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FROM A SITE VISITOR: I have been reading your books and blog and I see that most of the people resist having there ideas and concepts being smashed to pieces. I feel no resistance, I want to cast aside all concepts, I'm ready! What do I do? I do have another question in the relative it seems that we still have points of view and strong opinions about things as it seems you do regarding such topics as 911, Katrina, religion etc... I get confused in knowing this stuff but feel guilty when I still getting pissed off say at work when someone is being lazy or proper sanitation isn’t being followed, I know in regards to the void it doesn’t matter but in the relative world I feel it’s important for a kitchen to be clean, How do you balance the two? Walter
W.: I get confused in knowing this stuff but feel guilty when I still get pissed off say at work when someone is being lazy…. I know in regards to the void it doesn’t matter but in the relative world I feel Its important…. How do you balance the two?
F.: There is no “two.” There is the consciousness which witnesses it all, but there is also an imagined “Walter the Boss” (the “I” you refer to) who further imagines that his assumed persona or personas are being hurt or interfered with or threatened.
There is the consciousness by which work can happen or not and by which non-workers are fired, but it’s all relative. Wherefore attachment to the relative? As for “important,” hardly. How could much ado about nothing really be “something”?
Were it the consciousness processing the remainder of the pointers offered in this post, no offense could be experienced because there would be no “one” to be offended.
However, the false identity that speaks of the concept of “importance” will likely be offended by some considerations. How is that known? If the corrupted or blocked consciousness called “Walter” assigns importance to the things mentioned above, it will certainly assign important to itself.
Your history leads to this question: is it possible that this “Walter” is still trapped in the helper-boss personality syndrome? On the one hand, he wants to “help” in order to get the love he felt he deserved but did not receive.
Yet “The Helper,” when stressed or pious or caught up in spiritual giantism, will disintegrate into “The Boss or Controller” role that is capable of being “pissed” and angry and controlling:
“You won’t give what I deserve? I tried to be nice, but now I must assume another role, take another tack, and demand what I deserve.” Chaotically jerked from one mood to another as one ego-state after another—all with their own hidden agendas—are assumed and determine what “Walter” thinks and says and does.
“Walter the Helper” can be kind if he thinks that will get what his ego-state thinks it needs; however, he can assume “The Boss/Controller” role and be mean if all the help he gives (help offered but with an agenda) does not result in his getting everything that he thinks he needs or desires.
All the while, egotism will support those two ego-states, and The Helper will be forever irritated because he never gets as much as he gives and because he sets himself up to be taken advantage of because his neediness attracts those who use the needy.
[After several e-mails arrived following only one post in the series]:
F.: Please stop submitting more comments and questions until you have considered what is being offered in regards to your first e-mails. As shared with you long ago, the process is to take considerations into the quiet (that speck called “my Cherokee grandmother” suggested “three moons” of consideration before response), rather than react to them with questions piled on top of questions.
[Note: The Type Two personality cannot be quiet. It must talk, or write, to get respect and love. The motivating belief is, “If I stay silent in the presence of others, how can I possibly attract love and respect? I must talk.” Of course, the Type Eight Boss will soon arrive to argue and debate and control and exert and occasionally even rage.]
In satsanga, prompt exchanges can work. Via the website, it cannot. Each seeker must pause, go into the silence, stop talking and stop typing, and see what comes from pointers offered rather than firing off more questions.
Give the pointers a period to burrow beyond the layers of distortions and to try to penetrate into the levels of pure consciousness that can understand the points. For a few, that happens. For most, it never will.
For most, the “mind” will generate words and thoughts that must be spoken or written and shared, quickly. The chatter of the “mind” among the non-Realized is incessant…among the Realized, nonexistent. Thus, the invitation is offered again: Please enter the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)
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