Today's Considerations
Maharaj said repeatedly, “This is so simple" ["this" being the grasping of the understanding,
realizing, being enlightened, being liberated, and being freed from entrapment
in duality and dualistic thinking].
Yet this also was shared:
For a process which – as Maharaj said – could be so simple,
if mind and personality identifications are play, then there is likely nothing more
complicated and inaccessible to the mind-and-personality-driven masses.
So how can the acquisition - of the understanding, of realizing,
of being enlightened, of being liberated, and of being freed from entrapment in
duality and dualistic thinking - be simplified?
1. By stripping away from the teaching all of the esoteric,
obscure, cryptic and arcane elements which have been included or added over the millennia
and especially over the last century and most recently during the last several decades; and
2. by avoiding decades of a needless trial-and-error search for a
viable form of the Ultimate Medicine by seeing that Maharaj
already did "the trial-and-error work" and "the finding work" for us and then reduced his final version of the Ultimate Medicine
to a type which goes directly to the core of the mind-and-personality-involved
source of humanity’s problems, namely, the mental roots of the Ultimate
Sickness; and
3. by eliminating the mythical and mystical and magical and
supernatural elements of the teachings and offering a relevant, simple, straightforward,
unadorned, unpretentious, non-flowery, and effective version of the Ultimate
Medicine which does not result in persons ignoring the AM-ness and escaping
into "the THAT-ness only" as a result of dissociating and detaching from reality and
claiming to be associated only with THAT as a result of being disconnected and
divorced from the IS-ness; and
4. by understanding . . .
a. that “realizing” simply means that one realizes that ignorant
and insane programming and conditioning and domestication (while in the home) and
acculturation (via one’s culture / society) and brainwashing and indoctrination
can lead to nothing other than being trapped in ignorance and insanity;
b. that “being enlightened” merely points to the condition which
can be entered into when the light is shined on all distortions and
misconceptions and bogus beliefs and false identities which are rooted in the darkness
of ignorant and insane programming and conditioning and domestication and
acculturation and brainwashing and indoctrination and when that light is so bright
and so intense that it burns away all of those ignorant and insane effects;
c. that “being liberated” simply refers to being liberated from
the influence of assigned and assumed personality identifications which subconsciously
control and unconsciously determine every thought that is thought, every word
that is spoken, and every action that is taken;
and
d. then understanding that “being freed from
entrapment in duality and dualistic thinking” is simply about understanding
this:
the opposite of being trapped in duality is not about assuming new
and lofty and good and great identities such as “The Super Religious One” or “The
Spiritual Giant” or “The Supreme Self” or “being at one with God” or “God,” period; instead,
the opposite of being trapped in duality is . . . stability.
That includes mental stability; emotional stability; and being
fixed in a condition of stability as opposed to being trapped in
chaos.
After Yeshu’a (“Jesus”) heard the non-dual message and began
sharing that during the last few years of his relative existence, he is reported to
have shared a key pointer which had already found its way from the Far East to the
Middle East some 2000 years earlier. That pointer: “A dual-minded person is unstable in all ways.”
Duality and dualistic thinking are simply about mindedness
and about the instability-generating and chaos-generating nonsense stored
therein, including the belief in false identities and all other beliefs as
well.
It is simple for the totally sane and totally wise to
discard all nonsense stored in the mind; it is simple for the totally sane and
totally wise to take the steps necessary to be freed from the chaos and
instability which dominate the relative existence of almost all humans on planet
earth; it is simple for the totally sane and totally wise to abandon belief in
all of the false identities which have been assigned or assumed over the years.
The complicating factor: ignorance cannot detect ignorance, and crazy cannot spot crazy. One must
seek until she or he finds a teacher that has reached the point which Maharaj reached
after decades of experimenting with ineffective forms of the Ultimate Medicine - a teacher like Maharaj that, in the end, shifted his focus onto the psychological
roots and mind-based causes of the Ultimate Sickness.
After that, one must be willing to accept the invitation to "question it all." If enough light
is allowed in via the questioning process, then the discarding of all nonsense
and false identities can lead to an end to chaos and instability. That, in turn,
can lead to freedom, and only if free can one by at peace.
Moreover, only if totally
free and at peace can one return to enjoying the kind of happiness which was last enjoyed when
in the “Child Ignorance Stage" / the “Child No-Knowing State” / the "Complete-Absence-of-Concepts-and-Beliefs
State.”
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
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