Monday, January 15, 2007

BECOMING FREE OF PERSONALITY HAPPENS BY DEGREE UNTIL FULL AWARENESS EXPLODES INTO CONSCIOUSNESS

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FROM A SITE VISITOR: I’m new to Advaita but have come across a lot about the body-mind-personality you mentioned Saturday. Will you explain in more detail about why I shouldn’t want to have a personality? I mean, the way we’re raised in my country, everything is about making friends with people who have a good personality. Thank you.

[For a full explanation, tour the archives by searching the terms “good” and “personality” in order to find why both are relative existence fiction. For now, some considerations will be offered.]

F.: In an encapsulation, personality is about that which is acquired and that which is false whereas advaita is about that which cannot be acquired but which simply IS, that which has always been, and that which is not false.

The enneagram defines the nine specific and most basic personality types—the nine personas that have been assumed by persons for hundreds (if not thousands) of years and that each person most identifies with as her/his one dominant type. Thousands of other personalities are subsequently assumed as a result of enculturation, programming, and conditioning, but all persons first and foremost exhibit one specific type. As role assumption spreads, more and more personalities are assumed. The result is the widespread insanity among the masses who suffer as a result of their multiple personality disorders.

To know one’s primary personality type is to stop assuming all other personality types. To stop assuming other personality types in to limit the number of personas that are being assumed and played.

To limit the number of personas that are being assumed and played is to limit identification with false selves. To limit identification with false selves is to end that sense of feeling split or torn that comes with assuming multiple personalities.

To end the sense of feeling split into many pieces or feeling torn apart will provide the opportunity to sense the Oneness, the unicity, and the Realness that is beyond all personality. To stop identifying with false selves—to stop believing that one is any persona—is to be afforded the opportunity to transcend body-mind-personality identification. That transcendence provides the opportunity to continue the seven-step “journey” to Realizing the True Self and that which is beyond.

To first be in touch with the True Self is the only way to eventually be in touch with Reality. To be in touch with Reality is to be sane. To be sane is to be free of fears and desires. To be free of fears and desires is to be at peace in the awareness that What each Truly Is is THAT Which Is beyond beingness and non-beingness as well. Please enter the silence of contemplation. [PLEASE NOTE: Will be out of town for several days to share the Advaita teachings with a few groups that have requested that. Please visit the archives.]

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