TODAY'S CONSIDERATIONS
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Today:
The additional, very different perspectives which came via the vision regarding
The Love vs. "love" Conundrum
(Part One)
Probably, the two most unpopular pointers offered by Maharaj were
(1) those which invited seekers to move on along the path and to be free of all identifications, including the religious ones and the spiritual ones;
and
(2) to understand what Real Love is and to abandon all of their concepts about "love," which - among the non-realized - always is some version of not-Real-Love.
That said, in his later talks he often addressed both of those, and the same applies here. So, to move on, here's how the advice that "you must love everyone" has been addressed in the past:
Earlier it was noted that, in the purest, non-dual sense, "Love" is a noun, not a verb. The vision (along with the understandings which came with the subsequent considerations which the vision inspired) provided a clarification - a new and different perspective - around some of the most-often misunderstood pointers, pointers dealing with . . .
. . . Love vs. love; loving; loving all; the Oneness; and such beliefs as "You must love thy neighborhood"; and "You must love everything, seeing that 'it's all good'"; and "You must love everyone because we are all the children of the One True Father, God"; and "If you had been around in the 1940's in Europe, you would have needed to love Hitler, too"; etc., etc., etc., blah, blah, blah.
So many are trapped in the quandary of trying to reconcile all of those often self-contradictory (and impossible) dictates. During a period of quiet, while being totally open to any additional understandings which might come via the vision, a new clarity around the misconceptions and confusions generated by pointers regarding "Love" / "love" / Oneness came.
The following was recalled as certain past pointers began rolling across the internal screen in a stream of consciousness manner:
Maharaj made clear that there are two witnessing states:
1. The first is rooted in duality, in the blocked consciousness, and it is called Subject-Object Witnessing, as in, "I (subject) see you (object)." "A" sees a "B"? That is duality.
2. The second is called Pure Witnessing (or, as some call that Pure Witnessing, "The True Self"). Of course, the realized understand that there is no selfness or Selfness and that there is no "one" or "witness" or Witness."
What there is, post-realization (post-removal of ignorance) is clear seeing, is proper perspective, is witnessing accurately, and what is doing that Witnessing? The conscious energy part of a composite unity (which is a temporarily-manifested bundle of always-cycling elements, of always-cycling conscious energy, and of always-cycling oxygen which continues right up until the point when mahasamadhi is taken).
Want to point to that relative composite unity which can function in a post-realization fashion with a term such as "self?" Fine, as long as it is understood that there really is no self and there really is no witness to do any witnessing.
There is merely the witnessing itself which is happening. Maharaj did say that "Love is knowing I am everything," but what he never said is, "You must love everything and everyone."
The vision offered a perspective which allowed me to be able to work with some who have been brainwashed and to free them of the nonsensical, insane beliefs which are being touted by some Big Name Teachers (to use Maharaj's term) who are the ones whose spoutings reveal the presence of the three key symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness which Maharaj identified as "ignorance, stupidity, and insanity."
Again, I worked with a lady who came here for a retreat, trying to undo the brainwashing she had been exposed to by a particular Big Name Teacher who especially attracts addicts and alcoholics who pay thousands of dollars to spend a week or more with her. It was seen that, as always, the addictive behavior of the woman who came here was rooted in years of trauma, especially including the trauma caused by her having been raped.
So what did she tell me that the famous Big Name Teacher had advised?
She was told: "You must love your rapist. Invite him to dinner. Prepare a meal for him and serve him."
This is the same Big Name Teacher who says, "If you were alive during WWII and the Nazis tossed your child into a furnace, you should love that."
Then the woman gave my visitor the mantra she gives to all who will listen: "Love what is." That comes from a woman whose "recovery literature" advised, "Acceptance is the key" and who was taught to "Accept what is" and who then took those pointers to the greatest (and most perverted and most bizarre extreme imaginable); hence, her advice to "Love what is," be that the murdering of your child or you're being raped.
Let's see how Maharaj would have likely reacted had he heard her passing on that teaching which is at the heart of the BS message she is spreading:
Because his translators and editors played the role of "Self-Appointed Guardians Of Maharaj's Reputation," they edited out of his oral talks in the loft and out of the written transcripts of his talks all of the profanities which he often used for to provide emphasis and to provide clarity and to offer a direct-and-in-your-face-and-let-me-make-this-as-clear-as-possible-fashion certain key pointers.
Knowing some of the statements Maharaj made in the past, it is possible to guess what his response might have been to that Big Name Teacher if she had gone to his loft and suggested that "You must love everyone and you must love everything that happens to you and to everyone else throughout the relative existence and if you're raped you should prepare a meal for your rapist and invite him to come back into your home and let you serve him and if the Nazis pulled your child from your arms and tossed your baby into the flames of an oven and made you listen to it screaming and made you watch as its body is consumed by the fire, you should love that, too."
Knowing that there were certain supposedly "obscene" words and phrases which Maharaj used more often than others, his reply to her would likely have contained the terms "totally insane bullshit" and "get" and "the hell out of" and "this flat."
Seeing that allowed for a clarification to come in regards to those whom Maharaj tossed out of the loft, the ones who were only there to show off their accumulated knowledge ("learned ignorance," Maharaj called it) and to show off their assumed spiritual giantism but who were really only showing their egotism and ignorance.
To be continued.
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