AN E-MAIL RELATED TO THE DISCUSSION (From One Who Attended the December 11th-13th Advaita-Based Workshop for Employees of a Corporation): Morning Floyd, As I continue to practice awareness, I have noticed that when I am with people and just listening, everybody TALKS all the time and people have no interest in what is being said; they seem like animals waiting to pounce on the opportunity so they can talk or just flat talk over others. Now I see, that was ME!! C.Z.
F.: Yes, and it can be again. The ego will try to prevent any permanent shift. Your Personality Type Two will convince you that it needs to impress and to have a captive audience in order to get “love.”
Your Type Eight will drive you to try to dominate and control all, including conversations. The egotism that comes with your “Helper” and “Boss” personas will drive you to interrupt others who are speaking and will try to coax you out of the silence.
Be conscious of every time you are driven to speak today and—before doing so—ask, “Is there really any need for what I am about to say to actually be said? Is what I am about to say so significant that it is worth interrupting the silence and disturbing the peace?
“Might I remain in a position of neutrality instead of trying to reinforce an ego-state with words? Rather than my ego-states working to sustain their false selves, might the Pure Witness merely witness...and be quiet?” The ego is sustained by the noise; it will only fade away in the silence. Regards. f.
FROM A SITE VISITOR: Teachers sometimes speak of “impressions.” Are there not some impressions that are real or truthful in basis? Thank you for the site.
F.: Every thought, word and deed among persons embroiled in their ego-states is intended to impress. The result is a planet-wide repression of the only real impression there is. The Realized (those specks of re-purified consciousness) understand which impression is Real and separate from all the false impressions that persons take to be real. The result is that the Realized have no mind with which to think, so no thought about making impressions ever arises.
Freed of "the personal mind," the Realized do not suffer the slings and arrows of vacillation nor the instability of happy-unhappy cycles. Why? Because all happiness involves perceived "gain" and all unhappiness involves perceived "loss."
It is that "personal mind" of the non-Realized that is prone to such distortion that it will amplify current “losses” (since the ego inspires histrionics) while minimizing perceived “gains” (since there is never enough to satisfy the ego).
Additionally, the Realized are free of identification with the personas that generate words and talk and noise in order to impress, so silence is the nisarga (natural) state of the re-purified consciousness.
Furthermore, the Realized can do nothing that is intended to impress since no do-er exists, post Realization.
Please enter the silence of contemplation. (Tomorrow: The Conclusion)
WORKING ON BEING FREE OF RELIGIOUS PROGRAMMING AND DOGMA?
WORKING ON BEING FREE OF BODY AND MIND IDENTIFICATION?
WORKING ON BEING FREE OF MIND AND PERSONALITY IDENTIFICATION?
WORKING ON “PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER”?
and
INTERESTED IN A NOVEL THAT OFFERS MANY ADVAITA CONSIDERATIONS AND THAT STARS A REALIZED ADVENTURER WHO OFFERS AN INVITATION TO UNDERSTAND THE ONENESS?
INTERESTED IN A NOVEL WITH A CHARACTER WHO EVOLVES FROM A LIFE OF MISERY TO THE PEACE OF REALIZATION?
INTERESTED IN RESTORING FINANCIAL SANITY AND USING A ZEN APPROACH TO HANDLING FINANCES BY USE OF A METHOD THAT HAS A PROVEN RECORD?
and
NO SUCH THING AS “self-CONTROL”
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