Friday, February 15, 2008

ONE WHO HAS BEEN SEEKING “ALL HIS LIFE” IS NOW INVESTIGATING THE ADVAITA “PATH,” Part Five, The Conclusion

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FROM A SITE VISITOR: If I'm not my body and and am aware of my consciousness even if I lost most of it's parts and I'm becoming conscious that I wasn't created so don't die but i return to the source or the field of consciousness from whence i came after my manifestation-am I conscious of this return? Thanks in advance. Bill

[Continued from yesterday]

F.: These Advaita teachings can lead to an understanding that alleviates all fears, many of which are rooted in the frightful dogma of duality that is used to program and control children and adults. Freed from belief in dualistic dogma, persons are freed from their fears of hell instead of heaven, of fire instead of pleasure, of punishment instead of reward. (Obviously, deception-based desires will also fade away.)

Realized, nothing will be scary. What is to fear? Can you hurt the energy that is ready and waiting at the plug in your kitchen wall? No. I cannot be harmed. I AM energy, not a body, not a mind, and not any of the personas that were assigned or adopted prior to Realization.

B.: But at the same time I think you saying that once realized this happens anyway. That is that I begin living as if the who that was once bill is still around but is not attached to anything. Am I on the right track?

F.: Yes. Consciousness can manifest “within” a space, but it cannot “attach” to anything. I AM truly free.

B.: This is kind of blowing me away.

F.: That’s what the “journey” is about: blowing away the “me,” (in fact, all of the false “me’s”). Then You will know the Me—the consciousness temporarily manifested as the Am-ness. I Am for now the beingness itself, not a "human being" nor one destined to be a "supernatural being" some day. That is why you are told, when you speak of Me, speak of Me as the I AM, not as “floyd” or “a person” or “a body.”

B.: So my being scared about this (when my consciousness fades from a space called bill) is generated not from moving to know who I am but comes from that body mind personality trap or prison I have created that I hold on to with great desperation. That's got to produce fear. How can energy fear? I think I'm getting it.

F.: Agreed, except you did not "create" the trap or prison. The trap/prison came about because your programmers and conditioners believed unquestioningly the false ideas and concepts which they were taught and which they subsequently passed down to you.

That has been the "heritage" or "legacy" of persons for thousands of years. Relatively speaking, the masses bequeath something far more damning than their damaged genes, than their familial dysfunctionalism, than their egocentric traditions. They pass down from one generation to the next their distorted thinking, their delusional "minds," their nonsense, and their learned ignorance.

And of the most consequence, relatively speaking, they pass down their admonitions to question nothing and to move through the relative existence with blind faith in anything and everything that comes from the mouth of someone who has been appointed to, or who has assumed, a position of "authority."

Want to see what that kind of existence is truly like? Then cover your eyes with a blindfold before leaving your home this morning, and then try going through your daily routines with that handicap. Then you will understand what it is like for the more than six billion persons who stumble through the relative existence...not seeing clearly, blind to Reality, moving through their relative existence as if asleep and dreaming, and believing that whatever way they see is accurate perceiving. So it is, but so it need not be.

That experiment would also likely remind you of the way that you have moved through the relative existence so far, but these teaching offer to you the pointer that you need never return to that mode again. Peace and Light.

B.: Thanks again Bill.

F.: Please enter the silence of contemplation.

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