A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: First, When the Mind FLIPPED and the Non-Dual Teachings Became a Necessity
and
Then, When the Mind FLIPPED OUT and Counselors and Psychologists and a Mental Health Industry Became a Necessity
There is a historical context explaining when and why the non-dual teachings came into being and why the understanding became called for on planet-wide basis among humans.
To understand the historical context, and thereby better understand what the real intent of the non-dual teachings is (and is not) and what non-dual pointers are really about (and what they are not about), consider how life evolved on planet earth; how life-forms functioned, naturally; how the human brain evolved; how the evolved brain set the stage for the development of a mind (which originally had a fraction of the storage capacity that it has nowadays and which, therefore, limited how much “stuff” could be crammed into a mind via programming, conditioning, acculturation, etc.);
how the mind drove humans to function differently – for the first time ever – from all other life-forms and in ways that have driven humanity to abandon a natural mode of abidance and to engage in unnatural, self-destructive ways; and why the teachings came about to provide a sane and sound and logical alternative which allows the Realized to – once again – abide naturally and sanely, being led by wisdom as opposed to ignorance and insanity and the brain and conscious-energy as opposed to the mind.
First, consider this timeline:
In its 4.6 billion years of circling the Sun, the Earth has harbored an increasing diversity of life-forms:
for the last 3.6 billion years, simple cells have existed;
for the last 2 billion years, complex cells have existed;
for the last 1.2 billion years, there have been life-forms which reproduce sexually;
for the last 1 billion years, multi-cell life-forms have existed;
for the last 600 million years, simple animals have existed;
for the last 550 million years, water life-forms with a front and a back have existed;
for the last 475 million years, land plants have existed;
for the last 200 million years, mammals have existed;
for the last 60 million years, primates have existed;
around 14 million years ago, orangutans diverged from the Hominidae family; thus, human-like life-forms have existed for about 14 million years because there is only a 3.1% difference which distinguishes modern humans from orangutans in the most minimal ways, genetically;
6.5 to 7 million years ago, there was the start of what can be called “the human lineage” after a split with the lineage containing chimpanzees and gorillas;
2.6 million years ago, there was the onset of large-scale use of stone tool technology by human-like beings;
2.5 million years ago, there came into being what has been called “the first human ancestors" in our own genus, Homo, so for the last 2.5 million years, the genus Homo (including our first human ancestors) have existed;
and
for the last 200,000 years, anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens) have existed.
It has been noted that in the earliest humans, the brain was the about the size of one cup. Today it has evolved to a size that measures about 3.5 cups. Also, as noted earlier, the brain was originally a “friend” to all life-forms, including humans. That “the-brain-is-your-friend” fact still applies to all of the trillions of life-forms, including humans, but the unique problems of humanity came about as the brain evolved and allowed a large-capacity “mind” to form.
Originally, the mind was also humanity’s “friend”: it allowed for the storage and retrieval of information with the purpose of assisting humans to survive. Memories about what happened when snakes were picked up, when another human fell from a cliff, or when a human was being careless and fell and broke an arm or a hip could be recalled if similar circumstances were faced at some future point and a different course of action could be taken.
[Consider the levels of insanity, now that the mind is no longer functioning according to its original purpose because it is being filled with unnatural and supernatural / spiritual / magical thinking: nowadays, there are preachers and worshippers who are dying because they are handling snakes during worship services to prove how grand their “faith in God” is. The typical mind today is not a fact-filled file but is a nonsense-filled file, and – as with a computer - that which can be retrieved from a file in only what has been put into the file; therefore, nowadays the typical nonsense-filled mind can only generate thoughts and words and actions that are totally nonsensical. Garbage in; garbage out. That’s the “flip,” the shift, so now the typical mind has become more of an “enemy” of humanity than a “friend.”]
From the eBook below entitled THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS “PEACE OF MIND” (There is Only Peace if You’re Out of Your Mind):
Those files / memories are so contaminated with distortions, misperceptions, dogma and all other kinds of lies that the “mind” can no longer serve its original purpose. Where it was intended by nature to work with the rest of the brain to avoid destruction, in its present condition, the typical “mind” is generating more destruction and chaos than survival and peace. It is one thing to remember that a snake which looks like a stick can kill you; it is something else to remember dualistic messages that include: “We’re better than all others on the planet because we live in the greatest country on earth,” or “It’s OK to attack or kill those who have been taught the tenets of a religion that is different from your religion,” or “People with that skin color are all ignorant and criminal.”
It can be seen, therefore, that the current, distorted state of the modern “mind” came about after languages and personal agendas developed which enabled persons to begin teaching dualistic concepts. After that occurred, persons used languages to pass on as fact an entire body of lies, lies that were not based in actual happenings or fact at all (things such as beliefs, ideas, myths, superstitions, dogma, theories, attitudes, “spiritual knowledge,” religious “knowledge,” concepts, false identities, etc.) It can be seen that the distortions being stored nowadays as remembered lessons / memories are not memories that can be used for survival but are corruptions that are driving conduct that is destructive, self-destructive, and detrimental to both peace and survival.
As a result of the distorted concepts and beliefs that are currently being stored in what is called the “mind,” nature’s intent has been invalidated. That original storehouse of files in the brain which was intended by nature to work with the rest of the brain to guide the body to behave in a natural fashion, is now resulting in the body being guided by a warped “mind” that generates unnatural "thinking" and conduct and supernatural “thinking” and conduct.
Nowadays, memories are not being retrieved from the mind to avoid dangerous animals or the precarious edges of cliffs but are generating dualistic “thoughts” such as, “They are ignorant … we are smart”; “I am good, but they are bad”; “I deserve reward but they deserve punishment”; “I heard a God in another world tell me to drop bombs on people in this world”; “I am going to destroy you (or "reject you" or "leave you" or "punish you") because you have said things and done things that are different from what I wanted you to say and do”; or, "You can't be good ... you're different from me."
Now, a natural mind no longer works with a natural brain to generate natural living. Instead, the content of the typical “mind” today generates a style of living that is more often unnatural (meaning characterized by delusional “thinking”) and that is very often supernatural (meaning characterized by magical “thinking”). The “thoughts” behind both of those types of “thinking” are rooted in duality, and dualistic “thinking” is at the core of anything considered a dilemma or problem or crisis in the relative existence.
Whereas the brain is “wired” for self-constructive behavior, the modern “mind” is now “wired” for self-destructive behavior because of the vast pool of learned ignorance that is being passed on to (and accepted as truth by) billions of persons, their level of education or intelligence notwithstanding. Because behavior is now being controlled by the bogus, programmed “mind” more than the brain, the personalized, individualized “mind” is able to inspire persons to destruct and self-destruct in opposition to the self-constructive actions that a normal brain would guide an organism to take.
So a shift in what was typical and “normal” human behavior happened as the brain evolved over thousands of years: the development of the brain’s capacity to store memories, and to retrieve memories from storage, was followed by the development of language. The development of language was followed by the teaching of dualistic concepts. Those dualistic teachings have resulted in the contemporary “mind” which is nothing more than a repository of lies. Those lies / false beliefs generate a sense of separation and the judgmental labeling of persons as “bad,” “immoral,” “wrong,” ad infinitum. Now, because of the warped, dualistic “mind,” persons truly believe that they are “bad” (or they are labeled as “bad”) if they believe in vaginal births but refuse to believe in a virginal birth.
To see the historical facts around what has happened with humans is to understand that the teachings have nothing to do with “escaping reality,” with “leaving this world behind, mentally,” with “relocating, mentally, into a castle in the air or into Foo-Foo Land” or with “leaving the AM-ness behind and abiding as THAT alone.”
The historical context makes clear that the non-dual teachings are intended to be a means by which the current effects of the process that allowed a "full mind" to develop and to become the “enemy” of humanity can be un-done via un-teaching and un-learning;
a means by which persons can to be freed from being driven by the nonsense now stored in the typical human mind;
and
a means by which humans can abide naturally under the auspices of the all-natural brain and the all-natural conscious-energy.
That "un-doing" via un-teaching and un-learning can be a simple process unless one’s teacher / teachers complicate the actual intent of the simple, non-dual-understanding process with the addition of unnatural and supposedly-lofty, supposedly-superior, supposedly-grand, supposedly-elevated, supposedly-exalted, and supposedly-supernatural elements.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
NOTE: Sections Two through Six follow:
Section Two offers other recent posts. (All of the nearly 2,400 posts as well as any specific topics which you’re interested in can be accessed by using the search feature at the top of the right column.)
and
Then, When the Mind FLIPPED OUT and Counselors and Psychologists and a Mental Health Industry Became a Necessity
There is a historical context explaining when and why the non-dual teachings came into being and why the understanding became called for on planet-wide basis among humans.
To understand the historical context, and thereby better understand what the real intent of the non-dual teachings is (and is not) and what non-dual pointers are really about (and what they are not about), consider how life evolved on planet earth; how life-forms functioned, naturally; how the human brain evolved; how the evolved brain set the stage for the development of a mind (which originally had a fraction of the storage capacity that it has nowadays and which, therefore, limited how much “stuff” could be crammed into a mind via programming, conditioning, acculturation, etc.);
how the mind drove humans to function differently – for the first time ever – from all other life-forms and in ways that have driven humanity to abandon a natural mode of abidance and to engage in unnatural, self-destructive ways; and why the teachings came about to provide a sane and sound and logical alternative which allows the Realized to – once again – abide naturally and sanely, being led by wisdom as opposed to ignorance and insanity and the brain and conscious-energy as opposed to the mind.
First, consider this timeline:
In its 4.6 billion years of circling the Sun, the Earth has harbored an increasing diversity of life-forms:
for the last 3.6 billion years, simple cells have existed;
for the last 2 billion years, complex cells have existed;
for the last 1.2 billion years, there have been life-forms which reproduce sexually;
for the last 1 billion years, multi-cell life-forms have existed;
for the last 600 million years, simple animals have existed;
for the last 550 million years, water life-forms with a front and a back have existed;
for the last 475 million years, land plants have existed;
for the last 200 million years, mammals have existed;
for the last 60 million years, primates have existed;
around 14 million years ago, orangutans diverged from the Hominidae family; thus, human-like life-forms have existed for about 14 million years because there is only a 3.1% difference which distinguishes modern humans from orangutans in the most minimal ways, genetically;
6.5 to 7 million years ago, there was the start of what can be called “the human lineage” after a split with the lineage containing chimpanzees and gorillas;
2.6 million years ago, there was the onset of large-scale use of stone tool technology by human-like beings;
2.5 million years ago, there came into being what has been called “the first human ancestors" in our own genus, Homo, so for the last 2.5 million years, the genus Homo (including our first human ancestors) have existed;
and
for the last 200,000 years, anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens) have existed.
It has been noted that in the earliest humans, the brain was the about the size of one cup. Today it has evolved to a size that measures about 3.5 cups. Also, as noted earlier, the brain was originally a “friend” to all life-forms, including humans. That “the-brain-is-your-friend” fact still applies to all of the trillions of life-forms, including humans, but the unique problems of humanity came about as the brain evolved and allowed a large-capacity “mind” to form.
Originally, the mind was also humanity’s “friend”: it allowed for the storage and retrieval of information with the purpose of assisting humans to survive. Memories about what happened when snakes were picked up, when another human fell from a cliff, or when a human was being careless and fell and broke an arm or a hip could be recalled if similar circumstances were faced at some future point and a different course of action could be taken.
[Consider the levels of insanity, now that the mind is no longer functioning according to its original purpose because it is being filled with unnatural and supernatural / spiritual / magical thinking: nowadays, there are preachers and worshippers who are dying because they are handling snakes during worship services to prove how grand their “faith in God” is. The typical mind today is not a fact-filled file but is a nonsense-filled file, and – as with a computer - that which can be retrieved from a file in only what has been put into the file; therefore, nowadays the typical nonsense-filled mind can only generate thoughts and words and actions that are totally nonsensical. Garbage in; garbage out. That’s the “flip,” the shift, so now the typical mind has become more of an “enemy” of humanity than a “friend.”]
From the eBook below entitled THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS “PEACE OF MIND” (There is Only Peace if You’re Out of Your Mind):
Those files / memories are so contaminated with distortions, misperceptions, dogma and all other kinds of lies that the “mind” can no longer serve its original purpose. Where it was intended by nature to work with the rest of the brain to avoid destruction, in its present condition, the typical “mind” is generating more destruction and chaos than survival and peace. It is one thing to remember that a snake which looks like a stick can kill you; it is something else to remember dualistic messages that include: “We’re better than all others on the planet because we live in the greatest country on earth,” or “It’s OK to attack or kill those who have been taught the tenets of a religion that is different from your religion,” or “People with that skin color are all ignorant and criminal.”
It can be seen, therefore, that the current, distorted state of the modern “mind” came about after languages and personal agendas developed which enabled persons to begin teaching dualistic concepts. After that occurred, persons used languages to pass on as fact an entire body of lies, lies that were not based in actual happenings or fact at all (things such as beliefs, ideas, myths, superstitions, dogma, theories, attitudes, “spiritual knowledge,” religious “knowledge,” concepts, false identities, etc.) It can be seen that the distortions being stored nowadays as remembered lessons / memories are not memories that can be used for survival but are corruptions that are driving conduct that is destructive, self-destructive, and detrimental to both peace and survival.
As a result of the distorted concepts and beliefs that are currently being stored in what is called the “mind,” nature’s intent has been invalidated. That original storehouse of files in the brain which was intended by nature to work with the rest of the brain to guide the body to behave in a natural fashion, is now resulting in the body being guided by a warped “mind” that generates unnatural "thinking" and conduct and supernatural “thinking” and conduct.
Nowadays, memories are not being retrieved from the mind to avoid dangerous animals or the precarious edges of cliffs but are generating dualistic “thoughts” such as, “They are ignorant … we are smart”; “I am good, but they are bad”; “I deserve reward but they deserve punishment”; “I heard a God in another world tell me to drop bombs on people in this world”; “I am going to destroy you (or "reject you" or "leave you" or "punish you") because you have said things and done things that are different from what I wanted you to say and do”; or, "You can't be good ... you're different from me."
Now, a natural mind no longer works with a natural brain to generate natural living. Instead, the content of the typical “mind” today generates a style of living that is more often unnatural (meaning characterized by delusional “thinking”) and that is very often supernatural (meaning characterized by magical “thinking”). The “thoughts” behind both of those types of “thinking” are rooted in duality, and dualistic “thinking” is at the core of anything considered a dilemma or problem or crisis in the relative existence.
Whereas the brain is “wired” for self-constructive behavior, the modern “mind” is now “wired” for self-destructive behavior because of the vast pool of learned ignorance that is being passed on to (and accepted as truth by) billions of persons, their level of education or intelligence notwithstanding. Because behavior is now being controlled by the bogus, programmed “mind” more than the brain, the personalized, individualized “mind” is able to inspire persons to destruct and self-destruct in opposition to the self-constructive actions that a normal brain would guide an organism to take.
So a shift in what was typical and “normal” human behavior happened as the brain evolved over thousands of years: the development of the brain’s capacity to store memories, and to retrieve memories from storage, was followed by the development of language. The development of language was followed by the teaching of dualistic concepts. Those dualistic teachings have resulted in the contemporary “mind” which is nothing more than a repository of lies. Those lies / false beliefs generate a sense of separation and the judgmental labeling of persons as “bad,” “immoral,” “wrong,” ad infinitum. Now, because of the warped, dualistic “mind,” persons truly believe that they are “bad” (or they are labeled as “bad”) if they believe in vaginal births but refuse to believe in a virginal birth.
To see the historical facts around what has happened with humans is to understand that the teachings have nothing to do with “escaping reality,” with “leaving this world behind, mentally,” with “relocating, mentally, into a castle in the air or into Foo-Foo Land” or with “leaving the AM-ness behind and abiding as THAT alone.”
The historical context makes clear that the non-dual teachings are intended to be a means by which the current effects of the process that allowed a "full mind" to develop and to become the “enemy” of humanity can be un-done via un-teaching and un-learning;
a means by which persons can to be freed from being driven by the nonsense now stored in the typical human mind;
and
a means by which humans can abide naturally under the auspices of the all-natural brain and the all-natural conscious-energy.
That "un-doing" via un-teaching and un-learning can be a simple process unless one’s teacher / teachers complicate the actual intent of the simple, non-dual-understanding process with the addition of unnatural and supposedly-lofty, supposedly-superior, supposedly-grand, supposedly-elevated, supposedly-exalted, and supposedly-supernatural elements.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
NOTE: Sections Two through Six follow:
Section Two offers other recent posts. (All of the nearly 2,400 posts as well as any specific topics which you’re interested in can be accessed by using the search feature at the top of the right column.)
Section Three offers ways that seekers have Realized, tools which some have used, and information on floyd's books.
Section Four offers four free eBooks, compliments of Andy Gugar, Jr.
Section Five discusses parallels in Maharaj's and Floyd's "journey" and provides a chance for you to see if you've had any such parallels as well.
Section Six offers information on paperbacks that are available through Amazon.com for those who prefer a book in hand.
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SECTION TWO:
Other Recent Posts
7 November 2014
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: So why did Maharaj in his later talks concentrate on the fact that the cure for the Ultimate Sickness involves addressing “mind issues” rather than “too-little religion issues” and “too-little spirituality issues”? Because
1. he came to see that the most significant problems of humanity center in mind; and because
2. he was free enough of ego and egotism to admit that his earlier treatment plans (involving the use of religion and spirituality) were off the mark, ineffective and, therefore, ill-advised;
3. because that insight then led him to tell seekers to stop reading the so-called “spiritual classic” entitled I AM THAT and to heed the content of his later talks which focused on addressing the key issue - the sick mind - instead; because
4. he was willing to admit that he had misdiagnosed the actual cause of - and proper treatment for - the Ultimate Sickness; and because
5. he was willing to take the flack and willing to accept being criticized for having abandoned completely the earlier roles of “The Super Religious One” and “The Spiritual Giant” (confessing to seekers that he could, in the end, best be described as “a spiritual pygmy” when compared to the “spiritual giantism” which they were claiming and which he, too, had assumed in the past).
1. It is not likely that anyone of the age of twenty-five or more has not heard of someone’s illness having been misdiagnosed, or missed completely, by some doctor. A woman last August underwent a complete hysterectomy when an ovarian cyst was misdiagnosed as cancerous when it was not and when the cyst was said, erroneously, to have spread to all of her major female organs. She later learned that a simple procedure to remove the cyst alone was all that should have happened.
Complete misdiagnosis.
2. Similarly, in too many instances, counselors and psychologists and psychiatrists misdiagnose mental illnesses and the actual disorders or neuroses or psychoses that their clients are suffering from; or, those counselors and psychologists and psychiatrists fail to diagnose all of the disorders or neuroses or psychoses that their patients are suffering from.
Complete misdiagnosis.
3. Also, in like fashion, amateurs who claim to be “of service to others” are misdiagnosing the actual disorders or neuroses or psychoses which have developed among those coming to them and seeking help.
If a doctor misreads x-rays and brain scans and does not find your brain tumor and tells you that the proper treatment for your headache is Tylenol or high doses of prescription pain medications, then that doctor has not only misguided you but has also set you up for continuing misery and an early demise.
And what of those groups or programs where amateurs are offering diagnosis and a treatment plan (usually involving “spirituality”)?
Research has shown that
a. many of those going to such groups for help do not actually have the addictive personality disorder but are being driven by escapism and avoidance personality styles, issues which call for a specialized treatment plan offered only by professionals; and research has also revealed that
b. only a fraction of those seeking help - as well as those claiming that they can offer a solution - are actually suffering from a full-blown case of the Addictive Personality Disorder and that the true fact is, instead, that
c. most in those groups who are the ones claiming that they can help because they “have found the solution” are – just like most of those coming for help - actually suffering from a combination of other, often severe, mental and emotional disorders as well as multiple personality disorders including:
the Obsessive-Compulsive P.D.
and / or
the Depressive P.D.
and / or
the Dependent P.D.
and / or
the Co-Dependent P.D.
and / or
the Narcissistic P.D.
and / or
the Avoidant P.D.
and / or
the Borderline P.D.
and / or
the Schizoid-Avoidant P.D.
and / or
the Bipolar P.D.
and / or
the Sociopathic P. D.
and / or
the Dissociative P.D. as well as, in almost every case,
unresolved trauma issues which usually date all the way back to childhood and which are rooted in what was modeled by the adults in their families of origin and which are rooted in the abusive or neglectful actions of those adults who were also suffering from a series of mental and emotional and personality disorders.
Yet those suffering from such mental and emotional and personality disorders as well as full-blown neuroses and psychoses are told that all of the above will magically disappear if they will just become “spiritual”?
Complete misdiagnosis, and worse.
That is another case of malpractice of such a degree that it would be deemed criminal in other circumstances. Is it any wonder that humanity’s mental disorders and neuroses and psychoses are now the most widespread illness on the planet and that the Ultimate Sickness is now spreading at pandemic levels all around the globe?
The persons who are suffering from some or all of the above disorders are being told by members of those groups that
a. they are abusing substances because they are not “spiritually fit”; and that
b. yes, they have body and mind problems; and that
c. yes, their main problem centers in the mind; but that
d. any and all of their body and mind problems will be solved if they will just become spiritually fit.
You can sue a doctor who provides a misdiagnosis and prescribes a totally ineffective treatment plan for what ails you; you can sue a non-credentialed, non-licensed person who is offering professional counseling services for a fee; but those volunteering to be “of service to others” get a free pass and can continue to practice their armchair psychology - with no mental healthcare training at all - and are thus allowed to set persons up for continued misery or an early demise.
Here, understanding that Maharaj finally came up with the proper diagnosis and finally offered the proper treatment (for what he suggested might be only a few), the emphasis is on discussing the mind-sickness that is at the core of the Ultimate Sickness.
Yet there is also offered here an invitation to seek trained professional care when indicated. That is why in the eBook below entitled Instability / Insanity: What the Advaita Teachings Can (and Cannot) Address, it is made clear that the non-dual understanding, in many cases
A. can address the mental and emotional issues if they are among the less serious varieties but that, in other cases, the teachings / unteachings
B. can only be a part of what is required to address entirely the more serious levels of psychic disintegration which the masses are now suffering from and that, in other cases, the teachings / unteachings
C. cannot have any significant effect at all when persons’ mental and emotional and personality issues have reached the most serious stages of psychic disintegration.
With Maharaj having come to understand the facts in “A” and “B” and “C” above, not everyone who entered the loft was allowed to stay. (And those trapped in the most serious degrees of personality identification and personality disorders and / or in the highest levels of egotism were not allowed by Maharaj to remain, either.)
This pointer is offered in the eBook THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS “PEACE OF MIND” (There is Only Peace if You’re Out of Your Mind):
So, it can be seen that the term “the mind” is just a name given to a set of files. Originally those files were stored in the brain (as what would come to be called “memories”) so that the file information could be retrieved if needed in order to help humans survive when facing dangerous situations (i.e., “Remember when the fellow in the next cave thought he was picking up a stick and it was a snake. Check more carefully.”)
The non-dual pointer: Those with wisdom and clarity can see that now the “mind” has been so distorted that the persons of the planet can believe that a rope is a snake while often mistaking “a real snake” for a harmless rope. And that mistake will lead many persons to enter into intimate “relationships” with some snakes that just appear to be harmless and even “loving” and “caring” and “wonderful.”
Complete misdiagnosis.
That misdiagnosis, and all misdiagnoses, are guaranteed to happen when persons are walking about in a mind-full state which renders them totally unawake and totally unaware. So it is, but so it need not be with you / You.
Yet so few governments and societies are willing to even begin to address the most serious mental illnesses among their populations.
It is left up to seekers to venture out on their own, from one venue to the next, in an often-futile search for that which they truly need to find. Is it also any wonder that Maharaj’s guesstimate of how many will ever Realize – that is, how many will ever be freed from learned ignorance and from the depths of parental-and-culturally-imposed-insanity – went from his original guess that "only one in one-hundred thousand will ever Realize" to his modified guess that "only one in a million will ever Realize" to his final estimate that "only one in ten million will ever Realize"?
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
1. he came to see that the most significant problems of humanity center in mind; and because
2. he was free enough of ego and egotism to admit that his earlier treatment plans (involving the use of religion and spirituality) were off the mark, ineffective and, therefore, ill-advised;
3. because that insight then led him to tell seekers to stop reading the so-called “spiritual classic” entitled I AM THAT and to heed the content of his later talks which focused on addressing the key issue - the sick mind - instead; because
4. he was willing to admit that he had misdiagnosed the actual cause of - and proper treatment for - the Ultimate Sickness; and because
5. he was willing to take the flack and willing to accept being criticized for having abandoned completely the earlier roles of “The Super Religious One” and “The Spiritual Giant” (confessing to seekers that he could, in the end, best be described as “a spiritual pygmy” when compared to the “spiritual giantism” which they were claiming and which he, too, had assumed in the past).
THE OVERWHELMING PREVALENCE OF MISDIAGNOSES
1. It is not likely that anyone of the age of twenty-five or more has not heard of someone’s illness having been misdiagnosed, or missed completely, by some doctor. A woman last August underwent a complete hysterectomy when an ovarian cyst was misdiagnosed as cancerous when it was not and when the cyst was said, erroneously, to have spread to all of her major female organs. She later learned that a simple procedure to remove the cyst alone was all that should have happened.
Complete misdiagnosis.
2. Similarly, in too many instances, counselors and psychologists and psychiatrists misdiagnose mental illnesses and the actual disorders or neuroses or psychoses that their clients are suffering from; or, those counselors and psychologists and psychiatrists fail to diagnose all of the disorders or neuroses or psychoses that their patients are suffering from.
Complete misdiagnosis.
3. Also, in like fashion, amateurs who claim to be “of service to others” are misdiagnosing the actual disorders or neuroses or psychoses which have developed among those coming to them and seeking help.
If a doctor misreads x-rays and brain scans and does not find your brain tumor and tells you that the proper treatment for your headache is Tylenol or high doses of prescription pain medications, then that doctor has not only misguided you but has also set you up for continuing misery and an early demise.
And what of those groups or programs where amateurs are offering diagnosis and a treatment plan (usually involving “spirituality”)?
Research has shown that
a. many of those going to such groups for help do not actually have the addictive personality disorder but are being driven by escapism and avoidance personality styles, issues which call for a specialized treatment plan offered only by professionals; and research has also revealed that
b. only a fraction of those seeking help - as well as those claiming that they can offer a solution - are actually suffering from a full-blown case of the Addictive Personality Disorder and that the true fact is, instead, that
c. most in those groups who are the ones claiming that they can help because they “have found the solution” are – just like most of those coming for help - actually suffering from a combination of other, often severe, mental and emotional disorders as well as multiple personality disorders including:
the Obsessive-Compulsive P.D.
and / or
the Depressive P.D.
and / or
the Dependent P.D.
and / or
the Co-Dependent P.D.
and / or
the Narcissistic P.D.
and / or
the Avoidant P.D.
and / or
the Borderline P.D.
and / or
the Schizoid-Avoidant P.D.
and / or
the Bipolar P.D.
and / or
the Sociopathic P. D.
and / or
the Dissociative P.D. as well as, in almost every case,
unresolved trauma issues which usually date all the way back to childhood and which are rooted in what was modeled by the adults in their families of origin and which are rooted in the abusive or neglectful actions of those adults who were also suffering from a series of mental and emotional and personality disorders.
Yet those suffering from such mental and emotional and personality disorders as well as full-blown neuroses and psychoses are told that all of the above will magically disappear if they will just become “spiritual”?
Complete misdiagnosis, and worse.
That is another case of malpractice of such a degree that it would be deemed criminal in other circumstances. Is it any wonder that humanity’s mental disorders and neuroses and psychoses are now the most widespread illness on the planet and that the Ultimate Sickness is now spreading at pandemic levels all around the globe?
The persons who are suffering from some or all of the above disorders are being told by members of those groups that
a. they are abusing substances because they are not “spiritually fit”; and that
b. yes, they have body and mind problems; and that
c. yes, their main problem centers in the mind; but that
d. any and all of their body and mind problems will be solved if they will just become spiritually fit.
You can sue a doctor who provides a misdiagnosis and prescribes a totally ineffective treatment plan for what ails you; you can sue a non-credentialed, non-licensed person who is offering professional counseling services for a fee; but those volunteering to be “of service to others” get a free pass and can continue to practice their armchair psychology - with no mental healthcare training at all - and are thus allowed to set persons up for continued misery or an early demise.
Here, understanding that Maharaj finally came up with the proper diagnosis and finally offered the proper treatment (for what he suggested might be only a few), the emphasis is on discussing the mind-sickness that is at the core of the Ultimate Sickness.
Yet there is also offered here an invitation to seek trained professional care when indicated. That is why in the eBook below entitled Instability / Insanity: What the Advaita Teachings Can (and Cannot) Address, it is made clear that the non-dual understanding, in many cases
A. can address the mental and emotional issues if they are among the less serious varieties but that, in other cases, the teachings / unteachings
B. can only be a part of what is required to address entirely the more serious levels of psychic disintegration which the masses are now suffering from and that, in other cases, the teachings / unteachings
C. cannot have any significant effect at all when persons’ mental and emotional and personality issues have reached the most serious stages of psychic disintegration.
With Maharaj having come to understand the facts in “A” and “B” and “C” above, not everyone who entered the loft was allowed to stay. (And those trapped in the most serious degrees of personality identification and personality disorders and / or in the highest levels of egotism were not allowed by Maharaj to remain, either.)
This pointer is offered in the eBook THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS “PEACE OF MIND” (There is Only Peace if You’re Out of Your Mind):
So, it can be seen that the term “the mind” is just a name given to a set of files. Originally those files were stored in the brain (as what would come to be called “memories”) so that the file information could be retrieved if needed in order to help humans survive when facing dangerous situations (i.e., “Remember when the fellow in the next cave thought he was picking up a stick and it was a snake. Check more carefully.”)
The non-dual pointer: Those with wisdom and clarity can see that now the “mind” has been so distorted that the persons of the planet can believe that a rope is a snake while often mistaking “a real snake” for a harmless rope. And that mistake will lead many persons to enter into intimate “relationships” with some snakes that just appear to be harmless and even “loving” and “caring” and “wonderful.”
Complete misdiagnosis.
That misdiagnosis, and all misdiagnoses, are guaranteed to happen when persons are walking about in a mind-full state which renders them totally unawake and totally unaware. So it is, but so it need not be with you / You.
Yet so few governments and societies are willing to even begin to address the most serious mental illnesses among their populations.
It is left up to seekers to venture out on their own, from one venue to the next, in an often-futile search for that which they truly need to find. Is it also any wonder that Maharaj’s guesstimate of how many will ever Realize – that is, how many will ever be freed from learned ignorance and from the depths of parental-and-culturally-imposed-insanity – went from his original guess that "only one in one-hundred thousand will ever Realize" to his modified guess that "only one in a million will ever Realize" to his final estimate that "only one in ten million will ever Realize"?
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: Yesterday, this point was offered:
Maharaj: “Don't rely on your mind for liberation. It is the mind that brought you into bondage. Go beyond it altogether”
and
he professed to be mindless, saying, “As to my mind, there is no such thing” and made clear that the mind cannot be happy
Furthermore, “happiness” and “bondage” cannot co-exist
and
“happiness” and “a mind” cannot co-exist
and
“a mind” and “freedom” cannot co-exist
and
“mindlessness” and “bondage” cannot co-exist.
So, the options for most among the masses are . . .
1. to continue being trapped in the machinations of the mind - and all that comes with that – including
a. restlessness
b. sleeplessness
c. endless churning and stirring of the mind
d. the constant agitation of hundreds of thousands of thoughts per day and
e. being driven by the bizarre and perverted content of the mind which is just an accumulation of the garbage that has been collected over the decades
or
2. to try to “purify the mind,” which amounts to trying to purify your household garbage rather than tossing it out
or
3. (depending on the teacher and the method of teaching used) trying to become even more mindful, using the mind to try to focus on something different from what it typically focuses on (as if telling you not to think about an elephant will do anything other than trigger a thought about an elephant; or as if the mind can cure the mind; or as if cancer can cure cancer; or as if garbage can be used to address the problems that come when garbage is not disposed of)
or
4. being rid of the mind once and for all and in that process returning to the “Child No-Knowing Stage” or the “Child Ignorance State” when the child was functioning without the disadvantage of even a single, solitary concept or idea or thought or notion or image (a.k.a., “belief”).
Should you seek the peace and freedom of #4, then understand that the process really is so very simple. Thousands of seekers that have come this way are convinced that is impossible to be mindless, that Maharaj was lying when he said he had no mind, and that “Floyd” is also lying when he says the same. If they do reach the point that they would also be mindless, they imagine how complicated that process must be or how insane one must become in order to be mindless, etc. Nothing is farther from the truth.
It has been pointed out here often that “there is no ‘one’ here who has even one, single belief, so there most certainly is no one here who wants you to believe anything, either.” The deal here is about being free of beliefs, not adding beliefs, and the deal here is about being mindless, not mindful or mind-full. How can that happen for you, should you be willing to take the actions necessary to bring to an end the full-mind state and enter into the bliss of the no-mind state? When might that possibility happen for you? It can happen instantly.
The moment that you stop attaching to your ideas, notions, concepts, thoughts, impressions, opinions, views, theories, inklings, and suspicions (a.k.a., beliefs . . . a.k.a. “learned ignorance”) and the moment that you are willing to stop clinging to any belief that you are willing to defend and the moment that you abandon any and all willingness to fight for your beliefs or die for your beliefs or kill for your beliefs, then the very moment in which the last belief goes will be the very moment in which mindlessness comes.
Will you lose all ability to talk, write, express, etc.? Of course not. What happens instead is that all blockages will go and nothing will ever be the same for you - for You - again.
The term “blockages” refers to all of the content of the mind which blocks the pure consciousness from seeing clearly and accurately and truthfully. When the final blockage goes, also gone will be the belief in the false ego-states / personalities / personas which were stored in the mind and which were subconsciously controlling your thinking and talking and actions.
At the point of being free of all blockages, you will function under the auspices of the brain and the pure consciousness (as does every other life-form on the planet, except humans). If functioning under the auspices of the brain and the pure consciousness, then it will be the consciousness which speaks, the consciousness which writes, the consciousness which – without the hindrance of any thoughts - will then direct all words that come from within the composite unity and all actions undertaken by the composite unity.
You will have reached the state Maharaj endorsed, a “zero concepts state,” and you will be mindless. You will be – as the eBook below suggests – “out of your mind” but not in the sense that you will be “crazy.” There is no one to be “crazy.”
When Maharaj spoke of “ignorance and stupidity and insanity” as symptoms suffered by the masses with the Ultimate Sickness, he did not say that those with the Ultimate Sickness are ignorant people and stupid people and insane people. There are no “ones” to be “ignorant and stupid and insane.” There are composite unities with blocked consciousness who are being driven by those three symptoms.
Furthermore, to be “out of your mind” is to be at peace because you are “out of the world” which you felt all along was trapping you. Maharaj said, “You are not in the world. The world is in you,” meaning, “in your mind.” That imagined world is pictured in billions of ways by billions of non-Realized persons, but it is never a “pretty picture” consistently:
Sometimes it might be grand, and sometimes it might be the greatest horror imaginable. But what it is assured to be is an imagined world” that is constantly in a state of flux. It is always a "world of duality" with “high’s and low’s,” “up’s and down’s,” and “good times and bad times.”
What it cannot ever be is consistent, stable, and steady; thus, personas that believe they are abiding in that imaginary world of their perceptions / misperceptions will be assured of being inconsistent, unstable, and unsteady.
Therefore, might a state of “bliss” not be about what you have (such as a full mind) but more about what you do not have (such as a full mind)?
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
Maharaj: “Don't rely on your mind for liberation. It is the mind that brought you into bondage. Go beyond it altogether”
and
he professed to be mindless, saying, “As to my mind, there is no such thing” and made clear that the mind cannot be happy
Furthermore, “happiness” and “bondage” cannot co-exist
and
“happiness” and “a mind” cannot co-exist
and
“a mind” and “freedom” cannot co-exist
and
“mindlessness” and “bondage” cannot co-exist.
So, the options for most among the masses are . . .
1. to continue being trapped in the machinations of the mind - and all that comes with that – including
a. restlessness
b. sleeplessness
c. endless churning and stirring of the mind
d. the constant agitation of hundreds of thousands of thoughts per day and
e. being driven by the bizarre and perverted content of the mind which is just an accumulation of the garbage that has been collected over the decades
or
2. to try to “purify the mind,” which amounts to trying to purify your household garbage rather than tossing it out
or
3. (depending on the teacher and the method of teaching used) trying to become even more mindful, using the mind to try to focus on something different from what it typically focuses on (as if telling you not to think about an elephant will do anything other than trigger a thought about an elephant; or as if the mind can cure the mind; or as if cancer can cure cancer; or as if garbage can be used to address the problems that come when garbage is not disposed of)
or
4. being rid of the mind once and for all and in that process returning to the “Child No-Knowing Stage” or the “Child Ignorance State” when the child was functioning without the disadvantage of even a single, solitary concept or idea or thought or notion or image (a.k.a., “belief”).
Should you seek the peace and freedom of #4, then understand that the process really is so very simple. Thousands of seekers that have come this way are convinced that is impossible to be mindless, that Maharaj was lying when he said he had no mind, and that “Floyd” is also lying when he says the same. If they do reach the point that they would also be mindless, they imagine how complicated that process must be or how insane one must become in order to be mindless, etc. Nothing is farther from the truth.
It has been pointed out here often that “there is no ‘one’ here who has even one, single belief, so there most certainly is no one here who wants you to believe anything, either.” The deal here is about being free of beliefs, not adding beliefs, and the deal here is about being mindless, not mindful or mind-full. How can that happen for you, should you be willing to take the actions necessary to bring to an end the full-mind state and enter into the bliss of the no-mind state? When might that possibility happen for you? It can happen instantly.
The moment that you stop attaching to your ideas, notions, concepts, thoughts, impressions, opinions, views, theories, inklings, and suspicions (a.k.a., beliefs . . . a.k.a. “learned ignorance”) and the moment that you are willing to stop clinging to any belief that you are willing to defend and the moment that you abandon any and all willingness to fight for your beliefs or die for your beliefs or kill for your beliefs, then the very moment in which the last belief goes will be the very moment in which mindlessness comes.
Will you lose all ability to talk, write, express, etc.? Of course not. What happens instead is that all blockages will go and nothing will ever be the same for you - for You - again.
The term “blockages” refers to all of the content of the mind which blocks the pure consciousness from seeing clearly and accurately and truthfully. When the final blockage goes, also gone will be the belief in the false ego-states / personalities / personas which were stored in the mind and which were subconsciously controlling your thinking and talking and actions.
At the point of being free of all blockages, you will function under the auspices of the brain and the pure consciousness (as does every other life-form on the planet, except humans). If functioning under the auspices of the brain and the pure consciousness, then it will be the consciousness which speaks, the consciousness which writes, the consciousness which – without the hindrance of any thoughts - will then direct all words that come from within the composite unity and all actions undertaken by the composite unity.
You will have reached the state Maharaj endorsed, a “zero concepts state,” and you will be mindless. You will be – as the eBook below suggests – “out of your mind” but not in the sense that you will be “crazy.” There is no one to be “crazy.”
When Maharaj spoke of “ignorance and stupidity and insanity” as symptoms suffered by the masses with the Ultimate Sickness, he did not say that those with the Ultimate Sickness are ignorant people and stupid people and insane people. There are no “ones” to be “ignorant and stupid and insane.” There are composite unities with blocked consciousness who are being driven by those three symptoms.
Furthermore, to be “out of your mind” is to be at peace because you are “out of the world” which you felt all along was trapping you. Maharaj said, “You are not in the world. The world is in you,” meaning, “in your mind.” That imagined world is pictured in billions of ways by billions of non-Realized persons, but it is never a “pretty picture” consistently:
Sometimes it might be grand, and sometimes it might be the greatest horror imaginable. But what it is assured to be is an imagined world” that is constantly in a state of flux. It is always a "world of duality" with “high’s and low’s,” “up’s and down’s,” and “good times and bad times.”
What it cannot ever be is consistent, stable, and steady; thus, personas that believe they are abiding in that imaginary world of their perceptions / misperceptions will be assured of being inconsistent, unstable, and unsteady.
Therefore, might a state of “bliss” not be about what you have (such as a full mind) but more about what you do not have (such as a full mind)?
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: Yesterday, this point was offered:
Maharaj professed to be mindless, saying, "As to my mind, there is no such thing” and he made clear that the mind cannot be happy
and
“Don't rely on your mind for liberation. It is the mind that brought you into bondage. Go beyond it altogether.”
Thus, “happiness” and “bondage” cannot co-exist
and
“happiness” and “a mind” cannot co-exist
and
“a mind” and “freedom” cannot co-exist
and
“mindlessness” and “bondage” cannot co-exist.
So might a state of “bliss” not be about what you have (such as a full mind) but more about what you do not have (such as a full mind)?
Some ask, “But if I reach a no-mind state, a state of mindlessness, how can I function in the relative existence?”
The reply: “The same why that the trillions upon trillions and trillions of no-minded, non-humans function: via the auspices of the brain, that is, naturally and spontaneously while being totally awake and totally aware and unencumbered by a constantly-moving mind that preempts any chance of experiencing bliss.
So what is the difference in “consciousness” and “the brain” and “the mind”? This is shared in the eBook below entitled “There’s No Such Thing As ‘Peace of Mind’ (There Is Only Peace if You’re Out of Your Mind)”:
“Consciousness is rooted in the Absolute. The brain is rooted in the elements. The ‘mind’ is rooted in wrong programming and faulty conditioning and lies and concepts and ideas and superstitions and falsehoods. And personas are rooted in programmed minds and are sustained by the ego-based lies and by the learned ignorance that are being taught in most modern cultures.”
Then in the same book, these questions which have been asked over the years are shared (and the brief replies which were provided to questioners are inserted after each query):
“How can I attain peace of mind?”
F.: You can’t.
“Why is my mind constantly in motion?”
F.: That is its nature, but the characteristic is aggravated by programming and conditioning and acculturation and domestication and indoctrination and brainwashing.
“Why do I start thinking about one thing and get hung up on that?”
F.: Because you are suffering from the Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and would likely have a very high Personality Type One score on a personality inventory test.
“Why does my mind sometimes feel as if there’s the chatter of a thousand monkeys going on inside my head?”
F.” Because something very much like the chatter of a thousand monkeys really is going on inside your head.”
“How can I purify my mind and get rid of all the troublesome things that fill it all day long?”
F.: How can you purify the garbage which you haul away or burn or put out at the curb two times per week in order to have a service haul it away? In fact, if it were suggested here that you keep your garbage but merely purify it – once a weekly or on a daily basis – you would conclude that “Floyd is insane”; yet, that is exactly what persons do with the garbage that has been put into their minds: "I'm going to keep the garbage in my mind, but I'll find a way to purify what I have all of that garbage stored in."
“Why can’t I stop my mind at night and go to sleep and stay asleep until morning?”
F.: Because the content of the mind is the source of all irritations and annoyance and unhappiness and unrest and discomfort and restlessness. Rest comes only if concepts / beliefs go.
Next, the elemental plant food brain and the manifested consciousness are natural; however, consciousness can be blocked from seeing clearly via programming and conditioning and acculturation and domestication and indoctrination and brainwashing. The result: a mind that is totally unnatural.
The mind, being totally unnatural, is also capable of generating beliefs regarding things deemed to be “supernatural” or “magical” or “spiritual.” So if the mind is unnatural, and if no mind has ever existed at the time of a child’s “birth,” how does it come about? How did the first mind in the history of humankind develop?
Consider: the earliest brains in adult-age, human-like life-forms could fit in something about the size of a coffee cup. As humans evolved, the adult brain reached its current size of about three-and-one-half cups.
Also from “There’s No Such Thing As ‘Peace of Mind’ (There Is Only Peace if You’re Out of Your Mind)”:
The smaller human brain, in its earlier and simpler stages of development, allowed humans then to live as deer now live: both would hunt / forage / find food for survival; interact; take actions that are self-defensive and self-constructive; and procreate in order that the species would survive. As more and more humans walked the planet, the simplicity of existence would be lost as the simplicity of the brain was lost.
Complications resulted because of an increase in human interactions (and an increase in both individual as well as tribal interests and agendas). The brain began to evolve in order to compensate, and eventually areas that could store memories came into being. At that point, the mind and the brain worked in tandem and in harmony to contribute to the survival of individuals and the species. The mind came about as “memories” began to be stored. As a part of the defense mechanisms for survival of the species, the mind had its role and played it “properly” (naturally) for thousands of years.
For example, if a caveman remembered that his companion fell from a cliff and died as a result, the caveman might avoid falling from cliffs. The original process was as follows: over a period of evolution, the brain expanded to include a cerebral cortex and a hippocampus. Afterwards, when an event happened (such as a human falling off a cliff) or when someone came to understand something (such as, “falling off a cliff can kill you”), the brain placed the memory of that event and the related knowledge acquisition in its “memory files." That is all the mind was: a collection of memories filed away in those "newer" parts of the brain.
The memory of both old and new happenings would be processed and stored away in different areas of the cerebral cortex, or the "gray matter" of the brain. The hippocampus would process the memories.
No problem with that process because what was initially stored in the mind was almost always there to assist humans with survival; thus, the mind was originally “a friend.” Then, because of bogus and perverted programming and conditioning and acculturation and domestication and indoctrination and brainwashing, sense was replaced with nonsense. Now, the mind has become “the enemy” . . . the enemy of peace, of clarify, of wisdom, of freedom, of sanity.
Are you also seeing why the invitation is to reject all nonsensical claims and recommendations about the mind, including:
“purify the mind”
and
“come to a retreat in order to become more mindful”
and
“the content of the mind (which is actually the source of all misery and suffering) can be changed so it will become "the source of all happiness”
and
“mindfulness is a positive energy”
and
“an unsteady mind can be made steady”
and
“bring your mind under control”
and
“a mind that generates unhappiness by focusing on the past or the future can generate peace if you only focus on what is happening right now.” ( But what if right now, you are being tormented by a controlling, abusive spouse? What if right now you have a parent who is beating you? What if right now you are being bullied at school? What is right now you are being discriminated against because of your race or sexual orientation or economic level or social level? What is right now you learned that your child was murdered? Well, there is one - who claims to be offering non-duality, along with a mix of other philosophies and spiritual movement teachings - who will tell you to just “Love what is, no matter what is happening right now.” In other words, just put a spin on everything and proclaim as that person proclaims: “It’s all good.” No, it’s not. That is a statement of duality, and all statements rooted in duality are false.)
See, mind stuff, the result of what happened after the mind developed, after sense became replaced with nonsense, and after the self-destructive mind began over-riding the constructive brain as well as the natural tendencies of the manifested, unblocked, uncontaminated consciousness.
Thus, the pointers that
“happiness” and “bondage” cannot co-exist
and
“happiness” and “a mind” cannot co-exist
and
“a mind” and “freedom” cannot co-exist
and
“mindlessness” and “bondage” cannot co-exist.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
There are seven steps on the “path” that Maharaj discussed, though he never presented them in a “1” to “7” ordering but instead merely referenced them when sharing pointers in the loft.
If a seeker’s words indicated that he was stuck at step four, Maharaj offered pointers that provided an opportunity to shift beyond that and move to step five.
If a seeker’s words indicated that he was stuck at step six, Maharaj offered pointers that provided an opportunity to shift beyond that and move to step seven.
Most who entered the loft were stuck at Step Three of seven, though most thought they had reached the end of the "path." Of those he said that most think that they are being bathed in the full light of noon but are really still standing in the dull light of dawn.
They were playing roles, and defending those false identities vigorously, even as they entered “a role-elimination room.”
At the third step, some were playing a role assigned by a parent or parents and / or culture, namely, the role of “The Religious One” which was eventually self-elevated to the status of “The Super Religious One”;
or
many were playing their “new and improved good role,” that of “The Spiritual Giant.”
In any and every ashram in India (in “Maharaj’s day” and now), one or both of those roles was being reinforced (again, then as well as now). Only in the loft of Maharaj was this the approach:
Maharaj: I will give you nothing; instead, I will take everything away.
The same happens here. With 97% of the persons on the planet reporting that they are affiliated with one religion or another and thus accepting a religious identification as being real, and with millions more proudly proclaiming that they are "beyond being religious and are now spiritual," then 99.99% of all persons are stuck at the third step (and want to stay there).
The rarest occurrence of all here is to cross the path of one who has transcended the third step and is working toward the abandonment of all identification.
Some ask why I spoke often in the past, as Maharaj did, about “being nothing” and about “the nothingness” and about persons “not having a clue where I live.” They want to know if I “lost that understanding” or “never really had that understanding.”
What was understood about “nothing” and “nothingness” remains, but there is caution today about whom that is shared with. Why?
Because of the widespread abuse that persons have suffered in their past, more persons than ever are using dissociation and escapism and avoidance and schizoid-avoidance and addictions as the often subconscious means by which they can escape “all things relative” (or claim to abide solely “as THAT” or “in THAT”).
To speak nowadays of the nothingness and nothing to most becomes an invitation, for far too many persons, to dissociate from reality and to move into Foo-Foo Land or into the castles in the air that their minds have supposedly constructed.
Nowadays, there is an epidemic of escape-oriented personality disorders which can lead persons to disintegrate into states of neuroses and psychoses. The result: a global population that is suffering from
The Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (P.D.), the Avoidant P.D., the Borderline P.D., the Schizoid-Avoidance P.D., the Schizotypal P.D., the Bi-Polar P.D., the Addictive Personality P.D., and the Dissociative P.D. (to mention but a few).
The result is a global population that is totally out of touch with reality while most deny that fact and while some now claim that they are totally and singularly in touch with “Reality;” thus, caution is used nowadays around sharing the non-dual pointers regarding nothing and nothingness because it has been witnessed that many use those pointers to avoid work, avoid relative responsibility, and avoid the relative itself.
After having come to understand, as did Maharaj, that the Ultimate Sickness is not rooted in too little religion or in a spiritual malady and that it is a condition rooted in mental illness, then the last thing he would do, at least at the end of his teaching career, was reinforce that already-present mental illness. Same here.
That is why, here, a three-leg “journey” is discussed:
LEG ONE: the “coming in” stage when the consciousness manifested and was soon exposed to programming, conditioning, acculturation, domestication, brainwashing, and indoctrination, resulting in widespread ignorance and insanity.
LEG TWO: What Maharaj referenced as the “going back out” phase. He advised those ready for the second “leg” of the "journey" thusly:
“ . . . You should go back, reverse, to the source”
and
“Follow the same path by which you came.”
LEG THREE here involves the “coming back in” process whereby one was freed of all false identifications and all beliefs and all ignorance and insanity via Realization and then "comes back in" to the relative, to reality, so to speak. That “coming back in” differs from the initial “coming in” stage because on LEG THREE the coming back in happens without the programming, conditioning, acculturation, domestication, brainwashing, and indoctrination that happened during LEG ONE.
Then, Reality is overlaid on reality. That is, understanding and awareness and sanity and logic and reason will manifest throughout the remainder of the relative manifestation because the dual-mindedness that leads persons to “be unstable in all ways” has ended when mindedness ended.
And when does mindedness end? When one reaches what Maharaj called a state of “zero concepts.” To be free of “beliefs” is to be emptied of all ideas, perspectives, views, thoughts, impressions, false images, notions, opinions, theories, inklings, and concepts which have never been questioned but that have been believed in wholeheartedly because of blind faith alone.
Maharaj said that “it is enough to know what you are not.” Discussions of “being nothing” have allowed some to adopt “nothing” as a supposedly new and loftier and more noble and more surreal and more fantastic identity.
Here, the intent is to “reel those types back in” and to invite them to stop ignoring the “I AM” part of the summative statement of non-duality and to be fully in touch with reality and fully in touch with Reality, meaning with that which is free of what Maharaj identified as three of the major traits of the Ultimate Sickness, namely, “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity.”
Indeed, the Ultimate Sickness is not rooted in too little religion; nor is it a spiritual malady. It is a sickness that centers in the mind, and only an Ultimate Medicine which addresses the problems generated by the bogus content of the mind can effectively address the Ultimate Sickness. That understanding was finally reached by Maharaj via his own experiences and observations, and that understanding was reached here the same way.
So, best regards if you are yet seeking. May you find both reality and Reality. May you find the only effective Ultimate Medicine.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
29 October 2014
So what was going on with the deer that usually behave as if they are Realized but were behaving yesterday as if they were among the mass of non-Realized humans? Why were these animals which often provide a near-year round example of what the relative existence is like for the Realized suddenly behaving as do humans who are locked year round in their hierarchies of separation and in their aggressive, hierarchical attitudes?
As the case with the Realized, the deer throughout their other ten to eleven non-breeding months usually move about slowly, calmly, deliberately, serenely, tranquilly, peacefully, and evenly. During “the rut,” they behave exactly like non-Realized humans who live every day in a go-do-zoom mode . . . in a fast, never-calm, seldom-tranquil, seldom-peaceful fashion.
The deer, therefore, can still be used to provide a year-round example: most of the year they model a Realized-like manner which would behoove humans were they to abide in the same manner; for six weeks or so, the deer model "how not to abide."
The rest of the year, they behave calmly and sanely. Because they do not lack coping skills – as do most humans – they typically experience no excessive anxiety or constant fear or restlessness or irritability; therefore, there are no other deer that sell them fermented berries that will get them drunk and inspire them to run recklessly down a path and miss a turn and run into a tree and kill themselves.
Except during the rut, they do not lash out at other deer but abide peacefully as content members of one large herd. Unlike humans, but instead like the trillions upon trillions upon trillions of non-human living things, they are not driven to use drugs or religion or spirituality or work or accumulation or any of the thousands of things that humans become addicted to because of an inability to cope; as result of anxiety; as a result of instability, mental and emotional and otherwise; as a result of being deceived by lies; as a result of being fooled; as a result of normalizing chaos, ad infinitum.
Humanity’s key issues which Maharaj identified – ignorance, stupidity, and insanity – are absent among the trillions upon trillions upon trillions of non-human living things. None except humans are set up to have to try to deal with issues which all other mindless (and, therefore, concept-less and belief-less) non-human living things never even consider.
All living things except humans are free of all nonsense, and it is freedom from that nonsense which any wise human will seek. That is “the WHAT” which humans that are wise enough will seek. The relevant fact: freedom from the mind and from concepts and from beliefs does not come by “expanding the mind” via the addition of even more baseless concepts and beliefs.
There are scores of this type yoga or that, there are five basic non-duality teaching methods, and there are hundreds of bastardized forms of those five methods. If the method by which you are seeking involves dogma, then you are learning rather than unlearning, accumulating rather than de-accumulating, and being taught rather than being un-taught.
If the method by which you are seeking involves spirituality, then you are likely involved in the going and doing and zooming that involves meetings and spiritual exercise, etc., so you are learning more rather than unlearning all, accumulating more rather than de-accumulating all, and being taught more rather than being un-taught all.
If the method by which you are seeking involves detachment from the relative, dissociation from the AM-ness, and escaping once and for all everything involved with the IS-ness, then understand the psychological ramifications:
the Dissociative Disorder is a mental illness; the Avoidant and Schizoid-Avoidant Disorders are mental sicknesses; and being out of touch with reality while thinking you are fully in touch with Reality is a mental illness that involves the highest levels of distortion and delusion.
Trillions upon trillions upon trillions of non-human living things need no religion, need no spirituality, need no more knowledge, need no guidance from afar, need no power or Power, and need no psychologist or counselor or non-dual teacher. Only humans think they need religion and / or spirituality and more knowledge and guidance from afar and power or Power. If trillions upon trillions upon trillions of non-human living things can make it fine without any of that, why can’t you?
Only because You are not aware of the "you" / "you’s" that have been adopted and only because "you" are not aware of the multiple personalities which are driving you via their hidden subconscious agendas and which are determining your every thought and word and action.
The human sense of “needing” . . . need not be (except to the degree of "needing" the pointers required to shift away from the “you’s” and from all beliefs and from all hidden agendas and from mental problems which are not at all a result of “too little religion” or of “a spiritual malady”).
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
Maharaj professed to be mindless, saying, "As to my mind, there is no such thing” and he made clear that the mind cannot be happy
and
“Don't rely on your mind for liberation. It is the mind that brought you into bondage. Go beyond it altogether.”
Thus, “happiness” and “bondage” cannot co-exist
and
“happiness” and “a mind” cannot co-exist
and
“a mind” and “freedom” cannot co-exist
and
“mindlessness” and “bondage” cannot co-exist.
So might a state of “bliss” not be about what you have (such as a full mind) but more about what you do not have (such as a full mind)?
Some ask, “But if I reach a no-mind state, a state of mindlessness, how can I function in the relative existence?”
The reply: “The same why that the trillions upon trillions and trillions of no-minded, non-humans function: via the auspices of the brain, that is, naturally and spontaneously while being totally awake and totally aware and unencumbered by a constantly-moving mind that preempts any chance of experiencing bliss.
So what is the difference in “consciousness” and “the brain” and “the mind”? This is shared in the eBook below entitled “There’s No Such Thing As ‘Peace of Mind’ (There Is Only Peace if You’re Out of Your Mind)”:
“Consciousness is rooted in the Absolute. The brain is rooted in the elements. The ‘mind’ is rooted in wrong programming and faulty conditioning and lies and concepts and ideas and superstitions and falsehoods. And personas are rooted in programmed minds and are sustained by the ego-based lies and by the learned ignorance that are being taught in most modern cultures.”
Then in the same book, these questions which have been asked over the years are shared (and the brief replies which were provided to questioners are inserted after each query):
“How can I attain peace of mind?”
F.: You can’t.
“Why is my mind constantly in motion?”
F.: That is its nature, but the characteristic is aggravated by programming and conditioning and acculturation and domestication and indoctrination and brainwashing.
“Why do I start thinking about one thing and get hung up on that?”
F.: Because you are suffering from the Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and would likely have a very high Personality Type One score on a personality inventory test.
“Why does my mind sometimes feel as if there’s the chatter of a thousand monkeys going on inside my head?”
F.” Because something very much like the chatter of a thousand monkeys really is going on inside your head.”
“How can I purify my mind and get rid of all the troublesome things that fill it all day long?”
F.: How can you purify the garbage which you haul away or burn or put out at the curb two times per week in order to have a service haul it away? In fact, if it were suggested here that you keep your garbage but merely purify it – once a weekly or on a daily basis – you would conclude that “Floyd is insane”; yet, that is exactly what persons do with the garbage that has been put into their minds: "I'm going to keep the garbage in my mind, but I'll find a way to purify what I have all of that garbage stored in."
“Why can’t I stop my mind at night and go to sleep and stay asleep until morning?”
F.: Because the content of the mind is the source of all irritations and annoyance and unhappiness and unrest and discomfort and restlessness. Rest comes only if concepts / beliefs go.
Next, the elemental plant food brain and the manifested consciousness are natural; however, consciousness can be blocked from seeing clearly via programming and conditioning and acculturation and domestication and indoctrination and brainwashing. The result: a mind that is totally unnatural.
The mind, being totally unnatural, is also capable of generating beliefs regarding things deemed to be “supernatural” or “magical” or “spiritual.” So if the mind is unnatural, and if no mind has ever existed at the time of a child’s “birth,” how does it come about? How did the first mind in the history of humankind develop?
Consider: the earliest brains in adult-age, human-like life-forms could fit in something about the size of a coffee cup. As humans evolved, the adult brain reached its current size of about three-and-one-half cups.
Also from “There’s No Such Thing As ‘Peace of Mind’ (There Is Only Peace if You’re Out of Your Mind)”:
The smaller human brain, in its earlier and simpler stages of development, allowed humans then to live as deer now live: both would hunt / forage / find food for survival; interact; take actions that are self-defensive and self-constructive; and procreate in order that the species would survive. As more and more humans walked the planet, the simplicity of existence would be lost as the simplicity of the brain was lost.
Complications resulted because of an increase in human interactions (and an increase in both individual as well as tribal interests and agendas). The brain began to evolve in order to compensate, and eventually areas that could store memories came into being. At that point, the mind and the brain worked in tandem and in harmony to contribute to the survival of individuals and the species. The mind came about as “memories” began to be stored. As a part of the defense mechanisms for survival of the species, the mind had its role and played it “properly” (naturally) for thousands of years.
For example, if a caveman remembered that his companion fell from a cliff and died as a result, the caveman might avoid falling from cliffs. The original process was as follows: over a period of evolution, the brain expanded to include a cerebral cortex and a hippocampus. Afterwards, when an event happened (such as a human falling off a cliff) or when someone came to understand something (such as, “falling off a cliff can kill you”), the brain placed the memory of that event and the related knowledge acquisition in its “memory files." That is all the mind was: a collection of memories filed away in those "newer" parts of the brain.
The memory of both old and new happenings would be processed and stored away in different areas of the cerebral cortex, or the "gray matter" of the brain. The hippocampus would process the memories.
No problem with that process because what was initially stored in the mind was almost always there to assist humans with survival; thus, the mind was originally “a friend.” Then, because of bogus and perverted programming and conditioning and acculturation and domestication and indoctrination and brainwashing, sense was replaced with nonsense. Now, the mind has become “the enemy” . . . the enemy of peace, of clarify, of wisdom, of freedom, of sanity.
Are you also seeing why the invitation is to reject all nonsensical claims and recommendations about the mind, including:
“purify the mind”
and
“come to a retreat in order to become more mindful”
and
“the content of the mind (which is actually the source of all misery and suffering) can be changed so it will become "the source of all happiness”
and
“mindfulness is a positive energy”
and
“an unsteady mind can be made steady”
and
“bring your mind under control”
and
“a mind that generates unhappiness by focusing on the past or the future can generate peace if you only focus on what is happening right now.” ( But what if right now, you are being tormented by a controlling, abusive spouse? What if right now you have a parent who is beating you? What if right now you are being bullied at school? What is right now you are being discriminated against because of your race or sexual orientation or economic level or social level? What is right now you learned that your child was murdered? Well, there is one - who claims to be offering non-duality, along with a mix of other philosophies and spiritual movement teachings - who will tell you to just “Love what is, no matter what is happening right now.” In other words, just put a spin on everything and proclaim as that person proclaims: “It’s all good.” No, it’s not. That is a statement of duality, and all statements rooted in duality are false.)
See, mind stuff, the result of what happened after the mind developed, after sense became replaced with nonsense, and after the self-destructive mind began over-riding the constructive brain as well as the natural tendencies of the manifested, unblocked, uncontaminated consciousness.
Thus, the pointers that
“happiness” and “bondage” cannot co-exist
and
“happiness” and “a mind” cannot co-exist
and
“a mind” and “freedom” cannot co-exist
and
“mindlessness” and “bondage” cannot co-exist.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: In the free eBook below on “Seeking,” readers are invited to consider that
(1) the main problem of humanity does not rest in the fact that there are too few religious people (what with 97% already claiming a religious affiliation) and that
(2) the main problem of humanity has nothing to do with the notion that each person has a “spirit” within and that humans have problems because that spirit is “unfit” or suffering a “malady.”
[If you have been told that, were you not curious, even to the point of having to question such a belief? If there were inside every human being and animal a spiritual yet immaterial and invisible part which is said by some to be immortal and which some claim has specific qualities – namely, being “the God-given essence” and, in some belief systems, being the actual embodiment of God” - then how could something that is supposedly
“the essence of God”
and
“the embodiment of God”
and
“the everlasting personification of God”
and
which is supposedly present right now
and
which will supposedly exist forever (even after the end of the manifestation),
then
how could that possibly become “unfit” or “sick” or “suffer a malady”?
Per their beliefs, it’s God, for God’s sake!
How could that which is supposedly “the essence of God within” or which is supposedly "God within, literally" or which is supposedly "the spark of the Divine within" or supposedly “the Divinity within,” how could that God or "God-ness" possibly become “unfit” or “sick” or end up suffering from any kind of “malady”? All so very confusing, but typical. How could that which is supposedly all-perfect and all-powerful become weak, frail, ill, unsound, invalid, ailing, failing, infirmed, debilitated, decrepit, or enfeebled?
As a child, when I had done something that was about to bring forth some harsh punishment, I would lie about what I had done, asserting my innocence in order to try to protect the continuity of the consciousness . . . often feeling that I was dealing with someone who could literally kill. The problem with that approach: after the first lie, more lies had to follow, and the subsequent lies began to contradict the earlier lies. See? When humans start lying and trying to convince other humans to believe what they are saying but are questioned further, it does all become quite incomprehensible, and rightly so. See? All so very confusing, but all so very typical. Talk about “a mind full” of it. There it is.]
Here, there is no one with any beliefs, so there cannot possibly be anyone that wants you to believe anything, either. To the contrary, the invitation is to abandon all beliefs and in the process you will abandon all confusion.
Here, instead, a consideration is offered that the actual problem with humanity is what non-dualists call “the Ultimate Sickness,” that the Ultimate Sickness is a mental sickness, and that the main problem of humanity centers in mind.
Moreover, the point is offered that - based in Maharaj’s experience and observations and the experience and observations here - neither religion nor spirituality nor the mind can heal the mind.
If one is suffering from cancer, the last thing needed is . . . more cancer. Similarly, if one is suffering from an illness that is mental, the last thing needed is . . . more “stuff” that is also mental. If a problem centers in the mind, would one with wisdom recommend that the mind needs to be filled with more? Or might less mind-full-ness be deemed a wiser course?
When non-duality recommends de-accumulation, that applies to de-accumulation in all ways, in all areas. If one is suffering from some type of internal obstruction, would the sufferer who is not insane choose a doctor who recommends removing part of the obstruction or a doctor who recommends removing the entire blockage?
Similarly, in some quarters there is talk of “purifying the mind,” but would maximum purity involve partial purging or total purging?
Without entering into a debate about what the one, single meaning of “paramakash” should be, Maharaj said that he did take his stand “there.” Of “paramakash” he said, it is “the timeless and spaceless reality . . . mindless, undifferentiated, the infinite potentiality.” See? Mindless.
He advised: “Behave as if you are pure awareness, bodiless and mindless . . . .”
He counseled visitors to seek that state of “zero concepts,” thus having no beliefs and thus being mindless. (Not "a state of almost zero concepts," clinging at less to the one remaining thought which keeps you forever mindful of - and forever focused on - the "I am"? No. Not even that should be clung to.)
He made clear that the non-Realized “ . . . are always conscious of the mind but are not aware of [themselves] as being conscious.”
He recommended: “. . . Be free from the limitations of the mind.”
He professed to be mindless, saying, “As to my mind, there is no such thing” and made clear that the mind cannot be happy.
He said, “The mind, by its very nature, divides and opposes.” It is the source of duality, and duality is at the root of humanity’s instability and ignorance and insanity.
However, if you have an extra US$5,000.00-US$20,000.00 and want to learn how to be “mindful,” there’s a retreat for you. Or here, for no charge at all, you can be told that you are already mindful . . . that is, full of mind. Rather than paying to be more mindful, the invitation here is to be mindless. But thousands this year have already paid thousands to travel to France or to satellite retreats all around the globe to find out how to be even more mindful and how to do what seems impossible: to take a mind that is already chock full and still be able to be even more mind-full, still be able to make it even more full.
Some in the past, when that pointer has been offered, said: “But Floyd, the deal is to be mindful of the AM-ness alone.” The reply: “As if that is natural? Do the deer walking through the woods and foraging for food have to repeat mentally, over and over, 'I am . . . I am . . . I am?' And as if those trapped for decades in focusing only on 'themselves' should now focus on thinking over and over, “I am . . . I am . . . I am . . . I am.”
More with that "I," "I," "I" stuff. Is that ever going to end, or is the plan to forever be mindful of the "I"? (A caution. Don't walk about in public mumbling that. They might lock you away - unless your culture - like the one here, has normalized insanity and now just ignores it).
Okay, so you are. Next? And okay, yes, Maharaj early on assigned the "I am" mantra to inspire mindfulness per his guru’s instructions; and yes, he did it even after he said he was doing it because he was instructed to do so by his guru; but he did not really put any value in the use of the "mindfulness-generating mantra." Eventually, therefore, he broke from his guru’s advice and stopped encouraging the use of that mantra and turned away from his earlier talks about "mindfulness" and about "certain ways that the mind could be used by seekers."
Just as he tested the possibility of using dogma to address the Ultimate Sickness, and just as he tested the possibility of using spirituality and spiritual exercises to address the Ultimate Sickness, so too did he test certain ways that a mind and a mantra might be used to move a seeker farther along the “path.” He would eventually see that all three failed his tests, so he left religion behind, he left spirituality behind, and he concluded in regards to the mind’s “worth”:
“. . . Nothing the mind can visualise and want is of much value.”
Eventually, he went even farther and said, “Distrust your mind, and go beyond.”
He said: “Whatever is conceived by the mind must be false, for it is bound to be relative and limited.” The more mindful one is, the more one will be in touch with the false.
For thousands of dollars, you can be told that it is “Mindfulness that is a source of happiness.” (Sounds “deep,” huh?)
Maharaj, to the contrary, said: “Don't rely on your mind for liberation. It is the mind that brought you into bondage. Go beyond it altogether.”
See, “happiness” and “bondage” cannot co-exist.
So much for spending thousands to be told to be more mindful. Here, for no charge at all, you can come to understand that the content of the mind is the source of all misery and suffering.
For thousands of dollars, you can be told that “mindfulness is the energy of being aware and awake to the present moment.” (Sounds “deep,” huh?)
The fact: (A) The mind and (B) “being aware and awake” are totally incompatible. It is via the pure, unblocked consciousness by which awareness can be aware of itself and by which pure witnessing can happen, which allows for “being aware and awake,” and that has nothing to do with “the mind.” If the mind is involved, than “being aware and awake” are impossible.
Maharaj: “Awareness is the point at which the mind reaches out beyond itself.” There is no correlation being mindfulness and awareness. They are counter-intuitive, contradictory. Mindfulness preempts awareness.
Maharaj: “. . . There is no such thing as mind apart from thoughts.” More mindfulness equals more thoughts. More thoughts equal more false beliefs.
Consider the key pointer in this exchange:
Maharaj: “How can anything be steady in a mind which itself is not steady?”
Questioner: “How can I make my mind steady?”
Maharaj: “How can an unsteady mind make itself steady? Of course it cannot. It is the nature of the mind to roam about. All you can do is to shift the focus of consciousness beyond the mind.”
He noted: “. . . Ideas of movement, of restlessness, of pleasure and pain, are all in the mind. The Self [Pure Witnessing] stands beyond the mind, aware, but unconcerned.”
Many claim they are seeking peace of mind. As noted in the subtitle of one eBook below, this pointer from Maharaj makes clear that “. . . there is no such thing as peace of mind. Mind means disturbance; restlessness itself is mind.”
The truly wise seek not mindfulness. The truly wise seek the end of mindfulness.
In fact, Maharaj said, “The death of the mind is the birth of wisdom.”
Therefore, the truly wise and Loving do not offer mindfulness. The truly wise and Loving offer a means by which one can be free of the mind, completely, for mindfulness guarantees a focus upon “me,” “I,” “self.” Doing some “mindful” dishwashing? The focus is on Me, My presence, on the notion that “I AM” and “I am here.” That’ll get you some broken plates. If you come to my house for a retreat and offer to wash the breakfast dishes, please focus on the breakable dishes and not on your almost-always hard-to-break "self."
Maharaj: “Stop making use of your mind and see what happens. Do this one thing thoroughly. That is all.”
See, Maharaj made clear that what the mind thinks it knows is itself, its “self,” its “false selves.” Thus, “The mind covers up reality, without knowing it.”
Should one really want more mind, more mindfulness, when it is the mind that underscores the false, that leads to the belief that the false is true and real even as it “. . . covers up reality, without knowing it”?
The mind is home to dozens or scores or many scores of personalities, of false identities. Mindfulness only increases one’s focus on self, never on the not-self, never on reality or Reality but always on the false instead. Yet many pay a small fortune to activate the mind even more, thus tapping more and more into self and false concepts and ideas, etc. (a.k.a., “beliefs”).
The mind is the seat of all deceptions, delusions, and false personal identifications; thus, the problem with the mind and being mindful?
Maharaj: “Your mindfulness must include the mind also.” Ah, there’s the rub.
Again, “Don't rely on your mind for liberation. It is the mind that brought you into bondage. Go beyond it altogether.”
More mindfulness = more bondage. The wise would see that to pay thousands of dollars to be moved deeper into bondage is just more evidence of insanity; moreover, to pay anything for any idea, in fact, is evidence of insanity. Intent on paying for something? Pay for the means by which you can be freed from the content of the mind, from being mind-full (which is the root of being full-of-self).
True, if mindfulness were to result in fixed awareness, fine, but only about 1 on 10,000,000 ever become fully aware, per Maharaj’s estimate, so quite fine in theory but quite a mess in reality.
Next, the mind can never be brought under control by you. It is uncontrollable, though it can be manipulated by those who would control your minds’ thoughts and your mind-generated words and your mind-generated actions.
Maharaj made clear that “beyond the mind there is no suffering.” If not beyond the mind and mindfulness, then suffering will be guaranteed.
Far more sane is this: “By looking tirelessly, I became quite empty, and with that emptiness, all came back to me except the mind. I find I have lost the mind irretrievably.” So much for the mind and mindfulness which you can supposedly be taught for thousands of dollars.
But without any charge at all, you can be offered the considerations here that (a) consciousness is a form of energy and that (b) the content of the mind is not energy but is a conglomeration of dreamed up and bogus ideas and concepts and misperceptions and notions and thoughts and theories and views (all of which can be boiled down to two words: “your” beliefs”).
However, that too must be clarified because they are not “your beliefs” at all but are actually “their beliefs” which have been passed on to you and which you have adopted and which you now erroneously think are your beliefs.
Either way, they are delusions . . . illusions . . . and neither delusions nor illusions are “energy.” To suggest that delusions and illusions are “energy” (and an energy that you should seek) would be tantamount to suggesting that “the child of a barren woman is energy.”
Thus, to be “aware and awake” is actually the antidote for the accumulation of bogus ideas and concepts and misperceptions and notions and thoughts and theories and views (a.k.a., “beliefs”).
Yet if you pay thousands to go to one of those "mindfulness" retreats, for your payment you will be taught how to walk mindfully, sit mindfully, work mindfully, eat mindfully, etc. (Sounds “deep,” huh?)
Hummm. Imagine, once home, all of the things you could add to the list of things you could do “mindfully” for the remainder of the manifestation.
Yet is that not the way that the masses already behave on a daily basis? Are they not “mindful” (full of mind” or “in possession of a full mind” and “totally trapped in their minds and the content therein”)?
Here, the pointer is that mindfulness is not a prerequisite for being aware and awake. It is the very cause of being unawake and unaware.
Of the trillions upon trillions upon trillions of life-forms on the planet, only the members of one group (humans) have a mind; additionally, only those members of that species are sleep-walking mindfully, sitting in their sleep mindfully, talking in their sleep mindfully, driving in their sleep mindfully, working in their sleep mindfully, eating in their sleep mindfully, ad infinitum.
Consider the deer and that they have no mind. Does that mean that they cannot be “awake and aware”? Hardly, they are one of the most aware life-forms in the forest (the “mystery” to them of potentially-lethal highways bisecting their forests as well as the blinding lights of vehicles racing along on those roads notwithstanding).
Of the 8,700,000 species on the planet, and the trillions upon trillions upon trillions of life-forms among those groups, only the members of one species (humans) have a mind, yet humans are the most unawake and unaware of all life-forms while all other life-forms (which are mindless) are totally awake and totally aware.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
(1) the main problem of humanity does not rest in the fact that there are too few religious people (what with 97% already claiming a religious affiliation) and that
(2) the main problem of humanity has nothing to do with the notion that each person has a “spirit” within and that humans have problems because that spirit is “unfit” or suffering a “malady.”
[If you have been told that, were you not curious, even to the point of having to question such a belief? If there were inside every human being and animal a spiritual yet immaterial and invisible part which is said by some to be immortal and which some claim has specific qualities – namely, being “the God-given essence” and, in some belief systems, being the actual embodiment of God” - then how could something that is supposedly
“the essence of God”
and
“the embodiment of God”
and
“the everlasting personification of God”
and
which is supposedly present right now
and
which will supposedly exist forever (even after the end of the manifestation),
then
how could that possibly become “unfit” or “sick” or “suffer a malady”?
Per their beliefs, it’s God, for God’s sake!
How could that which is supposedly “the essence of God within” or which is supposedly "God within, literally" or which is supposedly "the spark of the Divine within" or supposedly “the Divinity within,” how could that God or "God-ness" possibly become “unfit” or “sick” or end up suffering from any kind of “malady”? All so very confusing, but typical. How could that which is supposedly all-perfect and all-powerful become weak, frail, ill, unsound, invalid, ailing, failing, infirmed, debilitated, decrepit, or enfeebled?
As a child, when I had done something that was about to bring forth some harsh punishment, I would lie about what I had done, asserting my innocence in order to try to protect the continuity of the consciousness . . . often feeling that I was dealing with someone who could literally kill. The problem with that approach: after the first lie, more lies had to follow, and the subsequent lies began to contradict the earlier lies. See? When humans start lying and trying to convince other humans to believe what they are saying but are questioned further, it does all become quite incomprehensible, and rightly so. See? All so very confusing, but all so very typical. Talk about “a mind full” of it. There it is.]
Here, there is no one with any beliefs, so there cannot possibly be anyone that wants you to believe anything, either. To the contrary, the invitation is to abandon all beliefs and in the process you will abandon all confusion.
Here, instead, a consideration is offered that the actual problem with humanity is what non-dualists call “the Ultimate Sickness,” that the Ultimate Sickness is a mental sickness, and that the main problem of humanity centers in mind.
Moreover, the point is offered that - based in Maharaj’s experience and observations and the experience and observations here - neither religion nor spirituality nor the mind can heal the mind.
If one is suffering from cancer, the last thing needed is . . . more cancer. Similarly, if one is suffering from an illness that is mental, the last thing needed is . . . more “stuff” that is also mental. If a problem centers in the mind, would one with wisdom recommend that the mind needs to be filled with more? Or might less mind-full-ness be deemed a wiser course?
When non-duality recommends de-accumulation, that applies to de-accumulation in all ways, in all areas. If one is suffering from some type of internal obstruction, would the sufferer who is not insane choose a doctor who recommends removing part of the obstruction or a doctor who recommends removing the entire blockage?
Similarly, in some quarters there is talk of “purifying the mind,” but would maximum purity involve partial purging or total purging?
Without entering into a debate about what the one, single meaning of “paramakash” should be, Maharaj said that he did take his stand “there.” Of “paramakash” he said, it is “the timeless and spaceless reality . . . mindless, undifferentiated, the infinite potentiality.” See? Mindless.
He advised: “Behave as if you are pure awareness, bodiless and mindless . . . .”
He counseled visitors to seek that state of “zero concepts,” thus having no beliefs and thus being mindless. (Not "a state of almost zero concepts," clinging at less to the one remaining thought which keeps you forever mindful of - and forever focused on - the "I am"? No. Not even that should be clung to.)
He made clear that the non-Realized “ . . . are always conscious of the mind but are not aware of [themselves] as being conscious.”
He recommended: “. . . Be free from the limitations of the mind.”
He professed to be mindless, saying, “As to my mind, there is no such thing” and made clear that the mind cannot be happy.
He said, “The mind, by its very nature, divides and opposes.” It is the source of duality, and duality is at the root of humanity’s instability and ignorance and insanity.
However, if you have an extra US$5,000.00-US$20,000.00 and want to learn how to be “mindful,” there’s a retreat for you. Or here, for no charge at all, you can be told that you are already mindful . . . that is, full of mind. Rather than paying to be more mindful, the invitation here is to be mindless. But thousands this year have already paid thousands to travel to France or to satellite retreats all around the globe to find out how to be even more mindful and how to do what seems impossible: to take a mind that is already chock full and still be able to be even more mind-full, still be able to make it even more full.
Some in the past, when that pointer has been offered, said: “But Floyd, the deal is to be mindful of the AM-ness alone.” The reply: “As if that is natural? Do the deer walking through the woods and foraging for food have to repeat mentally, over and over, 'I am . . . I am . . . I am?' And as if those trapped for decades in focusing only on 'themselves' should now focus on thinking over and over, “I am . . . I am . . . I am . . . I am.”
More with that "I," "I," "I" stuff. Is that ever going to end, or is the plan to forever be mindful of the "I"? (A caution. Don't walk about in public mumbling that. They might lock you away - unless your culture - like the one here, has normalized insanity and now just ignores it).
Okay, so you are. Next? And okay, yes, Maharaj early on assigned the "I am" mantra to inspire mindfulness per his guru’s instructions; and yes, he did it even after he said he was doing it because he was instructed to do so by his guru; but he did not really put any value in the use of the "mindfulness-generating mantra." Eventually, therefore, he broke from his guru’s advice and stopped encouraging the use of that mantra and turned away from his earlier talks about "mindfulness" and about "certain ways that the mind could be used by seekers."
Just as he tested the possibility of using dogma to address the Ultimate Sickness, and just as he tested the possibility of using spirituality and spiritual exercises to address the Ultimate Sickness, so too did he test certain ways that a mind and a mantra might be used to move a seeker farther along the “path.” He would eventually see that all three failed his tests, so he left religion behind, he left spirituality behind, and he concluded in regards to the mind’s “worth”:
“. . . Nothing the mind can visualise and want is of much value.”
Eventually, he went even farther and said, “Distrust your mind, and go beyond.”
He said: “Whatever is conceived by the mind must be false, for it is bound to be relative and limited.” The more mindful one is, the more one will be in touch with the false.
For thousands of dollars, you can be told that it is “Mindfulness that is a source of happiness.” (Sounds “deep,” huh?)
Maharaj, to the contrary, said: “Don't rely on your mind for liberation. It is the mind that brought you into bondage. Go beyond it altogether.”
See, “happiness” and “bondage” cannot co-exist.
So much for spending thousands to be told to be more mindful. Here, for no charge at all, you can come to understand that the content of the mind is the source of all misery and suffering.
For thousands of dollars, you can be told that “mindfulness is the energy of being aware and awake to the present moment.” (Sounds “deep,” huh?)
The fact: (A) The mind and (B) “being aware and awake” are totally incompatible. It is via the pure, unblocked consciousness by which awareness can be aware of itself and by which pure witnessing can happen, which allows for “being aware and awake,” and that has nothing to do with “the mind.” If the mind is involved, than “being aware and awake” are impossible.
Maharaj: “Awareness is the point at which the mind reaches out beyond itself.” There is no correlation being mindfulness and awareness. They are counter-intuitive, contradictory. Mindfulness preempts awareness.
Maharaj: “. . . There is no such thing as mind apart from thoughts.” More mindfulness equals more thoughts. More thoughts equal more false beliefs.
Consider the key pointer in this exchange:
Maharaj: “How can anything be steady in a mind which itself is not steady?”
Questioner: “How can I make my mind steady?”
Maharaj: “How can an unsteady mind make itself steady? Of course it cannot. It is the nature of the mind to roam about. All you can do is to shift the focus of consciousness beyond the mind.”
He noted: “. . . Ideas of movement, of restlessness, of pleasure and pain, are all in the mind. The Self [Pure Witnessing] stands beyond the mind, aware, but unconcerned.”
Many claim they are seeking peace of mind. As noted in the subtitle of one eBook below, this pointer from Maharaj makes clear that “. . . there is no such thing as peace of mind. Mind means disturbance; restlessness itself is mind.”
The truly wise seek not mindfulness. The truly wise seek the end of mindfulness.
In fact, Maharaj said, “The death of the mind is the birth of wisdom.”
Therefore, the truly wise and Loving do not offer mindfulness. The truly wise and Loving offer a means by which one can be free of the mind, completely, for mindfulness guarantees a focus upon “me,” “I,” “self.” Doing some “mindful” dishwashing? The focus is on Me, My presence, on the notion that “I AM” and “I am here.” That’ll get you some broken plates. If you come to my house for a retreat and offer to wash the breakfast dishes, please focus on the breakable dishes and not on your almost-always hard-to-break "self."
Maharaj: “Stop making use of your mind and see what happens. Do this one thing thoroughly. That is all.”
See, Maharaj made clear that what the mind thinks it knows is itself, its “self,” its “false selves.” Thus, “The mind covers up reality, without knowing it.”
Should one really want more mind, more mindfulness, when it is the mind that underscores the false, that leads to the belief that the false is true and real even as it “. . . covers up reality, without knowing it”?
The mind is home to dozens or scores or many scores of personalities, of false identities. Mindfulness only increases one’s focus on self, never on the not-self, never on reality or Reality but always on the false instead. Yet many pay a small fortune to activate the mind even more, thus tapping more and more into self and false concepts and ideas, etc. (a.k.a., “beliefs”).
The mind is the seat of all deceptions, delusions, and false personal identifications; thus, the problem with the mind and being mindful?
Maharaj: “Your mindfulness must include the mind also.” Ah, there’s the rub.
Again, “Don't rely on your mind for liberation. It is the mind that brought you into bondage. Go beyond it altogether.”
More mindfulness = more bondage. The wise would see that to pay thousands of dollars to be moved deeper into bondage is just more evidence of insanity; moreover, to pay anything for any idea, in fact, is evidence of insanity. Intent on paying for something? Pay for the means by which you can be freed from the content of the mind, from being mind-full (which is the root of being full-of-self).
True, if mindfulness were to result in fixed awareness, fine, but only about 1 on 10,000,000 ever become fully aware, per Maharaj’s estimate, so quite fine in theory but quite a mess in reality.
Next, the mind can never be brought under control by you. It is uncontrollable, though it can be manipulated by those who would control your minds’ thoughts and your mind-generated words and your mind-generated actions.
Maharaj made clear that “beyond the mind there is no suffering.” If not beyond the mind and mindfulness, then suffering will be guaranteed.
Far more sane is this: “By looking tirelessly, I became quite empty, and with that emptiness, all came back to me except the mind. I find I have lost the mind irretrievably.” So much for the mind and mindfulness which you can supposedly be taught for thousands of dollars.
But without any charge at all, you can be offered the considerations here that (a) consciousness is a form of energy and that (b) the content of the mind is not energy but is a conglomeration of dreamed up and bogus ideas and concepts and misperceptions and notions and thoughts and theories and views (all of which can be boiled down to two words: “your” beliefs”).
However, that too must be clarified because they are not “your beliefs” at all but are actually “their beliefs” which have been passed on to you and which you have adopted and which you now erroneously think are your beliefs.
Either way, they are delusions . . . illusions . . . and neither delusions nor illusions are “energy.” To suggest that delusions and illusions are “energy” (and an energy that you should seek) would be tantamount to suggesting that “the child of a barren woman is energy.”
Thus, to be “aware and awake” is actually the antidote for the accumulation of bogus ideas and concepts and misperceptions and notions and thoughts and theories and views (a.k.a., “beliefs”).
Yet if you pay thousands to go to one of those "mindfulness" retreats, for your payment you will be taught how to walk mindfully, sit mindfully, work mindfully, eat mindfully, etc. (Sounds “deep,” huh?)
Hummm. Imagine, once home, all of the things you could add to the list of things you could do “mindfully” for the remainder of the manifestation.
Yet is that not the way that the masses already behave on a daily basis? Are they not “mindful” (full of mind” or “in possession of a full mind” and “totally trapped in their minds and the content therein”)?
Here, the pointer is that mindfulness is not a prerequisite for being aware and awake. It is the very cause of being unawake and unaware.
Of the trillions upon trillions upon trillions of life-forms on the planet, only the members of one group (humans) have a mind; additionally, only those members of that species are sleep-walking mindfully, sitting in their sleep mindfully, talking in their sleep mindfully, driving in their sleep mindfully, working in their sleep mindfully, eating in their sleep mindfully, ad infinitum.
Consider the deer and that they have no mind. Does that mean that they cannot be “awake and aware”? Hardly, they are one of the most aware life-forms in the forest (the “mystery” to them of potentially-lethal highways bisecting their forests as well as the blinding lights of vehicles racing along on those roads notwithstanding).
Of the 8,700,000 species on the planet, and the trillions upon trillions upon trillions of life-forms among those groups, only the members of one species (humans) have a mind, yet humans are the most unawake and unaware of all life-forms while all other life-forms (which are mindless) are totally awake and totally aware.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: In conclusion, most persons will never seek, already convinced that they can find all they need to know in their “holy” religious books. Others proudly announce: "I am not religious. I am spiritual."
For those who are seeking, a seven-step approach is offered here (as was the case with Maharaj).
There are seven steps on the “path” that Maharaj discussed, though he never presented them in a “1” to “7” ordering but instead merely referenced them when sharing pointers in the loft.
If a seeker’s words indicated that he was stuck at step four, Maharaj offered pointers that provided an opportunity to shift beyond that and move to step five.
If a seeker’s words indicated that he was stuck at step six, Maharaj offered pointers that provided an opportunity to shift beyond that and move to step seven.
Most who entered the loft were stuck at Step Three of seven, though most thought they had reached the end of the "path." Of those he said that most think that they are being bathed in the full light of noon but are really still standing in the dull light of dawn.
They were playing roles, and defending those false identities vigorously, even as they entered “a role-elimination room.”
At the third step, some were playing a role assigned by a parent or parents and / or culture, namely, the role of “The Religious One” which was eventually self-elevated to the status of “The Super Religious One”;
or
many were playing their “new and improved good role,” that of “The Spiritual Giant.”
In any and every ashram in India (in “Maharaj’s day” and now), one or both of those roles was being reinforced (again, then as well as now). Only in the loft of Maharaj was this the approach:
Maharaj: I will give you nothing; instead, I will take everything away.
The same happens here. With 97% of the persons on the planet reporting that they are affiliated with one religion or another and thus accepting a religious identification as being real, and with millions more proudly proclaiming that they are "beyond being religious and are now spiritual," then 99.99% of all persons are stuck at the third step (and want to stay there).
The rarest occurrence of all here is to cross the path of one who has transcended the third step and is working toward the abandonment of all identification.
Some ask why I spoke often in the past, as Maharaj did, about “being nothing” and about “the nothingness” and about persons “not having a clue where I live.” They want to know if I “lost that understanding” or “never really had that understanding.”
What was understood about “nothing” and “nothingness” remains, but there is caution today about whom that is shared with. Why?
Because of the widespread abuse that persons have suffered in their past, more persons than ever are using dissociation and escapism and avoidance and schizoid-avoidance and addictions as the often subconscious means by which they can escape “all things relative” (or claim to abide solely “as THAT” or “in THAT”).
To speak nowadays of the nothingness and nothing to most becomes an invitation, for far too many persons, to dissociate from reality and to move into Foo-Foo Land or into the castles in the air that their minds have supposedly constructed.
Nowadays, there is an epidemic of escape-oriented personality disorders which can lead persons to disintegrate into states of neuroses and psychoses. The result: a global population that is suffering from
The Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (P.D.), the Avoidant P.D., the Borderline P.D., the Schizoid-Avoidance P.D., the Schizotypal P.D., the Bi-Polar P.D., the Addictive Personality P.D., and the Dissociative P.D. (to mention but a few).
The result is a global population that is totally out of touch with reality while most deny that fact and while some now claim that they are totally and singularly in touch with “Reality;” thus, caution is used nowadays around sharing the non-dual pointers regarding nothing and nothingness because it has been witnessed that many use those pointers to avoid work, avoid relative responsibility, and avoid the relative itself.
After having come to understand, as did Maharaj, that the Ultimate Sickness is not rooted in too little religion or in a spiritual malady and that it is a condition rooted in mental illness, then the last thing he would do, at least at the end of his teaching career, was reinforce that already-present mental illness. Same here.
That is why, here, a three-leg “journey” is discussed:
LEG ONE: the “coming in” stage when the consciousness manifested and was soon exposed to programming, conditioning, acculturation, domestication, brainwashing, and indoctrination, resulting in widespread ignorance and insanity.
LEG TWO: What Maharaj referenced as the “going back out” phase. He advised those ready for the second “leg” of the "journey" thusly:
“ . . . You should go back, reverse, to the source”
and
“Follow the same path by which you came.”
LEG THREE here involves the “coming back in” process whereby one was freed of all false identifications and all beliefs and all ignorance and insanity via Realization and then "comes back in" to the relative, to reality, so to speak. That “coming back in” differs from the initial “coming in” stage because on LEG THREE the coming back in happens without the programming, conditioning, acculturation, domestication, brainwashing, and indoctrination that happened during LEG ONE.
Then, Reality is overlaid on reality. That is, understanding and awareness and sanity and logic and reason will manifest throughout the remainder of the relative manifestation because the dual-mindedness that leads persons to “be unstable in all ways” has ended when mindedness ended.
And when does mindedness end? When one reaches what Maharaj called a state of “zero concepts.” To be free of “beliefs” is to be emptied of all ideas, perspectives, views, thoughts, impressions, false images, notions, opinions, theories, inklings, and concepts which have never been questioned but that have been believed in wholeheartedly because of blind faith alone.
Maharaj said that “it is enough to know what you are not.” Discussions of “being nothing” have allowed some to adopt “nothing” as a supposedly new and loftier and more noble and more surreal and more fantastic identity.
Here, the intent is to “reel those types back in” and to invite them to stop ignoring the “I AM” part of the summative statement of non-duality and to be fully in touch with reality and fully in touch with Reality, meaning with that which is free of what Maharaj identified as three of the major traits of the Ultimate Sickness, namely, “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity.”
Indeed, the Ultimate Sickness is not rooted in too little religion; nor is it a spiritual malady. It is a sickness that centers in the mind, and only an Ultimate Medicine which addresses the problems generated by the bogus content of the mind can effectively address the Ultimate Sickness. That understanding was finally reached by Maharaj via his own experiences and observations, and that understanding was reached here the same way.
So, best regards if you are yet seeking. May you find both reality and Reality. May you find the only effective Ultimate Medicine.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: To review:
There are presently some 8,700,000 different species on planet earth, but the number of “living things” within each of those species and in their subspecies would measure not in the millions or billions or trillions or quadrillions or octillions or decilliuons but in the duodecillions and more.
Only the members of one of those trillions upon trillions upon trillions of living things have been programmed and acculturated in a way that they now need to be told “how to live” or “how to address their problems” or “how to overcome.” Only the members of one species has been convinced that there is not only "this life to be traversed" but that there are “multiple lives to be negotiated” or that there is “a life eternal which must be the ultimate focus of one’s earthly life which is primarily a preparation for 'the next life' or for 'an escape from the next life and all future cycles'.”
The members of only one species has been pumped chock full of nonsense and ignorance and insanity, so only one species is “seeking” or “preparing” or “trying to live the right way” or “trying to live in a good way.” The members of only one species have made a second job out of mere living.
Thus, the case on planet earth is this: 100% of all of the trillions upon trillions upon trillions of living things are concept-free, idea-free, religion-free, spirituality-free, belief-free, and free of being driven to go and do and zoom, except for humans.
100% of all of the trillions upon trillions upon trillions of living things do not give a second’s attention to anything concerned with “religion” or “spirituality” or “philosophy” or an “ideology,” except for humans, and those trillions of living things that do not give a second’s attention to anything concerned with “religion” or “spirituality” or “philosophy” or an “ideology” are doing just fine, thank you very much.
100% of all of the trillions upon trillions upon trillions of living things house the conscious-energy, but they are all mindless, except for humans; so because 100% of all of the trillions upon trillions upon trillions of living things on the planet – except for humans - are not absorbed in or paralyzed by or stymied by or made lethal by a set of dreamed up and totally false concepts and beliefs about religion or spirituality or philosophy or ideology, those trillions upon trillions upon trillions of living things – all except humans – are abiding naturally, not unnaturally and not “supernaturally.”
On the morning walks taken here each morning, the deer (which are often offered here as an example of how to abide naturally – and most of the time – peacefully) were observed yesterday to be altering their behavior as they always do during this season when bucks lose all caution. (For those in some countries, see “The Jerry Springer Show” for evidence of how insane males can become when being controlled by their drive to engage in that phenomenon known as “the rut.”)
The altered behavior? Yesterday, with the scent of a receptive female is in the air, seven bucks gathered in a clearing that is a few steps from the front door of the house here:
Whereas the deer will usually stay back some distance from me during my walks, during this season they are bold and capable of being aggressive. As seen above, they will come right up to me to check me out and to make clear that I understand I might be a bit too close to their territory and to the doe that was lying down a few yards away. Like so many males dealing with other males, they miss the truth here that "I don't want her . . . you can have her, mate." (And yes, I always have an exit strategy laid out in advance, the one yesterday involving a parked truck next to where I was standing and which I could have jumped into quickly enough if that had been called for).
There are presently some 8,700,000 different species on planet earth, but the number of “living things” within each of those species and in their subspecies would measure not in the millions or billions or trillions or quadrillions or octillions or decilliuons but in the duodecillions and more.
Only the members of one of those trillions upon trillions upon trillions of living things have been programmed and acculturated in a way that they now need to be told “how to live” or “how to address their problems” or “how to overcome.” Only the members of one species has been convinced that there is not only "this life to be traversed" but that there are “multiple lives to be negotiated” or that there is “a life eternal which must be the ultimate focus of one’s earthly life which is primarily a preparation for 'the next life' or for 'an escape from the next life and all future cycles'.”
The members of only one species has been pumped chock full of nonsense and ignorance and insanity, so only one species is “seeking” or “preparing” or “trying to live the right way” or “trying to live in a good way.” The members of only one species have made a second job out of mere living.
Thus, the case on planet earth is this: 100% of all of the trillions upon trillions upon trillions of living things are concept-free, idea-free, religion-free, spirituality-free, belief-free, and free of being driven to go and do and zoom, except for humans.
100% of all of the trillions upon trillions upon trillions of living things do not give a second’s attention to anything concerned with “religion” or “spirituality” or “philosophy” or an “ideology,” except for humans, and those trillions of living things that do not give a second’s attention to anything concerned with “religion” or “spirituality” or “philosophy” or an “ideology” are doing just fine, thank you very much.
100% of all of the trillions upon trillions upon trillions of living things house the conscious-energy, but they are all mindless, except for humans; so because 100% of all of the trillions upon trillions upon trillions of living things on the planet – except for humans - are not absorbed in or paralyzed by or stymied by or made lethal by a set of dreamed up and totally false concepts and beliefs about religion or spirituality or philosophy or ideology, those trillions upon trillions upon trillions of living things – all except humans – are abiding naturally, not unnaturally and not “supernaturally.”
On the morning walks taken here each morning, the deer (which are often offered here as an example of how to abide naturally – and most of the time – peacefully) were observed yesterday to be altering their behavior as they always do during this season when bucks lose all caution. (For those in some countries, see “The Jerry Springer Show” for evidence of how insane males can become when being controlled by their drive to engage in that phenomenon known as “the rut.”)
The altered behavior? Yesterday, with the scent of a receptive female is in the air, seven bucks gathered in a clearing that is a few steps from the front door of the house here:
Whereas the deer will usually stay back some distance from me during my walks, during this season they are bold and capable of being aggressive. As seen above, they will come right up to me to check me out and to make clear that I understand I might be a bit too close to their territory and to the doe that was lying down a few yards away. Like so many males dealing with other males, they miss the truth here that "I don't want her . . . you can have her, mate." (And yes, I always have an exit strategy laid out in advance, the one yesterday involving a parked truck next to where I was standing and which I could have jumped into quickly enough if that had been called for).
So what was going on with the deer that usually behave as if they are Realized but were behaving yesterday as if they were among the mass of non-Realized humans? Why were these animals which often provide a near-year round example of what the relative existence is like for the Realized suddenly behaving as do humans who are locked year round in their hierarchies of separation and in their aggressive, hierarchical attitudes?
As the case with the Realized, the deer throughout their other ten to eleven non-breeding months usually move about slowly, calmly, deliberately, serenely, tranquilly, peacefully, and evenly. During “the rut,” they behave exactly like non-Realized humans who live every day in a go-do-zoom mode . . . in a fast, never-calm, seldom-tranquil, seldom-peaceful fashion.
The deer, therefore, can still be used to provide a year-round example: most of the year they model a Realized-like manner which would behoove humans were they to abide in the same manner; for six weeks or so, the deer model "how not to abide."
The rest of the year, they behave calmly and sanely. Because they do not lack coping skills – as do most humans – they typically experience no excessive anxiety or constant fear or restlessness or irritability; therefore, there are no other deer that sell them fermented berries that will get them drunk and inspire them to run recklessly down a path and miss a turn and run into a tree and kill themselves.
Except during the rut, they do not lash out at other deer but abide peacefully as content members of one large herd. Unlike humans, but instead like the trillions upon trillions upon trillions of non-human living things, they are not driven to use drugs or religion or spirituality or work or accumulation or any of the thousands of things that humans become addicted to because of an inability to cope; as result of anxiety; as a result of instability, mental and emotional and otherwise; as a result of being deceived by lies; as a result of being fooled; as a result of normalizing chaos, ad infinitum.
Humanity’s key issues which Maharaj identified – ignorance, stupidity, and insanity – are absent among the trillions upon trillions upon trillions of non-human living things. None except humans are set up to have to try to deal with issues which all other mindless (and, therefore, concept-less and belief-less) non-human living things never even consider.
All living things except humans are free of all nonsense, and it is freedom from that nonsense which any wise human will seek. That is “the WHAT” which humans that are wise enough will seek. The relevant fact: freedom from the mind and from concepts and from beliefs does not come by “expanding the mind” via the addition of even more baseless concepts and beliefs.
There are scores of this type yoga or that, there are five basic non-duality teaching methods, and there are hundreds of bastardized forms of those five methods. If the method by which you are seeking involves dogma, then you are learning rather than unlearning, accumulating rather than de-accumulating, and being taught rather than being un-taught.
If the method by which you are seeking involves spirituality, then you are likely involved in the going and doing and zooming that involves meetings and spiritual exercise, etc., so you are learning more rather than unlearning all, accumulating more rather than de-accumulating all, and being taught more rather than being un-taught all.
If the method by which you are seeking involves detachment from the relative, dissociation from the AM-ness, and escaping once and for all everything involved with the IS-ness, then understand the psychological ramifications:
the Dissociative Disorder is a mental illness; the Avoidant and Schizoid-Avoidant Disorders are mental sicknesses; and being out of touch with reality while thinking you are fully in touch with Reality is a mental illness that involves the highest levels of distortion and delusion.
Trillions upon trillions upon trillions of non-human living things need no religion, need no spirituality, need no more knowledge, need no guidance from afar, need no power or Power, and need no psychologist or counselor or non-dual teacher. Only humans think they need religion and / or spirituality and more knowledge and guidance from afar and power or Power. If trillions upon trillions upon trillions of non-human living things can make it fine without any of that, why can’t you?
Only because You are not aware of the "you" / "you’s" that have been adopted and only because "you" are not aware of the multiple personalities which are driving you via their hidden subconscious agendas and which are determining your every thought and word and action.
The human sense of “needing” . . . need not be (except to the degree of "needing" the pointers required to shift away from the “you’s” and from all beliefs and from all hidden agendas and from mental problems which are not at all a result of “too little religion” or of “a spiritual malady”).
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: There are presently some 8,700,000 different forms of life on planet earth, and there only three ways that every life-form on the planet can function:
1. Unnaturally. That means in ways that are (relatively speaking) self-destructive, self-defeating, overly-self-indulgent, only-self-interested, self-centered, self-abasing, self-deceptive, self-pitying, self-righteous, and self-willed.
2. Supernaturally . . . supposedly. Why supposedly? Because all beliefs are stored in the fiction-filled, programmed, conditioned, acculturated, domesticated, indoctrinated, and brainwashed mind, including the belief in things that are supposedly “supernatural” or "magical" or "spiritual" or "controlled by other-world entities and Powers."
3. Naturally (that is, in a fashion that is not dominated by ignorance, insanity, that is not plagued by an inability to use reason and logic and an inability to behave rationally; which happens, instead, in a manner that is normal rather than abnormal; in a manner not driven by personality and personality defects; in a manner that in not neurotic or psychotic; in a manner that is not marked by any affectations; and in a manner that is marked by being authentic and genuine. (One might not like to watch what cheetahs do to gazelles or what crocodiles do to migrating wallabies, but those animals involved in such attacks are behaving according to the laws of nature. That, too, is natural)
Regarding #1: The behaviors and traits in #1 are predicated upon the belief in one concept – “self” – and of the 8,700,000 different life-forms on the planet, only one has a concept of “a personal self,” which sets the stage for all of those unnatural acts and characteristics in #1 above to manifest: humans.
Regarding #2: A mind, filled with nonsense as a result of the mind-forming and mind-sustaining and mind-warping processes listed in #2 above - drive bizarre and perverted and distorted thoughts, determine the often mean and vile and cruel words that pour forth constantly in endless streams of verbalized ignorance, and inspire the most unnatural and supposedly supernatural actions and thoughts and words and the most unnatural and supposedly supernatural actions which are unique to only one life-form of the 8,700,000 different forms of life on the planet: humans.
Regarding #3: Of the 8,700,000 different forms of life on planet earth, 8,699,999 abide in a natural fashion. Only one life-form of the millions on planet earth abides unnaturally: humans.
Thus, deer and squirrels and all mammals as well as all birds and reptiles and amphibians and fish and insects and spiders and scorpions and roaches and flies and mosquitoes and mollusks and crustaceans and corals and flowering plants and conifers and ferns and algae and mushrooms function in an all-natural manner, (human interference and mutation-causing human activities notwithstanding). Only those among the human masses do not function naturally, and only humans normalize their unnatural and “supernatural” ways of thinking and talking and behaving.
Humans deem themselves to be unique among all 8,700,000 life-forms and better than the other 8,699,999. Some are taught by their religions that they are to “have dominion over all other living things.”
Then, the most ego-driven and egotism-based persons form hierarchies and form beliefs about which ones among all “other humans” (who they deem to be “lesser humans”) that they should also have dominion over.
Indeed, humans are unique among all of the other 8,699,999 life-forms, but not at all in the arrogant and egotistical way that they are thinking:
Only one life-form (the humans) have an opinion about themselves; 8,699,999 have no opinions and no concept of “self.”
Only one life-form (the human) adopts multiple but false identifications; 8,699,999 adopt no identities.
Only one life-form (the human) abides unnaturally; 8,699,999 abide naturally.
Only one life-form (the human) tries to abide in a “supernatural” fashion; 8, 699,999 life-forms behave naturally.
Only one life-form (the human) believes in a “religious self” or in a “spiritual self”; 8,699,999 have no concepts about “religion,” “spirituality,” a “self “or a “Self.”
Only one life-form (the human) behaves in self-destructive and self-defeating ways; 8,699,999 are not self-destructive and do not engage in self-defeating ways.
Only one life-form (the human) is driven by bizarre and perverted and distorted thoughts which generate often mean and vile and cruel words that pour forth constantly in endless streams of verbalized ignorance; the other 8,699,999 on the planet are not driven in that manner.
Only one life-form (the human) faces self-generated problems which are caused by that which is within as a result of having been programmed, conditioned, acculturated, domesticated, indoctrinated, and brainwashed; some among the other 8,699,999 on the planet might also be acculturated and domesticated and conditioned (by humans - see Pavlov’s dogs, or in the case of pets that are whipped if they poop on the carpet); or conditioned by the older members of their species; or via the actions of those among other species (which would kill them and eat them, for example);
but humans alone are unique in that they have an attachment to nonsensical and ignorant and insane ideas and concepts and notions and theories and dogma and thoughts and perceptions and distortions and views (a.k.a., “beliefs”) which they erroneously pass down to their offspring as “fact” and “truth.”
So only one life-form (the human) is preoccupied with trying to find an external means to address the problems which are generated by persons’ internalized distortions; the other 8,699,999 on the planet are not.
Usually, persons dissociate from or ignore or spin or twist or deny or disavow or reject the truth regarding what has been the actual, abnormal, unnatural condition of their relative existence. It has been observed here that humanity in general displays an astounding willingness to tolerate self-generated but needless pain and misery and suffering.
If that trend does become unacceptable to some few persons, the research here has revealed this: if persons are ever going to wake up to their condition and are ever going to seek change and are ever going to declare, “That's enough! Something has got to change!” then that usually happens around the age of forty-two-and-a-half. Now that involves a lot of years of avoiding the taking of the action to change when change has been called for for so long.
While there are the three ways, discussed above, by which every life-form on the planet will function, there are also three different ways that humans believe the problems of the planet and the solution to their own “personal” problems can be addressed:
religiously
or
spiritually
or
professionally (in order to address the psychological issues which drive the now-all-too-pervasive self-destructive, self-defeating, overly-self-indulgent, only-self-interested, self-centered, self-abasing, self-deceptive, self-pitying, self-righteous, and self-willed tendencies of persons).
Of the 8,700,000 life-forms on planet earth, 8,699,999 have no awareness of – much less any interest in – religious concepts; 8,699,999 have no awareness of – much less any interest in – spiritual concepts; and 8,699,999 have no awareness of – much less any need for – professional, psychological care. And those 8,699,999 are doing quite well without those concepts. The other single species that believes in religious dogma and / or spiritual concepts? Not so hot.
Only one species is concerned with religious concepts, and that is the case with the majority of the members of that species; only one species is concerned with spiritual concepts, and that number is increasing; and only one species is ignoring the need for mental health care and / or "the Understanding" which are being called for so desperately.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
1. Unnaturally. That means in ways that are (relatively speaking) self-destructive, self-defeating, overly-self-indulgent, only-self-interested, self-centered, self-abasing, self-deceptive, self-pitying, self-righteous, and self-willed.
2. Supernaturally . . . supposedly. Why supposedly? Because all beliefs are stored in the fiction-filled, programmed, conditioned, acculturated, domesticated, indoctrinated, and brainwashed mind, including the belief in things that are supposedly “supernatural” or "magical" or "spiritual" or "controlled by other-world entities and Powers."
3. Naturally (that is, in a fashion that is not dominated by ignorance, insanity, that is not plagued by an inability to use reason and logic and an inability to behave rationally; which happens, instead, in a manner that is normal rather than abnormal; in a manner not driven by personality and personality defects; in a manner that in not neurotic or psychotic; in a manner that is not marked by any affectations; and in a manner that is marked by being authentic and genuine. (One might not like to watch what cheetahs do to gazelles or what crocodiles do to migrating wallabies, but those animals involved in such attacks are behaving according to the laws of nature. That, too, is natural)
Regarding #1: The behaviors and traits in #1 are predicated upon the belief in one concept – “self” – and of the 8,700,000 different life-forms on the planet, only one has a concept of “a personal self,” which sets the stage for all of those unnatural acts and characteristics in #1 above to manifest: humans.
Regarding #2: A mind, filled with nonsense as a result of the mind-forming and mind-sustaining and mind-warping processes listed in #2 above - drive bizarre and perverted and distorted thoughts, determine the often mean and vile and cruel words that pour forth constantly in endless streams of verbalized ignorance, and inspire the most unnatural and supposedly supernatural actions and thoughts and words and the most unnatural and supposedly supernatural actions which are unique to only one life-form of the 8,700,000 different forms of life on the planet: humans.
Regarding #3: Of the 8,700,000 different forms of life on planet earth, 8,699,999 abide in a natural fashion. Only one life-form of the millions on planet earth abides unnaturally: humans.
Thus, deer and squirrels and all mammals as well as all birds and reptiles and amphibians and fish and insects and spiders and scorpions and roaches and flies and mosquitoes and mollusks and crustaceans and corals and flowering plants and conifers and ferns and algae and mushrooms function in an all-natural manner, (human interference and mutation-causing human activities notwithstanding). Only those among the human masses do not function naturally, and only humans normalize their unnatural and “supernatural” ways of thinking and talking and behaving.
Humans deem themselves to be unique among all 8,700,000 life-forms and better than the other 8,699,999. Some are taught by their religions that they are to “have dominion over all other living things.”
Then, the most ego-driven and egotism-based persons form hierarchies and form beliefs about which ones among all “other humans” (who they deem to be “lesser humans”) that they should also have dominion over.
Indeed, humans are unique among all of the other 8,699,999 life-forms, but not at all in the arrogant and egotistical way that they are thinking:
Only one life-form (the humans) have an opinion about themselves; 8,699,999 have no opinions and no concept of “self.”
Only one life-form (the human) adopts multiple but false identifications; 8,699,999 adopt no identities.
Only one life-form (the human) abides unnaturally; 8,699,999 abide naturally.
Only one life-form (the human) tries to abide in a “supernatural” fashion; 8, 699,999 life-forms behave naturally.
Only one life-form (the human) believes in a “religious self” or in a “spiritual self”; 8,699,999 have no concepts about “religion,” “spirituality,” a “self “or a “Self.”
Only one life-form (the human) behaves in self-destructive and self-defeating ways; 8,699,999 are not self-destructive and do not engage in self-defeating ways.
Only one life-form (the human) is driven by bizarre and perverted and distorted thoughts which generate often mean and vile and cruel words that pour forth constantly in endless streams of verbalized ignorance; the other 8,699,999 on the planet are not driven in that manner.
Only one life-form (the human) faces self-generated problems which are caused by that which is within as a result of having been programmed, conditioned, acculturated, domesticated, indoctrinated, and brainwashed; some among the other 8,699,999 on the planet might also be acculturated and domesticated and conditioned (by humans - see Pavlov’s dogs, or in the case of pets that are whipped if they poop on the carpet); or conditioned by the older members of their species; or via the actions of those among other species (which would kill them and eat them, for example);
but humans alone are unique in that they have an attachment to nonsensical and ignorant and insane ideas and concepts and notions and theories and dogma and thoughts and perceptions and distortions and views (a.k.a., “beliefs”) which they erroneously pass down to their offspring as “fact” and “truth.”
So only one life-form (the human) is preoccupied with trying to find an external means to address the problems which are generated by persons’ internalized distortions; the other 8,699,999 on the planet are not.
Usually, persons dissociate from or ignore or spin or twist or deny or disavow or reject the truth regarding what has been the actual, abnormal, unnatural condition of their relative existence. It has been observed here that humanity in general displays an astounding willingness to tolerate self-generated but needless pain and misery and suffering.
If that trend does become unacceptable to some few persons, the research here has revealed this: if persons are ever going to wake up to their condition and are ever going to seek change and are ever going to declare, “That's enough! Something has got to change!” then that usually happens around the age of forty-two-and-a-half. Now that involves a lot of years of avoiding the taking of the action to change when change has been called for for so long.
While there are the three ways, discussed above, by which every life-form on the planet will function, there are also three different ways that humans believe the problems of the planet and the solution to their own “personal” problems can be addressed:
religiously
or
spiritually
or
professionally (in order to address the psychological issues which drive the now-all-too-pervasive self-destructive, self-defeating, overly-self-indulgent, only-self-interested, self-centered, self-abasing, self-deceptive, self-pitying, self-righteous, and self-willed tendencies of persons).
Of the 8,700,000 life-forms on planet earth, 8,699,999 have no awareness of – much less any interest in – religious concepts; 8,699,999 have no awareness of – much less any interest in – spiritual concepts; and 8,699,999 have no awareness of – much less any need for – professional, psychological care. And those 8,699,999 are doing quite well without those concepts. The other single species that believes in religious dogma and / or spiritual concepts? Not so hot.
Only one species is concerned with religious concepts, and that is the case with the majority of the members of that species; only one species is concerned with spiritual concepts, and that number is increasing; and only one species is ignoring the need for mental health care and / or "the Understanding" which are being called for so desperately.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: Maharaj advised visitors that “You are not in the world – the world is in you” (meaning, in your mind, pictured via your faulty perceptions, in the misperceptions and misinterpretations and misunderstandings regarding what you erroneously think you have seen which was not at all what it appeared to you to be.
Yet Maharaj never suggested that the composite unity which “you” presently are is not actually and literally walking about the surface of the planet called “earth.” He did not assert that the AM-ness is not real. All is energy / matter, and he never suggested that earth elements are merely imagined and not real. What he explained was this: that which is formed of earth elements is taken to be something that it is not.
A composite unity is a composite unity, not “A Super Spouse” as it is often misidentified by cultures; not “A Super Virtuous Person” or “A Super Sinful Person” as it is so often misclassified by persons; and not “A Bad Person” or “A Good Person” as is so often labels in homes and schools and societies.
In touch with the realities associated with the relative existence and with the AM-ness, Maharaj was willing on occasion to enter into discussions with visitors about topical issues and “current events” such as a war in a neighboring country that could potentially spill over into India; such as the “demise” of a child; and such as the insinuation he once made about the too-often restrictive nature of marriage.
He was well aware that problems exist, and he was aware that the cause was in the mind (where persons’ concepts about “the world” are stored, where their false identities / personalities are stored, where their fallacious concepts and bogus beliefs are stored). He was also clear that the problems of humanity which were based in the mind could sometimes be addressed by the pointers he offered but that sometimes they could not.
He understood that the readiness was all, and if he spotted someone not ready, they were not allowed to remain in the loft and not allowed to participate in the discussions there.
Yet early on he began to question the efficacy of the version of the Ultimate Medicine that was passed down to him. Eventually his devotion to – and worship of – his guru would fade. For a time he still offered mantras per his guru’s instructions even though he began to admit that he was doing that because he was instructed to do so but that he was doing so without any conviction on his part that it was really a part of what was going to address what needed to be addressed by seekers.
He would eventually abandon his attachment to what his guru said and would begin to seek to understand - via his own experience and awarenesses – what might be a more effective version of the Ultimate Medicine. He was seeing that the religion-oriented version was not having an effective impact on the Ultimate Sickness, but he continued to use a religion-spirituality-non-dual combination approach until Westerners began to outnumber the local Hindus in the loft. Typically, the Westerners were far less interested in the dogma of Hinduism and far more interested in pointers regarding what they took to be “spirituality.”
Thus, he understood that religion was not the Ultimate Medicine but he knew that it was what was bringing visitors to the loft, so he continued to use it in the blended version of the Medicine that he was prescribing.
He would, however, come to see fully that his earliest version of the Ultimate Medicine was ineffective long-term; later, he would also see that his intermediate version of the Ultimate Medicine – “spirituality” and “kindergarten-level spirituality” - was also off the mark.
It was only then that he advised persons to “Just give up spirituality" and to “do your normal duties” and to “forget spirituality” and to “follow your normal inclinations.” And even early on he peppered his sharings with what he understood to be the real version of the Ultimate Medicine, namely, one which addresses the real problem of humanity.
That version of the Ultimate Medicine which he eventually came to see was a version that addressed the psychological distortions and delusions and psychic perversions and disorders and neuroses and psychoses that were the true and real and actual cause of the key problems of humanity.
He did not deny relative issues, but he did come to understand that at the root of war and murder and “relationship” problems were mind-based issues, some of which could be addressed by the non-dual teachings and some of which could not.
His focus upon things natural made clear that all life-forms on the planet face relative challenges (that is, “have relative problems,” if you will), but he found that those among humans were unique in many ways. Consider:
Each day on walks through the neighborhood and through some of the wooded areas here, deer are seen, squirrels are seen, and humans are seen. The deer and the squirrels and the humans often face the same problems, problems that are natural . . . that are a part of nature: droughts, severe thunderstorms, severe heat waves, and the occasional hurricanes that make landfall here.
But, as noted, some problems are unique to humans, and those are not rooted in natural causes. Some of the most serious problems among humans on the planet right now are involved in things unnatural and things deeded to be “supernatural” (specifically, religious and spiritual beliefs).
When those type problems are at play, the experiences of the deer and squirrels share nothing in common with the problems experienced by those other life-forms called “humans.”
Now if you listen to the “leaders” mentioned yesterday, including military leaders, political leaders, religious leaders and spiritual leader, they all offer a different solution to the problems that plague humanity. Their solutions range from . . .
“Bomb ‘em” and “shoot ‘em”
to
“let those on the lower rungs of the hierarchical ladder flounder in poverty, let ‘em starve, let ‘em do without medical care, let ‘em die for all I care"
to
“the only hope for humanity is for persons to come to know their Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, but it must be found in the right denomination” or “the only hope for humanity is for persons to come to know the prophet Mohammed and to worship - and be willing to die for – Allah, but that must happen via the right sect” or “the only hope for humanity is to study the scriptures in our holy book and to allow the Word of God to determine everything that you think and say and do” or
to
“you have a spiritual malady and if you develop conscious contact with God through completion of a set of spiritual exercise on a daily basis, then you and your body and mind and your spirit will all be fit.”
Yet Maharaj eventually realized that the problems of humanity are centered in the mind. He saw that the problems of the humanity involve “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity.” His final conclusion paralleled that which Albert Einstein arrived at later on: "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
Maharaj saw that the duality which humankind buys into generates a sense of separation and better-than-ment and he saw that those drive the problems of humankind. Again, Einstein was in agreement with the non-dual take on humanity’s problems:
Einstein: A human “experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation, and a foundation for inner security.”
Thus, Einstein suggested a different approach by which humankind might “find in that way peace and security which he cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.”
Tomorrow: Why the deer and squirrels - which have no beliefs about being anything that is “personal” - function far more sanely than humans who are trapped in scores of personality identifications.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
Yet Maharaj never suggested that the composite unity which “you” presently are is not actually and literally walking about the surface of the planet called “earth.” He did not assert that the AM-ness is not real. All is energy / matter, and he never suggested that earth elements are merely imagined and not real. What he explained was this: that which is formed of earth elements is taken to be something that it is not.
A composite unity is a composite unity, not “A Super Spouse” as it is often misidentified by cultures; not “A Super Virtuous Person” or “A Super Sinful Person” as it is so often misclassified by persons; and not “A Bad Person” or “A Good Person” as is so often labels in homes and schools and societies.
In touch with the realities associated with the relative existence and with the AM-ness, Maharaj was willing on occasion to enter into discussions with visitors about topical issues and “current events” such as a war in a neighboring country that could potentially spill over into India; such as the “demise” of a child; and such as the insinuation he once made about the too-often restrictive nature of marriage.
He was well aware that problems exist, and he was aware that the cause was in the mind (where persons’ concepts about “the world” are stored, where their false identities / personalities are stored, where their fallacious concepts and bogus beliefs are stored). He was also clear that the problems of humanity which were based in the mind could sometimes be addressed by the pointers he offered but that sometimes they could not.
He understood that the readiness was all, and if he spotted someone not ready, they were not allowed to remain in the loft and not allowed to participate in the discussions there.
Yet early on he began to question the efficacy of the version of the Ultimate Medicine that was passed down to him. Eventually his devotion to – and worship of – his guru would fade. For a time he still offered mantras per his guru’s instructions even though he began to admit that he was doing that because he was instructed to do so but that he was doing so without any conviction on his part that it was really a part of what was going to address what needed to be addressed by seekers.
He would eventually abandon his attachment to what his guru said and would begin to seek to understand - via his own experience and awarenesses – what might be a more effective version of the Ultimate Medicine. He was seeing that the religion-oriented version was not having an effective impact on the Ultimate Sickness, but he continued to use a religion-spirituality-non-dual combination approach until Westerners began to outnumber the local Hindus in the loft. Typically, the Westerners were far less interested in the dogma of Hinduism and far more interested in pointers regarding what they took to be “spirituality.”
Thus, he understood that religion was not the Ultimate Medicine but he knew that it was what was bringing visitors to the loft, so he continued to use it in the blended version of the Medicine that he was prescribing.
He would, however, come to see fully that his earliest version of the Ultimate Medicine was ineffective long-term; later, he would also see that his intermediate version of the Ultimate Medicine – “spirituality” and “kindergarten-level spirituality” - was also off the mark.
It was only then that he advised persons to “Just give up spirituality" and to “do your normal duties” and to “forget spirituality” and to “follow your normal inclinations.” And even early on he peppered his sharings with what he understood to be the real version of the Ultimate Medicine, namely, one which addresses the real problem of humanity.
That version of the Ultimate Medicine which he eventually came to see was a version that addressed the psychological distortions and delusions and psychic perversions and disorders and neuroses and psychoses that were the true and real and actual cause of the key problems of humanity.
He did not deny relative issues, but he did come to understand that at the root of war and murder and “relationship” problems were mind-based issues, some of which could be addressed by the non-dual teachings and some of which could not.
His focus upon things natural made clear that all life-forms on the planet face relative challenges (that is, “have relative problems,” if you will), but he found that those among humans were unique in many ways. Consider:
Each day on walks through the neighborhood and through some of the wooded areas here, deer are seen, squirrels are seen, and humans are seen. The deer and the squirrels and the humans often face the same problems, problems that are natural . . . that are a part of nature: droughts, severe thunderstorms, severe heat waves, and the occasional hurricanes that make landfall here.
But, as noted, some problems are unique to humans, and those are not rooted in natural causes. Some of the most serious problems among humans on the planet right now are involved in things unnatural and things deeded to be “supernatural” (specifically, religious and spiritual beliefs).
When those type problems are at play, the experiences of the deer and squirrels share nothing in common with the problems experienced by those other life-forms called “humans.”
Now if you listen to the “leaders” mentioned yesterday, including military leaders, political leaders, religious leaders and spiritual leader, they all offer a different solution to the problems that plague humanity. Their solutions range from . . .
“Bomb ‘em” and “shoot ‘em”
to
“let those on the lower rungs of the hierarchical ladder flounder in poverty, let ‘em starve, let ‘em do without medical care, let ‘em die for all I care"
to
“the only hope for humanity is for persons to come to know their Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, but it must be found in the right denomination” or “the only hope for humanity is for persons to come to know the prophet Mohammed and to worship - and be willing to die for – Allah, but that must happen via the right sect” or “the only hope for humanity is to study the scriptures in our holy book and to allow the Word of God to determine everything that you think and say and do” or
to
“you have a spiritual malady and if you develop conscious contact with God through completion of a set of spiritual exercise on a daily basis, then you and your body and mind and your spirit will all be fit.”
Yet Maharaj eventually realized that the problems of humanity are centered in the mind. He saw that the problems of the humanity involve “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity.” His final conclusion paralleled that which Albert Einstein arrived at later on: "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
Maharaj saw that the duality which humankind buys into generates a sense of separation and better-than-ment and he saw that those drive the problems of humankind. Again, Einstein was in agreement with the non-dual take on humanity’s problems:
Einstein: A human “experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation, and a foundation for inner security.”
Thus, Einstein suggested a different approach by which humankind might “find in that way peace and security which he cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.”
Tomorrow: Why the deer and squirrels - which have no beliefs about being anything that is “personal” - function far more sanely than humans who are trapped in scores of personality identifications.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: Yesterday’s post ended with these pointers:
To believe that one is all of the false personas that he or she has been assigned or has assumed is to be out of touch with reality and Reality, and to be out of touch with reality and Reality is insane; thus, to be free of distortions and delusions and being fooled, it really is enough to find what you are not.
Krishna spoke of those who cannot differentiate between the real and the not-real - and those who cannot differentiate between the beingness and the non-beingness - as "fools." Here, the point is not made that there are fools and non-fools but that foolishness drives persons’ thoughts and words and actions but does not drive the Realized in any way at all.
Maharaj once joking told a visitor that, in his case, the only reason that the manifestation happened was because he was a fool (as if the man could have accepted or rejected the event).
When the man’s ego began arguing that he was not a fool, Maharaj dropped the tongue-in-cheek pointer and clarified his point that the seeds of consciousness are the source of foolishness:
“Because the seed is foolish it has come like this. The seed is the original foolish state, yet what big titles are given to that seed.”
Big titles indeed are generated by the consciousness when it has not yet tapped into an awareness of awareness, including such big titles as:
“My Infinite Self” and “My Supreme Self” and “The Supreme Self” and “That which is beyond this world which should be given your complete attention” and “Nirvana” and “The Highest Reality” and “Realizing that Brahman is Your True Self” and “The Great Cosmic Spirit” and “The Guiding Universe” and “The Supreme Lord” and “Heaven” and “Valhalla” and “The Thirty-Three Devas” and “The Higher Power” and “The All-Powerful One” and “The All-Knowing One” and “The All-Powerful Creator” and “The All-Powerful Sustainer,” and “The All-Knowing Destroyer and Punisher Who Is Watching You” (so you better watch out) and “The Self,” “The True Self,” and “The Real Self.”
What did he say of the latter? He said: "I got involved in spirituality, in the business of spirituality, [but] finally I lost that love of the Self also. I have no more love for the Self."
Yes, the big titles are tools which the consciousness can use after programming and conditioning and domestication and brainwashing and indoctrination and acculturation in order to be distracted from things involving the relative existence.
The tools might initially inspire day-dreaming and imaginings and mental musings and then move to mental flights of fancy which can then disintegrate into mental flights from reality, into extreme personality disorders, into neuroses and eventually even into psychoses and complete detachment from reality. Some might dream of castles in the air, but only those trapped in the most extreme condition of a neurosis or a psychosis actually think they have moved into them.
[After offering yesterday an unreserved and unrestrained dose of Truth to a man in an effort to allow him to see that he was not at all in the “after realizing” state that he was assuming, he admitted that he had indeed "gone back to some of his concepts and his old personas," but he blamed the regression on the fact that he had read some writing that were emphasizing and glorifying the THAT-ness over the I AM-ness. Of course, if Realized, no one could have the ability to “un-Realize You.” He continued, this time a bit more honestly: “I went right back to 'Foo-Foo Land' and ‘not caring about’ and ‘just floating along.’ And yes, it’s very sick’.” Then he concluded that, in his case, “the ‘spiritual identity’ and the ‘Realized identity’ is worst than all the others.” He ended: “Your email this morning hit hard and instantly showed all my BS.”]
Many who have assumed the false identity of “The Super Religious One” or “the Spiritual Giant” can claim that they are so in touch with “Reality” or THAT” after Realization or Enlightenment that they are now totally disengaged from and dissociated from the relative, ignoring the fact that the summative statement of the non-dual teachings is “I AM THAT; I AM.” Note that the “I AM” has “equal billing.” Note that “advaita” means “not two” so there is no separation of THAT and the AM. Note too that the only “benefit” of Realization is to be able to escape the bondage of distortions and delusions and foolishness and lies, to be freed from ignorance, to be restored to sanity as a result, and to then overlay Reality on the relative and abide soundly and rationally and sanely and Lovingly for the remainder of the manifestation.
Realization is not about “escaping the bonds of this life” and it is not about “mentally moving to Foo-Foo Land.” It is about being totally awake, being totally aware, being totally in touch with both reality and Reality, with both the I AM and the THAT, and being freed from ever again being driven by the seeds of foolishness. It is about abiding naturally for the remainder of the manifestation rather than unnaturally or “supernaturally.”
Maharaj: “There is no question of going beyond. I was never born, will never die. Whatever is – is all the time. 'Going beyond' is only an idea meant to remove all other ideas you have accumulated”
and
Maharaj: “The seed is transient, and the whole world is full of the seeds. [That is, the imagined “world” is in you, in your mind” and not as it appears to be at all.] All the five elements, all the objective world, is in that seed. You are not the seed – you are the observer of the seed.”
One additional clarification: those who will tell you that “nothing is real” are delusional. The invitation I offered to one person years ago who repeated that concept was this:
Freedom from the relative problems that result from deceptions and misperceptions does not require a denial of the Am-ness nor a belief that relative things do not even exist.
So to get a grip on reality, try this: bend over, lower your head, and run as fast as you can into a brick wall; then, try to convince me, from within the painful state which would follow such a collision, that the wall does not exist. Tell me at that instant that you believe your head does not exist. Tell me that your pain is not actually happening.
Of course the wall and your head and the pain exist. Of course the entire body exists. The teaching is simply that You are not Your body. Regarding the wall, the Advaitin teaching is not that a brick wall which you can see does not exist. The pointer is simply that a wall is not really what it appears to be, a fact that can be proved if one were to view the bricks through an electron microscope and see that, at their core, the bricks are a swirling mass of subatomic particles.
The deal here is about differentiating between appearance and reality and between appearance and Reality. It is not about denying the reality of things relative but is about seeing them clearly and accurately and seeing them for what they actually are instead.
Walk around in your sleep, claiming that you believe in Reality but that you deny reality and all things relative, and you might end up getting hit in the head with a brick, or running into a wall or a river, or driving into the back of a garbage truck that is stopped on your side of the road as one sleep-driver did recently, or worst, relatively speaking.
You might even end up believing in the extreme inconsistency that there can be “a God who loves you unconditionally” but that he can be – at the same time – "willing to cast you into a place of eternal punishment where you will experience mental anguish and the physical torture of eternal flames, forever." That's unconditional love? Then as for that brand of "love," no thanks. That is the kind of nonsense that an abusive husband or parent uses to justify hitting his spouse or child: "If I didn't love you so much, I wouldn't get worked up like that. I'd just ignore you." (Tell you what: ignore me. Please.)
Those who are absorbed in the big titles assigned to things deemed to be “lofty and noble and other-worldly and superior and higher than high and soaring and elevated and exalted or holy” will be guaranteed to be out of touch with reality and will miss out on the pleasures and happiness that the sane and wide are able to enjoy during the manifestation.
The fact is that Realization is not about finding "one special way" or "a thousand different ways" to be distracted, dissociated, preoccupied, sidetracked, diverted, inattentive, and out of touch. Distraction is just another form of sleepwalking and sleeptalking, of working in your sleep, of driving in your sleep, of avoiding, of escaping mentally or via the use of intoxicants, or of finding ways to become emotional intoxicated as well.
Yes, Maharaj did say, “The nearer you get to the truth, the more you lose interest in the worldly affairs,” but he never suggested abandoning anything and everything that involves reality . . . the IS-ness . . . the AM-ness. Instead - in the end, and quite to the contrary - he said, “Just give up spirituality" and “do your normal duties." He advised: “Forget spirituality.” From the ebook Maharaj’s Evolution, “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’).”
In the end, he said of the book I AM THAT: "That book and whatever was expounded at that time was only relevant for that period. I am speaking differently today" and am "emphasizing different aspects." What he offered later differed considerably from his earlier talks, making clear that the "spiritual" pointers in I AM THAT will take you to the midpoint of "the journey" but that his final talks point the way to "the finish line."
THE MASTERS OF DISTRACTION: "LEADERS" (specifically, “Military Leaders,” “Political Leaders,” “Religious Leaders” and “Spiritual Leaders”)
Some in special branches of the military who will be operating in isolated areas beyond assistance if captured are taught to use certain “mental tools” to give them an ability to withstand torture. One of the key tools recommended is “distraction.” How common is the use of distractions among those who find the relative existence to be torturous as well? How many are playing “The Realization Game” or the “I Am Fully Enlightened Game” as a distraction from the relative, from reality?
Politicians has raised the use of distraction to an art form, maybe not aware of the fact - but tapping into the fact anyway - that 50% of the humans on the planet are Personality Type Sixes who are constantly worried, nervous, anxious and fearful, continuously scared and afraid no matter their age. They often spike to even higher levels of fear and become frightened, paranoid, and terrified. If a politician is experiencing a setback in his approval ratings, all he needs to do in gin up something that will trigger fear among the masses, assure them that he or she is the person with a plan to protect them, and that politician’s approval rating will automatically move higher as the 50% Type Sixes will be ready to follow anyone whom they think can protect them their "Fear du Jour."
Questioner: “How can I be in my true state and lose my fear?”
Maharaj: “You are already in your true state. Because of the mind, duality comes in and therefore you are afraid. The association with the body and mind is because of the love for the body-mind; that is going to go away; therefore, everyone is afraid of death.”
Yet when one gives careful consideration to the ways that persons use distraction as a means of escape (and control), then it can be seen that no one has mastered the art of using distraction and fear to the level of those who are spiritual leaders and who are the forebears of the all-time leading masters of distraction: religious leaders (a group which also includes cult leaders, leaders of ideological groups, and – likely the most fear-mongering of all – the combination that presents itself as “a religious politician.”)
Imagine the skill of so many religious leaders who are able to convince persons to normalize suffering NOW and who are able to convince the masses to ignore their suffering and to focus instead on a "wonderful reward which God has prepared for you after you die." Now that's some big time, big title distracting going on there.
Originally, the belief among the masses was in multiple Gods: the Creator God, the Sustaining Gods, and the Destroyer Gods. After Abraham, when his notion that there is only one God caught on, followers began to believe in and worship a schizophrenic God, purported to be a creator and the sustainer but also a destroyer and punisher, so you better be “A Good, God-Fearing Person” if you want to have any hope at all.
The final words today go to Maharaj in the discussion about whether one should
(A) mentally move to another place, become a “Religious Superstar,” become a “Super Spiritual Giant” and model your new and improved roles for all to see;
or, should
(B) allow the understanding to overlay the relative with Reality, that is, with sanity, with no hint at all of foolishness, with logic, with clarity, with a clear perspective, with reason, and with unadulterated awareness.
Again:
“Just give up spirituality"
and
“do your normal duties”
and
“forget spirituality”
and
“follow your normal inclinations.”
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
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SECTION SIX:
To believe that one is all of the false personas that he or she has been assigned or has assumed is to be out of touch with reality and Reality, and to be out of touch with reality and Reality is insane; thus, to be free of distortions and delusions and being fooled, it really is enough to find what you are not.
Krishna spoke of those who cannot differentiate between the real and the not-real - and those who cannot differentiate between the beingness and the non-beingness - as "fools." Here, the point is not made that there are fools and non-fools but that foolishness drives persons’ thoughts and words and actions but does not drive the Realized in any way at all.
Maharaj once joking told a visitor that, in his case, the only reason that the manifestation happened was because he was a fool (as if the man could have accepted or rejected the event).
When the man’s ego began arguing that he was not a fool, Maharaj dropped the tongue-in-cheek pointer and clarified his point that the seeds of consciousness are the source of foolishness:
“Because the seed is foolish it has come like this. The seed is the original foolish state, yet what big titles are given to that seed.”
Big titles indeed are generated by the consciousness when it has not yet tapped into an awareness of awareness, including such big titles as:
“My Infinite Self” and “My Supreme Self” and “The Supreme Self” and “That which is beyond this world which should be given your complete attention” and “Nirvana” and “The Highest Reality” and “Realizing that Brahman is Your True Self” and “The Great Cosmic Spirit” and “The Guiding Universe” and “The Supreme Lord” and “Heaven” and “Valhalla” and “The Thirty-Three Devas” and “The Higher Power” and “The All-Powerful One” and “The All-Knowing One” and “The All-Powerful Creator” and “The All-Powerful Sustainer,” and “The All-Knowing Destroyer and Punisher Who Is Watching You” (so you better watch out) and “The Self,” “The True Self,” and “The Real Self.”
What did he say of the latter? He said: "I got involved in spirituality, in the business of spirituality, [but] finally I lost that love of the Self also. I have no more love for the Self."
Yes, the big titles are tools which the consciousness can use after programming and conditioning and domestication and brainwashing and indoctrination and acculturation in order to be distracted from things involving the relative existence.
The tools might initially inspire day-dreaming and imaginings and mental musings and then move to mental flights of fancy which can then disintegrate into mental flights from reality, into extreme personality disorders, into neuroses and eventually even into psychoses and complete detachment from reality. Some might dream of castles in the air, but only those trapped in the most extreme condition of a neurosis or a psychosis actually think they have moved into them.
[After offering yesterday an unreserved and unrestrained dose of Truth to a man in an effort to allow him to see that he was not at all in the “after realizing” state that he was assuming, he admitted that he had indeed "gone back to some of his concepts and his old personas," but he blamed the regression on the fact that he had read some writing that were emphasizing and glorifying the THAT-ness over the I AM-ness. Of course, if Realized, no one could have the ability to “un-Realize You.” He continued, this time a bit more honestly: “I went right back to 'Foo-Foo Land' and ‘not caring about’ and ‘just floating along.’ And yes, it’s very sick’.” Then he concluded that, in his case, “the ‘spiritual identity’ and the ‘Realized identity’ is worst than all the others.” He ended: “Your email this morning hit hard and instantly showed all my BS.”]
Many who have assumed the false identity of “The Super Religious One” or “the Spiritual Giant” can claim that they are so in touch with “Reality” or THAT” after Realization or Enlightenment that they are now totally disengaged from and dissociated from the relative, ignoring the fact that the summative statement of the non-dual teachings is “I AM THAT; I AM.” Note that the “I AM” has “equal billing.” Note that “advaita” means “not two” so there is no separation of THAT and the AM. Note too that the only “benefit” of Realization is to be able to escape the bondage of distortions and delusions and foolishness and lies, to be freed from ignorance, to be restored to sanity as a result, and to then overlay Reality on the relative and abide soundly and rationally and sanely and Lovingly for the remainder of the manifestation.
Realization is not about “escaping the bonds of this life” and it is not about “mentally moving to Foo-Foo Land.” It is about being totally awake, being totally aware, being totally in touch with both reality and Reality, with both the I AM and the THAT, and being freed from ever again being driven by the seeds of foolishness. It is about abiding naturally for the remainder of the manifestation rather than unnaturally or “supernaturally.”
Maharaj: “There is no question of going beyond. I was never born, will never die. Whatever is – is all the time. 'Going beyond' is only an idea meant to remove all other ideas you have accumulated”
and
Maharaj: “The seed is transient, and the whole world is full of the seeds. [That is, the imagined “world” is in you, in your mind” and not as it appears to be at all.] All the five elements, all the objective world, is in that seed. You are not the seed – you are the observer of the seed.”
One additional clarification: those who will tell you that “nothing is real” are delusional. The invitation I offered to one person years ago who repeated that concept was this:
Freedom from the relative problems that result from deceptions and misperceptions does not require a denial of the Am-ness nor a belief that relative things do not even exist.
So to get a grip on reality, try this: bend over, lower your head, and run as fast as you can into a brick wall; then, try to convince me, from within the painful state which would follow such a collision, that the wall does not exist. Tell me at that instant that you believe your head does not exist. Tell me that your pain is not actually happening.
Of course the wall and your head and the pain exist. Of course the entire body exists. The teaching is simply that You are not Your body. Regarding the wall, the Advaitin teaching is not that a brick wall which you can see does not exist. The pointer is simply that a wall is not really what it appears to be, a fact that can be proved if one were to view the bricks through an electron microscope and see that, at their core, the bricks are a swirling mass of subatomic particles.
The deal here is about differentiating between appearance and reality and between appearance and Reality. It is not about denying the reality of things relative but is about seeing them clearly and accurately and seeing them for what they actually are instead.
Walk around in your sleep, claiming that you believe in Reality but that you deny reality and all things relative, and you might end up getting hit in the head with a brick, or running into a wall or a river, or driving into the back of a garbage truck that is stopped on your side of the road as one sleep-driver did recently, or worst, relatively speaking.
You might even end up believing in the extreme inconsistency that there can be “a God who loves you unconditionally” but that he can be – at the same time – "willing to cast you into a place of eternal punishment where you will experience mental anguish and the physical torture of eternal flames, forever." That's unconditional love? Then as for that brand of "love," no thanks. That is the kind of nonsense that an abusive husband or parent uses to justify hitting his spouse or child: "If I didn't love you so much, I wouldn't get worked up like that. I'd just ignore you." (Tell you what: ignore me. Please.)
Those who are absorbed in the big titles assigned to things deemed to be “lofty and noble and other-worldly and superior and higher than high and soaring and elevated and exalted or holy” will be guaranteed to be out of touch with reality and will miss out on the pleasures and happiness that the sane and wide are able to enjoy during the manifestation.
The fact is that Realization is not about finding "one special way" or "a thousand different ways" to be distracted, dissociated, preoccupied, sidetracked, diverted, inattentive, and out of touch. Distraction is just another form of sleepwalking and sleeptalking, of working in your sleep, of driving in your sleep, of avoiding, of escaping mentally or via the use of intoxicants, or of finding ways to become emotional intoxicated as well.
Yes, Maharaj did say, “The nearer you get to the truth, the more you lose interest in the worldly affairs,” but he never suggested abandoning anything and everything that involves reality . . . the IS-ness . . . the AM-ness. Instead - in the end, and quite to the contrary - he said, “Just give up spirituality" and “do your normal duties." He advised: “Forget spirituality.” From the ebook Maharaj’s Evolution, “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’).”
In the end, he said of the book I AM THAT: "That book and whatever was expounded at that time was only relevant for that period. I am speaking differently today" and am "emphasizing different aspects." What he offered later differed considerably from his earlier talks, making clear that the "spiritual" pointers in I AM THAT will take you to the midpoint of "the journey" but that his final talks point the way to "the finish line."
THE MASTERS OF DISTRACTION: "LEADERS" (specifically, “Military Leaders,” “Political Leaders,” “Religious Leaders” and “Spiritual Leaders”)
Some in special branches of the military who will be operating in isolated areas beyond assistance if captured are taught to use certain “mental tools” to give them an ability to withstand torture. One of the key tools recommended is “distraction.” How common is the use of distractions among those who find the relative existence to be torturous as well? How many are playing “The Realization Game” or the “I Am Fully Enlightened Game” as a distraction from the relative, from reality?
Politicians has raised the use of distraction to an art form, maybe not aware of the fact - but tapping into the fact anyway - that 50% of the humans on the planet are Personality Type Sixes who are constantly worried, nervous, anxious and fearful, continuously scared and afraid no matter their age. They often spike to even higher levels of fear and become frightened, paranoid, and terrified. If a politician is experiencing a setback in his approval ratings, all he needs to do in gin up something that will trigger fear among the masses, assure them that he or she is the person with a plan to protect them, and that politician’s approval rating will automatically move higher as the 50% Type Sixes will be ready to follow anyone whom they think can protect them their "Fear du Jour."
Questioner: “How can I be in my true state and lose my fear?”
Maharaj: “You are already in your true state. Because of the mind, duality comes in and therefore you are afraid. The association with the body and mind is because of the love for the body-mind; that is going to go away; therefore, everyone is afraid of death.”
Yet when one gives careful consideration to the ways that persons use distraction as a means of escape (and control), then it can be seen that no one has mastered the art of using distraction and fear to the level of those who are spiritual leaders and who are the forebears of the all-time leading masters of distraction: religious leaders (a group which also includes cult leaders, leaders of ideological groups, and – likely the most fear-mongering of all – the combination that presents itself as “a religious politician.”)
Imagine the skill of so many religious leaders who are able to convince persons to normalize suffering NOW and who are able to convince the masses to ignore their suffering and to focus instead on a "wonderful reward which God has prepared for you after you die." Now that's some big time, big title distracting going on there.
Originally, the belief among the masses was in multiple Gods: the Creator God, the Sustaining Gods, and the Destroyer Gods. After Abraham, when his notion that there is only one God caught on, followers began to believe in and worship a schizophrenic God, purported to be a creator and the sustainer but also a destroyer and punisher, so you better be “A Good, God-Fearing Person” if you want to have any hope at all.
The final words today go to Maharaj in the discussion about whether one should
(A) mentally move to another place, become a “Religious Superstar,” become a “Super Spiritual Giant” and model your new and improved roles for all to see;
or, should
(B) allow the understanding to overlay the relative with Reality, that is, with sanity, with no hint at all of foolishness, with logic, with clarity, with a clear perspective, with reason, and with unadulterated awareness.
Again:
“Just give up spirituality"
and
“do your normal duties”
and
“forget spirituality”
and
“follow your normal inclinations.”
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.:
Yesterday, there was a listing of some of the many things that seekers have been witnessed to be seeking as thousands upon thousands have been observed while working with them since 1989.
As illustrated, most who seek haven’t a clue about WHAT they are seeking or about what they would be seeking if they were able to tap into enough wisdom to understand what is “missing” and what they could “find” were they not misguided and misdirected.
And what did Maharaj say in regards to WHAT is missing and about what instead is at play among the masses who are almost universally suffering from the Ultimate Sickness? What is at play all around the globe? “Ignorance, stupidity, and insanity,” he said. So what is missing, what is not at play? “Wisdom instead of ignorance; understanding and comprehension and insight and discernment and proper perspectives rather than stupidity; reason and logic and sound judgment and sanity and access to the intuitive, common sense that has been blocked by faulty and distorted programming, conditioning, acculturation, domestication, indoctrination, and brainwashing.”
So why are persons not searching for WHAT Maharaj made clear – in his later talks at least – that they would search for if they could tap into some degree of wisdom?
Because of what they were told early on that they needed, because of what was erroneously identified as the Ultimate Medicine, and because their egotism-supported ego-states will not allow them to admit that their relative existence has been driven since childhood by anything and everything except wisdom and understanding and comprehension and insight and discernment and proper perspectives and reason and logic and sound judgment and sanity.
Charlatans and cons sell religion and spirituality at a high price and make millions; others that are, or were, well-meaning (including “maharaj” and “floyd”) misdirected and misguided seekers by endorsing religion for a time and spirituality for a time; that continued until it was seen clearly that those were providing no lasting relief for those suffering from the Ultimate Sickness.
Once it was seen that the Sickness is not rooted in too little religion or in a spiritual malady, the focus of the treatment turned to addressing the psychological / mental symptoms of the Sickness. When that approach proved to be more effective, its use was continued.
Yet when it is asked, “Why are you here? What are you seeking?” few ever answer, "I am seeking the means by which I can remove the blockages that were set in place by faulty and distorted programming, conditioning, acculturation, domestication, indoctrination, and brainwashing." Few answer, “I am seeking the ability to tap into the wisdom that has not been tapped into so that I might reach a state of understanding and comprehension, so that I can access valid insights and enjoy clear discernment and proper perspectives and so that I can activate the reason and logic and sound judgment and sanity that have been dormant for decades.”
Instead, most are more interested in THAT and the Noumenal; many are looking for a way to escape all responsibility and the drudgery of their current relative existence and move into a castle in the air. Most want to become supreme by merging with The Supreme. Most want to give lip service to the unicity and the Oneness while really reinforcing their sense of different-from-ment and better-than-ment which is now being supported by their assumption of phony but supposedly "good" or even "great" new identities.
But what did Maharaj say, in the end? You need to learn more dogma? No. You need to be more spiritual? No. He said that it is enough to know what you are not. That is, you do not need to find even more false identities of the type that are assumed to be lofty, holy, saintly, pious, sacred, devout, divine, or mystical. In fact, the playing of roles with those traits will only further hinder the effort to be in touch with reality / Reality.
So seekers show up here at this site or at this house without having the slightest clue about what the effective treatment is that they should be seeking for the Ultimate Sickness and without the slightest clue about their actual motives and their actual motivators. Why? Because their actual motivators are their many ego-states / personalities and because ego-states / personalities function in a wiser - or more cunning - fashion than the persons who believe in them. They are shrewd and subtle and they always work on a subconscious, unconscious level.
Like a cancerous tumor that can grow and thrive within a body for years before pushing against a nerve and generating pain which triggers an investigation that leads to a discovery of the presence of that which is making one sick, so too do personalities work in a similar way, except . . . they grow within the mind.
Beyond that, as with a cancerous tumor, they can thrive for years (and for an entire lifetime in most cases) without being detected, and they can push aside all logic and sense. Sometimes the misery and suffering and pain generated by the Ultimate Sickness can trigger an investigation that leads to a discovery of the presence of that which is making one sick, namely, a conglomeration of false identities which all have their own illusory fears and selfish desires and that all promote “self”-destructive actions because the inner resource or inner guru – while usually suppressed – can occasionally exert itself to some degree and give persons a clue that it is the false self / selves that are at the core of the chaos of misery and suffering associated with the Ultimate Sickness.
Thus, "self"-destructive behaviors are actually a sound reaction to the awareness that it is the false "self" / "selves" that are making one sick . . . if the result is the "destruction" of the belief in the "self" / "selves."
Yet what treatment plan is too-often followed by so many of the seekers who finally understand that they are suffering from the Ultimate Sickness? The totally-ineffective treatment plans offered by the Big Name Teachers that Maharaj warned seekers to stay away from, the Big Name Teachers who tell seekers that the proper treatment for what ails them is . . .
** not to address the problem of the mind, and not to reach a state of zero concepts, and not to be free of the incessantly churning thoughts in their minds but to "change your thoughts in order to change your life"
or
to “find your ultimate calling and focus on that”
or
** to “realize how incredible you really are!”
or
** to learn my ten secrets for success”
or
** to “advance your spirit”
or
** to “find your life’s purpose”
or
** to find your infinite self”
or
“to use what I can teach you to get power now”
or
“to develop an ageless body and a timeless mind”
or
** “to let me show you how to spontaneously fulfill your desires”
or
** to “follow my seven laws of success”
or
** to “know God”
or
** don’t address the real issues, such as personality disorders and neuroses and psychoses; instead, just "love what is!" and for example, "if a Nazi throws your baby into a flaming pit, that act is God. God is what-is, and until we can accept our baby being destroyed, we cannot come to terms with God, with reality."
Those are all suggestions from Big Name Teachers, offered as ways to address the Ultimate Sickness or whatever else might be causing you to suffer and to be miserable.
In other words, the advice is, just think magically, think supernaturally, focus on being a success, focus on all of your ego-based, body and mind and personality desires and go out there and get everything you want.
And that is the advice that the masses are paying millions of dollars a year for, as if any of that can have even the slightest impact on the Ultimate Sickness which is a psychological, mental illness, not a religious or spiritual illness. In other words, to persons who are suffering because they are out of contact with both reality and Reality, the treatment being recommend on a massive scale is . . . get even farther out of touch with reality and Reality.
Part of the methodology here involves an effort to turn the seeker’s focus away from the irrelevant and toward the relevant - and away from distortions and toward clarity - by offering examples of those who have been misguided and misdirected. Those examples are offered in order to try to allow seekers to relate, the plan being that a reaction / realization like these might manifest:
“Hummm, you know what, my thinking is just as messed up as that of the guy in the example”
or
“You know, my behavior is just like hers, and suddenly, I see that I’ve always been able to judge how insane ‘others’ are but I have never before really seen how insane my behavior has been all my life until seeing myself – my self . . . or selves – in that illustration”
or
“Gee, I really have been driven by ignorance and insanity all of my life, and that happened through no fault or choice of my own, but I now see that the chaos and craziness were not a result of a failure to be religious enough (because few have been more religious than I) and I now see that the chaos and craziness were not a result of a failure to be spiritual enough (because few have been as absorbed in spirituality and spiritual practices as I);
instead, I now see that the chaos and craziness have been a result of what has been written on what began as a blank tablet at the point of manifestation but which did not stay blank. The most nonsensical and ignorant and stupid and insane things were written on that tablet and stored away in ‘my mind’ and thereafter led to the insanity of believing that false identities are real and then allowing the insanity of false identities to determine every thought I thought, every word I spoke, and every action I ever took. Now I see that I always wanted to be free, but I only now see exactly what I need to be free of.”
None of those types of examples which are offered here on occasion are intended to help hone your skills at spotting evidence of ignorance and stupidity and insanity in “others.” The methodology is, instead, about taking your own “self” inventory, about finding the hidden agendas of the multiple personalities that have been driving you, and then being free of the influence of all of those.
To believe that one is all of the false personas that he or she has been assigned or has assumed is to be out of touch with reality and Reality, and to be out of touch with reality and Reality is insane; thus, to be free of distortions and delusions and being fooled, it really is enough to find out what you are not.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
As illustrated, most who seek haven’t a clue about WHAT they are seeking or about what they would be seeking if they were able to tap into enough wisdom to understand what is “missing” and what they could “find” were they not misguided and misdirected.
And what did Maharaj say in regards to WHAT is missing and about what instead is at play among the masses who are almost universally suffering from the Ultimate Sickness? What is at play all around the globe? “Ignorance, stupidity, and insanity,” he said. So what is missing, what is not at play? “Wisdom instead of ignorance; understanding and comprehension and insight and discernment and proper perspectives rather than stupidity; reason and logic and sound judgment and sanity and access to the intuitive, common sense that has been blocked by faulty and distorted programming, conditioning, acculturation, domestication, indoctrination, and brainwashing.”
So why are persons not searching for WHAT Maharaj made clear – in his later talks at least – that they would search for if they could tap into some degree of wisdom?
Because of what they were told early on that they needed, because of what was erroneously identified as the Ultimate Medicine, and because their egotism-supported ego-states will not allow them to admit that their relative existence has been driven since childhood by anything and everything except wisdom and understanding and comprehension and insight and discernment and proper perspectives and reason and logic and sound judgment and sanity.
Charlatans and cons sell religion and spirituality at a high price and make millions; others that are, or were, well-meaning (including “maharaj” and “floyd”) misdirected and misguided seekers by endorsing religion for a time and spirituality for a time; that continued until it was seen clearly that those were providing no lasting relief for those suffering from the Ultimate Sickness.
Once it was seen that the Sickness is not rooted in too little religion or in a spiritual malady, the focus of the treatment turned to addressing the psychological / mental symptoms of the Sickness. When that approach proved to be more effective, its use was continued.
Yet when it is asked, “Why are you here? What are you seeking?” few ever answer, "I am seeking the means by which I can remove the blockages that were set in place by faulty and distorted programming, conditioning, acculturation, domestication, indoctrination, and brainwashing." Few answer, “I am seeking the ability to tap into the wisdom that has not been tapped into so that I might reach a state of understanding and comprehension, so that I can access valid insights and enjoy clear discernment and proper perspectives and so that I can activate the reason and logic and sound judgment and sanity that have been dormant for decades.”
Instead, most are more interested in THAT and the Noumenal; many are looking for a way to escape all responsibility and the drudgery of their current relative existence and move into a castle in the air. Most want to become supreme by merging with The Supreme. Most want to give lip service to the unicity and the Oneness while really reinforcing their sense of different-from-ment and better-than-ment which is now being supported by their assumption of phony but supposedly "good" or even "great" new identities.
But what did Maharaj say, in the end? You need to learn more dogma? No. You need to be more spiritual? No. He said that it is enough to know what you are not. That is, you do not need to find even more false identities of the type that are assumed to be lofty, holy, saintly, pious, sacred, devout, divine, or mystical. In fact, the playing of roles with those traits will only further hinder the effort to be in touch with reality / Reality.
So seekers show up here at this site or at this house without having the slightest clue about what the effective treatment is that they should be seeking for the Ultimate Sickness and without the slightest clue about their actual motives and their actual motivators. Why? Because their actual motivators are their many ego-states / personalities and because ego-states / personalities function in a wiser - or more cunning - fashion than the persons who believe in them. They are shrewd and subtle and they always work on a subconscious, unconscious level.
Like a cancerous tumor that can grow and thrive within a body for years before pushing against a nerve and generating pain which triggers an investigation that leads to a discovery of the presence of that which is making one sick, so too do personalities work in a similar way, except . . . they grow within the mind.
Beyond that, as with a cancerous tumor, they can thrive for years (and for an entire lifetime in most cases) without being detected, and they can push aside all logic and sense. Sometimes the misery and suffering and pain generated by the Ultimate Sickness can trigger an investigation that leads to a discovery of the presence of that which is making one sick, namely, a conglomeration of false identities which all have their own illusory fears and selfish desires and that all promote “self”-destructive actions because the inner resource or inner guru – while usually suppressed – can occasionally exert itself to some degree and give persons a clue that it is the false self / selves that are at the core of the chaos of misery and suffering associated with the Ultimate Sickness.
Thus, "self"-destructive behaviors are actually a sound reaction to the awareness that it is the false "self" / "selves" that are making one sick . . . if the result is the "destruction" of the belief in the "self" / "selves."
Yet what treatment plan is too-often followed by so many of the seekers who finally understand that they are suffering from the Ultimate Sickness? The totally-ineffective treatment plans offered by the Big Name Teachers that Maharaj warned seekers to stay away from, the Big Name Teachers who tell seekers that the proper treatment for what ails them is . . .
** not to address the problem of the mind, and not to reach a state of zero concepts, and not to be free of the incessantly churning thoughts in their minds but to "change your thoughts in order to change your life"
or
to “find your ultimate calling and focus on that”
or
** to “realize how incredible you really are!”
or
** to learn my ten secrets for success”
or
** to “advance your spirit”
or
** to “find your life’s purpose”
or
** to find your infinite self”
or
“to use what I can teach you to get power now”
or
“to develop an ageless body and a timeless mind”
or
** “to let me show you how to spontaneously fulfill your desires”
or
** to “follow my seven laws of success”
or
** to “know God”
or
** don’t address the real issues, such as personality disorders and neuroses and psychoses; instead, just "love what is!" and for example, "if a Nazi throws your baby into a flaming pit, that act is God. God is what-is, and until we can accept our baby being destroyed, we cannot come to terms with God, with reality."
Those are all suggestions from Big Name Teachers, offered as ways to address the Ultimate Sickness or whatever else might be causing you to suffer and to be miserable.
In other words, the advice is, just think magically, think supernaturally, focus on being a success, focus on all of your ego-based, body and mind and personality desires and go out there and get everything you want.
And that is the advice that the masses are paying millions of dollars a year for, as if any of that can have even the slightest impact on the Ultimate Sickness which is a psychological, mental illness, not a religious or spiritual illness. In other words, to persons who are suffering because they are out of contact with both reality and Reality, the treatment being recommend on a massive scale is . . . get even farther out of touch with reality and Reality.
Part of the methodology here involves an effort to turn the seeker’s focus away from the irrelevant and toward the relevant - and away from distortions and toward clarity - by offering examples of those who have been misguided and misdirected. Those examples are offered in order to try to allow seekers to relate, the plan being that a reaction / realization like these might manifest:
“Hummm, you know what, my thinking is just as messed up as that of the guy in the example”
or
“You know, my behavior is just like hers, and suddenly, I see that I’ve always been able to judge how insane ‘others’ are but I have never before really seen how insane my behavior has been all my life until seeing myself – my self . . . or selves – in that illustration”
or
“Gee, I really have been driven by ignorance and insanity all of my life, and that happened through no fault or choice of my own, but I now see that the chaos and craziness were not a result of a failure to be religious enough (because few have been more religious than I) and I now see that the chaos and craziness were not a result of a failure to be spiritual enough (because few have been as absorbed in spirituality and spiritual practices as I);
instead, I now see that the chaos and craziness have been a result of what has been written on what began as a blank tablet at the point of manifestation but which did not stay blank. The most nonsensical and ignorant and stupid and insane things were written on that tablet and stored away in ‘my mind’ and thereafter led to the insanity of believing that false identities are real and then allowing the insanity of false identities to determine every thought I thought, every word I spoke, and every action I ever took. Now I see that I always wanted to be free, but I only now see exactly what I need to be free of.”
None of those types of examples which are offered here on occasion are intended to help hone your skills at spotting evidence of ignorance and stupidity and insanity in “others.” The methodology is, instead, about taking your own “self” inventory, about finding the hidden agendas of the multiple personalities that have been driving you, and then being free of the influence of all of those.
To believe that one is all of the false personas that he or she has been assigned or has assumed is to be out of touch with reality and Reality, and to be out of touch with reality and Reality is insane; thus, to be free of distortions and delusions and being fooled, it really is enough to find out what you are not.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
SECTION THREE:
WAYS THAT SEEKERS HAVE REALIZED
I. BY WATCHING the 4-Disk, Seven-Hour Video (DVD) Set of an advaita retreat, or the downloadable file version. To find out more or to purchase the DVD or downloadable computer file version of the retreat, DVD or Downloadable computer file versions of the Four-Day Advaita Retreat
I. BY WATCHING the 4-Disk, Seven-Hour Video (DVD) Set of an advaita retreat, or the downloadable file version. To find out more or to purchase the DVD or downloadable computer file version of the retreat, DVD or Downloadable computer file versions of the Four-Day Advaita Retreat
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II. BY READING the explanations offered in the collection of non-duality books that are available on this site and at www.floydhenderson.com.
III. BY ENROLLING in the Online Advaita Classes For information, visit Information on the Advaita Classes on the Internet To enroll visit Enroll in the Advaita Internet Course
IV. BY ATTENDING an Advaitin retreat with floyd and being guided through all seven steps. For details of the retreats offered, please visit the retreat information site.
V. BY ARRANGING a one-hour session via Skype or telephone with Floyd. (Skype is a free service.)
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FROM THE I TO THE ABSOLUTE: A Seven-Step Journey to Reality
CONSCIOUSNESS / AWARENESS
FROM THE ABSOLUTE TO THE NOTHINGNESS
THE FINAL UNDERSTANDING
THE ADVANCED SEEKERS' SERIES
Anthology of four books
THE BLISSFUL ABIDANCE SERIES
Anthology of six books
SRI NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ AND HIS EVOLUTION
THE FINAL FIFTEEN TOPICS DISCUSSED BY SRI NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ
A TWELVE-STEP JOURNEY TO SELF-TRANSFORMATION
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A GUIDE FOR WORKING THE STEPS (IN THE MANNER USED BY THE FOUNDERS)
THE TWELVE STEPS AND ADVAITA / NON-DUALITY: A 21-DAY PLAN FOR A PSYCHIC CHANGE
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")
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)
SECTION FOUR:
THREE FREE eBOOKS
(Compliments of Andy Gugar, Jr.)
THREE FREE eBOOKS
(Compliments of Andy Gugar, Jr.)
The following three eBooks are available without charge for you or for friends:
I.
"GOOD vs. EVIL?" or "IGNORANCE, STUPIDITY, and INSANITY?"
The
content of this eBook deals with one of the most common but erroneous
beliefs that the non-Realized masses cling to and which they will fight
about (and even kill over), namely, that there is a planet-wide duel
going on between “the forces of good and evil” in the universe.
Maharaj said of each that visited his Bombay loft, “Only that person will visit this place whose virtue and sin have come to an end.”
He also said that the problems of humankind are problems associated
with the Ultimate Sickness and that three of the key traits of the
Ultimate Sickness are "ignorance, stupidity, and insanity."
To
that end, either (1) the ancient view is spot on: that the "ills of the
planet" are rooted in evil people, in people not being religious enough
or spiritual enough, and are caused solely by bad morality; or, (2) the
"ills of the planet" are rooted in ignorance, stupidity and insanity
and "being good" or "being moral" does not put an end to ignorance, does
not eliminate stupidity, and does not treat insanity in any way.
II.
"THE VISION"
Comments regarding the free eBook entitled “THE VISION”:
“My thanks to you and Andy.” – Andrew “Mac” McMaster
“Thanks so much for the book! And, by the way, it is brilliant and the most effective pointing that you have done. It has served to help clear the remaining blockages.” – Stan Cross
“Greatly appreciate having “THE VISION” added to my Henderson resource library that is situated on the right side of my bed for easy access! Eternally grateful for what was received and what was given.” – Robert Rigby
“ ‘THE VISION’ is such a well-written, condensed version of the Nisarga Yoga approach to understanding and enjoying Reality that I feel it can serve as a must-read ‘meditation guide’ for all earnest seekers.” – Andy Gugar, Jr.
“My thanks to you and Andy.” – Andrew “Mac” McMaster
“Thanks so much for the book! And, by the way, it is brilliant and the most effective pointing that you have done. It has served to help clear the remaining blockages.” – Stan Cross
“Greatly appreciate having “THE VISION” added to my Henderson resource library that is situated on the right side of my bed for easy access! Eternally grateful for what was received and what was given.” – Robert Rigby
“ ‘THE VISION’ is such a well-written, condensed version of the Nisarga Yoga approach to understanding and enjoying Reality that I feel it can serve as a must-read ‘meditation guide’ for all earnest seekers.” – Andy Gugar, Jr.
III.
While in South Africa in 2011, I was introduced to A Primate’s Memoir (2002)
by Dr. Robert Maurice Sapolsky. Sapolsky is an American
neuroendocrinologist; a professor of biology, neuroscience, and
neurosurgery at Stanford University; a researcher; an author; and a
Research Associate at the National Museums of Kenya.
A Primate’s Memoir (which documents Sapolsky’s years in Africa while studying baboons), was recommended because there is much that a non-dualist or Advaitin or Nisargan can relate to by comparing and contrasting what Sapolsky reveals about the way certain troops of baboons live in Africa with the way that humans abide all around the globe. The book also portrays an unconventional way of studying neurophysiology to determine the effects of stress on life expectancy. (And the reduction or elimination of stress among humans is one of the aims of the non-dual understanding.)
Now Sapolsky’s recent findings are offered in a documentary film entitled “Stress: Portrait of a Killer.” [The 56-minute film is available on YouTube in many countries.]
This 152-page eBook catalogues the common, non-dual message shared by Sapolsky and Maharaj and reveals the ways that Sapolsky’s scientific research supports the non-dual pointers offered by Maharaj.
In “PART ONE” it will be seen that most persons on the planet are not seeking, and most will never seek, but for those who are seeking, most will face several obstacles:
Often, many do not really know WHY they are seeking. Too, many who are asked WHAT they are seeking often offer no clear-cut answer beyond the standard talk about "Realization" or "Enlightenment." For those who have come this way and have a clear notions about why they are seeking and what they are seeking, many have not yet found anyone that has shown them exactly HOW to go about the process. The content in "Part One" offers some considerations about all three.
In “Part Two” of this book, it will be seen why many criticized Maharaj for “changing his message in his later talks.” It will be seen that the changes were not about changing the message per se as much as about changing his methodology as he experimented with one version of the Ultimate Medicine after another in order to try to find an effective means for addressing the Ultimate Sickness.
Maharaj’s loft was actually more of a laboratory in a loft in Bombay (now “Mumbai”) because he undertook in that loft many experiments in his efforts to find an effective form of the Ultimate Medicine that could treat the Ultimate Sickness effectively and successfully. In fact, he would eventually have three laboratories:
He first ran . . .
** a “Religion Laboratory,” then later
** a “Spirituality Laboratory” and eventually
** a “Psychology Laboratory.”
All three will be discussed in detail in "Part Two."
[Sorry - for security reasons, no "clickable" link is provided. You'll need to type the address in to your emailed request manually. Also, the initial response to free eBook offerings is usually significant so it takes some time to process the requests. A new series will begin after those initial responses are taken care of. THX.]
A Primate’s Memoir (which documents Sapolsky’s years in Africa while studying baboons), was recommended because there is much that a non-dualist or Advaitin or Nisargan can relate to by comparing and contrasting what Sapolsky reveals about the way certain troops of baboons live in Africa with the way that humans abide all around the globe. The book also portrays an unconventional way of studying neurophysiology to determine the effects of stress on life expectancy. (And the reduction or elimination of stress among humans is one of the aims of the non-dual understanding.)
Now Sapolsky’s recent findings are offered in a documentary film entitled “Stress: Portrait of a Killer.” [The 56-minute film is available on YouTube in many countries.]
This 152-page eBook catalogues the common, non-dual message shared by Sapolsky and Maharaj and reveals the ways that Sapolsky’s scientific research supports the non-dual pointers offered by Maharaj.
IV.
In “PART ONE” it will be seen that most persons on the planet are not seeking, and most will never seek, but for those who are seeking, most will face several obstacles:
Often, many do not really know WHY they are seeking. Too, many who are asked WHAT they are seeking often offer no clear-cut answer beyond the standard talk about "Realization" or "Enlightenment." For those who have come this way and have a clear notions about why they are seeking and what they are seeking, many have not yet found anyone that has shown them exactly HOW to go about the process. The content in "Part One" offers some considerations about all three.
In “Part Two” of this book, it will be seen why many criticized Maharaj for “changing his message in his later talks.” It will be seen that the changes were not about changing the message per se as much as about changing his methodology as he experimented with one version of the Ultimate Medicine after another in order to try to find an effective means for addressing the Ultimate Sickness.
Maharaj’s loft was actually more of a laboratory in a loft in Bombay (now “Mumbai”) because he undertook in that loft many experiments in his efforts to find an effective form of the Ultimate Medicine that could treat the Ultimate Sickness effectively and successfully. In fact, he would eventually have three laboratories:
He first ran . . .
** a “Religion Laboratory,” then later
** a “Spirituality Laboratory” and eventually
** a “Psychology Laboratory.”
All three will be discussed in detail in "Part Two."
To receive free copies, or to have us send free copies to your friends or
relatives, send the request (or their email addresses) to the following name:
nondualfloyd
@gmail.com
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SECTION FIVE:
COMPARE YOUR "JOURNEY" AND SEE IF YOU'VE UNDERGONE ANY EVENTS THAT PARALLEL THOSE OF MAHARAJ AND FLOYD
COMPARE YOUR "JOURNEY" AND SEE IF YOU'VE UNDERGONE ANY EVENTS THAT PARALLEL THOSE OF MAHARAJ AND FLOYD
The "experiences" of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj and Floyd share many parallel. Many visitors have said that they have also shared some of the same parallels. Can you relate to any of these?
1. Both grew up in very poor families
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 initially tried to address the Ultimate Sickness with religious teachings but realized that did not work, so both tried to address the Ultimate Sickness with spirituality, only to see eventually that "being spiritual" did not cure the Ultimate Sickness either
8. both then realized that the main problems of humanity center in the mind so both turned to the sharing of psychology and scientific-and-fact-based pointers to free persons of the effects of programming, conditioning, acculturation, domestication, brainwashing and indoctrination
9. both had highly religious wives who were quite displeased with the shift away from religion
10. both had grown 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 initially tried to address the Ultimate Sickness with religious teachings but realized that did not work, so both tried to address the Ultimate Sickness with spirituality, only to see eventually that "being spiritual" did not cure the Ultimate Sickness either
8. both then realized that the main problems of humanity center in the mind so both turned to the sharing of psychology and scientific-and-fact-based pointers to free persons of the effects of programming, conditioning, acculturation, domestication, brainwashing and indoctrination
9. both had highly religious wives who were quite displeased with the shift away from religion
10. both had grown 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 (and no longer having a husband who brought in huge sums of money)
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 offered satsang
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 (and no longer having a husband who brought in huge sums of money)
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 offered satsang
21. both saw that most who hear the teachings are still not going to understand
22. both, therefore, offered pointers without expectation, without attachment to outcome, and without any concern about the way that persons react to hearing Truth
23. both suggested that seekers focus on the exact, step-wise "path
22. both, therefore, offered pointers without expectation, without attachment to outcome, and without any concern about the way that persons react to hearing Truth
23. both suggested that seekers focus on the exact, step-wise "path
24. both made the decision that whatever amount of the relative existence remains shall be spent in sharing the teachings in the way that has been seen to be the most effective method: not suggesting that there are not enough religious persons; not suggesting that the Ultimate Sickness is caused by being "spiritually-unfit"; but by seeing that the problem centers in the mind (which must come to an end, which it will the moment all beliefs are abandoned)
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.
SECTION SIX:
FOR THOSE WHO PREFER A BOOK IN HAND TO READING eBOOKS, THESE PAPERBACK BOOKS ARE AVAILABLE THROUGH AMAZON.COM
(Four by Floyd Henderson and two by Dennis Waite. Click the picture for more information or to order)
(Four by Floyd Henderson and two by Dennis Waite. Click the picture for more information or to order)
