From a site visitor: “Why do you put path and journey in quote marks? The path I’m following on my spiritual journey is very real.”
F.: As the heading on this website notes, pointers are offered to point toward Reality. Any path that persons think they’re following and any journey they think they’re taking can only lead to unreality. Why? (1) The type journey that you mention—a “spiritual journey”—cannot lead to Full Realization because spiritual concepts are still concepts, and all concepts entangled persons within the aspects of religious or spiritual knowledge—that is, learned ignorance. Once entangled, the “journey” cannot continue; the seeker becomes fixated at that point instead, believing he/she has found all that is to be sought. If one is traveling from L.A. to New York and is in Kansas, but truly believes that Kansas City is New York, why would any journey continue? (2) Real journeys are about going. There is no real Advaita path or journey because there is nowhere to go and no "one" to go there. That which you seek is That Which You Truly Are and is “the destination.” You need go nowhere; you are invited, instead, to sit in the quiet until you remember what is already known deep within. Why “deep”? Because the truth has been buried beneath a culture-full of lies and concepts.
(3) Moreover, religious and spiritual journeys involve gathering knowledge, but reality—being prior to consciousness—is certainly prior to the formation of religions and spiritual movements and the dogma and knowledge they urge you to accumulate, all of which was dreamed up by men and amounts to learned ignorance. The “journey” spoken of in these writings is merely a series of “steps” that are all intended to move persons away from gathering more of anything (including more knowledge) and certainly not toward gathering more of anything (including knowledge and learned ignorance).
F.: As the heading on this website notes, pointers are offered to point toward Reality. Any path that persons think they’re following and any journey they think they’re taking can only lead to unreality. Why? (1) The type journey that you mention—a “spiritual journey”—cannot lead to Full Realization because spiritual concepts are still concepts, and all concepts entangled persons within the aspects of religious or spiritual knowledge—that is, learned ignorance. Once entangled, the “journey” cannot continue; the seeker becomes fixated at that point instead, believing he/she has found all that is to be sought. If one is traveling from L.A. to New York and is in Kansas, but truly believes that Kansas City is New York, why would any journey continue? (2) Real journeys are about going. There is no real Advaita path or journey because there is nowhere to go and no "one" to go there. That which you seek is That Which You Truly Are and is “the destination.” You need go nowhere; you are invited, instead, to sit in the quiet until you remember what is already known deep within. Why “deep”? Because the truth has been buried beneath a culture-full of lies and concepts.
(3) Moreover, religious and spiritual journeys involve gathering knowledge, but reality—being prior to consciousness—is certainly prior to the formation of religions and spiritual movements and the dogma and knowledge they urge you to accumulate, all of which was dreamed up by men and amounts to learned ignorance. The “journey” spoken of in these writings is merely a series of “steps” that are all intended to move persons away from gathering more of anything (including more knowledge) and certainly not toward gathering more of anything (including knowledge and learned ignorance).
Consider “steps” only in this fashion: many “steps” ensue within the body when an antibiotic is taken to eliminate an infection, but no one is really “taking steps” when they take the cure. It’s all within. [Must one be exposed briefly to a written prescription and to a person who can interpret its vague message? Yes. Likewise, a person seeking realization might be exposed briefly to a writing—such as on this site—and to one who can interpret the now-vague Original Understanding. But the period spent with the pharmacist is brief, and so should the exposure to an outer guru. The exposure should be limited as the consciousness speaks via the space called an outer guru as that connects you with the Real Guru: the inner guru.] Similar to one taking an antibiotic whereby the healing steps follow within the body, persons must take the Ultimate Medicine in order to eliminate the mental illness that results in the belief in personas and myths and lies. In one case, the cure must be taken to remove the impurities from the infected body; in the other case, the cure must be taken to remove the impurities of the infected (warped) consciousness. In one case, the cure dissolves away the infections in what is called “the body”; in the other, the (Advaita) cure dissolves away the infection called “the mind.” Many “steps” are taken in order to re-purify the consciousness, but no steps are being followed to gain anything. As with an infection, the goal is to get rid of it all. In truth, therefore, there is no “journey” to take nor any “path” to follow since you are already at your objective now and need but Realize that. You Are That Which you would know, and You Are where you would go. Please enter the silence of contemplation. [To be continued]
