A site visitor asked: “Why would you call natural living spontaneous? Please elaborate.”
F.: Consider first the notion of “being driven.” If you are in a car and are being driven, you are either in the passenger seat or the rear seat. In neither case do you really have any true input into where you’re going, where you’re being taken. Persons, always driven, live a frustrating life, wishing for control and an ability to determine direction. The realized are not concerned about controlling happenings in the relative existence, and they are not being driven by inner turmoil or outer forces or imaginary powers. The realized witness and live the relative existence as it happens in the same way that a deer lives. How?
Consciousness can witness all but can experience nothing. Like the deer that merely moves through its manifestation, pure consciousness cannot experience tension, stress, strain, pressure, anticipation, or ridigity. Sure, a deer can feel a sense of urgency if threatened, at which instant it will move away from perceived danger, but it will not experience emotional intoxication and a life burdened with one overreaction after another; further, the deer seldom mistakes a non-dangerous posture as a threat. Only persons can experience that kind of emotional intoxication and fixate in that insane state, as happens to “husband” when “wife” walks away from him. Impartial observers would see that the action of walking away implies no threat at all. It is actually a movement that all of nature (meaning among all that are living naturally) would see as non-threatening. Only a person, absorbed in a false identity, will perceive a non-life-threatening act as a life-threatening act. So influential is the misconception that the false role is real that "husband" can be taken as a true identity and “husband without wife” can be taken to be so real that it seems a deadly state. Thus, it often is...with half of all murders in urban areas happening when one former mate kills another during a breakup. No deer has ever died at the hands of a jealous mate that is reacting from a state of emotional intoxication as a result of taking an ego-state to be the Real Self. Among persons, assumed roles like "wife" or “husband” are regularly convinced that they cannot exist without their co-dependent counter-role (which is the second role that all ego-states require to “exist”).
The realized are beyond all that, having been rocketed into the fourth dimension (beyond height, width, and depth and beyond the confines of this closed, physical realm call “earth”). Freed of the anxiety that accompanies ego-states, the realized have no fear of death (which results in having no fear of living as well). That allows for spontaneous living, which is also stable living--freed of the chaos of ego-states and the playing of phony roles.
F.: Consider first the notion of “being driven.” If you are in a car and are being driven, you are either in the passenger seat or the rear seat. In neither case do you really have any true input into where you’re going, where you’re being taken. Persons, always driven, live a frustrating life, wishing for control and an ability to determine direction. The realized are not concerned about controlling happenings in the relative existence, and they are not being driven by inner turmoil or outer forces or imaginary powers. The realized witness and live the relative existence as it happens in the same way that a deer lives. How?
Consciousness can witness all but can experience nothing. Like the deer that merely moves through its manifestation, pure consciousness cannot experience tension, stress, strain, pressure, anticipation, or ridigity. Sure, a deer can feel a sense of urgency if threatened, at which instant it will move away from perceived danger, but it will not experience emotional intoxication and a life burdened with one overreaction after another; further, the deer seldom mistakes a non-dangerous posture as a threat. Only persons can experience that kind of emotional intoxication and fixate in that insane state, as happens to “husband” when “wife” walks away from him. Impartial observers would see that the action of walking away implies no threat at all. It is actually a movement that all of nature (meaning among all that are living naturally) would see as non-threatening. Only a person, absorbed in a false identity, will perceive a non-life-threatening act as a life-threatening act. So influential is the misconception that the false role is real that "husband" can be taken as a true identity and “husband without wife” can be taken to be so real that it seems a deadly state. Thus, it often is...with half of all murders in urban areas happening when one former mate kills another during a breakup. No deer has ever died at the hands of a jealous mate that is reacting from a state of emotional intoxication as a result of taking an ego-state to be the Real Self. Among persons, assumed roles like "wife" or “husband” are regularly convinced that they cannot exist without their co-dependent counter-role (which is the second role that all ego-states require to “exist”).
The realized are beyond all that, having been rocketed into the fourth dimension (beyond height, width, and depth and beyond the confines of this closed, physical realm call “earth”). Freed of the anxiety that accompanies ego-states, the realized have no fear of death (which results in having no fear of living as well). That allows for spontaneous living, which is also stable living--freed of the chaos of ego-states and the playing of phony roles.
To the contrary, those living in ego-states fight continuously for the imagined preservation of each roles they assume. With an agenda, persons will attempt to use manipulation to preserve their image, to satisfy their desires, and to alleviate their fears. Living with such an agenda, all words spoken and all subsequent behaviors will be calculated, not spontaneous. Living in a calculated and manipulative fashion becomes a job in and of itself, which is quite unnatural. The Realized witness things as they happen rather than fighting to assume control over all that happens. Deer, living naturally, have no such jobs that are rooted in self-deception or in deception and manipulation of other deer. An existence of manipulation and deception and efforts to control is ultimately a very limited existence, confined within the boundaries of a petty, artificial agenda that drives persons along a very narrow road. The Realized, conversely, know They Are the boundless and limitless THAT which has no needs, which suffers none of the constant frustration of unfulfilled desires, and which allows for a spontaneous, agenda-less existence.
While the body elements and the breath are trapped within the closed and limited confines of this planet’s atmosphere (rocket travel nothingstanding) it is the consciousness only that can move beyond the limitations and travel the limitless depths of this universe and all universes. The realized have transcended both the false self/selves and even the True Self and even the Supreme SELF, so all that happens among the realized merely happens spontaneously. Agenda-less living is the highest form of bliss in this relative existence. Please enter the silence of contemplation. [To be continued 14 December 2005]
WEDNESDAY: Spontaneous (Natural) Living, Part Two
THURSDAY: A visitor asks for a glossary of terms used on the site.
