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ENTERING INTO "THE CHILD IGNORANCE STAGE" OR "THE CHILD NO-KNOWING STATE"
[Included are excerpts from the book entitled The Relative Results of Returning to "The Child Ignorance Stage" or "The Child No-Knowing State"]
Non-Identification
Reaching the fourth step and settling into "The Child No-Knowing State" is the only way for the planet's adult-age, false identities accumulators to return to the freedom of Non-Identification.
Regarding the "liberation via non-identification," if a seeker reaches the end of the third step and shifts into the "Child No-Knowing State," then all phenomenal identities will have been abandoned because the seeker will have seen all that one is not. As Maharaj said, "that is enough."
Yet among many that have not totally abandoned "The Super Seeker" and "The Spiritual Giant" identity, a state of total "non-identification" may not last because the attraction of the so-called "noumenal identities" which so many believe includes their "lofty or elevated or noble or special" Identity might once again exert its influence.
Granted, after the fourth step, the so-called "True Self" or "Real Self" can come into awareness as "Pure Witnessing."
Unfortunately, farther along "the path," some will accept as a new identity such labels as "The Absolute," "Brahman," "God," "energy," "energy-matter," "Consciousness," "Awareness," "Something," "SOMETHING!" "the Infinite Self," "The Supreme Self," "The Superlative," "THAT," etc.
Of course all of those are still man-made labels generated by persons, labels which can be (a) useful for the sake of discussion only by some but which can be (b) taken as "Ultimate Identities" by others.
In the book FROM THE ABSOLUTE TO THE NOTHINGNESS though, it is made clear that prior to all that can be thought to be "something" or "Something," there was . . . nothing. In the author's "Quotations" book, this is offered:
The ultimate non-dual understanding is that there need not be any understanding. So relax. When a “state” of zero concepts is reached, it is understood that there is no “identity” at all.
Where this present universe is, there was a void, so . . .
"Nothing from nothing leaves . . . nothing, not “SOMETHING.”
To reach the fourth step is to know that all man-made labels generated over the millennia by non-realized persons (or by persons and teachers and gurus claiming to be realized) are false. Yes, labels and terms can be used as thorns for the sake of removing other thorns, but in the end, all identification ends if the Full Understanding manifests.
All seeking of "my true identity" ends with that understanding, for it is then understood that
Maharaj: "You need not know 'What You Are'. Enough to know what you are not.
Even more freeing though is his pointer that
"What you are you will never know, for every discovery reveals new dimensions to conquer. The unknown has no limits."
Super Seekers who move for a while beyond all phenomenal identifications and all supposedly "noumenal identifications" can still be driven to try to move farther along the "path" and trace their roots to the Absolute, yes, but before that Absolute field of energy manifested in "this universe," that Absolute was not present because "this universe" was not present. So where does the avid, super-motivated seeker who cannot stop there look next to find her or his antecedent state? Other universes. And then? Beyond those.
Thus their search for the original root, the original state, is endless (and futile) because there is no beginning to energy-matter, to universes, to anything. There is but the "no-creation beginninglessness," So the most that Super Seekers might find (via science) is . . . the beginninglessness. That might as well be grasped now and all of the seeking and spiritual workaholism can end now. Then natural living can happen.
All that is real is infinite and has forever been, though it has not forever been "here," in this particular universe:
Again, Maharaj: "What you are you will never know, for every discovery reveals new dimensions to conquer. The unknown has no limits."
If that is understood, then it becomes clear why the premise of this book is valid: if the seeker never goes beyond the end of the third step and the transitioning into the fourth step "Child No-Knowing State," it is enough. It will be understood why Maharaj said "You need not know 'What you are'. Enough to know what you are not."
If persons could be free of all body-mind-personality identification, then it would be enough, "enough" being able to abide naturally without the use of ego-defense mechanisms to defend and support illusory and false identities, be they the "bad" ones or the "good" ones or the "supreme" ones.
If persons could be free of all body-mind-personality identification, then it would also be enough to abide naturally without being driven by the personality disorders discussed herein and enough being free of the relative defects and liabilities and insanity that manifest with personality disorders.
To be free of personal identities, one could then abide as naturally and peacefully and freely as the deer that know they are but, beyond that, have no assumed identities; that have no need to purge their brains of the fiction-filled section that humans call "the mind"; that have no personality and therefore have no personality defects that need to be eliminated; that have no assumed ego-states and therefore use no ego-defense mechanisms;
and that cannot be taught ignorance and cannot learn ignorance the way that humans do, leading to the call for the un-teaching that is offered here and the un-learning that the non-Realized require if ignorance is to go and wisdom is to come.
To stop at that point - (1) knowing what you are not and (2) realizing that "What You Are you will never know, for every discovery reveals new dimensions to conquer" - can bring to a halt the tendency of "The Super Seekers" and "The Spiritual Giants" to work forever to find some "lofty" identity and then spend the remainder of the relative trying to convince others that that is their "lofty or elevated or noble or special" identity (which, by definition, makes them "Lofty or Elevated or Noble or Special").
While claiming at that point to know the Oneness and Love, they are (as a result of assuming some Noumenal Identity) more separated from "others" than ever because, in their own "minds," they are better than and different from the masses who do not know what "Lofty or Elevated or Noble or Special" persons think they know.
The fact is, the one that is free of all ego-state assumption (and therefore egotism) makes far better relative company than "The Super Religious" and "The Spiritual Giants" who believe that they are something and they are Really Something. Better to be beyond all relative identification than to be "beyond" and totally out of touch. It is one thing to be in touch with "Reality," but if that leaves one out of touch with "the reality" of the relative existence, then wherefore any actual "benefit"?
Note again that it was those types that Maharaj was addressing when he advised:
First, "All search for happiness is misery and leads to more misery. The only happiness worth the name is the natural happiness of conscious being"
and secondly,
"You need not know 'What you are'. Enough to know what you are not."
And the understanding of those two pointers will coincide with the shift from the third of seven steps on the "path" and into the freedom of "the Child No-Knowing State." Yet those pointers are far too radical for some and far too simple for others.
Moreover, that understanding will be far too freeing for those who want to live in a fashion that is not natural but who want to try to live in a style that they think is supernatural (i.e., in a super-spiritual mode or in a mode involving magical, metaphysical thinking . . . ignoring the fact that it has always been their thinking that has been the source of all of their relative misunderstandings and problems to begin with.)
Once the consciousness has been "blocked" or "warped" or "contaminated," then the invitation to relax; the invitation to take it easy; the invitation to be quiet; and the invitation to be as calm as the deer that is resting in "the cool, blue shade" are all taken to be invitations that seem . . . insane; seem to be offered by one who is out of touch; seem to be offered by one who is naive; seem to be offered by one who does not understand what persons are up against; and seem to be offered by one who has not realized as much as they have realized.
So it is, but so it need not be.
To be continued.
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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 their god / their 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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