From a site visitor: “I’ve read postings where you seem to suggest that there are no benefits to anything, but it seems to me that understanding the Absolute would have to have some positive impact on the relative.”
F.: Consider: the only time persons ever experience perfect peace is while in a deep sleep state when the brain is cycling at a delta-level-rate, and that also happens to be the only time that persons are not seeking anything, including food, money, knowledge, love, success, etc. What does that tell you? You might conclude that the Absolute, comparable to deep sleep, is marked by peace, but that's only accurate to the extent that no one is there to experience either peace or a lack of peace. It's also accurate only to the extent that no seeking is going on because there is no one to seek. The conclusion: allow all false roles that interrupt peace to disappear, as they do when you're in deep sleep. Stop seeking anything, but merely witness all as it happens. Work can continue and money can be earned for the basic requirements, but that can all just happen. The shift was from "I am a teacher, and I am frustrated that my desires to teach are being interrupted" to "Teaching will either happen today...or not. So it is." Forget “positive” or “negative” and forget seeking and longing and desiring and accumulating. Realization gives you nothing. It takes everything, including that “you.” Here’s how one discussion unfolded in an IM exchange:
Seeker: I want what you have.
F.: You must misunderstand. I have nothing.
Seeker: Well, unless you’re fooling me, you have peace and happiness and bliss.
F.: You have been fooled alright, but not by Me.
Seeker: You speak of finding happiness and peace and bliss in some of your books and on the website.
F.: Those remarks are for semi-dry charcoal. Those in the gunpowder stage come to know that there is nothing to seek. Then, they soon Realize. I do not know happiness, peace and bliss. Instead, I know What I AM, and I know What You Are. I also know What You Were prior to the manifestation of this I-Amness to which I now speak. I know What You Were before your parents ever met, and I know how you moved through various stages and how you accumulated various images and roles. I know how That which was pure became soiled and contaminated. Because the Absolute is understood, the functioning of the totality is understood, and that understanding prevents emotional intoxication (which in turn preempts misery and suffering and the search for peace and happiness and bliss that misery and suffering inspire). Feelings are felt but emotionalism is not experienced. There is no experiencer. If you are a seeker at this point, do not seek happiness, peace or bliss. Seek the Self and then that Self will allow You to see and to understand That Which Is beyond both peace and no peace in the relative and beyond beingness and non-beingness as well.
Seeker: Well I think it would be crazy not to seek happiness. I want to be happy and as a good parent all I really want for daughter is for her to be happy too.
F.: Ha! What is a “good” parent? So you use the word “crazy” as you seek happiness for yourself (or selves) and as you want her to seek and find happiness. Would it be sane or crazy to believe that a mirage could be happy? The happiness of he who is attached to the role of "lover" is under the control of that role's counterpart. SHE can decide when lover is happy and when lover is sad or frustrated. How can anyone find happiness or assure happiness if he has assumed a dependent role that places all control of his happiness in the hands of another? And you think it is sane, with millions and billions suffering across the face of the planet, for your daughter to be the ONE exception to the rule and never be unhappy? How arrogant. How insane to wish for such an exemption for her. Add to that the fact that all misery is rooted in wishing and desiring and hoping and you see that your belief system can only generate more misery, never less. 86,400 humans die every twenty-four hours, on average. [The planet is currently doubling that rate with its wars and genocides.] As a persona, you want an exemption from that fate which awaits your body as well. What ego persons develop as they long for continuity of body-mind-personality. Notice how false identities, how ego-states, generate unbounded ego to defend their false selves, and see that it’s all completely imaginary…all evolving from the corrupted consciousness. See that the corrupted consciousness is the very root of distorted perceptions, the very crux of the “mind,” and thus the very root of misery. The only chance your daughter has at escaping the misery of the relative existence is to find out Who or What she Was prior to your meeting her mother.
Please enter the silence of contemplation. [The dialogue will continue tomorrow]
F.: Consider: the only time persons ever experience perfect peace is while in a deep sleep state when the brain is cycling at a delta-level-rate, and that also happens to be the only time that persons are not seeking anything, including food, money, knowledge, love, success, etc. What does that tell you? You might conclude that the Absolute, comparable to deep sleep, is marked by peace, but that's only accurate to the extent that no one is there to experience either peace or a lack of peace. It's also accurate only to the extent that no seeking is going on because there is no one to seek. The conclusion: allow all false roles that interrupt peace to disappear, as they do when you're in deep sleep. Stop seeking anything, but merely witness all as it happens. Work can continue and money can be earned for the basic requirements, but that can all just happen. The shift was from "I am a teacher, and I am frustrated that my desires to teach are being interrupted" to "Teaching will either happen today...or not. So it is." Forget “positive” or “negative” and forget seeking and longing and desiring and accumulating. Realization gives you nothing. It takes everything, including that “you.” Here’s how one discussion unfolded in an IM exchange:
Seeker: I want what you have.
F.: You must misunderstand. I have nothing.
Seeker: Well, unless you’re fooling me, you have peace and happiness and bliss.
F.: You have been fooled alright, but not by Me.
Seeker: You speak of finding happiness and peace and bliss in some of your books and on the website.
F.: Those remarks are for semi-dry charcoal. Those in the gunpowder stage come to know that there is nothing to seek. Then, they soon Realize. I do not know happiness, peace and bliss. Instead, I know What I AM, and I know What You Are. I also know What You Were prior to the manifestation of this I-Amness to which I now speak. I know What You Were before your parents ever met, and I know how you moved through various stages and how you accumulated various images and roles. I know how That which was pure became soiled and contaminated. Because the Absolute is understood, the functioning of the totality is understood, and that understanding prevents emotional intoxication (which in turn preempts misery and suffering and the search for peace and happiness and bliss that misery and suffering inspire). Feelings are felt but emotionalism is not experienced. There is no experiencer. If you are a seeker at this point, do not seek happiness, peace or bliss. Seek the Self and then that Self will allow You to see and to understand That Which Is beyond both peace and no peace in the relative and beyond beingness and non-beingness as well.
Seeker: Well I think it would be crazy not to seek happiness. I want to be happy and as a good parent all I really want for daughter is for her to be happy too.
F.: Ha! What is a “good” parent? So you use the word “crazy” as you seek happiness for yourself (or selves) and as you want her to seek and find happiness. Would it be sane or crazy to believe that a mirage could be happy? The happiness of he who is attached to the role of "lover" is under the control of that role's counterpart. SHE can decide when lover is happy and when lover is sad or frustrated. How can anyone find happiness or assure happiness if he has assumed a dependent role that places all control of his happiness in the hands of another? And you think it is sane, with millions and billions suffering across the face of the planet, for your daughter to be the ONE exception to the rule and never be unhappy? How arrogant. How insane to wish for such an exemption for her. Add to that the fact that all misery is rooted in wishing and desiring and hoping and you see that your belief system can only generate more misery, never less. 86,400 humans die every twenty-four hours, on average. [The planet is currently doubling that rate with its wars and genocides.] As a persona, you want an exemption from that fate which awaits your body as well. What ego persons develop as they long for continuity of body-mind-personality. Notice how false identities, how ego-states, generate unbounded ego to defend their false selves, and see that it’s all completely imaginary…all evolving from the corrupted consciousness. See that the corrupted consciousness is the very root of distorted perceptions, the very crux of the “mind,” and thus the very root of misery. The only chance your daughter has at escaping the misery of the relative existence is to find out Who or What she Was prior to your meeting her mother.
Please enter the silence of contemplation. [The dialogue will continue tomorrow]
