"WISDOM" AND "LOVE"

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"WISDOM" and "LOVE"

 

 One of the more famous and more quoted pointerS from Maharaj is this:

 

"Wisdom is knowing I am nothing. Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves."

 

Yet how many pause to really consider every aspect of that quote in order to avoid being misled by it? For example, "I am nothing." Well of course the "I" is something, and Maharaj knew that clearly, but what is the something that the "I" is? And, what part of the message "I am nothing" is true? 

 

In the non-dual understanding, the "I" is used to point to the temporarily-manifested composite unity. 

 

Some who believe that they are presently 

 

(1) a temporary phenomenal self use a lowercase "i" when writing about that I AM part and use a lowercase "s" to refer to that lesser self

 

while using an uppercase "I" and "S" to refer to 

 

(2) what they take to be their "Real, Ultimate Self" are some sort of "Supreme Self" or some "Infinite Self" or some sort of "Higher Self" or some "Preeminent or Noble or Superior Self" in opposition to some sort of phenomenal "lower or lesser self."

The wise understand that there is no self or Self at all; in the case of Maharaj, he came to understand and accept that point fully only at the end of his "teaching days." At that point, he offered the third version of the Ultimate Medicine which he used, one aimed at eliminating belief in any and all of the "learned ignorance stored in mind." 

In rejecting the notion of any identifications, be they a "self" or a "Self," then "I am nothing" applied. It also applied earlier when "I am nothing" meant that he was none of the body and mind and personality identifications which had been assigned to him or which he may have assumed along the way. 

He was neither "The Husband" nor "The Widower"; neither "The Student nor the Master"; neither "The Son" nor "The Parent."

But back to "he was something, so what?" He understood that the temporarily-manifested "I" (or "i," as some would have it) was a three-part "composite unity." 

 

First there was the space which formed when plant food elements came together to form an elemental plant food body.

 

 Next, there was the air / oxygen which circulated through it.

Next, there was the conscious-energy which circulated through it.

All three of those formed the triad which remained in tact until he took mahasamadhi.

Now what many do not understand is that throughout the entire manifestation, none of those three permanently remained as a part of the composite unity for any more than a brief period. The elements were constantly coming and going; thus, humans eat to restore the elemental part because the skin of a human is replaced every 28 days or so, the lining of the stomach is regularly being replaced, and nothing physical remains as it was even the day before. Look at pictures taken at the ages of one through 18 and note how the manifested body is forever changing. 

Too, the oxygen is being replaced constantly as it is inhaled and exhaled.

Finally, the conscious-energy is being replaced constantly. Again, humans eat in order to replace the supply of that form of energy. Stop eating and the consciousness - the conscious-energy - will fade until it is no longer manifested within the space formed by the elements. 

The fact remains that, per the Second Law of Thermodynamics, everything which comes together will eventually come apart. Bodies will not stay together. Bridges will fall. Mountains will crumble. Buildings will decay. All will eventually fall apart, and such is the case with every composite unity and the three parts which operate together on a temporary basis. 

So, while manifested, I AM, and the I AM in not "nothing" because it is actually a unity of elements and air and conscious-energy. Upon taking mahasamadhi, the elements will return to the universal pool of elements, the air will returned to the universal pool of air, and the conscious-energy will return to the universal pool of energy - that is, the pool of no-longer-manifested consciousness, the body of unmanifested awareness which is not capable of being aware of in the absence of such energy being manifested within a confined space instead of free-roaming throughout open space.

So the "I" (or the "i") refers to a composite unity, and that is something - namely elements, air and conscious-energy - rather than "nothing." 

 

[A woman teaches that "nothing is real." To test that notion, I have suggested that one find a brick wall, place yourt back against it, count off fifteen paces, turn and fact the wall, bend at the waist until the upper torso is paralled to the ground, and then as fast as possiible and crash your head into the brick wall. Now, when you come to, ask, "Is that wall real, or not?" 

Of course it's real. Of course it's something. But it is not what it appears to be. Place the bricks underneath an electron microscope and you'll see a swirling masses of subatomic particles swirling about. Those are real, but the brick - viewed with the naked eye - will be seen to be something totally different from its appearance. What is not real is the typical concept of what a brick is or is not among the masses, and what is not real are the typical beliefs about what a person is or can be.]

 

More to the point, the composite unity is nothing which will last forever, much less regroup and abide in a heaven or hell, much less regroup partially and be "reborn" time and again.

However, the key pointer regarding "I am nothing" is at the heart of the non-dual understanding: I am not anything I appear to be and I am not any role or character or actor or player or persona or person or personification nor any label nor anyone or anything, and that applies to any and all humans ever manifested and to any and all humans presently manifested and to any dreamed up post-manifestation "beings" or "angels" or "half bird / half-human entities" or to any "gauzy, invisible guardians watching over others."

 

As for the seemingly antithetical or conflicting "I-am-nothing-well-okay-I-am-temporarily-something," it turns out that the two statements form a spot on, accurate paradox (a paradox being defined as "a seemingly absurd or contradictory statement or proposition that - when investigated or explained - may prove to be well-founded or true").

 

To be continued.

 

TOMORROW: The distorted beliefs and paradoxes around "Love" / "love."

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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 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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