From a site visitor: What can Realization do to help my unrest? I become furious (or depressed) when I see such diversity in the lifestyles of people across the globe. I want fairness and equanimity, but I see none. I look at this world and I see people in war torn nations fighting for their lives and I see other people putting all their energy into killing the innocent. I see people in prosperous nations like here in the U.S. who are fighting to get into stores to buy games and toys while other people are scrounging for a morsel to eat. I’d like to see some sense to this world, but I can’t. Can Advaita help me get free of this? Steven
F.: [Continued from yesterday] So, nature offers no equity. Fairness and equity are not natural, no matter how much your romantic and idealistic personality might want that to be the case. When deer overpopulate an area, they die a painful death by starvation. When rats overpopulate an areas, they become anxious and then hostile; finally, the stronger rats kill the weaker ones to reduce the overpopulation. Every hen yard on the planet has a pecking order. All creatures that live in community, from apes to elephants to lions to humans, function within the framework of what amounts to a hierarchical social structure.
F.: [Continued from yesterday] So, nature offers no equity. Fairness and equity are not natural, no matter how much your romantic and idealistic personality might want that to be the case. When deer overpopulate an area, they die a painful death by starvation. When rats overpopulate an areas, they become anxious and then hostile; finally, the stronger rats kill the weaker ones to reduce the overpopulation. Every hen yard on the planet has a pecking order. All creatures that live in community, from apes to elephants to lions to humans, function within the framework of what amounts to a hierarchical social structure.
Among persons trapped in personality, Type Eight Peacemakers will always be trampled upon and abused by Type Eight Asserters if their paths cross. Is the “fairness” you desire even remotely possible in any situation on this planet? And as you desire a perfect world, what would you have happen in regards to naturally-occurring events—where some people are ravaged by the effects of tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, tornadoes, fires, mudslides, and floods…but others are not? Has the planet experienced even one moment's peace on a "worldwide" basis since the first megalomaniac was given control of a national armed force?
Do you see how impossible your dream of planet-wide equality really is? You probably think that at least humans should be exempt from inequality. Nature does not work that way, whether persons like it or not, and objective witnessing can only lead to the conclusion that there is far more benevolence (and far less violence) among the animals than among persons. But for you to want the happenings on the planet to alter so that they conform to your desires is highly egotistical, so it becomes clear that you are operating from a state of being trapped in your assumed ego-states. Do you now see the problems that arise from your entrapment in dualistic thinking, believing as you do that you know what is “best vs. worst” or “helpful vs. harmful” for this “world” that you’ve dreamed up? As far as your classifying persons with that dualistic term of “prosperous” (vs. “deprived”), WHO do you think is “prospering” or being “deprived”? The fact is that the consciousness can own nothing, nor can it be deprived of anything (except of its purity when manifested).
Finally, it is understood that you will find no peace in these words, but peace might come (and fury might go) via consideration of these words. So how to “get free of this” when equality seems so desirable to you but is, in fact, nothing more than a concept? Understand that it is from the ignorance of this consciousness—this very beingness itself—that everything in this entire manifestation has evolved. You are trapped behind the imaginary bars of an imagined prison. You think you are grasping those bars and shouting to some jailer to let you go. What the Realized are witnessing is a person standing out in the open--totally free without knowing it--and raising his hands into the air and holding onto nothing and shouting at someone who is not there. You appear to be completely insane to the Pure Witness. To be restored to sanity, transcend the beingness and abide as THAT Which You Ultimately Are.
To have aspersions cast upon this beingness will strike some Advaitan protégés as obtuse when they have been told to focus on the I AM. That is an exercise for those in the early stages. Yes, the consciousness via this space called “floyd” took note of the Is-ness initially and focused on that alone. Yes, the consciousness via this space focused only upon the I AM. Yes, the consciousness via this space abided therein. But the ultimate freedom you seek can only be attained when you too transcend even this beingness (and even the beliefs you have about the non-beingness), and abide as the Absolute. That is Full Realization, and only that will provide the Full Freedom that you seek. Until that happens, you will continue to believe that you are in the world instead of realizing that the world you hate is in you. Please enter the silence of contemplation.
Do you see how impossible your dream of planet-wide equality really is? You probably think that at least humans should be exempt from inequality. Nature does not work that way, whether persons like it or not, and objective witnessing can only lead to the conclusion that there is far more benevolence (and far less violence) among the animals than among persons. But for you to want the happenings on the planet to alter so that they conform to your desires is highly egotistical, so it becomes clear that you are operating from a state of being trapped in your assumed ego-states. Do you now see the problems that arise from your entrapment in dualistic thinking, believing as you do that you know what is “best vs. worst” or “helpful vs. harmful” for this “world” that you’ve dreamed up? As far as your classifying persons with that dualistic term of “prosperous” (vs. “deprived”), WHO do you think is “prospering” or being “deprived”? The fact is that the consciousness can own nothing, nor can it be deprived of anything (except of its purity when manifested).
Finally, it is understood that you will find no peace in these words, but peace might come (and fury might go) via consideration of these words. So how to “get free of this” when equality seems so desirable to you but is, in fact, nothing more than a concept? Understand that it is from the ignorance of this consciousness—this very beingness itself—that everything in this entire manifestation has evolved. You are trapped behind the imaginary bars of an imagined prison. You think you are grasping those bars and shouting to some jailer to let you go. What the Realized are witnessing is a person standing out in the open--totally free without knowing it--and raising his hands into the air and holding onto nothing and shouting at someone who is not there. You appear to be completely insane to the Pure Witness. To be restored to sanity, transcend the beingness and abide as THAT Which You Ultimately Are.
To have aspersions cast upon this beingness will strike some Advaitan protégés as obtuse when they have been told to focus on the I AM. That is an exercise for those in the early stages. Yes, the consciousness via this space called “floyd” took note of the Is-ness initially and focused on that alone. Yes, the consciousness via this space focused only upon the I AM. Yes, the consciousness via this space abided therein. But the ultimate freedom you seek can only be attained when you too transcend even this beingness (and even the beliefs you have about the non-beingness), and abide as the Absolute. That is Full Realization, and only that will provide the Full Freedom that you seek. Until that happens, you will continue to believe that you are in the world instead of realizing that the world you hate is in you. Please enter the silence of contemplation.
