation?
Nothing, so enjoy, NOW.
To be continued.
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Here,
with those who are still driven to talk about "god," the "Son of god,"
the "Holy Spirit," "Buddha," "Krishna," etc., etc., etc., the invitation
to them is to view those as verbs, not nouns.
THE EXPLANATION
If
looked at as nouns, they point to illusions and are, therefore, a total
waste of time to even discuss; if looked at as verbs which are
resulting in certain sane but rare behaviors among humanity, then they
are worthy of some attention during the relative existence.
Meaning?
There are members of certain groups who say things such as "My concept
of god in the past was of a weak god, an absentee god, A Santa
Claus-type god, a mean, punishing, vindictive god, etc. Today, I am in
close contact with a loving and caring god whom I worship and praise and
glorify and give thanks to."
The
reply to that usually goes like this: "If you are in contact with a god
that wants to be worshipped and praised and glorified, then you're
dealing with someone like yourself - a narcissist - and hanging out with
narcissists will never bring an end to your narcissism (that narcissism
evidenced by the fact that you think you are "godly").
Next,
in the phrase 'loving and caring god,' any supposed god that truly had
her or his act together would tell you that the totally irrelevant part
of that phrase is 'god' and that the only part that is relevant is the
"loving and caring" part.
"That
is, a non-narcissistic their god / their goddess would say, "I care not
an iota about being worshipped and praised and glorified by you or
anyone else. How arrogant and insecure and needy would I have to be to
want that? Forget the man-made, dreamed up noun 'god' and focus on the
'god as a verb' understanding and then go forth and let loving and
caring be verbs - not adjectives - and let them generate the act of love
and the act of caring and let those actions manifest through you."
Yeshu'a (Jesus) and Pope John Paul II and Pope Francis were spot on:
"No one shall ever see 'the kingdom of heaven.' It is within"
--Yeshu'a (Jesus)
and
"Heaven and earth shall fade away."
--Yeshu'a (Jesus)
and
"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
but are states of mind, nothing more than
concepts dreamed up by men."
--Pope John Paul II
"There is no hell."
--Pope Francis, the current pope
in an interview with journalist Eugenio Scalfari,
a writer used by the Pope to issue off the record
teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.
[That
said, would that the popes who have shown the courage to reject a core
concept of their dogma - namely, "hell" - would find the additional
courage required to question the very existence of their institution in
light of the centuries-long cover-up of their history of raping children
and in light of the mental and emotional and psychological scarring of
billions of their members past and present.
And
that need for courage also applies as questions need to be asked about
why so many other sky cults are still being supported and allowed to
continue to exist as well. When certain types of programming and
conditioning have been shown to blind the masses, they should end. Will
they? Not likely. Why?
Because
what the masses think and say and do is most influenced by the
international crime families which hold sway over the masses as
criminals conduct their planet-wide operations. What are the major
international crime families and which are the most influential and have
the largest memberships?
The
Mafia / La Cosa Nostra; the Catholic Church (with it 1.2 billion
followers) whose Vatican Bank worked for decades with the Mafia while
laundering mob earnings (for a 15% all-profit charge by the Bank);
Protestant and Evangelical Churches (with over 1.2 billion followers)
like the one I was raised in where the youth director molested and
sexually assaulted young girls; big business which has long created
environments in which people have been abused; powerful political bodies
like the U.S. Congress, etc., etc., etc.)
With
all of those crime families, neither the followers nor the leadership
ever voluntarily step down or shut down their criminal activities. Be
they gangs, organized crime families, religions, big business,
politicians, etc., they all want control and they all want power and
they all want money, and nothing internal will interfere with the
driving forces at play.
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masses must demand that all those in charge must step down and their
groups and institutions must shut down, and there's the real problem
because the continuation of their crimes are enabled not as much by the
people running such crime organizations as they are enabled by the
masses of people who - wanting some perceived "payoff" - remain involved
with them and give them money and support them and aid and abet the
continued existence of those criminal enterprises and thus facilitate
the ability of church criminals and political criminals and other types
of criminals to continue to commit their crimes.]
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