Today's Considerations
F.: Again, two sure signs of insanity are (1) being addicted to chaos and thus (2) being bored with peace.Yet those are two of the most common markers of the existence of the non-Realized. They are driven by insanity (a mind issue), and they love chaos and hate peace (also a mind issue). Maharaj’s later talks, when he ignored religion and begged listeners to abandon spirituality, revealed that he came to see the Ultimate Sickness as a mental sickness.
He touched on that Truth time and again: “Even faith in God is only a stage on the way.” [Here, that "stage" is pointed to with the term, “The Third Step on the Seven-Step Path to Realization.”] He continued: “Ultimately, you abandon all, for you come to something so simple that there are no words to express it.”
Is religious living and religious in-fighting and religious fighting simple? Never, if it happens in the way religious leaders expect. Is a spiritual life a simple life? Hardly, if one engages in all of the practices and exercises and repetitions and routines and procedures which are assigned and undertaken on a daily basis in order to maintain one’s supposedly “advanced spiritual state.” There is actually nothing simple at all about it except the claim that it's simple.
Conversely, is the life of a deer that knows no dogma and that engages in no spiritual practices and that abides in an all-natural manner a simple one? Oh, yes! That’s it!
Maharaj also said of the mind: “When the mind is quiet, we come to know ourselves as the Pure Witness” [or even more to the point, as Pure Witnessing].
He said: “Don’t rely on your mind for liberation. It is the mind that brought you into bondage. Go beyond it altogether.”
The emphasis on personality which began yesterday is based in the understanding that all false, personal identifications are stored in the mind and that there is, therefore, no “mind problem” which is separate from a “personality problem.” They are inexorably connected.
In that regard, consider this from Maharaj: “As long as the mind is there, your body and your world are there. Your world is mind-made, subjective, enclosed within the mind, fragmentary, temporary, personal, hanging on the thread of memory.”
While scores and scores of false identities / personalities will be assigned and / or assumed throughout a human’s relative existence, there are nine basic types that begin to manifest first, and that happens very early on.
By the age of six, most have settled into one primary personality type, but all of the types eventually show up to one degree or another; thus, all persons reach a point early on when they are suffering from the Multiple Personality Disorder. The question should not be “WHO am I?” The question should be, “Who are all these different WHO’s I have been playing on the stage of the Theatre of the Lie”?
So to continue. The next personality type in the discussion is the Personality Type Three: the achiever, the performer, the one whose energy all goes into creating a public image and then working to try to sustain it. The going-doing-zooming of Type Three achievers / performers results from their narcissism-based desire for applause and recognition. They are constantly going and doing and zooming in order to achieve, to succeed, in order to impress. They are running toward an image of being “a success,” and they are constantly running away from their overwhelming - and even crushing - fear of failure.
The going-doing-zooming of Type Four individualists is rooted in either (1) a fanciful desire to escape anything and everything having to do with the relative existence, or in (2) seeking – seeking Truth, seeking authenticity, seeking “Self.” If psychically unhealthy, they will isolate. If psychically healthy, they will enjoy the solitude. (And yes, there is a major difference.) If they are constantly going and doing and zooming, it will usually involve seeking, the search, the quest, the “journey.” If they find, then they will enter into the solitude and never be shaken from it. If they have moved along the "path" but are still running, they are running toward Realization; if running away from something, it is phoniness, which they find anathema. Again, if Realized, all running ends.
To be continued.
Please enter into silence of contemplation.
While scores and scores of false identities / personalities will be assigned and / or assumed throughout a human’s relative existence, there are nine basic types that begin to manifest first, and that happens very early on.
By the age of six, most have settled into one primary personality type, but all of the types eventually show up to one degree or another; thus, all persons reach a point early on when they are suffering from the Multiple Personality Disorder. The question should not be “WHO am I?” The question should be, “Who are all these different WHO’s I have been playing on the stage of the Theatre of the Lie”?
So to continue. The next personality type in the discussion is the Personality Type Three: the achiever, the performer, the one whose energy all goes into creating a public image and then working to try to sustain it. The going-doing-zooming of Type Three achievers / performers results from their narcissism-based desire for applause and recognition. They are constantly going and doing and zooming in order to achieve, to succeed, in order to impress. They are running toward an image of being “a success,” and they are constantly running away from their overwhelming - and even crushing - fear of failure.
The going-doing-zooming of Type Four individualists is rooted in either (1) a fanciful desire to escape anything and everything having to do with the relative existence, or in (2) seeking – seeking Truth, seeking authenticity, seeking “Self.” If psychically unhealthy, they will isolate. If psychically healthy, they will enjoy the solitude. (And yes, there is a major difference.) If they are constantly going and doing and zooming, it will usually involve seeking, the search, the quest, the “journey.” If they find, then they will enter into the solitude and never be shaken from it. If they have moved along the "path" but are still running, they are running toward Realization; if running away from something, it is phoniness, which they find anathema. Again, if Realized, all running ends.
To be continued.
Please enter into silence of contemplation.
