TODAY’S CONSIDERATIONS
“The cosmic heart beats ceaselessly. I am the witness and
the heart too.”
- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music
which he hears, however measured or far away."
- Henry David Thoreau
To review:
It has been seen that the source of all relative problems
involve fanaticism (which is linked to the agendas of personality
identifications); higher-than-ever levels of the Obsessive-Compulsive
Personality Disorder (which is linked to chemical imbalances in the elemental
plant food body as well as to personality); and humanity’s tendency to take what could be simple and make
it complex and complicated.
Selecting the topics to discuss which can help address
humanity’s relative problems, the first dealt with the requirement for abiding
in a Nisarga (natural) fashion:
I. “It’s All Very Simple So Keep It That Way.”
II. Next, “Seek What You Are If You Like, But It Would Be
Enough To Simply Find What You Are Not.”
That can only be accomplished if you . . .
III. “Question Everything and Everyone."
and
IV. “The Relative Existence Will Never Be Stable, But You
Can Be.”
The next topic offered for consideration is also excerpted
from the book WHEN
ONLY THREE HOURS OF MANIFESTATION REMAIN (The "Final" Talks of Floyd
Henderson):
If Seeking Authenticity, Listen To the Beat of Your Inner
Guru and Allow That to Be the Drum That Provides the Beat to Which You
March
The recommendations:
1. Find the simplest version of these teachings. Do not
complicate the process, and do not allow others to complicate the process for
you.
2. Seek and accept only that which leads to the ability to
abide naturally and spontaneously and unaffectedly and effortlessly.
3. End all efforts to replace former "bad" labels
and roles with "new and improved and upgraded and noble labels and
roles."
4. Reality is non-dual and is identity-less and is
concept-less, so why put your life "on hold" for decades while trying
to determine if you are "an Infinite Self" or "a Supreme
Self" or "The Most Superior Self" when - in the end - You are to
see the reality of the no-identity, no-concept, non-dual Nothingness?
5. Everything in the relative is much ado about nothing, and
everything in the Absolute is also much ado about nothing. There is no
"later," no "judgment," and no "eternal reward" or
"eternal punishment," so abide naturally, now, and stop being so damn
serious. Just be, instead. Relax. Enjoy.
6. Understand that, while the relative existence will never
be stable, That Which You Are is that which can be fixed and pure and stable
and unadulterated when the abidance happens naturally as the Pure and Total
Awareness.
7. Question everything and everyone in order to eventually
understand this: Truth can be known but cannot be spoken. (No matter what you
might think is true, and no matter how much you might be inspired to take
exception and say, "Well, Floyd, I do know for certain that 'a' is true
and that 'b' is true," this speck will always be able to provide examples
of instances where both your "a" belief and your "b"
concept are not true at all).
8. See that programming, conditioning, domestication,
acculturation, brainwashing and indoctrination provided the means by which
"they" accepted as fact (without any questioning and with blind faith
alone) what became their learned ignorance; then, see that "their"
programming, conditioning, domestication and acculturation of you transferred
"their" learned ignorance to you if you did not question
"them" and everything they told you and taught you.
9. Next, if seeking authenticity, listen to the beat of your
inner guru and allow that to be the drum that provides the beat to which you
march. That can only happen if you understand that the term "conventional
wisdom” is an oxymoron. While the "convention wisdom" convinces
persons that they are the many roles which they have been assigned or have
adopted as identities, actual wisdom is knowing that you are nothing.
All which is thought to a part of the "conventional
wisdom" is actually the learned ignorance that is widely-accepted among
the masses as being factual when, in actual fact, the body of
"conventional wisdom" contains instead only non-truths and hearsay
and myths and superstitions and bogus concepts and nonsensical beliefs and distorted
ideas.
To march to the beat of those who are in step with the
cadence that is played out on the drums of personality, personality defects,
ignorance, and insanity is to fall in line with sheep-like marchers who can
only guide you over the edge of the cliff of distortion and illusion and
self-deception.
From the Realized write Henry David Thoreau:
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music
which he hears, however measured or far away"
and
"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed,
and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his
companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer."
The so-called "conventional wisdom" is that people
must "go along to get along"; actual wisdom is understanding that to
go along with those marching blindly in the darkness of ignorance and insanity
is not "getting along" at all. The so-called "conventional
wisdom" is that much is understood by humans; actual wisdom is that which
the masses have never even once considered, must less understood.
The so-called "conventional wisdom" involves the
belief among the masses that they really are the many roles they play; actual
wisdom is (a) understanding that they are none of the things that they believe
they are and (b) understanding that, in fact, they are nothing. The so-called
"conventional wisdom" among the masses (specifically, the 7.4
billion+ on the planet who claim to be associated with one organized religion
or another) is that truth is revealed only in books deemed "holy," in
books written (usually) by men who claim that they heard God - or one of many
gods - speaking to them;
actual wisdom is knowing that persons who claim that they
are hearing an all-powerful entity speaking to them from another world are
either frauds or are psychotics who are admitting that they are suffering from
instances of "auditory locution," that they are hearing voices in
their heads, and that they are subject to schizophrenia-induced
hallucinations.
Dr. Jeffrey A. Schaler:
“Psychosis” refers to a way of thinking and speaking. It depicts an apparent failure to differentiate between the symbolic and the real. People are labeled psychotic when they refer to mental representations of the world as if they were substantive and real. Another example of confusion is the description of the "voice of conscience" as the literal voice of another being (known as "hearing voices").
The failure to differentiate between the symbolic and the real may be intentional (artistic license) or strategic (lying) or the result of a cognitive inability to differentiate between fantasy and reality. There are three ways of using ”psychosis” to refer to people speaking and behaving in certain ways:
(1) Psychosis is used to refer to the state wherein symbolic representations of the world (and metaphors) are confused with the real (literal) things they represent.
(2) Psychosis is an applicable label when one ascribes confused speech to something else.
(3) Finally, the term psychosis is also used to describe abnormal speech and behavior.
The schizophrenia referenced earlier is said to be characterized by hallucinations, i.e., self-reported imaginings. Belief in God has become a socially-acceptable, self-reported imagining among the 97% of programmed and conditioned persons on the planet who proudly proclaim their belief in a god or gods.
Maharaj: "First of all you identify something as being good or bad for yourself. Then, in an effort to acquire good or to get rid of the bad, you have invented a God. Then you worship such a God and ... you pray to that God for something good to happen to you."
“Psychosis” refers to a way of thinking and speaking. It depicts an apparent failure to differentiate between the symbolic and the real. People are labeled psychotic when they refer to mental representations of the world as if they were substantive and real. Another example of confusion is the description of the "voice of conscience" as the literal voice of another being (known as "hearing voices").
The failure to differentiate between the symbolic and the real may be intentional (artistic license) or strategic (lying) or the result of a cognitive inability to differentiate between fantasy and reality. There are three ways of using ”psychosis” to refer to people speaking and behaving in certain ways:
(1) Psychosis is used to refer to the state wherein symbolic representations of the world (and metaphors) are confused with the real (literal) things they represent.
(2) Psychosis is an applicable label when one ascribes confused speech to something else.
(3) Finally, the term psychosis is also used to describe abnormal speech and behavior.
The schizophrenia referenced earlier is said to be characterized by hallucinations, i.e., self-reported imaginings. Belief in God has become a socially-acceptable, self-reported imagining among the 97% of programmed and conditioned persons on the planet who proudly proclaim their belief in a god or gods.
Maharaj: "First of all you identify something as being good or bad for yourself. Then, in an effort to acquire good or to get rid of the bad, you have invented a God. Then you worship such a God and ... you pray to that God for something good to happen to you."
In the end, Maharaj came to understand that the solution to
the problems of humanity do not have anything to do with “learning more dogma” or
“turning it all over to god in order to treat your spiritual malady” but,
instead, have everything to do with treating the symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness (which is a mental illness marked, he said, by the unnatural presence
of “ignorance” and “insanity”).
The mind, he said, must reach a state of “zero concepts.”
Because concepts and ideas and notions and perceptions all boil down to an
accumulation of beliefs, then the mind must (and can end) when all beliefs are purged.
Then one can march to the beat of the natural drummer – that is, “the heart of
being” – rather than to "the beat of doing" or the beat of "being 'this' or 'that'.”
Maharaj: “Beyond all, and pervading all, is the heart
of being which beats steadily - manifested-unmanifested . . .
manifested-unmanifested,” etc. etc. etc.
That heart of being beats naturally, not unnaturally and not
supernaturally. That heart beats without being influenced by a nonsense-filled
mind which forms as a result of nonsensical programming, conditioning,
domestication, acculturation, brainwashing and indoctrination.
The invitation is to march not to the beat of the
always-nonsensical mind but to the beat of that which inspires moving through
the existence to the rhythm of that which beats out a natural tempo and pulse
and pace, not to the beat of something pounding out an unnatural and / or
supernatural cadence.
To be continued.
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