A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
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F.: From yesterday:
Andy offered the following for consideration:
On the seven-step “path” which is taught here, the third step can include the roles of “The Super Religious One” and “The Spiritual Giant” and “The Greatest Seeker of All.” But no matter how much “better” those roles are thought to be when compared to other roles which have been played or which can be played, they are still just roles . . . are still just false identities.”
The invitation: “Stop everything [that is, stop all of the role-playing] and then enjoy natural beingness.”
Then he asked: Why will most not accept that invitation? Most are not willing to take what only seems to be “a risk.” Most are not willing to pay the price of the ticket to move beyond the third step where religious roles and / or spiritual roles (all rooted in blind faith) are played.
What that avoidance actually involves are (A) perceived risks (based in unfounded fears) or (B) addiction or (C) a psychological dependency / unhealthy attachment or a combination of all three.
(A) PERCEIVED RISKS
What are the (imaginary) “risks”? That beliefs based in magical thinking (a.k.a., “religious thinking” or “spiritual” thinking) might actually have something to do with reality, leaving the possibilities . . .
that one might actually be born again and again and again (though no one is ever even born once);
or
that there might be a god who says he loves you unconditionally but really will burn you forever in fire;
or
that there might be a god in a heaven that is waiting to give you an eternal reward that one might otherwise lose if not religious and / or spiritual (a belief which, for example, billions of Christians cling to though their so-called “Savior” was reported to have said: “No one shall ever see the kingdom of heaven, for it is within”). Add to that nearly five billion members of other religions which all teach their followers (key word, “followers”) that there is some kind of an afterlife . . . an eternal life.
The fact: thinking is thinking and reality is reality and never the twain shall meet.
(B) ADDICTION
Consider the definitions of addiction as they might apply to though who are consumed with a religious or spiritual personality / persona / self / identity / role / stage character: “Addiction” is defined as “a strong and harmful need to regularly have something or do something”; “an unusually great interest in something or a need to do or have something”; “a persistent compulsive use of something and seen by all except the addicted as being physically, psychologically, or socially harmful”; or “a habit or dependency.”
From the American Society of Addiction Medicine: “Addiction is a primary, chronic disease of brain reward, motivation, memory and related circuitry. Dysfunction in these circuits leads to characteristic biological, psychological, social and spiritual manifestations. This is reflected in an individual pathologically pursuing reward and / or relief by substance use and other insane, antisocial behaviors.”
NOTE: Pathological behaviors or emotions are those which are not based in reason and which cannot be controlled by the person (that is, a persona) or persons experiencing them. Anything that is pathological involves a mental disease; hence, a psychopath is (1) a person suffering from a chronic mental disorder or multiple personality disorders or who is highly neurotic or psychotic; is (2) therefore, a person suffering from insanity; and is (3) a person who will at times exhibit abnormal or violent social behavior.
Many will want to criticize the behavior of members of a religion or sect that differs from their own, so nowadays ISIS is often cited as an example of “a bunch of religious psychopaths”; yet the President of the U.S. last week stirred up Christians nationwide and around the globe when he spoke at Thursday’s National Prayer Breakfast (an annual event organized by one of the most right-wing, fanatical Christian groups in the U.S.)
Addressing religiously-motivated conflict abroad, Obama reminded all that “Humanity has been grappling with these questions throughout human history. And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.”
He might also have mentioned that it was European Christians who killed 150,000,000 of the indigenous people when they invaded what they came to call “The Americas.”
Consider those actions as they relate to the definitions above:
a strong and harmful need to do something;
a persistent compulsive use of something (such as “genocide”) that is physically, psychologically, or socially harmful;
a chronic disease of brain reward and motivation;
psychological, social and spiritual manifestations, such as “a god who wants us to kill off others and expand his early kingdom”; and
psychopaths pursuing reward via insane, antisocial behaviors.
The reply to Obama: “That was then, not now,” yet there are Christian leaders in the U.S. who want to pass a law that says a woman who is going to die unless she has an abortion is just going to have to die.” The U.S. military issues rifles – which have been used to kill Muslims during the last decade – have etched into their metals parts references to Biblical verses.
[One of the citations on the gun sights, “2COR4:6,” is an apparent reference to Second Corinthians 4:6 of the New Testament, which reads: "For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ."]
The members of both sides in the on-going, religion-associated global conflicts are killing in the name of their god (which, by definition, involves totally pathological, insane behavior.]
All of the religious / spiritual insanity which has continued “throughout human history” and which still continues all around the globe, is a manifestation of the insanity which accompanies role-assumption and role-playing.
The reply heard here from many over the years: “But I am using my religion / spirituality for good, not for evil.”
The members of ISIS say the same. Those who killed 150,000,000 in “The Americas” said the same. Those who have killed in the name of one god or another for 5000 years all said the same. It’s all driven by the addiction that persons have to their false personality identifications, especially "the good ones."
So why do those trapped in those third step roles not want to abandon them? Because those roles are rooted in the most powerful addiction on the planet, the one which promises both present and eternal rewards.
(C) PSYCHOLOGICAL DEPENDENCY / UNHEALTHY ATTACHMENT
A Dependent personality disorder is characterized by “a long-standing need of a person to be taken care of and a fear of being abandoned or separated from important individuals in his or her life. This leads the person to engage in dependent and submissive behaviors that are designed to elicit care-giving behaviors in others.”
Whether persons / personas are attached to an identity of “The Lover” or “The Spouse” or “The Parent” or “The Patriot” or “The Super Religious One” or “The Spiritual Giant” or “The Super Seeker” or “The Supreme Self” or “The True Self” or “Brahman” or “The True Reality” or “THAT” or “That Which Is Divine,” those are still just identities and are identities which foster dependency and co-dependency.
A false identity cannot be assumed unless there is someone else or something else which can be used as the player of the counterpart role which every ego-state / false identity requires.
“The Lover” cannot exist in the mind of the one assuming that role unless someone else is willing to play the counterpart role of “Lover” and “The Spouse” cannot exist in the mind of the one assuming that role unless someone else is also willing to play the counterpart “Spouse” role.
The same applies to “The Parent” and “The Patriot” and “The Super Religious One” and “The Spiritual Giant” which require, respectively, “The Child,” “The Best Country on the Planet,” “A God and Fellow Congregants” and “A God and Fellow Spiritual Giants Who Can Observe the Gigantic Level of Spirituality Which Is On Display.”
Maharaj said in the end that
he was no longer interested even in The True Self
and that
Next to you spiritual giants, I am a spiritual pygmy.
The non-dual teachings invite persons to abandon all of the personality identifications which have been assigned or which they have assumed and to then move beyond the playing of all of the third-step roles which are deemed to be “really good ones.”
Additionally, the Nisarga Yoga, as Andy said, invites all to stop everything [that is, stop all of the role-playing] and then enjoy natural beingness.
Why will religious persons or spiritual persons or even the most ardent seekers of “the understanding of an Eastern philosophy” or “the Advaitin perspective” or “Eastern knowledge” or “a comprehension of non-duality” refuse to give up the false identities which they work so hard to sustain and just abide simply and naturally instead?
Because of perceived “risks”; because of an acute addiction to their roles and the perceived payoffs that those roles can supposedly bring; and because of an intense attachment to the dependencies and co-dependency which those roles foster.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
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 Four offers five 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.
* * * * * *
SECTION TWO:
6 February 2015
Andy offered the following for consideration:
On the seven-step “path” which is taught here, the third step can include the roles of “The Super Religious One” and “The Spiritual Giant” and “The Greatest Seeker of All.” But no matter how much “better” those roles are thought to be when compared to other roles which have been played or which can be played, they are still just roles . . . are still just false identities.”
The invitation: “Stop everything [that is, stop all of the role-playing] and then enjoy natural beingness.”
Then he asked: Why will most not accept that invitation? Most are not willing to take what only seems to be “a risk.” Most are not willing to pay the price of the ticket to move beyond the third step where religious roles and / or spiritual roles (all rooted in blind faith) are played.
What that avoidance actually involves are (A) perceived risks (based in unfounded fears) or (B) addiction or (C) a psychological dependency / unhealthy attachment or a combination of all three.
(A) PERCEIVED RISKS
What are the (imaginary) “risks”? That beliefs based in magical thinking (a.k.a., “religious thinking” or “spiritual” thinking) might actually have something to do with reality, leaving the possibilities . . .
that one might actually be born again and again and again (though no one is ever even born once);
or
that there might be a god who says he loves you unconditionally but really will burn you forever in fire;
or
that there might be a god in a heaven that is waiting to give you an eternal reward that one might otherwise lose if not religious and / or spiritual (a belief which, for example, billions of Christians cling to though their so-called “Savior” was reported to have said: “No one shall ever see the kingdom of heaven, for it is within”). Add to that nearly five billion members of other religions which all teach their followers (key word, “followers”) that there is some kind of an afterlife . . . an eternal life.
The fact: thinking is thinking and reality is reality and never the twain shall meet.
(B) ADDICTION
Consider the definitions of addiction as they might apply to though who are consumed with a religious or spiritual personality / persona / self / identity / role / stage character: “Addiction” is defined as “a strong and harmful need to regularly have something or do something”; “an unusually great interest in something or a need to do or have something”; “a persistent compulsive use of something and seen by all except the addicted as being physically, psychologically, or socially harmful”; or “a habit or dependency.”
From the American Society of Addiction Medicine: “Addiction is a primary, chronic disease of brain reward, motivation, memory and related circuitry. Dysfunction in these circuits leads to characteristic biological, psychological, social and spiritual manifestations. This is reflected in an individual pathologically pursuing reward and / or relief by substance use and other insane, antisocial behaviors.”
NOTE: Pathological behaviors or emotions are those which are not based in reason and which cannot be controlled by the person (that is, a persona) or persons experiencing them. Anything that is pathological involves a mental disease; hence, a psychopath is (1) a person suffering from a chronic mental disorder or multiple personality disorders or who is highly neurotic or psychotic; is (2) therefore, a person suffering from insanity; and is (3) a person who will at times exhibit abnormal or violent social behavior.
Many will want to criticize the behavior of members of a religion or sect that differs from their own, so nowadays ISIS is often cited as an example of “a bunch of religious psychopaths”; yet the President of the U.S. last week stirred up Christians nationwide and around the globe when he spoke at Thursday’s National Prayer Breakfast (an annual event organized by one of the most right-wing, fanatical Christian groups in the U.S.)
Addressing religiously-motivated conflict abroad, Obama reminded all that “Humanity has been grappling with these questions throughout human history. And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.”
He might also have mentioned that it was European Christians who killed 150,000,000 of the indigenous people when they invaded what they came to call “The Americas.”
Consider those actions as they relate to the definitions above:
a strong and harmful need to do something;
a persistent compulsive use of something (such as “genocide”) that is physically, psychologically, or socially harmful;
a chronic disease of brain reward and motivation;
psychological, social and spiritual manifestations, such as “a god who wants us to kill off others and expand his early kingdom”; and
psychopaths pursuing reward via insane, antisocial behaviors.
The reply to Obama: “That was then, not now,” yet there are Christian leaders in the U.S. who want to pass a law that says a woman who is going to die unless she has an abortion is just going to have to die.” The U.S. military issues rifles – which have been used to kill Muslims during the last decade – have etched into their metals parts references to Biblical verses.
[One of the citations on the gun sights, “2COR4:6,” is an apparent reference to Second Corinthians 4:6 of the New Testament, which reads: "For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ."]
The members of both sides in the on-going, religion-associated global conflicts are killing in the name of their god (which, by definition, involves totally pathological, insane behavior.]
All of the religious / spiritual insanity which has continued “throughout human history” and which still continues all around the globe, is a manifestation of the insanity which accompanies role-assumption and role-playing.
The reply heard here from many over the years: “But I am using my religion / spirituality for good, not for evil.”
The members of ISIS say the same. Those who killed 150,000,000 in “The Americas” said the same. Those who have killed in the name of one god or another for 5000 years all said the same. It’s all driven by the addiction that persons have to their false personality identifications, especially "the good ones."
So why do those trapped in those third step roles not want to abandon them? Because those roles are rooted in the most powerful addiction on the planet, the one which promises both present and eternal rewards.
(C) PSYCHOLOGICAL DEPENDENCY / UNHEALTHY ATTACHMENT
A Dependent personality disorder is characterized by “a long-standing need of a person to be taken care of and a fear of being abandoned or separated from important individuals in his or her life. This leads the person to engage in dependent and submissive behaviors that are designed to elicit care-giving behaviors in others.”
Whether persons / personas are attached to an identity of “The Lover” or “The Spouse” or “The Parent” or “The Patriot” or “The Super Religious One” or “The Spiritual Giant” or “The Super Seeker” or “The Supreme Self” or “The True Self” or “Brahman” or “The True Reality” or “THAT” or “That Which Is Divine,” those are still just identities and are identities which foster dependency and co-dependency.
A false identity cannot be assumed unless there is someone else or something else which can be used as the player of the counterpart role which every ego-state / false identity requires.
“The Lover” cannot exist in the mind of the one assuming that role unless someone else is willing to play the counterpart role of “Lover” and “The Spouse” cannot exist in the mind of the one assuming that role unless someone else is also willing to play the counterpart “Spouse” role.
The same applies to “The Parent” and “The Patriot” and “The Super Religious One” and “The Spiritual Giant” which require, respectively, “The Child,” “The Best Country on the Planet,” “A God and Fellow Congregants” and “A God and Fellow Spiritual Giants Who Can Observe the Gigantic Level of Spirituality Which Is On Display.”
Maharaj said in the end that
he was no longer interested even in The True Self
and that
Next to you spiritual giants, I am a spiritual pygmy.
The non-dual teachings invite persons to abandon all of the personality identifications which have been assigned or which they have assumed and to then move beyond the playing of all of the third-step roles which are deemed to be “really good ones.”
Additionally, the Nisarga Yoga, as Andy said, invites all to stop everything [that is, stop all of the role-playing] and then enjoy natural beingness.
Why will religious persons or spiritual persons or even the most ardent seekers of “the understanding of an Eastern philosophy” or “the Advaitin perspective” or “Eastern knowledge” or “a comprehension of non-duality” refuse to give up the false identities which they work so hard to sustain and just abide simply and naturally instead?
Because of perceived “risks”; because of an acute addiction to their roles and the perceived payoffs that those roles can supposedly bring; and because of an intense attachment to the dependencies and co-dependency which those roles foster.
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 five 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.
* * * * * *
SECTION TWO:
Other Recent Posts
6 February 2015
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
[You may scroll down to "Section Four" to find how to receive up to five, free eBooks which deal with a variety of non-dual topics]
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F.: From yesterday:
The experience here - after trying everything else first - was that the DIRECT PATH METHOD, if offered in combination with NISARGA YOGA, allows some to “get it” and start abiding naturally rather than unnaturally or “supernaturally.”
Yet few really want to be totally independent and totally free and thereby be done with all of their persona-inspired, never-ending religious work; or all of their persona-inspired, nonstop spiritual exercises; or all of their persona-inspired, incessant seeking. So it is.
What did Andy Gugar, Jr. share in regards to abiding “naturally” vs. abiding “unnaturally or supposedly supernaturally”? In his introduction to the free eBook “The Most Dangerous Belief of All,” he addressed that which causes the shift away from the natural and toward the unnatural and / or supposedly supernaturally:
(ON THE NATURAL VS. THE UNNATURAL)
Andy: The capacity for natural development exists at what persons call “birth,” yet at that point, no one is born into the mind. The mind is put into them, into that section of the brain where storing and retrieving happens.
That is natural, but what is put into the mind is most unnatural. The natural state goes away – that is, it becomes suppressed – when the contaminants of unnatural and supernatural beliefs are introduced.
Natural abidance happens spontaneously when the existence unfolds via the guidance received from a contamination-free brain, but unnatural or so-called supernatural abidance lead to nothing more than wishful thinking.
Fears and wishes are rooted in personality. Thinking is rooted in programming, conditioning, etc. There is nothing natural about wishing or thinking or wishful thinking.
What becomes hoped for has nothing to do with what is true. When driven by fears and wishes, one will be lost in the ignorance Maharaj referenced. When ignorance subsides, then blind faith will be seen as just another concept. At that point, you can report that You Are, and that’s it. STOP! End of conversation. So STOP!
Stop believing. Stop everything other than enjoying that natural beingness.
(ON THE NATURAL VS. THE SUPPOSEDLY “SUPERNATURAL,” a.k.a., "THE SPIRITUAL" or "THE RELIGIOUS")
Andy: Why will most not accept that invitation? Most are not willing to take what only seems to be “a risk.” Most are not willing to pay the price of the ticket to move beyond the third step where religious roles and / or spiritual roles (all rooted in blind faith) are played.
On the seven-step “path” which is taught here, the third step can include the roles of “The Super Religious One” and “The Spiritual Giant” and “The Greatest Seeker of All.” But no matter how much “better” those roles are thought to be when compared to other roles which have been played or which can be played, they are still just roles . . . are still just false identities.”
Beware. That third step will catch you; but it also can provide the opportunity to be free because if seekers see that they are playing those roles – and see that they are really just that, mere roles – then that third step can be transitioned.
It is a point of separation which can lead to a sense of unification, to the understanding of the unicity. To transition those roles is what separates those who really want to know the truth from those who do not.
The reason that so many years of fruitless searching ended when I went to Floyd’s the first time for a non-dual retreat was because a determination had been made before I arrived. The determination was that “I am so sick of living in fear and being robbed of happiness and freedom that I am now prepared to risk what had been called “my eternal soul.”
The way I explained it in some of the other books that Floyd and I have published together is this:
“I had reached a point where I felt as if I were going to pop right out of my skin from all of the suffering and misery and anxiety and stress that had characterized my existence.
“For me, it had to get so bad that I became willing and ready - ready to give up all of the ideas and beliefs that had served me not at all and to seek the Truth that was obviously beyond all of the concepts I had ever taken to be the truth.”
If those roles are abandoned as identities, then the idea of “a separate me” also comes to an end.
Floyd will share some pointers from Nietzsche. A quote from him has long seemed relevant to the topic is this one:
"‘Faith’ means the will to avoid knowing what is true.”
Indeed, having beliefs means not wanting to know what is true.
Best regards as you move along the steps on the “path” and complete “the journey” – the “seeking” – once and for all. – Andy Gugar, Jr.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
5 February 2015
The experience here - after trying everything else first - was that the DIRECT PATH METHOD, if offered in combination with NISARGA YOGA, allows some to “get it” and start abiding naturally rather than unnaturally or “supernaturally.”
Yet few really want to be totally independent and totally free and thereby be done with all of their persona-inspired, never-ending religious work; or all of their persona-inspired, nonstop spiritual exercises; or all of their persona-inspired, incessant seeking. So it is.
What did Andy Gugar, Jr. share in regards to abiding “naturally” vs. abiding “unnaturally or supposedly supernaturally”? In his introduction to the free eBook “The Most Dangerous Belief of All,” he addressed that which causes the shift away from the natural and toward the unnatural and / or supposedly supernaturally:
(ON THE NATURAL VS. THE UNNATURAL)
Andy: The capacity for natural development exists at what persons call “birth,” yet at that point, no one is born into the mind. The mind is put into them, into that section of the brain where storing and retrieving happens.
That is natural, but what is put into the mind is most unnatural. The natural state goes away – that is, it becomes suppressed – when the contaminants of unnatural and supernatural beliefs are introduced.
Natural abidance happens spontaneously when the existence unfolds via the guidance received from a contamination-free brain, but unnatural or so-called supernatural abidance lead to nothing more than wishful thinking.
Fears and wishes are rooted in personality. Thinking is rooted in programming, conditioning, etc. There is nothing natural about wishing or thinking or wishful thinking.
What becomes hoped for has nothing to do with what is true. When driven by fears and wishes, one will be lost in the ignorance Maharaj referenced. When ignorance subsides, then blind faith will be seen as just another concept. At that point, you can report that You Are, and that’s it. STOP! End of conversation. So STOP!
Stop believing. Stop everything other than enjoying that natural beingness.
(ON THE NATURAL VS. THE SUPPOSEDLY “SUPERNATURAL,” a.k.a., "THE SPIRITUAL" or "THE RELIGIOUS")
Andy: Why will most not accept that invitation? Most are not willing to take what only seems to be “a risk.” Most are not willing to pay the price of the ticket to move beyond the third step where religious roles and / or spiritual roles (all rooted in blind faith) are played.
On the seven-step “path” which is taught here, the third step can include the roles of “The Super Religious One” and “The Spiritual Giant” and “The Greatest Seeker of All.” But no matter how much “better” those roles are thought to be when compared to other roles which have been played or which can be played, they are still just roles . . . are still just false identities.”
Beware. That third step will catch you; but it also can provide the opportunity to be free because if seekers see that they are playing those roles – and see that they are really just that, mere roles – then that third step can be transitioned.
It is a point of separation which can lead to a sense of unification, to the understanding of the unicity. To transition those roles is what separates those who really want to know the truth from those who do not.
The reason that so many years of fruitless searching ended when I went to Floyd’s the first time for a non-dual retreat was because a determination had been made before I arrived. The determination was that “I am so sick of living in fear and being robbed of happiness and freedom that I am now prepared to risk what had been called “my eternal soul.”
The way I explained it in some of the other books that Floyd and I have published together is this:
“I had reached a point where I felt as if I were going to pop right out of my skin from all of the suffering and misery and anxiety and stress that had characterized my existence.
“For me, it had to get so bad that I became willing and ready - ready to give up all of the ideas and beliefs that had served me not at all and to seek the Truth that was obviously beyond all of the concepts I had ever taken to be the truth.”
If those roles are abandoned as identities, then the idea of “a separate me” also comes to an end.
Floyd will share some pointers from Nietzsche. A quote from him has long seemed relevant to the topic is this one:
"‘Faith’ means the will to avoid knowing what is true.”
Indeed, having beliefs means not wanting to know what is true.
Best regards as you move along the steps on the “path” and complete “the journey” – the “seeking” – once and for all. – Andy Gugar, Jr.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
5 February 2015
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
[You may scroll down to "Section Four" to find how to receive up to five, free eBooks which deal with a variety of non-dual topics]
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F.: To continue with the “All-Important” vs. the “Totally Unimportant” pointer. Yesterday, questions “A” and “B” were raised and discussed:
“A”: Why might the search for Realization be deemed “all-important,” relatively speaking, but only temporarily?
and
“B”: Why, post-Realization, should searching and seeking and religious and spiritual going and doing and zooming become totally unimportant?”
Today, “C” will be discussed: Why does that “seek / find / get well / then just abide naturally understanding” not come to most?
To review: there are six reasons why the non-Realized masses fail to reach that understanding and the subsequent peaceful, relaxed "state":
Reason #1: There’s a perceived payoff and “self-interests” which are driving the super religious, the super spiritual, and / or the super seekers.
Reason #2: Many are actually only seeking to escape reality; to dissociate from the relative existence and the responsibilities that it can require; to relocate mentally to a castle in the air; to move mentally into Foo-Foo Land; or to try to leave the AM-ness behind and abide as THAT alone.
Reason #3: Because of their programming and conditioning and acculturation and domestication and brainwashing and indoctrination.
Reason #4: Because 97% are locked into religious affiliations from childhood on; because millions more like to brag that they “are not religious” but are “spiritual instead”; and / or because the role of “The Super Seeker” cannot exist if she or he actually “finds,” so they’ll continue to seek for a lifetime.
Reason # 5: The hidden agendas and desires and fears of the multiple personalities which have been assigned or assumed.
Reason #6: The method of teaching which seekers happen upon. Why? Because most methods do not offer anything close to the “game plan” of the DIRECT PATH METHOD / NISARGA YOGA COMBINATION, specifically, “Get well mentally and emotionally; then, take it easy, relax, and abide naturally rather than forever working to live ‘supernaturally’ or ‘super-religiously’ or ‘super spiritually’.”
Specifically, if seekers happen to find the PSEUDO ADVAITA METHOD, then they will never Realize; if seekers happen to find the TRADITIONAL ADVAITA METHOD, then they can spend a lifetime learning Sanskrit and studying “special scriptures” and “seeking” and doing “spiritual work”;
if seekers happen to find NEO-VEDANTA METHOD, they can work forever at gathering new concepts and ego-states that prefer “sublime” or “exalted” or “lofty” content; and if seekers happen to find the NEO-ADVAITA METHOD, then they can spend a lifetime thinking they have attained the ultimate understanding though they have actually understood nothing but have avoided entirely the process required to truly understand and then to be truly free and abide naturally.
It will certainly not likely be admitted by those attached to any of those methods, but after having tried all of them, the result here was this:
not a one of them presented the teachings in a way that led to the “Aha! Moment”; not a one provided the final, search-ending flash of the peripetia; not a one ignited the gunpowder that finally blew away all of the blockages that had been built up via programming, conditioning, acculturation and domestication; not a one offered the Ultimate Medicine in a manner that finally brought to an end the misery of the Ultimate Sickness which had generated suffering for decades; and not a one made clear the means
(1) by which Full Realization of THAT could happen;
(2) by which the newly-restored sanity and the new-found clarity and the resulting wisdom could be overlaid on the remainder of the relative existence;
and
(3) by which there could come an ability to abide naturally and spontaneously and normally and steadily and Lovingly and simply and sanely and enjoyably throughout the remainder of the AM-ness.
The “journey” because an arduous one, and yes, there were years in the deepest pits of despair; and yes, there were years where the head was in the clouds and a parade of even-more-obnoxious-personas-than-before all came and went, including “The Super Religious One” and “The Spiritual Giant” and “The Lofty Thinker” and “The Supreme Self” and “The Infinite Self,” etc., etc., etc.
Even as talk of “the Oneness” happened, the fact is that there was a greater sense of separation while playing those roles than during any of the “darkest” days of the past. And part of that happened even after finding and exploring the many different “brands” of non-duality.
All of the talk of “the path” and “the journey” proved to be a disservice for it implied that there was “a path” that could be followed to an end which would allow one to “arrive” somewhere;
and all of that talk also suggested that, if I would but complete “the journey,” I would arrive at a destination which was “there” - well away from “this world” which had inspired a Type Four Personality (the type that accounts for only 1/2 of 1% of the earth's population) to feel quite the alien on this planet.
What was the missing element in the explanations and talks by all of those teachers - and by all of the Big Name Teachers - who talked of “the path” and “the journey”? What was missing was the key fact that there is not one passage that is to be completed but that there are actually three in total. Even if one wants to claim that there is but “one journey,” then it must be made clear that the journey has three legs.
And Maharaj's earliest statements (which were his only statements that were read originally) seemed to point to a two-leg “journey” when he said, “You should go back, reverse, to the source” and “Follow the same path by which you came.”
If one reads the eBook below entitled “Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj and His Evolution,” it becomes clear that his early emphasis was not solely on the ultimate “goal” of abiding naturally. The “totally unadulterated version of a purely nisarga message” came years later after he (a) first tried a partly-religious version of the Ultimate Medicine and abandoned that and after he (b) tried a spiritual version of the Ultimate Medicine and abandoned that.
So in the process of seeking via Advaita Vedanta, there was a fruitless search for “the exact path”; an unsuccessful search for the exact way to follow that “path”; a futile search for the means by which “the journey” could finally be completed once and for all; and an unproductive search for the way to reach the final destination of “the journey” and then be done with all of the work, once and for all.
It took a vision that came one afternoon while leaving the delta level of consciousness and entering into a theta state of consciousness to finally “break the code” being used by so many teachers and understand what the entire three-leg “journey” involves. The content of that vision made clear how it is that only one-leg of “the journey” will happen with the masses; how it is that far too many seekers are stopping after the second leg of the “journey” and being stuck at the third of seven steps to Full Realization;
made clear how an entire three-part “journey” must happen if one would Realize Fully; and made clear what happens after “the journey” is completed so that the remainder of the relative existence can happen in a not-insane, non-stupid, not-ignorant, non-fluctuating, non-chaotic, not-unstable, but totally steady and logical AS IF manner instead (abiding as if anything relative matters but knowing it does not).
That manner is marked by freedom and joy and peace as well as an ability to merely witness whatever events that the relative existence might toss one's way which might fall outside the categorization of “perfectly tranquil happenings.”
The eBook below entitled “Why NISARGA YOGA in addition to the ADVAITA TEACHINGS” discusses that manner of “AS IF living,” and shares what the relative existence can look like after Realization and after the third and final leg of “the journey” has been completed.
The experience here - after trying everything else first - was that the DIRECT PATH METHOD, if offered in combination with the NISARGA YOGA, allows some to “get it” and start abiding naturally rather than unnaturally or “supernaturally.”
Yet few really want to be totally independent and totally free, so most never really want to be freed from all of their persona-inspired, never-ending religious work; or from all of their persona-inspired, nonstop spiritual exercises; or from all of their persona-inspired, incessant seeking. So it is, but so it need not be.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
4 February 2015
“A”: Why might the search for Realization be deemed “all-important,” relatively speaking, but only temporarily?
and
“B”: Why, post-Realization, should searching and seeking and religious and spiritual going and doing and zooming become totally unimportant?”
Today, “C” will be discussed: Why does that “seek / find / get well / then just abide naturally understanding” not come to most?
To review: there are six reasons why the non-Realized masses fail to reach that understanding and the subsequent peaceful, relaxed "state":
Reason #1: There’s a perceived payoff and “self-interests” which are driving the super religious, the super spiritual, and / or the super seekers.
Reason #2: Many are actually only seeking to escape reality; to dissociate from the relative existence and the responsibilities that it can require; to relocate mentally to a castle in the air; to move mentally into Foo-Foo Land; or to try to leave the AM-ness behind and abide as THAT alone.
Reason #3: Because of their programming and conditioning and acculturation and domestication and brainwashing and indoctrination.
Reason #4: Because 97% are locked into religious affiliations from childhood on; because millions more like to brag that they “are not religious” but are “spiritual instead”; and / or because the role of “The Super Seeker” cannot exist if she or he actually “finds,” so they’ll continue to seek for a lifetime.
Reason # 5: The hidden agendas and desires and fears of the multiple personalities which have been assigned or assumed.
Reason #6: The method of teaching which seekers happen upon. Why? Because most methods do not offer anything close to the “game plan” of the DIRECT PATH METHOD / NISARGA YOGA COMBINATION, specifically, “Get well mentally and emotionally; then, take it easy, relax, and abide naturally rather than forever working to live ‘supernaturally’ or ‘super-religiously’ or ‘super spiritually’.”
Specifically, if seekers happen to find the PSEUDO ADVAITA METHOD, then they will never Realize; if seekers happen to find the TRADITIONAL ADVAITA METHOD, then they can spend a lifetime learning Sanskrit and studying “special scriptures” and “seeking” and doing “spiritual work”;
if seekers happen to find NEO-VEDANTA METHOD, they can work forever at gathering new concepts and ego-states that prefer “sublime” or “exalted” or “lofty” content; and if seekers happen to find the NEO-ADVAITA METHOD, then they can spend a lifetime thinking they have attained the ultimate understanding though they have actually understood nothing but have avoided entirely the process required to truly understand and then to be truly free and abide naturally.
It will certainly not likely be admitted by those attached to any of those methods, but after having tried all of them, the result here was this:
not a one of them presented the teachings in a way that led to the “Aha! Moment”; not a one provided the final, search-ending flash of the peripetia; not a one ignited the gunpowder that finally blew away all of the blockages that had been built up via programming, conditioning, acculturation and domestication; not a one offered the Ultimate Medicine in a manner that finally brought to an end the misery of the Ultimate Sickness which had generated suffering for decades; and not a one made clear the means
(1) by which Full Realization of THAT could happen;
(2) by which the newly-restored sanity and the new-found clarity and the resulting wisdom could be overlaid on the remainder of the relative existence;
and
(3) by which there could come an ability to abide naturally and spontaneously and normally and steadily and Lovingly and simply and sanely and enjoyably throughout the remainder of the AM-ness.
The “journey” because an arduous one, and yes, there were years in the deepest pits of despair; and yes, there were years where the head was in the clouds and a parade of even-more-obnoxious-personas-than-before all came and went, including “The Super Religious One” and “The Spiritual Giant” and “The Lofty Thinker” and “The Supreme Self” and “The Infinite Self,” etc., etc., etc.
Even as talk of “the Oneness” happened, the fact is that there was a greater sense of separation while playing those roles than during any of the “darkest” days of the past. And part of that happened even after finding and exploring the many different “brands” of non-duality.
All of the talk of “the path” and “the journey” proved to be a disservice for it implied that there was “a path” that could be followed to an end which would allow one to “arrive” somewhere;
and all of that talk also suggested that, if I would but complete “the journey,” I would arrive at a destination which was “there” - well away from “this world” which had inspired a Type Four Personality (the type that accounts for only 1/2 of 1% of the earth's population) to feel quite the alien on this planet.
What was the missing element in the explanations and talks by all of those teachers - and by all of the Big Name Teachers - who talked of “the path” and “the journey”? What was missing was the key fact that there is not one passage that is to be completed but that there are actually three in total. Even if one wants to claim that there is but “one journey,” then it must be made clear that the journey has three legs.
And Maharaj's earliest statements (which were his only statements that were read originally) seemed to point to a two-leg “journey” when he said, “You should go back, reverse, to the source” and “Follow the same path by which you came.”
If one reads the eBook below entitled “Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj and His Evolution,” it becomes clear that his early emphasis was not solely on the ultimate “goal” of abiding naturally. The “totally unadulterated version of a purely nisarga message” came years later after he (a) first tried a partly-religious version of the Ultimate Medicine and abandoned that and after he (b) tried a spiritual version of the Ultimate Medicine and abandoned that.
So in the process of seeking via Advaita Vedanta, there was a fruitless search for “the exact path”; an unsuccessful search for the exact way to follow that “path”; a futile search for the means by which “the journey” could finally be completed once and for all; and an unproductive search for the way to reach the final destination of “the journey” and then be done with all of the work, once and for all.
It took a vision that came one afternoon while leaving the delta level of consciousness and entering into a theta state of consciousness to finally “break the code” being used by so many teachers and understand what the entire three-leg “journey” involves. The content of that vision made clear how it is that only one-leg of “the journey” will happen with the masses; how it is that far too many seekers are stopping after the second leg of the “journey” and being stuck at the third of seven steps to Full Realization;
made clear how an entire three-part “journey” must happen if one would Realize Fully; and made clear what happens after “the journey” is completed so that the remainder of the relative existence can happen in a not-insane, non-stupid, not-ignorant, non-fluctuating, non-chaotic, not-unstable, but totally steady and logical AS IF manner instead (abiding as if anything relative matters but knowing it does not).
That manner is marked by freedom and joy and peace as well as an ability to merely witness whatever events that the relative existence might toss one's way which might fall outside the categorization of “perfectly tranquil happenings.”
The eBook below entitled “Why NISARGA YOGA in addition to the ADVAITA TEACHINGS” discusses that manner of “AS IF living,” and shares what the relative existence can look like after Realization and after the third and final leg of “the journey” has been completed.
The experience here - after trying everything else first - was that the DIRECT PATH METHOD, if offered in combination with the NISARGA YOGA, allows some to “get it” and start abiding naturally rather than unnaturally or “supernaturally.”
Yet few really want to be totally independent and totally free, so most never really want to be freed from all of their persona-inspired, never-ending religious work; or from all of their persona-inspired, nonstop spiritual exercises; or from all of their persona-inspired, incessant seeking. So it is, but so it need not be.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
4 February 2015
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
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F.: Now to the “All-Important” vs. the “Totally Unimportant” point. You are invited to consider these three questions:
(A) Why might the search for Realization be deemed “all-important,” relatively speaking, but only temporarily?
(B) Why, post-Realization, should searching and seeking and religious and spiritual going and doing and zooming become totally unimportant?
(C) And why does understanding come to only a few, “including non-dual seekers”?
The answer to “A” (“Why might the search for Realization be deemed “all-important,” relatively speaking, but only temporarily?”) is this:
Because the only real justification for seeking and searching and for religious or spiritual doingness is to be freed from the symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness, a dis-ease which is rooted in learned ignorance and personality disorders and which generates various degrees of insanity, a fact which calls for a restoration to sanity which would allow the Realized to then be able to abide in a simple, light, easy, natural manner.
So, imagine one has an infection that requires a round of antibiotics. If that round of antibiotics ends the infection, would it make any sense for that person to stay on antibiotics for the entire remainder of the relative existence? Similarly, a properly-conducted search should end in wellness and thereby end searching and seeking and religious and spiritual doingness.
If the proper form of the Ultimate Medicine is used, then the Ultimate Sickness (which is a mental-emotional Sickness, not a “too-little-religion illness” or a “spiritual sickness”) will end and the need for constant, continuing treatment is no longer a necessity.
Relatively speaking, if an infection exists, then treatment becomes all-important; once wellness is restored, then neither the infection nor the treatment of that infection requires so much as another, single second of attention. It's all seen to be totally unimportant.
To be driven to take antibiotics forever because one had an infection in the past which was cured would be insane. So, too, would it be insane to continue to seek sanity if sanity has been restored. In fact, that would be impossible, would it not? Sane persons know they are sane (meaning they would not seek sanity). The real problem? Insane persons often do not know that they are insane (meaning they will likely never seek sanity).
Another key point: usually, the insane were sane originally, prior to having been programmed, conditioned, acculturated, domesticated, brainwashed and indoctrinated. Having once been sane, they can be restored to that state of sanity; however, few will ever reach that state again, so they will continue to search and seek and attach to their religion or become addicted to their newly-found spirituality and its prescribed spiritual exercises and practices and doingness.
If, during their searching, they happen to attain the Nisarga understanding, then they will spontaneously begin to abide spontaneously and normally and naturally and freely and lightly. If not, then extra, needless work will likely happen for a lifetime.
Yet the invitation to abide in a nisarga / natural manner will appear to be very strange to those who are trying to follow a knowledge path, a worship path, an action path, or a service path. They will usually reject this natural manner of abidance outright, being unable to relate in even the slightest way to a normal, natural, free, and relaxed manner of living. So it is.
Next, the answer to “B” (“Why, post-Realization, should searching and seeking and religious and spiritual going and doing and zooming become totally unimportant?”) is this: Because the Ultimate Sickness is a mental-emotional sickness. The mental sickness is eliminated via completion of all of the steps required to reach a state of Realization (that is, sanity and understanding and peace) and the emotional component of the sickness ends when personality identification ends (because it is the hidden agendas of each personality which generate emotional intoxication).
[But this is a typical response: “You don’t have a clue what you’re talking about. Realization is about realizing ‘Who I Am’ and knowing ‘THAT’ and abiding as ‘That’ alone!”]
Actually, that's not the case at all.
Maharaj said: “See that you are not what you believe yourself to be”
and
“It is enough to know what you are not. You need not know what you are.”
See? Sanity is about being able to differentiate between the true and the false. It is about taking that Realization and overlaying it on the relative existence in order to abide in a “mentally-and-emotionally”-healthy manner for the remainder of the manifestation.
To ignore one-half of the summative statement of non-duality (that is, to ignore the “I AM” part of “I AM THAT; I AM”) is to be left with a 50% understanding of the non-dual teachings.
Anything dealing with the post-manifestation period will take care of itself automatically. Besides, all that will involve is this:
the elements of the composite unity which make up the elemental plant food body will return automatically to the universal pool of elements; the air being circulated through the elemental plant food body will be released into the universal pool of air; and the conscious-energy which circulated through the elemental plant food body will be released into the universal pool of conscious-energy.
End of story. That should eliminate any concern with the THAT part; on the other hand, you must address the issues involving the I AM part, now.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
3 February 2015
(A) Why might the search for Realization be deemed “all-important,” relatively speaking, but only temporarily?
(B) Why, post-Realization, should searching and seeking and religious and spiritual going and doing and zooming become totally unimportant?
(C) And why does understanding come to only a few, “including non-dual seekers”?
The answer to “A” (“Why might the search for Realization be deemed “all-important,” relatively speaking, but only temporarily?”) is this:
Because the only real justification for seeking and searching and for religious or spiritual doingness is to be freed from the symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness, a dis-ease which is rooted in learned ignorance and personality disorders and which generates various degrees of insanity, a fact which calls for a restoration to sanity which would allow the Realized to then be able to abide in a simple, light, easy, natural manner.
So, imagine one has an infection that requires a round of antibiotics. If that round of antibiotics ends the infection, would it make any sense for that person to stay on antibiotics for the entire remainder of the relative existence? Similarly, a properly-conducted search should end in wellness and thereby end searching and seeking and religious and spiritual doingness.
If the proper form of the Ultimate Medicine is used, then the Ultimate Sickness (which is a mental-emotional Sickness, not a “too-little-religion illness” or a “spiritual sickness”) will end and the need for constant, continuing treatment is no longer a necessity.
Relatively speaking, if an infection exists, then treatment becomes all-important; once wellness is restored, then neither the infection nor the treatment of that infection requires so much as another, single second of attention. It's all seen to be totally unimportant.
To be driven to take antibiotics forever because one had an infection in the past which was cured would be insane. So, too, would it be insane to continue to seek sanity if sanity has been restored. In fact, that would be impossible, would it not? Sane persons know they are sane (meaning they would not seek sanity). The real problem? Insane persons often do not know that they are insane (meaning they will likely never seek sanity).
Another key point: usually, the insane were sane originally, prior to having been programmed, conditioned, acculturated, domesticated, brainwashed and indoctrinated. Having once been sane, they can be restored to that state of sanity; however, few will ever reach that state again, so they will continue to search and seek and attach to their religion or become addicted to their newly-found spirituality and its prescribed spiritual exercises and practices and doingness.
If, during their searching, they happen to attain the Nisarga understanding, then they will spontaneously begin to abide spontaneously and normally and naturally and freely and lightly. If not, then extra, needless work will likely happen for a lifetime.
Yet the invitation to abide in a nisarga / natural manner will appear to be very strange to those who are trying to follow a knowledge path, a worship path, an action path, or a service path. They will usually reject this natural manner of abidance outright, being unable to relate in even the slightest way to a normal, natural, free, and relaxed manner of living. So it is.
Next, the answer to “B” (“Why, post-Realization, should searching and seeking and religious and spiritual going and doing and zooming become totally unimportant?”) is this: Because the Ultimate Sickness is a mental-emotional sickness. The mental sickness is eliminated via completion of all of the steps required to reach a state of Realization (that is, sanity and understanding and peace) and the emotional component of the sickness ends when personality identification ends (because it is the hidden agendas of each personality which generate emotional intoxication).
[But this is a typical response: “You don’t have a clue what you’re talking about. Realization is about realizing ‘Who I Am’ and knowing ‘THAT’ and abiding as ‘That’ alone!”]
Actually, that's not the case at all.
Maharaj said: “See that you are not what you believe yourself to be”
and
“It is enough to know what you are not. You need not know what you are.”
See? Sanity is about being able to differentiate between the true and the false. It is about taking that Realization and overlaying it on the relative existence in order to abide in a “mentally-and-emotionally”-healthy manner for the remainder of the manifestation.
To ignore one-half of the summative statement of non-duality (that is, to ignore the “I AM” part of “I AM THAT; I AM”) is to be left with a 50% understanding of the non-dual teachings.
Anything dealing with the post-manifestation period will take care of itself automatically. Besides, all that will involve is this:
the elements of the composite unity which make up the elemental plant food body will return automatically to the universal pool of elements; the air being circulated through the elemental plant food body will be released into the universal pool of air; and the conscious-energy which circulated through the elemental plant food body will be released into the universal pool of conscious-energy.
End of story. That should eliminate any concern with the THAT part; on the other hand, you must address the issues involving the I AM part, now.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
3 February 2015
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
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F.: The focus now is on the reasons why most
A. will never take the necessary steps to be freed from all learned ignorance, to be restored to sanity, and to abide thereafter in a simple, light, easy, natural manner
and
B. will never Realize (that is, be freed from the key symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness which Maharaj identified as “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity”) and then merely abide naturally rather than taking on a second religious or spiritual job for their entire existence
and
C. will never seek only the simplicity and joy of abiding naturally rather than unnaturally or “supernaturally”
and
D. are never freed from all encumbrances; cannot just take it easy; cannot relax and just live; cannot lose their excess seriousness; and cannot simply “Dance Lightly” for the remainder of the manifestation
and
E. finally stop all of the seeking and / or religious work and / or spiritual work and then just abide naturally and sanely and reasonably and wisely and freely and then live simply instead of warping what could be a near-effortless, spontaneous existence which can be supported by one job into a second, arduous, time-consuming, supposedly-all-important religious or spiritual job.
To review: there are six reasons why none of that is happening among the non-Realized masses.
Reason #1:
There’s a perceived payoff and / or “self–interests at stake and / or “personal” desires and fears” which are subconsciously driving them.
Reason #2:
Some are actually only seeking to escape reality and to dissociate from the relative existence and the responsibilities that it can require. (From the free eBook “The Most Dangerous Belief of All”: “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’.”)
Reason #3:
Because of their early programming and conditioning, which set persons up to accept something less than any human deserves and which sets persons up to normalize the abnormal and inspires them, to believe such concepts as “suffering now is to be accepted, knowing an eternal reward awaits if I do so.”
Reason #4:
Affiliations and ego-assumption and the egotism which always manifests shortly after each and every ego-state is assumed as an identity, thus, ninety-seven percent of the people on the planet are affiliated with one religion or another and millions more brag that they “are not religious” but are “spiritual instead.” Then there are those involved with Eastern philosophies who assume the role of “The Super Seeker” and love playing out that role for their entire manifestation.
Reason #5:
The method of teaching which they happened to find (or more often just stumbled across):
The DIRECT PATH METHOD - if offered in combination with NISARGA YOGA – allows some to “get it” and start abiding naturally rather than unnaturally or “supernaturally.”
If seekers happen to find the PSEUDO ADVAITA METHOD, then they will never Realize.
If seekers happen to find the TRADITIONAL ADVAITA METHOD, then they, too, might spend a lifetime working at learning Sanskrit and studying the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita and the Brahma Suttras and focusing as much on “scriptures” and “seeking” and “spiritual work.”
If seekers happen to find NEO-VEDANTA METHOD, they, too, can work forever at gathering new concepts and ego-states who prefer sublime or exalted or lofty content.
If seekers happen to find the NEO-ADVAITA METHOD, then they can spend a lifetime thinking they have attained the ultimate understanding though – in most cases - they have actually understood nothing but have avoided entirely the process required to truly understand and then to be truly free and abide naturally.
And REASON #6:
There are nine basic personality types which subconsciously determine the thoughts and words and behaviors of every non-Realized human, and there is some correlation between the personality types of non-dual seekers and religious and spiritual persons and how their seeking unfolds.
For most of them, their quest and searching and accumulating and their spiritual doingness and religious activities or super-seeking will be considered a mandatory, never-ending, lifetime chore. Why? To summarize and review:
PERSONALITY TYPE ONES (Perfectionistic Reformers): Usually OCD; excessive about everything; concerned with right vs. wrong; concerned with reforming all people to believe as they believe. Their seeking or religious or spiritual beliefs will forever be considered all-important, so their seeking will be a never-ending task.
PERSONALITY TYPE TWOS (Rescuers, Saviors, Helpers): Type Twos people pleasing, “love” seekers. With 97% of the people on the planet claiming a religious affiliation and with millions more claiming to be spiritual, what better way to make everyone love you than to present oneself as being “religious” and / or “spiritual”? They never find enough love, so their efforts are for a lifetime.
PERSONALITY TYPE THREES (Performers, Image Makers): Their desire is to gain admiration and respect and esteem and high regard. With 97% of the people on the planet claiming a religious affiliation and with millions more claiming to be spiritual, what better way to make everyone admire you than to constantly play the role of “The Super Seeker,” “The Super Religious One,” and / or “The Spiritual Giant” everywhere you go?
PERSONALITY TYPE FOURS (Seekers of Authenticity or Romanticists and Escapists): If they can move beyond the preoccupation with “being different” and “escaping,” then it is possible for an understanding of the unicity to manifest; otherwise, the “quest” can become a permanent fixture in the life of this personality type as well.
PERSONALITY TYPE FIVES (Knowers, Thinkers, “Experts”): Fives are driven to know it all and believe that “knowledge is power”; thus, they will forever be involved with knowledge accumulation. Their sense of a “spiritual path” is one which leads to true omniscience, so they are likely to work forever in order to maintain their image of “The Omniscient One” . . . “The All-Knowing One” . . . “The God-Like One.”
PERSONALITY TYPE SIXES (“Loyalists,” “Dependents,” “Co-Dependents,” “Seekers of Caretakers”): Sixes are dependent and co-dependent and driven by extreme fears, anxieties, and phobias; thus, they are forever seeking someone or something to care for them. With their quest for powerful caretakers of all sorts, including sources of power in the relative realm as well as “sources of power in religious, spiritual, and otherworldly realms,” their quest seldom ever ends.
PERSONALITY TYPE SEVENS: (The Adventurer, The Risk Taker, The Pain and Reality Avoider, The Epicurean Fun-Seeker, and often, The Addictive One):
If a Seven were to follow a “path,” it would be “the Path of Festivity,” yet few Sevens seek anything except fun and escapism and the avoidance of reality. Because seeking is seen to be “too serious” and “too little fun,” Sevens are unlikely to ever follow a “path” to its end and Realize Fully.
The “Catch-22,” the irony around all of this: it is personality that generates much of the misery and suffering of humanity, but their various personalities are the very thing that prevent being free from those misery-and-suffering-generating personality identifications.
PERSONALITY TYPE EIGHTS: (The Control Freak,” “The Confrontational One,” “The Controlling One,” “The Bossy One,” “The Abused One Who Have Become An Abusers,” “The Power-Hungry, Dominating One”): For Type Eights, everything must be a tool that can provide them with more power and control. If involved with seeking or religion or spiritual, they are driven by their selfish motive: they want every type of power that “this world” can provide (physical, emotional, psychological, financial, sexual, spiritual, whatever).
The Realized understand that “power” and “Power” are both merely concepts, but type Eights are attached to those concepts, usually for their entire relative existence.
Today, the correlation between PERSONALITY TYPE NINE and seeking and / or attachment to religious work or spiritual seeking and working will be discussed.
PERSONALITY TYPE NINES play the roles of “The Often-Too-Easygoing One,” “The Excessively-Accommodating One,” “The Agreeable, Complacent Abdicator Who Can Be Passive at One Moment and Aggressive at Another,” and “The Avoider.”
Some call Type Nines “The Peacemaker,” but that does not really apply. Though they deny their anger, they are loaded with all kinds of resentments and with anger that is both repressed and denied (often as a result of their high levels of dissociation). That inspires them at times to behave in a volcanic fashion, supposedly at peace before the pressure inside builds up and then they explode. On those occasions, they can be as brutal as any sociopathic Type Eight.
Instead of “The Peacemaker,” Nines might be called more accurately “The Peacekeeper” as long as it is clear that the only peace which they are really concerned with is their own. Their often-subconscious, underlying motivation is to achieve and maintain "peace of mind." The Realized understand the fallacy of that desire:
Maharaj: “There is no such thing as peace of mind.” The title of one eBook below reflects that pointer: THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS “PEACE OF MIND” (There’s Only Peace if You Are Out of Your Mind).
One common “version” of the Nine which consistently appears with that personality type is “The Divine Nine.” Often Nines become absorbed in "spiritual work" or "recovery programs" or "Far Eastern studies" or "religious work."
They see themselves as being "more peaceful" than most, though their actual agenda is to avoid confrontation or even engagement and communicating at all costs in order to maintain their own inner peace (which is really non-existence but that is so believed in that it is taken to be an unquestionable truth). In the case of "The Divine Nine," that role is a product of form over substance.
Attached as they are to their public image of “The Calm One” and “The Ones Who Are So Spiritual That They Are the Epitome of Peace and Tranquility,” they will play out in public that persona’s supposed serenity. What happens behind closed doors is an entirely different situation.
With such attachment to their public persona of “The Super Peaceful One” or “The Spiritual Giant,” it is not likely that they will ever follow a “path” to Full Realization and then stop all the spiritual going and doing and zooming and abide naturally and simply.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
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A. will never take the necessary steps to be freed from all learned ignorance, to be restored to sanity, and to abide thereafter in a simple, light, easy, natural manner
and
B. will never Realize (that is, be freed from the key symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness which Maharaj identified as “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity”) and then merely abide naturally rather than taking on a second religious or spiritual job for their entire existence
and
C. will never seek only the simplicity and joy of abiding naturally rather than unnaturally or “supernaturally”
and
D. are never freed from all encumbrances; cannot just take it easy; cannot relax and just live; cannot lose their excess seriousness; and cannot simply “Dance Lightly” for the remainder of the manifestation
and
E. finally stop all of the seeking and / or religious work and / or spiritual work and then just abide naturally and sanely and reasonably and wisely and freely and then live simply instead of warping what could be a near-effortless, spontaneous existence which can be supported by one job into a second, arduous, time-consuming, supposedly-all-important religious or spiritual job.
To review: there are six reasons why none of that is happening among the non-Realized masses.
Reason #1:
There’s a perceived payoff and / or “self–interests at stake and / or “personal” desires and fears” which are subconsciously driving them.
Reason #2:
Some are actually only seeking to escape reality and to dissociate from the relative existence and the responsibilities that it can require. (From the free eBook “The Most Dangerous Belief of All”: “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’.”)
Reason #3:
Because of their early programming and conditioning, which set persons up to accept something less than any human deserves and which sets persons up to normalize the abnormal and inspires them, to believe such concepts as “suffering now is to be accepted, knowing an eternal reward awaits if I do so.”
Reason #4:
Affiliations and ego-assumption and the egotism which always manifests shortly after each and every ego-state is assumed as an identity, thus, ninety-seven percent of the people on the planet are affiliated with one religion or another and millions more brag that they “are not religious” but are “spiritual instead.” Then there are those involved with Eastern philosophies who assume the role of “The Super Seeker” and love playing out that role for their entire manifestation.
Reason #5:
The method of teaching which they happened to find (or more often just stumbled across):
The DIRECT PATH METHOD - if offered in combination with NISARGA YOGA – allows some to “get it” and start abiding naturally rather than unnaturally or “supernaturally.”
If seekers happen to find the PSEUDO ADVAITA METHOD, then they will never Realize.
If seekers happen to find the TRADITIONAL ADVAITA METHOD, then they, too, might spend a lifetime working at learning Sanskrit and studying the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita and the Brahma Suttras and focusing as much on “scriptures” and “seeking” and “spiritual work.”
If seekers happen to find NEO-VEDANTA METHOD, they, too, can work forever at gathering new concepts and ego-states who prefer sublime or exalted or lofty content.
If seekers happen to find the NEO-ADVAITA METHOD, then they can spend a lifetime thinking they have attained the ultimate understanding though – in most cases - they have actually understood nothing but have avoided entirely the process required to truly understand and then to be truly free and abide naturally.
And REASON #6:
There are nine basic personality types which subconsciously determine the thoughts and words and behaviors of every non-Realized human, and there is some correlation between the personality types of non-dual seekers and religious and spiritual persons and how their seeking unfolds.
For most of them, their quest and searching and accumulating and their spiritual doingness and religious activities or super-seeking will be considered a mandatory, never-ending, lifetime chore. Why? To summarize and review:
PERSONALITY TYPE ONES (Perfectionistic Reformers): Usually OCD; excessive about everything; concerned with right vs. wrong; concerned with reforming all people to believe as they believe. Their seeking or religious or spiritual beliefs will forever be considered all-important, so their seeking will be a never-ending task.
PERSONALITY TYPE TWOS (Rescuers, Saviors, Helpers): Type Twos people pleasing, “love” seekers. With 97% of the people on the planet claiming a religious affiliation and with millions more claiming to be spiritual, what better way to make everyone love you than to present oneself as being “religious” and / or “spiritual”? They never find enough love, so their efforts are for a lifetime.
PERSONALITY TYPE THREES (Performers, Image Makers): Their desire is to gain admiration and respect and esteem and high regard. With 97% of the people on the planet claiming a religious affiliation and with millions more claiming to be spiritual, what better way to make everyone admire you than to constantly play the role of “The Super Seeker,” “The Super Religious One,” and / or “The Spiritual Giant” everywhere you go?
PERSONALITY TYPE FOURS (Seekers of Authenticity or Romanticists and Escapists): If they can move beyond the preoccupation with “being different” and “escaping,” then it is possible for an understanding of the unicity to manifest; otherwise, the “quest” can become a permanent fixture in the life of this personality type as well.
PERSONALITY TYPE FIVES (Knowers, Thinkers, “Experts”): Fives are driven to know it all and believe that “knowledge is power”; thus, they will forever be involved with knowledge accumulation. Their sense of a “spiritual path” is one which leads to true omniscience, so they are likely to work forever in order to maintain their image of “The Omniscient One” . . . “The All-Knowing One” . . . “The God-Like One.”
PERSONALITY TYPE SIXES (“Loyalists,” “Dependents,” “Co-Dependents,” “Seekers of Caretakers”): Sixes are dependent and co-dependent and driven by extreme fears, anxieties, and phobias; thus, they are forever seeking someone or something to care for them. With their quest for powerful caretakers of all sorts, including sources of power in the relative realm as well as “sources of power in religious, spiritual, and otherworldly realms,” their quest seldom ever ends.
PERSONALITY TYPE SEVENS: (The Adventurer, The Risk Taker, The Pain and Reality Avoider, The Epicurean Fun-Seeker, and often, The Addictive One):
If a Seven were to follow a “path,” it would be “the Path of Festivity,” yet few Sevens seek anything except fun and escapism and the avoidance of reality. Because seeking is seen to be “too serious” and “too little fun,” Sevens are unlikely to ever follow a “path” to its end and Realize Fully.
The “Catch-22,” the irony around all of this: it is personality that generates much of the misery and suffering of humanity, but their various personalities are the very thing that prevent being free from those misery-and-suffering-generating personality identifications.
PERSONALITY TYPE EIGHTS: (The Control Freak,” “The Confrontational One,” “The Controlling One,” “The Bossy One,” “The Abused One Who Have Become An Abusers,” “The Power-Hungry, Dominating One”): For Type Eights, everything must be a tool that can provide them with more power and control. If involved with seeking or religion or spiritual, they are driven by their selfish motive: they want every type of power that “this world” can provide (physical, emotional, psychological, financial, sexual, spiritual, whatever).
The Realized understand that “power” and “Power” are both merely concepts, but type Eights are attached to those concepts, usually for their entire relative existence.
Today, the correlation between PERSONALITY TYPE NINE and seeking and / or attachment to religious work or spiritual seeking and working will be discussed.
PERSONALITY TYPE NINES play the roles of “The Often-Too-Easygoing One,” “The Excessively-Accommodating One,” “The Agreeable, Complacent Abdicator Who Can Be Passive at One Moment and Aggressive at Another,” and “The Avoider.”
Some call Type Nines “The Peacemaker,” but that does not really apply. Though they deny their anger, they are loaded with all kinds of resentments and with anger that is both repressed and denied (often as a result of their high levels of dissociation). That inspires them at times to behave in a volcanic fashion, supposedly at peace before the pressure inside builds up and then they explode. On those occasions, they can be as brutal as any sociopathic Type Eight.
Instead of “The Peacemaker,” Nines might be called more accurately “The Peacekeeper” as long as it is clear that the only peace which they are really concerned with is their own. Their often-subconscious, underlying motivation is to achieve and maintain "peace of mind." The Realized understand the fallacy of that desire:
Maharaj: “There is no such thing as peace of mind.” The title of one eBook below reflects that pointer: THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS “PEACE OF MIND” (There’s Only Peace if You Are Out of Your Mind).
One common “version” of the Nine which consistently appears with that personality type is “The Divine Nine.” Often Nines become absorbed in "spiritual work" or "recovery programs" or "Far Eastern studies" or "religious work."
They see themselves as being "more peaceful" than most, though their actual agenda is to avoid confrontation or even engagement and communicating at all costs in order to maintain their own inner peace (which is really non-existence but that is so believed in that it is taken to be an unquestionable truth). In the case of "The Divine Nine," that role is a product of form over substance.
Attached as they are to their public image of “The Calm One” and “The Ones Who Are So Spiritual That They Are the Epitome of Peace and Tranquility,” they will play out in public that persona’s supposed serenity. What happens behind closed doors is an entirely different situation.
With such attachment to their public persona of “The Super Peaceful One” or “The Spiritual Giant,” it is not likely that they will ever follow a “path” to Full Realization and then stop all the spiritual going and doing and zooming and abide naturally and simply.
To be continued.
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They are already abiding in the manner in which these teachings are intended to allow you to abide.
You can “get that” and be done once and for with all of the going and doing and zooming and “personal doer” stuff and then enjoy the relative. Or, you can continue to be driven by perverted programming which tells you that you must make a second job out of living, such as the supposed job of preparing for “the afterlife” or to working to avoid a "recycling" or some such - all of which is total nonsense.
As a composite unity of plant food elements which are circulating air and which is temporarily cycling a form of energy called “consciousness” - what will happen is this: at some point, the elements will return to the universal pool of elements; the final breath will be exhaled and the air will be released into the universal pool of air; and the consciousness will eventually be released from every cell and return to the universal pool of conscious-energy.
End of story. There is no reward or punishment later; there is no "rebirth" because there is no birth at all; there is no “getting sane” later and reaping the benefit later; there is merely . . . NOW. And that is all which can be enjoyed.
If interested, the process awaits, but the readiness is all.
To be continued.
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F.: Of all of the teachings offered by Maharaj as his message evolved over the decades and as there was a shift from (1) a religious / spiritual combination message to (2) a spiritual message to (2) a non-religious, non-spiritual, entirely Nisargan message, it is likely that no teaching was as unpopular as the one in this series.
In its simplest form, the message is this:
There is an Ultimate Sickness that is the cause of the problems of humanity.
The Sickness has nothing to do with persons failing to be religious enough (and, in fact, it is excessive dogma and religious beliefs which are major contributors to the Sickness).
The Sickness has nothing to do with a “spiritual malady.”
The Sickness is a mental Sickness.
As with women, none can be “a little pregnant.” One is either pregnant or not pregnant; similarly, to use Maharaj’s words which identified some of the key symptoms of the Sickness, no one can be driven by a little “ignorance” or “a little insanity.”
“Full” Realization means that one has been freed from all learned ignorance and freed from all insanity. To that end, if one is “well,” why keep going back to the doctor? Only because one or more newly-assumed, supposedly “good,” false identifications which have been adopted and which involve the Sickness and the search for the Ultimate Medicine.
Wellness has become secondary to the search for wellness. Sane? Or insane?
Yet if one has found the Ultimate Medicine and have been freed from the Ultimate Sickness and its effects, how insane would it be to keep looking for the Medicine?
Of course most are never de-programmed but are constantly being re-programmed instead, so the message transmitted by the new programming is this: "You are never cured . . . you will never be done . . . and even if you find what you have been searching for and it has made you well, then you must still continue with the daily meetings and daily exercises and daily work in order to maintain you’re never found relief."
Again, that’s sheer nonsense . . . just more insanity. If one has truly been restored to sanity - and thus refuses now and forevermore all of the types of programming and conditioning and brainwashing, etc. which caused the Ultimate sickness to start with - then the Ultimate Sickness cannot be contracted again.
The Ultimate (Mental) Sickness is like many physical illnesses in an important way. Consider: though there is a new concern about an increase in the cases of the measles in the U.S., those who were exposed to the measles earlier are now immune. Having been exposed to - or having contracted - measles earlier, the body now has an immunity which lasts for the remainder of the manifestation.
Similarly, if persons contracted the Ultimate Sickness because they were exposed earlier to insane programming and ignorant conditioning and bizarre brainwashing – as all are – but then truly become free of the it symptoms via use of the Ultimate Medicine, then they are immune to the Sickness.
Once the Nisargan understanding had truly freed Maharaj of all of the effects of his earlier exposure to insane programming and ignorant conditioning and bizarre brainwashing, he was immune to the effects of those for the remainder of the manifestation.
He was not – in the end – “mostly sane”; nor was he occasionally “a little insane.” He was done. No more seeking happened. Same here. Yet persons who just don’t “get it” still recommend the latest non-dual book they just came across; persons still send non-dual magazines; persons still share what was said by this teacher or that teacher whom they just found. That’s all useless.
Here, there is no more seeking, no more searching, no more needs beyond what happens to meet the basic food-clothing-shelter requirements of the relative existence.
With the Nisargan understanding, freedom from learned ignorance and a lack of wellness and insanity have come, so the seeking of knowledge and wellness and sanity has ended.
Over. Complete. Done.
And that is what the teaching being discussed in this series is about: it is about using the Ultimate Medicine to become free of the effects of a most unnatural illness and then abide naturally . . . normally . . . wisely . . . intuitively . . . and spontaneously.
That is what happens with each among the millions upon millions of life-forms on planet earth, with one exception: humanity.
Yet so many say, “Floyd, my life would not be as blessed if I not do this or that every day or every week” or “if I did not visit the special places on the planet” or “if I did not go to meetings or revivals or annual retreats or spiritual festivals or the ashram or the special river or the special mountain.” What is the reply to those comments?
Let me first mention a habit a woman had. When she disagreed with what someone was telling her, she extended her arm with her hand raised in the air and the palm facing the person with whom she was disagreeing and she would say, “Talk to the hand, ‘cause I ain’t listening.”
So my invitation to those who think they must forever seek or must forever be engaged in religious doingness or must forever engage in their daily spiritual exercises: “Talk to the deer, and see if they listen.”
The deer provide one example of natural abidance and, like all non-human life-forms which do not have to deal with humans, they do quite fine.
Tell them that they are spiritually sick and need to do the things you can teach them to do. Tell them that they need to study your “holy” book forever and live according to it content. Tell them they should move beyond the small area of the forest where they abide and go all around the planet to “more special” places and “even holy” places, constantly seeking what they need to find.
The deer, as well as the fish and the birds and all things which abide naturally would not give you a second of their time or the smallest speck of their attention.
In its simplest form, the message is this:
There is an Ultimate Sickness that is the cause of the problems of humanity.
The Sickness has nothing to do with persons failing to be religious enough (and, in fact, it is excessive dogma and religious beliefs which are major contributors to the Sickness).
The Sickness has nothing to do with a “spiritual malady.”
The Sickness is a mental Sickness.
As with women, none can be “a little pregnant.” One is either pregnant or not pregnant; similarly, to use Maharaj’s words which identified some of the key symptoms of the Sickness, no one can be driven by a little “ignorance” or “a little insanity.”
“Full” Realization means that one has been freed from all learned ignorance and freed from all insanity. To that end, if one is “well,” why keep going back to the doctor? Only because one or more newly-assumed, supposedly “good,” false identifications which have been adopted and which involve the Sickness and the search for the Ultimate Medicine.
Wellness has become secondary to the search for wellness. Sane? Or insane?
Yet if one has found the Ultimate Medicine and have been freed from the Ultimate Sickness and its effects, how insane would it be to keep looking for the Medicine?
Of course most are never de-programmed but are constantly being re-programmed instead, so the message transmitted by the new programming is this: "You are never cured . . . you will never be done . . . and even if you find what you have been searching for and it has made you well, then you must still continue with the daily meetings and daily exercises and daily work in order to maintain you’re never found relief."
Again, that’s sheer nonsense . . . just more insanity. If one has truly been restored to sanity - and thus refuses now and forevermore all of the types of programming and conditioning and brainwashing, etc. which caused the Ultimate sickness to start with - then the Ultimate Sickness cannot be contracted again.
The Ultimate (Mental) Sickness is like many physical illnesses in an important way. Consider: though there is a new concern about an increase in the cases of the measles in the U.S., those who were exposed to the measles earlier are now immune. Having been exposed to - or having contracted - measles earlier, the body now has an immunity which lasts for the remainder of the manifestation.
Similarly, if persons contracted the Ultimate Sickness because they were exposed earlier to insane programming and ignorant conditioning and bizarre brainwashing – as all are – but then truly become free of the it symptoms via use of the Ultimate Medicine, then they are immune to the Sickness.
Once the Nisargan understanding had truly freed Maharaj of all of the effects of his earlier exposure to insane programming and ignorant conditioning and bizarre brainwashing, he was immune to the effects of those for the remainder of the manifestation.
He was not – in the end – “mostly sane”; nor was he occasionally “a little insane.” He was done. No more seeking happened. Same here. Yet persons who just don’t “get it” still recommend the latest non-dual book they just came across; persons still send non-dual magazines; persons still share what was said by this teacher or that teacher whom they just found. That’s all useless.
Here, there is no more seeking, no more searching, no more needs beyond what happens to meet the basic food-clothing-shelter requirements of the relative existence.
With the Nisargan understanding, freedom from learned ignorance and a lack of wellness and insanity have come, so the seeking of knowledge and wellness and sanity has ended.
Over. Complete. Done.
And that is what the teaching being discussed in this series is about: it is about using the Ultimate Medicine to become free of the effects of a most unnatural illness and then abide naturally . . . normally . . . wisely . . . intuitively . . . and spontaneously.
That is what happens with each among the millions upon millions of life-forms on planet earth, with one exception: humanity.
Yet so many say, “Floyd, my life would not be as blessed if I not do this or that every day or every week” or “if I did not visit the special places on the planet” or “if I did not go to meetings or revivals or annual retreats or spiritual festivals or the ashram or the special river or the special mountain.” What is the reply to those comments?
Let me first mention a habit a woman had. When she disagreed with what someone was telling her, she extended her arm with her hand raised in the air and the palm facing the person with whom she was disagreeing and she would say, “Talk to the hand, ‘cause I ain’t listening.”
So my invitation to those who think they must forever seek or must forever be engaged in religious doingness or must forever engage in their daily spiritual exercises: “Talk to the deer, and see if they listen.”
The deer provide one example of natural abidance and, like all non-human life-forms which do not have to deal with humans, they do quite fine.
Tell them that they are spiritually sick and need to do the things you can teach them to do. Tell them that they need to study your “holy” book forever and live according to it content. Tell them they should move beyond the small area of the forest where they abide and go all around the planet to “more special” places and “even holy” places, constantly seeking what they need to find.
The deer, as well as the fish and the birds and all things which abide naturally would not give you a second of their time or the smallest speck of their attention.
They are already abiding in the manner in which these teachings are intended to allow you to abide.
You can “get that” and be done once and for with all of the going and doing and zooming and “personal doer” stuff and then enjoy the relative. Or, you can continue to be driven by perverted programming which tells you that you must make a second job out of living, such as the supposed job of preparing for “the afterlife” or to working to avoid a "recycling" or some such - all of which is total nonsense.
As a composite unity of plant food elements which are circulating air and which is temporarily cycling a form of energy called “consciousness” - what will happen is this: at some point, the elements will return to the universal pool of elements; the final breath will be exhaled and the air will be released into the universal pool of air; and the consciousness will eventually be released from every cell and return to the universal pool of conscious-energy.
End of story. There is no reward or punishment later; there is no "rebirth" because there is no birth at all; there is no “getting sane” later and reaping the benefit later; there is merely . . . NOW. And that is all which can be enjoyed.
If interested, the process awaits, but the readiness is all.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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F.: So let’s review the reasons why most
A. will never take the necessary steps to be freed from all learned ignorance, to be restored to sanity, and to abide thereafter in a simple, light, easy, natural manner
and
B. will never Realize (that is, be freed from the key symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness which Maharaj identified as “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity”) and then merely abide naturally rather than taking on a second religious or spiritual job for their entire existence
and
C. will never seek only the simplicity and joy of abiding naturally rather than unnaturally or “supernaturally”
and
D. will never be freed from all encumbrances; will not just take it easy; will not relax and just live; will not lose their excess seriousness; and will not simply “Dance Lightly” for the remainder of the manifestation
and
E. finally, will not stop all of the seeking and / or religious work and / or spiritual work and then just abide naturally and sanely and reasonably and wisely and freely and then live simply instead of warping what could be a near-effortless, spontaneous existence which can be supported by one job into a second, arduous, time-consuming, supposedly-all-important religious or spiritual job.
There are six reasons why none of that is happening among the non-Realized masses:
Reason #1:
There’s a perceived payoff and / or “self–interests at stake and / or “personal” desires and fears” which are subconsciously driving them.
Reason #2:
Some are actually only seeking to escape reality and to dissociate from the relative existence and the responsibilities that it can require. (From the free eBook “The Most Dangerous Belief of All”: “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’.”)
Reason #3:
Because of their early programming and conditioning, which sets persons up to normalize the abnormal and which inspires them to believe such concepts as “suffering now is to be accepted, knowing an eternal reward awaits me if I do so.”
Reason #4:
Being influenced by affiliations and ego-assumption and the egotism which always manifests shortly after each and every ego-state is assumed as an identity; thus, ninety-seven percent of the people on the planet are affiliated with one religion or another and millions more brag that they “are not religious” but are “spiritual instead.” Then there are those involved with Eastern philosophies who assume the role of “The Super Seeker” and love playing out that role for their entire manifestation.
Reason #5:
The method of teaching which they happened to find (or more often just stumbled across):
The DIRECT PATH METHOD - if offered in combination with NISARGA YOGA - allows some to “get it” and start abiding naturally rather than unnaturally or “supernaturally.”
If seekers happen to find the PSEUDO ADVAITA METHOD, then they will never Realize.
If seekers happen to find the TRADITIONAL ADVAITA METHOD, then they, too, might spend a lifetime working at learning Sanskrit and studying the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita and the Brahma Suttras and focusing on “scriptures” and “seeking” and “spiritual work.”
If seekers happen to find NEO-VEDANTA METHOD, they, too, can work forever at gathering new concepts and ego-states who prefer sublime or exalted or lofty content.
If seekers happen to find the NEO-ADVAITA METHOD, then they can spend a lifetime thinking they have attained the ultimate understanding though - in most cases - they have actually understood nothing but have avoided entirely the process required to truly understand and then to be truly free and abide naturally.
And then currently being discussed . . .
REASON #6:
There are nine basic personality types which subconsciously determine the thoughts and words and behaviors of every non-Realized human, and there is some correlation between the personality types of non-dual seekers and religious and spiritual persons and how their seeking unfolds.
For most of them, their quest and searching and accumulating and their spiritual doingness and religious activities or super-seeking will be considered a mandatory, never-ending, lifetime chore. Why?
To summarize, every not-Fully-Realized person has one of these types as a primary type but also has one degree or another of each of the other 8 types:
PERSONALITY TYPE ONES (Perfectionistic Reformers): Usually OCD; excessive about everything; concerned with right vs. wrong; concerned with reforming all people to believe as they believe. Their seeking or religious or spiritual beliefs will forever be considered all-important, so their seeking will be a never-ending task.
PERSONALITY TYPE TWOS (Rescuers, Saviors, Helpers): Type Twos people pleasing, “love” seekers. With 97% of the people on the planet claiming a religious affiliation and with millions more claiming to be spiritual, what better way to make everyone love you than to present oneself as being “religious” and / or “spiritual”? They never find enough love, so their efforts are for a lifetime.
PERSONALITY TYPE THREES (Performers, Image Makers): Their desire is to gain admiration and respect and esteem and high regard. With 97% of the people on the planet claiming a religious affiliation and with millions more claiming to be spiritual, what better way to make everyone admire you than to constantly play the role of “The Super Seeker,” “The Super Religious One,” and / or “The Spiritual Giant” everywhere you go?
PERSONALITY TYPE FOURS (Seekers of Authenticity or Romanticists and Escapists): If they can move beyond the preoccupation with “being different” and “escaping,” then it is possible for an understanding of the unicity to manifest; otherwise, the “quest” can become a permanent fixture in the life of this personality type as well.
PERSONALITY TYPE FIVES (Knowers, Thinkers, “Experts”): Fives are driven to know it all and believe that “knowledge is power”; thus, they will forever be involved with knowledge accumulation. Their sense of a “spiritual path” is one which leads to true omniscience, so they are likely to work forever in order to maintain their image of “The Omniscient One” . . . “The All-Knowing One” . . . “The God-Like One.”
PERSONALITY TYPE SIXES (“Loyalists,” “Dependents,” “Co-Dependents,” “Seekers of Caretakers”): Sixes are dependent and co-dependent and driven by extreme fears, anxieties, and phobias; thus, they are forever seeking someone or something to care for them. With their quest for powerful caretakers of all sorts, including sources of power in the relative realm as well as “sources of power in religious, spiritual, and otherworldly realms,” their quest seldom ever ends.
PERSONALITY TYPE SEVENS: ("The Adventurer," "The Risk Taker," "The Pain and Reality Avoider," "The Epicurean Fun-Seeker," and often, "The Addictive One"):
If a Seven were to follow a “path,” it would be “the Path of Festivity,” yet few Sevens seek anything except fun and escapism and the avoidance of reality. Because seeking is seen to be “too serious” and “too little fun,” Sevens are unlikely to ever follow a “path” to its end and Realize Fully.
The “Catch-22” . . . the irony around all of this: it is personality that generates much of the misery and suffering of humanity, but their various personalities are the very thing that prevent persons from ever being freed from the influence of their misery-and-suffering-generating personality identifications.
Now the discussion continues with PERSONALITY TYPE EIGHTS: ("The Control Freak,” “The Confrontational One,” “The Controlling One,” “The Bossy One,” “The Abused One Who Has Become An Abuser,” “The Power-Hungry, Dominating One”): For Type Eights, everything must be a tool that can provide them with more power and control. If involved with seeking or religion or spirituality, they are actually involved because of their selfish motives: they want every type of power that “this world” can provide (physical, emotional, psychological, financial, sexual, spiritual, whatever) and they want every type of "other-worldly" Power as well.
Eights will go to any lengths to pursue a cause which they believe in (be that anything from drinking to a theological debate to presenting as "the most religious" or "the most spiritual person ever" if they think they can get a payoff (including a payoff from people to a payoff from “a God” or from some “Higher Power”). Passion is their life-blood.
From the Institute: “Eights are charismatic and have the physical and psychological capacities to persuade others to follow them into all kinds of endeavors—from starting a company, to rebuilding a city, to running a household, to waging war, to making peace”
and, if disintegrated to an unhealthy psychic level:
“They may try to brutally destroy everything that has not conformed to their will rather than surrender to anyone else. They will be vengeful, barbaric, or even murderous. They will display deep sociopathic behaviors which generally correspond to the Antisocial Personality Disorder."
The Realized understand that “power” and “Power” are both merely concepts, but Type Eights are attached to those concepts, usually for their entire relative existence.
Because they are seeking power, and because their desire for power never ends, then they will never find the understanding that can lead to the kind of peace which will be discussed in the next series entitled “SLO-MO LIVING.”
Instead, they will remain go-ers and do-ers and zoomers and will usually give up their quest for power and control only when the last breath is exhaled from the composite unity.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
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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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Anthology of four books
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SELF-TRANSFORMATION MEDITATION GUIDE (VOLUME ONE)
WHY YOU MUST BE EMPTY IF YOU WOULD BE FULL
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WARS
The following eBooks are available without charge for you or for friends:
I.
"GOOD vs. EVIL?" or "IGNORANCE, STUPIDITY, and INSANITY?"
II.
"THE VISION"
III.
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:
A. will never take the necessary steps to be freed from all learned ignorance, to be restored to sanity, and to abide thereafter in a simple, light, easy, natural manner
and
B. will never Realize (that is, be freed from the key symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness which Maharaj identified as “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity”) and then merely abide naturally rather than taking on a second religious or spiritual job for their entire existence
and
C. will never seek only the simplicity and joy of abiding naturally rather than unnaturally or “supernaturally”
and
D. will never be freed from all encumbrances; will not just take it easy; will not relax and just live; will not lose their excess seriousness; and will not simply “Dance Lightly” for the remainder of the manifestation
and
E. finally, will not stop all of the seeking and / or religious work and / or spiritual work and then just abide naturally and sanely and reasonably and wisely and freely and then live simply instead of warping what could be a near-effortless, spontaneous existence which can be supported by one job into a second, arduous, time-consuming, supposedly-all-important religious or spiritual job.
There are six reasons why none of that is happening among the non-Realized masses:
Reason #1:
There’s a perceived payoff and / or “self–interests at stake and / or “personal” desires and fears” which are subconsciously driving them.
Reason #2:
Some are actually only seeking to escape reality and to dissociate from the relative existence and the responsibilities that it can require. (From the free eBook “The Most Dangerous Belief of All”: “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’.”)
Reason #3:
Because of their early programming and conditioning, which sets persons up to normalize the abnormal and which inspires them to believe such concepts as “suffering now is to be accepted, knowing an eternal reward awaits me if I do so.”
Reason #4:
Being influenced by affiliations and ego-assumption and the egotism which always manifests shortly after each and every ego-state is assumed as an identity; thus, ninety-seven percent of the people on the planet are affiliated with one religion or another and millions more brag that they “are not religious” but are “spiritual instead.” Then there are those involved with Eastern philosophies who assume the role of “The Super Seeker” and love playing out that role for their entire manifestation.
Reason #5:
The method of teaching which they happened to find (or more often just stumbled across):
The DIRECT PATH METHOD - if offered in combination with NISARGA YOGA - allows some to “get it” and start abiding naturally rather than unnaturally or “supernaturally.”
If seekers happen to find the PSEUDO ADVAITA METHOD, then they will never Realize.
If seekers happen to find the TRADITIONAL ADVAITA METHOD, then they, too, might spend a lifetime working at learning Sanskrit and studying the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita and the Brahma Suttras and focusing on “scriptures” and “seeking” and “spiritual work.”
If seekers happen to find NEO-VEDANTA METHOD, they, too, can work forever at gathering new concepts and ego-states who prefer sublime or exalted or lofty content.
If seekers happen to find the NEO-ADVAITA METHOD, then they can spend a lifetime thinking they have attained the ultimate understanding though - in most cases - they have actually understood nothing but have avoided entirely the process required to truly understand and then to be truly free and abide naturally.
And then currently being discussed . . .
REASON #6:
There are nine basic personality types which subconsciously determine the thoughts and words and behaviors of every non-Realized human, and there is some correlation between the personality types of non-dual seekers and religious and spiritual persons and how their seeking unfolds.
For most of them, their quest and searching and accumulating and their spiritual doingness and religious activities or super-seeking will be considered a mandatory, never-ending, lifetime chore. Why?
To summarize, every not-Fully-Realized person has one of these types as a primary type but also has one degree or another of each of the other 8 types:
PERSONALITY TYPE ONES (Perfectionistic Reformers): Usually OCD; excessive about everything; concerned with right vs. wrong; concerned with reforming all people to believe as they believe. Their seeking or religious or spiritual beliefs will forever be considered all-important, so their seeking will be a never-ending task.
PERSONALITY TYPE TWOS (Rescuers, Saviors, Helpers): Type Twos people pleasing, “love” seekers. With 97% of the people on the planet claiming a religious affiliation and with millions more claiming to be spiritual, what better way to make everyone love you than to present oneself as being “religious” and / or “spiritual”? They never find enough love, so their efforts are for a lifetime.
PERSONALITY TYPE THREES (Performers, Image Makers): Their desire is to gain admiration and respect and esteem and high regard. With 97% of the people on the planet claiming a religious affiliation and with millions more claiming to be spiritual, what better way to make everyone admire you than to constantly play the role of “The Super Seeker,” “The Super Religious One,” and / or “The Spiritual Giant” everywhere you go?
PERSONALITY TYPE FOURS (Seekers of Authenticity or Romanticists and Escapists): If they can move beyond the preoccupation with “being different” and “escaping,” then it is possible for an understanding of the unicity to manifest; otherwise, the “quest” can become a permanent fixture in the life of this personality type as well.
PERSONALITY TYPE FIVES (Knowers, Thinkers, “Experts”): Fives are driven to know it all and believe that “knowledge is power”; thus, they will forever be involved with knowledge accumulation. Their sense of a “spiritual path” is one which leads to true omniscience, so they are likely to work forever in order to maintain their image of “The Omniscient One” . . . “The All-Knowing One” . . . “The God-Like One.”
PERSONALITY TYPE SIXES (“Loyalists,” “Dependents,” “Co-Dependents,” “Seekers of Caretakers”): Sixes are dependent and co-dependent and driven by extreme fears, anxieties, and phobias; thus, they are forever seeking someone or something to care for them. With their quest for powerful caretakers of all sorts, including sources of power in the relative realm as well as “sources of power in religious, spiritual, and otherworldly realms,” their quest seldom ever ends.
PERSONALITY TYPE SEVENS: ("The Adventurer," "The Risk Taker," "The Pain and Reality Avoider," "The Epicurean Fun-Seeker," and often, "The Addictive One"):
If a Seven were to follow a “path,” it would be “the Path of Festivity,” yet few Sevens seek anything except fun and escapism and the avoidance of reality. Because seeking is seen to be “too serious” and “too little fun,” Sevens are unlikely to ever follow a “path” to its end and Realize Fully.
The “Catch-22” . . . the irony around all of this: it is personality that generates much of the misery and suffering of humanity, but their various personalities are the very thing that prevent persons from ever being freed from the influence of their misery-and-suffering-generating personality identifications.
Now the discussion continues with PERSONALITY TYPE EIGHTS: ("The Control Freak,” “The Confrontational One,” “The Controlling One,” “The Bossy One,” “The Abused One Who Has Become An Abuser,” “The Power-Hungry, Dominating One”): For Type Eights, everything must be a tool that can provide them with more power and control. If involved with seeking or religion or spirituality, they are actually involved because of their selfish motives: they want every type of power that “this world” can provide (physical, emotional, psychological, financial, sexual, spiritual, whatever) and they want every type of "other-worldly" Power as well.
Eights will go to any lengths to pursue a cause which they believe in (be that anything from drinking to a theological debate to presenting as "the most religious" or "the most spiritual person ever" if they think they can get a payoff (including a payoff from people to a payoff from “a God” or from some “Higher Power”). Passion is their life-blood.
From the Institute: “Eights are charismatic and have the physical and psychological capacities to persuade others to follow them into all kinds of endeavors—from starting a company, to rebuilding a city, to running a household, to waging war, to making peace”
and, if disintegrated to an unhealthy psychic level:
“They may try to brutally destroy everything that has not conformed to their will rather than surrender to anyone else. They will be vengeful, barbaric, or even murderous. They will display deep sociopathic behaviors which generally correspond to the Antisocial Personality Disorder."
The Realized understand that “power” and “Power” are both merely concepts, but Type Eights are attached to those concepts, usually for their entire relative existence.
Because they are seeking power, and because their desire for power never ends, then they will never find the understanding that can lead to the kind of peace which will be discussed in the next series entitled “SLO-MO LIVING.”
Instead, they will remain go-ers and do-ers and zoomers and will usually give up their quest for power and control only when the last breath is exhaled from the composite unity.
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
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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
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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:
FIVE FREE eBOOKS
(Compliments of Andy Gugar, Jr.)
FIVE FREE eBOOKS
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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."
“Dangerous” is a term that can only apply during the relative existence. Among the Realized, there are no beliefs about “birth” so there are no beliefs about “the danger of death” (or the danger of anything else, for that matter).
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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."
V.
"THE MOST DANGEROUS BELIEF OF ALL"
Regarding the content in this 337-page book:
“Dangerous” is a term that can only apply during the relative existence. Among the Realized, there are no beliefs about “birth” so there are no beliefs about “the danger of death” (or the danger of anything else, for that matter).
Certainly,
therefore, there are no concerns about “dying,” “an afterlife,” or
“receiving reward vs. punishment.” Additionally, the Realized make no
judgment about suicide or the “rightness” or “wrongness” of that act.
But
of those who do commit suicide, how many shoot themselves in the foot
over and over until they “bleed out”? None. They shoot themselves in the
head. Why? In order to try to stop the noise - to try to stop the
chatter of a thousand monkeys – to stop the noisy mind which is the area
that stores the ideas, notions, concepts, mind-stuff, etc. which drives
them into the depths of insanity.
And
what are those ideas, notions, concepts, etc. called, collectively? "Their beliefs." The irony? They are
not their beliefs at all.
They are the beliefs of “others” that were set in place via programming,
conditioning, etc. and which persons then think are their own.
And
what are those beliefs rooted in, and what reinforces those beliefs and
convinces persons that they are sacred and worth fighting over and even
sometimes worth dying for? Blind faith.
So how can “dangerous” have any relevance alongside an understanding which has no beliefs
about birth, death, or an afterlife? It is relevant only in terms of the
way that the relative unfolds.
Strictly relatively speaking, there are those who move through the
relative existence without being driven by what Maharaj called “ignorance and stupidity and insanity”
and there are those who move through the relative existence while being
driven by all three of those symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness.
Persons in the latter group who are driven by those three traits are the most
likely to generate, relatively speaking, hazard / menace / chaos /
danger . . . call it what you will.
While the Realized give no validity to any "a" vs. "b" duality, the Realized are
wise enough to stand (a) outside the tigers’ cage at a zoo rather than (b) enter
into the tigers’ cage.
If
a wise one were to somehow magically have the option of meeting either
Gandhi or ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a dark alley, the wise one
would be interested in the beliefs of neither and would be in awe of
neither but would likely choose Gandhi over Abu Bakr, based in a wise
one’s tendency to seek peace rather than peril and wellbeing rather than
danger.
Yet that choice would be based in sanity and wisdom rather than in fear or fright; it would be based more in a tendency to end suffering rather than a propensity for increasing suffering.
Yes,
to bring an end to the fear in which one might be trapped, the non-dual
teacher will gladly point out that that the rope in the dark corner of a
barn is a rope rather than a snake, but the teacher will be equally as
glad to point out the pending “danger” to the seeker who is about to try
to pick up a snake because she or he is mistaking it for a rope.
Again, Maharaj: “The teacher does not evaluate. His sole concern is with suffering and the ending of suffering.”
The
Realized understand that, in the end, those persons with the most
blind-faith-based beliefs are usually going to be the ones who are least
concerned about peace and the ones most likely to generate chaos and
relative dangers.
The
reason for offering the pointers in this book are in alignment with the
same reasons that any true non-dual pointers are offered: to cast light
onto the darkness; to allow those who cannot see to finally see; to
provide a method by which those who cannot differentiate between the
true and the false may finally do so;
to
offer an effective version of the Ultimate Medicine in order to
alleviate the ignorance-and-insanity-induced-suffering which results
from the Ultimate Sickness; and thus to facilitate the opportunity for
those seeking peace and light and True Love to succeed in their quest.
To that end, best regards.
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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:
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