From a site visitor: I’ve been reading a lot on the web and came across the phrase the ultimate medicine. Can you tell me what that means. Russ
F.: Diagnosis of an illness must precede the prescribing of the proper medicine for treating that sickness.
The Original Understanding is prior to all knowledge, all religions, all spiritual movements, all concepts, all dogma, all ideas, all emotions, all attitudes, all theories, all philosophies, all teachings and all teachers and all gurus. Before you are offered an opportunity to find, on Your own, the answer to your question, consider these points:
1. The ultimate medicine is the remedy for the pain and misery and suffering that marks the relative existence as a result of widespread ignorance.
2. The ultimate medicine is the antidote for all that has been learned.
3. The ultimate medicine is a stimulant which sustains awakeness.
4. The ultimate medicine is the purifier that removes the miasma that clouds out the chance for awareness to happen.
5. It is the medicine that makes the beingness tolerable in spite of the pandemic of global egotism that results in differentiation and destruction and misery and suffering.
So first, understand this about the beingness just mentioned: it is that very beingness which allows misery to happen and that is, in fact, the very source of all that persons consider to be their “problems” and their “troubles.” If the beingness ends, so does the misery; however, another option is available. You can be done with the beingness even as the consciousness continues with its manifestation. Understand that THAT which I AM and which YOU ARE is beyond both the beingness and the non-beingness. The wellness that comes via the ultimate medicine is not reserved for the non-being state only. It is available NOW, if You abide NOW as THAT Which You Are (which is beyond both beingness and non-beingness).
Those who claim that they are always “happy” will dispute that pointer about the beingness, but to claim happiness is to imply that unhappiness exists, so their claim is coming from a state of duality. What of the bliss-seekers? Seek away, but the Fully Realized desire nothing, including bliss. Bliss might happen, but sadness during the beingness can just as easily be witnessed as it rises and falls, even among the Realized.
Those involved with this “play” want many things, but the Realized fully understand (a) all that they are NOT in this relative realm and also fully understand (b) all that they are NOT in the non-relative realm. To know What You Are follows knowing all that You are not; it cannot precede that understanding. These words today are not for the wet charcoal, nor are they for those who are attached to their watered-down versions of spirituality. These words are for those who have searched everywhere else, as you have Russ, and are totally ready to give it all up in order to be truly free and truly independent NOW as a result of being Fully Realized.
If you want the full dose of the ultimate medicine, then contemplate this until You Realize fully: this consciousness, this Amness, is being “experienced” by Me—by the Absolute. Why “experienced” in quote marks? Because ultimately I AM beyond any state that is experiential. Why? Because there is no “one” to experience anything. Experiences are for persons…personas. I am not any person or any persona. Ultimately, I am not this “Is-ness,” nor am I any of the roles that are played during the “Is-ness.” I am not this beingness. I am not even the non-beingness, because when this consciousness is no longer manifested, the True Selfness that currently witnesses accurately will be no more. No selfness or Selfness or Beingness or non-beingness or Supreme Beingness will be. Also, after Realizing that all of “this relative stuff” is merely a play, no action is called for, either. WHO would do anything since there is no longer any belief in the existence of a “do-er?”
Then, what happens is that the play is allowed to proceed spontaneously until the play no longer proceeds. Because the ultimate medicine had been received prior to a doctor using the words “colon cancer” to describe a condition existing within this space, his words had no impact and triggered no reaction other than, “So, what’s next?” The treatment that followed simply happened with the understanding that, if healing happens, so be it. If it does not, so be it. Having received the ultimate medicine that dissolved away the past identification with the space, then no fear of body disease or body harm was experienced. Since Realization, there have been no concerns about continuity at all since the lies told in the relative existence about body-mind-personality continuity were exposed for what they are: merely lies.
Now, since you seem to have spent more than enough time in the doingness of seeking, it might be that you’re ready to take these pointers into the quiet and contemplate their meaning. If separation, anger, arrogance, conflict, misery, greed, suffering, dis-ease, murder, disharmony, destruction, chaos, religious wars, civil wars, and political wars are merely the symptoms of the ultimate sickness, then what is the sickness behind all that? First, fnd the source of those symptoms of the ultimate sickness and then You answer the question "What is the ultimate medicine?" for Your Self. Please enter the silence of contemplation.
TOMORROW: The response to two e-mails about obsessing over Advaita and trying to overlay past religious practices or spiritual practices onto the Advaita philosophy.
F.: Diagnosis of an illness must precede the prescribing of the proper medicine for treating that sickness.
The Original Understanding is prior to all knowledge, all religions, all spiritual movements, all concepts, all dogma, all ideas, all emotions, all attitudes, all theories, all philosophies, all teachings and all teachers and all gurus. Before you are offered an opportunity to find, on Your own, the answer to your question, consider these points:
1. The ultimate medicine is the remedy for the pain and misery and suffering that marks the relative existence as a result of widespread ignorance.
2. The ultimate medicine is the antidote for all that has been learned.
3. The ultimate medicine is a stimulant which sustains awakeness.
4. The ultimate medicine is the purifier that removes the miasma that clouds out the chance for awareness to happen.
5. It is the medicine that makes the beingness tolerable in spite of the pandemic of global egotism that results in differentiation and destruction and misery and suffering.
So first, understand this about the beingness just mentioned: it is that very beingness which allows misery to happen and that is, in fact, the very source of all that persons consider to be their “problems” and their “troubles.” If the beingness ends, so does the misery; however, another option is available. You can be done with the beingness even as the consciousness continues with its manifestation. Understand that THAT which I AM and which YOU ARE is beyond both the beingness and the non-beingness. The wellness that comes via the ultimate medicine is not reserved for the non-being state only. It is available NOW, if You abide NOW as THAT Which You Are (which is beyond both beingness and non-beingness).
Those who claim that they are always “happy” will dispute that pointer about the beingness, but to claim happiness is to imply that unhappiness exists, so their claim is coming from a state of duality. What of the bliss-seekers? Seek away, but the Fully Realized desire nothing, including bliss. Bliss might happen, but sadness during the beingness can just as easily be witnessed as it rises and falls, even among the Realized.
Those involved with this “play” want many things, but the Realized fully understand (a) all that they are NOT in this relative realm and also fully understand (b) all that they are NOT in the non-relative realm. To know What You Are follows knowing all that You are not; it cannot precede that understanding. These words today are not for the wet charcoal, nor are they for those who are attached to their watered-down versions of spirituality. These words are for those who have searched everywhere else, as you have Russ, and are totally ready to give it all up in order to be truly free and truly independent NOW as a result of being Fully Realized.
If you want the full dose of the ultimate medicine, then contemplate this until You Realize fully: this consciousness, this Amness, is being “experienced” by Me—by the Absolute. Why “experienced” in quote marks? Because ultimately I AM beyond any state that is experiential. Why? Because there is no “one” to experience anything. Experiences are for persons…personas. I am not any person or any persona. Ultimately, I am not this “Is-ness,” nor am I any of the roles that are played during the “Is-ness.” I am not this beingness. I am not even the non-beingness, because when this consciousness is no longer manifested, the True Selfness that currently witnesses accurately will be no more. No selfness or Selfness or Beingness or non-beingness or Supreme Beingness will be. Also, after Realizing that all of “this relative stuff” is merely a play, no action is called for, either. WHO would do anything since there is no longer any belief in the existence of a “do-er?”
Then, what happens is that the play is allowed to proceed spontaneously until the play no longer proceeds. Because the ultimate medicine had been received prior to a doctor using the words “colon cancer” to describe a condition existing within this space, his words had no impact and triggered no reaction other than, “So, what’s next?” The treatment that followed simply happened with the understanding that, if healing happens, so be it. If it does not, so be it. Having received the ultimate medicine that dissolved away the past identification with the space, then no fear of body disease or body harm was experienced. Since Realization, there have been no concerns about continuity at all since the lies told in the relative existence about body-mind-personality continuity were exposed for what they are: merely lies.
Now, since you seem to have spent more than enough time in the doingness of seeking, it might be that you’re ready to take these pointers into the quiet and contemplate their meaning. If separation, anger, arrogance, conflict, misery, greed, suffering, dis-ease, murder, disharmony, destruction, chaos, religious wars, civil wars, and political wars are merely the symptoms of the ultimate sickness, then what is the sickness behind all that? First, fnd the source of those symptoms of the ultimate sickness and then You answer the question "What is the ultimate medicine?" for Your Self. Please enter the silence of contemplation.
TOMORROW: The response to two e-mails about obsessing over Advaita and trying to overlay past religious practices or spiritual practices onto the Advaita philosophy.
