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Why So Few Will Ever Be Freed of Their Distorted and Delusional Thoughts and Beliefs, Part Four
Again, Maharaj said,
"The teacher's sole concern is with suffering and the ending of suffering."
Consider each of these main points:
a. these teachings (un-teachings) are about the ending of suffering;
b. the roots of suffering are in the mind;
c. for a person to be free, the mind must be freed of its habit of distortions and delusions;
d. for a person to be free, the mind must be freed of its destructive habits, relatively speaking; and
e. to identify with the false self / selves can be fatal.
As for "e," there is a most peculiar irony involved: those identified with a false self can eventually become willing to destroy that self if they erroneously believe that their self is under attack:
"You're going to leave me? Oh, hell no! I'll kill you and then I'll kill myself before I let that happen"
or
"I think you're harming our country, so my destructive leader and I will destroy you - and the whole damn country too if we much - to be rid of you."
Pain will come throughout the relative. (That's about the body.) Misery and suffering will come throughout the relative. (That's about the mind.)
One visitor to the loft offered this perspective in clarifying the "your-body-is-not-the-problem, your-mind-is-the-problem" point:
" . . . There is nothing wrong with my body nor with my real being. Both are not of my making and need not be improved upon. What has gone wrong is the ‘inner body’, call it mind, consciousness, antahkarana, whatever the name."
The "realized Nisargan teacher" (that also experienced suffering prior to full realization, and often a great deal of suffering, in fact) offers to introduce the sufferer to the natural state, to the Nisarga state, in order to abide in a suffering-free manner.
So how to reconcile
(A) the "The teacher's sole concern is with suffering and the ending of suffering"
and
(B) the fact that suffering will still come.
What does the understanding offer in that regard?
The understanding makes clear that the nonsense in the mind is subconsciously driving all thoughts and words and actions which generate misery and suffering. Therefore . . . ?
Therefore, purge the mind and thereby begin eliminating the cause of most suffering and end the suffering which comes if clear seeing and realistic perspectives are present.
Again, "She left me, Floyd! I'm dying here."
"Well, if that were actually the case, then one would certainly feel miserable. Yet it is not the case, so your misery will be able to end. Why? Because 'you' are not dying. What is coming to an end is a false identity which had been making you a prisoner for a very long time. And your mate playing the false, co-dependent counterpart role to your false role was also imprisoned."
And where was your prison located and where was her prison located? Only in each of your minds (which actually are not yours at all but are really and truly . . . theirs).
Far less misery will come when the abidance happen in a Nisargan (natural) fashion, in the same kind of natural, spontaneous manner in which all living things function except for humans who live less often under the auspices of the natural brain and far more often under the auspices of a mind filled with unnatural and supernatural beliefs (a.k.a., "nonsense").
When pain and / or misery and suffering come, some try to deal with those conditions by avoiding, denying, eluding, fleeing, escaping into addiction-based diversions, generating other diversions, etc.
The approach offered via the non-dual understanding is that because misery and suffering are of the mind, much of that can be eliminated by addressing the source of most misery and suffering, namely, the content of the mind which is always bastardized via nonsensical programming, conditioning, acculturation, etc.
Maharaj said that one's "attitude to suffering must change," (an "attitude" being a "belief.") The non-Realized masses suffer, and their attitude / belief is that suffering must be escaped, avoided, evaded, circumvented, dodged, sidestepped, eluded, or averted; if those do not "work," then the belief can become this: that the body housing the consciousness which is able to register suffering must be eliminated.
And because all that one would escape is in the mind, persons do not shoot themselves in the foot. They shoot themselves in the head. It's there, between the eyes, where the incessant, unending chatter of a thousand monkeys manifests, and the goal is to quieten that noise. The wise do it by purging the mind; others do it with a bullet.
In "The Vision," available without charge at the top of this page in the category labeled "FREEBIES," there is an account of what can come if awake, conscious, and aware. It is possible for that condition to come and not leave until the manifestation ends.
With full awareness comes realization and the end of suffering from the effects of the programming, conditioning, etc. and all of the other blockages which prevent the consciousness from Witnessing Purely and seeing both "reality" and "Reality."
The vision showed that the movement along the "path" ended belief in any of the former, "bad" roles which had been assumed and played as well as an end to the newer, "good" religious and spiritual roles which had been assumed and played (as the raven's dissolution in the vision illustrates).
It showed that the final role to go at the end of the vision was "The Seeker" because an understanding of the functioning of the totality manifested, allowing all seeking to end.
Thus came an end to the assumption of any and all false identities and an end to the beliefs and ideas which accompany them.
It was shown that, as the assumption of any and all false identities ends, those trapped in the step-three-of-seven personas of the "religious person" or the "spiritual person" can finally break free of those ego-states as they stop identifying with a super power, can take the remaining steps on the "journey" to full realization, and can live an AS IF-style life of authenticity as a result of the understanding which comes via being free of beliefs and being awake, aware, and conscious.
Only then can misery end and only then can bliss / happiness / contentment / satisfaction begin.
Will the latter manifest regularly without interruption? Of course not. All in the relative existence is always in flux, but there is far less flux when dual-mindedness is not a driving force.
Yeshu'a (Jesus) said after being exposed to non-dual pointers: "A dual-minded person is unstable in all ways"; hence, a non-dual-minded person will not be unstable in all ways."
Less chaos will manifest
so
more stability will come.
To be continued.
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Here, with those who are still driven to talk about "God," the "Son of God," the "Holy Spirit," "Buddha," "Krishna," etc., etc., etc., the invitation to them is to view those as verbs, not nouns.
THE EXPLANATION
If looked at as nouns, they point to illusions and are, therefore, a total waste of time to even discuss; if looked at as verbs which are resulting in certain sane but rare behaviors among humanity, then they are worthy of some attention during the relative existence.
The reply to that usually goes like this: "If you are in contact with a God that wants to be worshipped and praised and glorified, then you're dealing with someone like yourself - a narcissist - and hanging out with narcissists will never bring an end to your narcissism (that narcissism evidenced by the fact that you think you are "godly").
Next, in the phrase 'loving and caring God,' any supposed God that truly had her or his act together would tell you that the totally irrelevant part of that phrase is 'God' and that the only part that is relevant is the "loving and caring" part.
"That is, a non-narcissistic god / goddess would say, "I care not an iota about being worshipped and praised and glorified by you or anyone else. How arrogant and insecure and needy would I have to be to want that? Forget the man-made, dreamed up noun 'God' and focus on the 'God as a verb' understanding and then go forth and let loving and caring be verbs - not adjectives - and let them generate the act of love and the act of caring and let those actions manifest through you."
Yeshu'a (Jesus) and Pope John Paul II and Pope Francis were spot on:
"No one shall ever see 'the kingdom of heaven.' It is within"
and
"Heaven and earth shall fade away."
--Yeshu'a (Jesus)
and
"Heaven and hell are not geographic places but are states of mind, nothing more than concepts dreamed up by men."
--Pope John Paul II
"There is no hell."
--Pope Francis, the current pope
[in an interview with journalist Eugenio Scalfari,
a writer used by the Pope to issue off the record
teachings
which are part of the Papal Magisterium]
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of that session.
