TODAY'S CONSIDERATIONS
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Today, answer #15 to the question "What is this non-duality deal all about, anyway?" is this:
Here, the deal is about
(a) realizing that persons are programmed and conditioned to behave unnaturally (that is, unlike almost every other living thing on the planet) and to go and do and zoom
and is about
(b) coming to understand that abiding naturally will give you the ability to just be (without being anything or anybody)
and is about
(c) understanding that just being can give you the ability to break away from the near-universal addiction to chaos among the masses as well as the ability enjoy freedom and peace, for a change.
PART ONE
Previously, the following invitation was offered:
" . . . Become aware of a sense of beingness . . . of the I-Amness only"
and then
the erroneous "belief in the “i” and the “I” will end," along with all sense of "I-ness" and "self-ness" and "Self-ness."
Related to those pointers, reflect on this: of all of the considerations that have been offered throughout the last two decades, there are those dealing with one subject in particular that seekers have made light of or have even dismissed completely by calling the pointers "way too philosophical" or "mere hyperbole" or "pie-in-the-sky talk" or "notions that are far too theoretical" or "wholly unrealistic" or "an abstraction" or "entirely impossible."
What are the pointers so many have considered "impossible"? These:
1. "There is no do-er"
and
2. "There is no one to do anything"
and
3. "You really can just be (without being anything or anybody)"
and
4. "For you to merely be does not prevent anything that has been happening from continuing to happen, but whatever happens can happen even as you . . .
(a) are merely being
and as you
(b) are clear that there is no "you" that is doing anything
and as you
(c) are aware that you are not someone who is doing something."
Here, for example, teaching (or more exactly, "un-teaching") can happen without any belief in "teachers" and without any belief that "I am a teacher." Too, employment can happen without believing that you are "The Employee"; "employering" can happen without believing that you are "The Employer";
parenting can happen without the assumption the false identity of "The Parent"; "wifing" can happen without believing that you are "The Wife"; and "husbanding" can happen without believing that you are "The Husband."
That, in turn, will prevent the chaos which comes when persons pridefully and arrogantly self-upgrade and believe they are "A Super Teacher," "A Super Employee," "A Super Employer," "A Super Parent," "A Super Wife," "A Super Husband," etc.
Why avoid that scenario? Because it is a lie, because it generates a false belief that one is better than "others" by virtue of being different from 'others," and because it can lead to disharmony, fighting, and even murder.
[Even as child I found it baffling that the greatest claim to fame among the prejudiced white people I dealt with in the Deep South was . . . the color of their skin, as if they had anything to do with that condition.]
Over the years, one pointer has been offered time and again to the many who have come here in misery because (A) they had assumed a co-dependent role but (B) the one who had enabled them to sustain that false image by playing the co-dependent counterpart had decided to stop playing.
This consideration was offered to one person who was trapped in his mind-generated misery and suffering around the "loss" of a false role and who was convinced that, "if he could just make things right in his relationship, then he would be happy and peaceful":
Neither happiness nor peace have anything to do with “being in love” or “being in a good relationship.” Your misery has nothing to do with “having lost love” or “being in a bad relationship.” Happiness and peace only come if you are living naturally . . . abiding as your original nature.
The deer that live naturally are at peace internally, no matter what the external conditions of their environment might be, including: hot or cold; with a mate or not; having the perfect bedding or not; having sex or not; having the perfect food source available or not.
Any interruptions of your peace, and any manifestations of misery and suffering, are about your programming, your conditioning, your acculturation, your domestication, your concepts, your beliefs, your attitudes, your assumed personas, and your ideas.
Programming and conditioning will generate a warped "mind" which will misperceive everything.
Acculturation will inspire blind belief in ancient myths and superstitions that will, in turn, control your behavior and dictate what you expect (and demand) from others;
acculturation will also inspire you to allow outside influences to determine what you think is "good" or "bad," what you think is "acceptable" or "unacceptable," and what you (mistakenly) think is the source of "happiness" or "misery."
And domestication will convince you that what is actually natural is unnatural and that what is actually unnatural is natural. It is not natural, for example, to become so emotionally-intoxicated in the name of “love” that one would strike out at the (former) object of that supposed “love.” It is not natural to believe that one who becomes emotionally-intoxicated and strikes out at you is evidencing “love.”
It is neither logical nor sane nor natural to mistake being “in heat” for REAL LOVE. The deer that populate the area around this homestead do not mistake "being in heat" with being “in ‘love' " or "in LOVE." They are merely witnessing what happens without any concepts being involved in the process;
thus, LOVE is NOT that which results when your limbic brain system releases pleasure-producing chemicals when you are attracted to someone, and LOVE is NOT the purely physical response that automatically drives all species to propagate.
Moreover, it is not natural to assume an ego-state as an identity. In that regards, consider: ego is believing that there’s a vast multiplicity arranged in a hierarchy and that you’re the pinnacle; humility is knowing that you’re nothing, no-thing; LOVE is knowing that you are everything.
As for your assuming several “love”-related ego-states, consider: If you cling to the false identity of "husband," you shall never find the True Self, so peace will never happen consistently. If you find the authentic then "husbanding" or "not husbanding" can happen . . . and consistent peace will happen either way.
To dwell as your natural state is to function as the no-concept, non-dual reality. As that natural state, no attachment happens since there is no “one” to attach to anything.
There is no belief in any concept, and there is no belief in anything that is dualistic. To believe that "A" can be attached to "B" is duality. That is quite different from knowing that you and your "partner" are not-two but are One.
Persons are driven by fears and desires that are based in the delusions they take to be truth, and of all the delusions that drive persons, their desire to be loved and their fear that they will not be are the most influential.
Too, all fears and desires and perceived “needs” are taken to be real as a result of unnatural programming, unnatural conditioning, unnatural acculturation, and unnatural domestication.
The unnatural belief in personal attributes and the subsequent belief that “a,” “b,” and “c” are prerequisites for happiness and peace are, in fact, based in the body-mind-personality identifications that operate under the auspices of your programming, conditioning, acculturation, and domestication and that, in turn, generate a sense of misery and suffering.
Another was offered the consideration in these terms:
If you cling to the false identity of “husband,” you shall never find the authenticity, so peace will never happen consistently. If you find the authenticity, then “husbanding” or “not husbanding” can happen . . . and consistent peace will happen either way.
To another, this explanation was offered:
If you find authenticity, then “husbanding” or “not husbanding” can happen without "disturbing the peace" either way. Understand also that neither “husband” nor the authentic has any form. Understand the unreality of one and the reality of the other; at that point, ego, identities, and misperceptions shall be transcended.
“Husband” was a figment of someone’s imagination, a label dreamed up only about 800 years ago after millions of years of “human-type experiences” happened without that false identity. You have bought into someone’s imagining and allowed someone else to assign that role to you. Ever since, that role has determined how you feel and think and behave.
Now, misery (and even murder during "breakups") happens in defense of a figment of the imaginings generated by programmed “minds.” How to be free of the effects of the programmed “mind”? Understand that the “mind” is the root of all illusion.
But how to be rid of the “mind”? It must be turned in on itself, so to speak, in order that all of its fallacious concepts can be seen to be untrue. (What actually happens is that some vestige of pure consciousness becomes aware of the condition of the blocked consciousness and discards the content of the fictional “mind.”)
In that light of awareness, the “mind” is burned away like a skin cancer that is exposed to the light amplification of a laser; then, the belief in untruths is allowed to “die” (i.e., “to cease” or “to disappear”). Afterwards, the “pathway” to truth is cleared of the obstacles of deceit and can be followed step-by-step to full realization, to full liberation, to full freedom.
Again, is the solution to never marry? Of course not, yet the only way to avoid your emotional intoxication and emotional pain is to accept that marriage might happen or might not, but in either case it must happen without the playing of phony roles and without the adoption of false identities, if peace is to be maintained.
Again, authenticity, like the imaginary “husband,” is also formless. That which is authentic is not “the True Witness” if you assume that witness to be something with a form. More accurately, it is merely "formless, pure, accurate witnessing."
Abandon the goal to preserve “husband” or to mourn the “death” of “husband” and make it a goal to find the True Self so that objective, pure witnessing can happen.
After that, "husbanding" might happen or might not . . . might continue or might not; in either case, however, there will be no persona-driven emotional intoxication and no destructive overreaction.
Seeing that will free you of the effects of the emotional intoxication and the emotional hangovers that happen as false identities "come" and as false identities "go."
To be continued.
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