Today's Considerations
21. In the previous post, this was asked:
"So many say, 'I just want to be happy.' If they are honest, they will admit that the last time they were UNCONDITIONALLY happy was during that 'Child No-Knowing State.' For those willing to return to that earlier condition which allowed for the enjoyment of unconditional happiness as long as the basic needs of food and clothing and shelter are met, then the happiness which they seek can be found."
Why is reaching that state required? Because after the "Child No-Knowing State" comes the "Child Knowing ('Learned Ignorance') State," so everything from that point forward in the child's life - and in that child's later adult life - is screwed. How can "unconditional happiness" possibly manifest after "conditioning" (and after "programming," "acculturation," etc.)? It cannot.
"So many say, 'I just want to be happy.' If they are honest, they will admit that the last time they were UNCONDITIONALLY happy was during that 'Child No-Knowing State.' For those willing to return to that earlier condition which allowed for the enjoyment of unconditional happiness as long as the basic needs of food and clothing and shelter are met, then the happiness which they seek can be found."
Why is reaching that state required? Because after the "Child No-Knowing State" comes the "Child Knowing ('Learned Ignorance') State," so everything from that point forward in the child's life - and in that child's later adult life - is screwed. How can "unconditional happiness" possibly manifest after "conditioning" (and after "programming," "acculturation," etc.)? It cannot.
For the answer, the discussion will continue with additional excerpts from the eBook below entitled, "The Relative Results of Returning to 'The Child Ignorance Stage' or 'The Child No-Knowing State'":
"When was the last time anyone who is presently confused, afraid, unhappy, or even miserable was actually unconditionally happy? The correct answer, in non-dual terminology, is:
"When the conscious-energy during the initial 'coming in phase' of the manifestation was moving from the Absolute field of energy and had reached 'The Child Ignorance Stage' or 'The Child No-Knowing Step.' At that point was the last time I was unconditionally happy because I had not yet disintegrated into the next 'coming in' step where I would be assigned the roles of 'A Gift from God' and would thereafter begin playing the role of 'The Super Religious One'; where I was before a mind was formed and filled with nonsensical and myth-based and superstition-based beliefs as a result of being exposed constantly to perverted and ignorant programming and conditioning and acculturation and domestication and brainwashing and indoctrination; and where I was when the conscious-energy had manifested temporarily in a composite unity called 'me' but had not yet been blocked from seeing clearly. It would only be later that I would eventually believe that the answer to the question 'Who am I, really?' or 'What am I, really?' was: 'I am the body and the mind and all of the personality-identifications which have been assigned to me by others or which I have adopted as identities on my own'.
"At that fourth step point, a child that is dry and fed and sheltered and not physically sick is perfectly content, is unconditionally happy. During the 'coming-into-manifestation-and-eventually-identitifying-with-the-body' part of the initial 'journey in,' the 'The Child Ignorance Stage' or 'The Child No-Knowing State' was the last of the pre-Ultimate Sickness steps - the last of the per-conditional happiness states before being exposed endlessly to the perverted and ignorant programming and conditioning and acculturation and domestication and brainwashing and indoctrination which contribute to the Ultimate Sickness which, in turn, sets the stage for the chaos and instability and the misery and suffering which are always the result of learned ignorance and personality disorders and insanity.
"At that fourth step, the child knows that it IS but it does not believe that it is "this" or "that"; therefore, the child suffers no fiction-filled-mind-driven agendas and no persona-driven agendas."
To appreciate fully the unconditionally happiness which can once more be enjoyed if one follows Maharaj's advice and "goes back out," "in the reverse order," of the same way the consciousness first "came in," understand:
There is what linguists and grammarians call "English Conditional Sentences." (Almost all languages have conditional sentences as well, although Grandmother's Cherokee language did not). A conditional sentence contains a dependent clause which begins with the word "if" and which is then followed by a main clause. The dependent clause expresses a condition (the "protasis") and the main clause expresses a consequence (the "apodosis"). For example: "If it rains (condition), the trip to the beach will be cancelled" (consequence).
The belief in conditionals - which rob persons of peace, an ability to differentiate between true and false, and, therefore, an ability to know truth - can only happen after programming and conditioning and acculturation and domestication and brainwashing and indoctrination.
Only then can persons dream up conditionals which limit their ability to be happy: "If I find a better-paying job, then I can be happy"; or "If I can find a spouse who will please me, then I can be happy" (followed 50% of the time by, "If I can only get away from my spouse and find a better one, then I can be happy");
or "If I find love and then marry and get a house and have a family, then I can be happy"; or "If I can find my True Self, then I can be happy"; or "If I can find a way to mentally move into Foo-Foo Land and dissociate from reality and think I am abiding as Reality, then I can be happy."
At the fourth step, whether one is at that step "on the way in initially" or whether one is at that step when undertaking the non-dual "journey" and "going back out, in reverse, along the same 'path' which the consciousness took when coming in," there is nothing conditional; moreover, that was the exact same case when in "Your Original Nature" state. Remember?
"Your Original Nature" was, among other things, an unconditioned and unconditional state. Abidance in that same manner can also happen during the AM-ness. It is most certainly a possibility if one follows the "path" away from body and mind identification, and away from all personality identifications, and returns to the "The Child Ignorance Stage" or "The Child No-Knowing State."
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
