TODAY'S CONSIDERATIONS
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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 Four: "Love is Knowing that You Are Everything;
Wisdom Is Knowing That You Are Nothing"
The discussion will continue
(1) in an effort to differentiate between the rarely understood Real Love and the far-more-prevalent, conceptualized false "love"
and
(2) in an effort to address the toll that the latter concept takes on persons (guaranteeing - as noted earlier - that, if you settle for anything false, you will lose yourself completely).
Consider this pointer: "Real Love" brings nothing that is relative and takes nothing that is relative (though the awareness of Oneness allows it to be expressed in endless ways when Reality is overlaid on the relative).
Is it possible that the concept of (false) "love" among persons is actually based in "because of's"? ("I love her because of her good looks and because of how sweet she is and because of how good she is to me" or "I love him because of the way he cares for me and because of the way he provides for my needs and because of how he worships me and because of the way he filled the void in my life when he came to me.")
Is it possible that any notions about what love is, if the notions involve "because of's," really help to further define what love is not? If True Love happens to be unconditional in nature, then is it possible that any claims about "love" that involve conditions (or conditioning) really reveal what love is not?
And if True Love can only be understood if the false selves are understood, can anyone not realized have even the slightest clue as to what True Love entails?
The typical groupthink which exists worldwide will block the understanding of pointers that attempt to differentiate Real Love - which is rooted in an unabridged sense of Oneness - from the "false love" which most persons believe is real.
So why is "love" preferred? As noted, Real Love brings nothing that is relative and takes nothing that is relative; false "love," on the other hand, is used to address personality-based fears and desires and is, therefore, only about giving relative things and getting or taking relative things . . . about "something" as opposed to "nothing."
Thus, Real Love is based in authenticity and is self-less; false "love" is totally selfish and self-ish, totally separated from the authentic. Settling for false "love" will, in fact, guarantee that you will become separated from authenticity, and vice-versa.
That is why pointers offered during a discussion of "love" vs. Real Love have been so vigorously resisted over the decades by persons defending whatever version of "love" they think they have, resisted even more than the discussions regarding their false dogma or other false beliefs.
They want their fears and desires to be addressed, right now, and if false "love" is what can most immediately address those fears and desires, so it is. Bring it on, and keep it up.
Most shut down and tune out completely when confronted with the fact that they have nothing close to Real Love, that they are playing a self-ish game, that they are using and being used. Accurately differentiating between
(a) Real Love
and
(b) the commonly-accepted version of "love" (that is, "false love" or the "not-Real Love" which the masses speak of) can only happen post-realization in the full-awareness understanding of Maharaj's pointer: "Love is knowing that I am Everything."
When the Oneness is finally understood, then Real Love is marked by an unwavering sense of the unicity, of Everything-ness; then, it is clear as well that Real Love is Everything. Nothing else is believed to be after understanding that Real Love = Everything = Oneness.
Believing nothing else - that is, having no other beliefs at all - then there is a manifestation of perfect insight and flawless perception which leads to a steadfast, unshakable understanding of the fact that "Wisdom is knowing that I am nothing."
In the instant that it is understood that you are everything and that you are nothing, then at that point you lose yourself absolutely (that is, you lose any belief in false selves) and you will know authenticity absolutely.
In that instant you are never more in touch with yourself as well as in touch with that which is real and that which is authentic, realizing love manifest and realizing the non-dualistic truth of "the not-two-ness."
Understand that and then you will also understand that "ecstasy" - that perfect and total bliss - is actually the loss of your self / selves, allowing for the pleasure of mere beingness to manifest and then merely witnessing purely that which Love truly is.
The Absolute is at that moment overlaid upon the relative so that the summative statement of non-duality ("I AM THAT; I AM") is fully understood and applies so that relative happenings then offer the opportunity for bliss to manifest and for stability to remain when far-from-blissful relative happenings occur.
Moreover, that can happen whether you are "with someone" or not. "How can that be?" some ask. That point will possibly be made clear.
Previously, it was shown that, post-full-realization, any physical expression of love is simultaneously an Expression of Real Love. Never again, after full realization, can such an expression be anything other than a simultaneous expression of Love and an expression of THAT . . . of Real and Absolute Love, meaning Love which is a reflection of the Absolute. You will settle for nothing less. At that point, you will spontaneously choose nothing over the alternative of settling for less.
The "characteristics" of the Absolute are then adumbrated throughout the entirety of the relative existence and become the "characteristics" of the "not-two" (non-dual) unicity of Real Love / love. What are those "traits"? In the limitless expanse of energy called “The Absolute,” that energy is uncontaminated, unconditional, unconditioned, unqualified, unlimited, pure, unadulterated, and unambiguous.
If that energy which has the ability to be both conscious of and aware of, if manifested, is not blocked by the effects of programming and conditioning and domestication and acculturation and brainwashing and indoctrination, then it is uncontaminated, unconditional, unconditioned, unqualified, unlimited, pure, unadulterated, and unambiguous.
For the remainder of the post-realization understanding of the "not-two-ness" of both Everything-ness and Nothingness, then all expressions of Love and / or expressions of Love as love will also be uncontaminated, unconditional, unconditioned, unqualified, unlimited, pure, unadulterated, and unambiguous.
Again many say, "But I still don't see how absolute bliss and the manifestation of phenomenal absolute bliss can manifest if you are not with someone." It's really quite simple:
When the Oneness, the Everything-ness, is understood, there might be a "Lover" and relatively loving or there might not be relative loving. Either way, though, Love IS. The bliss of Loving and loving, therefore, never had anything to do with "two-ness" at all, did it? Just as I AM THAT; I AM" has nothing to do with "two-ness," so too the case is that "Lover and loving" can be without having anything to do with "two-ness."
Consider: Is it possible that Love does not require the presence of another body but can happen even if “alone”? Is it possible that Love does not involve assumption of more false identities? Since realization ends all subject-object duality, might True Love actually exist without an object?
Because there is really no such thing as a "relationship" - that concept based in the duality of an "A" joined with a "B" - then it should be clear now that the post-realization relative existence (marked not by knowing Love and / or love but marked by Being Love and 'being love') requires "no one else" for Love and "loving" to both be understood or felt, just as it is when no "other" is required for "I AM THAT; I AM" to be understood and felt.
Does that mean that I should believe (to use Maharaj's words) the ignorance, stupidity, and insanity-based advice offered by one teacher that I must "love what is" in order to be happy and at peace?
Does that mean that, as she says, if I had been a Jew in Germany in the 1930's and 40's and I had been forced to watch as the Nazis threw my child in the fires of a cremation oven that I should say, "I love this . . . I love what is"?
Does that mean that the woman who listened to that teacher for years (but eventually came here to be freed from all that she had been taught by that teacher), should have continued to listen to that teacher who told her that she "should love her rapist and even invite him into her home and prepare a meal and serve it to him"?
Does that mean that I should love Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov and that I should love the fact that he drove a truck into a crowd of pedestrians and bicyclists yesterday in New York City, killing eight and injuring at least a dozen more?
Does that mean I should love the men who drove vehicles into crowds of pedestrians along the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France and in the U.K. several times this year and in Jerusalem and earlier in Berlin and in Sweden and in Spain along with the U.S. white supremacist who recently drove his car into a crowd of people in Virginia?
Or would I have to be as mentally ill as those persons trapped in the symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness - symptoms including ignorance and stupidity and insanity - in order to agree with anyone telling me that I must "love what is" if I am to be happy and free?
The true non-dual message offers a means by which one can be (a) happy and / or (b) free of becoming emotionally-intoxicated when circumstances arise which are challenging and can also offer a means by which one can find (c) a sane alternative to either trying to love all that is or hating all that is.
In such a case, nothing even close to Love is being addressed; moreover, that distorted "love what is" version of "love" is even more removed from reality than the type of "love" which the masses typically talk about.
Now the religious zealots and fanatics who drove trucks into crowds had talked about their "love of Allah / God"; the supremacist in Virginia had talked about the "love" of his race and the "love" of his nationality; and a Big Name Teacher talks about her "love" of all that is.
May any who have listened to any of those types of persons come to their senses and be free of such nonsensical beliefs. The likelihood of that happening? Slim to none. Persons who buy into nonsensical and insane beliefs often cling to them so willingly and fervently that they are willing to fight over those beliefs and even kill and die for their beliefs; thus, any chance of their being free of those beliefs is minuscule.
So it is, but so it need not be.
To be continued.
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