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The point in this series is that the non-dual message has long been widespread but has seldom been understood either then or now. So, to move on . . .
FURTHER DISCUSSIONS AND CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING SHAKESPEARE'S NON-DUAL QUOTES AND POINTERS
Shakespeare's "Humours"
As the non-realized wander or ricochet through the relative, they take their “world” to be a stage (to use the realized poet’s words). Their imagined “world,” then, is conceived to be a stage and “all the men and women, merely players.”
Each plays a role (actually, multiple roles) in the Theater of the Lie, in the Drama of Fiction, and eventually all of the actors become convinced that they are the roles being played.
When reality is overlaid on the relative, then the acting ends. There is no one to “act stoical, rational, calm, or non-emotional.” There is no one left to continue living in the mirror as happened before. Realization is about not acting and about seeing that the stage is a stage and that persons are all actors;
about seeing that so many are merely putting on an act; about walking off the imaginary stage; about no longer accepting roles that inspire depression, anger or fear; and about moving through the remainder of the manifestation fully awake, aware, and conscious.
[Add “in a totally spontaneous and natural fashion” if the realization happened via the Nisarga Yoga.]
The “Night of the Living Dead”-type of robotic-like, trance-like walking about as if asleep ends.
The way the relative unfolds post-realization was also addressed in this exchange yesterday after a comment about the ways in which “the humours” fluctuate:
By the way, to consider the sanguine and phlegmatic and choleric and melancholic humour states to be a part of what is natural is not outside the nisarga understanding—back to the biorhythms and the body's cycles—as long as it is clear that all of that involves a body and nothing more.
The “Non-Dualist” Louise abiding in South Africa said: "A couple of years back, I had the sense that a feeling (joy, sadness, love, pain) blows through consciousness like a wave. Then human beings caught in that wave, personalize it. We say 'I am sad because . . . blah blah'."
Floyd: "Or that could be said to be 'mind-alizing' it as well as personalizing it. If 'fully realized,' (totally free of all the belief in all learned ignorance) then there can be no thought following a witnessed feeling."
Louise: “Is this true – the idea of a feeling wave? With personality in place, the humours or even the fundamental feeling tone of the enneatype must play its tune. How is that natural? Or is it only unnatural when we personalize rather than just witness the feeling?”
Floyd: “It is natural in that the efficiency level of the brain’s operations—as well as the fluctuations in the body’s levels of energy—continually fluctuate in all humans, animals, birds, etc.
“You infer accurately when noting that it becomes unnatural when the “mind” personalizes that which is not a “feeling” but is an “emotion.” Only ego-states can generate emotions . . . the emoting that leads to emotional intoxication, acting out, etc.
“It is the unblocked, post-realization consciousness that can witness feelings rise or fall without becoming emotionally-intoxicated.
"Consider: Maharaj noted that the body pain from his throat cancer had nothing to do with 'Him' (the witnessing consciousness).
"Just as ‘He’ pointed out that ‘He’ was merely the witness of the body and the pain, You and I could as easily say, ‘Ah, the space has some of that black bile stuff going on - the stuff Shakespeare mentioned’."
“Maharaj said that the body might have certain imbalances in its chemistry on any given day, so the consciousness can register or note some sense of ‘melancholia,’ but that has nothing to do with the witnessing agent.
“To watch a train plowing through a truck that stalled on a railroad track is not to be plowed through your self. Maharaj explained that Westerners usually display tamas (darkness, melancholia, passivity) and rajas (motion, restlessness, the going-doing-zooming syndrome) rather than sattva (being as opposed to doing).
“Tamas and rajas can indicate a lack of realization if involved with ‘personalizing’ sadness or if rooted in fears or desires that trap persons in their continuous efforts to accumulate and escape. When that is the case, there is no going into or out of harmony and disharmony. The disharmony dominates the existence.
”Yet fluctuations in what were once called ‘the humours’ can also manifest as a result of the body’s physical condition. As is the case when a mix of water and gasoline are introduced into the tank of a car and the engine misfires, such is also the case when a food plan is being followed that is not the plan for a particular body type—three different types being in existence.
“Maharaj addressed that very effect, making note of the way that the body’s chemistry can be out of balance, (the body being nothing more than a plant food body, chemical at its core.)
“Either an absence of full realization or a body’s chemical imbalance can result in one exhibiting similar behaviors, but the causes are obviously quite different and require quite different approaches in addressing the real issue.
“No matter what, however, the body has nothing to do with ‘What You Are’ or with ‘What I Am’.”
Louise: “Ok – that is clear. So there may be effects that arise from the body (pain from illness; biorhythms, hormones, effects of diet or poor quality of food, etc) – but since I am not the body, these can simply be witnessed.”
Floyd: “Exactly. Sickness and health can be associated with the body and are aspects of the consciousness, yet I am not the consciousness—neither are You. How is that known? Sickness and health are dualities and dualities have nothing to do with You or Me.
“That Which You Are and That Which I Am is beyond the consciousness, beyond the beingness and even beyond the non-beingness.
“The body needs so many things, but neither You nor I need anything. As for consciousness, it too is restless in that it is always in motion. Stability can only come via first abiding as the original nature, as that original state. Then, unwavering peace and resolute freedom come when abiding as the Void.”
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.
Meaning? There are members of certain groups who say things such as "My concept of God in the past was of a weak God, an absentee God, A Santa Claus-type God, a mean, punishing, vindictive God, etc. Today, I am in close contact with a loving and caring God whom I worship and praise and glorify and give thanks to."
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"
--Yeshu'a (Jesus)
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 become a part of the Papal Magisterium.
[That said, would that the popes who have shown the courage to reject a core concept of their dogma - namely, "hell" - would find the additional courage required to question the very existence of their institution in light of the centuries-long cover-up of their history of raping children and in light of the mental and emotional and psychological scarring of billions of their members past and present.
And that need for courage also applies as questions need to be asked about why so many other sky cults are still being supported and allowed to continue to exist as well. When certain types of programming and conditioning have been shown to blind the masses, they should end. Will they? Not likely. Why?
Because what the masses think and say and do is most influenced by the international crime families which hold sway over the masses as criminals conduct their planet-wide operations. What are the major international crime families and which are the most influential and have the largest memberships?
The Mafia / La Cosa Nostra; the Catholic Church (with it 1.2 billion followers) whose Vatican Bank worked for decades with the Mafia while laundering mob earnings (for a 15% all-profit charge by the Bank); Protestant and Evangelical Churches (with over 1.2 billion followers) like the one I was raised in where the youth director molested and sexually assaulted young girls; big business which has long created environments in which people have been abused; powerful political bodies like the U.S. Congress, etc., etc., etc.)
With all of those crime families, neither the followers nor the leadership ever voluntarily step down or shut down their criminal activities. Be they gangs, organized crime families, religions, big business, politicians, etc., they all want control and they all want power and they all want money, and nothing internal will interfere with the driving forces at play.
The masses must demand that all those in charge must step down and their groups and institutions must shut down, and there's the real problem because the continuation of their crimes are enabled not as much by the people running such crime organizations as they are enabled by the masses of people who - wanting some perceived "payoff" - remain involved with them and give them money and support them and aid and abet the continued existence of those criminal enterprises and thus facilitate the ability of church criminals and political criminals and other types of criminals to continue to commit their crimes.]
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