TODAY’S CONSIDERATIONS
Of the fifteen subjects on “Floyd’s List of ‘Final Talk’ Topics,” #1 involves understanding “the source of all relative problems.”
So far, the discussion has identified two key sources of those problems, namely,
A. the through-the-roof levels of fanaticism which are linked to the through-the-roof levels of the Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (O-CD), and
B. the through-the-roof levels of humankind’s present propensity to make their relative existence far more complex than it need be rather than to take the steps necessary to abide in a far-simpler fashion.
Of course both “A” and “B” involve personality, O-CD being a personality disorder and personality identifications being the complicating factors in what could otherwise be a simple existence.
Next, therefore, this is offered from the book WHEN ONLY THREE HOURS OF MANIFESTATION REMAIN (The "Final" Talks Of Floyd Henderson):
C. Another major source of all relative problems could be eliminated . . .
If the Masses Could At Least Understand What They Are Not
Earlier, this consideration was offered:
If the end of the search for labeling comes with the understanding that you are nothing, what is to seek? The only thing to seek is that understanding. Then, being label-free and identity free, the remainder of the abidance can happen naturally, simply, sanely, and rationally ... without the burden of the egotism and conceit that accompany the assumption of "noble" identities.
With nothing more to do, the illusion of the "do-er" can end and what then begins is the mere beingness - marked not by anything unnatural and not by anything thought to be supernatural but only by that which is nisargan / natural. Most will never seek the answer to the question "Who Am I, Really?" Among the few who do seek, few will ever find the answer . . . for a host of reasons.
Primary among those reasons is the fact that they are asking the wrong question to begin with: There is no "WHO" and there is no "WHO-ness." The legitimate question to ask is, "WHAT am I, really?" The answer, mentioned earlier, is a "composite unity of elements, air, and conscious-energy." Understand:
I have been present for the coming together of all universes, and so have you. If you choose to identify with the Absolute in this particular universe - that field of energy / Awareness from which all specks of consciousness manifest - with what can you identify prior to the field manifesting? You were even prior to that. And what was prior to that?
The Void, then some other universe, then some other Void, then some other universe, ad infinitum.
So what are you, really? What all is: merely energy / matter. Because all is energy / matter, and because neither of those can be created or destroyed, they have always been, even prior to the formation of this universe. What were "you" prior? Merely matter / energy (which has been cycling eternally).
Because "Reality" is a no concept, no-identity, non-dual Reality, then what is with all of this identity-seeking?
[That will be a far-too-radical pointer for most seekers, wanting as they do to define and re-define their self-ness and / or Self-ness. So it is.]
To find that which one is, one must find that which "one" has always been. And to find that which "one" has always been, you must first find all that you are not because it is all that you are not which blocks the seeing of that which you are and that which was even prior to that.
Next, because all of those not-you's are the present source of all misery and suffering, there is only one logical conclusion that can be drawn:
if you would be free of misery and suffering, then you must know those not-you's and end once and for all their influence over your thoughts and words and deeds. To be influenced and driven and controlled by the not-you's would be no different from being influenced and driven and controlled by a mirage in the road ahead while driving through the desert.
Consider this illustration:
As mentioned here on occasion, 59% of all women murdered annually in the U.S. are killed by one claiming at some point to have "loved" them: "The Lover" or "The Boyfriend" or "The Husband" or "The Common Law Husband," etc. When are those women killed 59% of the time? When they try to leave their "Lover" or "Boyfriend" or "Husband" or "Common Law Husband," etc. (By the way, the women are "catching up" nowadays: 41% of all males killed in the U.S. are killed by a woman during a breakup.) The insnaity?
[Many among the masses in the U.S. are currently paralyzed by their fear of being killed by "a foreign terrorist coming into the country" (a notion being aggravated by the current alarmist, political rhetoric being broadcast into their homes via television news and "special reports") while totaling ignoring the facts which shows that any danger threatening "their lives" is actually already in bed with them, a.k.a., "sleeping with the enemy."]
Why do such murders happen?
Because in the example above, the male involved really believes that the not-him is Him, and all not-him's (and not-you's) require a codependent counterpart, a person willing to play the other part in any dualistic pairing. "The Husband" can only "exist" (in his "mind") if that role has one willing to play "The Wife." If "The Wife" determines that she is no longer willing to play the role that reinforces the illusion of "Husband-ness" in the "mind" of the male involved with her, then all "Husband" role-playing will end.
He can no longer be a "Husband"; he can only be an "Ex-Husband," in his "mind."
Identified with that role, the one playing "The Husband" will believe that he is actually being attacked and will believe that he is about to be destroyed. In the warped game of role-assumption, insanity can reach such a level of severity that one mirage can come to believe that it can be assailed and annihilated by another mirage.
Talk about the insanity of duality and the insanity of believing in dualistic concepts and ideas and identities.
So consider: if the one playing "The Husband" in that example were to come to understand that He is not a "Husband," then he would not feel threatened and would not feel driven to lash out in defense of a culturally-assigned and culturally-encouraged mirage.
If none of the people in relationships in the U.S. ever "realized fully" but were at least to understand what they are not, then 59% of all women killed annually would not be killed, and 41% of all men killed annually would not be killed. And none of those people would have to understand anything about "realization" for that to happen.
[The same is truth regarding "world leaders." There was a time when the masses might need to consider politicians' policy statements concerning domestic issues and their possible leadership skills in terms of foreign affairs. Now, the overriding consideration at this moment should be, "Is this candidate even sane or not?" The Ultimate Sickness is that pervasive.]
Consider the impact on the relative existence if only persons were at least to understand what they are not, even if they never find the answer to "Who - or what - am I, really?"
The only possible correct answer is “energy / matter,” and neither energy nor matter can suffer from O-CD or any other personality disorder; neither energy nor matter can complicate a relative existence;
neither energy nor matter can be programmed or conditioned or acculturated or domesticated or brainwashed or indoctrinated to believe that it is something that it is not; and neither can be driven and controlled by one, two or all three of the symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness as identified by Maharaj, namely, "ignorance, stupidity, and insanity."
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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