A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: From a site visitor: “Now I’m confused. First you say on the path we have to go back to the Child State to be free; now, you say we must not think and talk and behave like a child. Not trying to argue for the sake of argument---really trying to understand what seems to be a contradiction to me.”
Greetings: There is no contradiction but there is a simple misunderstanding of terms, so to clarify recent pointers using the word “child,” you must understand the difference in the words “childish” and “childlike”:
synonyms for “childish” include “foolish, naïve, frivolous, selfish, self-centered, self-absorbed, silly, immature, impractical, inconsiderate, spoiled, senseless, volatile, calculating, underdeveloped, captivated by self, and motivated by selfishness”;
synonyms for “childlike” include “innocent, unadulterated, complete, natural, unaffected, spontaneous, unblemished, untarnished, pure, uncomplicated, genuine, unaffected, and free.”
The non-dual understanding involves freeing the captives who are being held hostage by the nonsense that was put into the mind. Each idea, concept, impression, perspective, notion, thought, opinion, theory, inkling, and piece of learned ignorance is one of the bars that form the prison that holds you captive, specifically, the prison of the mind. (And in the end, all of those things which form the bars of your prison can be reduced to one word: “beliefs.”)
“Being “childlike” is natural; continuing to be “childish” is unnatural, rooted in unnatural programming, unnatural conditioning, etc.
Here, the offer is to be un-taught, to un-learn, in order to break and discard each of the bars of your prison. The non-dual, nisargan teachings are about un-learning everything that was learned which, in turn, traps persons in a state of being childish.
Such un-learning can allow seekers to follow the “path” back to the “childlike” state, the state that existed before unnatural programming, unnatural conditioning, etc. eventually drove persons to the childish state marked by foolishness, naivete, frivolousness, selfishness, self-centeredness, self-absorption, silliness, immaturity, impracticality, inconsideration, spoil-ness, senselessness, volatility, underdevelopment, captivity by self, and motives rooted in selfishness.
Nature tolerates no vacuums, so if you put your fist into the air, the fist will displace the air that was in that spot; lower the fist and the air will rush back into the place where the fist had been. The same applies with childishness and child-like-ness:
if freed from one’s childish ways – that is, if freed of one’s childish thinking and childish speaking and childish behaviors – then the ensuing vacuum will be filled by the childlike qualities that were manifesting the last time you were truly and unconditionally happy.
As long as the basic needs of the composite unity were met (food, water, shelter with a comfortable ambient temperature), then happiness and contentment were manifest.
It was after being told that you are “this” and “that” and scores of other things that false selves were taken to be real and that the assumption of self /selves as identities led to selfishness / childishness.
The process whereby “they” deprived you of the ability to continue to abide in a childlike fashion and whereby "they" trapped you into abiding in a childish fashion was a process that resulted in your being a mental and emotional and psychological captive.
The steps involved in the non-dual process offered here provide one means of moving out of the prison where you are a mental and emotional and psychological captive thereafter being free of the perverted effects of the mental and emotional and psychological factors that imprison all non-Realized persons.
What makes the Direct Path Method – if used in conjunction with the Nisarga Yoga - unlike all other methods, philosophies, religions, spiritual movements, self-help groups, step groups, cults, sky cults, etc.?
It is the only method that invites you to un-learn all rather than to learn more; it is the only method that offers an invitation to stop trying to abide supernaturally and to stop abiding unnaturally and to unlearn all that you have ever been taught so that you can abide naturally.
If used in conjunction with the Nisarga (Natural) Yoga, it is the only method that does not endorse any supposedly holy book that is to be used for the entire manifestation as a “the-right-way-to-live guidebook”; that make no claims about a body of knowledge that must be studied and mastered;
that makes no claims about your needing life-long affiliations; that does not suggest that there are special activities and regular attendance that are required; and that does not invite you to do anything that is totally unnatural in order to be free.
Why? Because special activities and regular attendance requirements rob you of freedom as much as everything else that robbed you of your freedom. What is even remotely natural about the supernatural (that is, religious or spiritual) activities that many would have you engage in?
Want to feel special as a result of thinking special thoughts and saying special words and doing special things? Rock and roll, but there is another option. To that end, this was offered in 2007 on this site:
Pray all the prayers that you think you need to pray; knell, bend over, stoop, or lie prostrate as much as you think you need to kneel, bend over, stoop, or lie prostrate; read all the “holy” books that you think you need to read; visit all the “sacred” sites or “sacred” men that you think you need to visit; chant or hum every chant or hum you think you need to chant or hum; ring every bell you think you need to ring; and burn every stick of incense that you think you need to burn. But when you are done with all of that, realize that you—and all persons who are fixated in a stage and are playing their religious or spiritual roles—are mistaking the dawn for the noon. Realize that praying and knelling and bending over and stooping and lying prostrate and reading and visiting and chanting and humming and ringing and burning (and every other external thing you try to use to be more spiritual or to try to demonstrate how spiritual you are) will actually block you from finding the truth which can only be found within after certain pointers are taken into quiet and solitary consideration.
This was also offered seven years ago on this site:
The case here was that “only the Direct Path Method and the natural approach resulted in total freedom and total independence. Post-Realization, there is no dependence on scriptures, on a god, on multiple gods, on persons, on possessions, on practices, on platitudes read daily to try to ‘pick up the spirit’ time and time again, on disciplines, on working at ‘improving,’ on working to gain ‘power,’ on avoiding this or on seeking that, on co-dependent role players, on praise, on criticism, on reinforcement by persons, on thoughts, on drives, on a ‘mind,’ on personality, on concepts, on more teachings, or on adherence to any rules and regulations and tenets and traditions and dogma or principles.”
Here, the invitation is to cast aside everything that played a part in your original imprisonment and to cast aside everything that is currently playing a part in your ongoing imprisonment.
Here, the invitation is to abide naturally. It worked for humanity for millions of years. It has worked for trillions and trillions of other species for billions of years.
The deer in this area can be observed on a daily basis, so they are one yardstick by which normalcy and natural abidance can be measured. Use whatever examples are available in your area to observe what natural abidance looks like, be that the example offered by birds or some other life form.
Then see that everything that has ever lived on this planet – except for humans - has done just fine without ever thinking that it much engage in praying or knelling reverently or bending over reverently or stooping or lying prostrate or reading special, “holy” books or visiting or chanting or humming or ringing bells or striking special bowls on special pillows with a special stick or burning a special stick or candle in order to be “better” or “different” or “happy.”
If part of your problem happened to be the fact that you were taught to ingest small amounts of arsenic each day, then you might be advised to stop eating arsenic, but that is not what has given you the Ultimate Sickness.
If you had been raised to be “un-spiritual” and that resulted in your Sickness, then “being spiritual” would be endorsed here, but that is not what infected you with the Ultimate Sickness so it is not what will free you from the symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness.
Instead, you were raised to buy into the ignorance and insanity of your parents and your culture and the people all over this planet. Spirituality does not cure ignorance and insanity. It only aggravates the problems that occur when one is out of touch with reality and out of though with Reality.
That is why, in the end, Maharaj advised people to give up spirituality (a.k.a., the supernatural) and to abide naturally. The same invitation is offered here: address the real cause and the real problem, not the causes and problems dreamed up by persons still trapped in their personas with their hidden agendas.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
10 May 2014
F.: From a site visitor: “Now I’m confused. First you say on the path we have to go back to the Child State to be free; now, you say we must not think and talk and behave like a child. Not trying to argue for the sake of argument---really trying to understand what seems to be a contradiction to me.”
Greetings: There is no contradiction but there is a simple misunderstanding of terms, so to clarify recent pointers using the word “child,” you must understand the difference in the words “childish” and “childlike”:
synonyms for “childish” include “foolish, naïve, frivolous, selfish, self-centered, self-absorbed, silly, immature, impractical, inconsiderate, spoiled, senseless, volatile, calculating, underdeveloped, captivated by self, and motivated by selfishness”;
synonyms for “childlike” include “innocent, unadulterated, complete, natural, unaffected, spontaneous, unblemished, untarnished, pure, uncomplicated, genuine, unaffected, and free.”
The non-dual understanding involves freeing the captives who are being held hostage by the nonsense that was put into the mind. Each idea, concept, impression, perspective, notion, thought, opinion, theory, inkling, and piece of learned ignorance is one of the bars that form the prison that holds you captive, specifically, the prison of the mind. (And in the end, all of those things which form the bars of your prison can be reduced to one word: “beliefs.”)
“Being “childlike” is natural; continuing to be “childish” is unnatural, rooted in unnatural programming, unnatural conditioning, etc.
Here, the offer is to be un-taught, to un-learn, in order to break and discard each of the bars of your prison. The non-dual, nisargan teachings are about un-learning everything that was learned which, in turn, traps persons in a state of being childish.
Such un-learning can allow seekers to follow the “path” back to the “childlike” state, the state that existed before unnatural programming, unnatural conditioning, etc. eventually drove persons to the childish state marked by foolishness, naivete, frivolousness, selfishness, self-centeredness, self-absorption, silliness, immaturity, impracticality, inconsideration, spoil-ness, senselessness, volatility, underdevelopment, captivity by self, and motives rooted in selfishness.
Nature tolerates no vacuums, so if you put your fist into the air, the fist will displace the air that was in that spot; lower the fist and the air will rush back into the place where the fist had been. The same applies with childishness and child-like-ness:
if freed from one’s childish ways – that is, if freed of one’s childish thinking and childish speaking and childish behaviors – then the ensuing vacuum will be filled by the childlike qualities that were manifesting the last time you were truly and unconditionally happy.
As long as the basic needs of the composite unity were met (food, water, shelter with a comfortable ambient temperature), then happiness and contentment were manifest.
It was after being told that you are “this” and “that” and scores of other things that false selves were taken to be real and that the assumption of self /selves as identities led to selfishness / childishness.
The process whereby “they” deprived you of the ability to continue to abide in a childlike fashion and whereby "they" trapped you into abiding in a childish fashion was a process that resulted in your being a mental and emotional and psychological captive.
The steps involved in the non-dual process offered here provide one means of moving out of the prison where you are a mental and emotional and psychological captive thereafter being free of the perverted effects of the mental and emotional and psychological factors that imprison all non-Realized persons.
What makes the Direct Path Method – if used in conjunction with the Nisarga Yoga - unlike all other methods, philosophies, religions, spiritual movements, self-help groups, step groups, cults, sky cults, etc.?
It is the only method that invites you to un-learn all rather than to learn more; it is the only method that offers an invitation to stop trying to abide supernaturally and to stop abiding unnaturally and to unlearn all that you have ever been taught so that you can abide naturally.
If used in conjunction with the Nisarga (Natural) Yoga, it is the only method that does not endorse any supposedly holy book that is to be used for the entire manifestation as a “the-right-way-to-live guidebook”; that make no claims about a body of knowledge that must be studied and mastered;
that makes no claims about your needing life-long affiliations; that does not suggest that there are special activities and regular attendance that are required; and that does not invite you to do anything that is totally unnatural in order to be free.
Why? Because special activities and regular attendance requirements rob you of freedom as much as everything else that robbed you of your freedom. What is even remotely natural about the supernatural (that is, religious or spiritual) activities that many would have you engage in?
Want to feel special as a result of thinking special thoughts and saying special words and doing special things? Rock and roll, but there is another option. To that end, this was offered in 2007 on this site:
Pray all the prayers that you think you need to pray; knell, bend over, stoop, or lie prostrate as much as you think you need to kneel, bend over, stoop, or lie prostrate; read all the “holy” books that you think you need to read; visit all the “sacred” sites or “sacred” men that you think you need to visit; chant or hum every chant or hum you think you need to chant or hum; ring every bell you think you need to ring; and burn every stick of incense that you think you need to burn. But when you are done with all of that, realize that you—and all persons who are fixated in a stage and are playing their religious or spiritual roles—are mistaking the dawn for the noon. Realize that praying and knelling and bending over and stooping and lying prostrate and reading and visiting and chanting and humming and ringing and burning (and every other external thing you try to use to be more spiritual or to try to demonstrate how spiritual you are) will actually block you from finding the truth which can only be found within after certain pointers are taken into quiet and solitary consideration.
This was also offered seven years ago on this site:
The case here was that “only the Direct Path Method and the natural approach resulted in total freedom and total independence. Post-Realization, there is no dependence on scriptures, on a god, on multiple gods, on persons, on possessions, on practices, on platitudes read daily to try to ‘pick up the spirit’ time and time again, on disciplines, on working at ‘improving,’ on working to gain ‘power,’ on avoiding this or on seeking that, on co-dependent role players, on praise, on criticism, on reinforcement by persons, on thoughts, on drives, on a ‘mind,’ on personality, on concepts, on more teachings, or on adherence to any rules and regulations and tenets and traditions and dogma or principles.”
Here, the invitation is to cast aside everything that played a part in your original imprisonment and to cast aside everything that is currently playing a part in your ongoing imprisonment.
Here, the invitation is to abide naturally. It worked for humanity for millions of years. It has worked for trillions and trillions of other species for billions of years.
The deer in this area can be observed on a daily basis, so they are one yardstick by which normalcy and natural abidance can be measured. Use whatever examples are available in your area to observe what natural abidance looks like, be that the example offered by birds or some other life form.
Then see that everything that has ever lived on this planet – except for humans - has done just fine without ever thinking that it much engage in praying or knelling reverently or bending over reverently or stooping or lying prostrate or reading special, “holy” books or visiting or chanting or humming or ringing bells or striking special bowls on special pillows with a special stick or burning a special stick or candle in order to be “better” or “different” or “happy.”
If part of your problem happened to be the fact that you were taught to ingest small amounts of arsenic each day, then you might be advised to stop eating arsenic, but that is not what has given you the Ultimate Sickness.
If you had been raised to be “un-spiritual” and that resulted in your Sickness, then “being spiritual” would be endorsed here, but that is not what infected you with the Ultimate Sickness so it is not what will free you from the symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness.
Instead, you were raised to buy into the ignorance and insanity of your parents and your culture and the people all over this planet. Spirituality does not cure ignorance and insanity. It only aggravates the problems that occur when one is out of touch with reality and out of though with Reality.
That is why, in the end, Maharaj advised people to give up spirituality (a.k.a., the supernatural) and to abide naturally. The same invitation is offered here: address the real cause and the real problem, not the causes and problems dreamed up by persons still trapped in their personas with their hidden agendas.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
10 May 2014
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: Yesterday, in addressing the relative ramifications of parent-child interactions vs. adult-to-adult interactions, it was shared that parent-child interactions and their consequences involve
A. someone who did not “grow up,” that is, who has never abandoned the belief in false roles that are rooted in one’s childhood years;
B. someone who has never taken the steps required to be free of the desires and fears that every assumed or assigned personality brings; and
C. someone who in living with the distorted perspective of a naïve child or a foolish child or a child that is easily fooled.
Under such circumstances, one is rendered vulnerable, self-absorbed, (false-)self-absorbed, and ripe for manipulation and exploitation.
Freedom from abiding under the influence of personality (and freedom from the delusion and distortion that come when driven by the hidden agendas of personalities) involve an understanding of one’s sense of “you-ness” or “You-ness.”
First, a sense of “You-ness” (with a capital “Y”) involves focusing on THAT, yet THAT is totally irrelevant once it has been understood in terms of the summative statement of non-duality: “I AM THAT; I AM.”
The Is-ness is NOW and basic, relative “needs” are to be addressed NOW; fail to fulfill the basic, relative requirements of a plant food body - water, food, oxygen, clothing, shelter, etc. - and the impact will be fairly immediate.
As for THAT, THAT takes care of itself, functioning according to the natural laws. THAT is permanent and cannot be changed. The relative existence can be changed. So here’s a not-too-popular suggestion from many who have a THAT-focused agenda as far as the non-dual understanding is concerned:
If one has an excess of energy, the invitation is to let it be spent on addressing the relative issues that Maharaj identified as being at the heart of the Ultimate Sickness, namely, “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity” (all of which involve the influences of assigned or assumed false identities). As for THAT, consider:
because there will be no “you” or “You” post-manifestation, then the present (the NOW-ness, the AM-ness, the IS-ness) is all that is relevant as far as any “you-ness” or “You-ness” is concerned.
If you see that “you” can only refer accurately to the present three-part, composite unity (plant food elements, circulating air, and circulating conscious-energy), then any sense of “neediness” is limited to the basic requirements of a temporarily-manifested plant food body, namely, food, clothing, water, air, etc.
If you happen to think that “you” accurately refers to the scores of roles that have been assigned (by one’s parents, culture, etc.) or assumed (by “you,” post-programming and conditioning and domestication and acculturation and brainwashing and indoctrination) then “A,” “B,” and “C” above will apply.
Thus, you will not be able to “grow up,” that is, you will never be able to abandon the belief in false roles; you will never take the steps required to be free of the desires and fears that every assumed or assigned personality brings; and you will live with the distorted perspective of a naïve child or a foolish child or a child that is easily fooled.
Why? Because personality / multiple personalities are often set in place by the age of six, but (1) they know no age restrictions; as a result, their hidden influences and agendas are capable of driving and determining a person’s thoughts and words and actions into her or his 20’s, 30’s, 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and beyond; and, short of liberation, (2) their hidden, subconscious agendas are never abandoned.
Moreover, those agendas are age-specific, meaning that the desires and fears of any of the basic personality types – typically established by the age of six - are (a) the desires and fears of a six-year-old and will also be (b) the desires and fears of one in his or her 20’s, 30’s, 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and beyond, resulting in persons behaving like a six-year-old, no matter what chronological age one might reach.
Therefore it can be seen that the actual issue is this: when abiding under the influence of personality – under the subconscious desires and fears of a personality (actually, of multiple personalities) - then one will be driven subconsciously to think and talk and behave as a child thinks and talks and behaves. And that is why the therapist referenced yesterday said that she had found over the years that “there are no grownups.”
So, with only a very few humans ever Realizing and being liberated from the influence of the subconscious, hidden agendas of personality / personalities, then the masses are almost all living under the influence of personality (or, more accurately, multiple personalities) and under the influences of the agenda of a child.
For those who might conclude that living under the influence of drugs or alcohol is a major concern around the globe, the effects of such addictions are negligible when compared to the effects and consequences of personality.
Next, no sickness can be treated without first receiving a proper diagnosis. For the masses on the planet, the diagnosis is this:
1. almost all persons are suffering from the Ultimate Sickness;
2. the Ultimate Sickness is not a spiritual illness but is a Sickness rooted in personality, in the mind; therefore,
3. the Ultimate Sickness is mainly a mental / psychic / emotional / psychological Sickness centered in the fiction-filled, nonsense-filled “mind,” and nothing religious or spiritual can treat a mental illness, emotionally-charged claims to the contrary notwithstanding.
There is no “praying away” of personality disorders, neuroses, or psychoses.
What are some examples of cases where that "let's pray away what we don't want approach" has been tried and failed miserably?
(A) SEXUAL ORIENTATION OF OTHERS
There is no more chance of altering someone's sexual orientation by prayer than there is a chance of praying away mental illness. In that regard, long-time visitors to the site might recall a description of an encounter with a woman many years ago in Houston.
Her far from “loving-unconditionally” pastor led a campaign that divided the city as he vilified gays for being gay. The woman became involved with a “Pray Away the Gay” campaign that he and several other religious leaders started. Among their activities: regular prayer meetings that were intended to beseech God to change the sexual orientation of every gay in the city and the printing and distribution of hundreds of thousands of flyers, inviting people to attend such “Pray Away the Gay” prayer meetings.
(B) RAIN
That campaign was not unlike the efforts of Governor Rick Perry who, during an extended drought, organized “Pray for Rain” prayer meetings around the state. In his official proclamation, he declared:
“I, RICK PERRY, Governor of Texas, under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and Statutes of the State of Texas, do hereby proclaim the three-day period from Friday, April 22, 2011, to Sunday, April 24, 2011, as Days of Prayer for Rain in the State of Texas. I urge Texans of all faiths and traditions to offer prayers on those days for the healing of our land, the rebuilding of our communities and the restoration of our normal way of life.” [First, the phrases “our normal way of life” and “the State of Texas” do not belong in the same sentence, but that’s another issue.]
So, what were the results of Texans trying to pray away the sexual orientation of a part of the population and Texans trying to pray away a drought? After the sex-focusing campaign ended, there was never a report of a shift of anyone’s sexual orientation. After all of the praying for a city-wide shift in the sexual orientation of one segment of the population, I remained interested in women and gay men remained interested in men and gay women remained interested in women. Such is the way it is when choice is not involved in an issue: changes in some areas of the human experience cannot and will not happen as a result of praying to a god or gods or goddesses to intervene. Anything that is witnessed to the contrary is actually rooted in some other factor or factors.
I have had people pray for me to get well, but wellness did not manifest. A genetic heart defect remains. Years ago, to the contrary, a Christian woman reported to me that she had “prayed every day for a year for God to kill me because she knew without a doubt that I was 'a New Age Agent of Satan’.” That was sixteen years ago, yet after 365 days of her continuous praying, and after sixteen years for her God to bring down his wrath on me, here I sit, in my office, typing away, quite alive by most standards and definitions.]
As for the governor’s efforts to try to pray away the drought, one reporter wrote, “In the four months since Perry’s request for divine intervention, his state has taken a dramatic turn for the worse. Nearly all of Texas is now in ‘extreme or exceptional’ drought, as classified by federal meteorologists, the worst in Texas history.”
Hummm. Imagine that.
Imagine a drought not being prayed away; imagine gayness not being prayed away; and imagine the “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity” of the Ultimate Sickness not being prayed away.
A child might pray to pass an exam before taking a test, but the amount of concentrated study before the exam - rather than the amount of concentrated prayer before the exam - is more likely going to be the deciding factor of the outcome.
(C) THE MENTAL ILLNESS KNOWN AS “THE ULTIMATE SICKNESS”
As it is with rain and as it is with sexual orientation, so it also is with mental, psychic, emotional, and psychological issues and with personality-based disorders, neuroses-based disorders, and psychoses-based disorders that characterize the Ultimate Sickness:
the Ultimate Sickness retards all psychic development and leaves persons of all ages thinking and talking and acting like young children. At that point, adults can buy into the kind of magical thinking that led people five thousand years ago to sacrifice virgins to an angry Rain God, followed by begging that god to give them a break and to save their crops;
that type of magical thinking can lead persons to believe that there is a God who is okay with a drought unless people point out that it’s not okay with them; that can lead persons to believe that there is a God who tolerates mental illness until someone begs that God to stop tolerating it;
that can lead persons to believe that there is a God who will kill people they do not like; and that can lead persons to believe that there is a God who hates the same things and the same people that they hate and will change things and people upon demand.
None of that is going to happen, but steps can be taken to change one’s entrapment in magical, insane, ignorant thinking patterns.
Sometimes the steps can be taken under the guidance of a teacher / guru; sometimes the steps can be taken under the guidance of a trained professional; but at no time has there been any evidence of success with the steps offered by an ignorant governor (or his cohorts in the ministry) who try to use the power of prayer to remake “the world” in their own image and according to their own fears and desires which they want addressed. Talk about "personality run rampart."
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
9 May 2014
F.: Yesterday, in addressing the relative ramifications of parent-child interactions vs. adult-to-adult interactions, it was shared that parent-child interactions and their consequences involve
A. someone who did not “grow up,” that is, who has never abandoned the belief in false roles that are rooted in one’s childhood years;
B. someone who has never taken the steps required to be free of the desires and fears that every assumed or assigned personality brings; and
C. someone who in living with the distorted perspective of a naïve child or a foolish child or a child that is easily fooled.
Under such circumstances, one is rendered vulnerable, self-absorbed, (false-)self-absorbed, and ripe for manipulation and exploitation.
Freedom from abiding under the influence of personality (and freedom from the delusion and distortion that come when driven by the hidden agendas of personalities) involve an understanding of one’s sense of “you-ness” or “You-ness.”
First, a sense of “You-ness” (with a capital “Y”) involves focusing on THAT, yet THAT is totally irrelevant once it has been understood in terms of the summative statement of non-duality: “I AM THAT; I AM.”
The Is-ness is NOW and basic, relative “needs” are to be addressed NOW; fail to fulfill the basic, relative requirements of a plant food body - water, food, oxygen, clothing, shelter, etc. - and the impact will be fairly immediate.
As for THAT, THAT takes care of itself, functioning according to the natural laws. THAT is permanent and cannot be changed. The relative existence can be changed. So here’s a not-too-popular suggestion from many who have a THAT-focused agenda as far as the non-dual understanding is concerned:
If one has an excess of energy, the invitation is to let it be spent on addressing the relative issues that Maharaj identified as being at the heart of the Ultimate Sickness, namely, “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity” (all of which involve the influences of assigned or assumed false identities). As for THAT, consider:
because there will be no “you” or “You” post-manifestation, then the present (the NOW-ness, the AM-ness, the IS-ness) is all that is relevant as far as any “you-ness” or “You-ness” is concerned.
If you see that “you” can only refer accurately to the present three-part, composite unity (plant food elements, circulating air, and circulating conscious-energy), then any sense of “neediness” is limited to the basic requirements of a temporarily-manifested plant food body, namely, food, clothing, water, air, etc.
If you happen to think that “you” accurately refers to the scores of roles that have been assigned (by one’s parents, culture, etc.) or assumed (by “you,” post-programming and conditioning and domestication and acculturation and brainwashing and indoctrination) then “A,” “B,” and “C” above will apply.
Thus, you will not be able to “grow up,” that is, you will never be able to abandon the belief in false roles; you will never take the steps required to be free of the desires and fears that every assumed or assigned personality brings; and you will live with the distorted perspective of a naïve child or a foolish child or a child that is easily fooled.
Why? Because personality / multiple personalities are often set in place by the age of six, but (1) they know no age restrictions; as a result, their hidden influences and agendas are capable of driving and determining a person’s thoughts and words and actions into her or his 20’s, 30’s, 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and beyond; and, short of liberation, (2) their hidden, subconscious agendas are never abandoned.
Moreover, those agendas are age-specific, meaning that the desires and fears of any of the basic personality types – typically established by the age of six - are (a) the desires and fears of a six-year-old and will also be (b) the desires and fears of one in his or her 20’s, 30’s, 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and beyond, resulting in persons behaving like a six-year-old, no matter what chronological age one might reach.
Therefore it can be seen that the actual issue is this: when abiding under the influence of personality – under the subconscious desires and fears of a personality (actually, of multiple personalities) - then one will be driven subconsciously to think and talk and behave as a child thinks and talks and behaves. And that is why the therapist referenced yesterday said that she had found over the years that “there are no grownups.”
So, with only a very few humans ever Realizing and being liberated from the influence of the subconscious, hidden agendas of personality / personalities, then the masses are almost all living under the influence of personality (or, more accurately, multiple personalities) and under the influences of the agenda of a child.
For those who might conclude that living under the influence of drugs or alcohol is a major concern around the globe, the effects of such addictions are negligible when compared to the effects and consequences of personality.
Next, no sickness can be treated without first receiving a proper diagnosis. For the masses on the planet, the diagnosis is this:
1. almost all persons are suffering from the Ultimate Sickness;
2. the Ultimate Sickness is not a spiritual illness but is a Sickness rooted in personality, in the mind; therefore,
3. the Ultimate Sickness is mainly a mental / psychic / emotional / psychological Sickness centered in the fiction-filled, nonsense-filled “mind,” and nothing religious or spiritual can treat a mental illness, emotionally-charged claims to the contrary notwithstanding.
There is no “praying away” of personality disorders, neuroses, or psychoses.
What are some examples of cases where that "let's pray away what we don't want approach" has been tried and failed miserably?
(A) SEXUAL ORIENTATION OF OTHERS
There is no more chance of altering someone's sexual orientation by prayer than there is a chance of praying away mental illness. In that regard, long-time visitors to the site might recall a description of an encounter with a woman many years ago in Houston.
Her far from “loving-unconditionally” pastor led a campaign that divided the city as he vilified gays for being gay. The woman became involved with a “Pray Away the Gay” campaign that he and several other religious leaders started. Among their activities: regular prayer meetings that were intended to beseech God to change the sexual orientation of every gay in the city and the printing and distribution of hundreds of thousands of flyers, inviting people to attend such “Pray Away the Gay” prayer meetings.
(B) RAIN
That campaign was not unlike the efforts of Governor Rick Perry who, during an extended drought, organized “Pray for Rain” prayer meetings around the state. In his official proclamation, he declared:
“I, RICK PERRY, Governor of Texas, under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and Statutes of the State of Texas, do hereby proclaim the three-day period from Friday, April 22, 2011, to Sunday, April 24, 2011, as Days of Prayer for Rain in the State of Texas. I urge Texans of all faiths and traditions to offer prayers on those days for the healing of our land, the rebuilding of our communities and the restoration of our normal way of life.” [First, the phrases “our normal way of life” and “the State of Texas” do not belong in the same sentence, but that’s another issue.]
So, what were the results of Texans trying to pray away the sexual orientation of a part of the population and Texans trying to pray away a drought? After the sex-focusing campaign ended, there was never a report of a shift of anyone’s sexual orientation. After all of the praying for a city-wide shift in the sexual orientation of one segment of the population, I remained interested in women and gay men remained interested in men and gay women remained interested in women. Such is the way it is when choice is not involved in an issue: changes in some areas of the human experience cannot and will not happen as a result of praying to a god or gods or goddesses to intervene. Anything that is witnessed to the contrary is actually rooted in some other factor or factors.
I have had people pray for me to get well, but wellness did not manifest. A genetic heart defect remains. Years ago, to the contrary, a Christian woman reported to me that she had “prayed every day for a year for God to kill me because she knew without a doubt that I was 'a New Age Agent of Satan’.” That was sixteen years ago, yet after 365 days of her continuous praying, and after sixteen years for her God to bring down his wrath on me, here I sit, in my office, typing away, quite alive by most standards and definitions.]
As for the governor’s efforts to try to pray away the drought, one reporter wrote, “In the four months since Perry’s request for divine intervention, his state has taken a dramatic turn for the worse. Nearly all of Texas is now in ‘extreme or exceptional’ drought, as classified by federal meteorologists, the worst in Texas history.”
Hummm. Imagine that.
Imagine a drought not being prayed away; imagine gayness not being prayed away; and imagine the “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity” of the Ultimate Sickness not being prayed away.
A child might pray to pass an exam before taking a test, but the amount of concentrated study before the exam - rather than the amount of concentrated prayer before the exam - is more likely going to be the deciding factor of the outcome.
(C) THE MENTAL ILLNESS KNOWN AS “THE ULTIMATE SICKNESS”
As it is with rain and as it is with sexual orientation, so it also is with mental, psychic, emotional, and psychological issues and with personality-based disorders, neuroses-based disorders, and psychoses-based disorders that characterize the Ultimate Sickness:
the Ultimate Sickness retards all psychic development and leaves persons of all ages thinking and talking and acting like young children. At that point, adults can buy into the kind of magical thinking that led people five thousand years ago to sacrifice virgins to an angry Rain God, followed by begging that god to give them a break and to save their crops;
that type of magical thinking can lead persons to believe that there is a God who is okay with a drought unless people point out that it’s not okay with them; that can lead persons to believe that there is a God who tolerates mental illness until someone begs that God to stop tolerating it;
that can lead persons to believe that there is a God who will kill people they do not like; and that can lead persons to believe that there is a God who hates the same things and the same people that they hate and will change things and people upon demand.
None of that is going to happen, but steps can be taken to change one’s entrapment in magical, insane, ignorant thinking patterns.
Sometimes the steps can be taken under the guidance of a teacher / guru; sometimes the steps can be taken under the guidance of a trained professional; but at no time has there been any evidence of success with the steps offered by an ignorant governor (or his cohorts in the ministry) who try to use the power of prayer to remake “the world” in their own image and according to their own fears and desires which they want addressed. Talk about "personality run rampart."
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
9 May 2014
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: [From yesterday] I asked: “Is there one single, leading fact about humanity that you have come to recognize after having dealt with thousands of people on such an intimate and probing and revealing level?”
The reply: “Yes. I have found, unequivocally, that there are no grownups.”
The non-dualist understands that the prerequisite for “growing up” is to stop abiding under the subconscious influence of the fear-and-desire-driven agendas of personality / personalities.
Why endorse “growing up,” relatively speaking?
1. Because “growing up,” as used in this case, means seeing things clearly instead of through the distorted perspective of a naïve child or a foolish child or a child that is easily fooled; and
2. because that is the means by which persons reach the state that so many seek, namely, a state of freedom and independence.
A child is dependent, co-dependent, needy, and reliant, living out an existence that is dominated by contingencies and conditionals that are set forth by "others" who are in control:
“If you do such-and-such, you get this reward” or “If you do such-and-such, you get this punishment” or “I can darn well do this to you if I choose” and “I can darn well deprive you of that if I feel like it” and “I can abandon you right now, and what can you do about it? Nothing!”
And if children do not “grow up,” then they will enter into the all-too-common and all-too-sick and all-too-warped but also all-too-pervasive type relationship where exchanges do not happen on an adult-to-adult level but happen on a child-parent level.
Being trapped in personality, they will attract only those persons who are similarly trapped in personality. At that point, let the games begin.
Not functioning in a “grown up,” adult-to-adult fashion, one might become involved with an unhealthy Type One Perfectionist who will play the parent role and treat a partner like a child, judging, criticizing, and punishing that partner when she or he falls short of meeting the Type One’s expectations and the One's demand for perfectionism; or
one might become involved with an unhealthy Type Two Savior / Helper whose desire to be loved is so strong that they attract weak, needy, dependent persons (who are like a child), Twos believing that if they can rescue needy persons, then those persons will give them the love they seek (and in the process, the Twos will keep needy persons trapped in that needy role of a child and will thereby retard any effort for the person cast into the role of a child to ever be free and independent); or
one might become involved with an unhealthy Type Three Performer and buy into the false image of a Three (usually a very attractive image, at least according to any given culture’s standards) and as a result of such infatuation - idolizing someone in the way that children do - will become drawn into the unhealthy Three’s snare and will end up being manipulated and controlled, as children are; or
one might become involved with an unhealthy Type Four who will play the close-at-times-but-distant-at-times parent role and will treat a partner like a child, wanting the child close at times and at other times, ignoring the child completely; or
one might become involved with an unhealthy Type Five Avoider who will play the parent role and treat a partner like a child, taking the unhealthy Four’s close-at-times-but-distant-at-times parent role to a whole new and unwholesome level; or
one might become involved with an unhealthy Type Six who will be loyal as long as the Six’s desires are being met but will go on the attack at the first sign of anything that is contrary to the Six’s desires and imagined needs (which they expect someone else to fulfill); or
one might become involved with an unhealthy Type Seven who will play the child role and who will treat a partner like a parent, demanding that the partner coddle and care for the Seven; or
one might become involved with an unhealthy Type Eight Control Freak who will play the very demanding, very punishing parent role and treat a partner like a child (in fact, like a totally-abused child); or
one might become involved with an unhealthy Type Nine who will play the role of the emotionally-unavailable parent and who will treat a partner like a child and who (like an unhealthy Type Four or Five parent) will be accessible at times but totally inaccessible at other times.
It is one thing for a child riding through the desert with adult-age persons to see a mirage and to believe it is real; it is quite another if the child never grows beyond that unaware state and, instead, believes for an entire manifestation that mirages are real.
So the considerations are these, and ironically, both are true (in the way that so many paradoxes involving the non-dual understanding can both be true):
A. there are some things you need
and
B. you do not need anything.
Meaning?
Meaning that there are some things you need, the “you” in this case being the temporarily-manifested composite unity.
But also meaning you do not need anything, the “you” in this case being the false personalities (assumed personas, roles, false identities, etc.) that are taken to be actual identities when they are not.
Assume the role of “The Husband” and you will become convinced that you cannot exist without a co-dependent partner willing to play the dependent counterpart role (which all ego-states need to believe that they are real); in this case, the "need" is for one willing to play the part of “The Wife” in the drama that is actually only going on in one’s head.
When that happens, one will act as a child, “playing pretend” the way children do when they escape to the privacy of another room, away from the adult-aged people in another part of the house.
Then, playing the part of “The Husband,” you can feel as if you have been hit by a bolt of lightning if the angry, offended “Wife” comes to you and says:
“you did not do such-and-such, so you no longer get a reward”
or
“you did not do such-and-such, so now you get this punishment”
or
“I am abandoning you right now, and there is nothing you do about it.”
All of that involves a parent-child interaction, and all of that involves someone who did not “grow up,”
that is,
1. who has never abandoned the belief in false roles,
2. who has never taken the steps required to be free of the desires and fears that every assumed or assigned personality is guaranteed to bring, and
3. who in living with the distorted perspective of a naïve child or a foolish child or a child that is easily fooled.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
8 May 2014
F.: [From yesterday] I asked: “Is there one single, leading fact about humanity that you have come to recognize after having dealt with thousands of people on such an intimate and probing and revealing level?”
The reply: “Yes. I have found, unequivocally, that there are no grownups.”
The non-dualist understands that the prerequisite for “growing up” is to stop abiding under the subconscious influence of the fear-and-desire-driven agendas of personality / personalities.
Why endorse “growing up,” relatively speaking?
1. Because “growing up,” as used in this case, means seeing things clearly instead of through the distorted perspective of a naïve child or a foolish child or a child that is easily fooled; and
2. because that is the means by which persons reach the state that so many seek, namely, a state of freedom and independence.
A child is dependent, co-dependent, needy, and reliant, living out an existence that is dominated by contingencies and conditionals that are set forth by "others" who are in control:
“If you do such-and-such, you get this reward” or “If you do such-and-such, you get this punishment” or “I can darn well do this to you if I choose” and “I can darn well deprive you of that if I feel like it” and “I can abandon you right now, and what can you do about it? Nothing!”
And if children do not “grow up,” then they will enter into the all-too-common and all-too-sick and all-too-warped but also all-too-pervasive type relationship where exchanges do not happen on an adult-to-adult level but happen on a child-parent level.
Being trapped in personality, they will attract only those persons who are similarly trapped in personality. At that point, let the games begin.
Not functioning in a “grown up,” adult-to-adult fashion, one might become involved with an unhealthy Type One Perfectionist who will play the parent role and treat a partner like a child, judging, criticizing, and punishing that partner when she or he falls short of meeting the Type One’s expectations and the One's demand for perfectionism; or
one might become involved with an unhealthy Type Two Savior / Helper whose desire to be loved is so strong that they attract weak, needy, dependent persons (who are like a child), Twos believing that if they can rescue needy persons, then those persons will give them the love they seek (and in the process, the Twos will keep needy persons trapped in that needy role of a child and will thereby retard any effort for the person cast into the role of a child to ever be free and independent); or
one might become involved with an unhealthy Type Three Performer and buy into the false image of a Three (usually a very attractive image, at least according to any given culture’s standards) and as a result of such infatuation - idolizing someone in the way that children do - will become drawn into the unhealthy Three’s snare and will end up being manipulated and controlled, as children are; or
one might become involved with an unhealthy Type Four who will play the close-at-times-but-distant-at-times parent role and will treat a partner like a child, wanting the child close at times and at other times, ignoring the child completely; or
one might become involved with an unhealthy Type Five Avoider who will play the parent role and treat a partner like a child, taking the unhealthy Four’s close-at-times-but-distant-at-times parent role to a whole new and unwholesome level; or
one might become involved with an unhealthy Type Six who will be loyal as long as the Six’s desires are being met but will go on the attack at the first sign of anything that is contrary to the Six’s desires and imagined needs (which they expect someone else to fulfill); or
one might become involved with an unhealthy Type Seven who will play the child role and who will treat a partner like a parent, demanding that the partner coddle and care for the Seven; or
one might become involved with an unhealthy Type Eight Control Freak who will play the very demanding, very punishing parent role and treat a partner like a child (in fact, like a totally-abused child); or
one might become involved with an unhealthy Type Nine who will play the role of the emotionally-unavailable parent and who will treat a partner like a child and who (like an unhealthy Type Four or Five parent) will be accessible at times but totally inaccessible at other times.
It is one thing for a child riding through the desert with adult-age persons to see a mirage and to believe it is real; it is quite another if the child never grows beyond that unaware state and, instead, believes for an entire manifestation that mirages are real.
So the considerations are these, and ironically, both are true (in the way that so many paradoxes involving the non-dual understanding can both be true):
A. there are some things you need
and
B. you do not need anything.
Meaning?
Meaning that there are some things you need, the “you” in this case being the temporarily-manifested composite unity.
But also meaning you do not need anything, the “you” in this case being the false personalities (assumed personas, roles, false identities, etc.) that are taken to be actual identities when they are not.
Assume the role of “The Husband” and you will become convinced that you cannot exist without a co-dependent partner willing to play the dependent counterpart role (which all ego-states need to believe that they are real); in this case, the "need" is for one willing to play the part of “The Wife” in the drama that is actually only going on in one’s head.
When that happens, one will act as a child, “playing pretend” the way children do when they escape to the privacy of another room, away from the adult-aged people in another part of the house.
Then, playing the part of “The Husband,” you can feel as if you have been hit by a bolt of lightning if the angry, offended “Wife” comes to you and says:
“you did not do such-and-such, so you no longer get a reward”
or
“you did not do such-and-such, so now you get this punishment”
or
“I am abandoning you right now, and there is nothing you do about it.”
All of that involves a parent-child interaction, and all of that involves someone who did not “grow up,”
that is,
1. who has never abandoned the belief in false roles,
2. who has never taken the steps required to be free of the desires and fears that every assumed or assigned personality is guaranteed to bring, and
3. who in living with the distorted perspective of a naïve child or a foolish child or a child that is easily fooled.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
8 May 2014
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: [Continued from yesterday] Several huge obstacles stand in the way of seekers who would question everything, who would stop heeding any authority on the basic of trust alone, and who would give up blind faith, and all of the obstacles deal with personality / personalities.
Recall that Maharaj said that science would one day advance to the stage that it will prove that all pure, non-dual pointers are true.
The science of personality explains exactly why personality is at the core of duality and at the core of the failure to reach the non-dual understanding:
Of the nine basic personality types discussed earlier, only one – the Type Four – is “pre-wired” to question everything, to heed no authority on trust alone, and to give up blind faith.
The catch: only ½ of 1% on the planet are Type Fours.
The persons most "pre-wired" to have blind faith in authority are Type Six Loyalists (the dependent, co-dependent, fear-driven type), and they make up 50% of the planet's population.
Take a look at this pictograph of the nine basic types:
Note that every type is connected by lines to two other types and that every type has two wings (the two types that are adjacent . . . on either side).
Then look at the Type 6 who is loyal, who admires authority (because of what a Six thinks authority can do for her or him), and who is not naturally prone to question. Note next that a Type 3 or a Type 9 can move to the Type Six (see the connecting lines) and can take on the traits of a Six.
Then note that the Type Five and the Type Seven are on either side and understand that a Five and a Seven can both take on the traits of a Six.
Then understand that whereas the Rebellious, Fearless, Questioning Type Four accounts for 1-2 of 1% of the planet’s population, 50% of the people on the earth have a Type Six Personality as their primary type, to which you can add in the Nines, the Threes, the Fives and the Sevens that can adopt the Six’s propensity to be loyal, to avoid questioning authority, and to accept authority’s views without questioning and it becomes clear that . . .
1) a huge majority of the planet’s population will never question anything if shared by an authority figure and that only
2) a small fraction of one percent will do so.
To suggest to a Four that blind faith should be abandoned and that everything should be questioned can as likely or not be answered with, “Of course. That makes sense to me.”
To suggest to a Six - or to a Three that has shifted to the Six or to a Nine that has shifted to the Six or to a Five or Seven who show strong Six traits – that blind faith should be abandoned and that everything should be questioned is as likely as not to elicit a blank stare, a departure, or a comment to the effect that the one offering that suggestion “has a real problem.”
[The exception: when a Six has the Borderline Personality Disorder and can disintegrate to the Four when in a counterphobic mindset. Then you have someone who is maddeningly unpredictable, capable of loving you one moment and hating you the next, capable of being loyal to you one moment and then in the next moment can be ready to fight you while praying to god to strike you dead.]
Next, because personality is usually established by the age of six or so, then psychic development usually fixates at that age. Most will never accept that fact. They will be able to see how childishly “others” behave, no matter their age; they might readily see how “others” are childishly immature, self-absorbed, full of themselves, self-centered, narcissistic, egocentric, and selfish, but most seldom see those traits in themselves.
Recognized or not, to be driven by personality is to have a six-year-old in charge of your life, and all of that controlling of thoughts and words and deeds happens on a subconscious level (so of course it will seldom be seen).
Speaking once with a professional counselor who has provided therapy for individuals and couples for over twenty years, I asked: “Is there one single, leading fact about humanity that you have come to recognize after having dealt with thousands of people on such an intimate and probing and revealing level?”
The reply: “Yes. I have found, unequivocally, that there are no grownups.”
The non-dualist understands that the prerequisite for “growing up” and no longer acting in a childishly selfish and childishly illogical manner is to stop abiding under the subconscious influence of the fear-and-desire-driven agendas of personality / personalities.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
7 May 2014
F.: [Continued from yesterday] Several huge obstacles stand in the way of seekers who would question everything, who would stop heeding any authority on the basic of trust alone, and who would give up blind faith, and all of the obstacles deal with personality / personalities.
Recall that Maharaj said that science would one day advance to the stage that it will prove that all pure, non-dual pointers are true.
The science of personality explains exactly why personality is at the core of duality and at the core of the failure to reach the non-dual understanding:
Of the nine basic personality types discussed earlier, only one – the Type Four – is “pre-wired” to question everything, to heed no authority on trust alone, and to give up blind faith.
The catch: only ½ of 1% on the planet are Type Fours.
The persons most "pre-wired" to have blind faith in authority are Type Six Loyalists (the dependent, co-dependent, fear-driven type), and they make up 50% of the planet's population.
Take a look at this pictograph of the nine basic types:
Note that every type is connected by lines to two other types and that every type has two wings (the two types that are adjacent . . . on either side).
Then look at the Type 6 who is loyal, who admires authority (because of what a Six thinks authority can do for her or him), and who is not naturally prone to question. Note next that a Type 3 or a Type 9 can move to the Type Six (see the connecting lines) and can take on the traits of a Six.
Then note that the Type Five and the Type Seven are on either side and understand that a Five and a Seven can both take on the traits of a Six.
Then understand that whereas the Rebellious, Fearless, Questioning Type Four accounts for 1-2 of 1% of the planet’s population, 50% of the people on the earth have a Type Six Personality as their primary type, to which you can add in the Nines, the Threes, the Fives and the Sevens that can adopt the Six’s propensity to be loyal, to avoid questioning authority, and to accept authority’s views without questioning and it becomes clear that . . .
1) a huge majority of the planet’s population will never question anything if shared by an authority figure and that only
2) a small fraction of one percent will do so.
To suggest to a Four that blind faith should be abandoned and that everything should be questioned can as likely or not be answered with, “Of course. That makes sense to me.”
To suggest to a Six - or to a Three that has shifted to the Six or to a Nine that has shifted to the Six or to a Five or Seven who show strong Six traits – that blind faith should be abandoned and that everything should be questioned is as likely as not to elicit a blank stare, a departure, or a comment to the effect that the one offering that suggestion “has a real problem.”
[The exception: when a Six has the Borderline Personality Disorder and can disintegrate to the Four when in a counterphobic mindset. Then you have someone who is maddeningly unpredictable, capable of loving you one moment and hating you the next, capable of being loyal to you one moment and then in the next moment can be ready to fight you while praying to god to strike you dead.]
Next, because personality is usually established by the age of six or so, then psychic development usually fixates at that age. Most will never accept that fact. They will be able to see how childishly “others” behave, no matter their age; they might readily see how “others” are childishly immature, self-absorbed, full of themselves, self-centered, narcissistic, egocentric, and selfish, but most seldom see those traits in themselves.
Recognized or not, to be driven by personality is to have a six-year-old in charge of your life, and all of that controlling of thoughts and words and deeds happens on a subconscious level (so of course it will seldom be seen).
Speaking once with a professional counselor who has provided therapy for individuals and couples for over twenty years, I asked: “Is there one single, leading fact about humanity that you have come to recognize after having dealt with thousands of people on such an intimate and probing and revealing level?”
The reply: “Yes. I have found, unequivocally, that there are no grownups.”
The non-dualist understands that the prerequisite for “growing up” and no longer acting in a childishly selfish and childishly illogical manner is to stop abiding under the subconscious influence of the fear-and-desire-driven agendas of personality / personalities.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
7 May 2014
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: The notion of having blind faith and accepting without question what one has been told is not new. One action required for over five thousand years of religious teachings has crossed all religious and sectarian and denominational lines because all religions require their followers to take one action unwaveringly: namely, they all demand unquestioning, blind faith.
The dogma set forth by all of the “mainstream” organized religions on the planet have needed to take that approach because not once has any god or goddess appeared and allowed humans to see him / her / it / them. “You just gotta have faith.”
And religions have historically taken that approach with vehemence by placing under house arrest wise persons who questioned the “conventional wisdom” of religious leaders or by torturing those challenging dogma or by burning such wise people at the stake or by using all sorts of barbaric methods to punish and torment and murder those who do not blindly accept such “conventional wisdom” and “sacred, holy dogma.”
For centuries, the Romans and Greeks offered peculiar explanations to try to explain natural phenomena by referencing “the will of the gods” who happened to have human qualities. (“Evolution deniers” today believe the same, that there is a god who made man in god's image and then used a rib from man to make the first woman.) But a few questioners have always been around to raise doubts, though they were usually either dismissed as being “ignorant” or “crazy” or they were eliminated.
However, the invitation to abandon blind faith and to question everything that you have ever been told is not new, either. Non-dual teachers have offered the invitation for many millennia.
More than 1,400 years ago, a man named Thales of Miletus arrived on the scene in what is now Turkey and attempted to explain natural phenomena without reference to mythology or gods or goddesses. He would eventually reject all mythological, god-involved explanations entirely regarding natural events. He made clear that dreaded events such as storms and floods and earthquakes and tornadoes and fires were a result of natural causes and not the result of supernatural, divine causes, instigated by an angry god.
Yet today, the majority of persons still believe that a god or gods and goddesses control every event that happens on the planet and that storms and floods and earthquakes and tornadoes and fires are among the instruments of divine intervention that a god or gods or goddesses use to punish people who are not living in "the right and god-pleasing manner."
(The Dalai Lama still makes similar claims, declaring that Hurricane Katrina, which devastated the city of New Orleans in 2005, did so because of “the negative karma of the people living there.”)
Even in 2014, those that explain the causes of natural phenomena by offering rational, scientific explanations which deny the existence of any angry god that uses storms and floods and earthquakes and tornadoes and fires to punish humans are still frowned upon by the faithful.
The actual (relative) “needs” of a composite unity – including, for example, the need to evacuate areas where hurricanes are predicted to hit if one would preserve the composite unity and extend for awhile the continued manifestation of conscious-energy therein – could be deemed sane and logical.
To assume false identities – such as “The Faithful One” Or “The Good Religious or Spiritual Person Who Does Not Question The Teaching That 'Sometimes God Works In Mysterious Ways' ” (believing that their god uses storms and floods and earthquakes and tornadoes and fires to punish or kill people) – is to set the stage for persons to believe in phony, dreamed-up “needs” which are personality-generated and based in delusion and illusions and ignorance. That preempts any chance for sanity and logic to manifest.
To be free is to be free of the influence of three of traits of the Ultimate Sickness that Maharaj identified, specifically, “ignorance, stupidity and insanity.”
IMPRISONMENT COMES after years of programming and conditioning and domestication and acculturation and brainwashing and indoctrination (as well as pressuring or punishing those who question the erroneous beliefs that are held among the non-Realized masses and that are based in blind faith).
FREEDOM COMES when everything is questioned – including every comment that you are still making or repeating – and after all beliefs that are based in blind faith are discarded.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
6 May 2014
F.: The notion of having blind faith and accepting without question what one has been told is not new. One action required for over five thousand years of religious teachings has crossed all religious and sectarian and denominational lines because all religions require their followers to take one action unwaveringly: namely, they all demand unquestioning, blind faith.
The dogma set forth by all of the “mainstream” organized religions on the planet have needed to take that approach because not once has any god or goddess appeared and allowed humans to see him / her / it / them. “You just gotta have faith.”
And religions have historically taken that approach with vehemence by placing under house arrest wise persons who questioned the “conventional wisdom” of religious leaders or by torturing those challenging dogma or by burning such wise people at the stake or by using all sorts of barbaric methods to punish and torment and murder those who do not blindly accept such “conventional wisdom” and “sacred, holy dogma.”
For centuries, the Romans and Greeks offered peculiar explanations to try to explain natural phenomena by referencing “the will of the gods” who happened to have human qualities. (“Evolution deniers” today believe the same, that there is a god who made man in god's image and then used a rib from man to make the first woman.) But a few questioners have always been around to raise doubts, though they were usually either dismissed as being “ignorant” or “crazy” or they were eliminated.
However, the invitation to abandon blind faith and to question everything that you have ever been told is not new, either. Non-dual teachers have offered the invitation for many millennia.
More than 1,400 years ago, a man named Thales of Miletus arrived on the scene in what is now Turkey and attempted to explain natural phenomena without reference to mythology or gods or goddesses. He would eventually reject all mythological, god-involved explanations entirely regarding natural events. He made clear that dreaded events such as storms and floods and earthquakes and tornadoes and fires were a result of natural causes and not the result of supernatural, divine causes, instigated by an angry god.
Yet today, the majority of persons still believe that a god or gods and goddesses control every event that happens on the planet and that storms and floods and earthquakes and tornadoes and fires are among the instruments of divine intervention that a god or gods or goddesses use to punish people who are not living in "the right and god-pleasing manner."
(The Dalai Lama still makes similar claims, declaring that Hurricane Katrina, which devastated the city of New Orleans in 2005, did so because of “the negative karma of the people living there.”)
Even in 2014, those that explain the causes of natural phenomena by offering rational, scientific explanations which deny the existence of any angry god that uses storms and floods and earthquakes and tornadoes and fires to punish humans are still frowned upon by the faithful.
The actual (relative) “needs” of a composite unity – including, for example, the need to evacuate areas where hurricanes are predicted to hit if one would preserve the composite unity and extend for awhile the continued manifestation of conscious-energy therein – could be deemed sane and logical.
To assume false identities – such as “The Faithful One” Or “The Good Religious or Spiritual Person Who Does Not Question The Teaching That 'Sometimes God Works In Mysterious Ways' ” (believing that their god uses storms and floods and earthquakes and tornadoes and fires to punish or kill people) – is to set the stage for persons to believe in phony, dreamed-up “needs” which are personality-generated and based in delusion and illusions and ignorance. That preempts any chance for sanity and logic to manifest.
To be free is to be free of the influence of three of traits of the Ultimate Sickness that Maharaj identified, specifically, “ignorance, stupidity and insanity.”
IMPRISONMENT COMES after years of programming and conditioning and domestication and acculturation and brainwashing and indoctrination (as well as pressuring or punishing those who question the erroneous beliefs that are held among the non-Realized masses and that are based in blind faith).
FREEDOM COMES when everything is questioned – including every comment that you are still making or repeating – and after all beliefs that are based in blind faith are discarded.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
6 May 2014
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: When was the last time the non-Realized masses heard anything that was not a part of the body of accumulated nonsense and universally-accepted ignorance that is constantly being heard around the globe? Likely, never.
When was the last time the non-Realized masses heard anything that was not a part of the body of accumulated nonsense and universally-accepted ignorance that that is constantly being spoken around the globe, but (a) refused to accept the nonsense and ignorance at face value, (b) questioned it objectively instead, and (c) then rejected it outright because it was seen to be nonsense and ignorance? Likely, never.
When did the non-Realized masses (a) hear something that was a part of the body of accumulated nonsense and universally-accepted ignorance that is constantly being spoken around the globe, (b) accept it on blind faith, causing the nonsense and ignorance to be filed away in the part of the brain called “the mind” (where all nonsense and ignorance is stored) and then (c) started repeating it themselves in the manner of a parrot talking in its sleep? Likely, all their lives.
On the too-long and too-arduous “path” that “floyd” took during the seeking phase of “the journey,” all of the above characterized the doingness that took place. Nothing “new” was heard, though there was the seeking out of one speaker or writer or teacher or sponsor after another, each of whom took the same ignorant, myth-and-superstition-based tales that have been told for centuries and put their own “spin” to those tales.
Those ignorant tales repeated by ignorant humans to what became more ignorant humans have been told and heard and repeated since the first human attributed the cause of totally-natural-but-not-always-welcome events in “this world” (floods, earthquakes, devastating storms) to some dreamed up, supernatural Power residing in “another world” (which was just an upgraded version of “this world,” as in “there are streets there too, but the streets there are paved with gold”).
Nothing “new” or different was heard or seen. As a child, “floyd” was taken to a place where there was a pre-gathering. There, some socializing took place while the adults drank their coffee, after which all went into a different part of the place, a part that was deemed to be “more special” than the first part of the building. There, there would be an opening prayer. Then religious / spiritual things would be discussed. Soon, a basket was passed around to collect donations. Next, a spiritual message was offered. At the end, all stood and joined hands and recited the “Lord’s Prayer” in unison.
As an adult, he was taken to a place where there was a pre-gathering. There, some socializing took place while the adults drank their coffee, after which all went into a different part of the place, a part that was deemed to be “more special” than the first part of the building. There, there would be an opening prayer. Then religious / spiritual things would be discussed. Soon, a basket was passed around to collect donations. Next, a spiritual message was offered. At the end, all stood and joined hands and recited the “Lord’s Prayer” in unison. Nothing new. Just the same-old, same-old with a different name applied, just the same-old, same-old merely disguised as something other than the Christian religious service that it is.
Around the globe, there are similar gatherings where some focal character – Moses, Jesus, Mohammed, or hundreds and thousands of gods and goddesses – are heralded as being worship-worthy.
Before Jesus, there were twenty-two religions founded in honor of a virgin-born child who was sent to “save the people of the world,” to bring light, or to provide a means by which the suffering and misery of “this world” could be transcended and by which the reward of an eternal life of happiness and bliss could be enjoyed in an “upgraded version of this world.” Jesus . . . born of a virgin and sent to save the world? Nothing new. Same-old, same-old.
Buddha. Virgin birth. Same-old, same-old. Christ. Virgin birth. Same-old, same old. Mohammed. Virgin birth. Same-old, same-old. Nothing new.
Religions / cults / sky cults for thousands of years have told the same tales about a great flood, about a “sacrificing of one to help many,” and about a resurrected being. Nothing new.
Self-help and step groups repeat their same-old, trite lines over and over, and new members hear the lines and are soon joining in the repetition. Nothing new.
Big name teachers take parts of the non-dual teachings and then blend in some elements that are popular among the masses (“attaining success,” “attaining power,” "getting power now," “fulfilling desires”) in order to gain mass appeal / mass sales for their books or seminars. Nothing new there.
Most groups have a key book, a special book, a big book, a “holy” text or some other supposedly-exceptional writing or writings that are to be studied and quoted. Nothing new.
The search here ended when, finally, something “new” (which was actually very old) was revealed. It can be referred to as “the Direct Path” approach to the non-dual understanding, combined with the Natural (Nisarga) Yoga. New it was, at least to “floyd.”
All the same-old, same-old – not different at all, just appearing to be different as a result of being wrapped in different kinds of pretty paper before being presented to the masses - did nothing to bring the peace and freedom that came with the Understanding. And the Understanding was different from all else:
******
Everywhere else: there is much to learn.
Here: there is nothing to learn, but there is much to unlearn.
******
Everywhere else: there are special people to be listened to and followed forever.
Here: there is nothing special and there is no one that is special. Merely hear, understand, and then be done with it all, once and for all.
******
Everywhere else: keep coming back.
In a loft in old Bombay: don’t keep coming back. Understand, then go forth and abide naturally.
Here: don’t keep coming back. Visit until you understand, then go forth and abide naturally.
(The exception: when one is similar to Jean Dunn who did come back time and again but "just to dance the dance of Oneness with her partner, Maharaj." All are also invited to the dance here, if they are willing to dance lightly.)
******
Everywhere else: make it a habit to attend regularly, listen to what is said, store what is said in your mind, then constantly repeat what you have heard (no matter that "their" process makes you behave like a parrot or like the dummy on the lap of a ventriloquist or like a marionette dangling on the ends of the strings that "they" are pulling.)
Here: stop acting like a parrot or like the dummy on the lap of a ventriloquist or like a marionette.
******
The thing about a ventriloquist's dummy is that it appears to be choosing its words and appears to be saying those words and appears to be moving on its own. But if you step behind the dummy, you will see that there is a previously-unseen force that is driving the supposed thoughts and words and actions of the dummy.
The dummy can choose nothing. The same is the case with “dummies” who have been programmed and conditioned and acculturated and domesticated and indoctrinated and brainwashed.
The driving force behind such dummies’ thoughts and words and actions all around the globe are the controlling influences referenced in yesterday picture-post: parental influences; cultural influences; the influence of the teachings of cults / sky cults / religions / spiritual groups whose teaching have been accepted without question and are being repeated without question;
“their words”; “their” thoughts; “their” actions which are now being mimicked; false identities / ego; egotism and other defense mechanisms that support false identities; depression and / or fear and / or anger; beliefs; society; and your culture.
If you understand that the closest you can come to “an identity” during the manifestation is to see “yourself” as nothing more than a temporarily-manifested composite unity, no personality can be assumed as an identity. Then, the actual (relative) “needs” of a composite unity can be addressed, but there will be no attention paid to phony, dreamed-up “needs” which are personality-generated and based in delusion and illusions.
The message here is “new” for many; it is “different” from most messages. It suggests that there are no holy books; no holy men; no holy women; no holy concepts; no do-er; nothing personal (including “humans” and including “a personal god” and including all dreamed up “gods” and “goddesses”);
the message also includes the following: there is nothing to learn but there is much to unlearn; there is nothing to be taught but there is much to be un-taught; there is nothing that you must repeat over and over; there is nothing and no one that is “special”; there is nothing here that is unnatural that will be recommended; and there is nothing that is believed to be supernatural (or “spiritual” or “other-worldly”).
Here, post-understanding, there are also no people who are behaving like parrots, dummies, or marionettes. Parrots, dummies, and marionettes can never be sane, reasonable, or logical, so they most assuredly cannot be free and they most assuredly cannot be content or happy, much less blissful.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
5 May 2014
F.: When was the last time the non-Realized masses heard anything that was not a part of the body of accumulated nonsense and universally-accepted ignorance that is constantly being heard around the globe? Likely, never.
When was the last time the non-Realized masses heard anything that was not a part of the body of accumulated nonsense and universally-accepted ignorance that that is constantly being spoken around the globe, but (a) refused to accept the nonsense and ignorance at face value, (b) questioned it objectively instead, and (c) then rejected it outright because it was seen to be nonsense and ignorance? Likely, never.
When did the non-Realized masses (a) hear something that was a part of the body of accumulated nonsense and universally-accepted ignorance that is constantly being spoken around the globe, (b) accept it on blind faith, causing the nonsense and ignorance to be filed away in the part of the brain called “the mind” (where all nonsense and ignorance is stored) and then (c) started repeating it themselves in the manner of a parrot talking in its sleep? Likely, all their lives.
On the too-long and too-arduous “path” that “floyd” took during the seeking phase of “the journey,” all of the above characterized the doingness that took place. Nothing “new” was heard, though there was the seeking out of one speaker or writer or teacher or sponsor after another, each of whom took the same ignorant, myth-and-superstition-based tales that have been told for centuries and put their own “spin” to those tales.
Those ignorant tales repeated by ignorant humans to what became more ignorant humans have been told and heard and repeated since the first human attributed the cause of totally-natural-but-not-always-welcome events in “this world” (floods, earthquakes, devastating storms) to some dreamed up, supernatural Power residing in “another world” (which was just an upgraded version of “this world,” as in “there are streets there too, but the streets there are paved with gold”).
Nothing “new” or different was heard or seen. As a child, “floyd” was taken to a place where there was a pre-gathering. There, some socializing took place while the adults drank their coffee, after which all went into a different part of the place, a part that was deemed to be “more special” than the first part of the building. There, there would be an opening prayer. Then religious / spiritual things would be discussed. Soon, a basket was passed around to collect donations. Next, a spiritual message was offered. At the end, all stood and joined hands and recited the “Lord’s Prayer” in unison.
As an adult, he was taken to a place where there was a pre-gathering. There, some socializing took place while the adults drank their coffee, after which all went into a different part of the place, a part that was deemed to be “more special” than the first part of the building. There, there would be an opening prayer. Then religious / spiritual things would be discussed. Soon, a basket was passed around to collect donations. Next, a spiritual message was offered. At the end, all stood and joined hands and recited the “Lord’s Prayer” in unison. Nothing new. Just the same-old, same-old with a different name applied, just the same-old, same-old merely disguised as something other than the Christian religious service that it is.
Around the globe, there are similar gatherings where some focal character – Moses, Jesus, Mohammed, or hundreds and thousands of gods and goddesses – are heralded as being worship-worthy.
Before Jesus, there were twenty-two religions founded in honor of a virgin-born child who was sent to “save the people of the world,” to bring light, or to provide a means by which the suffering and misery of “this world” could be transcended and by which the reward of an eternal life of happiness and bliss could be enjoyed in an “upgraded version of this world.” Jesus . . . born of a virgin and sent to save the world? Nothing new. Same-old, same-old.
Buddha. Virgin birth. Same-old, same-old. Christ. Virgin birth. Same-old, same old. Mohammed. Virgin birth. Same-old, same-old. Nothing new.
Religions / cults / sky cults for thousands of years have told the same tales about a great flood, about a “sacrificing of one to help many,” and about a resurrected being. Nothing new.
Self-help and step groups repeat their same-old, trite lines over and over, and new members hear the lines and are soon joining in the repetition. Nothing new.
Big name teachers take parts of the non-dual teachings and then blend in some elements that are popular among the masses (“attaining success,” “attaining power,” "getting power now," “fulfilling desires”) in order to gain mass appeal / mass sales for their books or seminars. Nothing new there.
Most groups have a key book, a special book, a big book, a “holy” text or some other supposedly-exceptional writing or writings that are to be studied and quoted. Nothing new.
The search here ended when, finally, something “new” (which was actually very old) was revealed. It can be referred to as “the Direct Path” approach to the non-dual understanding, combined with the Natural (Nisarga) Yoga. New it was, at least to “floyd.”
All the same-old, same-old – not different at all, just appearing to be different as a result of being wrapped in different kinds of pretty paper before being presented to the masses - did nothing to bring the peace and freedom that came with the Understanding. And the Understanding was different from all else:
******
Everywhere else: there is much to learn.
Here: there is nothing to learn, but there is much to unlearn.
******
Everywhere else: there are special people to be listened to and followed forever.
Here: there is nothing special and there is no one that is special. Merely hear, understand, and then be done with it all, once and for all.
******
Everywhere else: keep coming back.
In a loft in old Bombay: don’t keep coming back. Understand, then go forth and abide naturally.
Here: don’t keep coming back. Visit until you understand, then go forth and abide naturally.
(The exception: when one is similar to Jean Dunn who did come back time and again but "just to dance the dance of Oneness with her partner, Maharaj." All are also invited to the dance here, if they are willing to dance lightly.)
******
Everywhere else: make it a habit to attend regularly, listen to what is said, store what is said in your mind, then constantly repeat what you have heard (no matter that "their" process makes you behave like a parrot or like the dummy on the lap of a ventriloquist or like a marionette dangling on the ends of the strings that "they" are pulling.)
Here: stop acting like a parrot or like the dummy on the lap of a ventriloquist or like a marionette.
******
The thing about a ventriloquist's dummy is that it appears to be choosing its words and appears to be saying those words and appears to be moving on its own. But if you step behind the dummy, you will see that there is a previously-unseen force that is driving the supposed thoughts and words and actions of the dummy.
The dummy can choose nothing. The same is the case with “dummies” who have been programmed and conditioned and acculturated and domesticated and indoctrinated and brainwashed.
The driving force behind such dummies’ thoughts and words and actions all around the globe are the controlling influences referenced in yesterday picture-post: parental influences; cultural influences; the influence of the teachings of cults / sky cults / religions / spiritual groups whose teaching have been accepted without question and are being repeated without question;
“their words”; “their” thoughts; “their” actions which are now being mimicked; false identities / ego; egotism and other defense mechanisms that support false identities; depression and / or fear and / or anger; beliefs; society; and your culture.
If you understand that the closest you can come to “an identity” during the manifestation is to see “yourself” as nothing more than a temporarily-manifested composite unity, no personality can be assumed as an identity. Then, the actual (relative) “needs” of a composite unity can be addressed, but there will be no attention paid to phony, dreamed-up “needs” which are personality-generated and based in delusion and illusions.
The message here is “new” for many; it is “different” from most messages. It suggests that there are no holy books; no holy men; no holy women; no holy concepts; no do-er; nothing personal (including “humans” and including “a personal god” and including all dreamed up “gods” and “goddesses”);
the message also includes the following: there is nothing to learn but there is much to unlearn; there is nothing to be taught but there is much to be un-taught; there is nothing that you must repeat over and over; there is nothing and no one that is “special”; there is nothing here that is unnatural that will be recommended; and there is nothing that is believed to be supernatural (or “spiritual” or “other-worldly”).
Here, post-understanding, there are also no people who are behaving like parrots, dummies, or marionettes. Parrots, dummies, and marionettes can never be sane, reasonable, or logical, so they most assuredly cannot be free and they most assuredly cannot be content or happy, much less blissful.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
5 May 2014
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: Today, four pictures are going to be shared along with the invitation for you to consider the message they offer for you.
CONSIDERATION 1:
If one would be free, wouldn't the prerequisite be to know exactly what is causing you not to be free? If you are being manipulated and controlled by a variety of factors - many of which were already set in place by the time you were the age of six - would you not need to know what each factor is so that you can address each and every one?
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
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F.: Today, four pictures are going to be shared along with the invitation for you to consider the message they offer for you.
CONSIDERATION 1:
If one would be free, wouldn't the prerequisite be to know exactly what is causing you not to be free? If you are being manipulated and controlled by a variety of factors - many of which were already set in place by the time you were the age of six - would you not need to know what each factor is so that you can address each and every one?
CONSIDERATION #2:
Some of the answers that seekers have provided during retreats or Skype sessions include the following. Can you identify all of the factors that have been controlling your thoughts and words and actions? What are the strings in your case?
CONSIDERATION #3:
Is it possible that in some cases the Understanding can remove the factors which were set in place decades before and that have been controlling persons' thoughts and words and actions even as those persons have been thinking that they were making choices all along?
CONSIDERATION #4:
Is
it possible that in some cases the Understanding can remove only some of the factors that are at play and that in those cases, the skills of trained professionals are required in order for persons to be administered the full dosage of the Ultimate Medicine (which is required to eradicate every vestige of the Ultimate Sickness and which is required to remove all of the remaining attachments that are still unconsciously controlling them and robbing them of total independence and unchecked freedom)?
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
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A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: One point Maharaj made over and over is that this whole deal - this entire understanding - is really so very simple: "There is no question of elevating to a higher level. Here it is only a question of understanding” and "There is no progress."
See how truly simple this deal is:
Is it LIBERATION and FREEDOM that you seek?
Then find the personas / personalities that are robbing you of freedom of choice by subconsciously driving your every thought, word and action; then, set aside the belief in those personas and be free of their influence.
I don’t care who your parents told you that you are or who your culture has told you that you are. You are not that. You are none of those roles, so stop acting in the way that you think those roles are “supposed” to act.
Here’s the invitation:
Stop saying the words that your culture – on a daily basis – suggests by example are the proper words for any given role to say. You have blindly and unquestioning repeated those words as if you were the one who came up with them rather than seeing that “they” came up with them. Leave Parrots Anonymous once and for all. Stop with all the "Braaaaak!" Stop blindly repeating the nonsense that you have heard and that you still hear. What you hear others say is far too easy to believe. Imagine the effect of hearing yourself then saying the same.
Give up your membership in that sleep-talking group and in all sleep-talking groups if you would distance yourself from the insanity of what the non-Realized call, "the world." Find the real motives behind your tolerance for BS, whether that includes listening to it, buying into it, and / or passing it on.
Stop thinking the thoughts that your culture – on a daily basis – suggests by example are the proper thoughts for any given role to think.
Stop doing the things that your culture – on a daily basis – suggests by example are the proper things for any given role to do.
And stop being a prisoner of the mind that “they” created inside a section of your brain, the part where “they” passed on - and where you now store - what Maharaj called their ignorance and stupidity and insanity.
See the truth of what Maharaj shared regarding the mind: “There is no such thing as mind” and “I have no mind . . . .” Every belief that you hang onto forms one of the bars that has been used to make the prison of your mind. Want to be free? Toss away the bars of your prison and walk away . . . free. Simple.
Is it ENLIGHTENMENT that you seek?
Allow me to turn on the light for you, and then see. See clearly. See truth. How to know it when you see it? Simple: it is the 180-degree-opposite of everything you have been told and taught and shown in your culture and that has been passed on to you by all the institutions of your culture that you have attached yourself to. Detach.
Cast aside the ego-and-egotism-based-comments about how great your parents were. There is no “one” who is great. There are composite unities, and nothing about plant food elements or the air or conscious-energy is “great.”
Wake up to the truth of what has been passed on to you. The praising and idolizing of parents is nothing more than a self-congratulatory, back-handed way for you to compliment yourself on how great you’ve turned out because of how great they were. “Great loins produce great products.” Nonsense. Ego (the false “I”) is a lie, so the egotism that supports the ego is a lie, so any beliefs based in ego and egotism are lies.
See and admit that you were raised in a way that eventually amounted to your having been dropped into a dark forest. See that you have been wandering . . . lost . . . in the darkness ever since.
See that there are those in your culture who are playing the role of “The Bringers of Light”:
1. They include parents with no training at all in child-rearing, parents who are completely devoid of any and all child-rearing skills and who are completely in the dark about how to raise a normal child. Being abnormal themselves, and in the dark themselves, they can only bring more darkness.
2. They include religious persons who claim that they understand supposedly holy words in supposedly holy books and that they alone can tell you the proper way to live. They tell you that their methods alone can give you peace. They tell you they have "The Answer." (Why not ask them to give it to you, now, so you can quit going back to them once a week, three times a week, seven days a week, or five times a day and then simply abide naturally instead?)
Note that they think a multi-billion-year-old universe is only about 6000 years old; note that they think it is noble to worship a god who they admit was a mass murderer who engaged in the largest act of genocide ever, having supposedly killed everyone on the planet except for one family; or note that they tell you that there are thousands of gods and goddesses that you must study and worship and that they tell you that you should attend religious festivals to worship those gods and goddesses (in spite of the possibility that you will be killed at the festival during one of the often-occurring human stampedes that take place there.). Note that they tell you that you can be born again when you were not even born once. How could they in such darkness possibly bring light?
They will tell you that it is a personal God or Gods or Goddesses who have made your body grow and who is the power in the world and who is the power of beingness. Maharaj: “From birth, what has made the body grow? It is no power in the world. It is the power of beingness, the atom, the Self, the consciousness . . . call it what you will.”
3. They include self-proclaimed spiritual persons who take that which should be simple but transform it - with the addition of all their concepts - into a second job that has to be worked at constantly. They think they have made “progress,” but they are in the darkness. They cannot bring light.
See that everything that they and religious people and parents have ever told you can be disproved, scientifically . . . factually: Maharaj: “When the birth is disproved, the great noble meaning of spirituality and the meaning of this world—everything—is disproved.”
Then, turn from them as Maharaj advised:
"Whatever spiritual things you aspire to know are all happening in this objective world, in the illusion. All this is happening in the objective world. All is dishonesty. There is no truth in this fraud."
"Only that person will visit this place whose virtue and sin have come to an end."
"Both the mantra and the faith in the mantra will get dissolved."
For all the spiritual and religious and philosophical talk in I AM THAT, the most direct pointers Maharaj offered contained less and less of the earlier "beating around the bush"; thus, he eventually said to two visitors, "Forget spirituality."
He encouraged seekers to follow "their normal inclinations," that is, to follow their natural tendencies, to abandon all of their spiritual work and just abide naturally - not unnaturally and not supernaturally (i.e., neither "religiously" nor "spiritually" nor "philosophically").
He told visitors, "Do your normal duties" and "just give up spirituality."
Want the light that can help you see? Then wake up first; open your eyes; witness objectively and purely. See every lie for the lie it is. See every belief for the false “conviction” that it is.
If you were asleep, someone could put the hot handle of a hot pan in your hand and you would not know it for a time. If you grab that same handle when awake, you let go of it fairly quickly. The same can happen if you finally see and then admit that only an insane person would accept as normal the abnormal, relative effects that are manifesting as a result of all of the nonsensical beliefs that you were given but have not questioned and have blindly accepted instead.
If you’re holding something that is not serving your best, relative interests, let it go. Set it aside. See? Simple.
Is it REALIZATION that you seek?
Then realize. Realize that every single one of your beliefs came from “them,” not from within. To be rid of all that came from “without” is the prerequisite for being able to tap into what is “within.”
Realize that no belief is true, that no one can tell you the truth, and that the truth can be known via the inner resource but not until you see and admit wholeheartedly that “they” have infected you with the germs of the Ultimate Sickness – the germs of ideas and concepts and notions and perceptions and views and opinions (a.k.a., “beliefs”). Realize that those germs always result in suffering from the key symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness, namely, what Maharaj called “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity.” You have seen the insanity of “others,” have you not? Now, see your own and turn from it.
And if you are in a group that has convinced you that you were insane when you used such-and-such in the past and that such-and-such made you act crazy and that now, because you are not using such-and-such anymore that your insanity has been lifted, then it’s time to get real and see what nonsense that belief is as well. It was not such-and-such that led to insanity but insanity that led to using such-and-such, so merely removing the use of such-and-such still leaves . . . the insanity.
Then, Realize that you are not who they told you that you are. Realize also that you are not anything that they have told you that you are.
Of course, all of the above is "just a suggestion."
Next, understand that imprisonment and freedom and happiness cannot co-exist; see, therefore, the last time that you were happy was the last time that you were free. When was that?
Long ago, my friend. Long ago.
It was when you were abiding in a . . .
pre-programmed,
pre-conditioned,
pre-adulterated,
pre-domesticated,
pre-acculturated,
pre-indoctrinated,
and
pre-brainwashed
state.
That state can be called “The Child Ignorance State” or “The Child No-Knowing Stage.”
Even as a no-knowing child, they were already telling you who you were, calling you by whatever name they came up with, as much the "not-you" as every other label that they would eventually also use.
But see, you did not buy into it at that point, did you? So, you were free. Were you fed? Dry? In an environment with a comfortable ambient temperature? Then you were free of hunger and free of discomfort, so you were content. That’s all you needed or wanted. No other desires were there.
The paralyzing fears of your adulthood were not yet believed in either. You were free so you were happy. Your actual (relative) “needs” had been met and no phony, dreamed-up “needs” (which are personality-generated and based in delusion and illusions) had yet been accepted as real.
It took almost nothing for you to be free and therefore happy. The same is the case now. You need but realize that.
Freedom? Simple. Enlightenment? Simple. Realization? Simple.
Do . . . do . . . do? No. See . . . see . . . see. So very simple.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
1 May 2014
F.: One point Maharaj made over and over is that this whole deal - this entire understanding - is really so very simple: "There is no question of elevating to a higher level. Here it is only a question of understanding” and "There is no progress."
See how truly simple this deal is:
Is it LIBERATION and FREEDOM that you seek?
Then find the personas / personalities that are robbing you of freedom of choice by subconsciously driving your every thought, word and action; then, set aside the belief in those personas and be free of their influence.
I don’t care who your parents told you that you are or who your culture has told you that you are. You are not that. You are none of those roles, so stop acting in the way that you think those roles are “supposed” to act.
Here’s the invitation:
Stop saying the words that your culture – on a daily basis – suggests by example are the proper words for any given role to say. You have blindly and unquestioning repeated those words as if you were the one who came up with them rather than seeing that “they” came up with them. Leave Parrots Anonymous once and for all. Stop with all the "Braaaaak!" Stop blindly repeating the nonsense that you have heard and that you still hear. What you hear others say is far too easy to believe. Imagine the effect of hearing yourself then saying the same.
Give up your membership in that sleep-talking group and in all sleep-talking groups if you would distance yourself from the insanity of what the non-Realized call, "the world." Find the real motives behind your tolerance for BS, whether that includes listening to it, buying into it, and / or passing it on.
Stop thinking the thoughts that your culture – on a daily basis – suggests by example are the proper thoughts for any given role to think.
Stop doing the things that your culture – on a daily basis – suggests by example are the proper things for any given role to do.
And stop being a prisoner of the mind that “they” created inside a section of your brain, the part where “they” passed on - and where you now store - what Maharaj called their ignorance and stupidity and insanity.
See the truth of what Maharaj shared regarding the mind: “There is no such thing as mind” and “I have no mind . . . .” Every belief that you hang onto forms one of the bars that has been used to make the prison of your mind. Want to be free? Toss away the bars of your prison and walk away . . . free. Simple.
Is it ENLIGHTENMENT that you seek?
Allow me to turn on the light for you, and then see. See clearly. See truth. How to know it when you see it? Simple: it is the 180-degree-opposite of everything you have been told and taught and shown in your culture and that has been passed on to you by all the institutions of your culture that you have attached yourself to. Detach.
Cast aside the ego-and-egotism-based-comments about how great your parents were. There is no “one” who is great. There are composite unities, and nothing about plant food elements or the air or conscious-energy is “great.”
Wake up to the truth of what has been passed on to you. The praising and idolizing of parents is nothing more than a self-congratulatory, back-handed way for you to compliment yourself on how great you’ve turned out because of how great they were. “Great loins produce great products.” Nonsense. Ego (the false “I”) is a lie, so the egotism that supports the ego is a lie, so any beliefs based in ego and egotism are lies.
See and admit that you were raised in a way that eventually amounted to your having been dropped into a dark forest. See that you have been wandering . . . lost . . . in the darkness ever since.
See that there are those in your culture who are playing the role of “The Bringers of Light”:
1. They include parents with no training at all in child-rearing, parents who are completely devoid of any and all child-rearing skills and who are completely in the dark about how to raise a normal child. Being abnormal themselves, and in the dark themselves, they can only bring more darkness.
2. They include religious persons who claim that they understand supposedly holy words in supposedly holy books and that they alone can tell you the proper way to live. They tell you that their methods alone can give you peace. They tell you they have "The Answer." (Why not ask them to give it to you, now, so you can quit going back to them once a week, three times a week, seven days a week, or five times a day and then simply abide naturally instead?)
Note that they think a multi-billion-year-old universe is only about 6000 years old; note that they think it is noble to worship a god who they admit was a mass murderer who engaged in the largest act of genocide ever, having supposedly killed everyone on the planet except for one family; or note that they tell you that there are thousands of gods and goddesses that you must study and worship and that they tell you that you should attend religious festivals to worship those gods and goddesses (in spite of the possibility that you will be killed at the festival during one of the often-occurring human stampedes that take place there.). Note that they tell you that you can be born again when you were not even born once. How could they in such darkness possibly bring light?
They will tell you that it is a personal God or Gods or Goddesses who have made your body grow and who is the power in the world and who is the power of beingness. Maharaj: “From birth, what has made the body grow? It is no power in the world. It is the power of beingness, the atom, the Self, the consciousness . . . call it what you will.”
3. They include self-proclaimed spiritual persons who take that which should be simple but transform it - with the addition of all their concepts - into a second job that has to be worked at constantly. They think they have made “progress,” but they are in the darkness. They cannot bring light.
See that everything that they and religious people and parents have ever told you can be disproved, scientifically . . . factually: Maharaj: “When the birth is disproved, the great noble meaning of spirituality and the meaning of this world—everything—is disproved.”
Then, turn from them as Maharaj advised:
"Whatever spiritual things you aspire to know are all happening in this objective world, in the illusion. All this is happening in the objective world. All is dishonesty. There is no truth in this fraud."
"Only that person will visit this place whose virtue and sin have come to an end."
"Both the mantra and the faith in the mantra will get dissolved."
For all the spiritual and religious and philosophical talk in I AM THAT, the most direct pointers Maharaj offered contained less and less of the earlier "beating around the bush"; thus, he eventually said to two visitors, "Forget spirituality."
He encouraged seekers to follow "their normal inclinations," that is, to follow their natural tendencies, to abandon all of their spiritual work and just abide naturally - not unnaturally and not supernaturally (i.e., neither "religiously" nor "spiritually" nor "philosophically").
He told visitors, "Do your normal duties" and "just give up spirituality."
Want the light that can help you see? Then wake up first; open your eyes; witness objectively and purely. See every lie for the lie it is. See every belief for the false “conviction” that it is.
If you were asleep, someone could put the hot handle of a hot pan in your hand and you would not know it for a time. If you grab that same handle when awake, you let go of it fairly quickly. The same can happen if you finally see and then admit that only an insane person would accept as normal the abnormal, relative effects that are manifesting as a result of all of the nonsensical beliefs that you were given but have not questioned and have blindly accepted instead.
If you’re holding something that is not serving your best, relative interests, let it go. Set it aside. See? Simple.
Is it REALIZATION that you seek?
Then realize. Realize that every single one of your beliefs came from “them,” not from within. To be rid of all that came from “without” is the prerequisite for being able to tap into what is “within.”
Realize that no belief is true, that no one can tell you the truth, and that the truth can be known via the inner resource but not until you see and admit wholeheartedly that “they” have infected you with the germs of the Ultimate Sickness – the germs of ideas and concepts and notions and perceptions and views and opinions (a.k.a., “beliefs”). Realize that those germs always result in suffering from the key symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness, namely, what Maharaj called “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity.” You have seen the insanity of “others,” have you not? Now, see your own and turn from it.
And if you are in a group that has convinced you that you were insane when you used such-and-such in the past and that such-and-such made you act crazy and that now, because you are not using such-and-such anymore that your insanity has been lifted, then it’s time to get real and see what nonsense that belief is as well. It was not such-and-such that led to insanity but insanity that led to using such-and-such, so merely removing the use of such-and-such still leaves . . . the insanity.
Then, Realize that you are not who they told you that you are. Realize also that you are not anything that they have told you that you are.
Of course, all of the above is "just a suggestion."
Next, understand that imprisonment and freedom and happiness cannot co-exist; see, therefore, the last time that you were happy was the last time that you were free. When was that?
Long ago, my friend. Long ago.
It was when you were abiding in a . . .
pre-programmed,
pre-conditioned,
pre-adulterated,
pre-domesticated,
pre-acculturated,
pre-indoctrinated,
and
pre-brainwashed
state.
That state can be called “The Child Ignorance State” or “The Child No-Knowing Stage.”
Even as a no-knowing child, they were already telling you who you were, calling you by whatever name they came up with, as much the "not-you" as every other label that they would eventually also use.
But see, you did not buy into it at that point, did you? So, you were free. Were you fed? Dry? In an environment with a comfortable ambient temperature? Then you were free of hunger and free of discomfort, so you were content. That’s all you needed or wanted. No other desires were there.
The paralyzing fears of your adulthood were not yet believed in either. You were free so you were happy. Your actual (relative) “needs” had been met and no phony, dreamed-up “needs” (which are personality-generated and based in delusion and illusions) had yet been accepted as real.
It took almost nothing for you to be free and therefore happy. The same is the case now. You need but realize that.
Freedom? Simple. Enlightenment? Simple. Realization? Simple.
Do . . . do . . . do? No. See . . . see . . . see. So very simple.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
1 May 2014
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: Yesterday, it was noted that often pointers from Maharaj have been criticized for being “contradictory.” The eBook below on “Maharaj’s Evolution” does note that some changes in the message occurred as his focus shifted over the years from one type of yoga to another, but it also notes that the essential non-dual, Direct Path message was a constant.
The book also notes, however, that his statements were “level appropriate” so, indeed, he might say “A” to a seeker at the second of seven steps and then, the next day, might say “not-‘A’-at-all” to a seeker that was at the fourth step.
Therefore, he could say to one seeker, “Question everything; don’t believe anything” but could tell another seeker, “Give up all questions except one: 'Who am I'? After all, the only fact you are sure of is that you are. The 'I am' is certain. The 'I am this' is not." It all depended on what the words of the various seekers make clear that they needed to hear at any given moment.
Initially, the “questioning of everything” is required because “everything” is initially transmitted (via the programming and conditioning and domestication and acculturation and brainwashing and indoctrination) at an age when most are too young and too intimidated to question anything.
Early on, the case with “floyd” - subjected to Southern Baptist Bible Study classes two times per week for years - was the case with many who heard such comments as:
“If you do not have faith in what you are taught, then you shall be cast into the burning flames of hell for eternity” (Miss Myrtle, “Volunteer Sunday School teacher”)
and
"Truly I say to you, if you have faith, and do not doubt, you shall not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, 'Be taken up and cast into the sea,' it shall happen” (Scripture often read to us)
and
“Faith is a living and unshakable confidence. a belief in God so assured that a man would die a thousand deaths for its sake.” (Martin Luther, with shades of the same, present-day attitude shared by many bomb-vest wearing fanatics of another religion).
The necessity of “faith without questioning” was even reinforced in public school classes. One of the “Daily Quotes” offered was this:
"Philosophical argument has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that was in me; but my heart has always assured me that the Gospel of Jesus Christ must be reality." (Daniel Webster)
So much for the myth of “one’s heart” being a reliable source of wisdom and truth. Why not one’s liver or one’s kidneys or one’s colon? Why “the heart?”
[As one whose experiences with persons in positions of authority had already set in stone the Type Four Personality (which - by the age of six – resulted in the questioning of everything as well as in rebelliousness, in disobedience, in noncompliance, and in disloyalty to parental-based, church-based, state-based, and community-based sources of nonsense and abuse) it was easy to question everything and to reject the entire body of nonsense that was deemed to be “the conventional wisdom of my society and culture.”]
It would be years later before the following words were read, words that resonated within, words that caused the inner guru – not “the heart” – to begin to vibrate over the excitement of knowing that people of wisdom were validating what I had felt within, even at the age of six:
Euripides: “Question everything.”
Socrates: "I seek truth and wisdom. . ." and “It is true that I encourage my students to question everything."
Buddha: “. . . Don’t go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies, by agreement through pondering views, by probability, or by the thought . . . .”
and
Siddhārtha Gautama: “Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it”
and, eventually,
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj: “Question everything; don’t believe anything.”
Does that apply to all elements of the non-dual teachings as well? Of course.
How much more status or prominence or even eminence is given to the “THAT-ness” over the “AM-ness”? Compared to the attention and value given to the IS-ness, how much more attention and value is assigned to the following:
“Liberation”
“Enlightenment”
“Realization”
“True Self” / “Real Self”
The “Infinite Self”
The “Supreme Self”
Maharaj put the last two in perspective when he advised, again: “Give up all questions except one: 'Who am I'? After all, the only fact you are sure of is that you are. The 'I am' is certain. The 'I am this' is not." (By the way, the “I am that” is not, either.)
As for "True Self" or "Real Self," those terms simply point to the Pure Witnessing (which happens almost never on this planet but is far from "special").
And then his eventual advice was that one need not even find the answer to “Who am I?” noting that it is enough to know who / what you are not (meaning you are not any of the nine basic personality types that are driving you and you are not any of the other scores of false identities which have been assigned or assumed along the way and that are driving and controlling your thoughts and words and actions).
Not necessary to know who you are? Again, non-dual heresy, right?
And that notion of heresy will prevail among all except for those that come to understand that the AM-ness is all that you can ever know. Post-manifestation, there is no vehicle for the continued manifestation of consciousness and no continuation of a vehicle for the manifestation of awareness.
As was the case prior to the manifestation, there was awareness-energy that was not aware of, and there was the potentiality for conscious-energy to manifest and become blocked and then become unblocked via a seven-step “path” and then eventually be conscious of awareness, allowing for awareness to be aware of itself.
But post-manifestation? There remains only the formerly-manifested conscious-energy that is no longer manifested and, therefore, no longer capable of conscious-of-ness or aware-of-ness.
So wherefore all the pride around “Liberation” and “Enlightenment” and “Realization” if the AM-ness is that which is available to you right now and if the THAT-ness shall not be known at all post-manifestation?
“Liberation” merely refers to the pre-programmed, pre-conditioned state of the conscious-energy when no personalities were being assumed as identities. “Liberation” simply refers to being liberated from personality.
Is “Enlightenment” any nobler? Not at all. Suppose you walk into a dark or semi-dark room where a rope is coiled up, a rope that appears to be a snake, and you suddenly experience fear - a distressing emotion aroused by a perceived threat. Is it really “noble” if you turn on a light and see the reality of the facts and then calm down as a result of understanding that your fears were unfounded, based only in the fact that you had been totally mistaken about what you had formerly believed in wholeheartedly? No. It is not. There is nothing noble about “enlightenment.”
As for “Realization,” is that elevating and noble? “Realization” merely points to the condition of realizing that all which is false had once been taken to be truth. Does realizing that you had been fooled and that you had believed lies and that you had accepted ignorant concepts as truth as a result of being programmed to question nothing . . . does realizing all of that suddenly make you different from and better than those still trapped in the foolishness and the lies and the ignorance that you have possibly left behind though they have not?
Of course not. All that there is for you is right now. All that can happen with you can only happen now . . . not later. As Maharaj noted, you were never born once, so how could you be born again?
Post-manifestation, there is no you or You, no self or Self, nothing supreme or Supreme. (There it is again, yes? Unadulterated non-dual heresy. Ha.) If one is seeking “something better,” you best go for it now because there is nothing better that awaits you post-manifestation.
One man who started the “personality work” here last week offered a perspective that is aligned with the pointers above. He wrote to offer thanks for the pointers shared recently and said, “I would like to be free. I have not a clue about realized or not and realize that it most likely happens or doesn’t, so [either way] bring it on.”
That is, bring on the freedom . . . the freedom of no longer being driven by the hidden, subconscious agendas of false identities and bogus personalities and phony roles that enslave persons as a result of taking away their ability to make conscious decisions even as they are abiding under the delusional belief that conscious choices are being made.
And bring on the freedom from having old egotism-based beliefs replaced by new egotism-based beliefs about supposedly being enlightened and supposedly being realized and therefore supposedly being different from and better than those who are not yet liberated and enlightened and realized.
Here, there is nothing that is believed, so there is no one here who wants you to believe anything, either. That runs contrary to the agenda of every religion and faith and spiritual movement and spiritual group and ideology and philosophy and cult and sky cult and self-help group and sect and denomination and think-tank and party and faction and bloc that you’ll ever find.
Here, the invitation is to be free . . . free of all that you have been programmed, conditioned, acculturated, and domesticated to believe so that you can be free, period. Why? Because you need not put off living – and living in a totally free manner - any longer. It’s time to live, now.
This was shared four years ago:
As a youth, summers were spent in the woods of east Texas with that Cherokee Grandmother whose every word was a link in the long chain of wisdom she offered. In past postings, this line from a song of the indigenous peoples has been repeated:
“Winds of life are blowing across the reservation and I can hear the voice of a new generation . . . and it's time, yes it's time, to live.”
When the winds of change blow away the blockages that support the illusory, inauthentic life, only then can that which is called "life" be relished as the Absolute (and even the Nothingness) are overlaid on the relative existence and allow authenticity and sanity and logic and reason to take root.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
30 April 2014
F.: Yesterday, it was noted that often pointers from Maharaj have been criticized for being “contradictory.” The eBook below on “Maharaj’s Evolution” does note that some changes in the message occurred as his focus shifted over the years from one type of yoga to another, but it also notes that the essential non-dual, Direct Path message was a constant.
The book also notes, however, that his statements were “level appropriate” so, indeed, he might say “A” to a seeker at the second of seven steps and then, the next day, might say “not-‘A’-at-all” to a seeker that was at the fourth step.
Therefore, he could say to one seeker, “Question everything; don’t believe anything” but could tell another seeker, “Give up all questions except one: 'Who am I'? After all, the only fact you are sure of is that you are. The 'I am' is certain. The 'I am this' is not." It all depended on what the words of the various seekers make clear that they needed to hear at any given moment.
Initially, the “questioning of everything” is required because “everything” is initially transmitted (via the programming and conditioning and domestication and acculturation and brainwashing and indoctrination) at an age when most are too young and too intimidated to question anything.
Early on, the case with “floyd” - subjected to Southern Baptist Bible Study classes two times per week for years - was the case with many who heard such comments as:
“If you do not have faith in what you are taught, then you shall be cast into the burning flames of hell for eternity” (Miss Myrtle, “Volunteer Sunday School teacher”)
and
"Truly I say to you, if you have faith, and do not doubt, you shall not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, 'Be taken up and cast into the sea,' it shall happen” (Scripture often read to us)
and
“Faith is a living and unshakable confidence. a belief in God so assured that a man would die a thousand deaths for its sake.” (Martin Luther, with shades of the same, present-day attitude shared by many bomb-vest wearing fanatics of another religion).
The necessity of “faith without questioning” was even reinforced in public school classes. One of the “Daily Quotes” offered was this:
"Philosophical argument has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that was in me; but my heart has always assured me that the Gospel of Jesus Christ must be reality." (Daniel Webster)
So much for the myth of “one’s heart” being a reliable source of wisdom and truth. Why not one’s liver or one’s kidneys or one’s colon? Why “the heart?”
[As one whose experiences with persons in positions of authority had already set in stone the Type Four Personality (which - by the age of six – resulted in the questioning of everything as well as in rebelliousness, in disobedience, in noncompliance, and in disloyalty to parental-based, church-based, state-based, and community-based sources of nonsense and abuse) it was easy to question everything and to reject the entire body of nonsense that was deemed to be “the conventional wisdom of my society and culture.”]
It would be years later before the following words were read, words that resonated within, words that caused the inner guru – not “the heart” – to begin to vibrate over the excitement of knowing that people of wisdom were validating what I had felt within, even at the age of six:
Euripides: “Question everything.”
Socrates: "I seek truth and wisdom. . ." and “It is true that I encourage my students to question everything."
Buddha: “. . . Don’t go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies, by agreement through pondering views, by probability, or by the thought . . . .”
and
Siddhārtha Gautama: “Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it”
and, eventually,
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj: “Question everything; don’t believe anything.”
Does that apply to all elements of the non-dual teachings as well? Of course.
How much more status or prominence or even eminence is given to the “THAT-ness” over the “AM-ness”? Compared to the attention and value given to the IS-ness, how much more attention and value is assigned to the following:
“Liberation”
“Enlightenment”
“Realization”
“True Self” / “Real Self”
The “Infinite Self”
The “Supreme Self”
Maharaj put the last two in perspective when he advised, again: “Give up all questions except one: 'Who am I'? After all, the only fact you are sure of is that you are. The 'I am' is certain. The 'I am this' is not." (By the way, the “I am that” is not, either.)
As for "True Self" or "Real Self," those terms simply point to the Pure Witnessing (which happens almost never on this planet but is far from "special").
And then his eventual advice was that one need not even find the answer to “Who am I?” noting that it is enough to know who / what you are not (meaning you are not any of the nine basic personality types that are driving you and you are not any of the other scores of false identities which have been assigned or assumed along the way and that are driving and controlling your thoughts and words and actions).
Not necessary to know who you are? Again, non-dual heresy, right?
And that notion of heresy will prevail among all except for those that come to understand that the AM-ness is all that you can ever know. Post-manifestation, there is no vehicle for the continued manifestation of consciousness and no continuation of a vehicle for the manifestation of awareness.
As was the case prior to the manifestation, there was awareness-energy that was not aware of, and there was the potentiality for conscious-energy to manifest and become blocked and then become unblocked via a seven-step “path” and then eventually be conscious of awareness, allowing for awareness to be aware of itself.
But post-manifestation? There remains only the formerly-manifested conscious-energy that is no longer manifested and, therefore, no longer capable of conscious-of-ness or aware-of-ness.
So wherefore all the pride around “Liberation” and “Enlightenment” and “Realization” if the AM-ness is that which is available to you right now and if the THAT-ness shall not be known at all post-manifestation?
“Liberation” merely refers to the pre-programmed, pre-conditioned state of the conscious-energy when no personalities were being assumed as identities. “Liberation” simply refers to being liberated from personality.
Is “Enlightenment” any nobler? Not at all. Suppose you walk into a dark or semi-dark room where a rope is coiled up, a rope that appears to be a snake, and you suddenly experience fear - a distressing emotion aroused by a perceived threat. Is it really “noble” if you turn on a light and see the reality of the facts and then calm down as a result of understanding that your fears were unfounded, based only in the fact that you had been totally mistaken about what you had formerly believed in wholeheartedly? No. It is not. There is nothing noble about “enlightenment.”
As for “Realization,” is that elevating and noble? “Realization” merely points to the condition of realizing that all which is false had once been taken to be truth. Does realizing that you had been fooled and that you had believed lies and that you had accepted ignorant concepts as truth as a result of being programmed to question nothing . . . does realizing all of that suddenly make you different from and better than those still trapped in the foolishness and the lies and the ignorance that you have possibly left behind though they have not?
Of course not. All that there is for you is right now. All that can happen with you can only happen now . . . not later. As Maharaj noted, you were never born once, so how could you be born again?
Post-manifestation, there is no you or You, no self or Self, nothing supreme or Supreme. (There it is again, yes? Unadulterated non-dual heresy. Ha.) If one is seeking “something better,” you best go for it now because there is nothing better that awaits you post-manifestation.
One man who started the “personality work” here last week offered a perspective that is aligned with the pointers above. He wrote to offer thanks for the pointers shared recently and said, “I would like to be free. I have not a clue about realized or not and realize that it most likely happens or doesn’t, so [either way] bring it on.”
That is, bring on the freedom . . . the freedom of no longer being driven by the hidden, subconscious agendas of false identities and bogus personalities and phony roles that enslave persons as a result of taking away their ability to make conscious decisions even as they are abiding under the delusional belief that conscious choices are being made.
And bring on the freedom from having old egotism-based beliefs replaced by new egotism-based beliefs about supposedly being enlightened and supposedly being realized and therefore supposedly being different from and better than those who are not yet liberated and enlightened and realized.
Here, there is nothing that is believed, so there is no one here who wants you to believe anything, either. That runs contrary to the agenda of every religion and faith and spiritual movement and spiritual group and ideology and philosophy and cult and sky cult and self-help group and sect and denomination and think-tank and party and faction and bloc that you’ll ever find.
Here, the invitation is to be free . . . free of all that you have been programmed, conditioned, acculturated, and domesticated to believe so that you can be free, period. Why? Because you need not put off living – and living in a totally free manner - any longer. It’s time to live, now.
This was shared four years ago:
As a youth, summers were spent in the woods of east Texas with that Cherokee Grandmother whose every word was a link in the long chain of wisdom she offered. In past postings, this line from a song of the indigenous peoples has been repeated:
“Winds of life are blowing across the reservation and I can hear the voice of a new generation . . . and it's time, yes it's time, to live.”
When the winds of change blow away the blockages that support the illusory, inauthentic life, only then can that which is called "life" be relished as the Absolute (and even the Nothingness) are overlaid on the relative existence and allow authenticity and sanity and logic and reason to take root.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
30 April 2014
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: Often, one might believe that they are hearing contradictions from one sharing non-duality pointers. Sometimes they might be, or sometimes they might be hearing paradoxes.
The eBook below on “Maharaj’s Evolution” explains that
1. one might point out some inconsistencies during the years that he shifted from the use of one type yoga to another, yet even then the basic non-dual message was largely consistent;
2. some point out a shift in content and style as he began receiving more Westerners in the loft and was able to stop playing some of the games that had been played earlier in order to entice Easterners – mainly Hindus – to visit the loft in order to present a blend of what that audience was familiar with along with non-dual pointers; and
3. some pointers were not contradictions but were merely “level appropriate” pointers, each set of pointers custom-designed for two seekers who were at two different points on the “path,” so – yes – one might read comment “A” that Maharaj made in one session and comment “B” that he made in the very next session and those comments might seems to be contradictory, but they were actually just “level appropriate” instead.
And yes, he did offer a suggestion that angered some “non-dualists” when he suggested that not everyone need Realize Fully in order for the manner of one’s relative existence to shift from one marked by dependence and pain and misery and suffering to one marked by far greater levels of freedom and one marked by far less pain and misery and suffering.
[If that had not been the case, why would he have continued sharing non-dual pointers even after he came to understand that most would never Realize Fully? A visitor here once said, "Maybe M. was not restored to sanity after all. How crazy is it to teach seekers how to Realize if he is convinced that almost none of them will ever Realize?"]
Why indeed. The essence of the reply to that visitor was shared yesterday: “A man once shot off his foot and I put a tourniquet on the leg to check the flow of blood and then rushed him to a clinic. I was not able to restore him fully; I did not heal him fully; I did not ‘save’ his foot; he did not get 100% of what he would liked to have gotten (namely, restoration to his original state of wholeness). But he would have told you that getting at least part of what he was seeking was preferable to getting none of what he sought.”
So if Maharaj said that most will never Realized Fully, and if that point from him is accepted here as fact, why keep sharing?
1. Because it has been seen that those who see the way that the nine basic personality types are driving their thoughts and words and actions have an opportunity to become awake and aware and conscious of the way those types are impeding efforts to abide without the ignorance and insanity that personality generates;
2. because those who also see the other 60-80 personas / false identities (which they have been assigned or that they have assumed along the way) might have at least some chance at being free from the hidden agendas of personality and from the controlling influence of subconscious factors that are presently rendering them incapable of choosing anything; and
3. because, as Maharaj said, even if they never Realize Fully and understand “What They Really Are,” it is enough if they come to see what they are not, namely the scores of assumed roles that they are playing and that are driving them to the misery and suffering that are generated by personality disorders and by the subsequent neuroses and psychoses that can manifest after abiding under the influence of personality.
Some among “the OCD-driven, totally anal, totally perfectionistic non-dualists” will disagree with those points completely, dismissing them as a form of “non-dual heresy.” So it is. They would likely say, “If the man could not get the whole deal and have his foot re-attached and have his right leg and foot restored to its original state of oneness, to heck with it. If he could not enjoy the unicity of a foot-leg vs. a footless leg, then what he did get was not enough and was, ultimately, a total waste.”
Fine. Take whatever view you want to take, but he and his wife and two sons had a totally different perspective. And a totally different outlook prevails here as well, so . . .
A. if seekers that come this way do not Realize Fully but understand some of the pointers offered here that eventually free them to some degree from the insanity of personality, bring it on; and
B. if seekers that come this way do not Realize Fully but understand some of the pointers offered here that eventually free them to some degree from the insanity of erroneously believing that they are something that they are not, bring it on; and
C. if seekers suffering from the Ultimate Sickness come this way and only receive a “mental tourniquet” that inhibits to some degree the loss of sanity and reason and logic, bring it on.
Most are familiar with the tale about a fellow feeling sorry for himself because he had no shoes until he saw a man who had no foot. (Actually, “A’s” having no foot does not address at all the fact that “B” still need shoes but he does not have them; that example of illogical thinking that is rooted in a dualistic “better-than-worse-than” comparison notwithstanding, the non-Realized could “benefit” – relatively speaking - from a change in perspective.
But the point is this: I, too, saw a man who had no foot, but he welcomed the fact that the manifestation of consciousness was able to continue for a spell, even with one footless leg.)
Here, if the option is to assist in the administering of a dose of the Ultimate Medicine - even if that initial dosage might only partially address the symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness - so be it. And who knows . . . it might be that the Medicine continues to work and that some additional relief – or even total relief - from the symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness might eventually manifest. Here, the view is that it’s worth a shot.
To be continued.
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Therefore, another movement or shift is happening here spontaneously after reflecting on the more than two decades since the teachings were first offered here and looking at the results of Maharaj sharing pointers in his loft and looking at the results of "Floyd" sharing pointers in this electronic loft: Looking objectively at his results, Maharaj's satsang method of sharing - in the end and by his own admission (only "one out of 10,000,000") - did not produce the intended outcome.
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F.: Often, one might believe that they are hearing contradictions from one sharing non-duality pointers. Sometimes they might be, or sometimes they might be hearing paradoxes.
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2. some point out a shift in content and style as he began receiving more Westerners in the loft and was able to stop playing some of the games that had been played earlier in order to entice Easterners – mainly Hindus – to visit the loft in order to present a blend of what that audience was familiar with along with non-dual pointers; and
3. some pointers were not contradictions but were merely “level appropriate” pointers, each set of pointers custom-designed for two seekers who were at two different points on the “path,” so – yes – one might read comment “A” that Maharaj made in one session and comment “B” that he made in the very next session and those comments might seems to be contradictory, but they were actually just “level appropriate” instead.
And yes, he did offer a suggestion that angered some “non-dualists” when he suggested that not everyone need Realize Fully in order for the manner of one’s relative existence to shift from one marked by dependence and pain and misery and suffering to one marked by far greater levels of freedom and one marked by far less pain and misery and suffering.
[If that had not been the case, why would he have continued sharing non-dual pointers even after he came to understand that most would never Realize Fully? A visitor here once said, "Maybe M. was not restored to sanity after all. How crazy is it to teach seekers how to Realize if he is convinced that almost none of them will ever Realize?"]
Why indeed. The essence of the reply to that visitor was shared yesterday: “A man once shot off his foot and I put a tourniquet on the leg to check the flow of blood and then rushed him to a clinic. I was not able to restore him fully; I did not heal him fully; I did not ‘save’ his foot; he did not get 100% of what he would liked to have gotten (namely, restoration to his original state of wholeness). But he would have told you that getting at least part of what he was seeking was preferable to getting none of what he sought.”
So if Maharaj said that most will never Realized Fully, and if that point from him is accepted here as fact, why keep sharing?
1. Because it has been seen that those who see the way that the nine basic personality types are driving their thoughts and words and actions have an opportunity to become awake and aware and conscious of the way those types are impeding efforts to abide without the ignorance and insanity that personality generates;
2. because those who also see the other 60-80 personas / false identities (which they have been assigned or that they have assumed along the way) might have at least some chance at being free from the hidden agendas of personality and from the controlling influence of subconscious factors that are presently rendering them incapable of choosing anything; and
3. because, as Maharaj said, even if they never Realize Fully and understand “What They Really Are,” it is enough if they come to see what they are not, namely the scores of assumed roles that they are playing and that are driving them to the misery and suffering that are generated by personality disorders and by the subsequent neuroses and psychoses that can manifest after abiding under the influence of personality.
Some among “the OCD-driven, totally anal, totally perfectionistic non-dualists” will disagree with those points completely, dismissing them as a form of “non-dual heresy.” So it is. They would likely say, “If the man could not get the whole deal and have his foot re-attached and have his right leg and foot restored to its original state of oneness, to heck with it. If he could not enjoy the unicity of a foot-leg vs. a footless leg, then what he did get was not enough and was, ultimately, a total waste.”
Fine. Take whatever view you want to take, but he and his wife and two sons had a totally different perspective. And a totally different outlook prevails here as well, so . . .
A. if seekers that come this way do not Realize Fully but understand some of the pointers offered here that eventually free them to some degree from the insanity of personality, bring it on; and
B. if seekers that come this way do not Realize Fully but understand some of the pointers offered here that eventually free them to some degree from the insanity of erroneously believing that they are something that they are not, bring it on; and
C. if seekers suffering from the Ultimate Sickness come this way and only receive a “mental tourniquet” that inhibits to some degree the loss of sanity and reason and logic, bring it on.
Most are familiar with the tale about a fellow feeling sorry for himself because he had no shoes until he saw a man who had no foot. (Actually, “A’s” having no foot does not address at all the fact that “B” still need shoes but he does not have them; that example of illogical thinking that is rooted in a dualistic “better-than-worse-than” comparison notwithstanding, the non-Realized could “benefit” – relatively speaking - from a change in perspective.
But the point is this: I, too, saw a man who had no foot, but he welcomed the fact that the manifestation of consciousness was able to continue for a spell, even with one footless leg.)
Here, if the option is to assist in the administering of a dose of the Ultimate Medicine - even if that initial dosage might only partially address the symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness - so be it. And who knows . . . it might be that the Medicine continues to work and that some additional relief – or even total relief - from the symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness might eventually manifest. Here, the view is that it’s worth a shot.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
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SHIFTING THE FOCUS FROM THAT WHICH DOES NOT WORK TO THAT WHICH DOES, Part One
A "movement" or "shift" happened here that added another parallel to the many parallels in terms of the phenomenal "experiences" and the noumenal revelations that "Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj" and "Floyd" share in common. (Many visitors over the years have said that they also shared the same parallels with "Maharaj" and "Floyd" as well.)
In the case of "Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj" and "Floyd":
1. both grew up in very poor families 2. both moved to populated areas to seek employment opportunities 3. both exhibited business skills that led to their opening and operating many businesses and to their having a large number of employees working for them 4. both succeeded financially 5. both became attached to accumulating; 6. both married and had a family 7. both were initially religious 8. both moved away from organized religion and became interested in "spiritual" matters, finding and following the teachings of a big name teacher (or, in "Floyd's" case, many big name teachers) 9. both had highly religious wives who were quite displeased with the shift away from religion and toward "spirituality" 10. both began to feel empty in spite of all of their "spiritual seeking" and in spite of all of their accumulated "spiritual knowledge";
1. both grew up in very poor families 2. both moved to populated areas to seek employment opportunities 3. both exhibited business skills that led to their opening and operating many businesses and to their having a large number of employees working for them 4. both succeeded financially 5. both became attached to accumulating; 6. both married and had a family 7. both were initially religious 8. both moved away from organized religion and became interested in "spiritual" matters, finding and following the teachings of a big name teacher (or, in "Floyd's" case, many big name teachers) 9. both had highly religious wives who were quite displeased with the shift away from religion and toward "spirituality" 10. both began to feel empty in spite of all of their "spiritual seeking" and in spite of all of their accumulated "spiritual knowledge";
11. both began to de-accumulate after both saw that they could survive quite well on a fraction of the income they had been making
12. both had wives who were unhappy when the de-accumulation stage was entered and both had wives who became unhappy about their husbands' focus on non-duality and who blamed their unhappiness on no longer having a religious husband
(The facts be known, in both cases the unhappiness involved the fact that their husbands were no longer interested in - or willing - to work 80+ hours per week and that their husbands were no longer interested in accumulating wealth and possessions and providing the rich lifestyle to which their wives had grown accustomed)
13. both eventually came to see that the religious and spiritual states were also ego-states, and both saw that there are far more steps on the "path" to complete after reaching the religious and spiritual steps and after playing those roles which are the third of seven steps on the entire "path" 14. both "lost" their wives (one via "death," the other through divorce); 15. both accelerated their seeking; 16. both entered into the "forest dweller stage" 17. both Realized 18. both began to de-accumulate even more
19. both began sharing the teachings 20. for years, both answered questions in whatever order those questions were received, though both said that the movement from identification with the false "I" / "I's" involved an exact, step-wise manner of moving along a "path" that involved "going back" in the same (but reverse order) of the way they "came in" - that is, the way that the manifestation happened and the way that the consciousness was blocked through seven stages that resulted in their becoming identified solely with their false personas, with the content of the "mind," and eventually, with the body. But the most significant awareness that finally came to both after years of offering satsang and after having answered thousands and thousands of questions was this: After years of "Maharaj" offering satsang in his loft, and after years of "Floyd" offering satsang in meeting halls and in his home and via what one site visitor called "Floyd's electronic loft," this fact became obvious to both: "Maharaj" came to see in the 1970's and into 1980 and 1981 that his approach was not working and "Floyd" finally came to see the same.
13. both eventually came to see that the religious and spiritual states were also ego-states, and both saw that there are far more steps on the "path" to complete after reaching the religious and spiritual steps and after playing those roles which are the third of seven steps on the entire "path" 14. both "lost" their wives (one via "death," the other through divorce); 15. both accelerated their seeking; 16. both entered into the "forest dweller stage" 17. both Realized 18. both began to de-accumulate even more
19. both began sharing the teachings 20. for years, both answered questions in whatever order those questions were received, though both said that the movement from identification with the false "I" / "I's" involved an exact, step-wise manner of moving along a "path" that involved "going back" in the same (but reverse order) of the way they "came in" - that is, the way that the manifestation happened and the way that the consciousness was blocked through seven stages that resulted in their becoming identified solely with their false personas, with the content of the "mind," and eventually, with the body. But the most significant awareness that finally came to both after years of offering satsang and after having answered thousands and thousands of questions was this: After years of "Maharaj" offering satsang in his loft, and after years of "Floyd" offering satsang in meeting halls and in his home and via what one site visitor called "Floyd's electronic loft," this fact became obvious to both: "Maharaj" came to see in the 1970's and into 1980 and 1981 that his approach was not working and "Floyd" finally came to see the same.
21. Both saw that many who heard the teachings are not going to understand (Maharaj reporting that "only 1 in 100,000 are going to 'get' this" understanding)
22. both soon saw that even more than expected of those who heard the teachings were not going to understand (Maharaj modifying his "guesstimate" and reporting that "only 1 in 1,000,000 are going to 'get' this" understanding)
23. eventually both saw that even far more than expected of those who heard the teachings were not going to understand (Maharaj eventually concluding that "only 1 in 10,000,000 are going to 'get' this" understanding). And the failings were not the fault of seekers.
A "one -in-ten-million" estimate is proof that satsang was not working for most seekers, and the evidence here lately is proof of the same.
Both "Maharaj" and "Floyd" invited seekers to focus on the exact, step-wise "path." Yes, during satsang, "Maharaj" sometimes alluded to the steps while discussing them in no particular order - but he never once laid out the steps in the exact order in which they had to be completed. That was not his teachings style or approach.
Therefore, another movement or shift is happening here spontaneously after reflecting on the more than two decades since the teachings were first offered here and looking at the results of Maharaj sharing pointers in his loft and looking at the results of "Floyd" sharing pointers in this electronic loft: Looking objectively at his results, Maharaj's satsang method of sharing - in the end and by his own admission (only "one out of 10,000,000") - did not produce the intended outcome.
Looking objectively at the results here when using an "electronic loft" satsang method of sharing has not produced the intended outcome nearly as often as any of the three "face-to-face" methods used with seekers by which they have been led through the seven steps in order.
Here, the body is growing older, of course. Mahasamadhi could be taken today, or it could be taken in twenty years.
Obviously, that cannot be known. But the decision here has been made that whatever amount of the relative existence remains shall be spent in sharing the teachings in the ways that have been seen over the last 20+ years to be the most effective methods.
Looking back over the list of those that have truly received the understanding, it is seen that Robert R. read all of the books, then took the online Advaita course and then completed some face-to-face Skype sessions to receive the final clarifications required. It was seen that Mac read all of the books, completed the online course, and then attended a retreat where he was guided through the seven steps. Mac said that the online course work inspired him to attend the retreat in order to be able to receive the final "pieces." It was seen that Andy Gugar, Jr. read all of the books, then came here for a retreat and was taken through the seven steps in order, and then returned once more for the final clarifications required. After reviewing the shifts that happened with him after attending two retreats, he reaffirmed this past week his commitment to helping spread the non-duality, nisarga understanding as presented here. As a result of seeing what has "worked" during the last 20+ years of sharing the non-duality understanding - and seeing what had not "worked" as well - changes will be made.
SHIFTING THE FOCUS FROM THAT WHICH DOES NOT WORK TO THAT WHICH DOES, Part Two
Looking back over the list of those that have truly received the understanding, it is seen that Robert R. read all of the books, then took the online Advaita course and then completed some face-to-face Skype sessions to receive the final clarifications required. It was seen that Mac read all of the books, completed the online course, and then attended a retreat where he was guided through the seven steps. Mac said that the online course work inspired him to attend the retreat in order to be able to receive the final "pieces." It was seen that Andy Gugar, Jr. read all of the books, then came here for a retreat and was taken through the seven steps in order, and then returned once more for the final clarifications required. After reviewing the shifts that happened with him after attending two retreats, he reaffirmed this past week his commitment to helping spread the non-duality, nisarga understanding as presented here. As a result of seeing what has "worked" during the last 20+ years of sharing the non-duality understanding - and seeing what had not "worked" as well - changes will be made.
SHIFTING THE FOCUS FROM THAT WHICH DOES NOT WORK TO THAT WHICH DOES, Part Two
In "Part One," examples were given of seekers that were led to Realization not by satsang but by following the various protocols outlined farther down this page which provide the understanding in the step-wise, orderly, required fashion which moves seekers along a "path" that is as prescribed by Maharaj ... "going back" in the "reverse order" by which the consciousness manifested and became blocked.
However, conversations with some that just read the majority of the books have revealed that they certainly seem to have grasped the understanding and Realized as well.
As a result of seeing what has "worked" during the last 20+ years of sharing the non-duality understanding - and seeing what has "not worked" as well - changes are being made.
There are seven specific steps that happen when awareness-energy is "pulled" into a cycle of manifestation. When that energy manifests as conscious-energy, that formerly pure and unadulterated energy becomes "corrupted" (or "blocked" from seeing clearly) via programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, and brainwashing. Soon, there is a belief in the not-Real as a result of seven degrees of separation from an understanding of the Real.
Using the method that was also employed by his contemporaries - a method which focused on offering non-duality pointers via satsang - Maharaj addressed questions in the order in which they were received. He might receive a question from a seeker at the third step and his reply would include what amounted to an invitation to move to the fourth step. The next question might come from a seeker at the first step, and the reply would include an invitation to move to the second step.
The information offered to the second seeker would seemingly contradict what was offered to the first seeker, so visitors who have come here for decades have asked questions which showed how confused they were by the fact that Maharaj's statements to each visitor in his loft were "level-appropriate" yet were provided in no precise order, resulting in what seemed to be an inconsistent message.
So the process overall was confusing in that
seekers were told to follow the "path back" in the same way that they "came in," except in reverse order,
but
pointers were not given in a specific, step-wise order at all.
Maharaj did recognize the seven steps that are taught here, but by offering the teachings in an order that was dictated by the order in which questions were received from seekers who were at different steps on the "path," the result was this:
a pointer about moving beyond the fourth step might be followed by a pointer about moving beyond the first step, and that pointer might be followed by a pointer about how to move beyond the sixth step.
The same was done on this site for seven years. The result is a collection of 1,800 or so essays discussing almost every non-duality topic that can be discussed, and the search button on the top right side of this page will now allow seekers with a question about a specific topic to find an explanation. That method, however, will never provide the manner in which the seven steps on the "path" must be transmitted and received in order to Realize Fully.
An objective study of the history here of more than twenty years of offering non-duality pointers reveals this: seekers that were given pointers in the exact order in which they needed to receive them were the ones that Realized.
They read the books, then they completed the online course and / or completed seven Skype or telephone sessions or came here for a retreat (or watched the downloadable DVD version of an actual retreat, available below).
Some found that which they were seeking by reading the author's book that deal with non-duality subject matter. Via all of those venues, the steps are taught in their proper order.
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SELF-TRANSFORMATION MEDITATION GUIDE (VOLUME ONE)
SELF-TRANSFORMATION MEDITATION GUIDE (VOLUME TWO)
WHY NISARGA YOGA IN ADDITION TO THE ADVAITA TEACHINGS?
A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE via the Non-Duality Teachings and the Nisarga Yoga
YOUR ORIGINAL NATURE
GOING CRAZY / GOING SANE
INSTABILITY / INSANITY: WHAT THE ADVAITA TEACHINGS CAN (AND CANNOT) ADDRESS
THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS "PEACE OF MIND" (THERE IS ONLY PEACE IF YOU'RE OUT OF YOUR MIND)
FREEDOM FROM SHIFTING BETWEEN STATES OF HAPPINESS AND UNHAPPINESS
THE ULTIMATE SICKNESS / THE ULTIMATE MEDICINE
PROGRAMMING, CONDITIONING, DOMESTICATION, AND ACCULTURATION (THE SOURCES OF THE ULTIMATE SICKNESS & THE NON-DUALITY TREATMENT)
"WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I DIE?"
THE MYTH OF "DEATH"
THE ESSENCE OF THE TEACHINGS: THE SIMPLICITY OF REALIZATION
FINDING REAL LOVE IN AN UNREAL WORLD
CASTING LIGHT ON THE DARK SIDE OF RELATIONSHIPS
OVERCOMING THE FEAR OF BEING TOTALLY INDEPENDENT
THE NON-DUALITY POINTERS OFFERED BY YESHU'A ("JESUS THE CHRIST")
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rather than inviting seekers to learn more, the invitation here is to unlearn all; rather than offerings teachings, what is offered are unteachings; rather than offering to provide seekers more of anything, seekers will find that the process will take away everything. And via that process, the bliss of Your Original Nature will manifest and remain until mahasamadhi is taken.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE THE ADVAITIN
WHEN ONLY THREE HOURS OF MANIFESTATION REMAIN (THE "FINAL" TALKS OF FLOYD HENDERSON)
I AM THAT (vs. "This Is Who I Think I Am")
QUOTATIONS AND POINTERS DEALING WITH NON-DUALITY, ADVAITA, NISARGA YOGA, AND MORE
DANCING LIGHTLY
THE PATH TO FREEDOM VS. THE PATH TO MISERY
THERE IS NOTHING THAT IS PERSONAL (INCLUDING YOU AND INCLUDING GOD)
LIBERATION (ATTAINING FREEDOM FROM PERSONALITY VIA REALIZATION)
WHY YOU MUST BE EMPTY IF YOU WOULD BE FULL
FREEDOM FROM BELIEFS (Believers, Non-Believers, and "No-Belief-ers")
WHEN REALITY IS OVERLAID ON THE RELATIVE
THE RELATIVE RESULTS OF RETURNING TO "THE CHILD IGNORANCE STAGE" OR "THE CHILD NO-KNOWING STATE"
WHAT BLISS IS AND WHAT BLISS IS NOT
THE TWICE-STOLEN NECKLACE MURDERS
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WARS
LESSONS IN NON-DUALITY FROM TRAVELS IN SOUTH AFRICA
A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING THE FIRST STEP ON THE SEVEN-STEP PATH TO REALIZATION
A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING THE SECOND STEP ON THE SEVEN-STEP PATH TO REALIZATION
A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING THE THIRD STEP ON THE SEVEN-STEP PATH TO REALIZATION
A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING THE FOURTH STEP ON THE SEVEN-STEP PATH TO REALIZATION
A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING THE FIFTH STEP ON THE SEVEN-STEP PATH TO REALIZATION
A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING THE SIXTH STEP ON THE SEVEN-STEP PATH TO REALIZATION
A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING THE SEVENTH STEP ON THE SEVEN-STEP PATH TO REALIZATION
SPIRITUAL SOBRIETY (RECOVERING WHAT RELIGIONS LOST)
IT'S ALL BULLSHIT (AND WHY KNOWING IT SETS YOU FREE)
