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Today, answer #16 to the question "What is this non-duality deal all about, anyway?" is this:
Above all: be love, but then live in an "as if" fashion so that you can enjoy Love as a relative expression of Absolute, Real Love as well
(Part Three: Being Love And The Natural Expression of Love)
To review an earlier point:
Here, it is understood that those who have said "you should encourage abstinence among teens and the non-married" have mentally discarded the "I AM" part of the summative statement and now delusionally take themselves to be "THAT only." (The debunking of their endorsement of the unnatural will be addressed later.)
Thus, the discussion will now turn to those who behave in an unnatural manner because they have adopted a supernatural (i.e., "spiritual" or "lofty" or "noble" or "exalted" or "elevated") role which drives them to abandon all that is totally natural and to avoid all that they take to be "impure" even though that is not the case at all.
Those persons who have offered such suggestions - believing that they have the right to dictate what is taught here and what is not and believing that they have the right to dictate what people should and should not do with their own bodies - have offered their suggestions to the wrong teacher / un-teacher. Here, the Direct Path Method is used in conjunction with the Nisarga (Natural) Yoga, so nothing that is totally unnatural will be endorsed, and all that is natural will be endorsed.
What those persons want is a teacher who has assumed the same persona that they have, namely, the persona of "The Super Spiritual One"; or, they are seeking a teacher who will reinforce their unnatural mode of functioning and their distorted belief systems.
Here, the rejection of all beliefs is recommended; never have the teachings / unteachings here recommended that one should be free of his or her former "bad" beliefs in order to replace those with "good" beliefs, with "religious" beliefs, with "spiritual" beliefs, with "lofty" beliefs, with "noble" beliefs, with "exalted" beliefs, or with "elevated" beliefs.
The model for abidance in the relative existence here is the deer. The moment that a deer is found to be practicing abstinence, then that might be considered as something "natural," but even that case would likely be found to be an abnormality and dismissed as such.
Here, the suggestion is not to run about seeking physical sex or to run away from physical sex. Here, the point is to enjoy all that the relative existence can offer post-realization because everything enjoyed post-realization can finally be enjoyed in a sane, logical, rational, normal and natural manner.
There will be no "unsafe sex" practiced because that is not sane. There will be no need for sex because that would indicate a dependency, natural urges notwithstanding. As with all things here, sex might continue to happen or might not and the only conclusion either way would be, "So it is."
On the other hand, the physical expression of Absolute Love via a relative demonstration of Love / love will continue to be viewed as an act that is totally natural.
Two persons from the Far East who claimed to be "truly realized" - as opposed to the "non-true realization" they said they had detected here - had explained and complained that I "should be recommending abstinence."
Of course among the non-realized masses, confusion is the rule, but even among those who claim to be realized, most are involved in nothing more than the continuing confusion which accompanies what Maharaj called "kindergarten-level spirituality." In assuming their new but false identity of "THAT ONLY," they are trapped in the delusion that the relative dissolves as a result of their having reached such noumenal and spiritual heights.
If that dissolution really happened as a result of realization, then the only chance for experiencing the essence of Love and Love's Expression would disappear as well because there are no physical rewards awaiting in some imaginary, upgraded "world" that one will supposedly abide in "later" and "eternally."
Prior to realization, there is no THAT ONLY, and post-realization there is no THAT ONLY. The summative statement "I AM THAT; I AM" points as much to Reality / reality post-realization as it did prior to realization.
[Consider the added confusion among the masses after Moses plagiarized that Eastern phrase, claimed that he heard the words being spoken from a "burning-bush-cum-god," failed to include the semicolon, and reported that god has identified "himself" as "I AM THAT I AM." Ah, so profound in its sound, yet so totally distorted.]
So for thousands of years, "I AM THAT; I AM" has been misunderstood by billions upon billions of non-seekers . . . and by far-too-many seekers as well. Here, the invitation is to know the THAT-ness in order that freedom from delusions and distortions can manifest in order that the remainder of the AM-ness can be marked by sanity and then freedom and then peace and then happiness or by an ability to witness objectively without becoming emotionally-intoxicated during challenging, relative events.
For those who think that THAT is all that matters, they have missed the point completely: the only thing that really "matters" post-realization IS the remaining IS-ness.
(Who would go to the effort of journeying to a store during the winter, buying a coat, but then not wearing it when venturing outside on especially-cold days? Who would journey to a store during the winter, buy a coat, but then stay in the store forever? No one that is sane.
This deal is about completing the "journey" to find that which has been sought in order to be free of the insanity and chaos and dis-ease and disharmony or instability that mark the relative existence when not realized. It was that drive to be free of the insanity and chaos and dis-ease and disharmony or instability during the relative existence that precipitated the search to begin with.
What sense would it make, therefore, to find that which was being sought and then try to abandon the relative existence without ever having enjoyed the insanity-free, chaos-free, disharmony-free, and instability-free existence that can happen via realization? None. That would make no sense at all. Consider:
Thoreau: "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I have not lived.")
Post-manifestation, after the elements forming the plant food body recycle into the universal pool of elements, and after the formerly-circulating oxygen merges into the universal pool of air, and after the conscious-energy merges into the Absolute, there will be awareness; however, there will be no aware-of-ness and there will be no conscious-of-ness.
Whatever is to happen with the composite unity - and via the composite unity that "you" presently are - must happen now. Why? Because there will be no "one" remaining, post-manifestation, to be . . . or to know . . . or to enjoy anything.
To claim that one has realized but then to fail to overlay the newly-understood Reality on the relative existence in order to allow the remainder of the manifestation to unfold in a sound and logical and rational and (to use Maharaj's terms) a stupidity-free and insanity-free manner is clear evidence that the life of the one making such a claim is most assuredly continuing to happen in the same insane and unsound and illogical and irrational manner as it was happening prior to any beliefs about "having realized."
Deer in the wild know the I AM, but they do not know THAT. Deer in the wild abide in a sound and logical and rational and stupidity-free and insanity-free manner, focusing only on the AM-ness while focusing not at all on the THAT-ness.
Those who would live supernaturally are actually living unnaturally and, therefore, are not living naturally at all. The actual "end goal" of engaging in all of the "work" and "effort" which goes into realization is not to know THAT and to abide as THAT ONLY, forsaking all of the joys and pleasures that can only happen during the relative.
The "end-goal" is to be free of all ideas and concepts and beliefs and attitudes which drive efforts to abide supernaturally (i.e., in a spiritual or magical or mythical or "kindergartenly" fashion) and to be free of the influence of all thoughts and words and deeds that result in non-natural living.
That is, the end goal is to abide as the deer abide, enjoying the enjoyable parts of the AM-ness and / or witnessing the not-so-enjoyable happenings during the AM-ness without ever being occupied or pre-occupied with THAT at all.
Here, in October of 2011, when the heart with a near-total blockage in a main artery reached its peak of functioning most unnaturally, there was a constant awareness of the heart's presence because of stabbing jolts of pain, because of its irregular and arrhythmic beating, and because of its pounding away in a manner that made it impossible to ignore.
By contrast, when the heart is functioning naturally, neither you nor I nor anyone else is aware of the presence of the heart. So it is post-realization when natural abidance merely happens spontaneously. There is no need for awareness of awareness. All just happens spontaneously.
While the natural functioning of a heart can allow the relative existence to unfold in a peaceful and even enjoyable manner without the slightest need to focus on the heart, so too can the understanding of THAT allow the relative existence to unfold in a natural and peaceful and even enjoyable fashion without any longer needing to focus on THAT at all.
The deer that function in a manner that is not plagued with programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, brainwashing and indoctrination are abiding in the manner that should be the end goal of every seeker. The deer are fully and automatically and spontaneously and instinctively and mindlessly and unthinkingly engaged in the AM-ness. There is nothing more than that which should be sought by any seeker.
Again, the truly realized - that is, those truly free of learned ignorance, per Maharaj - do not run. They do not run to and they do not run from. They abide with a sense of impartiality, witnessing all objectively and accurately from a platform of neutrality. (The exception? During mating season. The problem with humankind? It's always in mating season.)
They are fully and automatically and spontaneously and instinctively and mindlessly and unthinkingly engaged in the AM-ness, no longer working to focus primarily on the THAT-ness;
therefore, there is no disparity between the I AM and the I AM THAT; there is no disparity in the AM-ness and the THAT-ness among the Fully Realized; and there is no disparity in Real Love and the expression of relative, physical love when the latter is understood to be as much an expression of the Oneness as Real Love itself:
Maharaj said, "Love is knowing that I am Everything," and among the realized still engaged in the physical expression of the unicity, there is no disparity and there is no misunderstanding about what the physical expression is actually representing or expressing.
Among those not engaged in the AM-ness aspect of expressing the Oneness, some are abstaining because their partner left, because their partner "died," because of health issues, because of aging issues, and for a number of other all-natural or understandable reasons. That is normal.
The realized are not immunized against all things relative, so such effects as the above can result, naturally; those people are completely prepared for whatever the relative brings and will feel whatever feelings arise as a result of whatever happens while being exempted from ego-state-driven emotional intoxication around relative events; thus, they remain at peace, whether "with" or "without" things relative.
There was a time when Maharaj enjoyed sex and a time when he no longer engaged in the act. Yet at no time, post-realization, did he avoid sex because he had a belief that abstinence would render him "supernatural" or "spiritual" or "lofty" or "noble" or "exalted" or "elevated."
And at no time, post-realization, did he not know Love, and at no time post-realization was he not aware of the Oneness (such awareness being a prerequisite for understanding what Real Love is). Expressed in a relative manner or not, Real Love was known, whether shown literally or not.
By contrast, consider those who offered the advice that "you should encourage abstinence." They are not engaging in the AM-ness aspect of expressing the Oneness because they believe it makes them "more spiritual" or "more pure" or "better than other persons" or "more pleasing to god." The result? They are abiding in an unnatural and abnormal fashion. They are as deluded as they were prior to claiming realization. They are not free of beliefs but are as trapped in beliefs as ever.
Here, it is freedom from beliefs (and desires and fears) which guarantees that there is no running after sex (or anything else) and there is no running away from sex (or anything else).
Here, the abidance happens naturally and spontaneously, as if the relative existence were a pleasurable journey that is happening in an AS IF manner and AS IF it were happening via an airplane that is in "auto-pilot" mode and that is sailing smoothly and calmly above the fray;
furthermore, there is no advice here to engage in sex that is an expression of the Oneness or not to engage in sex at all . . . no advice to "do this" or to "not do that."
The key pointer is that when persons are lost in the role of "The Spiritual Giant," they will behave in a supernatural and / or unnatural manner, and that is exactly the case with the two who are now playing the role of "Religious and Spiritual Giants Who Are the Givers of Unsolicited Advice and Who Would Control What All Persons Do and Do Not Do With Their Own Bodies."
Offered above were some logical reasons why some no longer engage in the expression of Love via the relative act of expressing Love (though they most assuredly still know True Love); yet here, the pointer is that to believe that one is better (and better than "others") for choosing abstinence in a most unnatural and illogical conclusion and has nothing at all to do with actual realization.
Finally, for those who are using persons as sex objects to build up their own egos, yes, abstinence for a period of time might be indicated if it would allow their focus to shift away from self-gratification and self-focus to a focus on the search for authenticity and for a complete understanding of the statement that "Love is knowing that I am Everything."
Here, meanwhile, where Nisarga (Natural) living is the only "rule," no natural act can or will be "blacklisted," advice from those assuming the role of "Spiritual Giants" notwithstanding.
To be continued.
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