F.: In conclusion, re-focus on the original premise: “peace of mind” is an illusion. There is only peace if completely free of the “mind,” and freedom from identification with an illusory body, the illusory mind, and its illusory personalities can only happen if you complete the entire “journey.” In the book LIBERATION (Attaining Freedom from Personality via Realization) the following pointer is offered:
Lies are stored in the mind; truth can be accessed via the inner resource, contact with which is typically blocked by assumption of personality. When that inner awareness springs forth into the consciousness, then all beliefs about being a person in need, about being a person who needs help, and about being a person who has great ability to help others…all that will end and a lightness of being can happen for the remainder of the manifestation.
The inner resource—the inner “guru”—is the source that you must tap into and must stay in touch with if you would know peace. There is never a suggestion on this site that you, or anyone else, needs a lifetime guru or a lifetime teacher or a lifetime priest or preacher to listen to and to model for life. After being freed of the corrupted and corrupting thoughts of a deteriorated psyche, then listen to the inner guru only. Freedom only comes after total independence has been established, including freedom from dependence on persons, on imaginary powers in other worlds...on anything. Consciousness of (1) WHO You Are and (2) what is true are both within, but it's not within the “mind” and cannot be seen when clouded by the insane beliefs that are generated by a deteriorated psyche. If you need a temporary model, choose the deer (which lives naturally at all times). This pointer was offered last August:
A deer does not want to be seen and does not want to “stand out.” It will typically do what is required to blend in with its environment and “fade into the background.” A deer does not like to make noise and does not want to be heard. It can move along a thousand-yard path through the woods and tread so gently that a human fifty steps away would not hear it. A deer has no “mind” so it engages in no abnormal thinking. A deer lives naturally, not unnaturally and not supernaturally. A deer does not care about appearance, is not cruel, is not envious, does not feel entitled, is not afraid of the quiet, is not impulsive, is not religious or spiritual, is not self-contradictory or moody or unpredictable or unstable, does not overeat, does not like chaos, and does not eat fermented berries in an effort to become intoxicated and to “escape.”
Obviously, neither unnatural nor supernatural living can be natural. The Advaitan writer Thoreau who spoke of the “unity beyond the multiplicity” also spoke of persons living “lives of quiet desperation.” Now, nearly a century and a half later, the lives of the non-Realized are lives of noisy desperation and chaos. If you discard the “mind” and then function under the auspices of the brain, then you will live naturally, as the deer. You will be freed of the addiction to the chaos and to the noise and to the “mind chatter” that is typical among persons.
Finally, something that happened during a recent satsanga session might be relevant here: during a break between two sessions last Wednesday, two men were observed in what was obviously the continuation of an earlier disagreement. One, trying to manipulate the other, shifted from his aggressive approach and tried a passive-aggressive approach by saying: “You made me feel really sad when you did that.” It was obvious from the man’s earlier words that what he was really experiencing was the emotion of anger…not the feeling of sadness. He really wanted the other man to die then and there.
During the second session, a question about sadness led to the pointers being offered that (A) the non-Realized emote while the Realized feel and that (B) the non-Realized typically emote anger and fear but only the Realized can feel sadness. The man who had been so angry earlier—and then changed his tact to manipulation—spoke up quickly...and angrily. He reported that he had just experienced sadness in a conversation with another man while on break between the sessions. When it was pointed out that he had no capacity for that feeling, he was ready to end the manifestation of this consciousness.
In order to maintain his image as a Spiritual Giant, he was trying to disguise his emotion of anger by wrapping it in a cloak of sadness. He who is self-absorbed can only focus on what his false self or selves or ego-states think that they are experiencing, fearing or desiring. Ego-states constantly experience the false sensation of being interfered with or threatened, and personas that believe they are being interfered with or threatened can only experience fear or anger.
At the end, an invitation was extended to those who might be interested in staying for a guided meditation in which the vision would be presented in same manner as on the “Spirit Journey” CD. [ http://floydhenderson.com/spiritjourney.htm ] After that was completed, a participant came forward to say, “I saw you wipe a small tear from each eye after you finished sharing the vision, and suddenly I think I finally understood why you said that only the Realized could feel sadness. You felt sadness around the fact that so few will ever know the Oneness described in that vision. Is that right?” The space smiled.
How often are you smiling lately? Know Who/What You Truly Are. Your “mind” is overloaded with beliefs and concepts and false images of a multiplicity. Discard it all in order to know the Oneness…the unicity. Abandon attachment to the contents of the mind by seeing that it is nothing more than a repository of illusory images. Finally, complete all seven steps of the “journey” as described in FROM THE I TO THE ABSOLUTE (A Seven-Step journey to Reality) and fear and desire will disappear. You wrote, “There is a little fear of losing whatever is learnt here,” and “I sometimes want death.” When fully Realized, no fear will drive you and no wanting will dominant you. Then the space called “Vigneshwar” might find that it is also smiling more frequently as “the aching mind” is no more.
Post-Realization, You will live naturally and abandon the preoccupation with the unnatural and supernatural “stuff” that was dreamed up by persons and that was “stuffed” into you. Then, for the remainder of the manifestation you can just be while realizing that You Are the Absolute, that You Are beyond any state of being this role or that role, and that You Are beyond any state of non-being as well. You will realize Your true nature, and You will know that anyone who tells you that You are anything different has been fooled. Yet you will not judge even those persons, knowing that you were fooled just as thoroughly as they. And if they should inquire about the steps to Realization, no “you” will exist to say anything, but the re-purified consciousness might speak…or not. Peace, True Love, and Light. Please enter the silence of contemplation.
Lies are stored in the mind; truth can be accessed via the inner resource, contact with which is typically blocked by assumption of personality. When that inner awareness springs forth into the consciousness, then all beliefs about being a person in need, about being a person who needs help, and about being a person who has great ability to help others…all that will end and a lightness of being can happen for the remainder of the manifestation.
The inner resource—the inner “guru”—is the source that you must tap into and must stay in touch with if you would know peace. There is never a suggestion on this site that you, or anyone else, needs a lifetime guru or a lifetime teacher or a lifetime priest or preacher to listen to and to model for life. After being freed of the corrupted and corrupting thoughts of a deteriorated psyche, then listen to the inner guru only. Freedom only comes after total independence has been established, including freedom from dependence on persons, on imaginary powers in other worlds...on anything. Consciousness of (1) WHO You Are and (2) what is true are both within, but it's not within the “mind” and cannot be seen when clouded by the insane beliefs that are generated by a deteriorated psyche. If you need a temporary model, choose the deer (which lives naturally at all times). This pointer was offered last August:
A deer does not want to be seen and does not want to “stand out.” It will typically do what is required to blend in with its environment and “fade into the background.” A deer does not like to make noise and does not want to be heard. It can move along a thousand-yard path through the woods and tread so gently that a human fifty steps away would not hear it. A deer has no “mind” so it engages in no abnormal thinking. A deer lives naturally, not unnaturally and not supernaturally. A deer does not care about appearance, is not cruel, is not envious, does not feel entitled, is not afraid of the quiet, is not impulsive, is not religious or spiritual, is not self-contradictory or moody or unpredictable or unstable, does not overeat, does not like chaos, and does not eat fermented berries in an effort to become intoxicated and to “escape.”
Obviously, neither unnatural nor supernatural living can be natural. The Advaitan writer Thoreau who spoke of the “unity beyond the multiplicity” also spoke of persons living “lives of quiet desperation.” Now, nearly a century and a half later, the lives of the non-Realized are lives of noisy desperation and chaos. If you discard the “mind” and then function under the auspices of the brain, then you will live naturally, as the deer. You will be freed of the addiction to the chaos and to the noise and to the “mind chatter” that is typical among persons.
Finally, something that happened during a recent satsanga session might be relevant here: during a break between two sessions last Wednesday, two men were observed in what was obviously the continuation of an earlier disagreement. One, trying to manipulate the other, shifted from his aggressive approach and tried a passive-aggressive approach by saying: “You made me feel really sad when you did that.” It was obvious from the man’s earlier words that what he was really experiencing was the emotion of anger…not the feeling of sadness. He really wanted the other man to die then and there.
During the second session, a question about sadness led to the pointers being offered that (A) the non-Realized emote while the Realized feel and that (B) the non-Realized typically emote anger and fear but only the Realized can feel sadness. The man who had been so angry earlier—and then changed his tact to manipulation—spoke up quickly...and angrily. He reported that he had just experienced sadness in a conversation with another man while on break between the sessions. When it was pointed out that he had no capacity for that feeling, he was ready to end the manifestation of this consciousness.
In order to maintain his image as a Spiritual Giant, he was trying to disguise his emotion of anger by wrapping it in a cloak of sadness. He who is self-absorbed can only focus on what his false self or selves or ego-states think that they are experiencing, fearing or desiring. Ego-states constantly experience the false sensation of being interfered with or threatened, and personas that believe they are being interfered with or threatened can only experience fear or anger.
At the end, an invitation was extended to those who might be interested in staying for a guided meditation in which the vision would be presented in same manner as on the “Spirit Journey” CD. [ http://floydhenderson.com/spiritjourney.htm ] After that was completed, a participant came forward to say, “I saw you wipe a small tear from each eye after you finished sharing the vision, and suddenly I think I finally understood why you said that only the Realized could feel sadness. You felt sadness around the fact that so few will ever know the Oneness described in that vision. Is that right?” The space smiled.
How often are you smiling lately? Know Who/What You Truly Are. Your “mind” is overloaded with beliefs and concepts and false images of a multiplicity. Discard it all in order to know the Oneness…the unicity. Abandon attachment to the contents of the mind by seeing that it is nothing more than a repository of illusory images. Finally, complete all seven steps of the “journey” as described in FROM THE I TO THE ABSOLUTE (A Seven-Step journey to Reality) and fear and desire will disappear. You wrote, “There is a little fear of losing whatever is learnt here,” and “I sometimes want death.” When fully Realized, no fear will drive you and no wanting will dominant you. Then the space called “Vigneshwar” might find that it is also smiling more frequently as “the aching mind” is no more.
Post-Realization, You will live naturally and abandon the preoccupation with the unnatural and supernatural “stuff” that was dreamed up by persons and that was “stuffed” into you. Then, for the remainder of the manifestation you can just be while realizing that You Are the Absolute, that You Are beyond any state of being this role or that role, and that You Are beyond any state of non-being as well. You will realize Your true nature, and You will know that anyone who tells you that You are anything different has been fooled. Yet you will not judge even those persons, knowing that you were fooled just as thoroughly as they. And if they should inquire about the steps to Realization, no “you” will exist to say anything, but the re-purified consciousness might speak…or not. Peace, True Love, and Light. Please enter the silence of contemplation.
