Today's Considerations
From the eBook A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE: Additional
Perspectives Which Came During The Movement Along The Direct "Path"
To Realization
In the end, Maharaj said that there really is no absolute
requirement that anything else be understood after you understand what you are
not. So see what you are not, set aside any and every identity and "Identity”
which has been assumed or assigned, and then just relax.
When a “state” of zero concepts is reached, it is understood
that there is no “identity” at all. Nothing from nothing leaves … nothing, not
“SOMETHING.”
“Absolute,” “THAT,” “energy,”
“energy-matter,” “Consciousness,” “Awareness,” and “SOMETHING” are still
man-made labels generated by persons. Some are tools to be used to move seekers
along the “path” to Truth and freedom and independence; others labels - such as
“God,” “Hell,” “Heaven,” “eternal life,” “eternal reward,” and “eternal punishment”
- are tools used to reinforce the false and to control people and to create dependencies
and co-dependencies.
Finding out “who you are not” could eliminate unnatural and
supernatural living and allow natural, AS IF living to happen throughout the
remainder of the manifestation. That would also allow freedom to happen, and
only if free can bliss happen.
Only when the addiction to the sound and the fury ends can
the joy and bliss of the silence begin.
The rub? Ego hate silence; moreover, ego always wants more.
Freedom from the bondage of ego results in giving value to silence and giving value to less.
Freedom from the bondage of ego results in giving value to silence and giving value to less.
Ego is about going and doing and zooming in order to collect
more; freedom from the love of more allows the non-doingness (the beingness
only) to manifest, at least temporarily.
Persons search for “the divine” and for an understanding of
all that is “supernatural” when, in fact, there is nothing that is supernatural
at all. There is only "nature," not "nature + Super Nature."
The result of persons having been fooled is an endless stream
of desires and fears.
Those create a constant sense of longing, and longing
generates a constant sense of dis-ease.
The “non-Realized” never come to the understanding that it
is only from a condition of emptiness (empty of concepts, of identities, of a
“mind,” of beliefs) that a sense of fulfillment can happen during the
manifestation.
The “Realized” can taste what the Italians call il dolce di
fare niente—“the sweetness of doing nothing.”
The “Fully Realized” will shift even beyond that and will
understand something even simpler than “the sweetness of doing nothing,”
namely, il dolce di Niente—“the sweetness of Nothing,” period.
Trace your roots. Go beyond self and Self, beyond
Consciousness, beyond Awareness, and even beyond the Absolute to the seminal
Nothingness. Abide as such. To know that you are nothing is, per Maharaj, “wisdom.”
All identities are limiting. Limitations restrict freedom.
Restrictions of freedom prevent the manifestation of happiness during the
relative existence. Preoccupation with finding identities and assigning labels
has the same effect.
If you would be free, align with the nothingness. Freedom
involves being free of all personal identifications and all “Personal
Identifications.” Reach the space.
If you would be unconcerned, then all of your knowledge must
go into liquidation (Maharaj). Has that happened? Have you reached the space?
Ultimately, even “nothing” as a concept is abandoned, along
with every other concept.
Non-duality (at the purest and most advanced level) endorses “zero concepts” (Maharaj).
All of the mutated versions of non-duality, especially those
which have been morphed into a religion with a holy text or into an organized philosophy by persons with
hidden agendas, are bastardizations . . . fabricated via warped and greedy consciousness,
accepted as truth by other specks of warped consciousness, and passed along now
by such specks to other such specks.
There is a process whereby, from the nothingness, a particle
can manifest. This entire universe began with the instantaneous manifestation
of an atom within a vacuum. Did that atom "pop out of" another universe? Possibly, but knowing whether that did or did not happen is irrelevant to your being free.
It is from the nothingness that all manifestation happens
spontaneously. After some groupings and ungroupings happen, the Nothingness
will again prevail.
Prior to “this
universe,” prior to Awareness, prior to Consciousness, and prior to
manifestation, there was a “time” when only a vacuum was, prior to the happenings which triggered the formation of “this universe.”
Your “ultimate root” is even prior to time. As Maharaj
explained, he (the not-created and not-destroyable energy / matter) was there
for the formation and dissolution of all universes, and so were you (the
not-created and not-destroyable energy / matter).
If you’re interested in oneness, understand that everything
in this universe began as one, single atom that manifested within the emptiness
of a vacuum.
Purged of all identities, ideas, notions, perceptions, and
concepts (a.k.a., “beliefs”), the consciousness can function as an empty
vacuum.
Originally, the empty vacuum was undisturbed, unconcerned .
. . without burden, without activity, without any doingness. The same is the case
with the area of the brain now called “the mind.”
The relative existence is miserable for those who are “full
of it.” If you would be undisturbed, unconcerned, without burden, without
activity, without any doingness, then be empty. Reach the space and abide as such.
All fears and all desires are rooted in the subconscious agendas of false but seemingly real identities / personalities.
Fear not. Nothing is coming: no judgment . . . no endless
punishment.
Desire not . . . nothing
is coming: no endless (and boring) celestial caroling . . . no heavenly brothels . . . no
extraterrestrial orgies . . . no endless reward. Nothing, so enjoy, NOW.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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