F.: Persons who begin a “path” to “improvement” or to “spiritual development” or to “actualization, realization, or enlightenment” often want a guru or teacher to prescribe a set of practices that they can do in order to improve or develop or actualize or realize or become enlightened. All of those desires for practices reveal (a) body identification and (b) a belief that there is a “do-er” that can do those practices. All of those desires also reveal (c) the belief that there is “someone” who can improve or develop or actualize or realize or become enlightened. It should be seen, therefore, that all practices are ultimately useless since no "do-er" or "one" exists. Practices are ultimately nothing more than another exercise in futility of the type that personas love.
The programming among “the religious” or “the spiritual” is to “attend,” “serve,” “give,” “help,” and “be helped.” All of that results in distractions that prevent persons from seeing that they are already “where” they are trying to get to and that they are already “that which they seek.”
If actualization or Realization or enlightenment happens, it is in spite of, rather than because of, all of the activities and the practices and the use of accoutrements. In FROM THE I TO THE ABSOLUTE, the step-by-step “path” to Realization is provided not by prescribing practices that are to be done along the way. (Since there is no do-er, to suggest that there are things that must be done would have to be a lie.)
Instead, the process that unfolds is a step-by-step discussion of the seven degrees of separation from Reality that occur from manifestation to body identification. That shift is a result of the corrupting of the consciousness that happens in stages. There is nothing that can be "done" to reverse the corruption except to see how persons “end up in” the body-mind-personality delusion. To see how that happens incrementally is to see how to reverse the process and purify the consciousness.
Compare the re-purification process to the approach that could be used in a laboratory to re-purify a contaminated liquid. Imagine that a pure liquid existed and then seven contaminates were added: salt was added, dirt was added, oil was added, poison was added, soap was added, lint was added, and rocks were added. No one process could return that liquid to its originally pure state. The lint and oil might be siphoned from the surface, but the other contaminates would remain. The liquid might be filtered into another container in order to leave the rocks behind, but the soapy, salty taste would remain, along with the poison. Seven purifying steps must be taken to eliminate the effects of each of the seven contaminating steps. No repetitive practices are required. All that is required is to address each step that contaminated the liquid with a step that can eliminate each type of contamination. To re-purify the liquid requires action. Realization happens in an even simpler fashion with no action required other than to see the steps that contaminated the consciousness and then discard each of the contaminating elements.
In the Realization process, no doingness is required. All that is required is to see each of the seven steps that resulted in the bastardization of the consciousness and then reverse the process. That happens simply by understanding the seven steps that resulted in the contamination of the consciousness and by understanding the seven steps that separate persons from awareness...an awareness that can only be attained via elimination of all of the contaminates that block the consciousness from knowing the Original Understanding, the True Self, and the Absolute. Please enter the silence of contemplation.
The programming among “the religious” or “the spiritual” is to “attend,” “serve,” “give,” “help,” and “be helped.” All of that results in distractions that prevent persons from seeing that they are already “where” they are trying to get to and that they are already “that which they seek.”
If actualization or Realization or enlightenment happens, it is in spite of, rather than because of, all of the activities and the practices and the use of accoutrements. In FROM THE I TO THE ABSOLUTE, the step-by-step “path” to Realization is provided not by prescribing practices that are to be done along the way. (Since there is no do-er, to suggest that there are things that must be done would have to be a lie.)
Instead, the process that unfolds is a step-by-step discussion of the seven degrees of separation from Reality that occur from manifestation to body identification. That shift is a result of the corrupting of the consciousness that happens in stages. There is nothing that can be "done" to reverse the corruption except to see how persons “end up in” the body-mind-personality delusion. To see how that happens incrementally is to see how to reverse the process and purify the consciousness.
Compare the re-purification process to the approach that could be used in a laboratory to re-purify a contaminated liquid. Imagine that a pure liquid existed and then seven contaminates were added: salt was added, dirt was added, oil was added, poison was added, soap was added, lint was added, and rocks were added. No one process could return that liquid to its originally pure state. The lint and oil might be siphoned from the surface, but the other contaminates would remain. The liquid might be filtered into another container in order to leave the rocks behind, but the soapy, salty taste would remain, along with the poison. Seven purifying steps must be taken to eliminate the effects of each of the seven contaminating steps. No repetitive practices are required. All that is required is to address each step that contaminated the liquid with a step that can eliminate each type of contamination. To re-purify the liquid requires action. Realization happens in an even simpler fashion with no action required other than to see the steps that contaminated the consciousness and then discard each of the contaminating elements.
In the Realization process, no doingness is required. All that is required is to see each of the seven steps that resulted in the bastardization of the consciousness and then reverse the process. That happens simply by understanding the seven steps that resulted in the contamination of the consciousness and by understanding the seven steps that separate persons from awareness...an awareness that can only be attained via elimination of all of the contaminates that block the consciousness from knowing the Original Understanding, the True Self, and the Absolute. Please enter the silence of contemplation.
