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.: To continue, let it be noted first that most persons would agree that your “motives” are “good.” Second, let it be noted that motives exist only in the realm of ego-states. (You’ll disagree, but how much ego in involved with your motive to want to change the entire world?) Third, there is no such thing as “good” or “bad.” Yet your words reveal some sense of being in touch with the unicity, the relative existence inspiration of that notwithstanding.
Do the Realized—being the Oneness and understanding that Oneness—feel the pain and suffering being experienced by those persons to whom you allude? Of course. But the Realized also know that awareness and freedom (via Realization) only come to one person at a time, not to one planet at a time. Most of the six billion persons currently walking across the surface of this planet have been so indoctrinated with the deceits of their dogma that they believe the nonsense that they have been told and they believe they have all the answers; thus, they will never even begin to seek the real truth, so they will certainly never find it. So it is.
Next, see why it can be said accurately that you are the type who would want to change a mirage. WHO thinks this world is what it appears to be to him? WHO thinks he knows how the world should be? WHO thinks that he is in "a world" and that "the world" is exactly as he perceives it? Some who might believe that the world is a lovely place would resist all of your efforts to change it. Next, WHO would like to “make some sense” out of a mirage? If you study the scientific facts, a mirage can “make sense” to you, but it is still nothing more than an image being reflected onto your “mind.” So it is with “the world” that you think you see. You are allowing a mirage to regulate your emotional state, and that scenario is leaving you emotionally intoxicated. Idealistically, you’d like to be able to snap your fingers and rid the world of “evil”; however, if you were able to have that power, then others could have that power, and those who see the U.S. as “evil” would snap their fingers and you and your nation would be annihilated. Fortunate it is for you and the U.S. that your dream is just a dream and that your desire for supernatural power will never be fulfilled any more than will the desires of all persons, all of whom are like you in their addiction to power and control.
As for as the shoppers you mention, persons in many cultures are programmed to accumulate…insanely. The "Five Stages" in being free of the effects of that programming are discussed in detail in THE ESSENCE OF THE TEACHINGS [ http://www.floydhenderson.com/ ], but understand this: when some find that accumulations do not satisfy, they begin to search for Self. If they do not begin the search, they continue with their efforts to accumulate. If they find the Self, they de-accumulate and then live an AS IF existence for the remainder of the manifestation. Those shoppers you see who are trampling each other and beating each other and shooting each other are trapped in their programming which has left them in a state of lunacy. They, and those around them, pay the relative existence price of all who are trapped in their programming, namely, misery and suffering throughout their relative existence. Please enter the silence of contemplation. [To be continued]
F.: To continue, let it be noted first that most persons would agree that your “motives” are “good.” Second, let it be noted that motives exist only in the realm of ego-states. (You’ll disagree, but how much ego in involved with your motive to want to change the entire world?) Third, there is no such thing as “good” or “bad.” Yet your words reveal some sense of being in touch with the unicity, the relative existence inspiration of that notwithstanding.
Do the Realized—being the Oneness and understanding that Oneness—feel the pain and suffering being experienced by those persons to whom you allude? Of course. But the Realized also know that awareness and freedom (via Realization) only come to one person at a time, not to one planet at a time. Most of the six billion persons currently walking across the surface of this planet have been so indoctrinated with the deceits of their dogma that they believe the nonsense that they have been told and they believe they have all the answers; thus, they will never even begin to seek the real truth, so they will certainly never find it. So it is.
Next, see why it can be said accurately that you are the type who would want to change a mirage. WHO thinks this world is what it appears to be to him? WHO thinks he knows how the world should be? WHO thinks that he is in "a world" and that "the world" is exactly as he perceives it? Some who might believe that the world is a lovely place would resist all of your efforts to change it. Next, WHO would like to “make some sense” out of a mirage? If you study the scientific facts, a mirage can “make sense” to you, but it is still nothing more than an image being reflected onto your “mind.” So it is with “the world” that you think you see. You are allowing a mirage to regulate your emotional state, and that scenario is leaving you emotionally intoxicated. Idealistically, you’d like to be able to snap your fingers and rid the world of “evil”; however, if you were able to have that power, then others could have that power, and those who see the U.S. as “evil” would snap their fingers and you and your nation would be annihilated. Fortunate it is for you and the U.S. that your dream is just a dream and that your desire for supernatural power will never be fulfilled any more than will the desires of all persons, all of whom are like you in their addiction to power and control.
As for as the shoppers you mention, persons in many cultures are programmed to accumulate…insanely. The "Five Stages" in being free of the effects of that programming are discussed in detail in THE ESSENCE OF THE TEACHINGS [ http://www.floydhenderson.com/ ], but understand this: when some find that accumulations do not satisfy, they begin to search for Self. If they do not begin the search, they continue with their efforts to accumulate. If they find the Self, they de-accumulate and then live an AS IF existence for the remainder of the manifestation. Those shoppers you see who are trampling each other and beating each other and shooting each other are trapped in their programming which has left them in a state of lunacy. They, and those around them, pay the relative existence price of all who are trapped in their programming, namely, misery and suffering throughout their relative existence. Please enter the silence of contemplation. [To be continued]
