Saturday, August 14, 2010

PER NON-DUALITY: EITHER AN INNER RESOURCE OR AN OUTER RESOURCE, BUT NOT BOTH, Part Two

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Here, there is nothing that is believed, so there is no one here who wants you to believe anything, either. Here, the invitation is to be free of all that you have been programmed, conditioned, acculturated, and domesticated to believe so that you can be free, period.

F.: Yesterday's post ended with this:

It is understood (among the Realized) what the inner resource is, it is understood that the inner resource is the only resource that there is, and it is understood that all talk about an external power or powers is rooted in persons' fictional, duality-based "knowledge" (a.k.a., learned ignorance").

Advaita, meaning "not two," makes clear that there cannot be an inner resource and also an outer resource as conceived of by the masses. The masses take their inner resource to be the "mind," which is a "resource" only to the extent of being a "resource library."

The problem with that library is two-fold: (1) it only has one section - a FICTION section, and (2) the entire collection contains only false ideas and concepts and beliefs, placed in the library via warped programming and conditioning and acculturation and domestication.

Next, the masses imagine an outer resource that is either a male god; or male and female gods; or some Creator; or some Supreme Being; or some Universal Mind; or some Special Spirit; or some Prime Mover or Causer;

or some Creative Intelligence (a.k.a., "The Universe") or one of dozens of other conceptualized and often personalized versions of some Power or some Force that persons have dreamed up over the last 25,000 years or, especially, during the last 5000 years.

Again, among the few that Realize, it is understood what the inner resource is and what it is not; it is understood that the inner resource is the only resource that there is; and it is understood that all talk about an external power or powers is rooted in persons' fictional, duality-based "knowledge" (a.k.a., learned ignorance"). So what is that "inner resource"?

Consider the means by which a single acorn can, over a period of decades, build a forest of oaks. Either the process is governed by the acorn's inner resource or it is governed by an intervening, all-controlling outer resource.

Now the programmed and conditioned who believe in an outer resource who controls, from another world, everything that happens on this planet will buy into the sentiment expressed in Joyce Kilmer's "Trees," part of which claims: "I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree / Poems are made by fools like me, but only God can make a tree."

Yes, a belief held "by fools" who have been fooled by the foolish teachings that prevail throughout their cultures, but among those not fooled - not made ignorant as a result of the learned knowledge that drives the masses to move through the relative existence under the auspices of that debilitating handicap called "the mind" - then for those few the way that the acorn (rather than a god) makes an oak forest is understood.

This pointer was offered in August of 2009:

An acorn needs no instructions regarding how to “make a forest.” Humans for millions of years received no instructions about how to masturbate or copulate or “make a race” or “survive and perpetuate a species.” Neither birds nor fish nor animals are tutored in the ways of “reproduction.” It is all so simple…so natural…so spontaneous…so automatic—until humans insert their concepts and beliefs and ideas and rules into the mix. Then, all which was originally so simple and natural and spontaneous and automatic is lost and replaced with that which is complex, which is unnatural and supernatural and magical, and which is marred with requirements to study and plan and calculate and devise and “work at.”

The acorn functions under the auspices of the inner resource and is not controlled or guided through the germination-to-seedling-to-oak-tree process by any outer resource. The inner resource - the specialized form of energy called "consciousness" - guides the entire process.

It is the inner knowing (the inner consciousness manifested within any body-or-plant-or-space-cum-consciousness) which is the resource that makes possible the all-natural, not-at-all-supernatural, totally spontaneous processes that result in forests and races of people and flocks of birds and swarms of bees and schools of fish and herds of bovines and fields of flowers.

TOMORROW: How millions in some groups and billions in other groups ignore the message in their own literature and mistake the inner resource for an outer resource.

Please enter the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)

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