Friday, January 21, 2011

THE CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE BRAIN VS. "THE MIND," Part Seven

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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.

Furthermore, for those who have developed a preference for any non-nisargan yoga or who prefer Traditional Advaita Vedanta, Neo-Advaita, Neo-Vedanta, or Pseudo Advaita: here you will only find the use of the Direct Path Method of teaching along with the Nisarga (Natural) Yoga, all shared in simple, everyday English.

F.: The movement away from the "mind" and back toward Your original nature is a return to simplicity. Those who have tired of the complications of a "mind"-driven existence will be the most willing to seek such simplicity.

Here, that original nature and a far more simple existence have been pointed to for years, and that will continue, so for any seekers that have not fixated in that original nature, consider:

As it is now, accumulations are complicating your existence. You have accumulated dogmatic beliefs. You have accumulated countless desires and fears, and those have complicated your relative existence. You are playing many false roles - some of which you think are better than your former roles - so you are still accumulating a myriad of false identities.

Moreover, everything that you accumulate requires money and / or effort and / or time and / or game-playing to maintain, and that complicates your relative existence and displaces the simple life that could otherwise be.

For simplicity, go back. De-accumulate. You are carrying a heavy load, so of course your relative existence is complicated. You must lighten the load; You must reduce the burden and reduce the load by tossing out the baggage that you carry:

There is the baggage of dogmatic rituals and / or spiritual exercises that must be cast aside; there is the burden of desires and fears; there is the burden of attachment to the body; there is the burden of personality and role-playing and role-maintenance; there is the burden of excessive accumulations of various sorts and the burden of maintaining your accumulations (including in some cases the many persons you have accumulated).

There was the burden of living unnaturally, followed by a desire to stop living unnaturally, followed by trying to replace that style of living with the new burden of trying to live supernaturally / magically / religiously / spiritually. That approach has resulted in the accumulation of new “good” roles to replace the old “bad” roles. The playing of your new roles has resulted in nothing more than a different kind of complication. Only nisarga (natural) living is light and easy.

If you can give up all of your roles and go back as far as the pre-concepts, pre-beliefs child stage, you might then be able to move back even further to levels that are even simpler. For that level of simplicity, go back to the pre-child stage.

Then, go back to the pre-fertilization stage. Go back to that state prior to conception. Go back to the no-mind, no-body, no-personality quietness that was prior to consciousness, prior to manifestation and prior to concepts and beliefs that always inspire complicated debates about whose beliefs and concepts are “right” and whose beliefs and concepts are “wrong.”

How much breath is wasted among those attached to their ideas? How much simplicity is lost and how many complications arise as a result of belief in concepts and a desire to spread those beliefs ... to "loved ones," to the persons in your group or community, to the people in your nation, to the entire population of the planet?

How many individual conflicts are underway at this very moment that are rooted in conflicting beliefs? How many international conflicts are under way right now that are rooted in conflicting beliefs? Very complicated, is it not, the type of existence that follows the accumulation of, and attachment to, concepts and ideas and beliefs?

If you complete the seven-step "journey" as outlined in FROM THE I TO THE ABSOLUTE, then you will understand the quiet, simple, no-concept, no-belief, non-dual, pre-manifestation state as well as the functioning of pure consciousness while manifested.

You can come to understand that there is no body that “has” consciousness but that consciousness temporarily “has” a body. Then you can understand the unmanifesting of consciousness and the simple peace that happens as a result.

If you complete all of the steps to Realization, then You can function as the unmanifested … NOW, and only the unmanifested state can be simpler than that. After Realization, natural, AS IF living can happen ... now.

In fact, simple living can only happen if natural living is happening. Simple living is not modeled for you by religious people, spiritual giants, popes, imams, preachers, sponsors, rabbis, ayatollahs, would-be healers and would-be saviors, his holiness this or his holiness that. Simple living is modeled for you by the deer, the bear, the bird, the rabbit, the squirrel.

They live in a mindless fashion, so they face none of the complications that generate misery and suffering or, at the very least, dis-ease. If you would be as free as a bird, you—too—must be mindless.

Maharaj made clear that he was void of mind … beyond the mind (and the body and the personality as well). Yet he was totally aware, evidencing the fact that awareness has nothing to do with a “mind.” In fact, pure awareness can manifest only in the absence of a misperceiving "mind."

All but a fraction of a percent of what lives on the planet—that fraction called “humans”—live without the complications of a “mind.” With the exception of that same percentage, mindless living is the norm. Mind-full living is the perversion of the norm.

Again, the main problem really does center in "the mind," and problems result from the concepts and ideas and beliefs stored therein; therefore, the question becomes," How could the sickness of the 'mind' be healed by learning more concepts and ideas and beliefs?"

Contrary to the claims made by some, the "mind" is not healed when persons proclaim that they have become "spiritual." Spirituality adds more concepts and ideas and beliefs. If your boat is sinking, would it make any sense at all to take on even more water? If your boat is sinking because it is overloaded, would it make any sense to increase the load?

Less, not more, is required to address the problem where it is centered; un-learning, not more learning, is called for; de-programming, not "the program" or more programming, is the proper treatment for the sickness; less doingness, not additional doingness, is required, eventually resulting in no doingness and no doership as well.

Mindless living is natural and simple, but there is nothing more complicated in this relative existence than living unnaturally or trying to live supernaturally, both of which happen because of the complications that come along with a belief-filled “mind.”

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

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