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Announcing the closing of the Non-Duality Bookstore as the focus in the future will be on providing books electronically. See at the end of this post an offer to receive at lower-than-eBook prices the last of the paper books remaining in stock at 50% off with free shipping in the U.S. and half-price shipping internationally.
F.: Yesterday’s post ended with the pointer that, if you complete the “journey” to the Absolute and see ALL that can only be seen from that platform, then the relative manifestation will obviously continue, but it will not be the same as before. For the remainder of the manifestation, it was pointed out…
You will know that there was no “floyd” that was created and no “you” that was created. You will know that You were not born and that you cannot die. And You will also understand that freedom involves freedom from the seeking of (and freedom from dependence on) either “power” or “A Power.”
Via that process, you will come to know what “The Circle” involves; You will understand exactly what cycles and what does not; you will understand how it is that what comes together must come apart;
You will realize that what comes apart will never come together as such again. Moreover, You will be freed of fears and desires as a result of The Understanding, and you will see that—once fears and desires end—then the exhausting search for power and Power in the relative can also finally end.
Exhausting? Yes. Why? What are “80-hour work weeks” about if not desires and fears that drive accumulation of economic wealth/power? What are arms races about if not desires and fears that drive the accumulation of military power?
What are daily meetings or weekly services and daily worship and spiritual exercises and donating money and making sacrifices about if not desires and fears that drive activities intended to give persons access to some supernatural Power(s)? All most unnatural, yes? All the opposite of what "nisarga living" is really like.
The exhausting, daily processes engaged in by persons far exceed what would be necessary to fulfill modestly any food, clothing and shelter requirements. To the contrary, excessive accumulations of wealth/power are desired to impress or manipulate or control;
to gain favor or influence; to earn conceptual “praise” or “respect” or “salvation”; to assure body continuity; to provide access to other-worldly Power that can be tapped into to intervene “positively” in worldly happenings when asked to do so; to guarantee being “blessed”;
to be able to call for rain for crops when desired and to get that rain; to be delivered from the destruction of storms and hurricanes; to have healing and health granted on request; to have our good troops kill their bad troops; and to get the millions of other things that humans beg for during a “lifetime” as a result of imaginary fears and selfish desires.
And that is why persons are driven not only to believe in the concept of personal power but to also believe in the concept of “A Personal Power” (or “Powers”). They cling to that belief because of another lie that they hold to be true, namely, that they “need” power/Power in order to transition the relative.
They believe that they are empowered by relative accumulations and that they can be empowered by “supernatural” things. What they do not understand—as is the case with their belief in any concept, including concepts about power and Power—is that their freedom (and therefore happiness) is sacrificed. What an irony, that it is their quest for “power” and “Power” that robs them of freedom and, in that sense, disempowers them.
“Surely not!” the billions attached to their dogma and their god or gods would exclaim. Not having reached that Absolute platform from which they can see That Which Is Real and that which is not, they remain trapped in delusion by fear-generating concepts and desire-generating ideas and (therefore) peace-robbing beliefs about what they have been told is and is not.
They settle for believing what they are told by outside sources rather than finding the Truth that can only be known by tapping into an inner resource.
Thus, they also are trapped in the lie that there is relative power and that there is supernatural power and that they can have both. Yet look at the facts: the man who is rich as a result of working six days a week for 70 and 80 hours per week certainly seems to have power—at least the relative type that supposedly shows up as economic power.
Yet he hasn’t the power to relax; to leave for a vacation when he might want to; to “stop and smell the roses”; or to be free of the huge costs of maintaining all of his accumulations (which often include the costs associated with the “high-maintenance people” who are willing to sell themselves and that he is willing to buy and continue to pay for as well). His supposed power is appearance only.
The men living underneath certain bridges that are located only a few miles from this house have more freedom than he does. It is when de-accumulation is never so much as even considered as an option, and when consumption is believed to be the only proper course of action, that the eventual outcome will be that it is those consuming persons who eventually become consumed in the end:
consumed by their fears; consumed by their desires; consumed by their beliefs and concepts; consumed by their exhaustive and cluttered “lifestyle”; consumed by greed and avarice; consumed by competition and a sense of separation; consumed by a debilitating quest for power;
and consumed by all required to try to gain access to Power or Powers that can supposedly eliminate their relative fears and fulfill their desires in terms of “this life” and in terms of what they think will be an “afterlife” as well.
How truly exhausting and consuming the relative existence is when persons do not complete the "journey"; when they do not complete "The Circle"; when they do not overlay That on "this"; when abidance as the original state does not happen;
and when the manifestation (as a result) does not flow along as a peaceful series of spontaneous, natural happenings that are merely witnessed objectively and realistically without attachment or fear or desire. Please enter the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)
You will realize that what comes apart will never come together as such again. Moreover, You will be freed of fears and desires as a result of The Understanding, and you will see that—once fears and desires end—then the exhausting search for power and Power in the relative can also finally end.
Exhausting? Yes. Why? What are “80-hour work weeks” about if not desires and fears that drive accumulation of economic wealth/power? What are arms races about if not desires and fears that drive the accumulation of military power?
What are daily meetings or weekly services and daily worship and spiritual exercises and donating money and making sacrifices about if not desires and fears that drive activities intended to give persons access to some supernatural Power(s)? All most unnatural, yes? All the opposite of what "nisarga living" is really like.
The exhausting, daily processes engaged in by persons far exceed what would be necessary to fulfill modestly any food, clothing and shelter requirements. To the contrary, excessive accumulations of wealth/power are desired to impress or manipulate or control;
to gain favor or influence; to earn conceptual “praise” or “respect” or “salvation”; to assure body continuity; to provide access to other-worldly Power that can be tapped into to intervene “positively” in worldly happenings when asked to do so; to guarantee being “blessed”;
to be able to call for rain for crops when desired and to get that rain; to be delivered from the destruction of storms and hurricanes; to have healing and health granted on request; to have our good troops kill their bad troops; and to get the millions of other things that humans beg for during a “lifetime” as a result of imaginary fears and selfish desires.
And that is why persons are driven not only to believe in the concept of personal power but to also believe in the concept of “A Personal Power” (or “Powers”). They cling to that belief because of another lie that they hold to be true, namely, that they “need” power/Power in order to transition the relative.
They believe that they are empowered by relative accumulations and that they can be empowered by “supernatural” things. What they do not understand—as is the case with their belief in any concept, including concepts about power and Power—is that their freedom (and therefore happiness) is sacrificed. What an irony, that it is their quest for “power” and “Power” that robs them of freedom and, in that sense, disempowers them.
“Surely not!” the billions attached to their dogma and their god or gods would exclaim. Not having reached that Absolute platform from which they can see That Which Is Real and that which is not, they remain trapped in delusion by fear-generating concepts and desire-generating ideas and (therefore) peace-robbing beliefs about what they have been told is and is not.
They settle for believing what they are told by outside sources rather than finding the Truth that can only be known by tapping into an inner resource.
Thus, they also are trapped in the lie that there is relative power and that there is supernatural power and that they can have both. Yet look at the facts: the man who is rich as a result of working six days a week for 70 and 80 hours per week certainly seems to have power—at least the relative type that supposedly shows up as economic power.
Yet he hasn’t the power to relax; to leave for a vacation when he might want to; to “stop and smell the roses”; or to be free of the huge costs of maintaining all of his accumulations (which often include the costs associated with the “high-maintenance people” who are willing to sell themselves and that he is willing to buy and continue to pay for as well). His supposed power is appearance only.
The men living underneath certain bridges that are located only a few miles from this house have more freedom than he does. It is when de-accumulation is never so much as even considered as an option, and when consumption is believed to be the only proper course of action, that the eventual outcome will be that it is those consuming persons who eventually become consumed in the end:
consumed by their fears; consumed by their desires; consumed by their beliefs and concepts; consumed by their exhaustive and cluttered “lifestyle”; consumed by greed and avarice; consumed by competition and a sense of separation; consumed by a debilitating quest for power;
and consumed by all required to try to gain access to Power or Powers that can supposedly eliminate their relative fears and fulfill their desires in terms of “this life” and in terms of what they think will be an “afterlife” as well.
How truly exhausting and consuming the relative existence is when persons do not complete the "journey"; when they do not complete "The Circle"; when they do not overlay That on "this"; when abidance as the original state does not happen;
and when the manifestation (as a result) does not flow along as a peaceful series of spontaneous, natural happenings that are merely witnessed objectively and realistically without attachment or fear or desire. Please enter the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)
THE FOLLOWING NON-DUALITY BOOKS ARE IN THE STORE IN LIMITED SUPPLY AND WILL BE OFFERED AT 50% OFF WHEN BOUGHT AS A PACKAGE:
While quantities last, the following package deal is being offered: Receive all nine (9) of the books listed below for $88 total with free shipping in the U.S. and ½ price shipping internationally.
[Sorry, but the offer does not apply to eBooks; this limited-time offer, however, is even less expensive than eBooks. This applies to the last of the paper books which are now in stock but which will never be available again. As various titles sell out, as happened with one title yesterday, the remaining paper versions will be offered at a pro-rated price of 50% off also.]
NON-DUALITY TITLES:
From the Absolute to the Nothingness
Consciousness/Awareness
From the I to the Absolute (A Seven-Step Journey to Reality)
It's All Bullshit (and Why Knowing it Sets You Free)
Self-Transformation Meditation Guide I
Self-Transformation Meditation Guide II
There's No Such Thing as ''Peace of Mind''
Spiritual Sobriety (Recovering What Religions Lost)
The Essence of the Teachings
or
PICK AND CHOOSE:
Order any six from the list above and you still receive 50% off + free shipping. (Smaller orders received 50% off but shipping fees apply)
To order, visit
Contact
to make arrangements for payment and delivery.
VISA or MC accepted.
While quantities last, the following package deal is being offered: Receive all nine (9) of the books listed below for $88 total with free shipping in the U.S. and ½ price shipping internationally.
[Sorry, but the offer does not apply to eBooks; this limited-time offer, however, is even less expensive than eBooks. This applies to the last of the paper books which are now in stock but which will never be available again. As various titles sell out, as happened with one title yesterday, the remaining paper versions will be offered at a pro-rated price of 50% off also.]
NON-DUALITY TITLES:
From the Absolute to the Nothingness
Consciousness/Awareness
From the I to the Absolute (A Seven-Step Journey to Reality)
It's All Bullshit (and Why Knowing it Sets You Free)
Self-Transformation Meditation Guide I
Self-Transformation Meditation Guide II
There's No Such Thing as ''Peace of Mind''
Spiritual Sobriety (Recovering What Religions Lost)
The Essence of the Teachings
or
PICK AND CHOOSE:
Order any six from the list above and you still receive 50% off + free shipping. (Smaller orders received 50% off but shipping fees apply)
To order, visit
Contact
to make arrangements for payment and delivery.
VISA or MC accepted.
