TODAY'S CONSIDERATIONS
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THE RATIONALE FOR FINDING THE ANSWERS TO THE QUESTION, "WHAT IS THIS NON-DUALITY DEAL ALL ABOUT, ANYWAY?"
Elevators have long been used in analogies and metaphors dealing with . . .
A. persons having poor taste (such as, "She's so musically-deprived that all she likes is elevator music").
[By the way, non-duality does not have "a list of approved music," but Dennis Waite does explain in one of his books that he has observed that "the realized" are more likely to fancy certain types of music over other types, just as they are more likely to favor quietness over excessively-loud, hectic, frenzied noise. In the end, all such "favoring" happens spontaneously. The deer that roam through the front yard here do not choose to move into the quiet woods when loud noise happens or when children show up and chase them or toss rocks at them. The shift just happens spontaneously because they are mindless and, therefore, prefer all things sane / natural over things insane / unnatural.]
Also, elevators have long been used in analogies and metaphors dealing with . . .
B. the abnormal or deranged or disordered or unsound or insane human mind (such as, "His elevator does not go all the way to the top floor.")
Sometimes, however, there are simple reasons why persons' "elevators of life" cannot rise and take them to the top (so to speak), such as, this: their loads are simply too heavy to be lifted from a lower level to a higher one.
Now that statement can point to a material condition,
but in terms of non-duality, it refers to a mental condition.
In non-dual terms, it is the overloaded mind which prevents persons from rising above a state of "feeling low" and which renders than incapable of rising above a depressed state or unable to rise above a sense of feeling constant fear or anxiety. For some, the "elevator of their life" sank to a basement level and they cannot rise above that place; for others, they have become stuck between the lower floors and are trapped in that place.
Yet the weight they are carrying about is, again, not material but is psychological. Maharaj came to understand that after seeing that neither excessive dogma nor excessive spirituality was providing a lasting, effective treatment for the Ultimate Sickness.
He came to see that the lives - the relative existence, the AM-ness of most persons - was weighed down with the accumulated heaviness of the load being carried around up top, in the mind. The elements making up that load include ideas, notions, misperceptions, debilitating and insane and ignorant thoughts, plans, schemes, brainstorms, impressions, images, opinions, views, convoluted visions, concepts, theories, intentions,
preoccupations, obsessions, dreamed-up purposes, silly points, knowledge (a.k.a., "learned ignorance"), emotions, false identities, assumed personalities / personal identities, roles being played, and characters walking about and / or strutting about or crawling about on the stage of the "Theater of the Lie." And all of those elements can be summarized in a single word: "beliefs."
Maharaj understood that one of the silliest concepts which humans have come up with is, "Ignorance is bliss." The Ultimate Sickness robs persons of bliss - or mere happiness. And what is one of the key symptoms of that Sickness? Ignorance.
So what is this non-duality deal all about, anyway?
Something very simple: coming to understand that humans have an internal problem which was passed on from external sources.
Specifically, the internal problem involves the ignorant and insane thoughts and words and actions which are rooted in the ignorant and insane content stored in the mind.
The external sources which caused that internal problem and which inspired that mind-content to be believed and accumulated and deemed to be sacred included ancestors; parents or guardians; relatives; friends; teachers; religious leaders; those who advanced their dualistic, better-than beliefs by introducing the concept of "the other" and teaching their "different-from-and-therefore-not-as-good-as" concepts;
unethical business leaders with their false advertising or with their agendas rooted in the desires of the industrial-military complex; hawkish, sociopathic military leaders; hawkish, ignorant and / or sociopathic politicians and their lies; and everyone else who presented falsehoods as truth and presented ignorance as wisdom.
The resultant sense of separation and anger and hatred and a desire to kill leads to a sense of heaviness rather than a sense of lightness and to a preference for fighting rather than loving, to eliminating any ability to enjoy dancing lightly and leading instead to being burdened with a deep desire for the heaviness which inspires kicking and squashing and trampling and stomping and crushing and stamping out.
I mean, how much fun are those types - these types - to be around, really?
Who is going to look at the guy on the right and say, "Oh my gosh! I love that energy you're showing! You look so sweet and kind! I want to be exposed to that energy 24 / 7 for the rest of my life! I want to be in your presence and pushed up against you forever! Kiss me right now, you hot, romantic, lover boy." The answer? Only someone as equally rage-filled and hate-filled and insane.
Maharaj said, "Love is knowing that I am everything [and everyone]." Now that understanding can preempt all hatred, and preempting hatred can be the first step to taking your tiki torch home, to setting it up in your backyard, and to relaxing in the peace and quiet with peaceful and quiet and loving and Love-filled companions.
Do that enough and one might thereafter be free of the personality disorders which have been passed down from one generation to the next (such as narcissism, perfectionism, judgmentalism, alcoholism, escapism, etc.) and then, possibly, also be free of the assholism which has been passed down as well.
Indeed, all of those disorders have been passed down by those suffering from the Ultimate Sickness and its key symptoms which Maharaj identified as "ignorance, stupidity, and insanity."
By contrast, what this deal is really about is accepting the Ultimate Medicine in order to eliminate the Ultimate Sickness and then enjoying total freedom and peace and Love and wisdom and sanity and being able to witness objectively.
Get that understanding and you're done. You will not have to settle for a "weekly reprieve" which requires you to go to a supposedly holy place once a week for regular, additional treatments; or, even worse, you will not have to settle for what is only a "daily reprieve" which requires you
to go to a place every day, forever, for regular, additional
treatments.
One is either fully and totally and unequivocally pregnant or not, and one is either fully and totally and unequivocally restored to sanity or not.
See, no one here is going to say, "Take it easy, but . . . not really. Keep on seeking forever, keep on working at being sane forever." Here, the message is, "Take the steps to be restored to sanity and to be truly free, and then . . . really, take it easy, period."
To be continued.
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