Monday, February 04, 2008

BEING RID OF self, Part Five, The Conclusion

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FROM A SITE VISITOR: I appear to be still “trapped” or entranced at the level of personality.

FROM ANOTHER SITE VISITOR YESTERDAY: So how to eliminate self once and for all?

F.: Finally, know that certain visualizations can become the portal for entering into the process of transcending body and mind and personality.

To begin to be free of body identification, visualize where You were in the days preceding conception. Understand that if you would truly identify your “ancestors,” you would trace your relative roots back to plants. Realized, You would know how to trace accurately the origin of the seed of he who is called “father” and the egg of she who is called “mother.”

Were the masses to understand what the Realized know (which the masses never will) then all magical, supernatural beliefs about “births” and “gifts from god” and bodies would dissolve. As for magical beliefs about “death” and what happens after “death,” see the body returning to the elements to be free of those delusions as well.

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  • Understand that Your true state is prior to “birth” and transcends “death.” See at the moment called “death” that dust-to-dust is true and that the breath merely rejoins the universal pool of oxygen.

    Secondly, see the falsity of the content of the mind and witness it all fade away as You Realize that You are not limited by mind any more than You are limited by body. Understand that in the continuum of thought-word-deed, the mind will generate words that can be based in nothing other than the impressions stored in the "mind" and re-processed as "thoughts."

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  • Post-Realization, however, something quite different happens: having transcended the relative, the relative thought-word-deed continuum is also transcended so that the words “I AM” do not constitute the expression of a thought; instead, the I AM-ness is understood to be the witness of thought.

    Then, eventually, You might also understand that even the Am-ness is illusion. You might understand once and for all how relative and limited both body and mind are while seeing instead that You are not relative and that You are infinite.

    Next, see that all of the personas assigned to you by parents and teachers and preachers and your culture are based only in hearsay. See all role-playing fade away, including any roles you played which your culture thought made you “bad” as well as the personas you might be playing now because they label those roles the “good” ones, including:

    the religious person, the spiritual person, the worshiping person, the saving person, the guru, the teacher, the saint, the agent of god, etc. The so-called “good” personas are as bogus as the so-called “bad” ones.

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  • That Which You Are is neither sinful nor virtuous. How could a form of energy be either? Should the energy that powers a stove and allows you to cook and eat and sustain the physical body be considered “good energy” while the energy that electrocutes one who touched a 220-volt by mistake should be considered “bad energy”?

    Energy is just energy and is not dualistically “good” or “bad.” That Is What You Are, and THAT is neither good nor bad. It just Is, for NOW. If you find after all this that you are still “trapped” or entranced at the level of personality or have not eliminated self once and for all, consider a retreat with a Realized Advaitin teacher where all of your specific questions can be addressed specifically. Please enter the silence of contemplation.

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